Broodmother/Guide

General

 * Broodmother is usually played alone in the offlane, as the invisibility and regeneration from her webs allow her to face off against multiple opponents.
 * Broodmother is arguably the best early lane pusher in the game. A good player must take advantage of this.
 * An aggressive Broodmother can often take down a tier two tower while other players are still farming.
 * Beware of enemy s in lane. It is often worth it to buy your own Sentry Wards to detect and destroy the enemy wards.
 * Remember that you can use Tangos, or a Quelling Blade to take out Sentry Wards quickly.
 * 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.
 * Broodmother's primary escape mechanism is to move into her webs onto impassable terrain when attacked.
 * Although Broodmother is usually pushing lanes alone, she is still sometimes needed in teamfights. It is important when playing her to know the right time to push, and when to team fight.
 * Though Broodmother excels in the hard lane, she can also control and farm parts of the enemy jungle.
 * More tips needed.


 * A is usually needed to use Spawn Spiderlings frequently.
 * Spawn spiderlings acts as a ranged nuke, and is very useful for killing weak enemies that are fleeing.
 * As a group, spiderlings deal a surprising amount of damage, especially in the early game. Use them to harass opponents in lane.
 * Send out spiderlings to scout, block creep camps, and keep an eye on Roshan.
 * Even though spiderlings give little gold, constantly feeding groups of them will benefit the enemy team.
 * Spiderlings can spawn Spiderites by denying allied creeps.
 * More tips needed.


 * Use Spin Web on top of an enemy tower before diving in on weak heroes. The regeneration and move speed bonus combined with Broodmother's slow is very effective for diving on heroes with no reliable escape or stun.
 * Use Spin Web over trees and high ground to give Broodmother escape paths.
 * More tips needed.


 * Incapacitating Bite is not a unique attack modifier and stacks fully with and  and also with  making it almost impossible for your enemies to escape on foot.
 * More tips needed.


 * More tips needed.

Items
Starting items:
 * provide needed health regeneration during the laning phase.
 * keeps Broodmother in lane.
 * gives extra armor and can be built into a from the side-shop.

Early-game items:
 * allows her to use Spawn Spiderlings to harass the lane rival and safely take last hits.
 * provides attribute bonuses as well as an armor aura for extra pushing power and can be upgraded into Vladmir's Offering later on.

Core items:
 * provide attack speed and more survivability through additional attribute bonuses.
 * 's silence allows Broodmother to kill heroes with escape abilities and/or stuns.
 * provides a useful lifesteal effect on both Broodmother and nearby spiderlings, fully stacking with the effects of her ultimate ability. The bonus armor and attack damage greatly increase the ability of Broodmother and her spiders to push lanes and towers.

Situational items:
 * 's magic immunity synergies with the huge lifesteal from Insatiable Hunger and makes her very hard to kill.
 * offers bonus attack speed, damage, movement speed and stats. The active ability, Mirror Image, can be used to dispel debuffs such as, dodge stunning projectiles such as , or to increase Broodmother's ability to push lanes and towers.
 * offers bonus attack speed, damage and armor, increasing Broodmother's carry potential. The only downside is that the enemy most likely purchases on their carries to counter you anyway, making the evasion of Butterfly less useful.
 * is bought to dominate enemies with evasion and the built-in mini-bash can prevent enemies from escaping with a.
 * provides useful area damage that Broodmother can easily apply while invisible and/or unreachable both to push lanes faster and to harass incautious enemy heroes.
 * boosts the attack speed and armor of Broodmother and her spiders, while also reducing the armor of nearby towers, allowing her to push faster.