Insatiable Hunger
без целиA violent lust for vital fluids increases Broodmother's attack damage and gives her and her Spiderlings a vampiric attack.
Pros max it by level 15
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Broodmother
Broodmother: Melee, position 1 (carry), position 3 (offlane), position 2 (mid), Pusher, Escape, Nuker. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 50.1% win rate in pubs and a 2.5% pick rate.
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.
Meleeposition 1 (carry)position 3 (offlane)position 2 (mid)PusherEscapeNuker
50.1%Win rate · all pubs
2.5%picked in 1 of 40 games
47.7%Turbo · 64,380 games
Complexity: medium
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Broodmother
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
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2′5′5′7′Core
15′
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15′18′24′Core items in order: Orchid Malevolence (around minute 15), Manta Style (around minute 18), Sage's Mask (around minute 24).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 7
lv 10
lv 15
lv 17
11+20% Insatiable Hunger Lifesteal16+5 Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus18+20% Incapacitating Bite Slow/Miss Chance
Max Spin Web, then Incapacitating Bite, then Insatiable Hunger.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Io, Enigma and Viper; easiest: Weaver, Storm Spirit and Skywrath Mage.
All 87 opponents →4How much to farm?
644average755good799great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 644 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 799.
5Common mistakes by role
Slow farmFarming without visionNo gold for buybackFewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the carry role.
Compare your Broodmother match with this cheat sheet
The coach shows on the map where you fell behind the pros on items and where you died.
Review my matchMistake guides for the carry role
- Slow farmEarned clearly less in five minutes of farming than in your best minutes of the same match.
- Farming without visionFarmed on the enemy half with no wards or allies while two enemies were unseen.
- No gold for buybackDied in the late game when a buyback was needed but unaffordable.
- Late key itemsCore items came 6 or more minutes later than pros get them on this hero.
Picked by the hero's role. Once the hero has 20 reviews, its real common mistakes show up here.
AI coach
A review of your Broodmother game
Sign in with Steam and pick a match: the coach reads the replay second by second and in a couple of minutes shows where the game slipped.
- Every death and fight becomes a moment on the map: the fog of war as you saw it, and what the enemy saw that second.
- Your pace against the Broodmother benchmark: 644 GPM for an average player, 755 for a good one.
- Timings against pros: they have Orchid Malevolence by minute 15, and the coach shows where you lose time.
- Five-game homework the coach checks in your next review, plus a chat with the coach about the match.
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Pro build by minute
Minute is the median first purchase, percent is the share of matches with the item.
0′5′10′15′20′25′30′35′Starting
2′59%
5′44%
5′51%
7′99%
8′100%15′50%18′80%24′34%
24′56%
25′28%
27′35%
32′28%
2′59%5′44%5′51%7′99%8′100%15′50%18′80%24′34%24′56%25′28%27′35%32′28%Skill build
13% of 99 pro matches
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- Lvl 11+20% Insatiable Hunger Lifesteal
- Lvl 16+5 Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus
- Lvl 18+20% Incapacitating Bite Slow/Miss Chance
Spin Web
на точку, по областиSpins 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.
Pros max it by level 7
Incapacitating Bite
пассивнаяBroodmother'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.
Pros max it by level 10
Spider's Milk
пассивная · innateWhenever Broodmother kills a unit, she and all units under her control in a 600 radius receive a buff for 3s that heals them for a percentage of the victim's health every 0.5 seconds. Healing from creeps is reduced by 40%.
Spawn Spiderlings
на цельBroodmother 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.
Pros max it by level 17
Aghanim's ScepterGrants a new ability, Spinner's Snare.
Aghanim's ShardUpgrades Insatiable Hunger.
-0.15s BAT during Insatiable Hunger25+7% Spin Web Move Speed and Ignore Speed Limit
-6s Spin Web Charge Restore Time20+20% Incapacitating Bite Slow/Miss Chance
+5 Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus15+175 Spiderlings Health
+80 Spawn Spiderlings Damage10+20% Insatiable Hunger Lifesteal
Matchups
Hero winrate against each opponent, circle size is the number of games
Hero win rate against the opponent, Divine+Immortal over the past week, STRATZ.
Who to pick against Broodmother: counter picks →Benchmarks on the hero
Average beats half of the players on this hero, good beats 80%, great beats 95%.
Gold per minute
average 644good 755great 799
Experience per minute
average 824good 904great 1,373
Last hits per minute
average 8.3good 10.4great 11.3
Hero damage per minute
average 500good 569great 666
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Hero at a glance
Complexity: mediumIt does best in Crusader (50.8% wins) and wins 47.7% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 1 (carry) in 42% of games, position 3 (offlane) in 31% of games and position 2 (mid) in 27% of games. Pros usually build Orchid Malevolence, Manta Style and Sage's Mask by minute 24. It struggles most against Io, Enigma and Viper and has the easiest time against Weaver, Storm Spirit and Skywrath Mage.