Vengeful Spirit — hero grid for mains
Vengeful Spirit is an Agility hero, ranged, played as hard support (5) and soft support (4), with a 52.9% win rate and 32nd place by games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026. Below — a grid with Vengeful Spirit in Mains and the hero's places in the site's layouts.
In-game name and nicknames
Vengeful Spirit is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Венджфул Спирит” (or “венга” and “венж”). Short names for Vengeful Spirit you will see in chat: “vs” and “venge”.
Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Can swap herself with any nearby hero”.
Attribute, attack and roles
Vengeful Spirit: Agility attribute, shared with 34 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity easy, 1 of 3, one of the 55 easiest heroes.
Role dots from Valve: Support ●●●, Disabler ●●○, Initiator ●●○, Nuker ●○○, Escape ●○○; full marks for Support.
In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (10th of 35) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (49th of 55) band of By complexity. Vengeful Spirit is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “5 · HARD SUPPORT”, 3rd of 12.
Positions and lanes
Vengeful Spirit 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 0.06 · offlane 0.03 · soft support 0.57 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Vengeful Spirit in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows and nowhere else.
| Position | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 · Carry | 0 |
| 2 · Mid | 0.06 |
| 3 · Offlane | 0.03 |
| 4 · Soft support | 0.57 |
| 5 · Hard support | 1 |
Median gold per minute for Vengeful Spirit is 374, experience 642 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.94 by the site's formula; by lane, 1,880 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 58% safe, 10% mid and 32% off.
Where to put the hero in your grid
The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Vengeful Spirit in “4 · SUPPORT” (14th of 18). The rows are filled in turn, carry to hard support, each with the 18 most popular heroes of that position not placed above — that is how Vengeful Spirit ends up there; by the highest score, add the hero to “5 · HARD SUPPORT” as well — it has two free slots.
The “Make a grid with Vengeful Spirit” button opens Mains + situational with Vengeful Spirit first in the MAINS block, followed by Ringmaster, Shadow Shaman and Silencer — all three share the same main position (hard support) and ranged attack.
OpenDota stats, 23 Sept 2026
Win rate 52.9% for Vengeful Spirit (6th of 127) over 470,023 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 32nd.
Rank barely changes the picture: 53.5% at Herald–Crusader and 51.7% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Vengeful Spirit more than usual at Legend (+7%) and less at Divine (−19%).
| Rank | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Herald | 11,433 | 54.0% |
| Guardian | 40,372 | 53.7% |
| Crusader | 73,495 | 53.3% |
| Archon | 109,419 | 53.3% |
| Legend | 120,012 | 52.9% |
| Ancient | 73,883 | 51.9% |
| Divine | 41,409 | 51.3% |
Vengeful Spirit in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 2 wins, 1 ban. Turbo: 260,035 games at 56.8%, noticeably better than in ranked brackets.
Skin and dot drawing
Main in a skin has the Crownfall: The Resurrection of Shen arcana plus a second arcana style for Vengeful Spirit: 16 ready dot drawings, from 1,583 to 3,862 of the grid's 4000 slots.
Ready grid with this drawing: Vengeful Spirit · The Resurrection of Shen — 1,160 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.
Questions and answers
Can I make Vengeful Spirit big in my grid?
Yes: the MAINS block in Mains + situational has the biggest portraits, and “Make a grid with Vengeful Spirit” puts the hero there first.