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Broodmother 18 + 3.2 19 + 3.4 18 + 2
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 200 560 1440 2320 2680 +0.25 +2.05 +6.53 +10.93 +12.73 Mana 75 291 627 1011 1155 +0 +0.9 +2.3 +3.9 +4.5 Armor 0 3.17 11.1 18.77 21.93 Damage Block 16 (50%) Magic Resistance 25% Status Resistance 0% Damage 29‒35 48‒54 95‒101 141‒147 160‒166 Attack Rate 0.74/s 0.85/s 1.13/s 1.4/s 1.51/s Attack Range 150 (600) Attack Speed ▶️ 125 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.4+0.5 Projectile Speed Instant Movement Speed ▶️ 280 Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 • 800 Legs 8 Gib Type Goo Ability Upgrades Spinner's Snare Silken Bola

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 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 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.

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:

Ellen McLain (Responses)

Abilities

Insatiable Hunger

▶️QW

Ability
No Target

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: 35/45/55/65 ( 85/95/105/115)

Lifesteal: 40%/60%/80%/100% ( 90%/110%/130%/150%)

Duration: 8/10/12/14

40/35/30/25

50/60/70/80

Modifiers

modifier_broodmother_insatiable_hunger: Dispellable with death only.

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

Notes:

• Grants regular flat bonus attack damage.

• Stacks additively with other sources of lifesteal.
  • Cannot lifesteal off of buildings or allied units.
  • Can lifesteal off of wards that do not require a fixed amount of attacks to be destroyed.

Spin Web
Uncategorized Units
Health 100 +0 This unit has no mana. Level 1 Duration Permanent Armor Basic 0 Magic Resistance 0% Status Resistance 0% Collision Size 8 Vision Range (G) 0 Bounty 0 Experience 0 Model Scale 1 Abilities Destroy Spin Web Notes Invulnerable Phased

Spin Web

▶️WB

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Self

Spins a large web that grants Broodmother a passive movement speed increase, and boosts regeneration while in its vicinity, as well as giving free movement. Spin Web charges restore every 30 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. The movement bonus is proportional to the unit's HP

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.4

Cast Range: 1000

Web Radius: 900

Max Amount of Webs: 3/5/7/9

Health Regen Bonus: 3/5/7/9

Max Move Speed Bonus: 18%/30%/42%/54%

Min Bonus Health Threshold: 1%

Aura Linger Duration: 0.2

Number of Charges: 4/6/8/10

Charge Replenish Time: 30 ( 20)

0

50

Modifiers

modifier_broodmother_spin_web_web: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_broodmother_spin_web_invisible_applier: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_broodmother_spin_web: Dispellable with death only.

Ability Draft Notes:

The Spin Web buff only affect Spiderlings and Spiderites, it does not affect any other player-controlled units.

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.

Notes:

• Has a global cast range when a part of another web is within the targeted area.

• Upon learning, Broodmother instantly gains 4 charges. However, leveling it up further does not instantly grant the other charges.

• The buff only affects the caster, and all Spiderlings and Spiderites under the player's control. Other player-controlled units are unaffected.
  • The movement speed bonus gets lower by 0.18%/0.3%/0.42%/0.54% for every 1% of health missing, reaching 0% when below 1% health.
  • The health percentage is check periodically and the effects adapted instantly.
  • Does not affect invulnerable or hidden units.

• Can regenerate up to 180/300/420/540 health in one minute.

• The effects are provided by an aura. Its buff lingers for 0.2 seconds.

• Spin Webs are visible on the minimap for Broodmother and her team. They do not provide vision but are selectable through the Fog of War.

• The webs possess the Destroy Spin Web sub-ability.

• The webs do not block neutral creep camps.

Silken Bola

▶️▶️EE

Ability
Target Unit
( Target Area)

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Slows the target enemy, causes them to miss and deals impact damage. Units that attack the target deal bonus magic damage.

Cast Animation: 0.1+0.67

Cast Range: 750

Damage: 100/120/140/160

Attack Damage Bonus Against Target: 6/7/8/9

Move Speed Slow: 25%/35%/45%/55%

Miss Chance: 40% ( 80%)

Duration: 6

 Radius: 550

24/20/16/12

70/75/80/85

Causes Silken Bola to be a 550 AoE spell and increases the miss chance to 80%.

Blocked upon impact, not blocked when upgraded.

Modifiers

modifier_broodmother_silken_bola: Dispellable with any dispel.

