- His passive makes him a really fun hero to play
- He's good for players not-so-good, for losing HP is not bad
- Anti tank
- Has only one spell which consumes mana (170)
- Can have insane damage and attack speed
- He's awesome
- His ulti can be improved by Aghanim's Scepter

- Can be relatively easily killed if stunned
- No escape mechanism
- Only one 5 seconds slow disable
- Half his skills can by countered by Black King Bar

1- Burning Spear 1
2- Berserker's Blood 1
3- Burning Spear 2/Inner Vitality 1 (If you're having a bad time, and getting harrrased, but only ONE level)
4- Berserker's Blood 2
5- Burning Spear 3
6- Life Break 1
7- Berserker's Blood 3
8- Burning Spear 4
9- Berserker's Blood 4
10- Inner Vitality 1/Burning Spear 2
11- Life Break 2
12- Inner Vitality 2
13- Inner Vitality 3
14- Inner Vitality 4
15- Stats
16- Life Break 3
17 to 25- Stats



Justification: We start maxing out Berserker's Blood, but, first, we max out Burning Spear, why? Because BS loses a lot of effectiveness late game; I mean, early game it really helps, but, as the game moves on, it just doesn't to that much damage. And in second place, Berserker's Blood, yeah, it IS important, but we should have burning spear first, in order to harass, and kill effectively. It's important that you get BS at level 1, if later on you wanna get BB instead of BS it doesn't matter that much.
And, why IV so late? Well, for two main reasons, first, it regenerated life based upon the hero's main attribute (in Huskar's case, strength). Early game we just don't have that much str, thus, not healing as much as late game. And in second place, because it heals faster if you're below 40% of your HP, but, if you're below that level early game, it's way much more dangerous that if you're below that level late game, thus, not working so effectively.
Variations: You can get one level of Inner Vitality early game, only if you're being heavily harassed. Also, you can get a few levels of BB instead of BS around level 4-8.

Starting Items:



(534) or another (524).

This is a really good start, +5 to all stats, and great heal. It lets you stay in lane long enough. Recommended if you haven't played Huskar much.



x2 (One for each hand) (585) or (575)

This build is slightly more aggressive, it gives you +8 str/dmg, and +2 agi/int, and good heal. A good build if you've played Huskar a few times already, or for a 3 vs 3 game.




Basic Core Items:






This is the basic core build, it costs around 6000 gold, and you should have it complete by mid game.
The two bracers, same as the vanguard, give you HP (503 points to be precise), and the Armlet, more or less the core item of the core build, gives you pretty much everything you need mid game: attack speed, armor, damage and regeneration. Power Treads are for movement and attack speed, obviously, always keep them in strength mode.


Variations: Vanguard can be replaced with Hood Of Defiance, lets say Vanguard should be bought when there are more dps heroes, and physical attackers (say mortred, axe, slark), and HoD when there are more nukers and magical attackers (say pudge, tinker, krobelus).
Power treads can be replaced with Phase Boots, they both give you the same ms, but phase boots give you more damage... Although late game it's not really noticeable...

"What about boots of travel? Can I buy them?"

Yes, you can, but you shouldn't. What do I mean? I mean that, although the +95 ms and teletransportation are great, you need more the attack speed/damage.
If you really want BoT you can buy them lthe moment you reach level 25. Why? Simply because that 8+ strength and attack speed are ridiculous late game, they don't do any difference, and BoT save you a slot, since you don't have to buy TPs.




Final Build:



OR


Explanation: Ok, Power Treads can be replaced with BoT as I said above in the Variations of the basic core build, it will help you chase, although you already have Kelen's Dagger, a little extra ms and TPs are never bad. We keep the Vanguard, although if you reach really late game (above an hour) you should KILL IT WITH FIRE, it's just useless late game (at least for Huskar).
Armlet: although the passives are not that useful late game, the active is really really useful.
Heart Of Tarrasque: it's the most useful item at this point, the +40 strength is fucking awesome, and its passive: it works unbelievably well with IV! Yeah, it regenerates 2% of max health each second, plus 8+ HP/s, and, when you're below 40% of your life, you'll just throw up with all that regeneration.
And, last but not least, Assault Cuirass! Gives you an awesome amount of attack speed, PLUS TEN ARMOR, to work with all that HP you have, and minus armor for enemies.



Optional, Situational And Extension Items:





Aghanim's Scepter: (Extension, optional) It's a good item as an extension, although not as good to be a core item, since it only reduces an extremely short cooldown, it goes from 15 seconds to 8, and upgrades from 50% to 65% of the targets current hp, and +10 to all stats, but it costs 4200 gold, takes time to build, and takes a valuable slot in your inventory.





Black King Bar: (Optional, situational) It's a great item for Huskar, you wanna buy it when there are a lot of nukers/dealers, and, as a plus, it prevents you from taking your ulti damage.





Aegis Of Immortal: (Extension, optional) It's a great item, no need to explain more, only con is that it takes a valuable slot, which can be used for other tanking items.





