Heroes

Heroes are the main source of DPS (damage per second) in Clicker Heroes. They are the game's characters that can be hired with a certain amount of Gold earned from defeating enemies (this cost can be decreased by hiring and leveling up the correct Ancient, in occurence Dogcog). Heroes automatically deal damage over time (except for Cid, the Helpful Adventurer, who only upgrades base click damage). Currently, there are 45 Heroes in the game.

Mechanics

Leveling Heroes

The player can level a hero up by clicking the "LVL UP" button next to the hero's name after hiring it. Shift+Click levels them by a max of 10, Z+Click levels up in increments of 25, Ctrl+Click levels them in increments of 100, and Q+Click levels up in the maximum increment actually purchasable with the player's current amount of Gold. Pressing T will toggle between the levels. Leveling up a hero increases the amount of DPS it does. Leveling up a hero will also increase the cost of the next level up by 7%. This will result in a near doubling of cost for every 10 levels.

To find the cost of leveling a hero in the future use: Floor(Floor(BaseCost × 1.07CurrentLevel) × CostReduction)
eg. To level Treebeast from level 114 to 115 it would cost Floor(50 × 1.07114) = 111,871. But with Dogcog at level 7 for a 6.69% hero cost reduction, it would be Floor(111,871 × 0.9331) = 104,386.

Each hero comes with a series of upgrades that become available when they're leveled up. These upgrades allow the player to multiply the hero's DPS, multiply the amount of Gold gained, increase DPS of all heroes, click damage, and obtain new skills. The actual last hero, Wepwawet, does have 2 upgrades that each multiply another hero's DPS, namely Betty Clicker & King Midas.

Level Bonuses

Every hero, except Cid, the Helpful Adventurer, gets a 4× damage multiplier every 25 levels from level 200 upwards, and a 10x multiplier every 1000 levels until 8000. This makes the earlier heroes viable in the late game, but the cap means that later heroes will ultimately get the player further.

There is another exception to these rules: all heroes after Frostleaf have a 5× damage multiplier every 25 levels from 525 to 725, instead of a 4× damage multiplier for others heroes.

DPS Bonuses

There are some heroes that give you a multiplicative global DPS bonus. The final DPS multiplier is ~72.68.

The following heroes have DPS bonuses, in order of appearance:

• The Wandering Fisherman
• Betty Clicker
• Leon
• Broyle Lindeoven, Fire Mage
• Amenhotep
• Beastlord
• Shinatobe, Wind Deity
• Grant, the General
• Frostleaf
• Gog
• Moeru
• Zilar

Gilded Heroes

Detailed Gilded Heroes Screen.

Gilded Heroes receive a stackable +50% damage bonus each time they receive a gild. Gilding a hero will also change their appearance. A detailed view of the Gilded Heroes can be accessed by clicking on the "Gilded" button at the bottom of the Hero list.
Argaiv and "Enhancement" Relic increase the damage bonus from gilds. Even though she has a gilded sprite, Cid, the Helpful Adventurer cannot be gilded by conventional means. Gilding her, however, is useless since her DPS is 0.

Acquiring Gilds

A random gild is rewarded for beating level 100, and for every 10 levels thereafter. These random gilds are awarded only once per 10 levels and will not be given again after ascending, yet will after a transcendence. After an ascension, rewards continue as normal once reaching previous ascendance's Highest Zone Ever.

In the Shop, 3 random hero gilds can be purchased at any time for 30 Rubies. For mobile, the cost is 200 Rubies. The detailed view screen can also be accessed from here by clicking the "?" button. Since they have been paid using real money, these "Paid Gilds" are given back after Transcendence, by a small number every time the player receives a normal gild every 10 zones. At level 300, all purchased gilds have been returned to the player.

Reassigning Gilds

Gilds can also be moved from hero to hero for Hero Souls in the detailed view.
Clicking a gilded hero will remove 1 gild from that hero and randomly reassign it to another for 2 Hero Souls. Ctrl+Click will bypass the confirmation popup and instantly proceed to said transfer.
Shift+Clicking on a hero will move a gild from a random hero to the one selected for 80 Hero Souls. There's no actual way to transfer a gild from a precise hero to another precise hero : at least one of the two must be randomly chosen.

Holding 'Q'+Clicking on a hero will move all gilds that a player currently has to the selected hero. The cost of doing this is equal to 80 Hero Souls times the amount of gilds currently owned that are not on the selected hero.

