Broodmother
For centuries, Black Arachnia the Broodmother lurked in the dark lava tubes beneath the smoldering caldera of Mount Pyrotheos, raising millions of spiderlings in safety before sending them to find prey in the wide world above. In a later age, the Vizier of Greed, Ptholopthales, erected his lodestone ziggurat on the slopes of the dead volcano, knowing that any looters who sought his magnetic wealth must survive the spider-haunted passages. <br><br>After millennia of maternal peace, Black Arachnia found herself beset by a steady trickle of furfeet and cutpurses, bold knights and noble youths--all of them delicious, certainly, and yet tending to create a less than nurturing environment for her innocent offspring. Tiring of the intrusions, she paid a visit to Ptholopthales; and when he proved unwilling to discuss a compromise, she wrapped the Vizier in silk and set him aside to be the centerpiece of a special birthday feast. <br><br>Unfortunately, the absence of the Magnetic Ziggurat's master merely emboldened a new generation of intruders. When one of her newborns was trodden underfoot by a clumsy adventurer, she reached the end of her silken rope. Broodmother headed for the surface, declaring her intent to rid the world of each and every possible invader, down to the last Hero if necessary, until she could ensure her nursery might once more be a safe and wholesome environment for her precious spiderspawn.
Base STR
18 +2.9
Base AGI
18 +3.4
Base INT
18 +2
Move Speed
285
Attack Range
175
Base Armor
-1
Attack DMG
27–33
Projectile
900
Innate Abilities
Spider's Milk
Whenever Broodmother kills a unit, she and all units under her control in a 600 radius receive a buff for 3s that heals them for a percentage of the victim's health every 0.5 seconds. Healing from creeps is reduced by 40%.
HERO HEALTH AS HEAL:
1.9%
Abilities
Insatiable Hunger
Cooldown
45 / 40 / 35 / 30s
Mana
80
A violent lust for vital fluids increases Broodmother's attack damage and gives her and her Spiderlings a vampiric attack.
BASE ATTACK DAMAGE BONUS:
40 / 50 / 60 / 70%
LIFESTEAL:
40 / 60 / 80 / 100%
DURATION:
8 / 10 / 12 / 14
SPIDERLING RADIUS:
800
While most of her prey is wrapped in silken cocoons and saved for her young, the Broodmother herself has a taste for wandering heroes.
Spin Web
Mana
40
Spins a large web that grants Broodmother a passive movement speed increase and increases her Turn Rate, while in its vicinity, as well as giving free movement.
Spin Web can be cast from anywhere as long as the new web touches an existing web. Webs never expire, and can be manually destroyed. When the maximum limit of webs is exceeded, the oldest web disappears.
MAX SIMULTANEOUS WEBS:
3 / 5 / 7 / 9
MOVESPEED BONUS:
10 / 20 / 30 / 40%
BONUS TURN RATE:
0.2
ENEMY RESTORATION REDUCTION:
0%
- Also affects Spiderlings.
Weaving a bed of silken fibers, Arachnia's web both protects her and her offspring, as well as giving advancing opponents a sense of foreboding.
Incapacitating Bite
Broodmother's venom cripples enemy units, causing her attacks to slow and giving the affected unit a chance to miss its attacks and extra damage from attacks.
MISS CHANCE:
30 / 40 / 50 / 60%
MOVE SLOW:
-15 / -20 / -25 / -30%
DURATION:
2
ATTACK BONUS:
3 / 6 / 9 / 12
- The miss chance stacks with evasion and terrain dodge chance.
Paralytic toxins come from Black Arachnia's fangs, causing a slow and painful death to those who intrude on her webs.
Spawn Spiderlings
Cooldown
9 / 8 / 7s
Mana
100
Broodmother injects her young into an enemy unit, dealing damage and slowing them for 4 seconds. The spiderlings will hatch if the target is killed while under this influence.
LIFETIME:
40
DAMAGE:
220 / 320 / 420
COUNT:
4 / 5 / 6
SPIDERLINGS HP:
300
SLOW:
25 / 35 / 45%
- If the target is killed within 20 seconds of being hit with this skill, the Spiderlings will spawn.
