Dota 2 - Barathrum Build Guide

BIO
Barathrum the Spirit Breaker is a lordly and powerful being, a fierce and elemental intelligence which chose to plane-shift into the world of matter to take part in events with repercussions in the elemental realm that is his home. To that end, he assembled a form that would serve him well, both in our world and out of it. His physical form borrows from the strengths of this world, blending features both bovine and simian-horns, hooves and hands-as outward emblems of his inner qualities of strength, speed and cunning. He wears a ring in his nose, as a reminder that he serves a hidden master, and that this world in which he works is but a shadow of the real one.

INTRODUCTION
Barathrum is eay hero for noobs. Noobs need to buy him Mom and then can become OWNING!! Easily. He use greater bash to knock down enemy easily. He also have a powerful ultimate that will knock-back his target to the direction he can’t escape.
His trademark is movement speed. He have all the movement speed to be good in game.
His movement speed also adds his damage.

PROS	CONS
High movement speed	A bad lane control
Charge have a global range	Low mana pool
Very nice bash (knock-back)
Can solo kill a weak-squishy hero

ROLE

Melee - Durable - Carry - Initiator - Disabler

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	701	1,339	2,175	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	182	510	1,004	ATTACK RANGE	128
DAMAGE	60-70	94-104	138-148	MISSILE SPEED	N/A
ARMOR	5	9	14

ABILITIES
1. Charge of Darkness

Spirit Breaker fixes his sight on an enemy unit and starts charging through all objects. All enemy units passed through will be hit by a Greater Bash, and the targeted unit is stunned upon impact. If the targeted unit dies, Spirit Breaker will change his target to the nearest enemy unit to that location.

MANA COST: 100/100/100/100	COOLDOWN: 35
ABILITY: UNIT TARGET	AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS
CHARGE SPEED: 600 / 650 / 700 / 750	STUN DURATION: 1.2 / 1.6 / 2 / 2.4

Barathrum erupts from the darkness with unwieldy force.
This is your main skill to gank. You need this to gank a target, use Charge from anywhere from the map and chase your opponent like a boss with an ultra high movespeed. Stun them, and then attacks. Usually enemies will get surprised and the instantly stunned by you, and can't do anything.

2. Empowering Haste

Causes the Spirit Breaker to gain power with higher movement speed. His presence increases the movement speed of nearby allied units.

ABILITY: PASSIVE, AURA	AFFECTS: ALLIES
BONUS MOVE SPEED: 6% / 10% / 14% / 18%	AURA RADIUS: 900 / 900 / 900 / 900

Aspiring heroes gain speed and power from simply observing the Spirit Breaker's dominance on the battle field.
Increase Barathrum and allies movement speed in the radius. Very good skill, movement speed is the main thing for chasing and escaping. Needed in every situation in DotA. Your movement speed also increasing your Greater Bash damage.

3. Greater Bash

Gives a chance to stun and knockback an enemy unit on an attack, as well as gaining bonus movement speed after a bash occurs. Deals a percentage of movement speed as damage.

COOLDOWN: 1.50	ABILITY: PASSIVE
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	CHANCE TO BASH: 17% / 17% / 17% / 17%
STUN DURATION: 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6	MOVESPEED AS DAMAGE: 10% / 20% / 30% / 40%
BONUS MOVE SPEED: 15% / 15% / 15% / 15%	KNOCKBACK DURATION: 0.5 / 0.5 / 0.5 / 0.5
SPEED DURATION: 3 / 3 / 3 / 3

The signature strike of Barathrum's ghostly ball and chain.
Knock back enemy and make him feel helpless. It will knock back enemy once in a while. And the bash also hava additional damage from your movement speed which is I believe the highest in DotA.
Very good skill to carrying. Will deal lots of damage to enemy.

