Windranger — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Windranger — the same in the English and the Russian client. In chat Windranger also goes by “wr”. Internally, in the game files, Windranger is “windrunner” — search on the site finds the hero by it as well. Russian-speaking players say “Виндрейнджер” (or “винда”, “вр” and “виндранер”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Fires swift flurry of arrows at a single target”.

A ranged Universal hero — one of 22 — Windranger gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

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

By attributes puts Windranger in the “UNIVERSAL” (3rd of 22) block; By complexity — in the “MEDIUM” (58th of 59) band.

Windranger is one of the rare flex heroes, scoring 0.5 or more in five positions (soft support (4), carry (1), mid (2), offlane (3) and hard support (5)), highest as soft support; only 8 heroes have more than two. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.93 · mid 0.85 · offlane 0.66 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.66, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “4 · SUPPORT”, “1 · CARRY”, “2 · MID”, “3 · OFFLANE” and “5 · HARD SUPPORT” rows only.

Where the scores come from: in 2,984 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Windranger went safe lane 35% of the time, mid 25% and offlane 39%. Median gold per minute is 457 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.47 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 684.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Windranger sits in the “2 · MID” row, 15th portrait 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 Windranger ends up there; by the highest score, add the hero to “4 · SUPPORT” as well — it has two free slots.

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

Win rate 48.7% for Windranger (88th of 127) over 726,989 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 9th.

Rank barely changes the picture: 48.6% at Herald–Crusader and 49.1% at Ancient–Divine. Windranger's share of games is 11% above its average at Divine and 5% below at Crusader.

Windranger in the snapshot's pro matches: 39 picks, 25 wins, 13 bans. Turbo: 381,692 games at 48.3%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Compass of the Rising Gale arcana plus a second arcana style for Windranger: 16 ready dot drawings, from 2,088 to 3,795 of the grid's 4000 slots.

Ready grid with this drawing: Windranger · Compass of the Rising Gale — 935 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.