Beastmaster
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Beastmaster
25 + 2.9
22 + 1.9
16 + 1.9
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +63.8HP and +0.29HP regeneration | |
| +0.32 armor and 1.9 attack speed | |
| +22.8MP and +0.095MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance | |
| +3.02 Main Attack Damage | |
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0 Projectile Speed
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100 (122)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.3 + 0.7
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2011-05-20
Released | ||
2006-04-11
(6.30) | ||
Competitive Span
2011-05-20 — Present | ||
Version Control This article is mostly accurate for 7.38b, the last version this hero was changed in. New interactions that emerged in following patches may have not yet been accounted for. |
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| Summons beasts to aid his hunt. | |
|---|---|
| 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 poison-spitting 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 piercing Primal Roar, incapacitating the target and clearing the path to its demise. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Bearded, Horns, Red, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Wild Hunt
Additionally grants attack speed bonus per Beastmaster's player-controlled unit affected by Inner Beast within the radius.
Beast Mode
Adds an active component to Inner Beast. Awakens the inner beasts within to temporarily grant himself attack speed bonus.
Upon tapping into his inner fury, successful attacks now apply Wild Axes debuff of its corresponding level.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Grants the Drums of Slom ability.
Grants an aura that causes successful attacks of Beastmaster and his player-controlled units to strike the drum. The drum strike damages and heals all of his units for a portion of damage dealt within the radius.
Every successful attack grants a stack that reduces the drum strike interval. If no attacks are made, the drum strikes gradually increases.
Grants an aura that causes successful attacks of Beastmaster and his player-controlled units to strike the drum. The drum strike damages and heals all of his units for a portion of damage dealt within the radius.
Every successful attack grants a stack that reduces the drum strike interval. If no attacks are made, the drum strikes gradually increases.
Grants a number of Drum of Slom stacks upon a Primal Roar cast.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Calls forth an additional Hawk within the orbit radius.
Increases the Hawks' duration.
Increases the Hawks' duration.
Talents[edit]
| -30s Primal Roar Cooldown | 25 | No Wild Axes Cooldown |
|---|---|---|
| +250 Max Health to Beastmaster and His Units | 20 | +30 Damage to Beastmaster and His Units |
| +10 Inner Beast Attack Speed | 15 | +20 Move Speed to Beastmaster and His Units |
| +2% Wild Axes Damage Amp per Stack | 10 | -5s Call of the Wild Hawk Cooldown -5s Call of the Wild Boar Cooldown |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Bio[edit]
I run with the rabbit and hunt with the hounds.▶️Karroch, the Beastmaster
Alias:
BM
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.
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:
Innate[edit]
Rugged[edit]
Rugged 
Passive
Affects
Self
Karroch innately has an ensured damage block chance against creeps.
Set Proc Chance: 100%
Damage Blocked: 
16
Has a chance to block a flat amount of physical attack damage from other incoming attacks.
Proc Chance: 50%
Damage Blocked: 16
- Rugged is an ensured
damage block source on incoming creeps' attack.
- Damage block sources with lesser values have no effect if they proc as the higher proc chance value takes precedence.
- Does not interact with the following damage sources:
Ward-type units.
Physical
spell damage, except from the these sources.
Hidden Modifier
Hero Model[edit]
Hero Model
Passive
Affects
Self
The aura granted is 
innate to Beastmaster's hero model.
Effect Radius: 
Global
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Talent Upgrade
Grants Beastmaster and all of his player-controlled units various talent bonuses.
Grants Beastmaster and all of his player-controlled units various talent bonuses.
Move Speed Bonus: (
20)
Max Health Bonus: (
250)
Attack Damage Bonus: (
30)
Beastmaster also has the following hidden innate abilities and may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
Requires drafting both Beastmaster and the following abilities for the corresponding aura component:
Call of the Wild Hawk
Move Speed Aura.
Call of the Wild Boar Max Health Aura.
Call of the Wild Hawk
Call of the Wild Boar
Hidden modifier
Missing tooltip
Hidden modifier
Missing tooltip
- Has a total
movement speed of 325.
