Tiny — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Tiny — the same in the English and the Russian client. The site's dictionary has no English nickname for Tiny — people just type the name. Russian-speaking players say “Тини” (or “камень” and “тайни”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Grows in size and strength as battle ensues”.

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

Tiny: Strength attribute, shared with 35 other heroes; melee attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.

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

By attributes puts Tiny in the “STRENGTH” (5th of 36) block; By complexity — in the “MEDIUM” (52nd of 59) band.

The main position for Tiny is carry (1); less often the hero shows up as mid (score 0.40). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 1 · mid 0.40 · offlane 0.29 · soft support 0.14 · hard support 0.06, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “1 · CARRY” row only.

Lanes over 1,448 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 57%, mid 24%, off 20%. Median GPM 473, XPM 711 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.28 by the site's formula.

The rows of Classic: positions 1–5 hold the 18 most played heroes each and Tiny is not among them; there are two free slots per row, so drop the hero into “1 · CARRY” yourself.

Tiny in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Tiny, then Sven, Alchemist and Lifestealer, because all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and melee attack.

Then it is “Download grid” and hero_grid_config.json into Steam\userdata\<number>\570\remote\cfg while Dota is closed; load your current file in the “Your grid is ready” window and your old grids stay (install guide).

Tiny has 180,068 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 89th of 127 by games played — and a 44.6% win rate, 123rd of 127.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 44.8% low, 45.0% high. Tiny's share of games is 28% above its average at Divine and 10% below at Archon.

Tiny in the snapshot's pro matches: 20 picks, 9 wins, 22 bans. Turbo: 123,771 games at 44.9%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Tiny 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 carry, the closest to Tiny are Faceless Void, Terrorblade and Anti-Mage — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.