Experience

Experience is equally shared by all heroes in a 1200 range.

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. Recently, this rule got an exeption for reaching the levels 7 and 8, as they now require the same 600 experience as level 6. This oddity is ironed out by the unusual high 1200 xp required for level 9, after which the required experience for each level returns to the usual formula. The reason behind this is to help support-type heroes to sustain their usefulness throughout the midgame by making it easier to obtain a acceptable herolevel, so the difference to carry-type heroes of the enemy team is not as drastical during the first half of the match.

Hero Level	Total experience required to reach level	Experience required for next level	Experience for creep death of this level
1	0	200	25
2	200	300	41
3	500	400	62
4	900	500	88
5	1400	600	119
6	2000	600	155
7	2600	600	196
8	3200	1200	242
9	4400	1000	293
10	5400	1100	349
11	6500	1200	410
12	7700	1300	476
13	9000	1400	547
14	10400	1500	623
15	11900	1600	704
16	13500	1700	790
17	15200	1800	881
18	17000	1900	977
19	18900	2000	1078
20	20900	2100	1184
21	23000	2200	1295
22	25200	2300	1411
23	27500	2400	1532
24	29900	2500	1658
25	32400	-	1789

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 per Allied Hero in Range

		Enemy Level
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Allied Heroes in Range	1	240	280	340	420	520	640	760	880	1000	1120	1240	1360	1480	1600	1720	1840	1960	2080	2200	2320	2440	2560	2680	2800	2920
	2	155	180	215	260	315	380	445	510	575	640	705	770	835	900	965	1030	1095	1160	1225	1290	1355	1420	1485	1550	1615
	3	70	84	104	131	165	205	245	286	326	366	407	447	487	528	568	608	649	689	729	770	810	850	891	931	971
	4	46	57	73	94	120	151	182	213	244	275	306	337	368	399	430	461	492	523	554	585	616	647	678	709	740
	5	35	44	57	74	95	120	145	170	195	220	245	270	295	320	345	370	395	420	445	470	495	520	545	570	595

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(50% for creeps). 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.