- Has a total
Abilities[edit]
Wild Axes[edit]
Sends his axes flying and calls them home again, slicing through enemy units and trees along their path.
Each axe can only affect the same enemy units once, and amplifies subsequent damage from Beastmaster and his units.
Each axe can only affect the same enemy units once, and amplifies subsequent damage from Beastmaster and his units.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.47
Cast Range: 
1500
Axes Radius: 
175
Max Travel Distance: 1500
Spread Distance: 450
Damage per Axe: 35/65/95/125
Damage Amp per Stack: 
6%/8%/10%/12% (
8%/10%/12%/14%)
Stack Duration: 12
8 (
0)
50/55/60/65
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.
- Both axes spread up to
, before returning back together while traveling to the point-targeted location.
OP = 1500AB = 450
- The axes fly in arcs, the axe from Beastmaster's left hand travels back toward his right hand, and vice versa.
- Grants a non-lingering 350-radius
flying vision as the projectile travels.
- Grants a non-lingering 350-radius
- Trees within the axe radius are destroyed as they travel.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Adds 1
debuff stack of the corresponding
- The
magical
- Adds 1
- Reapplying the debuff refreshes the whole stack duration.
- Applies a generic
- Stacks additively with other incoming damage manipulation sources.
- Does not affect the following damage sources:
- Ally damage instances.
HP Removal sources.
- The
- Hence, one of the axes benefit from 2 stacks of the debuff if both
projectile hits the same enemy unit.
- Hence, one of the axes benefit from 2 stacks of the debuff if both
Hidden modifier
Wild Axes Stacks: Taking amplified damage from Beastmaster and his units.
- Has two ability formulas that determines its projectile speed for both traveling outward and returning:
- EXPR
ProjectileSpeed = 1200 , if Distance ≤ 1200 - EXPR
ProjectileSpeed = ΣDistance / 1 , if Distance ≥ 1200
- When returning to Beastmaster, the projectile periodically adapts correspondingly to their distance and the remaining travel time.
- Hence, the axes has a total 2-second max duration while traveling outward and returning.
- Has two ability formulas that determines its projectile speed for both traveling outward and returning:
beastmaster_wild_axes- The buff is
death dispellable once the
- The buff is
Call of the Wild Boar[edit]
Calls forth a boar to aid in his battlefield.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.67
Number of Boars: 1
Spawn Radius: 100
Duration: 60
The Boar's attacks inflict a poison that slows the affected enemy unit's movement speed and attack speed.
Move Speed Slow: 10%/18%/26%/34%
Attack Speed Slow: 10/20/30/40
Duration: 3
30 (
25)
60
This ability levels up with Call of the Wild Hawk.
After befriending the strange beast of his childhood, Beastmaster has learned to call to animals in times of need.
300/450/600/750
-
The boar always spawn in a random location within the radius, facing the same angle as Beastmaster.
0
0%
60/70/80/90
32 (x̄)
The Boar's attack projectile instinctively sharpens itself as time passes.
Attack Damage Bonus: ( 30)
This unit's attacks are less effective on Reinforced units.
- Recasting the ability does not
instant kill the previously
summoned Boar.
Toggling 
autocast off 
swaps-out this ability with Call of the Wild Hawk.
Both abilities have independent
cooldowns.
Both abilities have independent
Hidden modifier
Call of the Wild Hawk[edit]
Summons a hawk that orbits around Beastmaster.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.67
Number of Hawks: 1 (
2)
Orbital Radius: 280
Seconds per Revolution: 4
Hawk Duration: 25 ( 30)
The loyal and unassuming flying companion dies alongside upon Beastmaster's death.
Current Health to Damage: 100%
The Hawk dive towards the enemy unit, prioritizing heroes, dealing damage and rooting it.
The dive interval corresponds to the Hawk's current attack speed and base attack time.
The dive interval corresponds to the Hawk's current attack speed and base attack time.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Dive Radius: 500
Dive Rate Divisor: 1
Base Interval: 4
Damage: 60/90/120/150 ( 90/120/150/180)
Root Duration: 0.25/0.5/0.75/1
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Calls forth an additional Hawk within the orbit radius.
