Gold

Starting Gold

• Each team starts with 3000 gold, distributed evenly among players. In a 5v5 game, this equals 600 gold.

Passive Gold Gain

• Players receive a passive amount of gold that scales with game time. The base rate is 95 gold per minute.
• Passive gold gain increases at certain time thresholds:
• • 10+ minutes: 110 gold per minute
• • 25+ minutes: 120 gold per minute
• • 50+ minutes: 140 gold per minute
• • 70+ minutes: 180 gold per minute
• Passive gold gain from missing/disconnected players are distributed evenly to their teammates.

Hero Kills

• Killing a hero grants the killer a base 200 + (3x minutes elapsed) + networth modifier.
• The higher your networth is in relation to the enemy team average networth, the higher your bounty will be.
• Additionally, if this is the first kill of the match, this is considered a Bloodlust, which grants 200 bonus gold. Bloodlust is not awarded if a hero is denied, killed by Neutrals, or killed by enemy Towers without any hero qualifying for an assist. GPM won't modify the amount of gold granted from Bloodlust.
• If a Hero is denied, it gives 2/3 of its normal bounty and exp to its killer.

Assists

• If an allied hero is within 2000 units of a killed hero he is considered an assister.
• Assist bounty is set at 50% of the kill bounty. Half of this amount is split evenly among all assisters, while the remaining half is distributed based on GPM, lower GPM heroes receive a larger share.

Buildings

Whenever a Tower or Barracks is destroyed, all heroes in the team receive gold. The amount of gold received from Towers depends on who delivered the final blow. If a hero (or a player-controlled unit) destroys a Tower, the player gains a larger amount of gold while its allies gain a lesser amount of gold. If a lane creep destroys a Tower, all players on the team gain "consolation" gold, which is equal for all players. Denied buildings give 50% of its "consolation" gold value. Miscellaneous buildings only give gold to whoever destroyed it.

Bosses

Bosses grant gold to the team that killed it. Similar to Towers, the killer receives more gold than its allies, and consolation gold is given in the unlikely chance a lane creep kills it.

Non-hero Units

Lane creeps and neutral units grant gold when killed.

Selling

• Items can be sold back to the shop for 50% of their purchase price.
• Items that are sold within 10 seconds of purchase can be sold for 100% of their purchase price.

Miscellaneous

• Some abilities and items can grant gold directly.
• Certain events and objectives may provide gold rewards.

Player Abandonment

• When a player abandons the game, their passive gold gain is distributed evenly among their teammates.

Losing Gold