Phantom Assassin — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Phantom Assassin — the same in the English and the Russian client. Short names for Phantom Assassin you will see in chat: “pa”. Russian-speaking players say “Фантом Ассасин” (or “па”, “фантомка” and “мортред”).

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Blinks onto her foes with critical strikes”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Phantom Assassin” or “Фантом Ассасин” or “pa” brings up Phantom Assassin.

A melee Agility hero — one of 35 — Phantom Assassin gets 1 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Role dots from Valve: Carry ●●●, Escape ●○○; full marks for Carry.

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (14th of 35) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (34th of 55) band of By complexity. Phantom Assassin is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “1 · CARRY”, 1st of 12.

Phantom Assassin is a one-position hero — carry (1); no other score goes above 0.10. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.10 · offlane 0.02 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Phantom Assassin in the “1 · CARRY” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 800 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 90%, mid 7%, off 3%. Median GPM 617, XPM 870 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up).

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Phantom Assassin in “1 · CARRY” (3rd of 18).

Other ready grids with Phantom Assassin: Meta by stats — “CARRY”, 6th of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 3rd of 44.

The “Make a grid with Phantom Assassin” button opens Mains + situational with Phantom Assassin first in the MAINS block, followed by Anti-Mage, Spectre and Faceless Void — all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and melee 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).

Win rate 51.5% for Phantom Assassin (29th of 127) over 583,784 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 20th.

Low (52.1%) and high (50.4%) brackets differ by less than two points. Players pick Phantom Assassin more than usual at Herald (+56%) and less at Divine (−48%).

Phantom Assassin in the snapshot's pro matches: 1 pick, 0 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 467,370 games at 54.5%, noticeably better than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Manifold Paradox arcana and the Exile Unveiled persona for Phantom Assassin: 16 ready dot drawings, from 1,269 to 3,756 of the grid's 4000 slots.

Ready grid with this drawing: Phantom Assassin · Exile Unveiled — 955 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.

The Like the best section has a grid called Phantom Assassin: Mortred unmasked — the Exile Unveiled persona — with a scythe over her shoulder. Heroes by position on the right in x-frames.