Beastmaster

Hawk
Summoned Creep
Health 150/200/250/300 +1.5
	⤷ 400/450/500/550HP
This unit has no mana.
Notes	Uncontrollable

Boar
Summoned Creep
Health 300/450/600/750 +1.5
	⤷ 550/700/850/1000HP
This unit has no mana.

Beastmaster 23 + 2.9 18 + 1.6 16 + 1.9
	+20HP and +0.1HP regeneration/point.; +1 main attack damage/point.
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed/point.
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration/point.
L0	Base Hero Values
L1	⤷ + Base Attributes
L15	⤷ + Attribute Gain
L25	⤷ + 6 levels of Attribute Bonus
L30	⤷ + 7 levels of Attribute Bonus
	All values shown are without talent bonuses.

Hero

Karroch, the Beastmaster, is a versatile melee strength hero most commonly played as an offlaner and ganker who brings a good amount of utility to his team in any situation. His Wild Axes allows him to lane and farm quite effectively throughout the game, even when pressured. He is able to summon a hawk and boar to aid him, each providing a good amount of utility to his team. Hawks provide free flying vision around the map, scouting his enemies while his Boars can harass and slow his enemies to a crawl while aiding him in combat. His Inner Beast aura makes his team a force to be reckoned with, providing a hefty boost to attack speed to himself, his summons, and all nearby allies. Finally, his ultimate, Primal Roar, is the longest lasting single-target reliable stun in the game and also penetrates spell immunity (being only counterable by Linken's Sphere), providing a strong initiation for his team to claim a kill. With these skills, he can push enemy towers quickly and safely, take down undefended targets with the help of Necronomicon summons, lock down a single target, and also kite enemies in teamfights. With careful observation of the battlefield, Beastmaster takes down enemies one by one and paves the way to victory.

Bio[]

Karroch, the Beastmaster

▶️ "I run with the rabbit and hunt with the hounds."

Lore:

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. He 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.

Voice:

Sam A. Mowry (Responses)

Abilities[]

Wild Axes

▶️

▶️QW

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

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, and amplifies subsequent damage from Beastmaster and his units.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 1500

Axes Radius: 175

Axes Travel Distance: 1500

Axes Spread Distance: 450

Damage per Axe: 40/70/100/130

Damage Amplification per Stack: 6%/8%/10%/12% (

8.5%/10.5%/12.5%/14.5%)

Stack Duration: 12

8 (

0)

65

Causes Wild Axes to have no cooldown, and can be used again once they come back.

Modifiers

modifier_beastmaster_wild_axes: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_beastmaster_axe_stack_counter: Dispellable with any dispel.

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.

Notes:

The axes either travel at a speed of 1200 or reach the target point in 1 second, whichever is faster. The same applies upon returning.
- Upon returning, their speed periodically adapts based on their distance to Beastmaster and the remaining travel time.
- This means the axes fly a maximum of up to 2 seconds, up to 1 second towards the point and up to 1 second back.

Both axes spread up to 450 distance away from each other, before moving back together while traveling towards the targeted point.
- Their minimum travel distance is 450 as well, so when targeting a point closer than 450 range, they still intersect 450 range away.
- The axes fly in arcs, so that the axe coming from Beastmaster's left hand travels back towards his right hand, and vice versa.
- They destroy trees they come in contact with, while providing 350 radius flying vision as they travel. This vision does not last.

The axes first apply the debuff, then the damage. This means they effectively amplify their own damage as well.
- Uses one debuff on hit targets for all stacks. The debuff has a number on it, showing the amount of stacks.
- Since the axes work separate, one of the axes always benefits from 2 stacks of the debuff, if both hit.
- Successive hits on the same unit fully refresh the whole stack's duration.

Applies generic incoming damage amplification on the targets. Stacks additively with other sources of generic incoming damage manipulation.
- The amplification affects all damage that is not flagged as HP removal the targets take from Beastmaster and all his units. Allies do not benefit from it.

A unit can only get hit once by each axe, so the maximum possible damage per axe is 42.4/75.6/110/145.6 ( 43.4/77.35/112.5/148.85) before reductions.
- Does not affect Couriers.

