Strength

Strength is one of the three primary attributes with the theme of defending against magic damage. It grants health, health regeneration, and magic resistance 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:

• health
• 0.1 health regeneration
• 0.08% magic resistance

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. To gain 1% magic resistance, 13 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	1.2	25	1.8
	Axe	25	3.6	20	2.2	18	1.6
	Beastmaster	23	2.9	18	1.6	16	1.9
	Brewmaster	23	3.7	22	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	14	1.4	18	1.2
	Clockwerk	26	3.7	13	2.3	18	1.5
	Doom	24	3.7	11	0.9	15	2.1
	Dragon Knight	19	3.6	19	2	18	1.7
	Earth Spirit	21	4.4	17	1.5	20	2.1
	Earthshaker	22	3.7	12	1.4	16	1.8
	Elder Titan	24	3	14	1.8	23	1.6
	Huskar	21	3.2	15	1.4	18	1.5
	Io	17	3	14	1.6	23	1.7
	Kunkka	24	3.8	14	1.3	18	1.5
	Legion Commander	26	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	17	1.4
	Night Stalker	23	3.2	18	2.3	13	1.6
	Omniknight	22	3.4	15	1.8	15	1.8
	Phoenix	23	3.7	12	1.3	18	1.8
	Pudge	25	4	14	1.5	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	22	3.5	15	1.5	18	1.7
	Timbersaw	23	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	3.3	12	1.6	17	2.3
	Undying	22	2.8	10	0.8	27	2.8
	Wraith King	22	3.2	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	+10 +10 +10 +10 +10 +8	+10 +10 +13 +8 +8 +8 +8	+12 +14 +14	+12 +15 +15 +15 +15 +15	+20 +20 +20 +25	+20 +20 +20 +20 +40

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	6650	665
Aghanim's Scepter	10	4200	420
Assault Cuirass	5	5150	1030
Belt of Strength	6	450	75
Black King Bar	10	4050	405
Book of the Dead	30	N/A	N/A
Bracer	6	510	85
Buckler	3	500	166.67
Circlet	2	155	77.5
Clumsy Net	6	N/A	N/A
Crimson Guard	3	3800	1266.67
Crown	4	450	112.5
Dagon 1	5	2700	540
Dagon 2	5	3950	790
Dagon 3	5	5200	1040
Dagon 4	5	6450	1290
Dagon 5	5	7700	1540
Dragon Lance	12	1900	158.33
Drum of Endurance	4	1900	475
Echo Sabre	12	2575	214.58
Ethereal Blade	10	4700	470
Eye of Skadi	25	5500	220
Fallen Sky	20	N/A	N/A
Gauntlets of Strength	3	145	48.33
Ghost Scepter	5	1500	300
Guardian Greaves	5	4950	990
Havoc Hammer	18	N/A	N/A
Headdress	3	450	150
Heart of Tarrasque	45	5200	115.56
Heaven's Halberd	20	3450	172.5
Helm of the Dominator	7	2400	342.86
Holy Locket	3	2900	966.67
Hurricane Pike	15	4600	306.67
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	5050	360.71
Magic Wand	3	450	150
Manta Style	10	4700	470
Mekansm	4	1950	487.5
Meteor Hammer	12	2500	208.33
Minotaur Horn	20	N/A	N/A
Mirror Shield	20	N/A	N/A
Necronomicon 1	10	2250	225
Necronomicon 2	15	3550	236.67
Necronomicon 3	20	4850	242.5
Null Talisman	3	510	170
Ocean Heart	5	N/A	N/A
Ogre Axe	10	1000	100
Pipe of Insight	2	2900	1450
Power Treads (Strength)	10	1350	135
Reaver	25	3000	120
Ring of Aquila	3	N/A	N/A
Ring of Basilius	3	450	150
Rod of Atos	10	2750	275
Sange	16	2050	128.13
Sange and Yasha	16	4100	256.25
Satanic	25	5300	212
Scythe of Vyse	10	5700	570
Silver Edge	15	5550	370
Skull Basher	10	2950	295
Solar Crest	10	3900	390
Soul Ring	6	790	131.67
Spell Prism	12	N/A	N/A
Spirit Vessel	2	2965	1482.5
Trident	30	6150	205
Ultimate Orb	10	2150	215
Urn of Shadows	2	865	432.5
Vambrace (Agility)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Intelligence)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Strength)	10	N/A	N/A
Veil of Discord	9	2050	227.78
Vladmir's Offering	6	2300	383.33
Wraith Band	3	510	170
Values may include portions from actives or auras.

Version history

Version

Description

7.21

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

7.20

• Strength now grants 0.1 flat health regeneration, instead of 0.55% health regen amplification.

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.
  • Strength now grants 0.08% magic resistance per point. [?]
  • Reduced health per strength from 20 to 18. [?]
  • Reduced health regen amplification bonus per strength from 0.71% (5/7) to 0.55%. [?]

7.07

• Strength no longer grants 0.06 health regeneration per point.
• Strength now grants 0.71% (5/7) health regen amplification per point.
• 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.

See also

• Table of hero attributes

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