Notes:

• The projectile travels at a speed of 1200.

• Silken Bola first applies the damage, then the debuff.

• The bonus damage only triggers on allied hero attacks (including illusions and clones, excluding creep-heroes), and on any attacks done by units owned by Broodmother.
  • The damage is magical, and is dealt in one instance together with the attack damage, and counts as attack damage as well.
  • However, it is not considered by lifesteal, crit or cleave.
  • It is also not affected by percentage-based attack damage bonuses or reductions, but can be reduced with flat reductions.

• The miss chance uses pseudo-random distribution.

• With Aghanim's Shard, Silken Bola turns into an area-targeted ability, so that it cannot directly target units anymore.

Spinner's Snare

▶️▶️▶️DD

Ability
Target Point / Vector Targeting

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Broodmother creates a 900 width invisible web line. Enemy Heroes that cross the web line will make it visible and become rooted, visible in fog and receive 100dps for 4 seconds, after which the line is destroyed. Broodmother's team is notified in the Minimap whenever someone trips in a Web line. Multiple Heroes can trip on the same line until it's destroyed. Can only have 5 Snares Active. Formation Delay: 2, Cast Range: 600, Slow Duration: 0.25, Slow: 100%, Root Duration: 4, DPS: 100

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.56

Cast Range: 600

Line Length: 900

Line Width: 50

Line Formation Time: 2

Max Amount of Lines: 5

Damage per Second: 100

Move Speed Slow: 100%

Root Delay: 0.25

Debuff Duration: 4

Number of Charges: 2

Charge Replenish Time: 20

0

100

Modifiers

modifier_broodmother_sticky_snare: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_invisible: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_phased: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_broodmother_sticky_snare_root: Unknown dispel interaction.

Ability Draft Notes:

Requires drafting Spawn Spiderlings to be unlocked.

The slightest tremor of her web is all Arachnia needs to find her prey.

Notes:

• Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.

• Cannot be cast within the vicinity of another web line. The vector must not overlap with another line to cast.

• The web line forms over a 2-second duration, during which the line is completely inactive.

• The web lines are completely invisible to the enemy and cannot be revealed.

• Once formed, the line can trigger on any enemy hero coming within its area of effect.
  • Only reacts on heroes, including clones, but excluding illusions and creep-heroes.

• When triggered, the triggering hero reveives a single debuff that applies all effects.
  • The modifier exposes the target, provides True Sight over them, and slows their movement speed.
  • After 0.25 seconds, the modifier roots the target, preventing them from moving and casting certain mobility spells.
  • This means the root effectively lasts 3.75 seconds.
  • The damage over time starts after this delay as well, and ticks in 1-second intervals, resulting in 4 instances.
  • Can deal a total of 400 damage to the target (before reductions).

• Once triggered, the web line becomes visible to enemies, and disappears after 4 seconds.
  • This timer is independent from the debuff on the enemy, so removing the debuff does not cause the line to disappear earlier.
  • During this time, other enemy heroes still may get debuffed by the line.

• The web lines have no set duration, they last until triggered.
  • Exceeding the max allowed number of lines instantly destroys the oldest line.

• The lines have no form of vision, and are not visible through the Fog of War for anyone.

Spiderling
Summoned Creep
Health 320 +2 ⤷ 670HP This unit has no mana. Level 3 Duration 60 Armor Basic 0 Magic Resistance 25% Status Resistance 0% Attack Damage Hero 14 ‒ 16 Attack Range 100 Acquisition Range 500 Attack Speed 100 • 1.35s BAT Attack Animation 0.5+0.3 Projectile Speed Instant Movement Speed 350 (100) Turn Rate 0.5 Collision Size 8 Vision Range (G) 700 Bounty 9 Experience 9 Model Scale 0.3 Abilities Poison Sting Spawn Spiderite

Spawn Spiderlings

▶️▶️▶️RT

Ability
Target Unit

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: 900

Damage: 260/340/420 ( 340/420/500)

Number of Spiderlings: 4/5/6

Debuff Duration: 20

Spiderling Duration: 60

 Spiders Building Damage Bonus: 50%

9/8/7

120

Grants a new ability: Spinner's Snare.

Debuff persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Blocked upon impact.

Modifiers

modifier_kill: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_broodmother_spider_hp: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_broodmother_spawn_spiderlings: Dispellable with any dispel.

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

Notes:

• The projectile travels at a speed of 1200.

• Spawn Spiderling first applies the debuff, then the damage.

