Hi people, this is my first guide after about 1 year of playing. I hope you can give me maybe better ideas how to play Barathrum in case this guide doesn't work against some specific heroes on 1v1.

Skill build:

Empowering Haste

Charge of Darkness

Empowering Haste

Charge of Darkness�

Empowering Haste

Netherstrike

Empowering Haste

Charge of Darkness

Charge of Darkness

Greater Bash

Netherstrike

Greater Bash till level 14, and ultimate as soon as you can.

Why this build? Empowering haste early is obivious, the sooner, the better. About early charge of darkness, well it depends. If you can go and hit enemies once or twice, you can put a skill point in greater bash at level 2, but if you're against nasty rangers, its better to put skill points into charge EVEN if at level 6 you don't have enough mana to cast both your actives.

Item build

Starting Items:

This is what you'll need basically to start on your lane. Some extra mana to perform your combo at level 6 and some HP in case you have a harder lane.

Core Items:

These items are what gives you the edge mid-game and even late-game. With the items you get 130 IAS (all of them activated) and 75 extra damage inclusive 25 str. This build is risky to use if you're against a disabling team, but it works wonders against most heroes who don't have many stuns or bash. NEVER get sange and yasha on Spiritbreaker, for 2 reasons: it costs as much as armlet and mask of madness, gives less damage, less HP, less attack speed and you don't need maim, since you already have greater bash. Sange and Yasha is not unviable on Spiritbreaker, but it sucks compared to Mask of Madness and Armlet combined.

Luxury Items:

Usually, if you played right you can already start building one of these items by level 13-15. Which one you choose is rather obvious: if the team has annoying disablers(Rhasta, Atropos...) you might think of getting Black King bar. If you don't need anything special, get a Heart of Tarrasque because you can let armlet active and both grant about 1,5k hp and it helps compensate for Mask of Madness. Assault Cuirass is if you really fight high DPS like N'aix or something like Mortred or if you wanna play even more permabash. Finally, Buriza can be gotten if you really need the extra damage, although bashing them should be enough. The new Monkey King Bar is really viable on Spiritbreaker now, it ignores evasion, so go bash all those agility heroes who rely on Butterfly to survive.

Common Sense:

Don't charge into enemy if he's close to base and running inside (unless you have heart or something). Don't charge into enemy if he's grouped with a disabler, you might just wait for your respawn. If your team is ganking, ALWAYS initiate with charge. It gives your team the possibility to catch up with the fleeing hero (care if you charge into more than 1 enemy). Don't Buy sange and Yasha.