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Experience_XP is an element heroes can gather by killing enemy units, or being present as enemy units get killed. On its own, experience does nothing, but when accumulated, it increases the hero's level, so that they grow more powerful. Only heroes can gather experience and therefore reach higher levels.

With each level gained, a hero's base attributes increase by static values, which makes them stronger in several ways. Heroes may also learn new abilities upon leveling up, or improve already learned spells onto higher levels, making them more powerful. Talents may also be learned on certain levels, which further improve the hero's stats or abilities.

Leveling

Each hero begins at level 1, with one free ability point to spend. Heroes may level up by acquiring certain amounts of experience. Upon leveling up, the hero's / / attributes increase by fixed amounts (unique for each hero), which makes them overall more powerful. Heroes may also gain more ability points by leveling up, allowing them to learn new abilities, to improve an already learned ability, making it more powerful or to gain additional attributes. On certain levels, ability points may also be spent for talents, which further improve their stats or abilities. Ability points do not need to be spent immediately, a hero can level up multiple times while saving the ability points.

The amount of experience required to level up increases for each level. There is no specific formula for this requirement, but rather just set values for each individual level. Heroes can gain a total for 29 levels, resulting in level 30 as the highest possible level a hero can reach.

Hero level	Total XP	XP Needed	Unlocks
1	0	240
2	240	400
3	640	520
4	1160	600	Lvl 1 Divided We Stand
5	1760	680
6	2440	760	Lvl 1 Ultimate
7	3200	800
8	4000	900
9	4900	1000
10	5900	1100	1
11	7000	1200	Lvl 2 Divided We Stand
12	8200	1300	Lvl 2 Ultimate
13	9500	1400
14	10900	1500
15	12400	1600	2
16	14000	1700
17	15700	1800
18	17500	1900	Lvl 3 Ultimate
19	19400	2000
20	21400	2200	3
21	23600	2400
22	26000	2600
23	28600	2800
24	31400	3000
25	34400	4000	4
26	38400	5000
27	43400	6000	1
28	49400	7000	2
29	56400	7500	3
30	63900	-	4

Acquiring Experience

Experience is awarded in a 1500 radius when an enemy hero dies to any ally, or when an enemy non-hero unit (creeps or summons) dies to any ally or any neutral creep. This experience is shared between all allied heroes within the area, truncated and splitting evenly amongst them. Therefore, the more heroes there are, the less every individual hero gets, and if no hero is nearby, the experience is effectively lost or wasted. Additionally, heroes that are already level 30 still take their share of experience within range, also effectively wasting experience.

Dying units do not grant any experience if they have Reincarnation. Dying summons or illusions do not grant any experience if their duration runs out naturally.

Heroes must be alive to gain experience. Other status effects, such as spell immunity, invulnerability, and being hidden, do not prevent a hero from gaining experience.

Exceptions

Except Meepo Clones and the Vengeance Illusion, hero clones and illusions do not gain any experience, and are not considered by the experience sharing.

Meepo

• Meepo Clones only gain 30% of all experience, the remaining experience within the experience share radius is gained by nearby ally heroes.
  • If there are no ally heroes in the area, 70% of the experience will be lost.
  • Having multiple Meepo Clones within the experience range does not stack their share up, it always remains at 30%.
  • Meepo Prime is considered an ally hero if it is within the experience gain radius.
• The distribution of experience can be defined as follow:
  • Total experience gain per Meepo Clones:
    expr
    $f(n)={\frac {30}{1+n}}\%$
  • Total experience gain for ally heroes:
    expr
    $f(n)={\frac {100-30}{1+n}}\%$
  • Total experience gain per ally hero:
    expr
    $f(n)={\frac {100n+70}{n(n+1)}}\%$

Clone Only with Ally Heroes in Experience Gain Range

Heroes in XP Radius	Clone XP Gain	Total Ally XP Gain	XP Gain per Ally	Meepo XP Gain (Prime + Clones)	Meepo XP Gain Bonus
Only Clones	30%	70%	Undefined	-	-
1	15%	85%	85%	100%XP	-
2	10%	90%	45%	55%XP	+5%
3	7.5%	92.5%	30.83%	38.33%XP	+5%
4	6%	94%	23.5%	29.5%XP	+4.5%
5	5%	95%	19%	24%XP	+4%
The difference in experience gained is calculated between Meepo with Clones and ally heroes splitting experience evenly.

Vengence Illusion

The Vengence Illusion is considered an ally hero within the area. Experience is shared and split evenly amongst her and her allies.

Hero Kills

Hero kills give experience in an area as well, splitting it up amongst all present heroes. However, unlike non-hero kills, hero kills always grant experience to the hero of the player who killed them, regardless of distance. This means when a player kills an enemy hero while outside the experience range (with a global spell, or with units under their control), but has an ally within the experience range of the killed enemy hero (regardless of any actual contribution to the kill), the experience is split between the killing player's hero, and the hero of the allied player who was within range of the kill.

Experience granted by heroes is determined by the following values and formula:

Hero Kills Base XP	Factor XP
100XP	0.13

Bounty_XP = (100_XP + 0.13 × DeadHero_XP) / n + Streak_XP

This means for every 7.69_XP the dying hero has, their experience bounty increases by 1_XP, starting with a base experience of 100_XP.

