Barathrum; Mohawk Power

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Luciela's Barathrum Introduction: Barathrum is a fantastic hero, especially now in 6.72. Most of his other guides are outdated by now, which is why I decided to write my own. Barathrum is, by my opinion, a hugely powerful ganker who can dole out more DPS than a good many Agility heroes by mid-game. His skills enable him to gank quickly and efficiently both solo and with allies.

His ganking power is what I like to call pseudo-global, maintaining vision of his singled-out prey before stunning them and effectively killing them ~~AT 66 MPH OMG TIME TRAVEL YOU'RE BASICALLY USING A FACELESS VOID IN COW FORM LOLOLOL~~ before their allies can even register that their ally is in danger.

Late game, he can build into a tank that can deal out a fair bit of damage on his own, although he still doesn't have that 'DPS carry' potential. Don't be mistaken, however, as Barathrum is as good a early-latemidgame carry as they come.

Is Barathrum the right hero for you?

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Every cow has his strengths and weaknesses
[+] God-Tier Ganker
[+] Hardy, like a french loaf
[+] Very capable DPSer
[+] Stunstunstunstun QQ
[+] Able to pick off fragile, yet dangerous foes in teamfights
[+] Great in ALL stages of the game, particularly midgame; also newb-friendly
[+] Manly, as all bulls need to be
[-] Single-target hero
[-] Loses out to lategame carries, should they be fed enough
[-] Vulnerable to various counter-tactics (what hero isn't, though?)
[-] Low attack speed
[-] No true escape mechanism other than speed
[-] Mana issues when early game ganking
[-] Unable to aid in pushes effectively, other than absorbing tower hits

The Art of the Cow

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	Charge of Darkness	Barathrum fixes his sight on an enemy and starts charging through all objects. Any unit that comes into contact during the charge triggers a greater bash proc. Upon leaving the shadows, Barathrum shocks his opponent into an immobile state for some time. Enemy can only see buff indicator when you are near them. Charge is interrupted if disabled.
	Ability Type:	Active
	Allowed Targets:	Enemy Units
	Targeting Type:	Unit

	Mana	Cooldown	Casting Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	75	40s	Global	N/A	1.4s	Charge at 425 ms then stuns
2	75	40s	Global	N/A	1.8s	Charge at 500 ms then stuns
3	75	40s	Global	N/A	2.2s	Charge at 575 ms then stuns
4	75	40s	Global	N/A	2.6s	Charge at 650 ms then stuns

Notes

Target will become aware of the charge (a buff is visible in the status bar) when Barathrum is within 2500 distance.

Barathrum will run through units and trees.

Allies of Barathrum (and himself) will see an animation over the head of the target.

Any unit you pass through (250 AoE) will proc a Greater Bash of your current level (nothing will happen if you didn't skill it)

The charge stops if you click anywhere, or if you are disabled.

Barathrum gains shared vision of the target for the duration.

If the target dies, the charge is transferred to the nearest valid target.

	Empowering Haste	Causes the Spiritbreaker to swing his weapon faster with higher movement speed, allowing him to deal extra damage. His presence increases the movement speed of nearby allied units.
	Ability Type:	Passive

|Ability Type:|Passive
|Targeting type:|N/A

	Mana	Cooldown	Casting Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	N/A	N/A	N/A	900	N/A	Increases movement speed by 6% and damage by 4% of his movement speed.
4	N/A	N/A	N/A	900	N/A	Increases movement speed by 8% and damage by 8% of his movement speed.
4	N/A	N/A	N/A	900	N/A	Increases movement speed by 10% and damage by 12% of his movement speed.
4	N/A	N/A	N/A	900	N/A	Increases movement speed by 12% and damage by 16% of his movement speed.

Notes

The bonus damage is added to Barathrum's ordinary attack damage.

	Greater Bash	Gives a 17% chance to bash enemies across the ground, doing more initial damage and damage as they skid. You gain 15% movement speed bonus for 3 seconds when this triggers.
	Ability Type:	Passive
	Allowed Targets:	Enemy Units
	Targeting Type:	N/A

	Mana	Cooldown	Casting Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	N/A	1.5s	N/A	N/A	0.95s	Deals 25 damage
2	N/A	1.5s	N/A	N/A	1.15s	Deals 50 damage
3	N/A	1.5s	N/A	N/A	1.35s	Deals 75 damage
4	N/A	1.5s	N/A	N/A	1.55s	Deals 100 damage

Notes

Damage type: magical

Greater Bash is triggered everytime Spiritbreaker initiates an attack, so it is not necessary to land the attack in order for Greater Bash to work.

