Oracle — hero grid for mains

Oracle is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Оракл”. The site's dictionary has no English nickname for Oracle — people just type the name.

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Alters the fates of heroes with his buffs and nukes”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Oracle” or “Оракл” brings up Oracle.

A ranged Intelligence hero — one of 34 — Oracle gets 3 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of only 13 heroes at the top level.

Valve's roles for Oracle, rated 1 to 3: Support ●●●, Nuker ●●●, Disabler ●●○, Escape ●○○ — maxed out: Support and Nuker.

By attributes puts Oracle in the “INTELLIGENCE” (29th of 34) block; By complexity — in the “HARD” (11th of 13) band.

No doubt about the role: Oracle is hard support (5), and the best of the other positions scores 0.26. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0 · mid 0.03 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.26 · hard support 1, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row only.

Median gold per minute for Oracle is 318, experience 489 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less); by lane, 770 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 75% safe, 8% mid and 17% off.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Oracle sits in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row, 13th portrait of 18.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Oracle: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Oracle, then Crystal Maiden, Winter Wyvern and Witch Doctor, because all three share the same main position (hard support), the same attribute and ranged attack.

Then it is “Download grid” and hero_grid_config.json into Steam\userdata\<number>\570\remote\cfg while Dota is closed; load your current file in the “Your grid is ready” window and your old grids stay (install guide).

Oracle has 147,920 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 102nd of 127 by games played — and a 50.5% win rate, 47th of 127.

Results climb with rank, from 48.2% at Herald–Crusader to 51.8% at Ancient–Divine. Oracle's share of games is 40% above its average at Divine and 30% below at Herald.

Oracle in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 1 win, 0 bans. Turbo: 72,308 games at 47.2%, worse than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Oracle has none there yet; to draw the hero anyway, upload any art to Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as hard support, the closest to Oracle are Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit and Ogre Magi — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.