Wraith King — hero grid for mains
Wraith King is a Strength hero, melee, played as offlane (3) and carry (1), with a 55.3% win rate and 24th place by games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026. Below — a grid with Wraith King in Mains and the hero's places in the site's layouts.
In-game name and nicknames
Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Wraith King. Short names for Wraith King you will see in chat: “wk”. The game files call the hero “skeleton king”, and the site's search knows that name too. On Russian servers you will hear “Врейт Кинг” (or “вк”, “врейт” and “скелет”).
The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Can reincarnate instantly upon death”.
Attribute, attack and roles
Wraith King is a Strength hero (36 of them in the game), melee, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.
Role dots from Valve: Durable ●●●, Carry ●●○, Disabler ●●○, Support ●○○, Initiator ●○○; full marks for Durable.
In the ready layouts that means the “STRENGTH” (9th of 36) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (54th of 55) band of By complexity. Wraith King is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “3 · OFFLANE”, 2nd of 12.
Positions and lanes
Wraith King is played in two positions — offlane (3) and carry (1) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is offlane. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.89 · mid 0.14 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.09 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Wraith King in the “3 · OFFLANE” and “1 · CARRY” rows and nowhere else.
| Position | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 · Carry | 0.89 |
| 2 · Mid | 0.14 |
| 3 · Offlane | 1 |
| 4 · Soft support | 0.09 |
| 5 · Hard support | 0 |
Where the scores come from: in 968 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Wraith King went safe lane 44% of the time, mid 6% and offlane 50%. Median gold per minute is 565 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); experience per minute is 783.
Where to put the hero in your grid
The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Wraith King in “1 · CARRY” (14th 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 Wraith King ends up there; by the highest score, add the hero to “3 · OFFLANE” as well — it has two free slots.
With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Wraith King, then Axe, Mars and Doom, because all three share the same main position (offlane), the same attribute and melee attack.
OpenDota stats, 23 Sept 2026
Wraith King has 540,217 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 24th of 127 by games played — and a 55.3% win rate, 1st of 127.
Results drop with rank by 2.3 points: 56.1% at Herald–Crusader against 53.9% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Wraith King more than usual at Archon (+10%) and less at Divine (−35%).
| Rank | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Herald | 14,266 | 56.7% |
| Guardian | 50,070 | 56.5% |
| Crusader | 91,135 | 55.8% |
| Archon | 132,523 | 55.7% |
| Legend | 134,782 | 55.2% |
| Ancient | 79,034 | 54.4% |
| Divine | 38,407 | 52.9% |
Wraith King in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 0 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 251,597 games at 57.0%, about the same as in ranked brackets.
Skin and dot drawing
Main in a skin has The One True King arcana plus a second arcana style for Wraith King: 16 ready dot drawings, from 1,170 to 3,707 of the grid's 4000 slots.
Ready grid with this drawing: Wraith King · The One True King — 1,431 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.