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.
• Any denied player controlled unit (including heroes) grant no experience to the enemy.
• Any denied npc unit (lane creeps, neutrals, buildings) grant 50% of their usual experience.
• Heroes take their share of experience even after level 25, even though they cannot use it.
• A hero cannot earn experience while dead, unless they own Bloodstone.
• Hero kills award experience to the killer, no matter how far away they are.
• Each Meepo clone counts as a hero for the purposes of 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.

Abilities

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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 3 160 4 220 5 300 6 400 7 500 8 600 9 700 10 800

Killed hero level Experience awarded 11 900 12 1000 13 1100 14 1200 15 1300 16 1400 17 1500 18 1600 19 1700 20 1800

Killed hero level Experience awarded 21 1900 22 2000 23 2100 24 2200 25 2300

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

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

For levels 6 and further: f(x) = f(x-1) + 100; f(5) = 300

Or you can combine them into one formula: f(x) = (10x2 - 10x + 90) H(5.5 - x) + (100x - 200) 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) + (0.23 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
2 Heroes	(15 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.23 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
3 Heroes	(10 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.2 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
4 Heroes	(7 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.15 × Dying Hero's XP x XP Difference)
5 Heroes	(5 × Dying Hero's Level) + (0.12 × 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	25
Tier 2 tower	25
Tier 3 tower	25
Tier 4 tower	25
Tier 1 tower (denied by enemy)	12.5
Tier 2 tower (denied by enemy)	12.5
Tier 3 tower (denied by enemy)	12.5
Tier 4 tower (denied by enemy)	12.5
Melee or ranged barracks	0
Subsidiary buildings	25
Subsidiary buildings (denied by enemy)	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

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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 7–13 range to allow mid-game heroes to peak slightly earlier.

Hero Level	Total experience required to reach level	Experience required for next level
1	0	200
2	200	300
3	400	500
4	900	500
5	1400	600
6	2000	600
7	2600	600
8	3200	1200
9	4400	1000
10	5400	600
11	6000	2200
12	8200	800
13	9000	1400
14	10400	1500
15	11900	1600
16	13500	1700
17	15200	1800
18	17000	1900
19	18900	2000
20	20900	2100
21	23000	2200
22	25200	2300
23	27500	2400
24	29900	2500
25	32400	-

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