Strength

Strength is one of the three primary attributes with the theme of defending against magic damage. It grants health and health regeneration to every hero. Strength heroes also gain attack damage per point of strength.

Bonuses

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

• 20 health
• 0.1 health regeneration

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

The health bonus is only applied to the maximum health pool. The hero's current health is not increased, but keeps the current health percentage. To gain 1 health regeneration, 10 strength points are required.

Strength heroes

Strength heroes tend to have more health and health regeneration than other heroes, making them more resilient to both physical attacks and spells. Strength heroes have a great variety in their roles, including that of carry, ganker, and support, but almost all of them have some form of strong initiation and are supposed to act as tanks to some degree. In addition, heroes with a large amount of strength may greatly increase the damage needed to bring a team down. With a few exception, most strength heroes are melee. Whilst intelligence heroes typically sport a strong early game, and Agility heroes excel in the late game, Strength heroes are often able to strike a balance between the two and remain relevant at all points of the game.

There are 39 strength heroes in Dota 2.

Below is a table of all heroes with strength 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
	Abaddon	23	3	23	1.5	18	2
	Alchemist	25	2.7	22	1.5	25	1.8
	Axe	25	3.4	20	2.2	18	1.6
	Beastmaster	23	2.9	18	1.6	16	1.9
	Brewmaster	23	3.7	19	2	15	1.6
	Bristleback	22	2.9	17	1.8	14	2.8
	Centaur Warrunner	27	4.6	15	1	15	1.6
	Chaos Knight	22	3.4	18	1.4	18	1.2
	Clockwerk	26	3.5	13	2.3	18	1.5
	Doom	24	3.7	11	0.9	15	2.1
	Dragon Knight	21	3.4	19	2	18	1.7
	Earth Spirit	22	4.4	17	2.4	20	2.1
	Earthshaker	22	3.7	12	1.4	16	1.8
	Elder Titan	26	3	14	1.8	23	1.6
	Huskar	21	3.2	15	1.8	18	1.5
	Io	17	3	14	1.6	23	1.7
	Kunkka	24	3.8	14	1.3	18	1.8
	Legion Commander	25	3.3	18	1.7	20	2.2
	Lifestealer	25	2.4	18	2.4	15	1.8
	Lycan	26	3.4	16	1	23	1.4
	Magnus	25	3.5	15	2.5	19	1.7
	Mars	23	3.4	20	1.9	21	1.6
	Night Stalker	23	3	18	2.3	15	1.6
	Omniknight	22	3.4	15	1.8	15	1.8
	Phoenix	23	3.5	12	1.3	16	1.8
	Pudge	25	3	14	1.4	16	1.5
	Sand King	22	3	19	1.8	19	1.8
	Slardar	21	3.6	17	2.4	15	1.5
	Snapfire	20	3.3	16	1.9	18	2.2
	Spirit Breaker	29	3.1	17	1.7	14	1.8
	Sven	22	3.2	21	2	16	1.3
	Tidehunter	27	3.5	15	1.5	18	1.7
	Timbersaw	24	3.2	16	1.6	23	2.7
	Tiny	28	3.8	0	0	17	2.2
	Treant Protector	25	3.4	15	2	20	1.8
	Tusk	23	3.9	23	2.1	18	1.7
	Underlord	25	3	12	1.6	17	2.3
	Undying	22	2.8	10	0.8	27	2.8
	Wraith King	22	3	18	1.7	18	1.6

Strength granting talents

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

Bonus	Level 10		Level 15		Level 20		Level 25
	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right
Strength	+8 +8 +8 +9	+6 +7 +7 +9 +9	+11 +12 +13	+10 +12 +12 +12 +12	+18 +20 +20	+16 +18 +20 +30	+30

