Strength

Primal Beast

Popularity: #105

Leaderboard: #105

Ban Rank: #89

KDA Rank: #39

Hero

Build

Matchup

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 47.6%

Pick Rate 3.1%

Attributes

692 +94.6/lvl

267 +20.4/lvl

26 +4.3/lvl

15 +1.0/lvl

16 +1.7/lvl

Stats

Damage:

62 - 64 + 4.3/level (200.7 - 202.7 at level 30)

Range:

150

Armor:

4.5 + 0.2/level (11.7 at level 30)

Movement:

305

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Romp n' Stomp

Win Rate: 47.6%

Pick Rate: 84.2%

Trample grants bonus movement speed to Primal Beast and his allies when activated.

Trample

Trample grants bonus movement speed to Primal Beast and his allies when activated.

SELF BONUS MOVE SPEED: =10%

ALLIED BONUS MOVE SPEED: =5%

AURA RADIUS: =1200

Ferocity

Win Rate: 47.5%

Pick Rate: 15.8%

Each Pulverize hit increases the AoE bonuses of Primal Beast's abilities and items.

Pulverize

Each hit increases increased the area of effect of all abilities and items by 20%. Buff lasts 10 seconds.

Abilities

Colossal

BREAKABLE: Yes

Primal Beast deals 40% more damage to buildings.

Onslaught

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

25 / 22 / 19 / 16

120

+80 Onslaught Damage

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

Trample

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%

30 / 27 / 24 / 21

100

+25% Magic Resistance During Trample
-5s Trample Cooldown
+20% Trample Attack Multiplier
Cannot be slowed or rooted 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.

Uproar

The Beast's temper passively provides bonus damage. Additionally, for every instance of 50 damage or more Primal Beast takes from enemy heroes, he accumulates stacks 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.

MAX STACKS: 5

SLOW DURATION: 3

ROAR RADIUS: 900

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

DAMAGE: 85

SPLIT DELAY: 1.25

BREAK DURATION: 2.5

Beast dispels himself when activating Uproar
+7 Uproar Armor Per Stack

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

Pulverize

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

40 / 36 / 32

100

200

+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

Begins the rush to the specified location.

0.3

999999

Rock Throw

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

1800

AGAIN WITH THE ROCKS!

Talents

+67% Pulverize Duration

+ 3.1 %

Cannot be slowed or rooted during Trample

+7 Uproar Armor Per Stack

+20% Trample Attack Multiplier

+ 3.4 %

Beast dispels himself when activating Uproar

-5s Trample Cooldown

+ 0.2 %

+25% Magic Resistance During Trample

+80 Onslaught Damage

+ 2.8 %

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

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

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 opponents lineup so you can stun the rest as well.

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

Pick up Aghanims Shard later in the game as it provides another disable among other things.

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 Beasts abilities but Uproar.

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

Lore

Though the deterioration of the Mistwood and its evolution from idyllic expanse to death-filled tanglewild was a slow, wizard-fueled process, most scholars agree the true beginning of the end was marked by the interdimensional arrival of the Primal Beast.

A creature hatched into an existence devoid of all feeling but hunger and pain, aeons of carnage shaped the Primal Beast into the apex predator on a planet filled with violent terrors. Desperately banished by would-be masters with failed hopes to control him, the Beast was cast into a new world — one where he could ascend from mere hungry predator into an invasive killing machine with nothing able to stand in his way.

For thousands of years, the Mistwood served as massive stomping ground for the Beast's destructive play — and even the feared durana beasts made for tasty snacks. Indeed, there could be no rivals for the Beast's territory, only minor annoyances. Until one such tiny annoyance employed vile trickery to trap the unstoppable Beast in the Gleipnir.

There he might have remained subdued for eternity, were it not for the unpredictable powers of the Continuum Device. Now, freed from both Gleipnir and Vault, far afield from the Mistwood, and much closer to inhabited lands, the Beast sets his snout towards new slaughters and the delights of savage destruction — and the paltry fires of civilization will do little to keep this ageless monster at bay.