Beastmaster

Beastmaster

The Radiant

23 + 2.2 18 + 1.6 16 + 1.9

Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 587 1252 1955 Mana 208 598 1053 Damage 56-60 91-95 128-132 Armor 4.52 8.16 12.64 Attacks / Second 0.69 0.84 1.03

Movement Speed 310 Turn Rate 0.4 Sight Range 1800/800 Attack Range Melee Missile Speed Instant Attack Duration 0.3+0.7 Cast Duration 0.5+0.5 Base Attack Time 1.7

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 attackspeed 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).

Bio

Karroch, the Beastmaster Play "Unleash the beasts of war." Role: Initiator / Disabler / Durable 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—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)

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.

Abilities

Wild Axes Q W Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies Composite 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. Range: 1300 Damage: 90/120/150/180 13 120 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: Wild Axes deals composite damage (effectively a form of physical damage, the damage type inflicted by regular attacks, in contrast to the magical damage inflicted by most other spells). Wild Axes destroys trees. The flying axes give flying vision

Call of the Wild W D Ability Affects No Target Self Beastmaster calls allies in the form of a watchful Hawk and a powerful Boar. Previous summons are removed upon casting. Level 1: Summons Scout Hawk. Level 2: Summons Scout Hawk and Lesser Boar. Level 3: Summons Greater Hawk and Lesser Boar. Level 4: Summons Greater Hawk and Greater Boar. Hawk Duration: 60/70/80/80 Boar Duration: -/70/80/90 40 25 After befriending the strange beast of his childhood, Beastmaster has learned to call to animals in times of need.

Notes: The hawk gives 30/30/65/65 gold and all forms of boar give around 30 gold

Inner Beast E B Ability Affects Aura Allies Untaps the inner fury of allies, passively increasing their attack speed. Radius: 1000 Bonus Attack Speed: 18/26/32/40 Beastmaster's ability to incite the innate strength of animals was seen in the mauling of the king of Slom.

Primal Roar R V Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemies Magical A deafening roar that deals damage and stuns the target enemy unit, while opening a path between Beastmaster and his prey. Nearby enemies also take minor damage and have their movement speed and attack rate reduced. Range: 600 (950*) Stun Duration: 3/3.5/4 Radius: 250 Movement Slow: 50% Attack Slow: 50% Slow Duration: 2/3/4 Damage: 200/250/300 80/75/70 (45*) 150/175/200 The damage is blocked, the stun or the push are not. Blocked if holder is target. Side target's slow can be purged, main target's stun cannot. Decreases cooldown, increases cast range. The Beastmaster has learned to channel his primal instincts into an animalistic roar, causing devastation in the ranks of enemies.

Notes: The slow and stun go through magic immunity, but the damage does not. Only enemy units are shoved aside from the path of the roar. Primal Roar can be used on couriers, but won't do any damage since couriers are magic immune.

Summons

Scout/Greater Hawk Duration 60/70/80/80 Hit Points 50/100 Armor 0/5 Movement Speed 270/400 Sight Range 500/1600 / 500/1200 Bounty 30/30/65/65 Experience 20/20/77/77 Notes Possesses Invisibility as Greater Hawk

Invisibility Ability Affects Passive Self If motionless for five seconds, the Greater Hawk becomes invisible.

Lesser/Greater Boar Duration -/70/80/90 Hit Points 400/500 Damage 23-29/43-49 Armor 0 Movement Speed 350 Sight Range 1400/800 Attack Range 550 Missile Speed 1500 Attack Duration 0.633+0.337 Base Attack Time 1.5 Bounty 26-38 Experience 59 Notes Possesses Poison

Poison Ability Affects Passive Enemies Inflicts a poison that slows attack and movement speeds. Attack speed slow: 20% (Lesser) / 35% (Greater) Movement speed slow: 20% (Lesser) / 35% (Greater) Duration: 3

Recommended items

Explanation: Beastmaster should be built as a typical strength support hero with an emphasis on health items to boost his already effective survivability. His thralls already provide powerful and versatile vision and harass ability making wards relatively unnecessary with a bit of micro. Unlike other supports, Blink Dagger is more useful for maximizing the power of his skills than initiating, meaning it is entirely optional although his great vision can grant it additional safety.

