Intelligence

Intelligence is one of the three primary attributes with the theme of improving spell-casting. It grants mana, mana regeneration and spell damage amplification to every hero. Intelligence heroes also gain attack damage per point of intelligence.

Bonuses

For each point of intelligence, a hero gains the following bonuses:

• 12 Mana
• 0.05 Mana regeneration
• 0.07% Spell damage amplification

Additionally, intelligence heroes also get 1 attack damage per point of intelligence.

The mana bonus is only applied to the maximum mana pool. The hero's current mana is not increased, but keeps the current mana percentage. To gain 1 mana regeneration, 20 intelligence points are required. To gain 1% spell damage amplification, 15 intelligence points are required.

Intelligence heroes

Intelligence heroes tend to have a greater number of active abilities compared to other heroes; all intelligence heroes have at least three active abilities, with a large number of them having all four of their abilities being actives, and some even having 5 or more. Their larger mana pools and higher mana regen rates go a long way to help them use these abilities frequently. As a whole, intelligence heroes have by far the greatest number of disabling capabilities, making them essential in most lineups. The items they build also tend to be highly caster based, since those items primarily provide intelligence. With a few exceptions, most intelligence heroes are ranged. Most intelligence heroes rely on their spells for damage, but in most cases, these have static damage values only increased by spell damage amplification or damage manipulation. They do not scale well into the late game, so that most intelligence heroes peak during the early to mid game, where their spells deal the most damage in relation to enemy health pools and resistance, and then start to fall off in the late game. Because of this, they often fit into support and ganker roles. There are exceptions to this though, some intelligence heroes have scaling abilities which make them excellent in the late game.

There are 42 intelligence heroes in Dota 2.

Below is a table of all heroes with intelligence as their primary attribute. The growth columns indicate by how much the base values increases for each level of the hero.

Hero		Base Strength	Strength Growth	Base Agility	Agility Growth	Base Intelligence	Intelligence Growth
	Ancient Apparition	20	1.9	20	2.2	23	3
	Bane	23	2.6	23	2.6	23	2.6
	Batrider	28	2.9	15	1.5	22	2.9
	Chen	25	2	15	2.1	19	3.2
	Crystal Maiden	18	2.2	16	1.6	14	3.3
	Dark Seer	24	3.1	12	1.8	21	3.1
	Dark Willow	20	2	18	1.6	18	3.5
	Dazzle	18	2.5	21	1.7	25	3.7
	Death Prophet	19	3.1	14	1.4	21	3.5
	Disruptor	21	2.4	15	1.4	20	2.9
	Enchantress	16	1.7	19	1.8	17	3.6
	Enigma	21	2.5	14	1	18	3.9
	Grimstroke	21	2.4	18	1.9	23	3.8
	Invoker	18	2.4	14	1.9	14	4.6
	Jakiro	27	2.8	10	1.2	26	3.2
	Keeper of the Light	16	2.3	15	1.6	23	3.2
	Leshrac	18	2.3	23	2.3	22	3.5
	Lich	20	2.1	15	2	20	4.1
	Lina	20	2	16	1.5	30	3.7
	Lion	18	2.2	15	1.5	18	3.5
	Nature's Prophet	21	2.6	18	3.3	23	3.3
	Necrophos	18	2.8	12	1.3	20	2.9
	Ogre Magi	25	3.5	14	1.6	15	2.3
	Oracle	20	2.4	15	1.7	21	4
	Outworld Devourer	19	2.6	24	2	28	3.5
	Puck	17	2.2	22	1.7	23	3.1
	Pugna	19	2	16	1	24	5.2
	Queen of Pain	18	2.3	22	2.2	22	2.9
	Rubick	21	2	19	2.1	25	3.1
	Shadow Demon	23	2.6	18	2.2	21	3.1
	Shadow Shaman	23	2.3	16	1.6	21	3.5
	Silencer	19	2.7	22	3	25	2.9
	Skywrath Mage	21	2	13	0.8	25	4.1
	Storm Spirit	21	2	22	1.5	22	3.7
	Techies	19	2.5	14	1.3	22	3.3
	Tinker	17	2.5	13	1.2	28	2.5
	Visage	22	2.8	11	1.3	22	2.9
	Warlock	26	3	10	1	25	3.1
	Windranger	17	3	17	1.4	18	3
	Winter Wyvern	26	2.6	16	1.9	26	3.6
	Witch Doctor	18	2.3	13	1.4	22	3.3
	Zeus	21	2.1	11	1.2	20	3.1

Intelligence items

These items grant heroes a passive intelligence bonus by having them merely equipped.

