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Experience is an element heroes can gather by killing enemy units, or being present as enemy units get killed. On its own, experience does nothing, but when accumulated, it increases the hero's level, so that they grow more powerful. Only heroes can gather experience and therefore reach higher levels. With each level gained, a hero's base attributes increase by static values (unique for each hero), which makes them stronger in several. Heroes may also learn new abilities upon leveling up, or improve already learned spells onto higher levels, making them more powerful. Talents may also be learned on certain levels, which further improve the hero's stats or abilities.

Leveling

Each hero begins at level 1, with one free ability point to spend. Heroes may level up by acquiring certain amounts of experience. Upon leveling up, the hero's attributes increase by fixed amounts (unique for each hero), which makes them overall more powerful. Heroes may also gain more ability points by leveling up, allowing them to learn new spells, or to improve an already learned spell, making it more powerful. On certain levels, ability points may also be spent for talents, which further improve their stats or abilities. Ability points do not need to be spent immediately, a hero can level up multiple times while saving the ability points.

The amount of experience required to level up increases for each level. There is no specific formula for this requirement, but rather just set values for each individual level. Heroes can gain a total for 29 levels, resulting in level 30 as the highest possible level a hero can reach.

Hero level	Total XP to reach	XP needed for next level
1	0	230
2	230	370
3	600	480
4	1080	580
5	1660	600
6	2260	720
7	2980	750
8	3730	780
9	4510	810
10	5320	840
11	6160	870
12	7030	900
13	7930	1225
14	9155	1250
15	10405	1275
16	11680	1300
17	12980	1325
18	14305	1500
19	15805	1590
20	17395	1600
21	18995	1850
22	20845	2100
23	22945	2350
24	25295	2600
25	27895	3500
26	31395	4500
27	35895	5500
28	41395	6500
29	47895	7500
30	55395	-

Acquiring experience

Experience is awarded in a 1500 radius when an enemy hero dies to any ally, or when an enemy non-hero (creep or summon) dies to any ally or any neutral creep. This experience is shared between all allied heroes within the area, splitting it evenly amongst them. Therefore, the more heroes there are, the less every individual hero gets, and if no hero is nearby, the experience is effectively lost or wasted. Additionally, heroes that are already level 30 still take their share of experience within range, also effectively wasting exp.

Dying units do not grant any experience if they have Reincarnation. Dying summons or illusions do not grant any experience if their lifetime runs out naturally.

Heroes must be alive to gain experience. Other status effects, such as spell immunity, invulnerability, and banishment, do not prevent a hero from gaining experience.

With the exception of Meepo's clones, hero clones and illusions do not gain any experience, and are not considered by the experience sharing. Meepo's clones take 40% of experience, instead of 100%. This means when a Meepo clone is alone, 60% of the experience gets lost. When one ally is nearby, the clone gets 20% of the experience, while the ally gets 80%, with 2 allies, the clone gets 13.33%, the allies get 86.67% each.

Hero kills

Hero kills give experience in an area as well, splitting it up amongst all present heroes. However, unlike non-hero kills, hero kills always grant experience to the hero of the player who killed them, regardless of distance. This means when a player kills an enemy hero while outside the experience range (with a global spell, or with units under their control), but has an ally within the experience range of the killed enemy hero (regardless of any actual contribution to the kill), the experience is split between the killing player's hero, and the hero of the allied player who was within range of the kill.

Experience granted by heroes is determined by the following formula:

(40 + 0.13 * DyingHeroXP ) / # of killers

This means for every 7.69 experience the dying hero has, their experience bounty increases by 1, starting with a base experience of 40.

The following table shows the experience bounty ranges based on the level of the killed hero. Bounty does not increase past level 25.

Killed hero's level	Possible current XP of killed hero	Possible XP bounty of killed hero
1	0 - 229	40 - 69.77
2	230 - 599	69.9 - 117.87
3	600 - 1079	118 - 180.27
4	1080 - 1659	180.4 - 255.67
5	1660 - 2259	255.8 - 333.67
6	2260 - 2979	333.8 - 427.27
7	2980 - 3729	427.4 - 524.77
8	3730 - 4509	524.9 - 626.17
9	4510 - 5319	626.3 - 731.47
10	5320 - 6159	731.6 - 840.67
11	6160 - 7029	840.8 - 953.77
12	7030 - 7929	953.9 - 1070.77
13	7930 - 9154	1070.9 - 1230.02
14	9155 - 10404	1230.15 - 1392.52
15	10405 - 11679	1392.65 - 1558.27
16	11680 - 12979	1558.4 - 1727.27
17	12980 - 14304	1727.4 - 1899.52
18	14305 - 15804	1899.65 - 2094.52
19	15805 - 17394	2094.65 - 2301.22
20	17395 - 18994	2301.35 - 2509.22
21	18995 - 20844	2509.35 - 2749.72
22	20845 - 22944	2749.85 - 3022.72
23	22945 - 25294	3022.85 - 3328.22
24	25295 - 27894	3328.35 - 3666.22
25-30	27895	3666.35

Additionally, if the killed hero had a killing streak going on, bonus experience is awarded for killing them, on top of the default experience values.

