Riki — hero grid for mains

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

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Remains permanently invisible until the moment to strike”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Riki by either “Riki” or “Рики”.

Riki: Agility attribute, shared with 34 other heroes; melee attack; Valve rates the complexity easy, 1 of 3, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (11th of 35) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (37th of 55) band of By complexity. Riki is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “1 · CARRY”, 3rd of 12.

Riki is played in two positions — carry (1) and mid (2) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is carry. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.86 · offlane 0.21 · soft support 0.13 · hard support 0.02 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Riki in the “1 · CARRY” and “2 · MID” rows and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 444 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Riki went safe lane 47% of the time, mid 36% and offlane 17%. Median gold per minute is 490 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.21 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 856.

Riki is not in Classic: positions 1–5, which holds the 18 most popular heroes per position, but each row fits 20 portraits — add Riki to the “1 · CARRY” row with “+ Hero” and the portraits keep their size.

Other ready grids with Riki: Meta by stats — “CARRY”, 10th of 10; not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

The “Make a grid with Riki” button opens Mains + situational with Riki first in the MAINS block, followed by Kez, Monkey King and Slark — all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and melee attack.

Riki has 228,256 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 71st of 127 by games played — and a 52.7% win rate, 10th of 127.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 52.4% low, 52.7% high. Players pick Riki more than usual at Herald (+60%) and less at Divine (−34%).

The pro matches in the snapshot never feature Riki — no picks, no bans. Turbo: 187,214 games at 52.0%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Riki 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 carry, the closest to Riki are Monkey King, Phantom Assassin and Faceless Void — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.