Increases the Hawks' duration.
Calls forth an additional Hawk within the orbit radius.
Increases the Hawks' duration.
45/40/35/30 ( 40/35/30/25)
50
This ability levels up with Call of the Wild Boar.
After befriending the strange beast of his childhood, Beastmaster has learned to call to animals in times of need.
200/325/450/625
-
The Hawk cannot be controlled.
Movement speed increasing sources do not affect Hawks. However, movement speed slow sources reduces the orbit radius, but do not affect the revolution time.
Movement speed increasing sources do not affect Hawks. However, movement speed slow sources reduces the orbit radius, but do not affect the revolution time.
-
0.25 Atks / s
5
30%/40%/50%/60%
600/650/700/750
This unit does not attack.
40/50/60/70
30/40/50/60 (x̄)
- Based on the first Hawk's position, additional Hawks may accelerate gradually to its designated position, so that all Hawks fly symemetrically apart of each other, within the same orbital radius.
- Hence, the
- Hawks do not block
neutral creep camps.
- Recasting the ability does not
- Dive Bomb has the following properties:
- Considers
clones,
illusions and the Spirit Bear as heroes, and
creep-heroes as creeps.
- The dive interval is defined as:
- EXPR
DmgInt = (100 × 4) / (ΣAS × 1) + 1 ServerTick - With the
attack speed limits, the min and max possible dive intervals are as follows:
- EXPR
MIN = 0.571 + 0.033 - EXPR
MAX = 20 + 0.033
- Dive Bomb checks for the Hawk's current
- Considers
Dive Bomb does not interact with Spell Block sources.
Dive Bomb does not interact with Spell Reflection sources.
Hidden modifier
Hawk: Invisible and uncontrollable.
Hidden modifier
Hidden modifier
Rooted.
- The Hawk orbits around Beastmaster correspondingly to its
- While Beastmaster is moving, the summoned Hawk may spiral and accelerate to keep their position symetrically apart, with each Hawk making 0.16 revolutions over the summon's total duration.
- Grants the Hawk the following
- EXPR
MS = , if 280 < Distance ⪅ 1500 - Directly moves the Hawk to Beastmaster's current coordinates if
Distance ⪅ 1501- Does not disjoint
- Does not disjoint
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The
root
- The
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
Inner Beast[edit]
D
B
Inner BeastPassive / Aura
Affects
Self
Untaps the inner fury of himself and grants Beastmaster's player-controlled units within the radius bonus attack speed.
Radius: 1200
Attack Speed Bonus: 15/30/45/60 (
25/40/55/70)
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Beastmaster's ability to incite the innate strength of animals was seen in the mauling of the king of Slom.
Wild Hunt
Additionally grants attack speed bonus per Beastmaster's player-controlled unit affected by Inner Beast within the radius.
Attack Speed Bonus per Unit: 3/4/5/6
Beast Mode
Adds an active component to Inner Beast. Awakens the inner beasts within to temporarily grant himself attack speed bonus.
Self Attack Speed Bonus: 16/24/32/40 ( 26/34/42/50)
Buff Duration: 6
Buff Duration: 6
20
35
Upon tapping into his inner fury, successful attacks now apply Wild Axes debuff of its corresponding level.
- Grants flat bonus
- Affects the following units:
- Beastmaster.
- Units under Beastmaster's control.
-
Beast Mode adds an active component to Inner Beast.
- Successful attacks now apply
- Has the following properties upon proc:
- Works independently of Wild Axes'
- Works independently of Wild Axes'
- Successful attacks now apply
Hidden modifier
Inner Beast: x increased attack speed
-
Drums of Slom[edit]
Drums of Slom
Grants an aura that causes successful attacks of Beastmaster and his player-controlled units to strike the drum. The drum strike damages and heals all of his units for a portion of damage dealt within the radius.
Every successful attack grants a stack that reduces the drum strike interval. If no attacks are made, the drum strikes gradually increases.
