Intelligence

Intelligence is one of the three primary attributes that grants mana and mana regeneration to every hero. Intelligence heroes also gain attack damage per point of intelligence.

Bonuses[edit]

Every point in intelligence increases:

Maximum mana by 12.
Mana regeneration by 0.05.

For intelligence heroes, every point in intelligence also increases attack damage by 1.

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.

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 regeneration 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.

	Base Strength	Strength Growth	Base Agility	Agility Growth	Base Intelligence	Intelligence Growth
Ancient Apparition	20	1.9	20	2.2	23	3.4
Bane	22	2.6	22	2.6	22	2.6
Batrider	28	2.9	15	1.8	22	2.9
Chen	25	2	15	2.1	19	3.2
Crystal Maiden	18	2.2	16	1.6	16	3.3
Dark Seer	20	3.1	18	1.8	21	3.1
Dark Willow	20	2	18	1.6	21	3.5
Dazzle	18	2.5	21	1.7	25	3.7
Death Prophet	19	3.1	14	1.4	24	3.5
Disruptor	21	2.4	15	1.4	20	2.9
Enchantress	17	1.7	19	1.8	22	3.8
Enigma	21	2.5	14	1	19	3.6
Grimstroke	21	2.4	18	1.9	25	3.8
Invoker	18	2.4	14	1.9	15	4.6
Jakiro	27	3	15	1.2	26	2.8
Keeper of the Light	18	2.3	15	1.6	23	3.2
Leshrac	20	2.5	23	2.8	22	3.5
Lich	20	2.1	15	2	24	4.1
Lina	20	2.4	23	2.1	30	3.7
Lion	18	2.2	18	1.5	18	3.5
Nature's Prophet	21	2.6	22	3.6	23	3.7
Necrophos	18	2.6	12	1.3	21	2.7
Ogre Magi	23	3.5	14	1.5	15	2.5
Oracle	20	2.4	15	1.7	26	3.8
Outworld Destroyer	21	2.9	22	1.6	30	4.2
Puck	17	2.4	22	2.5	23	3.5
Pugna	19	2	24	1.3	24	5.2
Queen of Pain	18	2.4	22	2.5	25	3.4
Rubick	21	2	23	2.5	25	3.1
Shadow Demon	23	2.6	18	2.2	22	3.6
Shadow Shaman	23	2.3	16	1.6	25	3.5
Silencer	19	2.7	22	2.4	25	2.9
Skywrath Mage	21	2	13	0.8	25	4.1
Storm Spirit	21	2	22	1.7	23	3.9
Techies	19	2.5	14	1.3	25	3.3
Tinker	18	2.5	13	1.2	30	3.3
Visage	22	2.8	11	1.3	22	2.9
Void Spirit	22	2.6	19	2.2	24	3.1
Warlock	24	3	10	1	25	3.1
Windranger	18	3	17	1.4	18	3.6
Winter Wyvern	24	2.6	16	1.9	26	3.6
Witch Doctor	18	2.3	13	1.4	22	3.3
Zeus	19	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
Bonus	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right
Intelligence	+10 +12							+75

Intelligence Granting Items[edit]

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

Bonus intelligence

Item	Value	Item cost	Cost per value point
Aghanim's Scepter	10	4200	420
Arcane Blink	25	6800	272
Arcane Ring	10	N/A	N/A
Bloodstone	16	5750	359.38
Bloodthorn	25	6275	251
Book of Shadows	12	N/A	N/A
Book of the Dead	30	N/A	N/A
Bracer	2	505	252.5
Circlet	2	155	77.5
Crown	4	450	112.5
Dagon 1	14	2700	192.86
Dagon 2	16	3950	246.88
Dagon 3	18	5200	288.89
Dagon 4	20	6450	322.5
Dagon 5	22	7700	350
Diffusal Blade	12	3150	262.5
Drum of Endurance	6	1700	283.33
Echo Sabre	10	2500	250
Essence Ring	6	N/A	N/A
Ethereal Blade	10	4300	430
Eul's Scepter of Divinity	10	2725	272.5
Eye of Skadi	25	5300	212
Fallen Sky	20	N/A	N/A
Force Staff	10	2200	220
Ghost Scepter	5	1500	300
Gleipnir	20	6150	307.5
Helm of the Dominator	6	2350	391.67
Helm of the Overlord	20	6000	300
Holy Locket	3	2400	800
Hurricane Pike	15	4550	303.33
Iron Branch	1	50	50
Ironwood Tree	6	N/A	N/A
Kaya	16	2050	128.13
Kaya and Sange	16	4100	256.25
Linken's Sphere	14	4600	328.57
Magic Wand	3	450	150
Manta Style	10	4600	460
Mantle of Intelligence	3	140	46.67
Meteor Hammer	8	2350	293.75
Mirror Shield	16	N/A	N/A
Mystic Staff	25	2800	112
Null Talisman	5	505	101
Oblivion Staff	10	1500	150
Ocean Heart	5	N/A	N/A
Orchid Malevolence	20	3475	173.75
Power Treads (Intelligence)	10	1400	140
Ring of Aquila	3	N/A	N/A
Robe of the Magi	6	450	75
Rod of Atos	20	2750	137.5
Scythe of Vyse	35	5675	162.14
Shiva's Guard	30	4850	161.67
Silver Edge	15	5600	373.33
Solar Crest	5	2625	525
Spell Prism	6	N/A	N/A
Spirit Vessel	2	2840	1420
Staff of Wizardry	10	1000	100
Ultimate Orb	10	2050	205
Urn of Shadows	2	840	420
Vambrace (Agility)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Intelligence)	10	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Strength)	5	N/A	N/A
Veil of Discord	4	1525	381.25
Wind Waker	35	7125	203.57
Witch Blade	12	2600	216.67
Wraith Band	2	505	252.5
Yasha and Kaya	16	4100	256.25
Values may include portions from actives or auras.