Ringmaster — hero grid for mains

Ringmaster is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Рингмастер” (or “ринг”). There is no separate English nickname for Ringmaster: people type the name, and the site's search also takes the spelling “ring master”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Directs the battle with fear and mesmerism”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Ringmaster”, “Рингмастер” — each of them lands on Ringmaster.

A ranged Intelligence hero — one of 34 — Ringmaster gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

Valve's roles for Ringmaster, rated 1 to 3: Support ●●○, Nuker ●●○, Escape ●●○, Disabler ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Ringmaster in the “INTELLIGENCE” (33rd of 34) block; By complexity — in the “MEDIUM” (39th of 59) band.

Two positions for Ringmaster: hard support (5) first, soft support (4) second, both with a score of 0.5 or more (1 and 0.92). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0 · mid 0.02 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.92 · hard support 1, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows only.

Where the scores come from: in 1,710 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Ringmaster went safe lane 51% of the time, mid 4% and offlane 45%. Median gold per minute is 335 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less); experience per minute is 527.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Ringmaster is already there, 15th of 18 in “5 · HARD SUPPORT”.

Ringmaster in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 32nd of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Ringmaster first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Ancient Apparition, Shadow Shaman and Silencer: all three share the same main position (hard support), 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 49.0% for Ringmaster (83rd of 127) over 203,364 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 78th.

Low (48.2%) and high (49.8%) brackets differ by less than two points. Ringmaster's share of games is 61% above its average at Divine and 37% below at Herald.

Ringmaster in the snapshot's pro matches: 7 picks, 3 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 68,643 games at 46.1%, worse than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Ringmaster 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 hard support, the closest to Ringmaster are Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit and Ogre Magi — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.