Visage — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Visage. There is no common English short name for Visage in the site's dictionary. On Russian servers you will hear “Визаж”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Scouts and attacks with his familiars”.

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

Visage is a Universal hero (22 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 3 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of only 13 heroes at the top level.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “UNIVERSAL” (14th of 22) block of By attributes and the “HARD” (13th of 13) band of By complexity.

Three positions — soft support (4), offlane (3) and mid (2), with soft support scoring highest — make Visage one of just 8 heroes with more than two. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.07 · mid 0.52 · offlane 0.54 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.14 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Visage in the “4 · SUPPORT”, “3 · OFFLANE” and “2 · MID” rows and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 241 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Visage went safe lane 8% of the time, mid 32% and offlane 60%. Median gold per minute is 465 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.56 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 648. There are few matches with parsed lanes for Visage, so the positions are rough.

Visage is not in Classic: positions 1–5, which holds the 18 most popular heroes per position, but each row fits 20 portraits — add Visage to the “4 · SUPPORT” row with “+ Hero” and the portraits keep their size.

Visage 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 Visage, then Snapfire, Windranger and Enigma, because 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.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Visage shows up in 71,240 games (122nd most played of 127) and wins 52.3% of them (13th).

The higher the rank, the better: 50.1% at Herald–Crusader, 54.1% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Visage more than usual at Divine (+19%) and less at Legend (−6%).

Visage in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 1 win, 0 bans. Turbo: 33,725 games at 47.6%, worse than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Visage 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 Visage are Windranger, Techies and Earthshaker — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.