Broodmother

Broodmother 17 + 2.5 18 + 2.2 18 + 2
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 494 1264 2078 2386 +0.25 +1.95 +5.45 +9.15 +10.6 Mana 75 291 627 1011 1155 +0 +0.9 +2.3 +3.9 +4.5 Armor 0 3 8.13 13.8 15.97 Magic Resist 25% 26.8% 29.6% 32.8% 34% Damage Block - Damage 1 1 19 19 49 49 83 83 96 96 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.69/s 0.88/s 1.08/s 1.15/s Attack Range U 128 ( ? ) Attack Speed 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.4 + 0.5 Projectile Speed Move Speed 295 ( 325) Turn Rate 0.5 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Black Arachnia the Broodmother is a melee agility hero who is a notably powerful pusher. Her trademark spiderlings, as both an asset and a liability, define her play style. While a possible additional source of income, experience and lane pushes, spiderlings can easily feed opponents when not handled with deft micro and great awareness. Broodmother's abilities allow her to summon those spiderlings to do her bidding, to conceal herself and her spiderlings in an area, and to slow and kill heroes with relative ease if caught off guard, all while staying as elusive as possible with her webs and passives. She spends most of the early game pressuring a lane with little concern, due to her spiderlings and her invisibility/added HP regeneration, but she can also transition into a difficult to kill melee carry, which can dive in on and rapidly kill lone enemies with the right items later on.

Bio

Black Arachnia, the Broodmother

▶️ "I've promised you to my children."

Lore:

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. 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. 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.

Voice:

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Abilities

Spawn Spiderlings

▶️QW

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Broodmother injects her young into an enemy unit, dealing damage. The spiderlings will hatch if the target is killed while under this influence.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.5

Cast Range: 700

Damage: 75/150/225/300

Number of Spiderlings: 1/2/3/4

Debuff Duration: 2

Spiderling Duration: 60

 10

 120

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

• Spawn Spiderlings' projectile travels at a speed of 1200 and can be disjointed.

• Spiderlings will only spawn when the targeted unit dies while having the debuff on.

• It doesn't matter who kills the target, if it dies in any way, the spiderlings will spawn.

• Spiderlings possess the and abilities.

• Spiderlings are fully affected by Spin Web.

Spin Web

▶️WB

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

Spins a large web that renders Broodmother invisible, grants a passive movement speed increase, gives free movement, and boosts regeneration while in its vicinity. Spin Web charges restore every 40 seconds. If damage is taken, free movement is disabled and the movement speed increase is halved for 6 seconds. 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.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.4

Cast Range: 1000 (global)

Web Radius: 900

Number of Web Charges: 1/2/3/4

Max Amount of Webs: 2/4/6/8

Fade Delay: 2

Health Regen Bonus: 2/4/6/8

Move Speed Bonus: 40%/50%/60%/70%

Recharge Time: 40

 50

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.

• Spin Web's unit type is Dummy.

• Upon learning, Broodmother instantly gains 1 charge. However, leveling it up further does not instantly grant the 2nd, 3rd or 4th charge.

• Movement speed, unobstructed movement and health regeneration are instantly granted upon entering the web.

• Restores health in form of health regeneration, so it regenerates 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 health in 0.1 second intervals, which makes 2/4/6/8 health per second.

• Can restore up to 120/240/360/480 health in one minute.

• The Invisibility has a fade delay of 2 seconds and instantly starts upon entering the web.

• When leaving the radius of the web, all its granted effects linger for 0.15 seconds.

• When taking damage from an enemy player, the unobstructed pathing is instantly lost and the movement speed bonus instantly reduced to 20%/25%/30%/35%.

• When taken out of her unobstructed pathing, trees within 150 radius around her get destroyed.

• Spiderlings and Spiderites are fully affected by Spin Webs as well, and react the same way as Broodmother when taking damage.

• All other units owned by Broodmother are not affected by Spin Webs, including her illusions.

• Spin Webs are visible on the mini-map for Broodmother and her allies. They do not provide vision but are selectable for Broodmother through the Fog of War.

• The web will distinctly twitch whenever Broodmother walks on it, indicating her position. The twitching is not visible when Broodmother is not visible (enemies require True Sight).

• Spin Webs possess the ability.

Incapacitating Bite

EP

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Broodmother's venom cripples enemy units, causing her attacks to slow, as well as giving the affected unit a chance to miss its attacks.

Move Speed Slow: 10%/20%/30%/40%

Miss Chance: 30%/40%/50%/60%

Duration: 2

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

• Successive hits with Incapacitating Bite on the same target do not stack, only the debuff gets refreshed.

• Affects siege creeps, but not buildings, wards and allied units when attacking them.

Insatiable Hunger

▶️RT

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

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

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.5

Attack Damage Bonus: 60/90/120

Lifesteal: 60%/80%/100%

Duration: 14

 45

 100

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

• Fully stacks with all other sources of lifesteal.

• The damage is added as raw damage bonus, so it can be reduced by e.g. Enfeeble, but not amplified by e.g. Empower. It can crit and cleave.

• Can not lifesteal off of buildings and siege creeps, but can lifesteal off of wards and allied units.

Spin Web ability

Destroy Spin Web

QD

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

Destroys the selected Spin Web.

Cast Animation: 0+0

• This is cast from the web itself, allowing Broodmother to destroy webs individually instead of having the oldest one destroyed.

• Spin webs do not leave corpses.

