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[]

Every point in intelligence increases:

Maximum mana by 12.
Mana regeneration by 0.05.

For intelligence heroes, every point in intelligence also increases main 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[]

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	2.5	22	2.5	22	2.5
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	22	2.6	18	1.8	21	2.7
Dark Willow	20	2	18	1.6	21	3.5
Dazzle	18	2.3	20	1.7	25	3.7
Death Prophet	21	3.1	14	1.8	24	3.3
Disruptor	21	2.4	15	1.4	20	2.9
Enchantress	17	1.7	19	2.1	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	25	2.8	15	1.2	26	3
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	17	2	24	3.6
Lina	20	2.4	23	2.4	30	3.8
Lion	18	2.2	18	1.5	18	3.5
Nature's Prophet	21	2.6	22	3.6	23	3.7
Necrophos	18	2.3	12	1.3	21	2.7
Ogre Magi	23	3.3	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	2.4	22	2.4	25	2.9
Skywrath Mage	21	2	13	0.8	25	4.1
Storm Spirit	21	2	22	1.9	23	3.9
Techies	19	2.5	14	1.3	25	3
Tinker	19	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	1.7	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 Abilities[]

Intelligence Increasing Sources

¹ Requires

talent.

^2a Requires

Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires

Aghanim's Shard.

Intelligence Granting Talents[]

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[]

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

Bonus Intelligence

Item	Value	Item Cost	Cost/Value Point
Aghanim's Scepter	10	4200	420
Arcane Blink	25	6800	272
Arcane Ring	8	N/A	N/A
Bloodthorn	20	6800	340
Book of Shadows	13	N/A	N/A
Book of the Dead	30	N/A	N/A
Boots of Bearing	8	4125	515.63
Circlet	2	155	77.5
Crown	4	450	112.5
Diffusal Blade	10	2500	250
Drum of Endurance	7	1700	242.86
Echo Sabre	10	2500	250
Essence Ring	6	N/A	N/A
Ethereal Blade	25	4650	186
Eul's Scepter of Divinity	10	2725	272.5
Eye of Skadi	22	5300	240.91
Fallen Sky	15	N/A	N/A
Force Staff	10	2200	220
Ghost Scepter	5	1500	300
Gleipnir	24	6150	256.25
Helm of the Dominator	6	2400	400
Helm of the Overlord	7	6175	882.14
Holy Locket	3	2400	800
Hurricane Pike	15	4450	296.67
Iron Branch	1	50	50
Kaya	16	2050	128.13
Kaya and Sange	16	4100	256.25
Linken's Sphere	16	4600	287.5
Mage Slayer	10	2400	240
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	10	N/A	N/A
Mystic Staff	25	2800	112
Oblivion Staff	10	1500	150
Ocean Heart	5	N/A	N/A
Pig Pole	6	N/A	N/A
Revenant's Brooch	45	6200	137.78
Ring of Aquila	3	N/A	N/A
Robe of the Magi	6	450	75
Rod of Atos	24	2750	114.58
Scythe of Vyse	35	5675	162.14
Shiva's Guard	30	4850	161.67
Solar Crest	5	2625	525
Spell Prism	8	N/A	N/A
Spirit Vessel	2	2940	1470
Staff of Wizardry	10	1000	100
Ultimate Orb	10	2050	205
Urn of Shadows	2	880	440
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	6825	195
Witch Blade	14	2600	185.71
Yasha and Kaya	16	4100	256.25