	Nether Strike	Moves you next to your target doing extra damage. Performs a greater bash hit. Casting range improves per level.
	Ability Type:	Active
	Allowed Targets:	Enemy Units
	Targeting Type:	Unit

	Mana	Cooldown	Casting Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	125	75 (20*)	400 (550*)	N/A	N/A	Moves Barathrum next to the target, deals 100 damage.
1	150	75 (20*)	550 (700*)	N/A	N/A	Moves Barathrum next to the target, deals 200 damage.
3	175	75 (20*)	700 (850*)	N/A	N/A	Moves Barathrum next to the target, deals 300 damage.

Notes

Damage type: magical

Barathrum will move to the other side of the target seen from the point he cast it.

Always performs a Greater Bash level 4 upon casting.

Teleportation and damage is delayed 1 second while Barathrum is fading out, Barathrum is magic immune for this time period.

Can be improved by Aghanim's Scepter (* shows the improved values).

With Aghanim's Scepter, performs a Greater Bash level 4 on all units in a 250 AoE of Spiritbreaker upon arrival.

Skill Builds

Early Ganker
1. Charge of Darkness/Empowering Haste
2. Empowering Haste/Charge of Darkness
3. Greater Bash
4. Charge of Darkness
5. Charge of Darkness
6. Nether Strike
7. Charge of Darkness
8. Empowering Haste
9. Empowering Haste
10. Empowering Haste
11. Nether Strike
12. Greater Bash
13. Greater Bash
14. Greater Bash
15. Stats
16. Nether Strike
17-25. Stats

The idea of this build is to rack up kills and assists early game through use of the new-and-improved Charge of Darkness. With a little mana-support, your bull will be ~~having enjoying buttsecks with~~ involved in many early-game ganks, in-lane and out.

Charge of Darkness is given maximum priority as the instant, fast-moving, terrain-passing, long-stunning OMFGIMBA Charge enables you pick off running foes as well as initiate ganks, especially if you cast it from base. Note that Charge of Darkness can save you teleport scrolls as charging enemy units gives you a quick return back to your lane. Not only will this save you 135 Gold, but you might have 1 less enemy Hero to deal with in lane as you can initiate a gank which might likely kill them should they be careless.
Remember, of course, that Charge of Darkness does NOT make you magic immune. Although this reduces your Rambo capability, you are still The Boss when you charge. Don't let no shitdick Lion tell you otherwise.

Empowering Haste is given the next priority. You have two choices after early game; you farm or you gank. While I recommend ganking and leaving creeps to your Hard Carry, Empowering Haste helps tremendously with either role. The huge bonus damage helps with killing foes, hero or creep alike, while Speed Aura gives you the edge in both chase and escape. Don't forget, when you level this thing, your balls grow several sizes bigger. Big balls are good.

Greater Bash is your quintessential perma-b-b-b-bash skill, which compliments your others skills as well, which is why 1 level early on is good. 1 single level turns your Charge of Darkness into GTFO OF MY WAY I AM JOHN RAMBO Charge, pushing back all those lesser beings in the path of your prey out of the way. It also gives you a speed (and thus damage, thanks to Empowering Haste) boost when it triggers. They call it Greater Bash for a reason. Faceless Void can suck my tits. His isn't even a bash anyway.

Nether Strike is your ultimate. You learn it whenever you can. It's a bloody blink strike. It causes the target's movespeed to temporarily become -50%, making him moonwalk backwards. It deals a blow strong enough to injure Sea Behemoths, Dragons and Robots. Learn this. No further discussion necessary.

Further justification on this skill build, constant early ganking with a healthy mix of farming allows you to shut down enemy carries, gain a good amount of gold and become a Boss all at once. Avoid pure ganking and risky ganks early game as you will lose out on crucial EXP and gold gain as such methods often waste time.

