Primal Beast

Popularity: #119

Leaderboard: #111

Ban Rank: #110

KDA Rank: #73

Hero

Build

Matchup

Primal Beast stats, abilities and strategy

Stomps over everything and smashes enemies into messy bits

Rushing savagely through enemies and allies alike, Primal Beast pounds into battle as one born to raise a ruckus. An unavoidable threat amidst any fray, the Beast can punish attackers and relishes grabbing prey to repeatedly slam them against the ground until nothing but mush remains.

Win Rate 47.0%

Pick Rate 1.7%

Attributes

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692 +94.6/lvl

267 +20.4/lvl

Strength Image

26 +4.3/lvl

Agility Image

15 +1.0/lvl

Intelligence Image

16 +1.7/lvl

Stats

Attack

Damage:

62 - 64 + 4.3/level (200 - 202 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

150

Attack

Armor:

4.5 + 0.2/level (11.7 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

305

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

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Provoke the Beast

Win Rate: 43.8%

Pick Rate: 47.5%

Gain 3 Uproar stacks upon being disabled by an enemy hero.

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Ferocity

Win Rate: 50.0%

Pick Rate: 52.5%

Each Pulverize slam increase Primal Beast's AoE.

Abilities

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Colossal

ABILITY: Passive

PASSIVE: Breakable


Primal Beast deals 40% more damage to buildings.

Q

Onslaught

DAMAGE TYPE: Physical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF: Yes


Primal Beast charges up and then runs in the chosen direction, knocking back enemies and allies alike. Enemy units are damaged and stunned on impact. The longer the charge duration, the farther Primal Beast's momentum will carry him. Can be cancelled at any time with the Stop command.


RUN SPEED: 1200

MAX DISTANCE: 2000

DAMAGE: 75 / 170 / 265 / 360

TIME TO MAX CHARGE: 1.7

STUN DURATION: 0.8 / 1 / 1.2 / 1.4

Cooldown

25 / 22 / 19 / 16

Mana Cost

120


The Beast's single-minded focus on chosen prey leaves all other considerations scattered in his ruinous wake.

W

Trample

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Primal Beast stomps over everything. For every 140 units traveled, all enemies around the Beast receive damage. Deals base damage plus a multiplier of Primal Beast's attack damage. Primal Beast is disarmed for the duration of the ability.


DAMAGE AOE: 230

BASE DAMAGE: 15 / 30 / 45 / 60

DURATION: 5.5

ATTACK DAMAGE MULTIPLIER: 35%

Cooldown

30 / 27 / 24 / 21

Mana Cost

100


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: Cannot be slowed or rooted during Trample

LEVEL 20 TALENT: +20% Trample Attack Multiplier

LEVEL 15 TALENT: -5s Trample Cooldown

LEVEL 10 TALENT: +25% Magic Resistance During Trample


As the only member of his species to arrive on this world, locals can only speculate on the Beast's size relative to his kin. Such observation would prove easier of course if the subject didn't eat everything it sees and destroy most of what it doesn't.

E

Uproar

PASSIVE: No


The Beast's temper causes every instance of 50 hero damage or more to grant a stack of Uproar. When activated, Primal Beast releases a roar that slows surrounding enemies and grants the Beast additional attack damage and armor for 7 seconds based on his current stacks of Uproar.


Primal Beast cannot gain Uproar stacks from self damage.

Break disables the gaining of new stacks.


BONUS DAMAGE PER STACK: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40

MAX STACKS: 6

SLOW PER STACK: 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%

SLOW DURATION: 3

ROAR RADIUS: 900

ROAR ARMOR BONUS PER STACK: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5


FACET: Provoke the Beast

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Gain 3 Uproar stacks upon being stunned, hexed, taunted, feared, silenced, or rooted by an enemy hero.


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +7 Uproar Armor Per Stack

LEVEL 15 TALENT: Beast dispels himself when activating Uproar


Already draped in a broken patchwork of barding and chains upon appearing in the mistwoods, the Beast tolerates no further attempts at subjugation.

R

Pulverize

AFFECTS: Unit and area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes

PASSIVE: No


CHANNELED - Primal Beast channels his rage, grabbing the target enemy and slamming them into the ground repeatedly, damaging and mini-stunning any enemies caught in the AoE. Each consecutive hit deals bonus damage. Lasts 2.3 seconds.


AOE RADIUS: 600

HIT INTERVAL: 0.75

STUN DURATION: 0.2

HIT DAMAGE: 100 / 175 / 250

BONUS DAMAGE PER HIT: 20 / 40 / 60

Cooldown

40 / 36 / 32

Mana Cost

100

Cast Range

200


FACET: Ferocity

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Each Pulverize slam increase Primal Beast's AoE by 25% for 15s. The AoE bonus is granted at the beginning of each slam. The buff stacks and affects abilities and items.


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: +67% Pulverize Duration


Though none are certain whether his utterances have true meaning, most concede the Beast's powerful grip and tendency to smash his enemies into naught but pulp and pieces communicates his intent well enough.

Begin Onslaught

PASSIVE: No


Cooldown

0.3

Cast Range

999999

Rock Throw

Shard grants new ability

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Physical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Primal Beast throws a rock at the target location that stuns and damages enemies. The rock cannot be thrown within a minimum range of Primal Beast. After landing, the rock splits into 3 additional fragments that land behind the initial target location.

Rock Throw increases stacks of Uproar for each hero hit.


DAMAGE: 325

IMPACT RADIUS: 225

MIN RANGE: 550

MIN TRAVEL TIME: 0.65

MAX TRAVEL TIME: 1.75

STUN DURATION: 1.4

FRAGMENT FLIGHT DISTANCE: 525

FRAGMENT IMPACT RADIUS: 185

Cooldown

25

Mana Cost

85

Cast Range

1800


AGAIN WITH THE ROCKS!

Talents

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+67% Pulverize Duration

+ 3.9%

Cannot be slowed or rooted during Trample

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+7 Uproar Armor Per Stack

+20% Trample Attack Multiplier

+ 3.7%

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Beast dispels himself when activating Uproar

+ 1.2%

-5s Trample Cooldown

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+25% Magic Resistance During Trample

+20 Damage

+ 2.4%

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Your base damage and Uproar passive and active effects allow you to win the last hit battle against opponents in the laning stage.

Use Onslaught when opponents are somewhat stationary, for example when they are going for a last hit.

You want to use Uproar when Trampling over the opponents heroes for maximum damage.

Take your time and farm Blink Dagger so you can instantly Pulverize an opponent.

Try to Pulverize an enemy hero standing in the middle of the enemy lineup so you can stun the rest as well.

When not much is happening, push out side lanes with your AoE damage abilities.

Pick up Aghanim's Shard later in the game as it provides another disable from long range.

Use Trample right as you exit the Onslaught channel to use the charging movement for Trample damage.

Against a tough lane, you can Trample and kill the first wave behind the enemy tier 2 tower.

Counter Strategy

Avoid staying still against Primal Beast. Move around and be ready to dodge the Onslaught.

Stun, fear, hex and silence effects can stop Pulverize.

Spell immunity counters all of the Primal Beast's abilities other than Uproar.

You can always interrupt Pulverize before completion if you are in range with a stun or silence.

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