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.
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Bonuses[edit]
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[edit]
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 | |
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Ancient Apparition | 20 | 1.9 | 20 | 2.2 | 23 | 3.4 |
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Bane | 23 | 2.6 | 23 | 2.6 | 23 | 2.6 |
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Batrider | 28 | 2.9 | 15 | 1.5 | 22 | 2.9 |
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Chen | 25 | 2 | 15 | 2.1 | 19 | 3.2 |
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Crystal Maiden | 18 | 2.2 | 16 | 1.6 | 14 | 3.3 |
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Dark Seer | 20 | 3.1 | 12 | 1.8 | 21 | 3.1 |
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Dark Willow | 20 | 2 | 18 | 1.6 | 18 | 3.5 |
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Dazzle | 18 | 2.5 | 21 | 1.7 | 25 | 3.7 |
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Death Prophet | 19 | 3.1 | 14 | 1.4 | 24 | 3.5 |
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Disruptor | 21 | 2.4 | 15 | 1.4 | 20 | 2.9 |
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Enchantress | 17 | 1.7 | 19 | 1.8 | 22 | 3.6 |
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Enigma | 21 | 2.5 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 3.6 |
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Grimstroke | 21 | 2.4 | 18 | 1.9 | 23 | 3.8 |
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Invoker | 18 | 2.4 | 14 | 1.9 | 15 | 4.6 |
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Jakiro | 27 | 3 | 10 | 1.2 | 26 | 3.2 |
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Keeper of the Light | 16 | 2.3 | 15 | 1.6 | 23 | 3.2 |
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Leshrac | 18 | 2.3 | 23 | 2.3 | 22 | 3.5 |
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Lich | 20 | 2.1 | 15 | 2 | 24 | 4.1 |
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Lina | 20 | 2.4 | 23 | 1.8 | 30 | 3.7 |
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Lion | 18 | 2.2 | 15 | 1.5 | 18 | 3.5 |
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Nature's Prophet | 21 | 2.6 | 22 | 3.6 | 23 | 3.7 |
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Necrophos | 18 | 2.8 | 12 | 1.3 | 21 | 2.9 |
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Ogre Magi | 23 | 3.5 | 14 | 1.9 | 15 | 2.5 |
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Oracle | 20 | 2.4 | 15 | 1.7 | 26 | 4 |
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Outworld Devourer | 21 | 2.9 | 24 | 2 | 30 | 4.2 |
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Puck | 17 | 2.4 | 22 | 2.2 | 23 | 3.5 |
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Pugna | 19 | 2 | 16 | 1.3 | 24 | 5.2 |
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Queen of Pain | 18 | 2.3 | 22 | 2.5 | 25 | 2.9 |
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Rubick | 21 | 2 | 23 | 2.5 | 25 | 3.1 |
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Shadow Demon | 23 | 2.6 | 18 | 2.2 | 21 | 3.3 |
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Shadow Shaman | 23 | 2.3 | 16 | 1.6 | 19 | 3.5 |
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Silencer | 19 | 2.7 | 22 | 2.4 | 25 | 2.9 |
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Skywrath Mage | 21 | 2 | 13 | 0.8 | 25 | 4.1 |
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Storm Spirit | 21 | 2 | 22 | 1.5 | 23 | 3.9 |
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Techies | 19 | 2.5 | 14 | 1.3 | 25 | 3.3 |
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Tinker | 18 | 2.5 | 13 | 1.2 | 30 | 3.3 |
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Visage | 22 | 2.8 | 11 | 1.3 | 22 | 2.9 |
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Void Spirit | 22 | 2.8 | 19 | 2.2 | 24 | 3.1 |
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Warlock | 26 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 25 | 3.1 |
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Windranger | 18 | 3 | 17 | 1.4 | 18 | 3 |
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Winter Wyvern | 26 | 2.6 | 16 | 1.9 | 26 | 3.6 |
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Witch Doctor | 18 | 2.3 | 13 | 1.4 | 22 | 3.3 |
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Zeus | 21 | 2.1 | 11 | 1.2 | 22 | 3.3 |
Intelligence granting talents[edit]
The following heroes have a talent that grants them bonus intelligence.
Bonus | Level 10 | Level 15 | Level 20 | Level 25 | ||||
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Left | Right | Left | Right | Left | Right | Left | Right | |
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Intelligence granting items[edit]
These items grant heroes a passive intelligence bonus by having them merely equipped.