Every successful attack grants a stack that reduces the drum strike interval. If no attacks are made, the drum strikes gradually increases.
Effect Radius: 600
Max Stacks: 20
Stack per Attack: 1
Min Interval: 0.5
Max Interval: 3
Damage per Interval: 80
Damage to Heal Factor: 
0.2
Stack Decay Time: 1
Attacks from Beastmaster's units within the radius also strike the bongo.
Aura Radius: 1200
Stack per Attack: 1
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Grants a number of Drum of Slom stacks upon a Primal Roar cast.
Set Stack Count: 10/15/20
The Drums of Slom healing is less effective from creeps.
Creep Damage to Heal Factor: 0.05
This ability levels up with Primal Roar.
Nature's rage is timeless, and for those who know the secrets, it's easy to stir the echoes of ire that rejoiced in the downfall of Slom.
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- All ability effects are applied by an aura within the radius.
- Affects the following units:
- Does not affect the following units:
- Grants the following amount of stacks in the following conditions:
- 1 stack per successful attack applied by a valid unit.
- 1 stack from
instant attack sources that procs on-hit effects.
- 10/15/20 stacks upon Primal Roar cast, regardless if the ability effects are applied.
- The ability effects has the following priorities:
- When
= 0stack, checks for the current stack value in 0.1-second intervals. - When
≤ 1stack, the aura procs all ability effects immediately. - Upon the ability effects proc, the ability determines the next proc interval, subsequently the more the stacks, the shorter the interval.
- Gaining a stack refreshes the whole stack's duration.
- When
- The heal corresponds to the damage dealt (after reductions, except the
incoming damage amplifcation applied on
- Considers damage dealt
- The heal corresponds to the damage dealt (after reductions, except the
- Does not apply the ability effects on the following units:
Disables the 
buff stack gain.
However, existing stacks are not removed.
Does not prevent Primal Roar from granting stacks.
However, existing stacks are not removed.
Does not prevent Primal Roar from granting stacks.
Requires drafting Primal Roar to unlock this ability.
Drums of Slom: Dealing damage to nearby enemies and healing Beastmaster
Hidden Modifier
- Multiple overlapping Drums of Slom aura radius do not stack.
- Grants stacks to the first applied aura within the radius.
Primal Roar[edit]
Lets loose a deafening roar that stuns, and shoves open a path to the affected enemy unit.
All shoved units are damaged, while applying a dynamic movement speed slow and attack speed slow to these affected enemy units.
All shoved units are damaged, while applying a dynamic movement speed slow and attack speed slow to these affected enemy units.
Cast Animation: 0.5 + 0.63
Cast Range: 600
Area Width: 300
Push Distance: 450
Damage: 150/225/300
Move Speed Slow: 60%
Attack Speed Slow: 60
Slow Duration: 3/3.5/4
Push Duration: 1
Stun Duration: 3/3.5/4
Grants bonus movement speed to all of his player-controlled units within the radius.
Effect Radius: 900
Move Speed Bonus: 40%
Buff Duration: 3/3.5/4
Roshan is innately immune to all forced movement sources.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Grants a number of Drum of Slom stacks upon a Primal Roar cast.
Grants a number of Drum of Slom stacks upon a Primal Roar cast.
90/75/60 (
60/45/30)
100/125/150
This ability levels up with Drums of Slom.
The Beastmaster has learned to channel his primal instincts into an animalistic roar, causing devastation in the ranks of enemies.
- Applies a
disabling
knockback on affected secondary units on the Primal Roar path, with a fixed area-of-effect.
- The total ability area-of-effect is stadium-shaped.
- Knocks enemy units aside at 450-speed, up to 450-distance, over a 1-second duration.
- Status resistance sources neither affects the knockback distance nor the knockback duration. Hence, it affects the knockback speed.
- Applies a
- Trees within
- Trees within
- All ability effects affect
Couriers.
