Puck — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Puck — the same in the English and the Russian client. There is no common English short name for Puck in the site's dictionary. Russian-speaking players say “Пак”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Orbs to enemies and silences them”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Puck by either “Puck” or “Пак”.

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

Role dots from Valve: Disabler ●●●, Escape ●●●, Initiator ●●●, Nuker ●●○; full marks for Disabler, Escape and Initiator.

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (2nd of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (35th of 59) band of By complexity.

Puck is a one-position hero — mid (2); no other score goes above 0.07. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.01 · mid 1 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.07 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Puck in the “2 · MID” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 787 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 1%, mid 98%, off 1%. Median GPM 514, XPM 753 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.23 by the site's formula.

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Puck in “2 · MID” (16th of 18).

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Puck: 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 Puck first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Storm Spirit, Invoker and Queen of Pain: 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.

Win rate 47.3% for Puck (105th of 127) over 130,646 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 106th.

The higher the rank, the better: 45.3% at Herald–Crusader, 48.5% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Puck more than usual at Divine (+47%) and less at Guardian (−19%).

Pros ban Puck more often than they pick the hero: 23 bans against 4 picks (1 win) in the snapshot. Turbo: 67,809 games at 44.0%, worse than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Puck 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 mid, the closest to Puck are Invoker, Queen of Pain and Lina — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.