4. Nether Strike

Spirit Breaker slips into the nether realm, reappearing next to his hapless victim. Upon reappearing, a Greater Bash of the current level occurs and deals bonus damage. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 125/150/175	COOLDOWN: 75
ABILITY: UNIT TARGET	AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	BONUS DAMAGE: 150 / 250 / 350
RANGE: 400 / 550 / 700	SCEPTER RANGE: 550 / 700 / 850
SCEPTER COOLDOWN: 20 / 20 / 20	SCEPTER BASH RADIUS: 250 / 250 / 250

Barathrum temporarily returns to the realm from where he came, bringing with him the retribution of both worlds.
Your ultimate. Jump in front of your enemy and knock him back so he will turn around. Very good skill to make your enemy can't escape from you.
Aghanim Scepter will makes this skill deal damage to AoE. a "worth considering" item.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Charge of Darkness
Level 2: Greater Bash
Level 3: Charge of Darkness
Level 4: Greater Bash
Level 5: Charge of Darkness
Level 6: Nether Strike
Level 7: Charge of Darkness
Level 8: Greater Bash
Level 9 : Greater Bash
Level 10: Empowering Haste
Level 11: Nether Strike
Level 12: Empowering Haste
Level 13: Empowering Haste
Level 14: Empowering Haste
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Nether Strike
Level 17-25: Stats

Why take Charge of Darkness for level 1? You need this to try to get firstblood together with your friend. If you don't want to try to get firstblood, then take a Greater Bash instead, it will makes you easier to last hits.

Why maxed Charge of Darkness first? This way you will be a powerful ganker on early game with 2.4s stun and makes your team easier to kill the enemy.

Why maxed  Greater Bash before  Empowering Haste? Greater Bash is more useful for damaging the enmy. You need this to increase your damage and carrying ability.

STRATEGY
Early Game
On early game, you should have a decent damage to farm early creeps. Barathrum receives additional damage from if he do Greater Bash. And with an additional quelling blade, last hits is a piece of cake for you. Try to last hits every creeps using your high damage and + quelling blade.
Charge a target that you feel is easy. Tell your friend that you will target “X”. And together focus fire on x, kill him. Ask your partner to cooperate with you in your gank. Your partner should come after you successfully stun your target and helps you kill the enemy.

Mid Game
On mid game, MoM is your target. Try to save 2000 gold for this item. This item will benefit you by a lot. You will gain more attack speed and lifeteal and makes you a decent carry. You also gain an additional movement speed that means adds damage more for carrying. Your killing method is very simple, first: use Charge of Darkness, and then after you hit your target, use your ultimate and Mom, and right click until the target dies.

Late Game
If you succeeded on mid game, late game will be easier for you. You are considered a carry, so you should buy DPS items such as Daedlus, Mkb etc. Although you are an STR hero, you are strong, you have a Greater Bash that will knock back enemy and make you a powerful carry.
Charge of the Darkness should be done before the teamfigh starts. Once you arrive at the enemy, your friend should come after you and participate in the teamfight. Use you normal attack, and then use your ultimate and kill your target. Focus on one enemy, after he death, change to other enemy.
Bkb is a nice option for Barathrum, as a carry you need survivability.

ITEMBUILD
1. Quelling Blade
Cost: 225

Active: Destroy Tree - Destroy a target tree. Passive: Quell - Gives bonus attack damage against non-hero units, depending on the type of hero you are.   MELEE BONUS: 32%     RANGED BONUS: 12%      Cooldown: 5

Why Quelling Blade? Makes you easier to lasthit every creeps.

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 attack speed, thats what you need, attack speed and damages. Power threads is laso a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.
STR for Survivability and damage, AGI for attack speed, and INT for mana.

3. Mask of Madness
Total Cost: 1900
Recipe: Morbid Mask/Mask of Death(Dota1) +Recipe

Active: Berserk - Gives 100 attack speed and 30% movement speed but causes you to take extra 30% damage. Lasts 12 seconds. Passive: Lifesteal - Grants lifesteal on attacks. Mask of Madness is a Unique Attack Modifier, and does not stack with other Unique Attack Modifiers. LIFESTEAL: 17%     Cooldown:25     Manacost: 25

Why Mask of Madness? It will gives you + Attack Speed to destroys enemies quickly. This is what you need as a carry, attack speed. This will also gives you movement speed and lifesteal. For you, attack speed = damage (thanks for Greater Bash).

 4. Black King Bar
Total cost:: 3900
Recipe: Ogre Axe, Mithril Hammer, Recipe

Active: Avatar - Grants magic immunity. Duration and cooldown decrease with each use. Some Ultimate abilities are able to disable through Black King Bar. + 10 Strength + 24 Damage     DURATION: 10/9/8/7/6/5     Cooldown: 80

Why Black King Bar? It gives you survivability in a teamfight because you will get magic immunity during teamfights.

5. Battle Fury
Total Cost: 225
Recipe: Broadsword, Claymore, Preserverance

Passive: Cleave - Deals a percent of attack damage in a 225 AoE around the target. Does not work on ranged heroes. Cleave damage on non-primary targets is not reduced by armor values. + 65 Damage + 6 HP Regeneration     + 150% Mana Regeneration      CLEAVE DAMAGE: 35%

Why Battlefury? Makes you faster in farming creeps. Makes your gold flow faster. Your job is to farms, this item will really help.
The most important is, you will need the Cleaveas a melee carry. It will makes you have a splashed attack to demolish all enemies.

6. You can increase your DPS more. Choose your own DPS items.As a carry, damage is your priority.

	DAEDLUS	MKB	ABYSSAL	DIVINE RAPIER
DAMAGE	81	88	100	300
ABILITY	CRITICAL 2.4	100% HITS	STUN	NONE
CHANCE	25%	MINIBASH 35% DAMAGE: 100	MELEE: 25 % RANGE: 10%	NONE
OTHER	NONE	+15 ATK SPEED	+10 STRENGTH 2 SEC STUN	NONE

DAEDLUS: Daedlus will provide you with a powerful Critical Strike.

MKB: 100% HITRATE will helps you to fight some evasion heroes like Mortred or Rikimaru.

ABYSSAL: A decent +100 damage and makes you become a Stunner

RAPIER: Be careful if you choose to hold this. 1 hit kill is a sure. 2-3 hits is the worst. Need protection from your support. Must come if the situation is clear safe for you to come inside the teamfight. Need some disabler friends.

ALTERNATIVE ITEM
7. Blade Mail
Total cost: 2200
Recipe: Broadsword + Chainmail + Robe of Magi

Active: Damage Return - Returns any damage you take to the unit that dealt the damage. Lasts 4.5 seconds.  + 22 Damage   + 5 Armor   + 10 Intelligence Manacost: 25   Cooldown; 22

Why Blade Mail? After you initiate a teamfight, your opponent is likely to target you because they will hate you. So you can reflect their damege using this item

8. Heart of Tarrasque

Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster

Passive: Health Regeneration - Restores a percentage of max health per second. This ability is disabled if damage is taken from an enemy Hero or Roshan within the last 4 seconds if your hero is melee or 6 seconds if your hero is ranged. + 40 Strength   + 300 Health     HEALTH RESTORED: 2%    Cooldown:

Why Heart of Tarrasque? Makes you tanky. So good item for tanker like you.

GOOD ALLIES
1. Supportive Heroes
(Example: Shadow Shaman, Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit)

Supportive heroes have disables and nice skill to helps carries and makes a teamfight easier for the team.

Shadow shaman: Have hex, shackles, and wards to helps you disables enemy

Crystal Maiden: Have 1 lockdown, 1 slower, and have +mana regeneration

Vengeful Spirit: Have stun, swap, and +damage aura

2. True Sight Heroes
(Slardar, Gondar)

 Slardar and Gondar have a true sight ability that makes enemy to be visible. Visible enemy is becoming a target of your Charge of Darkness

3. Lifestealer

He can infest in you and make a perfect combo. You then should charge a target, and after you arrived at your target, he should come out, deal damage and together killing your target

VIDEO SECTION
1. Dota with Alan, Spirit Breaker

Shows you how to play Spirit Breaker

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