Remember once again that ganking will make you fat and boss and shit. Your enemies will be all like QQQQQQ and you'll be like

U MADDDDD!?!?!!?

Armed Bovine Warrior - Battle Armor Advice

Starting Items

IT'S A BUFFET LOLOL

OMFG I BAI ALL OF DEM AHAAHAHAHA

AHAHA, NO. YOU DON'T, MORON.

Askin' me? What to get? I ain't spooooonfeedin' you. Get with the times, stop sitting on your daddy's lap all day long while we go around gankin'.
Tch.
Fine boy, I'll spoonfeed you, because we of the Rambohoof faction are merciful.

There are actually an infinite number of possible starting builds, but here are three to start you off with if you're new to DotA. You should be able to mix and max the extensions, luxuries and situationals later on based on the information I'll provide you. All builds are considering you PICKED this cow. Go buy the lottery if you randomed this monstrosity (or get some extra branches or Salves)

Barathrum Rambohoof

This is the stat whore build. It gives you large amounts of STR and some extra others on the side early game. Manly +8STR is manly. Tango and Salve supplement your farming, as do your high HP and bonus damage. Nothing stops this monster. Later, Gauntlets are turned into Urn of Shadows and Branches can be turned into Magic Wand and ~~Mekansm~~

Total Cost: 596 Gold

Naow iz teim 4 srs bzns

This puppy gives you everything Barathrum needs, nothing is wasted in the 850 Gold you spend on this. At a glance, it doesn't seem like much. 250 Gold to fuse two Gauntlets of Strength and a Sobi Mask together? Noob says: HAHAHA NUBZ U WASTE U MONEY TROLOLOLOL WRONG. GankPot, as I christened this behemoth's weapon, accumulates charges whenever an enemy hero dies in 1400AoE. These charges can be used as a 400HP heal over 8 seconds for an ally, or a 25DPS for 8 seconds on an enemy unit. There is no limit to number of charges. Since pot gains 2 charges when it has 0 to begin with, you can gank and heal and DPS and gank and heal and DPS FOREVER. PERMA-GANKING. THERE IS NO END TO THIS MADNESS.

DAMN RIGHT THERE ISN'T. As if to prolong the madness further, you buy a can mask imported from Sparta so you can steal life with every strike of your lantern. YOURS IS A LANTERN THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!!!!! King Leonidas wore this when he was in Mexico learning Wrestling. WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO BE ~~GERARD BUTLER~~ KING LEONIDAS!?!?!!? IT DOESN'T STOP THERE. ACTIVATE THE MADNESS AND GAIN +100 ATTACK SPEED AND +20% MOVESPEED. That's bonus damage AND superfast attacking, which means even more lifesteal and DPS and dead enemy heroes.
This is the only Orb Barathrum should be getting. It was made for him.

Boots Debate

Speed = Damage. Please, upgrade boots.

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3 eyetemz onli u nub u dno hw 2 rrite guide!!!1!!!1!1oneone

PATIENCE FAGGOT. Barathrum only needs these to tap his potential. To further increase his effectiveness, there are various other items you can purchase. Some are more expensive 'cores' known as extensions, others are situational items that you can buy to act against certain opposing strategies or heroes, others are simply for when you are ridiculously rich and everyone is running away for fear of being bestialised by your humongous penis.

Let's Defend those Ancients
Here's how you play, I'll lay it all out for you.

General Strategy
Early Game
Early game is a time when Carries struggle and Nukers run rampant; Barathrum thrives in this environment. Thanks to your decent bulk and high damage, you last hit easily in the laning phase and can hold your own even against ranged Heroes, possibly harassing them back in response to their projectiles.
Ganking is very possible even now, so long as you have allies with disables and heavy-damage skills. However, you are still the target of ganks, given your high mid-game threat level. Pay attention to the minimap above all while focusing mostly on last hits with the occasional gank.

Primary Objectives:
Farm
Harass enemy carry if possible
Gank whenever possible
Survive

Mid-Game
You shine here as a feared Ganker and DPSer

Barathrum the Spiritbreaker
Author: Luciela
Map Vers.: 6.72b

Breakin' dem Spirits

Gank the world, then Tank it.

Date Posted: 05/07/11
Last Comment:23/09/2011
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