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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.

Experience multipliers

Some heroes have talents that multiply all the experience they gain by a value.

Bonus	Level 10		Level 15		Level 20		Level 25
	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right
Experience gain	+20% +25% +25% +25% +25% +25% +30% +30% +30% +35%	+25% +30% +30% +30% +40%	+40%	+35% +40% +40% +40% +50%

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 + 0.14 * DyingHeroXP ) / # of killers

This means for every 7.14 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 - 72.06
2	230 - 599	72.2 - 123.86
3	600 - 1079	124 - 191.06
4	1080 - 1659	191.2 - 272.26
5	1660 - 2259	272.4 - 356.26
6	2260 - 2979	356.4 - 457.06
7	2980 - 3729	457.2 - 562.06
8	3730 - 4509	562.2 - 671.26
9	4510 - 5319	671.4 - 784.66
10	5320 - 6159	784.8 - 902.26
11	6160 - 7029	902.4 - 1024.06
12	7030 - 7929	1024.2 - 1150.06
13	7930 - 9154	1150.2 - 1321.56
14	9155 - 10404	1321.7 - 1496.56
15	10405 - 11679	1496.7 - 1675.06
16	11680 - 12979	1675.2 - 1857.06
17	12980 - 14304	1857.2 - 2042.56
18	14305 - 15804	2042.7 - 2252.56
19	15805 - 17394	2252.7 - 2475.16
20	17395 - 18994	2475.3 - 2699.16
21	18995 - 20844	2699.3 - 2958.16
22	20845 - 22944	2958.3 - 3252.16
23	22945 - 25294	3252.3 - 3581.16
24	25295 - 27894	3581.3 - 3945.16
25-30	27895	3945.3

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

Outposts can be captured to passively gain experience every 5 minutes of game time. The experience granted is based on elapsed game time, increasing by 25 for every passed minute. Capturing a neutral outposts immediately grants the experience upon getting captured, but only if the team does not have another outpost under their control already. Capturing an outpost controlled by an enemy does not grant experience immediately. If both outposts are under one team's control, only one of them grants experience, meaning they do not stack.

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