Tidehunter — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Tidehunter. In chat Tidehunter also goes by “tide”. On Russian servers you will hear “Тайдхантер” (or “тайд”).

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Durable hero who shrugs off enemy damage”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Tidehunter by any of “Tidehunter”, “Тайдхантер” and “tide”.

A melee Strength hero — one of 36 — Tidehunter gets 1 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Tidehunter, rated 1 to 3: Durable ●●●, Initiator ●●●, Disabler ●●○, Carry ●○○, Nuker ●○○ — maxed out: Durable and Initiator.

By attributes puts Tidehunter in the “STRENGTH” (8th of 36) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (45th of 55) band. Tidehunter is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “3 · OFFLANE”, 8th of 12.

The main position for Tidehunter is offlane (3); less often the hero shows up as soft support (score 0.38). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.02 · mid 0.05 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.38 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “3 · OFFLANE” row only.

Lanes over 1,613 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 2%, mid 5%, off 93%. Median GPM 461, XPM 672 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.33 by the site's formula.

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Tidehunter in “3 · OFFLANE” (6th of 18).

Tidehunter in other layouts: Meta by stats — “OFFLANE”, 6th of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 36th of 44.

The “Make a grid with Tidehunter” button opens Mains + situational with Tidehunter first in the MAINS block, followed by Legion Commander, Night Stalker and Doom — all three share the same main position (offlane), the same attribute and melee 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.

Win rate 49.8% for Tidehunter (64th of 127) over 305,310 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 54th.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 49.9% low, 49.2% high. Tidehunter's share of games is 4% above its average at Legend and 10% below at Herald.

Tidehunter in the snapshot's pro matches: 5 picks, 2 wins, 2 bans. Turbo: 117,003 games at 52.5%, noticeably better than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Tidehunter 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 offlane, the closest to Tidehunter are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Razor — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.