Dota 2 - Beastmaster Build Guide

BIO
Karroch was born a child of the stocks. His mother died in childbirth; his father, a farrier for the Last King of Slom, was trampled to death when he was five. Afterward Karroch was indentured to the king's menagerie, where he grew up among all the beasts of the royal court: lions, apes, fell-deer, and things less known, things barely believed in. When the lad was seven, an explorer brought in a beast like none before seen. Dragged before the King in chains, the beast spoke, though its mouth moved not. Its words: a plea for freedom. The King only laughed and ordered the beast perform for his amusement; and when it refused, struck it with the Mad Scepter and ordered it dragged to the stocks.

Over the coming months, the boy Karroch sneaked food and medicinal draughts to the wounded creature, but only managed to slow its deterioration. Wordlessly, the beast spoke to the boy, and over time their bond strengthened until the boy found he could hold up his end of a conversation-could in fact speak now to all the creatures of the King's menagerie. On the night the beast died, a rage came over the boy. He incited the animals of the court to rebel and threw open their cages to set them amok on the palace grounds. The Last King was mauled in the mayhem. In the chaos, one regal stag bowed to the boy who had freed him; and with Beastmaster astride him, leapt the high walls of the estate, and escaped. Now a man, Karroch the Beastmaster has not lost his ability to converse with wild creatures. He has grown into a warrior at one with nature's savagery.

INTRODUCTION
Beastmaster is a decent teamfight initiator that makes your team convenient after he started a teamfight. He is also a decent warder with his wide vision hawk. He also have +attack speed aura that helps team for faster pushing and helps team to dominate a teamfight because it will boost your teams right click's attack speed. He is also a tanker that can tank enemy's damage. Beastmaster also can do ancient stacking to make him gets some easy gold.

PROS	CONS
He have a very strong initiating stun that penetrate enemy's Bkb	His units gives bounty to the enemy
Have a warding ability from his Hawk	Not so good at escaping
Have a nice Aoe nuke.
Have a nice +attack speed aura
Tanky

ROLE
Melee - Initiator - Disabler - Durable

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	587	1,172	1,970	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	208	554	1,061	ATTACK RANGE	128
DAMAGE	56-60	87-91	129-133	MISSILE SPEED	N/A
ARMOR	5	8	13

ABILITIES

1. Wild Axes

Beastmaster sends his axes flying and calls them home again, slicing through enemy units and trees along their path. Each axe can hit an enemy once.

MANA COST: 120 / 120 / 120 / 120	COOLDOWN: 13.0
ABILITY: TARGET POINT	DAMAGE: COMPOSITE
DAMAGE: 90 / 120 / 150 / 180	RANGE: 1300 / 1300 / 1300 / 1300

While learning to maneuver in nature alone, the Beastmaster also mastered the use of a pair of tomahawks, adept at cutting down trees as well as adversaries.

Your skill to nukes everything, you will throw axes, and everything that touch it will receive damages. Useful for farming or for harassing. You also need this skill to ancient stacking. because in dota 2, this skill will gives damages to ancients. This skill will also cuts trees in its path.

2. Call of the Wild

Beastmaster calls allies in the form of a watchful Hawk and a powerful Boar. Previous summons are removed upon casting. Level 1: Summons Scout Hawk. Level 2: Summons Scout Hawk and Lesser Boar. Level 3: Summons Greater Hawk and Lesser Boar. Level 4: Summons Greater Hawk and Greater Boar.

MANA COST: 25 / 25 / 25 / 25	COOLDOWN: 40.0
ABILITY: NO TARGET	HAWK DURATION: 60 / 70 / 80 / 80
BOAR DURATION: 0 / 70 / 80 / 90

After befriending the strange beast of his childhood, Beastmaster has learned to call to animals in times of need.

Call animals to helps you in your activity. Hawks will act as a ward for you, very helpful for scouting and its vision is better than regular wards. Boar will slowing enemy's movement speed so that he can't escape from your teams. 

3. Inner Beast

Untaps the inner fury of allies, passively increasing their attack speed.

ABILITY: PASSIVE, AURA	AFFECTS: ALLIES
RADIUS: 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000	BONUS ATTACK SPEED: 18 / 26 / 32 / 40

Beastmaster's ability to incite the innate strength of animals was seen in the mauling of the king of Slom.

