Beastmaster

Karroch the Beastmaster is a melee strength hero commonly played as a scouting disabler or ganker. His role to the team is to inflict debuffs using his Boar's slow passive and his ultimate, Primal Roar, and deal high damage at various ranges using Wild Axes. Though he is able to take down any enemy in most situations, most of his abilities do not combo with each other. He will require help from others for his abilities to really deal crippling effects, especially if he isn't built as a carry.

Gameplay
Beastmaster's first skill is Wild Axes, which is a somewhat difficult to hit skill that throws out axes and then returns them to Beastmaster, dealing damage on both the outward and inward movement of the axes. It has the potential to deal decent amounts of damage to Heroes and Creeps, and has a low cooldown with reasonable mana cost making it a very potent farming and harassing tool. It becomes less effective against heroes later in the game because of its damage mechanics. His second skill, Call of the Wild, is an interesting one. When he casts it, he summons two units, a hawk and a quillbeast. The hawk is a flying unit with a very large amount of vision and lasts for 60–80 seconds so it is extremely useful for scouting, but easy to kill. His second unit is a quillbeast that deals low damage, but slows the enemy unit's movement and attack speed quite considerably with every attack so it's an excellent ganking tool. His Ultimate is a somewhat long-range single target stun that pushes units in between him and his target to the side. The stun is on a low cooldown (80–70 seconds) for an ultimate, deals decent damage, and stuns for the longest time in the game, so it is a good disable in teamfights against a carry or other key targets.

Tips

 * Beastmaster is an effective hard lane solo because his Wild Axes can be used to last hit as well as clear the tree patch revealing any ganks coming his way.
 * Try finishing the game early as he loses effectiveness at very late game.
 * Bottle is a strong choice after your starting items, and can be followed by Boots of Speed.
 * Push by repeatedly using Wild Axes at each incoming wave of creeps, helping yourself farm as well as push.
 * Especially early game, pay special attention to your scouting Hawk and rune positions.
 * Anytime you use Primal Roar in the presence of two or more enemy heroes, use Blink Dagger to make sure that all of them are affected by the damage.
 * Beastmaster can stack/farm ancients incredibly effectively with Wild Axes since it can affect magic immune units.

Trivia

 * Beastmaster's original name was Rexxar, a reference to a character from the Warcraft universe.
 * The September 12, 2012 Patch (Test) renamed Beastmaster to "Bestmaster."