List of Heroes

Hero Name	Sprite(s)				Base Cost	Base DPS	Upgrade Bonuses
	Normal	Gilded	April Fools 2017 Normal	April Fools 2017 Glided			Personal Damage	Global DPS	Click Damage From DPS	Critical Click Chance	Critical Click DPS Multiplier	Gold Found	Unlock Skill
Cid, the Helpful Adventurer				-	5	-	+20,900%	-	-	-	-	-	Clickstorm
Treebeast					50	5	+1,900%	-	+0.5%	-	-	-	-
Ivan, the Drunken Brawler					250	22	+1,900%	-	+0.5%	-	-	-	Powersurge
Brittany, Beach Princess					1,000	74	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
The Wandering Fisherman					4,000	245	+700%	+25%	+0.5%	-	-	-	-
Betty Clicker					20,000	976	none (+500,000,000% from Wepwawet)	+107.36%	+0.5%	-	-	-	-
The Masked Samurai					100,000	3,725	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Leon					400,000	10,859	+700%	+25%	-	-	-	-	-
The Great Forest Seer					2,500,000	47,143	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Alexa, Assassin					15,000,000	186,900	+406.25%	-	-	+3%	×5	-	Lucky Strikes
Natalia, Ice Apprentice					100,000,000	782,000	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mercedes, Duchess of Blades					800,000,000	3,721,000	+1,900%	-	+0.5%	-	-	-	-
Bobby, Bounty Hunter					6,500,000,000	17,010,000	+1,900%	-	-	+3%	-	-	-
Broyle Lindeoven, Fire Mage					50,000,000,000	69,480,000	+900%	+25%	-	-	-	-	Metal Detector
Sir George II, King's Guard					4.500e11	460,700,000	+1,900%	-	+0.5%	-	-	-	-
King Midas					4.000e12	3,017,000,000	none (+10,000,000,000% from Wepwawet)	-	-	+3%	-	+193%	Golden Clicks
Referi Jerator, Ice Wizard					3.600e13	20,000,000,000	+1,900%	-	-	-	×3	-	-
Abaddon					3.200e14	1.310e11	+1,039.0625%	-	-	-	-	-	Dark Ritual
Ma Zhu					2.700e15	8.147e11	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Amenhotep					2.400e16	5.335e12	+100%	+44%	-	-	-	-	-
Beastlord					3.000e17	4.914e13	+700%	+10%	-	-	-	-	Super Clicks
Athena, Goddess of War					9.000e18	1.086e15	+1,500%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love					3.500e20	3.112e16	+1,500%	-	-	-	-	-	Energize
Shinatobe, Wind Deity					1.400e22	9.173e17	+700%	+10%	-	-	-	-	Reload
Grant, The General					4.200e24	2.027e20	+300%	+56.25%	-	-	-	-	-
Frostleaf					2.100e27	7.469e22	+300%	+25%	+0.5%	-	-	-	-
Dread Knight					1.000e40	1.310e32	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Atlas					1.000e55	9.655e44	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Terra					1.000e70	7.113e57	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Phthalo					1.000e85	5.241e70	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Orntchya Gladeye, Didensy Banana					1.000e100	3.861e83	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lilin					1.000e115	2.845e96	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cadmia					1.000e130	2.096e109	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Alabaster					1.000e145	1.544e122	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astraea					1.000e160	1.138e135	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Chiron					1.000e175	8.386e147	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Moloch					1.000e190	6.178e160	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bomber Max					1.000e205	4.552e173	+1,300%	-	-	-	-	+50%	-
Gog					1.000e220	3.354e186	+1,300%	+50%	-	-	-	-	-
Wepwawet					1.000e235	2.471e199	+950%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tsuchi					1.000e500	1.820e425	+1,300%	-	-	-	-	+200%	-
Skogur					1.000e1000	1.341e846	+1,900%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Moeru					1.000e2000	9.885e1678	+1,400%	+50%	-	-	-	-	-
Zilar					1.000e4000	7.283e3333	+1,000%	+134.375%	-	-	-	-	-
Madzi					1.000e8000	5.366e6630	+5,150%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Xavira			-	-	1.000e14000	3.954e11681	+1e3667%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cadu, Tomb Guardian			-	-	1.000e25500	2.913e26444	none (+1e10794% from Ceus, Tomb Guardian)	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ceus, Tomb Guardian			-	-	1.000e25500	2.146e26444	none (+1e9094% from Cadu, Tomb Guardian)	-	-	-	-	-	-
The Maw			-	-	1.000e45500	1.581e61730	+1e13490%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Yachiyl, The Primordial Soul			-	-	1.000e72000	1.165e98692	+1e18290%	+11%	-	-	-	-	-
Ace Scout Rose			-	-	1.000e108000	8.586e148592	+1e28992%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ace Scout Sophia			-	-	1.000e114500	6.326e158831	+1e28992%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ace Scout Blanche			-	-	1.000e127500	4.661e178104	+1e28992%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ace Scout Dorothy			-	-	1.000e142200	3.434e199738	+1e28992%	-	-	-	-	-	-

Unused Heroes

With Steam releases of the game, in the game's directory, the sprites of all heroes can be found. Along with the normal heroes, there are several unused sprites in the game. There is no known way as of yet to make them appear in-game. Note: All of the unused sprites have a gilded sprite file, but is exactly the same as the normal sprite. Also, when viewing the large hero sprites, all unused sprites still have files that show their name but contain Cid, the Helpful Adventurer's current sprite. 

dark_monk_1.png

warrior3.png

town_drunk.png

Link_4.png

catwoman.png

bandit.png

princess_2.png

Achievements

Achievement Name	Icon	Description
Guide		Level up heroes 100 times.
Coach		Level up heroes 500 times.
Teacher		Level up heroes 2,000 times.
Mentor		Level up heroes 5,000 times.
Levelupper		Level up heroes 25,000 times.
Super Levelupper		Level up heroes 50K times.
Considerate		Get 25 hero upgrades.
Generous		Get 50 hero upgrades.
Benevolent		Get 100 hero upgrades.
Magnanimous		Get 200 hero upgrades.

Trivia

• Heroes from Beastlord to Shinatobe, Wind Deity were added in Patch 0.02.
• Grant, The General and Frostleaf were added in Patch 0.06.
• Gilding mechanism was introduced in Patch 0.10. This patch also introduced the ×4 and ×10 multipliers.
• Patch 0.11 added a "Gilded" info button at the bottom of heroes list.
• The Rangers (all heroes from Dread Knight to Astraea) were added in Patch 0.17. This patch also made it so that Heroes who haven't been unlocked, can't get Gilded.
• Heroes from Chiron to Wepwawet were added in Patch 0.24.
• Heroes from Tsuchi to Madzi were added in Patch 1.0e3. Unlike the other heroes, their sprites face left, according to the player.

Heroes