Call of the Wild Boar

▶️WD

Ability
No Target

Beastmaster calls forth a Boar to aid in the battlefield.

Cast Animation: +

Number of Boars: 1

Boar Duration: 60

42/38/34/30

60/65/70/75

Modifiers

modifier_kill: Dispellable with death only.

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

Notes:

Leveling this ability automatically levels Call of the Wild Hawk as well.

Does not destroy previous summons if this ability is used again before the previous Boar expires.

The boar spawns at a random location within a 100 radius around Beastmaster.

Call of the Wild Hawk

▶️EE

Ability
Target Area
(

Target Unit)

Beastmaster sends an invisible Hawk to scout an area.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: Global

Number of Hawks: 1

Hawk Duration: 60

60/50/40/30 (

53/43/33/23)

30

Reduces Hawk cooldown by 7. Hawks gain Dive Bomb.

Modifiers

modifier_kill: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_beastmaster_call_of_the_wild_hawk: Dispellable with death only.

Ability Draft Notes:

Toggling Autocast on swaps this ability out with

Call of the Wild Boar. Turning it off again swaps them back. Their cooldowns are separate.

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

Notes:

Leveling this ability automatically levels Call of the Wild Boar as well.

Does not destroy a previous summon if this ability is used again before the previous Hawk expires.

The hawk spawns at a random location within a 300 radius around Beastmaster. It spawns invisible, without any fade time.

The hawk cannot be controlled at all. Once cast, it automatically flies towards the targeted area and stays there.
- Its flight towards the target area cannot be interrupted by anything.
- If the hawk gets its movement disabled (e.g. stunned, rooted, etc.), it resumes moving to the location as soon as it can move again.
- Taunts and Hypnotize cause the hawk to stop for its duration, but it resumes as soon as the taunt expires. The hawk completely ignores fear.

Hawks do not block neutral creep camps.

Acquiring Aghanim's Shard does not retroactively grant the Dive Bomb ability to already summoned Hawks.

With Aghanim's Shard, this ability can be directly targeted on an enemy unit.
- When unit-targeted, the hawk flies towards that unit's location upon cast, as if ground-targeted. It does not alter its path if the target moves.
- If at any time while traveling the target comes within cast range of Dive Bomb, the Hawk casts it on them.
- If the target gets out of 1200 range before the cast finishes, it gets canceled and the hawk resumes traveling to the cast location.
- However, the hawk may attempt to cast Dive Bomb again if the target comes within range again.
- Once the hawk reaches the cast location and becomes stationary, it no longer attempts to cast Dive Bomb on the original target.

Inner Beast

DB

Ability
Aura

Affects
Allies

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

Radius: 1200

Attack Speed Bonus: 15/25/35/45 (

45/55/65/75)

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Modifiers

modifier_beastmaster_inner_beast_aura: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_beastmaster_inner_beast: Undispellable. Persists death.

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

Notes:

Affects invulnerable, but not hidden units.

The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

Primal Roar

▶️RR

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Beastmaster lets loose a deafening roar that stuns, and shoves open a path to its target. All units in the path of the roar are damaged, while units shoved aside by the roar have their movement and attack speed slowed. Additionally, Beastmaster and his units gain 40% movement speed for 3/3.5/4 seconds.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 600

Move Speed Bonus Radius: 900

Knockback Width: 300

Knockback Distance: 450

Knockback Duration: 1

Damage: 150/225/300

Enemy Move Speed Slow: 60%

Enemy Attack Speed Slow: 60

Slow Duration: 3/3.5/4

Ally Move Speed Bonus: 40%

Move Speed Buff Duration: 3/3.5/4

Stun Duration: 3/3.5/4

100/80/60 (

70/50/30)

150/175/200

Fully pierces spell immunity on the primary target. Does not affect secondary spell immune enemies. Slow and knockback persist if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Blocked fully only when primary target.

Modifiers

modifier_beastmaster_primal_roar_speed: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_stunned: Dispellable with strong dispels.

modifier_beastmaster_prima_roar_push: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_beastmaster_primal_roar_slow: Dispellable with any dispel.

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

Notes:

Only enemy units are shoved aside from the path of Primal Roar. Roshan is not affected by the knockback.
- Affected units are fully disabled during the knockback.
- Can be cast on Couriers to stun them, but it cannot damage them. Couriers are also affected by the knockback as secondary targets.

