Silencer — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Silencer — the same in the English and the Russian client. There is no common English short name for Silencer in the site's dictionary. Russian-speaking players say “Сайленсер” (or “сайлер”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Can silence all enemies on the map”.

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

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

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

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (22nd of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (43rd of 59) band of By complexity.

Silencer 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 0.01 · mid 0.07 · offlane 0.08 · soft support 0.50 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Silencer in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows and nowhere else.

Median gold per minute for Silencer is 367, experience 554 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.85 by the site's formula; by lane, 1,339 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 59% safe, 9% mid and 32% off.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Silencer is already there, 17th of 18 in “4 · SUPPORT”. 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 Silencer ends up there; by the highest score, add the hero to “5 · HARD SUPPORT” as well — it has two free slots.

Other ready grids with Silencer: Meta by stats — “HARD SUPPORT”, 8th of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 11th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Silencer first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Shadow Shaman, Ancient Apparition and Ringmaster: 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 50.4% for Silencer (51st of 127) over 433,403 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 38th.

Results drop with rank by 2.0 points: 51.6% at Herald–Crusader against 49.6% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Silencer more than usual at Crusader (+8%) and less at Divine (−22%).

Silencer in the snapshot's pro matches: 5 picks, 2 wins, 1 ban. Turbo: 205,029 games at 52.1%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Silencer portrait, bring your own art: Picture to dots draws it in dots right on the field. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as hard support, the closest to Silencer are Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit and Ogre Magi — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.