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.
• Although his skills have a long range, Blink Dagger is still useful for lining up Primal Roar.
• Beastmaster works well alongside carries who already have attack power but lack attack speed (Like Sven and Ursa) due to his attack speed boosting aura.

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.

Update history

January 03, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added animations for Beastmaster, Undying, and Venomancer relating to their loadout stance.

August 02, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Teleport animations for Beastmaster, Bounty Hunter, Broodmother, Clinkz, Lifestealer, Necrolyte and Shadow Shaman.
• [Undocumented] Added Spawn animations for Beastmaster, Bounty Hunter, Necrolyte and Shadow Shaman.

July 26, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Wild Axes working with Refresher.
• Wild Axes no longer provide vision when they aren't flying.

July 19, 2012 Patch

• Fixed the path that Wild Axes take. It should now work the way it was originally intended.

June 20, 2012 Patch

• Select All Other Units feature no longer selects ny unit that is lacking attack capability (like Beastmaster's Hawk).
• Updated Aghanim's Scepter tooltips for Beastmaster, Necrolyte, Queen of Pain, Warlock, and Windrunner.

May 17, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Inner Beast not affecting siege units.

May 10, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Aghanim's Primal Roar cast range being 50 too short.
• Fixed base damage being slightly too low.
• Fixed Greater Boar unit level.
• [Undocumented] Updated Beastmaster's texture.
• [Undocumented] Updated Beastmaster's hero icon and selection portrait to match his new texture.

April 12, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added a haste rune run animation for Beastmaster.

March 22, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Wild Axes killing couriers.

March 15, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated hero selection portrait for Beastmaster.

March 08, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added idle injured animations for Beastmaster.

February 16, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added injured animations for Beastmaster.
• [Undocumented] Added chase animations for Beastmaster.

January 19, 2012 Patch

• Added alternate attack animations for Witch Doctor and Beastmaster.

December 21, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Wild Axes being left behind when blinking to a location with a different z-value while they're in-flight.

December 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed base damage.
• Fixed Wild Axes potentially getting stuck in the world.

November 10, 2011 Patch

• Fixed him doing 10 less base damage than he's supposed to.
• Fixed gestures not being properly deleted in some occasions. Fixes Beastmaster never leaving his flail animations (and thus strutting down the middle lane like a boss).

October 27, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Call of the Wild resummoning showing up as a deny.

October 13, 2011 Patch

• Fixed the lifetime summoned beasts.
• Courier, Necronomicon units and Beastmaster's summons no longer get their control groups lost when they are upgraded.

October 06, 2011 Patch

• Beastmaster's Wild Axes now flow along the ground, and are more prominent overall.

September 29, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Beastmaster's bird and beast selection hitboxes.

September 09, 2011 Patch

• Added blood hits to Wild Axes on target.

August 06, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Wild Axes aoe and speed.

August 02, 2011 Patch

• Remove frontal cone on axes.
• Boar poison doesn't affect Mechanical, Towers, or Others.

July 16, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Inner Beast giving a constant attack speed bonus instead of a percentage.
• The hawk fades at the right time. (1 sec faster).
• Call of the Wild summons units for the correct amount of time.
• The lower level pig doesn't have as strong a slow as the big pig.
• Fixed the pig's attack range.
• Inner Beast works on non*heroes.
• Wild Axes provide vision.

July 08, 2011 Patch

• Update Beastmaster Model [Rough Model].
• He will only kill his units on recasting the Call of the Wild if he currently is the Owner of the unit.

June 24, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Beastmaster's Hawk starting out invisible when stunned.

May 20, 2011 Patch

• Enabled Pugna and Beastmaster (in-progress models).

Balance changelog

6.72

• Greater Hawk's Invisibility fade time decreased from 8 to 5 seconds.
• Wild Axes now move at similar speed to the max range (so it isn't as slow for short range targeting).
• Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade, increases cast range from 600 to 950, decreases cooldown from 80/75/70 to 45.

See also

• Beastmaster responses