Knocks units aside at a speed of 450, up to 450 range away, resulting in a knockback duration of 1 second.
- Units hit by the knockback destroy trees within 100 radius and are made to face towards the direction they are getting pushed.

The knockback and slow have a dynamic range, based on the distance between Beastmaster and the primary target.
- For every 2 distance between Beastmaster and the target upon cast, the knockback range increases by 1.
- For example, when the target is 600 range away, the knockback hits units up to 300 range behind the target and behind Beastmaster.
- The width of the knockback area is fixed at 300, so the affected area is always stadium-shaped.

Considering the dynamic range, the knockback and slow can hit units up to 900 range away.

When an enemy is perfectly aligned with Beastmaster and his Primal Roar target, it does not get knocked aside.
- However, the slow and damage are still applied, and the target is still disabled for the knockback duration.

On the primary target, the roar first applies the debuff, then the damage.
- On secondary targets, the roar first applies the damage, then the debuff.

The movement speed bonus only affects Beastmaster and his units. Other nearby allies are not buffed.

Health Aura

Ability
Aura

Affects
Self

There is no description for this ability.

Radius: Global

Health Bonus: 250

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Illusions bestow and benefit from the aura. Multiple instances of the aura do not stack.

Modifiers

modifier_special_bonus_unique_beastmaster_6_aura: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_special_bonus_unique_beastmaster_6: Undispellable. Persists death.

Ability Draft Notes:

This

talent is available and it is not bound to any ability.

Notes:

Affects Beastmaster and all of his player-controlled units.
The aura increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.

The aura affects invulnerable or hidden units.

The aura is bestowed even while Beastmaster is dead.

Boar[]

Poison

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Inflicts a poison that slows attack and movement speeds.

Move Speed Slow: 10%/20%/30%/40%

Attack Speed Slow: 10/20/30/40

Slow Duration: 3

Slow persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers

modifier_beastmaster_boar_poison: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_beastmaster_boar_poison_effect: Dispellable with any dispel.

Notes:

This ability level scales together with Call of the Wild Boar's level.
- However, the level of already summoned boars does not adapt.

The attacks first apply their damage, then the debuff.

Successive attacks do not stack the slow, they refresh the duration.

Hawk[]

Dive Bomb

▶️

▶️QD

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Reveals itself for 1, and then flies towards the target enemy, dealing 250 damage and stunning them for 2 second, killing the hawk.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 1200

Damage: 250

Stun Duration: 2

Dive Duration: 0.4

0

Pierces spell immunity on couriers only.

Modifiers

modifier_beastmaster_hawk_reveal: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_beastmaster_hawk_dive: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_stunned: Dispellable with strong dispels.

Notes:

Requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked.

The reveal modifier is placed on the Hawk as soon as it begins casting, and lasts until the dive ends.

Once the cast begins, the player cannot manually cancel it anymore, since casting Dive Bomb is the only order that can be given to the Hawk.

The hawk dives in an arc for to 0.4 seconds, so the speed varies based on the distance.
- The speed does not instantly adapt if the distance changes, but rather accelerates or decelerates at a very slow rate.

Uses forced movement to move the Hawk. This means, it can be interrupted by applying other sources of forced movement on it.
- The dive cannot be interrupted by anything else. It fully ignores all disables.

The Hawk first applies the damage, then the stun, and then dies.
- The Hawk's death cannot be prevented in any way.

Can be cast on Couriers.

Talents[]

Hero Talents
-30s Primal Roar Cooldown	25	+30 Inner Beast Attack Speed
+250 Health Beastmaster Controlled	20	+35 Boar Damage
+2.5% Wild Axes Damage Amp Per Stack	15	+30 Movement Speed
+1.75 Mana Regen	10	+30 Damage

Notes:

The level 20 health talent is provided by an aura.

This attack damage talent is added as bonus attack damage.
- Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.

Recent Changes[]

Main Article: Beastmaster/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.30d

Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown reduction from 15 to 7.

7.30c

Reduced base attack damage from 35-39 to 33-37.
Rescaled Primal Roar cooldown from 90/80/70 to 100/80/60.
Talents:

Level 10 left talent changed: +20 movement speed ➜ +1.75 mana regen.

