Broodmother

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 health 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.

Talents

 * Cooldown reduction affects abilities and items. Stacks multiplicatively with and additively with.
 * Cooldown reduction affects replenish time of.
 * The armor is added as bonus armor, and therefore does not benefit illusions.
 * Upgrading health increases maximum health capacity and keeps the current health percentage.
 * The upgrade allows to have 8 more webs on the map. It does not add 8 charges.
 * The health upgrade to Spiderlings also applies to Spiderites.

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Audio
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History
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Trivia

 * In her DotA biography, Broodmother's spiderlings originated from her relationship with Anub'arak, the Nerubian Assassin . In Dota 2, no relationship between the two heroes exists.
 * Broodmother's is sometimes called by her nickname, "Broodmama".
 * Broodmother's response Broo rare 02.mp3 "Some pig." is a reference to the children's novel Charlotte's Web.