Primal Beast · Offlane (pos. 3)
Primal Beast Aggressive Guide
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Overview
This guide is about playing Primal Beast aggressively. Aggressive offlane means pressuring the enemy carry from minute one and diving their tower once you out-level them. Your spikes are level 6, when Pulverize comes online, and your core items: Blink Dagger and then Black King Bar. This patch, Primal Beast wins 49.3% of the 100,972 public matches we measured (B tier on our ladder).
Strengths
- Reliable stun: Onslaught sets up kills and interrupts enemy channels.
- Valve tags Primal Beast as Durable: it stays in fights longer than most heroes.
- Clear job in the team: survive a hard lane, bother the enemy carry and start the fights.
Weaknesses
- No escape in the kit: without good positioning and vision, Primal Beast is easy to catch.
- Melee: has to walk up to its target, which makes the lane harder against ranged heroes.
- Every death while playing aggressively hands the tempo back to the enemy.
Build cheat sheet
Pick the build that fits what you want to do this game.
- Damage buildOffensiveRecommendedMoves the popular items that add damage — Meteor Hammer and Bloodstone — to the front. Choose it when your lane went well and you can afford to be greedy. Built from what Primal Beast players buy in the public matches we measured.
- Against magic damageDefensiveSituationalFor games where the enemy kills with spells: keep your first two core items and add magic resistance or spell immunity.
Builds
Damage build
When to use it
Moves the popular items that add damage — Meteor Hammer and Bloodstone — to the front. Choose it when your lane went well and you can afford to be greedy. Built from what Primal Beast players buy in the public matches we measured.
Where it's played
Picked before the game: the main lane first, then the alternatives.
235%164%- OfflaneMain64% of matchesOff lane as the space-making core (pos. 3).
- MidPriority 235% of matchesMid lane, one against one (pos. 2).
Starting items
Core items
- 1Meteor Hammer+6 Strength, +6 Agility, +24 Intelligence. Active: Meteor Hammer.
- 2Bloodstone+625 Health, +450 Mana, +15 Intelligence. Active: Bloodpact.
- 3Blink DaggerActive: Blink.
- 4Black King Bar+10 Strength, +24 Damage. Active: Avatar.
Boots
Late game
Skill order
Max order:Trample›Onslaught›Uproar
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Talents by level
- Colossal 2x Bonuses During Trample+67% Pulverize Duration25
- +20% Trample Attack MultiplierBasic Self-Dispel on Uproar Cast20
- -5s Trample Cooldown+6 Uproar Armor Per Stack15
- +25 Damage+30 Damage10
Against magic damage
When to use it
For games where the enemy kills with spells: keep your first two core items and add magic resistance or spell immunity.
Where it's played
Picked before the game: the main lane first, then the alternatives.
235%164%- OfflaneMain64% of matchesOff lane as the space-making core (pos. 3).
- MidPriority 235% of matchesMid lane, one against one (pos. 2).
Core items
- 1Blink Dagger
- 2Black King Bar
Situational
Skill order
Max order:Trample›Onslaught›Uproar
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Talents by level
- Colossal 2x Bonuses During Trample+67% Pulverize Duration25
- +20% Trample Attack MultiplierBasic Self-Dispel on Uproar Cast20
- -5s Trample Cooldown+6 Uproar Armor Per Stack15
- +25 Damage+30 Damage10
Abilities
- Onslaught25 / 22 / 19 / 16s120 mpPrimal 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
- 0.7·1·1.3·1.6
- Trample30 / 27 / 24 / 21s100 mpPrimal 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
- 200
- Base damage
- 15·30·45·60
- Duration
- 5.5
- Attack damage multiplier
- 35%
- UproarThe 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.
- 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
Rock Throw20s85 mpPrimal 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
Begin Onslaught0.3sBegins the rush to the specified location.- Pulverize45 / 40 / 35s100 mpCHANNELED - 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
- 575
- Hit interval
- 0.75
- Stun duration
- 0.2
- Hit damage
- 100·175·250
- Bonus damage per hit
- 20·40·60
ColossalPassive
Most played skill order
The most played order in the last 63 professional matches with this hero. Highlighted levels are the points spent on talents.
Max order:Trample›Onslaught›Uproar
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Strategy
1When to fight
Your spikes are level 6, when Pulverize comes online, and your core items: Blink Dagger and then Black King Bar. Aggressive offlane means pressuring the enemy carry from minute one and diving their tower once you out-level them.
2Picking your targets
You go in first: land Onslaught on as many heroes as you can and soak the spells your carry fears. The best target is the one your team can reach and kill before the enemy answers, not always the most valuable one.
3Snowballing a lead
After a won fight, take towers and Roshan before anything else: that's what turns kills into a lead the enemy can't erase. Early, aim to reach level six without dying and to make the enemy carry miss last hits.
4When to back off
Safe offlane means soaking experience from a distance, pulling the wave's attention and never dying for a last hit. If your key abilities are on cooldown or the enemy is missing from the map, the aggressive play is to wait.
Tips
- Fight on your spikes: right after Blink Dagger, look for the next fight instead of farming.
- Look for kills when Pulverize is ready and the enemy's key ability is not.
- Use Onslaught to start the fight, then commit your damage.
- Track the enemy's key cooldowns and attack right after they use them.
- Turn every kill into towers and Roshan: a kill without an objective is a wasted lead.
- Push your lane before you roam so the aggression doesn't cost you resources.
Matchups
Strong against
- Nature's Prophet58.8%win rate in the matchup
Primal Beast wins 58.8% of the 102 games measured against Nature's Prophet this patch.
102 matches
- Puck57.0%win rate in the matchup
Primal Beast wins 57.0% of the 121 games measured against Puck this patch.
121 matches
- Dragon Knight56.6%win rate in the matchup
Primal Beast wins 56.6% of the 113 games measured against Dragon Knight this patch.
113 matches
- Pangolier55.6%win rate in the matchup
Primal Beast wins 55.6% of the 160 games measured against Pangolier this patch.
160 matches
- Warlock54.9%win rate in the matchup
Primal Beast wins 54.9% of the 133 games measured against Warlock this patch.
133 matches
Changelog
- Guide created for patch 7.41.
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