Experience

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▶️ I grow stronger! — 'Storm Spirit'

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Experience allows heroes to level up, which makes them stronger and allows them to learn new abilities. Experience is earned by being within a 1300 range radius of a dying enemy unit. It takes increasingly more experience to level up as a hero's level progresses. Units can be denied by other allied units to reduce the experience given from dying.

Acquiring experience

When an enemy unit dies, experience is granted and divided among all allied heroes in a 1300 range.

• Experience is granted by almost all units: heroes, creeps, summons, buildings and wards.
• Denying a hero (for instance, by commiting suicide) grants no experience (nor gold) to the enemy. This also applies when killed by neutrals.
• More generally, denying a player-controlled unit grants no experience to the enemy.
• Any denied npc unit (lane creeps, neutrals, buildings) grant 50% of their usual experience. Npc units killed by neutrals, though, grant no experience. Neutrals deaths grant experience to any nearby hero, no matter the team that gets the last-hit.
• A hero cannot earn experience while dead.
• Hero kills award experience to the killer at any range (no matter how far away they are).
  • Any kills made by summoned units like Treants or Spirit Bear will reward experience to their owner at any range.
• Heroes take their share of experience even after level 25, even though they cannot use it.
• Each Meepo clone counts as a hero for the purposes of gaining and dividing experience.
• Experience (and gold) are awarded independently of the assist counter on the scoreboard, which only counts if a hero dealt damage, and ignores proximity to the dying hero. This means a hero only gets assist gold and experience when within range of a dying enemy hero, even when it didn't contribute to the kill in any way.

Abilities

Some items award a hero with experience, namely:

• Hand of Midas - Transmute
  
  Experience Gain: 250% of the creep's experience bounty
  
• Bounty Rune - [[Bounty Rune#|]]
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  Experience Gain: 50 experience + (5 × minute)
  

Hero kills

When an enemy hero is killed, allied heroes within range receive an experience reward, split up into two parts: killing experience and assist experience. Killing experience is based on the level of the killed hero, and assist experience is based on the experience difference between the teams.

Killing experience

When an enemy hero dies, an experience reward is divided equally among allied heroes in range. The killer will receive the reward even if he is not in range. The formula awards total experience as follows:

Killed hero level Experience awarded 1 100 2 120 3 140 4 160 5 180 6 280 7 380 8 480 9 580 10 680

Killed hero level Experience awarded 11 780 12 880 13 980 14 1080 15 1180 16 1280 17 1380 18 1480 19 1580 20 1680

Killed hero level Experience awarded 21 1780 22 1880 23 1980 24 2080 25 2180

If 'x' is the level of the killed hero, the amount of experience gained (f(x)) is:

For levels 1-5: f(x) = 20(x+4); f(1) = 100

For levels 6 and further: f(x) = f(x-1) + 100; f(5) = 180

Or it can combine them into one formula: f(x) = (20x +80) H(5.5 - x) + (100x - 320) H(x - 5.5)

Assist experience

When an enemy hero dies, allied heroes within 1300 range receive an experience reward. The formula (for each hero) is as follows:

Assisting heroes	Experience awarded
1 Hero	(20 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.138 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
2 Heroes	(15 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.138 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
3 Heroes	(10 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.12 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
4 Heroes	(7 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.09 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
5 Heroes	(5 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.072 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)

XP Difference is defined as ( EnemyTeamXP - AlliedTeamXP ) / ( EnemyTeamXP + AlliedTeamXP ) and has a minimum of zero.

Buildings

Building	Experience Awarded
Tier 1 tower	0
Tier 2 tower	0
Tier 3 tower	0
Tier 4 tower	0
Melee or ranged barracks	0
Subsidiary buildings	25
Subsidiary buildings (denied)	12.5
Fountains*	41
Ancients	0

Template:* Since fountains are invulnerable, this experience is never obtainable.

Lane creeps

Main Article: Lane Creeps

Neutral creeps

Main Article: Neutral Creeps

Roshan

Roshan

1789

Hero summons

All hero-summoned units grant 50% experience.