The following table shows the experience bounty ranges based on the level of the killed hero. The experience bounty does not increase past level 25.

Dead Hero Level	Possible Current XP of dead hero	Possible XP bounty of dead hero
1	0 - 239	100 - 131.07
2	240 - 639	131.2 - 183.07
3	640 - 1159	183.2 - 250.67
4	1160 - 1759	250.8 - 328.67
5	1760 - 2439	328.8 - 417.07
6	2440 - 3199	417.2 - 515.87
7	3200 - 3999	516 - 619.87
8	4000 - 4899	620 - 736.87
9	4900 - 5899	737 - 866.87
10	5900 - 6999	867 - 1009.87
11	7000 - 8199	1010 - 1165.87
12	8200 - 9499	1166 - 1334.87
13	9500 - 10899	1335 - 1516.87
14	10900 - 12399	1517 - 1711.87
15	12400 - 13999	1712 - 1919.87
16	14000 - 15699	1920 - 2140.87
17	15700 - 17499	2141 - 2374.87
18	17500 - 19399	2375 - 2621.87
19	19400 - 21399	2622 - 2881.87
20	21400 - 23599	2882 - 3167.87
21	23600 - 25999	3168 - 3479.87
22	26000 - 28599	3480 - 3817.87
23	28600 - 31399	3818 - 4181.87
24	31400 - 34399	4182 - 4571.87
25 - 30	34400	4572

Streak Values

Additionally, if the killed hero had a killing streak going on, bonus experience is awarded for killing them, on top of the default experience values. This experience bonus depends on the killed hero's level.

Streak Value Bonus Experience does not increase past beyond GODLIKE.

The streak experience bounty is defined by the following formula:

f(x) = (1.25x² - 2.5x + 10) × L

The following bonuses are granted for ending a streak:

Streak length	Streak name		Streak value (XP)
0, 1, 2	N/A	N/A	0
3	▶️	Player is on a killing spree	13.75 × Level
4	▶️	Player is dominating	20 × Level
5	▶️	Player is on a mega Kill streak	28.75 × Level
6	▶️	Player is unstoppable!	40 × Level
7	▶️	Player is wicked sick	53.75 × Level
8	▶️	Player is on a monster kill streak	70 × Level
9	▶️	Player is GODLIKE	88.75 × Level
10+	▶️	Player is beyond GODLIKE, someone kill them!!	110 × Level
Announcer responses are customizable

Denying

Main Article: Denying

When a hero gets denied (be it by allies or by the hero itself), 0% no experience is awarded to enemies around it. This also applies to heroes killed by neutral creeps.

When other player-controlled units get denied, 0% experience is awarded to the enemy either. Summons dying to neutral creeps do not count as denied and grant their default experience bounty.

When a lane creep gets denied, the enemy gets 50% of its Experience bounty, instead of 100%. Lane creeps dying to neutral creeps do not count as denied and grant their default experience bounty.

Experience Granting Abilities

Some abilities award a hero with experience when used.

• Hand of Midas - Transmute
  
  Experience Bonus Multiplier: 2.1
  Multiplies the target's experience value.
• Tome of Knowledge - Enlighten
  
  Base Experience Gained: 700
  Bonus Experience Gained per Previous Tome: 135
  The first two tomes used only grant the base 700_XP. Each subsequent Tome used by that team grants a bonus 135_XP than the previous Tome, has no upper limit.This is an old ability.

Talents

Experience Gain

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

There is no description for this ability.

Experience Multiplier: Varies

• Increases all experience the hero gains by a percentage.

• The following values exist:
  • 5%/10%/15%/20%/25%/30%/35%/40%/50%/60%

No hero has this talent.

Other Experience Sources

Most creeps have a fixed experience value they grant. This includes lane creeps and most summoned units. Buildings do not grant any experience.

Neutral creeps have each a unique base value, which stays the same throught the match, although neutral creeps that spawned by getting stacked have a 15% penalty on their experience bounty. Roshan's experience bounty increases by 0.5 every 0.375 minute. Neutral creeps always grant experience to both teams, no matter who kills them, splitting it evenly amongst all present heroes.

Lane Creeps

Main Article: Lane creeps

Neutral Creeps

Main Article: Neutral creeps

Roshan

Roshan

400 + 20 every minute

Summons

Main Article: Summons

Special

Source	Unit	Experience
Arc Warden	Tempest Double	180/240/300

Recent Changes

Main Article: Experience/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.33

• CHANGED
  kill streak experience bonus formula from (StreakLength² - StreakLength + 8XP) × DeadHeroLVL to (1.25 × StreakLength² - 2.5 × StreakLength + 10XP) × DeadHeroLVL.
• Watch Tower no longer grants 2 × GameTime experience.

7.31

• CHANGED
  kill streak experience bonus formula from (StreakLength - 1) × 10XP × DeadHeroLVL to (StreakLength² - StreakLength + 8XP) × DeadHeroLVL.

7.29

• Watch Tower
  • Changed experience gain formula from 20XP/min - 50XP to 2XP/min.
  • Reduced experience gain interval from 600 to 60.
  • Compared to the previous version at 10/20/30/40 minutes, total Experience_XP given per player changed from 150/500/1050/1800_XP to 110/420/930/1640_XP.

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