Intelligence

Intelligence is one of the three primary attributes with the theme of improving spell-casting. It grants mana and mana regeneration 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

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.

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 43 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	3.4
	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	20	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	24	3.5
	Disruptor	21	2.4	15	1.4	20	2.9
	Enchantress	17	1.7	19	1.8	22	3.6
	Enigma	21	2.5	14	1	19	3.6
	Grimstroke	21	2.4	18	1.9	25	3.8
	Invoker	18	2.4	14	1.9	15	4.6
	Jakiro	27	3	10	1.2	26	3.2
	Keeper of the Light	16	2.3	15	1.6	23	3.2
	Leshrac	18	2.3	23	2.8	22	3.5
	Lich	20	2.1	15	2	24	4.1
	Lina	20	2.4	23	1.8	30	3.7
	Lion	18	2.2	15	1.5	18	3.5
	Nature's Prophet	21	2.6	22	3.6	23	3.7
	Necrophos	18	2.6	12	1.3	21	2.7
	Ogre Magi	23	3.5	14	1.9	15	2.5
	Oracle	20	2.4	15	1.7	26	4
	Outworld Devourer	21	2.9	24	2	30	4.2
	Puck	17	2.4	22	2.2	23	3.5
	Pugna	19	2	24	1.3	24	5.2
	Queen of Pain	18	2.3	22	2.5	25	3.4
	Rubick	21	2	23	2.5	25	3.1
	Shadow Demon	23	2.6	18	2.2	21	3.3
	Shadow Shaman	23	2.3	16	1.6	19	3.5
	Silencer	19	2.7	22	2.4	25	2.9
	Skywrath Mage	21	2	13	0.8	25	4.1
	Storm Spirit	21	2	22	1.5	23	3.9
	Techies	19	2.5	14	1.3	25	3.3
	Tinker	18	2.5	13	1.2	30	3.3
	Visage	22	2.8	11	1.3	22	2.9
	Void Spirit	22	2.6	19	2.2	24	3.1
	Warlock	26	3	10	1	25	3.1
	Windranger	18	3	17	1.4	18	3.6
	Winter Wyvern	24	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	22	3.3

Intelligence granting talents

The following heroes have a talent that grants them bonus intelligence.

Bonus	Level 10		Level 15		Level 20		Level 25
	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right
Intelligence	+10 +12	+10 +12

Intelligence granting 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
Arcane Ring	10	N/A	N/A
Bloodstone	16	5250	328.13
Bloodthorn	25	6475	259
Book of the Dead	30	N/A	N/A
Bracer	2	510	255
Circlet	2	155	77.5
Clumsy Net	5	N/A	N/A
Crown	4	450	112.5
Dagon 1	6	N/A	N/A
Dagon 2	8	2650	331.25
Dagon 3	10	3950	395
Dagon 4	12	5250	437.5
Dagon 5	14	6550	467.86
Diffusal Blade	10	3150	315
Drum of Endurance	6	1475	245.83
Echo Sabre	10	2500	250
Essence Ring	6	N/A	N/A
Ethereal Blade	10	4500	450
Eul's Scepter of Divinity	10	2725	272.5
Eye of Skadi	25	5300	212
Fallen Sky	20	N/A	N/A
Force Staff	10	2175	217.5
Ghost Scepter	5	1500	300
Helm of the Dominator	6	2350	391.67
Holy Locket	3	2500	833.33
Hurricane Pike	13	4525	348.08
Iron Branch	1	50	50
Ironwood Tree	6	N/A	N/A
Kaya	16	2050	128.13
Kaya and Sange	16	4100	256.25
Linken's Sphere	14	4600	328.57
Magic Wand	3	450	150
Manta Style	10	4600	460
Mantle of Intelligence	3	145	48.33
Meteor Hammer	8	2350	293.75
Mirror Shield	20	N/A	N/A
Mystic Staff	25	2700	108
Null Talisman	5	510	102
Oblivion Staff	10	1500	150
Ocean Heart	5	N/A	N/A
Orchid Malevolence	20	3475	173.75
Power Treads (Intelligence)	10	N/A	N/A
Ring of Aquila	3	N/A	N/A
Robe of the Magi	6	450	75
Rod of Atos	20	2750	137.5
Scythe of Vyse	35	5575	159.29
Shiva's Guard	30	4850	161.67
Silver Edge	10	6100	610
Solar Crest	10	3725	372.5
Spell Prism	12	N/A	N/A
Spirit Vessel	2	2940	1470
Staff of Wizardry	10	1000	100
Trident	30	6150	205
Ultimate Orb	10	2050	205
Urn of Shadows	2	840	420
Vambrace (Agility)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Intelligence)	10	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Strength)	5	N/A	N/A
Veil of Discord	4	1525	381.25
Wraith Band	2	510	255
Yasha and Kaya	16	4100	256.25
Values may include portions from actives or auras.

Version history

Version

Description

7.26

• Intelligence no longer grants 0.07% spell damage amplification per point.

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.

5.34

• Reduced mana per intelligence from 14 to 13.

5.31

• Reduced mana per intelligence from 15 to 14.

2.60

• Reduced mana regeneration per intelligence from 0.05 to 0.04.

See also

• Table of hero attributes

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