Give + attack speed to all allies in your screen. Very good ability to helps right clicker heroes like drow ranger, Faceless Void, or Magina in your team. Very helpful in teamfight and pushing. Because this will also increase your units attack speed it will be better if you have Necro Book units so they will atack faster to kill enemies faster.

4. Primal Roar

A deafening roar that deals damage and stuns the target enemy unit, while opening a path between Beastmaster and his prey. Nearby enemies also take damage and have their movement speed and attack rate reduced. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 150 / 175 / 200	COOLDOWN: 80.0 / 75.0 / 70.0
ABILITY: TARGET UNIT	AFFECTS: ENEMY HEROES
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	STUN DURATION: 3 / 3.5 / 4
DAMAGE: 200 / 250 / 300	RADIUS: 250 / 250 / 250
MOVEMENT SLOW: 50% / 50% / 50%	ATTACK SLOW: 50% / 50% / 50%
SLOW DURATION: 2 / 3 / 4	SCEPTER COOLDOWN: 45 / 45 / 45
SCEPTER CAST RANGE: 950 / 950 / 950

The Beastmaster has learned to channel his primal instincts into an animalistic roar, causing devastation in the ranks of enemies.

Your ultimate. A decent single targeted stun to initiate a teamfight. This skill still can penetrate through a magic immune unit so it may cancel  Enigma's Blackhole although he use BKB. This ability also affect area around the stunned target, which will makes enemy in the area to be knocked and slowed.

It is becoming more powerful with Aghanim Scepter, because it will lesser its cooldown and will makes you can cast from 950 range which is so far away from your target

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Wild Axes
Level 2: Call of the Wild
Level 3: Wild Axes
Level 4: Call of the Wild
Level 5: Wild Axes
Level 6: Primal Roar
Level 7: Wild Axes
Level 8: Call of the Wild
Level 9 : Call of the Wild
Level 10: Inner Beast
Level 11: Primal Roar
Level 12: Inner Beast
Level 13: Inner Beast
Level 14: Inner Beast
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Primal Roar
Level 17-25: Stats

Why Wild Axes should be maxed first? It is your main nuke for farming and ganking, also can be used for ancient stacking.

Why Call of the Wild before Inner Beast? You need your hawk for scouting since the early of the game. You need your Boar to be more stronger and have it's slowing ability increased before you started to gank somebody.

And Inner beast will be useful for mid-late game where the right click power become much more important, so it will be better to take it in mid-late game.

STRATEGY:
Early Game
In early game you need to lasthit creep if you are not a support for your team. If you are a support, you can deny.

In early game, it will be better to summon your hawk for scouting the area where the enemy may comes to gank you. You can place your hawk in runes area.

You can harass enemy once in a while using your wild axes and makes them inconvenient because you will always reduce their HP.

Mid Game
In mid game, your part is to gank somebody using your primal Roar and Wild Axe +attack from you and your Boar. You should ask your friends to gank someone that are alone in the map. Together with your friends, it should be easy to knock down enemy if he is alone in a lane. Prepare a surprise gank from the jungle and then use your Primal Roar as your opening, after that you and your friends come and your friend should use all of his skill while you use wild Axe and then right click,
Your Boar should right click the enemies so that his movement will be slower and you can attack them while he can barely move.

What you need to remember:
1. When ganking you need to focus fire on one hero. You need to communicate it with your teammate, your team need to decide which hero should be focus fire first.
2. You may also needs smoke of deceit to hide yourself from enemy's ward.
3. Remember to buy sentry wards, dust, or gem before ganking invisible hero like Rikimaru or Nyx Assassin.

Late Game
Your part is still the same that is to initiate a teamfight. Use your Primal Roar as an opening skill. After your primal roar, all of your opponent should come and then use all of their spells in the teamfight. Your part after initiating is to: Use wild axes to nuke down enemies and then right click the enemies using all your units. Remember that you have +attack speed here, so it will automatically helps your friends in beating the enemies with the attack damage.

Also don't forget to use all items you have for example: Mekansm or Pipe.

And if your team won the teamfight, you have two options:
1. You can get the Aegis for your team's main hero or
2. Your team can push enemy base and destrouy their buildings. Choose wisely!

