Outworld Destroyer — hero grid for mains

Outworld Destroyer is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Аутворлд Дестроер” (or “од”, “аутворлд” and “аутворлд девоурер”). Short names for Outworld Destroyer you will see in chat: “od” and “outworld devourer”. The game files call the hero “obsidian destroyer”, and the site's search knows that name too.

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Can imprison a hero, making them invulnerable”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Outworld Destroyer by any of “Outworld Destroyer”, “Аутворлд Дестроер”, “od” and “outworld devourer”.

Outworld Destroyer is an Intelligence hero (34 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 2 of 3 by Valve's rating.

Role dots from Valve: Carry ●●○, Nuker ●●○, Disabler ●○○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (23rd of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (31st of 59) band of By complexity.

One position only for Outworld Destroyer: mid (2), with the next best score at just 0.02. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.02 · mid 1 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Outworld Destroyer in the “2 · MID” row and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 1,352 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Outworld Destroyer went safe lane 2% of the time, mid 96% and offlane 2%. Median gold per minute is 547 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); experience per minute is 773.

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Outworld Destroyer in “2 · MID” (4th of 18).

Other ready grids with Outworld Destroyer: Meta by stats — “MID”, 1st of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 19th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Outworld Destroyer first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Lina, Storm Spirit and Leshrac: all three share the same main position (mid), the same attribute and ranged attack.

The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Outworld Destroyer shows up in 430,897 games (39th most played of 127) and wins 53.8% of them (2nd).

The higher the rank, the better: 51.8% at Herald–Crusader, 54.3% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Outworld Destroyer more than usual at Divine (+34%) and less at Herald (−33%).

Pros ban Outworld Destroyer more often than they pick the hero: 27 bans against 15 picks (8 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 123,045 games at 50.6%, worse than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Outworld Destroyer 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 mid, the closest to Outworld Destroyer are Lina, Invoker and Queen of Pain — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.