Tinker — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Tinker — the same in the English and the Russian client. There is no common English short name for Tinker in the site's dictionary. Russian-speaking players say “Тинкер”.

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Demolishes his enemies with swarms of machines”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Tinker” or “Тинкер” brings up Tinker.

Tinker is an Intelligence hero (34 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 2 of 3 by Valve's rating.

Role dots from Valve: Nuker ●●●, Pusher ●●○, Carry ●○○; full marks for Nuker.

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (10th of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (51st of 59) band of By complexity.

One position only for Tinker: mid (2), with the next best score at just 0.04. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.04 · mid 1 · offlane 0.02 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Tinker in the “2 · MID” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 500 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 5%, mid 92%, off 3%. Median GPM 618, XPM 911 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up).

In Classic: positions 1–5 Tinker sits in the “2 · MID” row, 12th portrait of 18.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Tinker: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 28th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Tinker first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Leshrac, Invoker and Queen of Pain: all three share the same main position (mid), 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 Tinker shows up in 211,797 games (76th most played of 127) and wins 47.4% of them (104th).

The higher the rank, the better: 45.9% at Herald–Crusader, 49.0% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Tinker more than usual at Guardian (+4%) and less at Legend (−3%).

The pro matches in the snapshot never feature Tinker — no picks, no bans. Turbo: 139,771 games at 44.2%, worse than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Tinker 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 mid, the closest to Tinker are Invoker, Queen of Pain and Lina — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.