Dota 2 Broodmother hero guide
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Broodmother is quite the hero in Dota 2, everyone seems to know her, not just for her laning games, But she is also a Spider Queen, who commands and hunts her enemies with the help of her spiderlings throughout the areas of the map with the help of webs. With all those Stealth, Mobility and pressures coming from the Spawn of Spiders, Brood’s Split-Pushing Strategy helps her to gang up on lonely opponents and win the game.
Features of Broodmother
Lane – Spin Web and Spawn Spiderlings are abilities that Broodmother uses which help her to easily dominate a lane and never let the enemies get a grasp of it.
Broodmother Web – This allows her to maneuver freely around, which gives her increased speed and invisibility working in her favor and making her far too hard for enemies to catch.
Spawn Spiderlings – Broodmother spawns an army of spiderlings to distract the enemies while she towers, jungles and camps.
Insatiable Hunger: The ultimate allows Broodmother to heal and gain burst damage which helps her fight enemy idols and helps her win in long fights too.
Facets for Broodmother
While determining facets for Broodmother, it is very crucial to keep in mind her strengths in controlling area and her split-push potential. Facet systems in Dota2 allow heroes to shift their strategies flexibly and that in turn gives players more options to interact with the game. In this article, I will focus on the facets which fit the character of Broodmother perfectly and help you play her in a more effective way struggling enemies in lane and team battles.
Key Facets for Broodmother:
Necrotic Webs Broodmother’s webs are imbued with necromancer’s magic as it slows down health regeneration to foes who stand in its range. This facet definitely makes Broodmother more terrorizing in web-controlled domains while webbed foes’ sustain is worn out during engagements. It’s indeed useful during burst fights as well as when trying to deny key game objectives such as Roshan’s area.
Feeding Frenzy The lifesteal has been taken one step further as Broodmother’s lifesteal spiderlings now buff lifestealing through her ultimate ability Insatiable Hunger. This makes pushing out lanes and fights much easier by providing assistance from various minions so Broodmother’s spider worshipping strategy allows for split pushes and tower sieges.
Facets | Winrate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necrotic Webs | 46.93% | ||
| Feeding Frenzy | 52.33% | ||
Broodmother Skills
Ability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insatiable Hunger | |||
A violent lust for vital fluids increases Broodmother's attack damage and gives her a vampiric attack. | ||||
| Spin Web | |||
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. | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Spawn Spiderlings | |||
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. | ||||
Skill Build for Broodmother
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Max Spin Web: This ability max Spin Web later in the game makes it hard for en enemies to outmaneuver you. Maxing out this ability first will allow you to cut out a significant section of the map for your enemies while maintaining a high chance for you to escape.
Max Spawn Spiderlings: This skill should be taken up second because it assists you in developing your spiderling army and moves the fight to the enemy side. The spiderlings also assist all of you to farm and take towers faster.
Max Insatiable Hunger: Obtaining one point to Insatiable Hunger should be complemented by the HydraMason focus on the web network that allows them to have enough burst damage and life sustain for engaging with enemy heroes.
Max Capacitating Bite can be done last as it will only help you, it will allow you to fight without moving but it is not necessary at the start.
Talent Prioritization for Broodmother
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Level 10: +20 Attack Speed. The added attack speed would allow better damage bursts for Broodmother and her spiderlings most especially during the first stages of the game.
Level 15: +8 Spiderling Damage. This may be taken later on when the spiderlings are causing the most pushing damage due to their added strength from the ability.
Level 20: +35% Insatiable Hunger Lifesteal. This will guarantee a good source of health, & damage, while also ensuring that they will be able to survive in team fights.
Level 25: +400 Health to Spiderlings. This will make infesting towers with spiderlings towards the end of the game much easier as there bestow health bonuses.
Item Build for Broodmother
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Broodmother is often mentioned as one of the most difficult heroes to deal with in the game. She can pressure all lanes simultaneously and is also quite strong in team fights. To do all of this Broodmother would need to be well equipped with the right items of her choosing. Some strong items to consider would be Soul Ring, Tango, Quelling Blade and Magic Stick as these can help the hero with using Spawn Spiderlings as well as sustaining in the lanes. Following that you can build it up into Power Treads and Orchid Malevolence to help deal with enemies. Another item that is highly recommended is Black King Bar as that would allow Broodmother to be able to farm more relatively unharmed. As the game progresses further consider getting an Aghanim's Shard and Bloodthorn which would further amplify her abilities and help in dealing more damage to stronger opponents. Lastly you may want to get Heart of Tarrasque this will allow you to deal increased damage and will push other players away from controlling the map.
Countering Broodmother
Broodmother is able to easily tank other heroes while summoning hundreds of spiderlings, and that makes her a very difficult hero to counter, With that said understanding the counterpicks is crucial if you want to stay competitive.
Broodmother is the best against
Hero | Broodmother Advantage |
|---|---|
Chen | Broodmother’s ability to spawn multiple spiderlings can easily overwhelm Chen’s creeps, giving her an advantage in lane control and making it hard for Chen to rotate effectively. |
Arc Warden | Arc Warden struggles to deal with Broodmother’s high mobility and aggressive split-push potential, especially in the early game before he can come online with his Tempest Double. |
Juggernaut | Broodmother’s web network and army of spiderlings make it difficult for Juggernaut to stay in lane and farm, forcing him to play more defensively. |
Clinkz | Broodmother’s ability to create webs and remain invisible makes it difficult for Clinkz to engage effectively, as she can easily escape or initiate fights on her own terms. |
Oracle | Broodmother’s aggressive lane presence can outmatch Oracle’s ability to keep allies alive, especially if Oracle is caught off guard or out of position during early skirmishes. |
How to Counter Broodmother
Hero | Broodmother’s Flaw |
|---|---|
Earthshaker | Earthshaker’s Echo Slam can easily wipe out Broodmother’s spiderlings, making it difficult for her to push lanes and survive in team fights. |
Meepo | Meepo’s burst damage and ability to control the map can overwhelm Broodmother, especially when he out-farms her and gains control of key objectives. |
Axe | Axe’s Counter Helix clears out Broodmother’s spiderlings quickly, while his Berserker’s Call locks her in place, forcing her to fight him head-on. |
Crystal Maiden | Crystal Maiden’s area-of-effect damage and roots from Frostbite can shut down Broodmother’s mobility and kill her spiderlings quickly. |
Naga Siren | Naga Siren’s illusions can out-push Broodmother and take control of the map, while Song of the Siren can stop her spiderlings and reset the fight in favor of her team. |
These tables give a first impression of the heroes who can give Broodmother a rough time on the battlefield and those she has bested the most, undoubtedly, it also gives a good glimpse of the necessary matchups that need attention to be drafted when Dota 2 is being played or work out in matches.
Conclusion
Broodmother has proven to be rather loud and harsh, always being on the offensive side while devising plans for the team in order to span various regions of the map, always anticipating and adjusting to every move of the enemy, allowing her to push towers consistently. To become a master of the Broodmother, one has to shift their focus into crawling through the network of webs and utilizing the spiderlings to slowly build motion throughout the war.
If you stick to the recommended item build and adjust to the enemies accordingly, Broodmother makes for a great ‘first button’ and one to ‘set the pace of the game’.
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