Broodmother counter and synergy picks
Pick Broodmother with Axe to increase win-rate from 52.1% to 57.8% or against Chen to increase win-rate to 60.9% in Patch 7.39b.
Good with...
...based on stats [7.39b]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▼ |
|---|---|
5.7% | |
5.4% | |
5.1% | |
5.0% | |
4.7% | |
4.4% | |
3.8% | |
3.7% | |
3.7% | |
3.1% | |
2.9% | |
2.7% | |
2.6% | |
2.3% | |
2.1% |
...based on gameplay [7.39b]
Inner Beast improves the damage output of Broodmother's swarm as well as Primal Roar singles out a target for Broodmother to attack.
Shadow Wave deals very high damage to nearby enemies when used on a cluster of Spiderlings.
Broodmother applies constant pressure with her spiderlings and early tower pushes, forcing enemies to rotate and defend. Dawnbreaker can capitalize on this pressure with Solar Guardian, joining fights instantly anywhere Broodmother dives under towers.
Their global presence and sustained damage make them a strong duo in split-push and skirmish-focused lineups.
Mars provides teamfight control with Arena of Blood and Spear of Mars, locking enemies in place for Broodmother to swarm with spiderlings. Broodmother’s early lane pressure and tower push force enemies into bad positions, which Mars can capitalize on with strong initiations. Their synergy allows for strong map control—Brood dominates one side while Mars can anchor teamfights or defend key objectives.
Broodmother provides constant lane pressure and vision with webs, allowing Spirit Breaker to charge safely and confidently across the map. Her spiderlings can force enemies to show themselves, giving Spirit Breaker clear targets for ganks and pickoffs. While Brood dominates one area with split push, Spirit Breaker creates chaos elsewhere with global presence, overwhelming opponents.
Broodmother creates early pressure and forces enemy rotations, giving Rubick opportunities to steal impactful spells in chaotic fights. Rubick’s crowd control with Telekinesis helps Broodmother secure kills or escape when diving under towers. Brood’s spiderlings provide vision and distraction, allowing Rubick to position safely and cast spells freely.
...core items [7.39b]
A core 
Boots of Speed upgrade that increases your damage output through stats and attack speed.
A core item that helps with mana sustain to spam Spawn Spiderlings for fighting and farming while growing your army of spiders. Also makes you tanky with armor and HP pool.
A core item that gives you mobility and damage through stats. Also gives you a dispel and the ability to split push lanes with illusions.
A core item to add even more control and burst damage against elusive enemy heroes. Works well against high armor heroes by doing magic damage through right clicks in the silence duration.
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use Insatiable Hunger and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
A core item that increases your damage output and lifesteal during Insatiable Hunger.
An upgrade for 
Echo Sabre that gives you gap closure on enemy heroes while boosting your right click damage through stats.
Good against...
...based on stats [7.39b]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▼ |
|---|---|
8.8% | |
7.7% | |
6.1% | |
6.1% | |
5.6% | |
5.4% | |
5.1% | |
5.0% | |
4.9% | |
4.8% | |
4.5% | |
4.4% | |
4.2% | |
3.9% | |
3.8% |
...based on gameplay [7.39b]
Bounty Hunter's single-targeted arsenal of abilities make him an easy target for Broodmother and her Spiderlings.
Bane's single-targeted arsenal of abilities make him an easy target for Broodmother and her Spiderlings.
Broodmother can use her spider lings to tank Arc Warden’s Spark of Wrath, allowing her to safely close the gap. Arc Warden’s slow movement speed and lack of reliable escape or stun make it difficult for him to kite Broodmother effectively. This enables Broodmother to get on top of Arc Warden quickly and burst him down before he can respond. Broodmother can also control key farming areas limiting arc wardens farm early game.
Broodmother can use her spiderlings and webs to maintain map control and vision, limiting Night Stalker’s gank opportunities. With Insatiable Hunger, Broodmother gains lifesteal and attack speed, allowing her to man-fight Night Stalker effectively in close combat. Her high mobility from webs helps her escape or reposition even during Night Stalker’s night vision advantage.
Broodmother spider lings can overwhelm Lone Druid and his bear, making it difficult for him to control the fight. Her high mobility with webs allows her to dodge Lone Druid’s disables and reposition quickly. Spiderlings tank damage and absorb attacks, reducing Lone Druid’s effectiveness in sustained fights. Broodmother can man fight lone druid and his bear with Insatiable Hunger
Broodmother’s spiderlings constantly pressure the lane, forcing Ember Spirit to either waste his Searing Chains on them or retreat to avoid damage. Her ability to control the creep equilibrium with webs denies Ember the safe space he needs to farm and use his Sleight of Fist effectively. By applying constant harassment, Broodmother can force Ember to play defensively, limiting his ability to trade or secure last hits.
Broodmother’s spiderlings and webs create constant harassment that makes it difficult for Void Spirit to find safe farming spots. Her superior lane control limits Void Spirit’s ability to use Resonant Pulse and Aether Remnant effectively, forcing him to be cautious.
With webs providing vision and mobility, Broodmother can avoid Void Spirit’s burst combos and maintain lane dominance, pushing him out early.
Broodmother can use her spiderlings to create distance and tank Ursa’s attacks, making it harder for him to quickly burst her down. Her webs give her superior mobility and escape options, allowing her to kite Ursa and avoid his Overpower and Enrage damage bursts.
By controlling the lane with constant spiderling pressure, Broodmother forces Ursa to play cautiously and miss out on aggressive trades.
Broodmother’s spiderlings can absorb some of Outworld Devourer’s Arcane Orb damage, reducing the threat to her main hero. Her webs provide map control and vision, helping her avoid Outworld Devourer’s Astral Imprisonment and punish his positioning mistakes.
While Outworld Devourer’s Sanity’s Eclipse can threaten Broodmother, her mobility and swarm allow her to disengage or pressure him before he reaches full strength.
Broodmother can easily bully Invoker out of lane using constant spiderling pressure and harassment. Her ability to control the lane denies Invoker safe farm and experience, slowing down his key item and skill timings. By taking early towers quickly, Broodmother restricts Invoker’s map control and limits his ability to scale into the mid and late game.
Bad against...
...based on stats [7.39b]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▲ |
|---|---|
-7.3% | |
-6.5% | |
-6.3% | |
-6.2% | |
-5.6% | |
-4.4% | |
-4.3% | |
-4.1% | |
-4.1% | |
-3.9% | |
-3.8% | |
-3.3% | |
-3.3% | |
-3.0% | |
-2.9% |
...based on gameplay [7.39b]
Greevil's Greed makes Broodmother’s spiderlings far more valuable to Alchemist making it important that he does farm them as opposed to other heroes where the spider's bounties are negligible.
Acid Spray will be potentially avoidable but it is still hard trying to kill him knowing he can use it.
Alchemist naturally will be buying Radiance which will further be a problem for your spiderlings.
Berserker's Call forces Broodmother and her spiderlings to attack, allowing for large amounts of pure damage to be done through Counter Helix.
Aftershock in combination with Enchant Totem prevents Broodmother from continuing to attack Earthshaker without being repeatedly stunned.
Echo Slam is greatly amplified by Spiderlings, often instantly killing Broodmother, her swarm, and anyone else unfortunate enough to be nearby.
Naga Siren can easily clear Broodmother’s spiderlings using her illusions and Riptide, denying Brood map control and gold. She can use Song of the Siren to reset or set up fights, giving her team time to focus Broodmother or reposition. Her illusions also make it difficult for Brood to isolate the real Naga, especially in the mid to late game.
Dark Seer can use Ion Shell on one of Broodmother’s spiderlings to quickly clear out the rest, making it difficult for Brood to maintain her swarm. In chaotic teamfights, it's especially hard for Broodmother to micro her spiderlings away from Ion Shell damage. Vacuum helps control Broodmother’s movement and can group her with her spiders, amplifying AoE damage from allies.
Phantom Lancer naturally counters Broodmother by overwhelming her with illusions, making it hard for her to focus the real PL. His illusions easily clean up spiderlings with Spirit Lance and basic attacks, denying Broodmother farm and map control.