Bonus intelligence

Item	Value	Item cost	Cost per value point
Aghanim's Scepter	10	4200	420
Blade Mail	10	2200	220
Bloodthorn	25	7205	288.2
Bracer	3	515	171.67
Buckler	2	800	400
Circlet	2	165	82.5
Crimson Guard	2	3700	1850
Crown	4	450	112.5
Dagon 1	18	2700	150
Dagon 2	21	3950	188.1
Dagon 3	24	5200	216.67
Dagon 4	27	6450	238.89
Dagon 5	30	7700	256.67
Diffusal Blade	10	3150	315
Drum of Endurance	6	1525	254.17
Echo Sabre	10	2650	265
Ethereal Blade	10	4700	470
Eul's Scepter of Divinity	10	2750	275
Eye of Skadi	25	5500	220
Force Staff	10	2250	225
Ghost Scepter	5	1500	300
Guardian Greaves	5	5375	1075
Headdress	2	525	262.5
Helm of the Dominator	2	1875	937.5
Hurricane Pike	13	4600	353.85
Iron Branch	1	50	50
Kaya	16	2050	128.13
Kaya and Sange	16	4100	256.25
Linken's Sphere	13	5050	388.46
Magic Wand	3	450	150
Manta Style	10	4700	470
Mantle of Intelligence	3	135	45
Mekansm	5	2275	455
Meteor Hammer	12	2625	218.75
Mystic Staff	25	2700	108
Null Talisman	6	515	85.83
Oblivion Staff	10	1650	165
Octarine Core	25	5900	236
Orchid Malevolence	25	4075	163
Pipe of Insight	2	3025	1512.5
Power Treads (Intelligence)	10	1380	138
Robe of the Magi	6	450	75
Rod of Atos	20	2750	137.5
Scythe of Vyse	35	5700	162.86
Shiva's Guard	30	4750	158.33
Silver Edge	15	5550	370
Solar Crest	10	3875	387.5
Spirit Vessel	2	2975	1487.5
Staff of Wizardry	10	1000	100
Ultimate Orb	10	2150	215
Urn of Shadows	2	875	437.5
Veil of Discord	15	2050	136.67
Wraith Band	3	515	171.67
Yasha and Kaya	16	4100	256.25
Values may include portions from actives or auras.

Version history

Version

Description

7.21

• Intelligence heroes no longer gain 25% more mana/mana regen/spell damage amplification per point of intelligence.

7.20

• Intelligence now grants 0.05 flat mana regeneration, instead of 1.8% mana regen amplification.

7.13

• Reworked intelligence bonuses
  • Intelligence heroes now gain 25% more of all intelligence stats than strength and agility heroes.
  • Intelligence heroes no longer gain 0.15% magic resistance per point of intelligence.
  • Reduced mana regen amplification bonus per intelligence from 2% to 1.8%. [?]
  • Reduced spell damage bonus per intelligence from 0.071% (1/14) to 0.07%. [?]
  • Mana bonus remains at 12 per intelligence. [?]

7.07

• Increased mana per intelligence from 11 to 12.
• Intelligence no longer grants 0.04 mana regeneration per point.
• Intelligence now grants 2% mana regen amplification per point.
• Intelligence heroes now gain 0.15% magic resistance for each point of intelligence.

7.06

• Reduced mana per intelligence from 12 to 11.
• Increased spell damage bonus from 1% per 15 intelligence to 1% per 14 intelligence. [?]

7.05

• Increased spell damage bonus from 1% per 16 intelligence to 1% per 15 intelligence. [?]

6.87

• Reduced mana per intelligence from 13 to 12.
• Intelligence now increases your spell damage by 1% per 16 intelligence points.

See also

• Table of hero attributes

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