ITEM BUILD
1. Soul Ring
Total cost: 800
Recipe: Ring of Regen + Sage's Mask

Active: Sacrifice - Consume 150 HP to temporarily gain 150 Mana. Lasts 10 seconds. + 3 HP Regeneration + 50% Mana Regeneration Cooldown: 30 seconds

Why Soul Ring? It will meake your skill Wild Axe spammable in every situation in early game (farming, harassing, and ganking).

2. Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin

Active: Switch Attribute - Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed + 8 Selected Attribute   + 30 Attack Speed

Why Power Threads? It will gives you survivability from the STR gain. It is also a good attack speed booster. Power threads is also a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.

3. Blink Dagger
Cost: 2150

Active: Blink - Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. If damage is taken from an enemy hero, Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds. Manacost: 75   Cooldown: 14

Blink Dagger is a perfect item for Beastmaster for initiating purpose

4. Mekansm
Total cost: 2306
Recipe: Headress + Buckler + Recipe

Active: Restore - Heals 250 HP and gives +2 armor in an area. Passive: Mekansm Aura - Bonus HP Regen in an area. Multiple instances of Mekansm Aura do not stack + 5 All Attributes + 5 Armor BONUS HP REGEN: 4 Mana:150   Cooldown:45

Why Mekansm? Heal for all allies in AoE, is a must for teamfights.

5. Pipe of Insight
Total cost: 3628
Recipe: Hood of Defiance + Headress + Recipe

Active: Barrier - Gives nearby friendly units a shield that blocks 400 spell damage. Multiple instances of spell resistance from items do not stack. + 11 HP Regeneration + 30% Spell Resistance Manacost: 100   Cooldown: 60

Why Pipe of Insight? Gives barrier for all allies in AoE that Block 400 spell damage, very useful.

6. Vladimir's Offering
Total cost:: 2050
Recipe: Ring of Basillus + Mask of Death + Ring of regen + Recipe

Passive: Vladmir's Aura - Grants a variety of bonuses to nearby allies. Lifesteal bonuses from Vladmir's Aura only affect melee units. Multiple instances of Vladmir's Aura do not stack. AURA LIFESTEAL: 16%      AURA BONUS DAMAGE: 15%      AURA BONUS ARMOR: 5 AURA MANA REGEN: 0.8      + 2 HP Regeneration

Why Vladimir's Offering?
This will provide you with all what you needs. Mana regen to always use the abiliy. Bonus Lifesteal for survivability. Also adds damage, HP regen, and armor. Very good item in a package.

7. Necromicon

Total cost: 2700

Recupe: Staff of Wizardy, Belt of Giant Strength + Recipe

You can upgrade by buying the recipe again, can be upgraded 2 times, into lv3.

Active: Demonic Summoning - Summons a Necronomicon Warrior and a Necronomicon Archer to fight for you. Their strength and abilities increase as Necronomicon increases in level. Lasts 35 seconds. + 15/21/24 Intelligence    + 8/12/16 Strength Manacost: 50    Cooldown: 80

Why Necronomicon? After initiate a teamfight, you can summon 2 demons with reliable power. This demon's attack speed is also boosted from your Inner Beaat. It will increase their power.
And the other advantage is that if you die, your demons will not automatically die so you still can play your demons if you die.

8. Aghanim Scepter

Passive: Ultimate Upgrade - Upgrades the ultimates of certain heroes. + 10 All Attributes   + 200 Health   + 150 Mana

Why Aghanim's Scepter? Make an initiator more stronger because your ultimate can be casted from a very long range. It will increase the chance of winning a teamfight.

GOOD ALLIES

1. Enigma

After you do a Primal Roar on a target, and all the enemies are knocked back. He will then blinked in and use his Blackhole to catch all the enemies. It is a very nice combo in initiating a teamfight.

2. All Carries
(Example: Magine, Void, Luna)

Carries should come after you initiate a teamfight, they should fini.

ANNOYING ENEMIES

1. Cloners

(Example: Phantom Lancer, Naga Siren, Chaos Knight )

You have a single targetted ultimate which is required to know which one is your real target, and cloners can makes you use your stun into its illusion which harm you so much