This is a Pub Jungle build. Get a point in Battle Hunger if you need to shut down blinks or if you find yourself chasing a lot.

***Check out the alternate start. With the main start you can see that I skiped a tango AND ring of protection. Axe can get away with this as he has a huge base regen so with only ROR you get 1/2 of what a normal hero would get when eating a tango. This greedy start however has a huge downside as you cannot finish your Tranqs by going to the sideshop and requires you to use the crow. However I just rush that ring of protection and make sure the mid doesn't need the crow for their bottle/items. You should be able to farm the ring of protection before the mid gets their bottle. Just be aware of the downside of this particular starting build.

Item build progression: Tranquil Boots > stick > blink > Point Booster > Aghs or Blademail > Vit Booster into Heart > Shivas or AC

The reason for the early Point Booster is because Axe belive it or not is pretty squishy with only a 2.5 Str Gain (Same as Wind Ranger!). Between the Point booster and the stick/wand you have very good 20 min team fight presence. Also the Aghs Point Booster into Ogre Club provides a very good early-mid game survivability buildup, and the Aghs buff when you cull someone gives your whole team a haste room (or a 7-second centaur ult). Not to mention allowing you to instagib supports.

Blademail is pretty close to core on Axe however he really needs at least one tanky item before getting it (aghs or heart) to make the most of it. By the time you want to build it you might want to get AC (make your whole team more tanky + neg armor for towers/fights) or shivas for the AOE/INT/Armor.

A very solid alternative to Early Aghs / Heart is Halbred or Mek. Both provide great survivability, and easy buildup. Mek is ideal if noone else is building one, however since Axe needs blink first, it will be a late mek. Halbred provides the same Str Gain as a Reaver (+25), a great active, plus evasion.

After blink and a Suvability item Axe is very versitile and many items can be very good situationally such as Medallion, Force, Vlads (+armor +dmg +mana regen, and lifesteal, good for heavy melee teams), Euls, Necrobook, Sheep, Mjolner (great synergy with lightning + call), and even Abysal for a 6th item and another bkb piercing stun.

***Matchups***

Axe is a very versitile hero and good in most pub lineups. He is about as good a lycan counter as you can get with the low CD bkb piercing disable and is especially good as he surrounds himself with summons (more call damage). He is vulnerable if your team loses all your lanes do to low STR gain, and if you can't farm your blink before the laning stage ends you are at a big disavantage.

The one hero that is particularly good versus Axe is Timbersaw, with his huge burst, and high armor. Bounty Hunter or a Mid Blood seeker can make your jungle a pain.