Skywrath Mage — hero grid for mains

Skywrath Mage is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Скайрат Мейдж” (or “скай” and “скайрат”). In chat Skywrath Mage also goes by “sky”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Casts high damage magical spells on a single target”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Skywrath Mage by any of “Skywrath Mage”, “Скайрат Мейдж” and “sky”.

Skywrath Mage: Intelligence attribute, shared with 33 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity easy, 1 of 3, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Skywrath Mage, rated 1 to 3: Nuker ●●●, Support ●●○, Disabler ●○○ — maxed out: Nuker.

By attributes puts Skywrath Mage in the “INTELLIGENCE” (28th of 34) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (39th of 55) band. Skywrath Mage is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “4 · SUPPORT”, 2nd of 7.

The main position for Skywrath Mage is soft support (4); less often the hero shows up as hard support (score 0.47). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0 · mid 0.06 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.47, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “4 · SUPPORT” row only.

Median gold per minute for Skywrath Mage is 363, experience 586 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.99 by the site's formula; by lane, 1,852 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 29% safe, 12% mid and 60% off.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Skywrath Mage is already there, 5th of 18 in “4 · SUPPORT”.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Skywrath Mage: Meta by stats — “SUPPORT”, 10th of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 25th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Skywrath Mage first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Rubick, Dark Willow and Grimstroke: all three share the same main position (soft support), the same attribute and ranged attack.

To get the grid into the game, press “Download grid” and, with Dota closed, put hero_grid_config.json into Steam → userdata → account number → 570 → remote → cfg — details in how to install a hero grid.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Skywrath Mage shows up in 514,134 games (29th most played of 127) and wins 50.3% of them (54th).

Rank barely changes the picture: 50.3% at Herald–Crusader and 49.9% at Ancient–Divine. Skywrath Mage's share of games is 14% above its average at Guardian and 17% below at Divine.

Skywrath Mage in the snapshot's pro matches: 4 picks, 3 wins, 1 ban. Turbo: 288,409 games at 50.0%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Crownfall: The Devotions of Dragonus arcana plus a second arcana style for Skywrath Mage: 16 ready dot drawings, from 1,224 to 3,806 of the grid's 4000 slots.

There is no ready grid with the Skywrath Mage skin yet — place the drawing from Main in a skin, together with the hero portrait.