Strength granting items

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

Bonus strength

Item	Value	Item cost	Cost per value point
Abyssal Blade	10	6625	662.5
Aghanim's Scepter	10	4200	420
Belt of Strength	6	450	75
Black King Bar	10	4050	405
Book of Shadows	12	N/A	N/A
Book of the Dead	30	N/A	N/A
Bracer	5	510	102
Circlet	2	155	77.5
Crown	4	450	112.5
Dagon 1	6	2750	458.33
Dagon 2	8	4050	506.25
Dagon 3	10	5350	535
Dagon 4	12	6650	554.17
Dagon 5	14	7950	567.86
Dragon Lance	12	1900	158.33
Drum of Endurance	6	1700	283.33
Echo Sabre	12	2500	208.33
Ethereal Blade	10	4300	430
Eye of Skadi	25	5300	212
Fallen Sky	20	N/A	N/A
Gauntlets of Strength	3	145	48.33
Ghost Scepter	5	1500	300
Giant's Ring	40	N/A	N/A
Gleipnir	12	6150	512.5
Heart of Tarrasque	45	4800	106.67
Heaven's Halberd	20	3650	182.5
Holy Locket	3	2500	833.33
Hurricane Pike	15	4525	301.67
Illusionist's Cape	14	N/A	N/A
Iron Branch	1	50	50
Ironwood Tree	6	N/A	N/A
Kaya and Sange	16	4100	256.25
Linken's Sphere	14	4600	328.57
Magic Wand	3	450	150
Manta Style	10	4600	460
Meteor Hammer	8	2350	293.75
Minotaur Horn	20	N/A	N/A
Mirror Shield	16	N/A	N/A
Necronomicon 1	6	2050	341.67
Necronomicon 2	12	3300	275
Necronomicon 3	18	4550	252.78
Null Talisman	2	510	255
Ocean Heart	5	N/A	N/A
Ogre Axe	10	1000	100
Overwhelming Blink	25	6800	272
Power Treads (Strength)	10	1400	140
Reaver	25	2800	112
Ring of Aquila	3	N/A	N/A
Rod of Atos	10	2750	275
Sange	16	2050	128.13
Sange and Yasha	16	4100	256.25
Satanic	25	5050	202
Scythe of Vyse	10	5675	567.5
Skull Basher	10	2950	295
Solar Crest	10	3725	372.5
Soul Ring	6	740	123.33
Spell Prism	12	N/A	N/A
Spirit Vessel	2	2940	1470
Ultimate Orb	10	2050	205
Urn of Shadows	2	840	420
Vambrace (Agility)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Intelligence)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Strength)	10	N/A	N/A
Veil of Discord	4	1525	381.25
Wraith Band	2	510	255
Values may include portions from actives or auras.

Version history

Version

Description

7.26

• No longer grants 0.08% magic resistance per strength.

7.21

• Strength heroes no longer gain 25% more health/health regeneration/magic resistance per strength.
• Increased health per strength from 18 to 20.

7.20

• No longer grants 0.55% health regeneration amplification.
• Now grants 0.1 flat health regeneration.

7.13

• Reworked strength bonuses
  • Strength heroes now gain 25% more of all strength stats than agility and intelligence heroes.
  • Strength heroes no longer gain 0.15% status resistance per point of strength.
  • Now grants 0.08% magic resistance per strength. [?]
  • Reduced health per strength from 20 to 18. [?]
  • Reduced health regeneration amplification bonus per strength from 0.71% (or ${\tfrac {5}{7}}$) to 0.55%. [?]

7.07

• No longer grants 0.06 health regeneration per point.
• Now grants 0.71% (or ${\tfrac {5}{7}}$) health regeneration amplification per strength.
• Strength heroes now gain 0.15% status resistance for each point of strength.

7.06

• Increased health regeneration per strength from 0.03 to 0.06.

6.87

• Increased health per strength from 19 to 20.

5.50

• Reduced health per strength from 22 to 19.

5.31

• Reduced health per strength from 24 to 22.

4.0beta9

• Reduced health per strength from 25 to 24.

2.60

• Reduced health regeneration per strength from 0.05 to 0.03.

See also

• Table of hero attributes

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