The following bonuses are granted for ending a streak

Streak length	Streak name		Streak value
0, 1, 2	N/A	N/A	0 XP
3	▶️	Player is on a killing spree	400 XP
4	▶️	Player is dominating	600 XP
5	▶️	Player is on a mega Kill streak	800 XP
6	▶️	Player is unstoppable!	1000 XP
7	▶️	Player is wicked sick	1200 XP
8	▶️	Player is on a monster kill streak	1400 XP
9	▶️	Player is GODLIKE	1600 XP
10+	▶️	Player is beyond GODLIKE, someone kill them!!	1800 XP
Announcer responses are customizable

Other kills

Most creeps have a fixed experience value they grant. This includes lane creeps and most summoned units. Buildings do not grant any experience.

Neutral creeps have each a unique base value, which increases by 2% every 7 minutes and 30 seconds of game time. The increase is always based on the base value, and not their current values, meaning their bounties do not grow exponentially. Roshan's experience bounty increases by 20 every 1 minute. Neutral creeps always grant experience to both teams, no matter who kills them, splitting it evenly amongst all present heroes.

Outposts

Main Article: Outposts

Outposts are neutral buildings located on each side lane at the borders of the map between the trees, close to where the lanes of Radiant and Dire meet on each side. Outposts start out as neutral buildings, and may be captured after the 10th minute mark by either team. Outposts are invulnerable until the 10th minute mark.

Watch Tower

Ability
Passive

Affects
Allies

There is no description for this ability.

True Sight Radius: 500

Capture Distance: 400

Capture Time: 6

Extra Team Experience Per Minute: 20

Experience Value Deduction: 50

Experience Gametime Interval: 600

True Sight Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Modifiers

Watch Tower: Undispellable.

Watch Tower Capturing: Undispellable.

Truesight: Undispellable.

Notes:

• Outposts cannot be captured until the game time reaches 10:00. Until then, the outpost is invulnerable.

• An outpost can be captured by ordering the hero to attack it. An attack order is given by right-clicking, or by pressing the attack hotkey and selecting the outpost as a target.
  • Once the hero is within the capture range, the channeling for the capture begins.
  • Since a hero executing an attack order is required to capture it, it cannot be captured while disarmed. However, getting disarmed while already channeling it does not cancel it.

• The capture time gets lower the more heroes channel it, equaling the given channel time, divided by the amount of heroes who channel.
  • This results in a channel time of 6/3/2/1.5/1.2 seconds for 1/2/3/4/5 channeling heroes.

• Once captured, the outpost provides its flying vision and True Sight to the team that captured it.

• Grants experience to the teams for capturing an outpost for the first time. After that, capturing no longer grants experience.
  • While having an outpost captured, experience gained whenever the game time reaches a 10 minute mark.in its neutral state.
  • Only one outpost may grant experience. When owning both outposts, the experience does not get doubled.

• Grants 150 / 350 / 550 / 750 / 950 / 1150 / 1350 / 1550 / 1750 / 1950 / 2150 / 2350 experience on the 10th, 20th, 30th, ... 120th minute mark.

• The True Sight is provided within the whole area, regardless of the buildings actual vision. It is fully unobstructed.
  • The True Sight is provided by an aura which affects enemies. Its debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds.
  • Cannot detect units under the effect of Shadow Dance, Smoke of Deceit, and Techies' traps and mines within the aura of Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Minefield Sign.

Denying

Main Article: Denying

When a hero gets denied (be it by allies or by the hero itself), no experience is awarded to enemies around it. This also applies to heroes killed by neutral creeps.

When other player-controlled units get denied, no experience is awarded to the enemy either. However, unlike heroes, summons dying to neutral creeps do grant their default experience bounty.

When a lane creep gets denied, the enemy gets 40% of its experience bounty, instead of 100%.

Abilities

Some abilities award a hero with experience when used.

• Hand of Midas - Transmute
  
  Experience Multiplier: 185%
  Multiplies the target's experience value.
• Tome of Knowledge - Enlighten
  
  Base Experience Gain: 700
  Bonus Experience Gained per Previous Tome: 135
  Every tome consumed by an ally increases the experience bonus.

Lane creeps

Main Article: Lane creeps

Neutral creeps

Main Article: Neutral creeps

Roshan

Roshan

400 + 20 per minute

Summons

Main Article: Summons

Special

Source	Unit	Experience
Arc Warden	Tempest Double	180/240/300

Mechanics Stats Armor Attributes (Strength / Agility / Intelligence) Collision size Health (Health regeneration) Magic resistance Mana (Mana regeneration) Movement speed Status resistance Turn rate Vision Attack Attack animation Attack damage Attack modifier (Bash / Cleave & Splash / Critical strike / Lifesteal / Mana break) Attack range Attack speed Cast animation Cast range Damage types Motion buffer range Projectile speed Spell damage Spell lifesteal Abilities Abilities Aura Channeling Damage block Damage manipulation Damage over time Evasion Talents Teleport Status effects Attack immunity Break Cyclone Disable Disarm Ethereal Fear Forced movement Hex Hide Hypnosis Invisibility Invulnerability Leash Root Silence Sleep Slow Spell immunity Stun Taunt World Experience Gold Glyph of Fortification Map (Minimap) River Scan Runes Time of day Trees Gameplay Creep control techniques Denying Disjoint Dispel Ganking Harassment Hero complexity Initiating Item passive stacking Item sharing Jungling Lane Pushing Random distribution Roles Trap Units Ancient creeps Buildings Couriers Creep-heroes Heroes Illusions Lane creeps Neutral creeps Roshan Summons & Wards