Level 15 left talent changed: +250

Health to Beastmaster and controlled units [] ➜ +2.5%

Wild Axes damage amplification per stack.

Level 15 right talent changed: +3 mana regen ➜ +30 movement speed.

Level 20 left talent changed: -30s

Primal Roar cooldown ➜ +250

Health to Beastmaster and controlled units [].

Level 25 left talent changed: +4%

Wild Axes damage amplification per stack ➜ -30s

Primal Roar cooldown.

7.30b

Talents:

Level 15 left talent: +350

Health to Beastmaster and controlled units reduced to +250. []

Recommended Items[]

Starting items:

Tango allow you to stay longer in lane without having to return to the fountain.
Iron Branch is a very cheap item that provides a bit of attributes; use with Tango for more heal.
Healing Salve heals Beastmaster to keep him in lane.

Early game:

Magic Stick provides burst health and mana, useful to sustain Beastmaster.
Boots of Speed offers additional movement speed to get Beastmaster in cast range of his abilities.

Mid game:

Magic Wand grants some attributes and even more burst health and mana than Magic Stick.
Tranquil Boots gives health regeneration and large movement speed bonus, easing Beastmaster's initiation with Primal Roar.
Blink Dagger adds mobility and allows Beastmaster to engage on slippery targets to cast Primal Roar.

Late game:

Refresher Orb allows you to use Primal Roar two times in quick succession. It will also allow you to summon an extra boar and hawk.
Black King Bar increases survivability of Beastmaster with spell immunity and strength, so he can contribute with Wild Axes and Inner Beast which improve overall damage output during fights.

Situational items:

Quelling Blade grants bonus damage against creeps so Beastmaster can last hit easier.
Soul Ring sustains Beastmaster with strength and health regeneration, as well as providing mana to use abilities.
Drum of Endurance provides health, gives you much needed mana, and increases your ability to get in range to use Primal Roar on enemies. It also further increases the attack speed of your Boar.
Helm of the Dominator provides the ability to control a creep that comes with its own abilities and auras, and benefits from Inner Beast and other auras.
Vladmir's Offering synergizes well with Inner Beast, since it boost your teams's damage as well as survivability. Also, Beastmaster is able to stay outside of base thanks to the lifesteal.
Solar Crest gives additional armor, attributes, and mana regeneration. Together with Inner Beast and summons, you can help teammates bring down Roshan earlier in the game.
Heaven's Halberd disarms enemy heroes. It also gives some extra health, status resistance, and evasion.
Pipe of Insight is another strong aura item for your team and helps with pushing. It counters team with strong magical damage lineup.
Aghanim's Scepter increases the viability of Wild Axes, and enables it to be used much more often in fights as it has no cooldown.
Assault Cuirass stacks with Inner Beast, granting aura of armor and attack speed to friendly units.
Heart of Tarrasque makes you extremely tanky, but be wary of getting it too early as you have less utility than with other item choices.
Boots of Travel can be bought in the late game, powerful when teleporting to the Hawk to kill a lone target or push buildings.

Gameplay[]


Roles:	Initiator Disabler Durable Nuker
Complexity:	★★☆
Playstyle:	Raised in the royal menagerie of Slom, Karroch learned to converse with beasts from a young age. With this unique talent, the Beastmaster is able to summon to his side a trusty Boar and a scouting Hawk. In addition to his companions, Karroch has mastered the art of throwing Wild Axes, cutting down trees and foes before returning to his hands. The Beastmaster awakens the Inner Beast of nearby allies, increasing their attack speed. Should an enemy attempt to flee, Karroch lets loose a Primal Roar, incapacitating the target and clearing the path to its demise.

Strategy & Tips

Counters &
Matchups

Audio[]

Responses

Sounds

History[]

Lore

Old Abilities

Changelogs

Equipment[]

Trivia[]

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 on the Shriekers from Tremors II: Aftershocks.^[1]
Beastmaster's lines ▶️ ▶️ "Basshunter, on the hunt" are a reference to Swedish singer Basshunter, who has a song about DotA.
▶️ "I'll be creeping while you are sleeping" is a reference to the lyrics of said song.