Item | Value | Item cost | Cost per value point |
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Aghanim's Scepter | 10 | 4200 | 420 |
Arcane Ring | 8 | N/A | N/A |
Assault Cuirass | 5 | 5150 | 1030 |
Blade Mail | 10 | 2200 | 220 |
Bloodstone | 16 | 5250 | 328.13 |
Bloodthorn | 25 | 7055 | 282.2 |
Book of the Dead | 35 | N/A | N/A |
Bracer | 3 | 510 | 170 |
Buckler | 3 | 500 | 166.67 |
Circlet | 2 | 155 | 77.5 |
Clumsy Net | 5 | N/A | N/A |
Crimson Guard | 3 | 3800 | 1266.67 |
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 | 4 | 1900 | 475 |
Echo Sabre | 10 | 2575 | 257.5 |
Essence Ring | 6 | N/A | N/A |
Ethereal Blade | 10 | 4700 | 470 |
Eul's Scepter of Divinity | 10 | 2750 | 275 |
Eye of Skadi | 25 | 5500 | 220 |
Fallen Sky | 20 | 4750 | 237.5 |
Force Staff | 10 | 2250 | 225 |
Ghost Scepter | 5 | 1500 | 300 |
Guardian Greaves | 5 | 4950 | 990 |
Headdress | 3 | 450 | 150 |
Helm of the Dominator | 7 | 2400 | 342.86 |
Holy Locket | 3 | 2900 | 966.67 |
Hurricane Pike | 13 | 4600 | 353.85 |
Iron Branch | 1 | 50 | 50 |
Ironwood Tree | 7 | 150 | 21.43 |
Kaya | 16 | 2050 | 128.13 |
Kaya and Sange | 16 | 4100 | 256.25 |
Linken's Sphere | 14 | 5050 | 360.71 |
Magic Wand | 3 | 450 | 150 |
Manta Style | 10 | 4700 | 470 |
Mantle of Intelligence | 3 | 145 | 48.33 |
Mekansm | 4 | 1950 | 487.5 |
Meteor Hammer | 12 | 2500 | 208.33 |
Mirror Shield | 20 | N/A | N/A |
Mystic Staff | 25 | 2700 | 108 |
Null Talisman | 6 | 510 | 85 |
Oblivion Staff | 10 | 1575 | 157.5 |
Ocean Heart | 5 | N/A | N/A |
Octarine Core | 25 | 5900 | 236 |
Orchid Malevolence | 25 | 3925 | 157 |
Pipe of Insight | 2 | 2900 | 1450 |
Power Treads (Intelligence) | 10 | 1350 | 135 |
Ring of Aquila | 3 | N/A | N/A |
Ring of Basilius | 3 | 450 | 150 |
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 | 3900 | 390 |
Spell Prism | 12 | N/A | N/A |
Spirit Vessel | 2 | 2965 | 1482.5 |
Staff of Wizardry | 10 | 1000 | 100 |
Trident | 33 | 6150 | 186.36 |
Ultimate Orb | 10 | 2150 | 215 |
Urn of Shadows | 2 | 865 | 432.5 |
Vambrace (Agility) | 6 | 1030 | 171.67 |
Vambrace (Intelligence) | 12 | 1030 | 85.83 |
Vambrace (Strength) | 6 | 1030 | 171.67 |
Veil of Discord | 9 | 2050 | 227.78 |
Vladmir's Offering | 6 | 2300 | 383.33 |
Wraith Band | 3 | 510 | 170 |
Yasha and Kaya | 16 | 4100 | 256.25 |
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Version history[edit]
- Intelligence heroes no longer gain 25% more mana/mana regen/spell damage amplification per point of intelligence.
- Intelligence now grants 0.05 flat mana regeneration, instead of 1.8% mana regen amplification.
- 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. [?]
- 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.
- Reduced mana per intelligence from 12 to 11.
- Increased spell damage bonus from 1% per 15 intelligence to 1% per 14 intelligence. [?]
- Increased spell damage bonus from 1% per 16 intelligence to 1% per 15 intelligence. [?]
- Reduced mana per intelligence from 13 to 12.
- Intelligence now increases your spell damage by 1% per 16 intelligence points.
See also[edit]
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