Broodmother

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 provides easy positioning and a simple method of killing enemy heroes, but she requires micromanagement and prescience to be played well. She is a great hero for beginners to try the more difficult factors in the game, such as micro and pushing alone after early game without getting killed. She is recommended for new to intermediate players.

Tips

 * Broodmother's Spin Web knocks down all trees in the radius of the ability. Use this to gain critical early-game vision in the long lane by casting your first web on the first patch of trees past the river.
 * Going into a solo lane is a viable option for Broodmother as webs give her the survivability and the pushing power from the spiderlings can overwhelm a lane without need of her being babysat.
 * 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 the best 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. Building items such as Battle Fury and Radiance will help her tackle several foes at once.

Trivia

 * In her original biography, it was stated that the Broodmother had a crush on Anub'arak The Nerubian Assassin
 * Broodmother's Fun/Alternate name was Broodmama.