- The knockback distance increases by
1-knockback distanceper 2-distance between Beastmaster and theunit-targeted enemy (
OF). - Hence, both the knockback and
beastmaster_primal_roar_slowcan affect enemy units up to- When an enemy unit is perfectly aligned with Beastmaster and the primary affected enemy unit, it is not knocked aside.
- However, all ability effects still applies.
- The knockback distance increases by
- The ability effects are applied as follows on the
- The
- The
stun
- The
- The ability effects are applied as follows on the secondary enemy units:
- The
- Both the
- The
- The
- The ability effects are applied as follows on the
Primal Roar: Movement speed increased by x%.
Stunned
Hidden modifier
Primal Roar Slow: Movement speed reduced by x%, attack speed reduced by x.
- The dynamic values affects the following things:
- When the target is 600 range away, the
- When the target is 600 range away, the
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Beastmaster/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2025 - 15:30 EDT | Tier 1 | ESL One Raleigh 2025 | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Apr 10, 2025 - 15:30 EDT | Tier 1 | ESL One Raleigh 2025 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Apr 10, 2025 - 16:00 CEST | Tier 2 | FISSURE Special | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Apr 10, 2025 - 10:00 CEST | Tier 2 | FISSURE Special | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Apr 10, 2025 - 11:05 SGT | Tier 3 | EPL World SEA S4 | 1 : 0 |
The International[edit]
- Beastmaster has won the following final matches in The International of the following years:
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Reduced base attack damage from 28‒32 to 25‒29.
- Increased
agility gain from 1.6 to 1.9.
- Increased
intelligence gain from 1.2 to 1.9.
- U Increased base attack damage from 5‒7 to 28‒32.
- Hawk
- Reduced Dive Bomb damage from 60/90/120/150 to 50/80/110/140.
- Call of the Wild Hawk
- No longer reduces cooldown by 5.
- Now increases duration by 5.
- Call of the Wild Hawk
Talents:
- LVL 10 +8% Inner Beast magic resistance bonus ➜ -5s Call of the Wild Hawk / Call of the Wild Boar cooldown.
- Reduced Drums of Slom damage per interval from 85 to 80.
- LVL 10 +10% Inner Beast magic resistance bonus decreased to +8%.
Dota Plus Progress[edit]
Main Article: Hero Challenges
Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.
| Beastmaster's Relics | Voice Lines | |
|---|---|---|
Bronze |
||
Silver |
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Gold |
||
Platinum |
| |
Master |
| |
Grandmaster |
| |
Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Weapon | |
| Head | |
| Shoulder | |
| Boar | |
| Taunt | |
Trivia[edit]
- Beastmaster's item the "Shrieking Razorback" design seems to be based on the Shriekers from Tremors II: Aftershocks.[1]
- Beastmaster's rare lines ▶️ ▶️ "Basshunter, on the hunt." are a reference to Swedish singer Basshunter, who has a song about DotA.
- His rare line ▶️ "I'll be creeping while you are sleeping." is a reference to the lyrics of said song.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Beastmaster's hero concept is originally based on the Beastmaster, a neutral melee hero.
- In DotA, Beastmaster is named Rexxar. The name was changed in Dota 2 to avoid copyright issues with "Blizzard Entertainment", since the Rexxar is a character within the Warcraft universe.
- Call of the Wild Boar is based on the Beastmaster's Summon Quilbeast.
- The Boar's Poison is identical to the Dryads' Slow Poison.
- Call of the Wild Hawk is based on the Beastmaster's Summon Hawk.
- The original iteration of the Hawk was identical to the Hawk from Warcraft.
- The Hawk's old ability Permanent Invisibility is identical to the Warcraft 3 Hawk's Permanent Invisibility.
- The Hawk's old ability True Sight is identical to the Warcraft 3 Hawk's True Sight.
- Inner Beast's original iteration is identical to Tauren Chieftain's Endurance Aura.
- Beastmaster's hero concept is originally based on the Beastmaster, a neutral melee hero.
Gallery[edit]
Splash artwork
Concept art
Concept art
Old model
Beastmaster's ability icon progress [?]
Boar's Ability icon progress
Hawk's Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead