This is just a beginning, a guide will be filled more and more when I'll have time A strategy, replays, images and makeup is still to be done

Stats

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• Average stat gain
• Pretty nice attack animation
• Superb armor

Skills

Charge of Darkness
What do you need to know about this skill:

• Global casting range allows you to help your allies to easily track juking heroes
• A nice way to quickly get back on your lane without wasting money on tp scrolls (you can target an enemy ranged creep if they are pushing)
• You can stop your 4 second speed-up anytime, but remember that bara won't build up speed while he's running and he will be magic immune only after 3.8 seconds of speeding up (that means a whole charge). Only stop a charge if you are in a fight and want to land a 100% stun.
• Don't forget that enemy heroes can see the buff icon when you are 2500 feet away.

Empowering Haste

• This is your bread and butter skill. It gives you extra 16% ms and 16% of your current ms (if you take a haste rune, f.e., you'll get ~83,5 bonus damage, which is a LOT.
• You want to max it out first, since the damage from it allows you to creep and gank very effectively.

Greater Bash

• At every level you get constant 17% bash chance, leveling up increases damage and stun duration
• Bonus damage is magial
• Recently after some changes you no longer lose focus after a successful bash.
• You can bash a BKB target, so you can break channelin spells or tp of BKB heroes.

Nether Strike

• And here it is, now more and more powerful Nether strike
• Damage type is magical
• Always performs a Greater Bash level 4 hit, so it doesn't depend on your current level of GB
• While fading out for 1 second, you are magic immune
• With Aghanims, upon landing you Greater Bash everyone in 250 AoE
• If you cast your ulti on teleporting target, and it teleports while you are fading out, you will bash the target anyways, so sometimes you'll end up dying near the enemy's fountain

Skill Build

1. Empowering Haste
2. Charge / Greater bash
3. Empowering Haste
4. Greater Bash / Charge
5. Empowering Haste
6. Nether Strike
7. Empowering Haste
8. Greater Bash
9. Greater Bash
10. Greater Bash
11. Charge
12. Charge
13. Charge
14. Stats+

Empowering Haste is to be maxed out first, as I've already mentioned above. I, personally, prefer to take only one level of charge to use it for speeding up on a target and giving sight of an enemy, then I max out my bash. If you like it, depending on the game situation, you may do the opposite - 1 level of Bash and maxed Charge. And, of course, you take your ulti whenever you can.

Items

Starting items:


That's my usual starting build. You can also buy a tango, go to your lane, and if you see that you won't be harrased much and your ally will support you nicely, buy straight away. If not, buy your shield and quelling blade.

Before the recent patch, I used to buy 3 branches, followed up by a stick. But now, since your ulti costs less mana and stick was nerfed a bit, I consider it a situational item based on your lane.

Follow up:


Fetch your boots if you haven't already, buy a bracer and head up for Urn.
Urn is a nice item for bara. You'll be ganking a lot, so you'll always have some charges on it, which will help you to finish off your enemies or to heal yourself after a gank.

My usual core is:


PT is my boots of choice. BoT are harder to get, PT will allow you to be more effective mid-game, while you are ganking, it gives you AS for your bashes and a fruity +10 Strength.

MoM is my usual orb, it gives you immense berserk ability, needed for your permabash, and lifesteal is always welcome.

Other items to consider:



That's the item you can choose in favour of MoM. It gives you great AS, more damage + damage to several units. I like it.



And that's my favourite. I sometimes get it before MoM or Mjolnir. It gives you nice survivabilty, makes your ulti spammable, since you don't need that much mana for it.



If you don't have a tank or you have tough time laning, you can consider getting Vanguard.



Great DPS booster, easy to get since copmonents do not cost a fortune. Buy it after MoM to increase your damaging potential.



Annoying nukers, disablers? Can't get to them because you're being stunned, turned into a sheep, nuked? Get BKB.



This item is always great when you are focused, and if you got Mjolnir and HoT, you'll tank the hell out of them

Luxury

It's highly unlikely that you'll get those, but:



Curiass improves your armor, AS, decreases enemy's armor, what more do you need?
HoT gives you a LOT of survivabilty, does greatly with either of your orbs and Blade Mail.
Buriza. Damage. Even more now - x2.5. Duh.

Also:


It was a rejected item for me, but now it can be nicely combined with aghanimed ulti and good allies. Imagine Enigma casting its ulti, while you pummel all your foes hard with BF, and then landing a Nether Strike on all of them. Mana regen allows you to easily spam 20 sec cd ulti. Still, it's completely situational and I consider buying other items than BF.