Venomancer — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Venomancer — the same in the English and the Russian client. In chat Venomancer also goes by “veno”. Russian-speaking players say “Веномансер” (or “веник” and “веном”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Deals damage over time with venomous attacks”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Venomancer by any of “Venomancer”, “Веномансер” and “veno”.

A ranged Universal hero — one of 22 — Venomancer gets 1 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Venomancer, rated 1 to 3: Support ●●○, Nuker ●○○, Disabler ●○○, Pusher ●○○, Initiator ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Venomancer in the “UNIVERSAL” (6th of 22) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (50th of 55) band. Venomancer is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “4 · SUPPORT”, 7th of 7.

Two positions for Venomancer: soft support (4) first, hard support (5) second, both with a score of 0.5 or more (1 and 0.97). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0 · mid 0.06 · offlane 0.08 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.97, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “4 · SUPPORT” and “5 · HARD SUPPORT” rows only.

Where the scores come from: in 629 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Venomancer went safe lane 44% of the time, mid 8% and offlane 48%. Median gold per minute is 384 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.90 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 543.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Venomancer is already there, 16th of 18 in “4 · SUPPORT”.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Venomancer: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 20th of 44.

The “Make a grid with Venomancer” button opens Mains + situational with Venomancer first in the MAINS block, followed by Techies, Snapfire and Enigma — all three share the same main position (soft support), the same attribute and ranged attack.

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

Win rate 47.7% for Venomancer (102nd of 127) over 291,348 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 57th.

Rank barely changes the picture: 48.2% at Herald–Crusader and 47.0% at Ancient–Divine. Venomancer's share of games is 19% above its average at Guardian and 37% below at Divine.

Venomancer in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 0 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 195,231 games at 46.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Venomancer 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 soft support, the closest to Venomancer are Techies, Windranger and Mirana — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.