In extended fights, Broodmother struggles to isolate PL due to his constant repositioning and illusion spam.
Troll Warlord can easily deal with Broodmother’s spiderlings using Whirling Axes (Melee) and his fast attack speed, clearing them quickly for extra gold and experience.
In direct fights, Battle Trance allows Troll to survive Brood’s burst and turn the fight around with sustained damage. His strong laning presence and ability to take early objectives also limit Broodmother’s space to farm and push. Overall, Troll’s durability, AoE clearing, and 1v1 potential make him a strong counter to Broodmother.
Lina can clear Broodmother’s spiderlings with ease using Dragon Slave and Light Strike Array, especially during the laning phase. Her long-range nukes keep Brood at bay, preventing her from snowballing or taking over the map. As the game progresses, Laguna Blade gives Lina the burst needed to finish off Broodmother before she can escape or heal.
Queen of Pain excels against Broodmother with her high mobility and burst magic damage. She can easily clear spiderlings using Scream of Pain, denying Broodmother farm and slowing her momentum. With Blink, QoP avoids Brood’s slows and terrain control, making it hard for Broodmother to lock her down. Sonic Wave allows QoP to burst Brood quickly in fights, especially before she builds tanky items.
Broodmother has no stuns, making her vulnerable to Crystal Maiden’s disables like Frostbite, which can root her prevent escape. Crystal Maiden’s Crystal Nova slows Broodmother’s movement and attack speed, reducing her effectiveness in fights.
Her Freezing Field ultimate deals heavy area damage, damaging both Broodmother and her spiderlings, which helps control Brood’s swarm during teamfights.
...counter items [7.39b]
Gives you movement speed to kite or chase down Broodmother. Also counters the movement slow from Incapacitating Bite and Spawn Spiderlings to not get run down by right clicks.
Gives you movement speed to kite or chase down Broodmother. Also counters the movement slow from Incapacitating Bite and Spawn Spiderlings to not get run down by right clicks.
Gives you tankiness to take less damage from right clicks from Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings to trade HP more effectively.
Gives you HP sustain to stay in the lane and trade against Broodmother by matching her HP sustain through Insatiable Hunger.
Gives you HP sustain and tankiness to take less damage from right clicks from Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings.
Lets you block jungle camps from spawning to slow down Broodmothers farm speed and not let her build a massive Spiderlings army.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal from Insatiable Hunger with Soul Release charges.
Gives your team and buildings a barrier to take less damage from right clicks from Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings to nullify their kill and push potential.
Lets you kite Broodmother by putting some distance between her and yourself with Hurricane Thrust and hit her from range. Also helps you follow her through Spin Webs.
Lets you kite Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings by protecting yourself or an ally against their right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings by protecting yourself against their right clicks in Ethereal form.
Gives you a repositioning tool to follow Broodmother through Spin Webs. Also helps kite her and her army of Spiderlings by pushing yourself or an ally away from them.
Gives you an instant disable against Broodmother to burst her down in its duration before she can scurry away under her Webs.
Lets you survive and never get bursted by the massive damage from Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings.
Gives you more accuracy on right clicks to ignore the miss chance from Incapacitating Bite.
Gives you an instant lockdown against Broodmother and burst her down with a possible chain stun before she can scurry away under her Webs.
Gives you more damage and true stike on right clicks to ignore the miss chance from Incapacitating Bite.
Helps lower the lifesteal from Insatiable Hunger.
Gives you armor and evasion to defend yourself against right clicks from Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings with the tankiness and miss chance.
Gives you a dispel against Incapacitating Bite as well as Spawn Spiderlings and provides massive lifesteal to stand your ground and beat Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings in a right click battle.
Bad with...
...based on stats [7.39b]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▲ |
|---|---|
-9.0% | |
-6.8% | |
-6.6% | |
-6.1% | |
-5.8% | |
-5.1% | |
-5.0% | |
-4.9% | |
-4.4% | |
-4.4% | |
-4.2% | |
-4.1% | |
-3.9% | |
-3.8% | |
-3.8% |
