Experience

Experience in Dota 2 is given by a unit on the enemy team that dies. Experience is used to level up, and it takes increasingly more experience to level up as a hero's level progresses.

A few important things about experience:


 * Experience is equally shared by all heroes in a 1200 range.
 * Hero kills outside of 1200 range will give experience to the killer.
 * Denying an allied unit does not grant experience to the ally.
 * Heroes take their share of experience even after level 25, even though they cannot use it.
 * Building kills grant experience.
 * Summoned units (units created by spells or items) give 50% experience.

Leveling
A Hero levels up by acquiring experience points from enemies (including Creeps, Towers, and summoned units) which die nearby. When a Hero levels, its stats get increased according to that Hero's individual attribute bonuses, and it gains a skill point. The skill point can be spent on any of the Hero's spells which has not been maxed out, or to increase the hero's stats by an additional 2 points each (Strength, Agility, and Intelligence). Skill points carry from level-to-level; if a Hero levels up multiple times without spending skill points, they are retained for future use.

The amount of experience required to level up is equal to the upcoming hero level * 100. For example, to increase a Hero's level from 1 to 2 (the first level "gained", as each Hero starts the game at level 1), a Hero requires 200 experience points, while levelling up from 24 to 25 requires 2500 experience points.

Below is a table that shows the experience gained by one or more Heroes who are near a killed enemy Hero of a given level:

Experience Formula
If L is the level of the killed hero, the amount of experience gained is:
 * 1 Hero:
 * f(0) = 220
 * f(x) = f(x-1) + min(120, 20x)


 * 2 Heroes:
 * f(0) = 140
 * f(x) = f(x - 1) + min(65, 15 + 10x)

Denying
Denying occurs when a hero lands a killing blow on an allied creep or hero. Heroes can only target allied units if the creep or hero is under 25% health. Melee enemy heroes in 1000 range of the denied unit receive 36/n experience and ranged heroes receive 18/n experience, where n is the total number of enemy heroes within the 1000 range. Denying an allied unit prevents the opponents from earning gold.