Winter Wyvern — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Winter Wyvern. Short names for Winter Wyvern you will see in chat: “ww”. On Russian servers you will hear “Винтер Виверн” (or “виверна”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Able to force her enemies to attack their own ally”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Winter Wyvern” or “Винтер Виверн” or “ww” brings up Winter Wyvern.

A ranged Intelligence hero — one of 34 — Winter Wyvern gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

Role dots from Valve: Support ●●●, Disabler ●●○, Nuker ●○○; full marks for Support.

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (30th of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (59th of 59) band of By complexity.

Winter Wyvern is a one-position hero — hard support (5); no other score goes above 0.25. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0 · mid 0.02 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.25 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Winter Wyvern in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row and nowhere else.

Median gold per minute for Winter Wyvern is 331, experience 546 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less); by lane, 2,050 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 77% safe, 5% mid and 18% off.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Winter Wyvern is already there, 7th of 18 in “5 · HARD SUPPORT”.

Winter Wyvern in other layouts: Meta by stats — “HARD SUPPORT”, 10th of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 13th of 44.

The “Make a grid with Winter Wyvern” button opens Mains + situational with Winter Wyvern first in the MAINS block, followed by Crystal Maiden, Witch Doctor and Oracle — all three share the same main position (hard 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 Winter Wyvern shows up in 263,559 games (64th most played of 127) and wins 49.9% of them (58th).

The higher the rank, the better: 48.6% at Herald–Crusader, 51.1% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Winter Wyvern more than usual at Divine (+57%) and less at Herald (−19%).

Winter Wyvern in the snapshot's pro matches: 32 picks, 19 wins, 31 bans. Turbo: 90,666 games at 48.6%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Winter Wyvern portrait, bring your own art: Picture to dots draws it in dots right on the field. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as hard support, the closest to Winter Wyvern are Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit and Ogre Magi — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.