Strength

Strength is one of the three primary attributes that grants health and health regeneration to every hero. Strength heroes also gain attack damage per point of strength.

Bonuses[]

Every point in strength increases:

Maximum health by 20.
Health regeneration by 0.1.

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

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.

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 exceptions, 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 42 strength heroes in Dota 2.

Below is a table of all heroes with strength strength 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
Abaddon	22	2.6	23	1.5	18	2
Alchemist	25	2.9	22	1.5	25	1.8
Axe	25	3.4	20	2.2	18	1.6
Beastmaster	23	2.9	18	1.6	16	1.9
Brewmaster	23	3.7	19	2	15	1.6
Bristleback	22	2.5	17	1.8	14	2.8
Centaur Warrunner	27	4	15	1	15	1.6
Chaos Knight	22	3.2	18	1.4	18	1.2
Clockwerk	26	3.5	13	2.3	18	1.5
Dawnbreaker	26	3.6	14	1.7	20	2.2
Doom	24	3.7	11	0.9	15	1.7
Dragon Knight	21	3.4	19	2	18	1.7
Earth Spirit	22	3.8	17	2.4	20	2.1
Earthshaker	22	3.7	12	1.4	18	2.1
Elder Titan	26	3	14	1.8	23	1.6
Huskar	20	3.3	10	1.5	18	1.5
Io	17	3	14	1.6	23	1.7
Kunkka	24	3.8	14	1.6	18	1.8
Legion Commander	25	3.3	18	1.7	20	2.2
Lifestealer	25	2.4	19	2.6	15	1.8
Lycan	26	3.4	16	1.7	23	1.7
Magnus	25	3.5	15	2.5	19	2.1
Marci	23	3.3	20	2.4	19	1.9
Mars	23	3.7	20	1.7	21	2.2
Night Stalker	23	3	18	2.2	15	1.6
Omniknight	23	3.1	15	2	16	2.1
Phoenix	23	3.6	12	1.5	16	1.8
Primal Beast	26	4.3	15	1	16	1.4
Pudge	25	3	14	1.4	16	1.8
Sand King	22	2.7	19	1.8	19	1.8
Slardar	21	3.6	17	2.4	15	1.5
Snapfire	20	3.5	16	1.9	21	2.2
Spirit Breaker	28	3	17	1.7	14	1.8
Sven	22	3.2	21	2.2	16	1.3
Tidehunter	27	3.5	15	1.5	18	1.7
Timbersaw	24	3.2	16	1.6	23	2.7
Tiny	30	4	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	12	1.6	17	2.3
Undying	22	2.8	10	1.2	27	2.8
Wraith King	22	3	16	1.7	18	1.6

Strength Granting Abilities[]

Strength Increasing Sources

Armlet of Mordiggian – Unholy Strength
Centaur Warrunner – Double Edge^2b
Pudge – Flesh Heap
Omniknight – Heavenly Grace
Undying – Decay
Undying – Flesh Golem
Invoker – Quas
Morphling – Attribute Shift (Strength Gain)
Slark – Essence Shift

¹ Requires

talent.

^2a Requires

Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires

Aghanim's Shard.

Strength Granting Talents[]

The following heroes have a talent that grants them bonus strength.

Bonus	Level 10		Level 15		Level 20		Level 25
Bonus	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right
Strength	+10 +10 +11 +8 +8 +9	+6 +9	+12 +14 +15	+12 +15 +15	+20 +20 +20	+16 +20 +20 +20 +30

Strength Granting Items[]

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

Bonus Strength

Item	Value	Item Cost	Cost/Value Point
Abyssal Blade	10	6250	625
Aghanim's Scepter	10	4200	420
Belt of Strength	6	450	75
Black King Bar	10	4050	405
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
Dragon Lance	12	1900	158.33
Drum of Endurance	7	1700	242.86
Echo Sabre	13	2500	192.31
Ethereal Blade	5	4650	930
Eye of Skadi	22	5300	240.91
Fallen Sky	15	N/A	N/A
Gauntlets of Strength	3	140	46.67
Ghost Scepter	5	1500	300
Giant's Ring	35	N/A	N/A
Gleipnir	14	6150	439.29
Heart of Tarrasque	45	5000	111.11
Heaven's Halberd	20	3550	177.5
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 and Sange	16	4100	256.25
Linken's Sphere	16	4600	287.5
Magic Wand	3	450	150
Manta Style	10	4600	460
Meteor Hammer	8	2350	293.75
Mirror Shield	10	N/A	N/A
Ocean Heart	5	N/A	N/A
Ogre Axe	10	1000	100
Overwhelming Blink	25	6800	272
Pig Pole	6	N/A	N/A
Reaver	25	2800	112
Ring of Aquila	3	N/A	N/A
Rod of Atos	12	2750	229.17
Sange	16	2050	128.13
Sange and Yasha	16	4100	256.25
Satanic	25	5050	202
Scythe of Vyse	10	5675	567.5
Skull Basher	10	2875	287.5
Solar Crest	5	2625	525
Soul Ring	6	700	116.67
Spell Prism	8	N/A	N/A
Spirit Vessel	2	2940	1470
Ultimate Orb	10	2050	205
Urn of Shadows	2	880	440
Vambrace (Agility)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Intelligence)	5	N/A	N/A
Vambrace (Strength)	10	N/A	N/A
Veil of Discord	4	1525	381.25