Broodmother's spiders

Spiderling
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Creep
This unit has no health. This unit has no mana. Level ? Duration 60 seconds Armor 0 Attack Range Unknown 100 Attack Speed 1.35 • ?s BAT Attack Animation 0.5+0.3 Collision Size 8 Vision Range (G) 1100 • 800 Experience 31 Notes Abilities: Poison Sting

Spiderite
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Creep
This unit has no health. This unit has no mana. Level ? Duration 60 seconds Armor 0 Attack Range Unknown 100 Attack Speed 1.35 • ?s BAT Attack Animation 0.5+0.3 Collision Size 8 Vision Range (G) 1100 • 800 Experience 20 Notes No abilities

Poison Sting

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Poisons enemies on attack.

Damage per Second: 8

Move Speed Slow: 12%

Hero Duration: 2

Creep Duration: 6

• Successive hits with Poison Sting on the same target do not stack, only the debuff gets refreshed.

• The damage source of Poison Sting is set to be the spiderlings, not Broodmother.

• This means that e.g. Blade Mail or Spiked Carapace will reflect it back to the spiderlings instead of Broodmother.

• Deals damage in 1 second intervals, starting 1 second after the debuff is applied, resulting in 2 (6) damage ticks.

• Can deal up to 16 (48) damage (before reductions).

• Affects allies and wards, but not buildings.

• Spiderites do not possess this ability.

Spawn Spiderite

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Applies debuff on attack. If debuffed unit dies, a spiderite will spawn.

Number of Spiderites: 1

Debuff duration: 2

• Spiderites will only spawn when the attacked unit dies while having the debuff on.

• It does not matter who kills the target, if it dies in any way, the spiderites will spawn.

• Does not affect wards and buildings, but affects allies.

• Spiderites are fully affected by Spin Web

• Spiderites do not possess this ability.

Recommended items

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Equipment

Broodmother/equipment

Tips

• Broodmother is a prime choice for going into the offlane, as her webs give her the survivability and the pushing power from the spiderlings can overwhelm a lane without need of her being babysat by an additional hero.
• Spawn Spiderlings acts as a ranged nuke, and is very useful for killing weak enemies that are fleeing.
• Soul Ring is a great item to have on her as the instant mana boost gives her the ability to spawn more spiderlings and the HP regen from the webs can cover for the loss of HP from the Soul Ring.
• Going right into a Black King Bar is a good choice as the combination of magic immunity and the powerful lifesteal from Insatiable Hunger makes the Broodmother a very difficult opponent to kill.
• Casting Spin Web on top of an enemy tower makes it easy to dive in on weak heroes. The regen and movespeed bonus combined with Broodmother's slow is very effective for diving on heroes with no reliable escape or stun.
• Broodmother is very effective against solitary targets, but against multiple enemies she suffers; as her lifesteal can generally only replenish the damage taken from a solitary foe.
• A quick Yasha will give her more movement speed to evade ganks and remain a threat for that lane. Then this can be made into a Manta Style which will give her a way to remove dust and confuse the enemy to escape ganks and waste their crowd control spells.
• Be cautious when the enemy has picked an Earthshaker as Echo Slam will annihilate her if multiple spiderlings are present.
• Legion Commander's first ability, Overwhelming Odds, scales off how many units are in the AoE. It will destroy her spiderlings and do a huge amount of damage to Broodmother.
• If playing against Undying, you should leave spiderlings to a safe distance. His Tombstone will spawn 1 zombie for each spiderling every second killing them in 2-3 second. Undying will get huge gold and xp boost while they hinder your ability to fight when they suddenly lose their free pathing. Undying Soul Rip will also gain power for each unit within it's radius. Send spiderlings to attack only when you are certain that he can't use Tombstone.
• Incapacitating Bite is not a Unique Attack Modifier and stacks fully with Orb of Venom and Eye of Skadi and also with Poison Sting making almost impossible for your enemies to escape on foot.

Trivia

• In her DotA biography, Broodmother's spiderlings originated from her relationship with Anub'arak, the Nerubian Assassin. In Dota 2, such tie between the two heroes does not exist.
• Broodmother's Fun/Alternate name was Broodmama.
• Broodmother's rarer response ▶️ "some pig." is a reference to the children's novel Charlotte's Web.

Update history

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Balance changelog

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Replaced abilities

Spawn Spiderite (pre 5.65)

QW

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Can inject an egg in an enemy unit to create a Spiderite. Lasts 3 seconds. If the unit dies during these 3 seconds, a Spiderite is born.

Cast Animation: 0.5+0.51

Cast Range: 700

Number of Spiderites: 1

Debuff Duration: 3

 14

• This ability got reworked into the current in the 5.65 gameplay patch.

• This ability is on auto-cast by default. The Spiderling automatically casts this on nearby enemy units which do not have the debuff already.

• Launches a projectile towards the target, which travels at a speed of 1200. Can be disjointed.

• Upon Broodmother's release in 5.62, instead of spawning Spiderites, this ability spawned another Spiderling, which also had this ability.

• Also upon release, this ability, together with Spawn Spiderlings were castable on allied and even own units.

Gallery

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  Splash artwork

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  Old model and icon

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  Old ability icons

See also

• Broodmother responses
• Broodmother sounds

References

Voiced by Ellen McLain Broodmother (Responses) Death Prophet (Responses) Announcer: Death Prophet Portal Pack Combine Overwatch (Half-Life 2) GLaDOS (Portal) Administrator (Team Fortress 2) Witch (Left 4 Dead) IMDB Wikipedia

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