Strength · Melee
Stomps over everything and smashes enemies into messy bits
Win rate
49.0%
C across all ranks
Pick rate
4.0%
of public matches
Public picks
133.8K
in the sample
Pro scene
6
0 bans · 17% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 2.5K · Guardian 9.1K · Crusader 18.4K · Archon 28.7K · Legend 34.2K · Ancient 22K · Divine+ 19K.
Last 6 days
49.6%
Bought before the horn
Iron Branch
Gauntlets of Strength
Tango
The first minutes
Chainmail
Boots of Speed
Phase Boots
Soul Ring
Bottle
Bracer
Core items
Blink Dagger
Black King Bar
Aghanim's Shard
Point Booster
The full build
Shiva's Guard
Black King Bar
Soul Booster
Heart of Tarrasque
Linken's Sphere
Aghanim's Blessing
Most-bought items for Primal Beast in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,613 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Primal Beast bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Primal Beast’s average). Teams that are ahead buy items sooner, so a high number shows the item goes with winning games, not that it causes the win. Items with fewer than 100 games show no percentage. Cheap components are hidden from the mid and late game.
Blink Dagger
134 games
Phase Boots
705 games
Black King Bar
109 games
Aghanim's Shard
150 games
Mithril Hammer
242 games
Aghanim's Scepter
207 games
Blink Dagger
62 games
Aghanim's Shard
216 games
Final items compared within the same purchase window (at least 60 games each), so they are not simply ranked by how late or expensive they are. Still a correlation: a team that is far ahead can buy anything sooner.
55
Use: Plant Tree: Targets the ground to plant a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds.
140
90
Use: Devour: Consumes a target tree to gain 7 health regeneration for 16 seconds. Consuming an Ironwood Tree doubles the heal duration. Comes with 3 charges.
500
500
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
1,450
Active: Phase: Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds.
Win rate when bought48.5% · 724 games
8s
Active: Phase. Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
805
Active: Sacrifice: Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds.
30s
Active: Sacrifice. Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds. If the mana gained cannot fit in your mana pool, it creates a buffer of mana that will be used before your mana pool.
675
Active: Regenerate: Consumes a charge to restore 110 health and 60 mana over 2.7 seconds. If the hero is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost.
0.5s
Active: Regenerate. Consumes a charge to restore 110 health and 60 mana over 2.7 seconds. If the hero is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost. The Bottle automatically refills at the fountain. Hold Control to use on an allied hero.
Passive: Store Rune. Runes can be stored in the Bottle for later use by right-clicking them. Unused runes will automatically activate after 90 seconds. Using a stored rune fully refills the Bottle.
505
2,250
Active: Blink: Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds after taking damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
Win rate when bought51.2% · 560 games
15s
Active: Blink. Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds after taking damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
Win rate when bought52.7% · 528 games
95s50
Active: Avatar. Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage. For the duration of the effect, any negative effect from enemy spells has no effect. Duration: 9 / 8 / 7s Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
1,400
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades an existing ability or adds a new ability to your hero.
Win rate when bought54.5% · 385 games
1,200
4,500
Active: Arctic Blast: Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
27s75
Active: Arctic Blast. Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
Passive: Freezing Aura. Reduces the attack speed of all enemies by -40. Radius: 1200
3,000
5,300
Passive: Behemoth's Blood: Your health regeneration is increased by 1.5% of your missing health.
Passive: Behemoth's Blood. Your health regeneration is increased by 1.5% of your missing health.
4,800
Passive: Spellblock: Blocks most targeted spells once every 14 seconds.
14s
Passive: Spellblock. Blocks most targeted spells once every 14 seconds.
Active: Transfer Spellblock. Temporarily removes Spellblock from the item's owner and transfers it to an allied unit for 14 seconds.
5,800
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades the ultimate, and some abilities, of all heroes.
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.
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.
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.
Aghanim’s ScepterWhen Primal Beast activates Uproar, he releases 3 waves of 2 projectiles per stack of uproar each in a circle around him. Projectiles deal damage and Break enemies hit. After a short delay, each projectile splinters in two.
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.
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.
Primal Beast has 10% base Slow Resistance and gains 0.5% bonus Area of Effect and 1% Slow Resistance for every 100 Max Health.
Colossal 2x Bonuses During Trample
25+67% Pulverize Duration
+20% Trample Attack Multiplier
20Basic Self-Dispel on Uproar Cast
-5s Trample Cooldown
15+6 Uproar Armor Per Stack
+25 Damage
10+25% Magic Resistance During Trample
Strength26+4.3/lvl
Agility15+1/lvl
Intelligence16+1.7/lvlThough 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.
Win rates come from public Dota 2 matches (OpenDota), 3.4M matches counted, refreshed Oct 24, 2026. Tiers use the win rate in the chosen rank: S 52.5%+, A 51%+, B 49%+, C 47.5%+, D below; heroes with too few games are left unrated. Hero data and patch notes are Valve’s. Builds Forge is an unofficial fan site, not affiliated with Valve.