Witch Doctor — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Witch Doctor. Short names for Witch Doctor you will see in chat: “wd”. On Russian servers you will hear “Витч Доктор” (or “вд” and “доктор”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Channels a high damage death ward”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Witch Doctor”, “Витч Доктор”, “wd” — each of them lands on Witch Doctor.

Witch Doctor: Intelligence attribute, shared with 33 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity easy, 1 of 3, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (8th of 34) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (53rd of 55) band of By complexity. Witch Doctor is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “5 · HARD SUPPORT”, 2nd of 12.

Witch Doctor is hard support (5) first of all, with soft support at 0.37 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0 · mid 0.03 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.37 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Witch Doctor in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 2,131 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 70%, mid 7%, off 23%. Median GPM 359, XPM 539 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less).

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Witch Doctor in “5 · HARD SUPPORT” (1st of 18).

Witch Doctor in other layouts: Meta by stats — “HARD SUPPORT”, 1st of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 2nd of 44.

The “Make a grid with Witch Doctor” button opens Mains + situational with Witch Doctor first in the MAINS block, followed by Crystal Maiden, Winter Wyvern and Jakiro — all three share the same main position (hard support), the same attribute and ranged attack.

To get the grid into the game, press “Download grid” and, with Dota closed, put hero_grid_config.json into Steam → userdata → account number → 570 → remote → cfg — details in how to install a hero grid.

Witch Doctor has 668,644 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 14th of 127 by games played — and a 52.1% win rate, 19th of 127.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 52.9% low, 51.0% high. Players pick Witch Doctor more than usual at Crusader (+12%) and less at Divine (−34%).

Witch Doctor in the snapshot's pro matches: 17 picks, 4 wins, 9 bans. Turbo: 276,935 games at 52.9%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Witch Doctor 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 Witch Doctor are Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit and Ogre Magi — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.