Broodmother

Popularity: #118

Leaderboard: #22

Ban Rank: #15

KDA Rank: #17

Hero

Build

Matchup

Broodmother stats, abilities and strategy

Hunts with her army of spiderlings

Gliding along her webs, Broodmother births an army of spiders to lead her team's forces toward the enemy base. As prey wanders near, she joins her children and attacks, slowing foes with incapacitating bites as she indulges her insatiable hunger.

Win Rate 51.5%

Pick Rate 1.8%

Attributes

Broodmother image

516 +63.8/lvl

291 +24.0/lvl

Strength Image

18 +2.9/lvl

Agility Image

18 +3.4/lvl

Intelligence Image

18 +2.0/lvl

Stats

Attack

Damage:

45 - 51 + 3.4/level (157 - 163 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

175

Attack

Armor:

2.0 + 0.6/level (20.8 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

285

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

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Necrotic Webs

Win Rate [E]: 49.7%

Pick Rate: 39.6%

Reduces health restoration of enemies on webs.


Patch 7.39b

  • Spin Web: Health Regeneration Reduction now also affects Health Restoration at the same values
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Feeding Frenzy

Win Rate [E]: 52.7%

Pick Rate: 60.4%

Insatiable Hunger also applies to nearby Spiderlings.

Abilities

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Spider's Milk

ABILITY: Passive

PASSIVE: Breakable


Whenever Broodmother kills a unit, she and all units under her control in a 600 radius receive a buff that heals them for a percentage of the victims health every 0.5 seconds. Healing from creeps is reduced by 40%.


HERO HEALTH AS HEAL: 2%

RADIUS: 600

BUFF DURATION: 3


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LEVEL 10 TALENT: +1.5% Spider's Milk Hero Health as heal


Patch 7.39 [E]

  • Buff is no longer dispellable
Q

Insatiable Hunger

DAMAGE TYPE: Physical

PASSIVE: No


A violent lust for vital fluids increases Broodmother's attack damage and gives her a vampiric attack.


BASE ATTACK DAMAGE BONUS: 40% / 50% / 60% / 70%

LIFESTEAL: 40% / 60% / 80% / 100%

DURATION: 8 / 10 / 12 / 14

SPIDERLING RADIUS: 0

Cooldown

45 / 40 / 35 / 30

Mana Cost

80


FACET: Feeding Frenzy

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Insatiable Hunger also applies to nearby Spiderlings.


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: -0.25s BAT during Insatiable Hunger


While most of her prey is wrapped in silken cocoons and saved for her young, the Broodmother herself has a taste for wandering heroes.

W

Spin Web

AFFECTS: Area

PASSIVE: No


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.


Also affects Spiderlings.


MAX SIMULTANEOUS WEBS: 3 / 5 / 7 / 9

MOVESPEED BONUS: 10% / 22% / 34% / 46%

BONUS TURN RATE: 0.2

ENEMY REGEN REDUCTION: %

Mana Cost

40

Cast Range

1200


FACET: Necrotic Webs

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Reduces health restoration of enemies on webs that are in the same web network as Broodmother.


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: -6s Spin Web Charge Restore Time


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

ABILITY: Passive

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: Breakable

DISPELLABLE: Yes


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.


The miss chance stacks with evasion and terrain dodge chance.


MISS CHANCE: 30% / 40% / 50% / 60%

MOVE SLOW: 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%

DURATION: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2

ATTACK BONUS: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: +30% Incapacitating Bite Slow/Miss Chance

LEVEL 15 TALENT: +12 Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus


Paralytic toxins come from Black Arachnia's fangs, causing a slow and painful death to those who intrude on her webs.

R

Spawn Spiderlings

AFFECTS: Unit

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF: Yes


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.


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.


LIFETIME: 40

DAMAGE: 220 / 320 / 420

COUNT: 4 / 5 / 6

SPIDERLINGS HP: 300

SLOW: 25% / 35% / 45%

Cooldown

9 / 8 / 7

Mana Cost

100

Cast Range

900


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LEVEL 15 TALENT: +125 Spiderlings Health

LEVEL 10 TALENT: +80 Spawn Spiderlings Damage


Black Arachnia continues to raise her young, even amidst the field of combat. The brood quickly learns how to support their mother.

Spinner's Snare

Scepter grants new ability

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF: Yes


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

Mana Cost

100

Cast Range

600


The slightest tremor of her web is all Arachnia needs to find her prey.

Talents

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+30% Incapacitating Bite Slow/Miss Chance

-0.25s BAT during Insatiable Hunger

+ 2.5 %

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+35 Attack Speed

+ 2.1 %

-6s Spin Web Charge Restore Time

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+125 Spiderlings Health

+12 Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus

+ 3.3 %

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+1.5% Spider's Milk Hero Health as heal

+ 0.8 %

+80 Spawn Spiderlings Damage

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Patch 7.39

  • Level 10 Talent Spider's Milk Hero Health as heal increased from +0.5% to +1.5%
  • Level 15 Talent -5s Spin Web Charge Restore Time replaced with +12 Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus
  • Level 20 Talent +12 Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus replaced with -6s Spin Web Charge Restore Time

Strategy

Broodmother is weak until level 6. Focus on last hitting and sustaining health until you have Spawn Spiderlings.

Make sure not to feed spiderlings away as that greatly affects your farming speed and kill threat.

Once you have built up an army of spiderlings, try to play on the opponents side of the map as much as you can.

Place Observer Ward and Sentry Ward in the enemy jungle so you feel comfortable playing there.

If you are feeling endangered, let your spiderlings farm while staying hidden on hero.

Broodmother can take Roshan down fairly early. Move spiderlings out when Roshan is about to clap.

Use spiderlings to destroy runes from another midlaner.

Consider using your spiderlings as scouts around the map.

Counter Strategy

Consider putting a hero that can deal with Spiderlings against her on the lane.

Block off her camps with sentries as she gets closer to level 6.

If you are looking to gank Broodmother you need at least 3 heroes otherwise pressure other two lanes.

Crimson Guard and armor items are good against Broodmother.

Healing and regeneration reducing items are good against Insatiable Hunger.

Evasion piercing items are good against Broodmothers Incapacitating Bite.

Broodmother is good at taking an early Roshan. Ward around Roshpit and check.

Its a solid strategy to gank Broodmother early before she gets level 6 when she's the weakest. Slow her game down.

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