Satanic: (Extension, optional) This item, well, it'd be an excellent item for SW, it'd be a good synergy with BB, since the more HP you lose, the more damage you'll deal, thus, you'll regenerate more life... Except for one thing: it does not stack with Burning Spear. So, why is it as an extension item? Well, late game, I mean, really late game, Burning Spear just becomes obsolate, it stops doing good damage, thus, you can replace it with an orb, and, if I had to chose an orb, I'd chose lifesteal. So, if you're planning to buy it, buy it from minute 70 and beyond.





Khadgar's Pipe Of Insight: (Extension, optional, situational) Now, if you wanna support your team, this is a great alternative of vanguard. Why? Because it increases your team's magic resistance, lesser self damage from your ulti, and greatly reduces Huskar's susceptibility to nukes. Plus, Pipe rush means early extra protection to your team, so you can ulti without fearing your might end up losing the battle, thus, getting easily killed, since you suffered from a great HP removal.




Rejected Items:


You do NOT want to buy any of this items:




You DO NOT NEED ANY MANA.




Although they both give you good attack speed, and Orchid gives you good damage, you're wasting slots and gold in intelligence YOU DO NOT NEED. AT ALL.




Sadly, I see this item a lot. Do not buy it. Why? BECAUSE IT DOES NOT STACK WITH YOUR ORB! That's it, lifesteal does not work with Burning Spear. The only reason you could buy it, would be to upgrade it to Satanic: read above, Optional, Situational And Extension Items.




Although it gives you great damage and good regeneration, you're just wasting time, gold and a slot in your inventory, since you do NOT need that mana regeneration, and Cleave does NOT work on ranged units!

Huskar is a semi-carry slash tank hero. It could be built to be exclusively a tank hero, or, in some situations, an exclusively carry hero. He has a really really good attack speed, specially for a Str hero.
Early game:
You should always take a dual, or triple lane, don't go solo, you just don't need the levels as much as other carry heroes.
Early game, you have potential for First Blood, thanks to your Burning Spear.
So, you start out harassing every now and then, say two or three spears per minute, so you establish some aggressiveness, if your opponents are not professionals (quite likely in a pub), they'll end up being underfarmed and underfarmed, they'll keep backing off every time you walk up to them, specially if they're Int or Agi. If they are really good players, they'll mange to farm a bit, so they'll have to stay around creeps, thus, giving you chance to kill. You only need a good 1 or 2 second disable, and after 5 or 6 hits, it's quite likely they're dead.
Are you in a equal lane, or in disadvantage? The best option is to CONSTANTLY STAY BEHIND YOUR CREEPS, only harass when they walk up to you. If they BOTH walking up to you go back immediately, it's a possible gank.
You should farm quite a lot, at least the first 15 minutes, it's about 70% farm 30% gank, depending on the others heroes of course, if there's a tinker or another ganker, don't roam, just stay farming.

Mid game:

By now, you should be a good tank, you should have your core items. Here, is where you start ganking seriously. By seriously I mean using items and skills, not just stunning an hitting the enemy to death.
How a gank goes: You should be hidden in the fog, in order to have the element of surprise!





So, you're in the fog, you come from behind towards your enemy, if you have BKB, activate it, cast your ulti, and start attacking him, while you activate your Armlet. If he starts escaping, and you have no disable left: orb walk, that is, press R, left click your enemy, walk a little bit towards him, repeat operation until he dies.
By now you should stop farming, about 20% farming 80% ganking, or just killing heroes. You might want to go killing Ancient Creeps, or maybe even Roshan.



Late game:

Here is where, if you had a nice game, the fun begins. Yeah, you might have gotten a few kills earlier; but now, with your final item build, is when you start rapping. It's quite likely there are few raxs left, and both teams are constantly going in and out of each others bases. This gives you a lot of mobility freedom, which means blinking space, so, basically, you just wanna repeat mid game strategy, with some little changes. First, you'll be roaming a lot more, just forget about farming, (after all, you got all your items), forget about neutrals (including Roshan and ancients), just roam around the map, NOT alone, at least with one partner, but still, go around taking down towers, tanking the damage, and try to stay below 80% of your HP, this makes it quite fun, and, believe me, it will be a challenge losing all those HP. After 20 or so times you've played him, you'll begin to master him, you'll get used to his attack animation, his limits, his ability to raep with 150 HP left, and so on.
Remember, the more you play him, the better you'll become.

- Don't waste too much time runewhoring, you don't really need runes, and you won't be buying bottle.
- You'll notice, early game, that his animation has one advantage. Say you're in a dual lane, and you wanna harass that Rhasta, so, you press R and left click on him, so Huskar approaches Rhasta; here, is where you benefit from his micro delay he has. While casting Burning Spear, it's quite difficult to actually cancel it, once it started casting (and without pressing S), so, you pressed R, he just stated casting it, and you can already right click behind your creeps, without the fear your BS will cancel, so, on the milisecond he finished the [COLOR="Orange"]BS[/COLOR, he'll go straight back! This is, implying you only wanna throw one BS. I find this quite awesome, since other animations are easily canceled with right click. Of course, this also can play against you, you just want to mater his timing, play him over and over again, so you wont screw up.