- Units killed by Spiderlings will then give birth to additional Spiderlings.
Black Arachnia continues to raise her young, even amidst the field of combat. The brood quickly learns how to support their mother.
Talents
Aghanim's Scepter
Spinner's Snare
Mana
100
Broodmother may create up to 5 invisible web lines touching any existing web. Enemy Heroes that cross the web line will spring the trap, becoming rooted, revealed in fog, and take damage over time. Multiple Heroes can trip on the same line until it's destroyed after being initially triggered. Broodmother's team is alerted via the minimap when an enemy has triggered the snare.
FORMATION DELAY:
2
ROOT DURATION:
3
DAMAGE PER SECOND:
100
WEB LINE WIDTH:
900
The slightest tremor of her web is all Arachnia needs to find her prey.
Aghanim's Shard
Insatiable Hunger
While Hunger is active, the bonus damage is increased by 0% every 0s.
Hero Performance
Median across all public matches · OpenDotaForm
50%
Win rate in recent matches
Performance
100%
KDA ratio (kills + assists / deaths)
Laning
55%
Last hits per minute over full game
Farm
71%
Average gold per minute
Fighting
36%
Average kills + assists per match
Experience
87%
Average XP per minute
Strategy
When to Pick Broodmother?
Pick Broodmother when the enemy team has no real answer to split pushing and zero AOE to deal with her spiders—because that's where this hero becomes an absolute nightmare to play against. She is underrated right now, and I genuinely don't understand why people are ignoring her. In the right conditions, Broodmother doesn't just win a lane — she devours it completely and then takes the whole map hostage.
She is disgusted against single-target lineups that can't clear spiderlings fast enough, because while they are busy trying to kill one spider, three towers are already gone. She pairs beautifully with heroes that can create pressure elsewhere on the map—Enigma, Nature's Prophet, Lycan—anything that forces the enemy to split their attention so they can never fully commit to hunting her down.
Avoid picking her into heavy AOE lineups—Dragon Knight, Jakiro, Earthshaker, or any hero that can just sneeze and wipe her entire spider army in one second. Also feels absolutely terrible into Chen or Beastmaster, because those heroes can match her split push and out-pressure her at her own game. And if the enemy has a lot of mobility and can rotate fast? Forget it — they will just collapse on her before the spiders do anything meaningful.
Tips & common mistakes
- People pick Broodmother and then play her like a normal carry in the middle of teamfights. She is NOT a teamfighter. She is a map pressure machine—split push, take objectives, and force rotations. That's the whole point.
- Spawn Spiderlings is not just a damage spell—those spiders are your farming tool, your pushing tool, and your fighting tool all in one. If you are not using them to last hit and accelerate your farm, you are playing her at half capacity.
- Insatiable Hunger is your all-in button. Don't pop it randomly — save it for when you are committing to a kill or when you are about to get jumped and need the lifesteal to survive.
- Stop webbing in obvious places. Smart enemies will track your web locations and set up ambushes. Place webs in unexpected spots and always have an escape web ready before you commit to anything aggressive.
- You NEED to win the lane. Broodmother is not a hero that comes back from a bad laning phase—if you get bullied out early and fall behind on farm, your whole game plan falls apart completely.
- Don't group with your team and expect to teamfight—you will just feed. While your team fights, YOU should be taking a different lane or an objective. That's how you win with this hero.
- Watch out for dust and Sentry Wards. If the enemy is spending every gold piece on detection, respect it and adjust—don't just walk into their vision and die like you didn't know it was there.
Summary
Broodmother is a hero that wins games in a completely different way than most carries—she doesn't outfight you; she outpressures you until your base is gone and your team is too busy chasing spiders to do anything meaningful. She is underrated right now because people don't respect the split push threat, and that's exactly why you should be picking her.
Master the web placement, keep the spiders alive, and make the enemy team's life a constant misery of rotating and losing objectives. Just don't make the mistake of thinking you're Phantom Assassin and walking into a 1v5—because without your spiders and your webs, you are just a small spider lady with no real plan.
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