Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI pressure a chosen area with spiders and heroes, forcing the enemy to defend a limited zone.
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.
My recommendation is a starting point. We choose another position together with the team and for its needs.
My resource is the team's space: I hold the lane and build for initiation or team protection.
Levels, lane control and joining the team at the right moment matter.
This is an editorial starting plan based on hero mechanics. It is not presented as a match I have already tested or a popularity ranking.
Here is my initial plan: I do my role's job first, then choose the items the team needs. I adapt the order and expensive purchases to the opponent.
Provide mana for laning and regular ability use.
Provides a targeted silence for quick kills. I check whether the target has a dispel available.
Provides a window for my actions against eligible magical damage and disables. I check effects that pierce the protection.
Gives the team armor and attack speed, helping it apply physical pressure to heroes and objectives.
Unlocks or upgrades Spinner's Snare. The exact effects are shown below in the abilities section.
Pipe of Insight ↗Provides team protection against substantial magical damage.
Bloodthorn ↗Strengthens focus fire on one target; an expensive upgrade path when a regular Orchid is no longer enough.
Scythe of Vyse ↗Provides a strong targeted disable for an important target when a normal slow or silence is not enough.
I do not assign one ‘correct’ minute to every purchase. I look at my gold, the next fight and the problem: am I missing mana, target access, control or protection? If an expensive slot will arrive too late, I get a useful answer earlier.
Original Valve icons and descriptions. Cooldowns and mana are shown by level from the data snapshot; talents and upgrades can change the values.
A violent lust for vital fluids increases Broodmother's attack damage and gives her and her Spiderlings a vampiric attack.
A violent lust for vital fluids increases Broodmother's attack damage and gives her and her Spiderlings a vampiric attack.
While this ability is active, the bonus damage increases by 4% every 1 sec.
The hero spins a web in which she moves and turns faster and can pass through obstacles.
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.
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.
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.
These abilities are not necessarily available at the same time. I check the condition beside the name: innate ability, another form or an Aghanim purchase.
The hero can create up to 5 invisible web lines anywhere covered by Spin Web.
The hero can create up to 5 invisible web lines anywhere covered by Spin Web. An enemy hero crossing a line is rooted, takes damage over time and is revealed in the fog of war. Broodmother's team is alerted when the trap is triggered. The line disappears when the effect ends, but other heroes can trigger it before then.
After killing any unit, the hero and her controlled units within 600 gain an effect that heals them for a portion of the victim’s health every 0.5 sec. This healing counts as lifesteal and is reduced by 40% when triggered by creeps.
After killing any unit, the hero and her controlled units within 600 gain an effect that heals them for a portion of the victim’s health every 0.5 sec. This healing counts as lifesteal and is reduced by 40% when triggered by creeps. Duration: 3 sec.
These are fields from the official source. The hero's final values in the client account for attributes and other active mechanics.
Items, slang and real episodes help connect abilities with what happens in a match.