• Spiderlings only spawn when the targeted unit dies while having the debuff on.
  • It does not matter who kills the target, if it dies in any way, the Spiderlings spawn.
  • The amount of spiders spawned is based on the level of the ability as the spawn happens, and not on what level it was upon cast.

• Multiple instances of Spawn Spiderlings on the same target fully stack, with each cast placing a separate debuff.
  • Has a stack limit of 7. If an enemy has already 7 instances of the debuff, a new cast does not affect them at all.

• Spiderlings are fully affected by Spin Web.

• The damage increasing talent immediately upgrades all of Broodmother's currently flying Spawn Spiderling projectiles.

• Both building damage increasing and health increasing talents do not upgrade any of Broodmother's currently living Spiderlings or Spiderites.

Spin Web Ability

Destroy Spin Web

QD

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Destroys the selected Spin Web.

Cast Animation: 0+0

0

Notes:

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

• The webs do not leave corpses.

Spiderling Abilities

Spiderite
Summoned Creep
Health 120 +2 ⤷ 470HP This unit has no mana. Level 2 Duration 60 Armor Basic 0 Magic Resistance 25% Status Resistance 0% Attack Damage Basic 9 ‒ 10 Attack Range 100 Acquisition Range 500 Attack Speed 100 • 1.35s BAT Attack Animation 0.5+0.3 Projectile Speed Instant Movement Speed 350 (100) Turn Rate 0.5 Collision Size 8 Vision Range (G) 700 Bounty 3 Experience 3 Model Scale 0.23

Poison Sting

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Poisons and slows enemies with each attack.

Damage per Second: 8

Move Speed Slow: 8%

Hero Duration: 2

Non-Hero Duration: 6

Modifiers

modifier_broodmother_poison_sting: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_broodmother_poison_sting_debuff: Dispellable with any dispel.

Notes:

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

• The attacks first apply their damage, then the debuff.

• Deals damage in 1-second intervals, starting 1 second after the debuff is applied, resulting in 2 damage ticks (or 6 damage ticks against creeps).
  • Can deal up to 16 damage (or 48 damage against creeps) before reductions.

• Affects allies and wards, but not buildings.

• Treats creep-heroes as creeps.

• Spiderites do not have this ability.

Spawn Spiderite

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

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

Number of Spiderites: 1

Debuff Duration: 2

Spiderite Duration: 60

Debuff persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers

modifier_broodmother_spawn_spiderite: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_kill: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_broodmother_spider_hp: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_broodmother_spawn_spiderite_debuff: Dispellable with any dispel.

Notes:

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

• The attacks first apply their damage, then the debuff.

• The Spiderite only spawns 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 Spiderite spawns.

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

• Spiderites are fully affected by Spin Web.

• Spiderites do not possess this ability.

Talents

Hero Talents
+350 Spiders Health	25	+50 Insatiable Hunger Damage/Lifesteal
+400 Health	20	+50% Spiders Damage to Buildings
+30 Attack Speed	15	-10s Spin Web Recharge Time
+10 Agility	10	+80 Spawn Spiderlings Damage

Notes:

• Both Spiders talents affect Spiderlings and Spiderites.

• The agility talent effectively grants Broodmother 1.67 armor, 10 attack speed, and 10 main attack damage.

• The health talent increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Broodmother/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.30e

• Increased base movement speed from 275 to 280.
• Reduced Spin Web charge replenish time from 40 to 30.
• Talents:

Level 15 right talent: -15s Spin Web charge replenish time reduced to -10s.

7.30d

• Increased Spin Web number of charges from 3/5/7/9 to 4/6/8/10.
• Increased Spawn Spiderlings damage from 240/320/400 to 260/340/420.

7.30c

• Reduced Spin Web minimum health threshold for minimum movement speed bonus from 20% to 1%.
• Increased Silken Bola attack damage bonus against target from 5/6/7/8 to 6/7/8/9.

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango provides needed health restoration during the laning phase.
• Healing Salve keeps Broodmother in lane by restoring her health.
• Enchanted Mango provides some passive health regeneration and burst mana until she is able to get soul rings.
• Clarity gives mana to produce Spiderlings.
• Iron Branch provides cheap attributes. Use with Tango for more healing.
• Quelling Blade makes last hitting easier.

