Pangolier — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Pangolier. Short names for Pangolier you will see in chat: “pango”. On Russian servers you will hear “Панголиер” (or “панго”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Dashes and rolls in to disrupt enemy movements”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Pangolier by any of “Pangolier”, “Панголиер” and “pango”.

A melee Universal hero — one of 22 — Pangolier gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “UNIVERSAL” (19th of 22) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (32nd of 59) band of By complexity.

Pangolier is a one-position hero — mid (2); no other score goes above 0.23. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.02 · mid 1 · offlane 0.23 · soft support 0.02 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Pangolier in the “2 · MID” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 1,460 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 2%, mid 77%, off 21%. Median GPM 532, XPM 761 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.03 by the site's formula.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Pangolier sits in the “2 · MID” row, 18th portrait of 18.

Pangolier in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Pangolier first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Void Spirit, Death Prophet and Sand King: all three share the same main position (mid) and the same attribute.

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 Pangolier shows up in 142,095 games (103rd most played of 127) and wins 46.8% of them (111th).

The higher the rank, the better: 45.6% at Herald–Crusader, 47.7% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Pangolier more than usual at Divine (+75%) and less at Guardian (−38%).

Pangolier in the snapshot's pro matches: 23 picks, 7 wins, 13 bans. Turbo: 60,969 games at 44.3%, worse than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Pangolier 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 Pangolier are Dragon Knight, Invoker and Queen of Pain — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.