Tusk — hero grid for mains

Tusk is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Туск” (or “таск”). There is no common English short name for Tusk in the site's dictionary.

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Snowballs into his enemies to stun”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Tusk” or “Туск” brings up Tusk.

Tusk is a Strength hero (36 of them in the game), melee, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “STRENGTH” (27th of 36) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (46th of 55) band of By complexity. Tusk is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “5 · HARD SUPPORT”, 12th of 12.

Tusk 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 · mid 0.04 · offlane 0.07 · soft support 0.54 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Tusk in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows and nowhere else.

Median gold per minute for Tusk is 339, experience 561 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less); by lane, 2,097 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 59% safe, 6% mid and 34% off.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Tusk sits in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row, 10th portrait of 18.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Tusk: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 17th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Tusk first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Clockwerk, Elder Titan and Undying: all three share the same main position (hard support), the same attribute and melee attack.

The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.

Tusk has 244,602 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 68th of 127 by games played — and a 47.8% win rate, 98th of 127.

The higher the rank, the better: 45.8% at Herald–Crusader, 49.1% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Tusk more than usual at Divine (+66%) and less at Herald (−37%).

Tusk in the snapshot's pro matches: 13 picks, 7 wins, 5 bans. Turbo: 115,202 games at 46.4%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Tusk has none there yet; to draw the hero anyway, upload any art to Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as hard support, the closest to Tusk are Ogre Magi, Vengeful Spirit and Pudge — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.