Denying

Main Article: Denying

Denying occurs when a hero lands a killing blow on an allied unit. Heroes can only target allied creeps if they are under 50% health, and can only target allied heroes if they are afflicted with certain debuffs. If the denied unit is not a player controlled unit, enemy heroes in 1300 range split half the usual experience bounty. If it is a player controlled unit, enemies gain no experience from it. Denying an allied unit prevents the opponents from earning gold.

Leveling

Each hero starts the match at level 1, with one ability point to spend. A hero levels by acquiring a certain amount of experience. When a hero levels, its attributes get increased according to that hero's individual attribute bonuses, and it gains ability point. The ability point can be spent on an ability which has not been maxed out, or for an to increase the hero's Strength, Agility, and Intelligence by an additional 2 points each. Ability points do not need to be spent immediately, a hero can level up multiple times while saving the ability points.

Experience required for each level.

The amount of experience required to level up is generally equal to the upcoming hero level * 100. For example, to increase a hero's level from 1 to 2 a hero requires 200 experience points, while leveling up from 24 to 25 requires 2500 experience points. There are a few exceptions for some levels in the 6–12 range to allow mid-game heroes to peak slightly earlier.

Hero Level	Total experience required to reach level	Experience required for next level	Experience from killing creeps with a certain level
1	0	200	25
2	200	300	41
3	500	400	62
4	900	500	88
5	1400	600	119
6	2000	600	155
7	2600	600	196
8	3200	1200	242
9	4400	1000	293
10	5400	600	349
11	6000	2200	410
12	8200	800	476
13	9000	1400	547
14	10400	1500	623
15	11900	1600	704
16	13500	1700	790
17	15200	1800	881
18	17000	1900	977
19	18900	2000	1078
20	20900	2100	1184
21	23000	2200	1295
22	25200	2300	1411
23	27500	2400	1532
24	29900	2500	1658
25	32400	-	1789

Balance changelog

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Mechanics Main Heroes Unit Type (Heroes / Clones / Illusions) Complexity Attributes Table Buyback Level Roles Gold Experience Animations Stats Armor Attributes ( Strength / Agility / Intelligence) / Universal) Health & Mana (HP Regen & MP Regen) Magic Resistance Movement Speed / Slow Resistance Status Resistance Turn Rate Misc Creep Controling Death / Denying Vision Unit Size (Collision Size / Bound Radius / Selection Box / Model Size) Gib Type / Shades Adjectives Buildings Towers / Barracks / Ancient / Fountain Effigy Neutral Buildings (Outposts / Watchers / Twin Gates / Lotus Pools) Abilities Type Active / Passive / Autocast Aura Accuracy / Evasion Channeling Damage Barrier Damage Block Damage Manipulation Damage Over Time Talents Teleport Targeting Area No Target Point Unit Vector Combinations Casting Cast Range / Motion Buffer Cast Animation (Cast Point + Backswing) Cooldown Reduction (Flat / Current Flat / Percentage) Reset Charge-based Runes Bounty Rune Water Rune Wisdom Rune Power Runes ( Amplify Damage Rune / Arcane Rune / Haste Rune / Illusion Rune / Invisibility Rune / Regeneration Rune / Shield Rune) Misc Random Distribution Transformation Attack Damage Attack Damage Instant Attack Heroes Attack Classes Attack Range (Acquisition Range) Attack Speed (BAT / Interval) Damage Types (Physical / Magical / Pure / Instant Kill) Flags (HP Removal / No-reflection / No-Spell-Lifesteal / No-Spell-Amplification) Projectile Speed Spell Damage (Outgoing / Incoming) Modifiers Bash Cleave / Splash Corruption Critical Strike Lifesteal / Spell Lifesteal Mana Break On-hit Effects Misc Damage Instance Animation / Orb Walking Status Effects Disables Cyclone Disabling Orders Forced Movement (Knockback) / Upward Movement Fear (Hypnosis) Hide Hex Root Leash Stun Sleep Taunt Movement Move Speed Slow Flying Movement Phased / Tree Walk / Unobstructed Movement Other Attack Immune / Non-targetable Attack Speed Slow Debuff Immunity Spell Immunity Invulnerability Invisibility Blind Break Disarm Ethereal Silence Mute Trap Dispels Basic Strong Death Items Mechanics Courier Sharing / Selling Disassemble Recipes Neutral Item Drop