Beastmaster

Karroch the Beastmaster is a melee strength hero whose unique power takes the form of summons with exaggerated unit utility. His thralls provide extreme amounts of sight and have ability to reduce the damage of targeted units. In addition, he has the longest lasting single stun in the game.

He is an effective support with good disabling ability in team fights. His strengths lie primarily in the slow debuff his Boar inflicts and ability to easily provide vision at crucial locations on the map. His ultimate, the stunning Primal Roar and Wild Axes allow him to deal massive damage at a distance. Though he is able to easily take down undefended targets in the early game, most of his abilities do not directly combo with each other, although the debiliating effects he brings to a fight can greatly assist allies (along with his passive attack speed boost aura).

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 boar deals mediocre damage, but slows the enemy unit's movement and attack speed quite considerably with every attack so it's an excellent ganking tool. Inner Beast, Beastmaster's third skill, buffs the attack speed of himself and nearby allies, granting his team a large DPS increase when pushing or skirmishing. 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. Primal Roar will still stun targets immune to magic, making it effective in stopping even a Black King Bar holder in their tracks.

Tips

 * His Wild Axes skill is a powerful farming tool.
 * Beastmaster can stack/farm ancients incredibly effectively with Wild Axes since it can affect magic immune units.
 * The vision provided by his thralls is the greatest in the game. This gives him superior scouting ability and can be used to safely grab runes and assist farming, even more so than wards.
 * Although his skills have a long range, Blink Dagger is still useful for lining up Primal Roar.

Trivia

 * Beastmaster's original name was Rexxar, as DotA used characters in the Warcraft universe.
 * The September 12, 2012 Patch (Test) renamed Beastmaster to "Bestmaster."