Ursa — hero grid for mains

Ursa is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Урса”. There is no common English short name for Ursa in the site's dictionary.

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Deals more damage with every hit to the same foe”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Ursa by either “Ursa” or “Урса”.

Ursa is an Agility hero (35 of them in the game), melee, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (23rd of 35) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (48th of 55) band of By complexity. Ursa is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “1 · CARRY”, 11th of 12.

One position only for Ursa: carry (1), with the next best score at just 0.07. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.07 · offlane 0.03 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Ursa in the “1 · CARRY” row and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 1,072 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Ursa went safe lane 92% of the time, mid 5% and offlane 4%. Median gold per minute is 598 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); experience per minute is 827.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Ursa is already there, 13th of 18 in “1 · CARRY”.

Ursa in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 13th of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Ursa, then Faceless Void, Spectre and Bloodseeker, because all three share the same main position (carry), 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.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Ursa shows up in 285,089 games (60th most played of 127) and wins 48.7% of them (89th).

The higher the rank, the better: 47.1% at Herald–Crusader, 50.0% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Ursa more than usual at Herald (+18%) and less at Crusader (−3%).

Ursa in the snapshot's pro matches: 5 picks, 3 wins, 4 bans. Turbo: 157,314 games at 48.5%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Ursa 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 carry, the closest to Ursa are Faceless Void, Spectre and Phantom Assassin — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.