Shadow Shaman — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Shadow Shaman. Short names for Shadow Shaman you will see in chat: “shaman”. On Russian servers you will hear “Шэдоу Шаман” (or “шаман”, “раста” and “шадоу шаман”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Summons powerful serpent wards to deal damage”.

A ranged Intelligence hero — one of 34 — Shadow Shaman gets 1 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (7th of 34) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (38th of 55) band of By complexity. Shadow Shaman is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “5 · HARD SUPPORT”, 4th of 12.

Shadow Shaman is played in two positions — hard support (5) and soft support (4) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is hard support. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0 · mid 0.02 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.51 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Shadow Shaman in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 1,881 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Shadow Shaman went safe lane 64% of the time, mid 4% and offlane 32%. Median gold per minute is 349 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less); experience per minute is 537.

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Shadow Shaman in “4 · SUPPORT” (10th of 18). The rows are filled in turn, carry to hard support, each with the 18 most popular heroes of that position not placed above — that is how Shadow Shaman ends up there; by the highest score, add the hero to “5 · HARD SUPPORT” as well — it has two free slots.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Shadow Shaman: Meta by stats — “SUPPORT”, 8th of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 4th of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Shadow Shaman, then Silencer, Ancient Apparition and Enchantress, because all three share the same main position (hard support), the same attribute and ranged attack.

Win rate 51.9% for Shadow Shaman (23rd of 127) over 633,490 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 17th.

Low (51.9%) and high (51.7%) brackets differ by less than two points. Players pick Shadow Shaman more than usual at Guardian (+20%) and less at Divine (−28%).

Shadow Shaman in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 2 wins, 1 ban. Turbo: 265,075 games at 51.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Shadow Shaman 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 hard support, the closest to Shadow Shaman are Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit and Ogre Magi — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.