Year Beast Brawl Event Guide
However, as exciting the event seems to be, most of players (including me) is still confused with the mechanics of the event. That’s why we’re gonna give you a simple guide that will help you win the Year Beast Brawl event.
Important Facts!
1. When the Year Beast Brawl will happen?
Every day you will notice a countdown of the Year Beast Brawl in the matchmaking tab. This will let you prepare and gather your friends for the brawl. From my experience, the brawl happens around every 4 hours.
And luckily, there’s a great site that will let you know the next Year Beast Brawl without login into Dota 2:
http://2015.yearbeast.com/
2. When the Year Beast will appear in the game?
The Beast will appear every 5 minutes in the game. This means your team should gather and support your beast at 5 minutes mark (5, 10, 15, etc).
3. How to get Year Beast ability points?
a. You can buy the points from Steam or from buying Crystal Maiden’s Arcana
b. Everytime you participates the Brawl, your ability pool will increase by 100
c. You will also get daily bonus which has different amount during each brawl
d. Each time you win a match with a friendly Crystal Maiden Arcana, you get 25 points
4. How to use Year Beast ability points?
Basically, there are two ways too spend your ability points:
a. Command Abilities, that will be execute instantly (Teleport, Double Damage, Thundergod’s Wrath, etc)
b. Upgradable Abilities, that will have permanent effect during the game
Year Beast Command Abilities List
Command | Ability Points | Cooldown | Description |
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Teleport | 50 | 60 |
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Attack Target | 50 | 10 |
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Double Damage | 50 | 10 |
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Heal | 50 | 50 |
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Thunderwrath | 750 | 240 |
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Global Silence | 750 | 300 |
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Hand Of God | 750 | 240 |
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Global Chakra | 750 | 120 |
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Year Beast Upgradeable Abilities List
Path | Level 1 (Free) | Level 2 (5000 Points) | Level 3 (10000 Points) | Stacking Bonus |
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How to Win the Year Beast Brawl
Drafting
The Year Beast Brawl match usually will end under 20 minutes, so make sure you don’t pick farm dependent heroes.
Recommended Heroes
Undying. Heal, nuke and the very powerful early team fight Tombstone. Cast the tombstone during the brawl and watch your zombies causing havoc!
Bristleback. During the brawl, spam your Quilspray and expect rampaging the enemy heroes.
Phoenix. Spirits and Nova are really good in the team battle. Not to mention % damage from the Laser.
Winter Wyvern. Nuke slow with 7 seconds cooldown along with ultimate that will makes you battle your own Year Beast! The % healing also really good with the beast.
Lina. Huge damage dealer with the help of Global Chakra
Zeus. Huge damage dealer with the help of Global Chakra
Troll Warlord. Whirling Axes affects the Year Beast, Battle Trance destroys tower and also can help killing the beast
Razor. Easy +224 damage with Static Link
Viper. Really hurt on early game, high damage and the ultimate can bring down beast quickly
Wraith King. Max the aura and see your beast health almost full all the time
Ancient Apparition. The ultimate will prevent the beast to be healed allow you to kill him easily
Also worth to mention:
Juggernaut: Healing ward (% max HP heal)
Witch Doctor: Healing and team damage
Omniknight: Repel and Heal
Axe: Distract enemies team and force them to focus on you
Abadon: Heal and Stun removal
Magnus: Empower gives Cleave to the Beast
Ogre Magi: Bloodlust
Dark Seer: Surge and Ion shell
Dazzle: Wave and Weave
Oracle: Just cast your ultimate to the Year Beast!
Warlock: Upheaval, Heal and Golem helps early teamfight and push
Crystal Maiden: Her ultimate really hurt when enemies are focused on the Beast
Ursa: Fury Swipes
Necrophos: Heals, Reaper’s Scythe and Heart Stopper
Tinker: March of the Machine and Laser
Sniper: Headshot to slow the Beast
Slardar: Armor reduce to make the Beast squishy
In Game Strategy
1. Focus on the enemy heroes. Even though YB is really strong, it has many limitations and can be kited easily. Focusing on the Year Beast in a team fight will usually get you wiped, then having your own YB picked apart. If you want to protect your YB, KILL THEIR TEAM.
2. Losing your Year Beast is not the end. Just focus on wiping the enemies heroes and then focus on the Year Beast. The Year Beast is have significant cooldown between each skill.
3. Short cooldown skills is prefered. To heavily dependent on the long cooldown ultimate usually won’t let you cast it on time.
4. Win your lane! If you win your lane, you could have better level and skills during the first clash.
5. Group with your Year Beast immediately. It is recommended that during 4:45 mark everyone getting ready to group with their Year Beast.
6. Always defend Tier 3 Tower. If you’re falling behind during tower trade, it’s better to teleport back and stage your defense.
7. Keep playing normal between the 5 minutes mark. Some players just idle waiting the next appearance while the enemies are busy farming.
8. Choose your upgrade path wisely. 2 combat – 1 speed – 2 support seems to be the ideal upgrade.
9. Lastly, this is just a fun game that doesn’t affect MMR. Keep smiling and having your fun!
not tradeable skins :C