Omniknight — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Omniknight. In chat Omniknight also goes by “omni”. On Russian servers you will hear “Омнинайт” (or “омни”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Tanky frontliner who protects and heals his allies”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Omniknight by any of “Omniknight”, “Омнинайт” and “omni”.

Omniknight is a Strength hero (36 of them in the game), melee, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Omniknight, rated 1 to 3: Support ●●○, Nuker ●○○, Durable ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Omniknight in the “STRENGTH” (13th of 36) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (33rd of 55) band. Omniknight is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “4 · SUPPORT”, 5th of 7.

Two positions for Omniknight: soft support (4) first, hard support (5) second, both with a score of 0.5 or more (1 and 0.52). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0 · mid 0.05 · offlane 0 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.52, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “4 · SUPPORT” and “5 · HARD SUPPORT” rows only.

Median gold per minute for Omniknight is 355, experience 566 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less); by lane, 359 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 31% safe, 11% mid and 58% off.

The rows of Classic: positions 1–5 hold the 18 most played heroes each and Omniknight is not among them; there are two free slots per row, so drop the hero into “4 · SUPPORT” yourself.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Omniknight: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 37th of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Omniknight, then Pudge, Largo and Phoenix, because all three share the same main position (soft support) and the same attribute.

To get the grid into the game, press “Download grid” and, with Dota closed, put hero_grid_config.json into Steam → userdata → account number → 570 → remote → cfg — details in how to install a hero grid.

Omniknight has 96,169 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 114th of 127 by games played — and a 51.0% win rate, 37th of 127.

Results climb with rank, from 49.9% at Herald–Crusader to 52.1% at Ancient–Divine. Omniknight's share of games is 16% above its average at Herald and 5% below at Ancient.

The pro matches in the snapshot never feature Omniknight — no picks, no bans. Turbo: 59,031 games at 50.9%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Omniknight yet, but any art or screenshot of the hero turns into dots in Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as soft support, the closest to Omniknight are Pudge, Earthshaker and Mirana — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.