Early game:

• Soul Ring allows her to use Spawn Spiderlings more often without fear of running out of mana to harass the enemies, take last hits, and amass Spiderlings.
• Magic Wand gives attributes and restores health and mana in burst, keeping Broodmother healthy to continue making Spiderlings.
• Medallion of Courage increases mana regeneration so Broodmother can continue to spawn spiderlings and it's active helps to hasten farm speed.

Mid game:

• Aghanim's Scepter increases the maximum number of Spin Web charges to 18 and increases the movement speed bonus applied by her webs. This typically removes the need for boots as the movement speed granted by her webs is more than enough.
• Solar Crest bolsters Broodmother defense with armor and attributes. Its active ability helps Broodmother and Spiderlings tear down neutral creeps and enemy heroes by lowering their armor.
• Black King Bar prevents Broodmother from being affected by most stuns allowing her to continue to attack her enemy and benefit from the amplified damage and lifesteal of Insatiable Hunger to keep Broodmother alive in team fights.

Late game:

• Assault Cuirass increases the attack speed and armor of Broodmother and her spiders, while also reducing the armor of nearby towers. A fantastic item to compliment Broodmother's strengths.
• Butterfly works very well with her passive making it even harder for enemies to hit her along with its excellent stats to increase Broodmother's carry potential.
• Nullifier can prove useful against items like Ghost Scepter or to prevent enemies from dispelling Orchid Malevolence's silence.
• Bloodthorn supplies mana and increases Broodmother's damage output. Its active ability silences the target and grants True Strike to any enemy affected.

Situational items:

• Boots of Speed If the enemy has multiple slows combining boots with her webs' move speed bonus will nullify their effectiveness.
• Hand of Midas accelerates Broodmother's leveling allowing her to reach her level 20 and 25 talents sooner.
• Vladmir's Offering useful aura that benefits both Broodmother and her spiders.
• Mask of Madness offers cost-effective attack speed to combine with the bonus damage granted by Insatiable Hunger for a cheap increase in damage output.
• Orchid Malevolence aids Broodmother in killing heroes that have abilities that allow them to escape or disable Broodmother. Also solving most of her mana problems.
• Desolator gives excellent damage and armor reduction increasing Broodmother's pushing and killing speed.
• Diffusal Blade can be picked up early for an additional slow on enemies in addition to its decent stats.
• Pipe of Insight because Broodmother can farm so fast, picking up a pipe for the team can allow her and her spiders to survive heavy magic burst that would usually prove lethal.
• Radiance applies area damage and blind chance during team fights. Because Broodmother is usually in the middle of team fights she can apply the burn to most enemies.
• Abyssal Blade offers a reliable stun and occasional bashes to further lock down enemies.

Gameplay

Roles:	Carry Pusher Escape Nuker
Complexity:	★★☆
Playstyle:	Inhabiting the lava tubes below the caldera of Mount Pyrotheos, Black Arachnia grew tired of recent adventurers stepping on her many offspring. And so, the Broodmother set out to rid the world of every potential intruder, one hero at a time. Paralytic venom drips from her fangs, crippling and blinding her prey with each Incapacitating Bite. Warm bodies make ideal nurseries, a fact not lost on Black Arachnia as she injects her eggs into dying foes to Spawn Spiderlings. Across patches of land she Spins Webs of silken fiber, sheltering herself within to recuperate injuries. Driven by Insatiable Hunger, the Broodmother goes into a feeding frenzy, sucking the vital fluids from wandering heroes to replenish herself for the next spawn cycle.

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Equipment

Broodmother Equipment (expand sets) Sets Amber Queen Ancient Arachnarok Arachnarok Arcane Infestation Automaton Antiquity Epoch of the Abysm Feast of the Glutton's Larder Lycosidae's Favor Malevolent Mother Pattern of the Silken Queen Steelweb of Pytheos Set The Brood Queen Set Virulent Matriarch Web of Thorns Set Webs of Perception Set Spiderling Skittering Lotus Thistle Crawler Taunt Taunt: Spider Shuffle

Trivia

• In her DotA biography, Broodmother's spiderlings originated from her relationship with Anub'arak, the Nerubian Assassin ( Nyx Assassin). In Dota 2, no relationship between the two heroes exists.
• Broodmother is sometimes called by her nickname, "Broodmama".
• Broodmother's response ▶️ "Some pig." is a reference to the children's novel Charlotte's Web.
• Broodmother's name, Black Arachnia, resembles the name of the character Blackarachnia from the Transformers franchise.

Gallery

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  Splash artwork

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  Old model and icon

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  Broodmother's ability icon progress

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  Spiderling's ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress