Beastmaster

Karroch the Beastmaster is a melee strength hero whose versatility allows him to take on multiple roles. His hawks provide free flying vision and his boars can harass, slow, and stack jungle camps. His ultimate, Primal Roar, is the longest lasting single reliable stun in the game, except Morphling's Adaptive Strike at level 4 with more strength than agility. However his greatest strength is his passive aura Inner Beast, increasing the attack speed of all allies units nearby, including creeps and his summons. With these skills he can push the enemy tower quickly and safely, take down undefended targets with help of Necronomicon summons, even lock a single target down and kite enemies in teamfight. With careful observation of the battlefield, Beastmaster takes down enemies one by one and paves the way to victory.

Recommended items
Starting:
 * allows you to take more harassment in lane.
 * ,, and allow you to stay in lane longer without having to return to the fountain.
 * is a very cheap item that provides a bit of attributes.
 * is sometimes picked up to aid in last hitting.

Early:
 * is a strong pickup on almost all heroes.
 * tanks you up and potentially uses one of your starting gauntlets.
 * is a viable choice if you started by jungling, or the offlane is too hard for you to survive.
 * gives some good starting armor and mana regeneration in lane. The additional armor given to the creeps while activated can push the lane faster.

Core:
 * offers additional movement speed. Since in early and mid game Beastmaster's summons deals more damage than himself, you can leave Boots of Speed as it is and build up later.
 * give you extra health and allow for tread switching for a bit of extra mana for casting.
 * is a viable alternative for support Beastmasters, allowing him to use his abilities from afar without pausing the regeneration.
 * gives additional armor and mana regen. Together with and summons you can bring down Roshan in early game.
 * provides health, gives you much needed mana, and increases your ability to get in range to use on enemies. It also further increases the attack speed of your Boar.

Situational:
 * has natural synergy with and is a great item to quickly take towers and add additional damage to target hit by, draining their mana and making the enemy hard to retaliate after.
 * allows Beastmaster to engage on slippery targets that would not normally allow you to get into range to cast your ultimate.
 * further increases the power of your ultimate, giving it extreme range and a cooldown low enough to use it twice in protracted engagements.
 * gives additional armor and evasion and increase your resilience to physical damage. The greatest utility of the item is to decrease the armor of enemy hit by so that your summons could do much more damage, also take down Roshan quickly.
 * synergizes well with, since it boost your teams's damage as well as survivability. Also, Beastmaster is able to stay outside of base thanks to the lifesteal.
 * is another strong aura item for your team and helps with pushing. It counters team with strong magical damage lineup.
 * makes you extremely tanky, but be wary of getting it too early as you have less utility than with other item choices.
 * is a great pickup against a team with high physical damage output and to help your carries do damage quicker.
 * is a strong utility item to disarm an enemy carry in teamfights. It will also give some extra health and evasion.
 * allows you to use Primal Roar two times in quick succession. It will also allow you to summon an extra boar and hawk.
 * can be bought in the late game. It is especially powerful when teleporting to the Hawk to kill lone target.

Trivia
Beastmaster's line's Beas rare 04.mp3 Beas rare 05.mp3 "Basshunter, on the hunt" are a reference to Swedish singer Basshunter, who has a song about DotA.
 * Beastmaster's original name was Rexxar, a character in the Warcraft universe.
 * Rexxar was the main playable character of the bonus campaign in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
 * Beastmaster's item the "Shrieking Razorback" design seems to be based off of the Shriekers from Tremors II: Aftershocks.