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Last Hitting is easier when you cant be attacked(my first guide)

September 3, 2012 by SuperNova
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Build 1

Build 1: Make your enemies confused as they lane against an enemy that isnt there.

DotA2 Hero: Broodmother

Offense

Damage 44-50

Defense

Armor 2.52

Other

Movement Speed 295

Attributes

Strength 79.5
Agility 73
Intelligence 68

Basic Stats

Health 1993
Mana 1118

Purchase Order

starting off

early game

mid-game

Core Items

Late Game

Luxury



Hero Skills

Spawn Spiderlings

3 6 10 14

Spin Web

1 4 9 13

Incapacitating Bite

2 5 8 12

Insatiable Hunger

7 11 16

Stats

15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


Last Hitting is easier when you cant be attacked(my first guide)

SuperNova
September 3, 2012


Intro

Hello Everyone!
I am Nova and this is my very first guide on dotafire, please give constructive criticism and no pointless hating. I have played brood mother quite a few times with this build and all but one of those were a success, I am not a pro player but I do have experience playing the game. This guide is mainly focused on being very neutral and remaining invisible unless u are last hitting. Last hitting is very important in this guide as the items are going to take a lot of money. Lane presence is also very important, you should not leave the lane and you should always stay in creep exp range. please read and enjoy or give useful criticism so on my next guide i can help you guys out more.

Summary

Broodmother is a hero similar to riki and bounty hunter in that she stays invisible for very long periods of time while gaining bonuses. she can farm exp and last hit from nowhere thanks to her webs and the hp regen from them helps you recover without leaving the lane. spawn spiderlings also means that with proper timing of the ability she can turn enemy pushes to her advantage by spawning waves of spiders to attack towers or scare heroes off the lane. her ultimate gives her very large lifesteal and a big damage boost so gank attempts shouldn't be made until you skill it. her bite when fully skilled gives a big slow and even a miss chance debuff to affected units making her good in 1vs1's. in a big teamfight she will go down pretty quickly but webs can be used to wait until an enemy hero is weakened then she can eat them. Overall she is a pretty good chaser and against isolated herores without escapes she can get guaranteed kills with her ultimate and bite ability's.

Pros / Cons

Pros

    -safe from harrasment because of webs
    - excellent slow orb ability
    -can spawn large waves of spiderlings that spawn more spiders if an attacked unti dies
    -ultimate give tremendous lifesteal and damage buff
Cons
    quite squishy outside of webs
    -starting attack speed isnt that great
    -low mana pool
    - spiderlings give bounty and enemy heroes can easily kill them
    -if the enemy team obtains a gem of true sight she loses her invisibility advantage

Items

Slippers should be grabbed for the damage and attack speed boost as last hitting is going to be crucial for the next stages, slippers can be built into your shield for later. Ring of Aquila is priority for the mana regen and armor and Basilius and Band of Elvenskin should be obtained for building into your other items later. They both give you some extra damage for last hitting and if against aggressive players throwing a few hits at them to ward them off your creeps. As soon as mid game hits you will want to build your Basilius into Vlads for the armor,damage and life-steal.This is important as Vlads is the only orb effect that stacks with your bite. The boots give you some needed move-speed and attack speed, this stacks with your web so you will be able to move around very quickly. S/color] The Alacrity should be obtained for your sange. Your core items allow you to use spiderlings more often, deal respectable dps and recover lost health with lifesteal if you are away from your webs. When you hit late game sange should be built into Manta as this means that you can attack out of nowhere use manta and hunger and tear apart enemy heroes and enemy whilst surviving due your lifesteal. Orchid is a good idea if their is a potent disabler hanging around your webs such as slardar and you need to make sure you dont get flattened. Luxury items are mainly there if you are ganking alot and have a ton of cash, they will increase your dps alot so they are worth grabbing. Your soul ring alllows you to spam spawn spiderlings early on if you need to force an agrresive player off-lane and like all carrys Black King Bar is a must have if she is going to scale well into late-game

Skills

Web should always be taken first as it allows you to stay in the lane and farm exp or last hits without any worry of harrassment. If you are laning against a 'Target Point' ability hero like lina, there is the risk of being attacked by their spells but early game they probably wont waste their mana doing that. Web and bite should be lvled first then take spiderlings and even one level of spiderlings can create a large wave of them due to spiderites. web means that enemies will have a hard time running away from you and hitting you. A soon as you skill hunger you will be ready to take kills for yourself, use your webs to manourver yourself into a good position before attacking your shield will ensure that you dont die as easily and the armor bonuses also help with this. If everything goes wrong then you can flee to your web for the extra hp regen which stacks with your vladamirs.

Teamwork( dont see much in matches i play lol)

Broodmother doesnt have any ranged slows or aoe's for use in teamfights but she can be the perfect assasinator, as long as you have more than one web the enemy wont know where you might be so while your team engage them you can strike out of nowhere and kill a support or particularly nasty carry that is endangering your team. If u are dual laning then last hitting is still your biggest priority, if the team carry is with you then ask them to move. use spawn spiders for lasthitting fleeding heroes so you can still get your farm. Broodmother is best in solo mid as she can take runes by laying a path of webs and ranged heroes wont be able to harass you very well when they are firing uphill. Broodmother can also benfit from the side lanes due to the side shops having some items so you wont always have to wait for the courier to come with your precious soul ring when you really needed that one last spawn spiders for that fleeing guy.

Hee HEE! That coward Necrolyte should have known better than to step in my web!

this is my first guide

As i said this is my first guide so please leave some USEFUL criticism in the comments as pointless hating wont help anyone, i understand that other people prefer other builds and i have used this one quite a few times and it worked a treat so please give it a chance and thank you for reading!(my god this took a long time to write)

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Quote | PM | +Rep by SuperNova » September 3, 2012 11:22am | Report
I got 7 views and counting in 3 seconds or so? nice.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Chestnut » September 3, 2012 11:36am | Report
Just few comments to make.

I think neglecting to buy a Soul Ring is a mistake on Brood. The health cost is more than made up for by the insane regen she gets from her webs. With Soul Ring, you'll be able to spam spawn spiderlings in lane. That being said, I'd pick up Spawn Spiderlings MUCH earlier than 9. Second skill, every time. You don't need to use it to push lanes, its a great nuke for harassing or picking off that first blood.

Never get a ring of aquilla and a vlads together. The bonus from the auras do not stack. Its just taking up a slot. If you really feel that you need a vlads, skip the aquilla and buy that soul ring instead.

Quelling blade should be considered for the starting items. Her base damage is so very weak, getting that last hit can be tricky.

Lastly, I don't thing a poor man's shield should be picked up. You can go invis, you shouldn't be tanking up creep damage. There are better items to pick up.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by SuperNova » September 3, 2012 12:34pm | Report
Chestnut wrote:

Just few comments to make.

I think neglecting to buy a Soul Ring is a mistake on Brood. The health cost is more than made up for by the insane regen she gets from her webs. With Soul Ring, you'll be able to spam spawn spiderlings in lane. That being said, I'd pick up Spawn Spiderlings MUCH earlier than 9. Second skill, every time. You don't need to use it to push lanes, its a great nuke for harassing or picking off that first blood.

Never get a ring of aquilla and a vlads together. The bonus from the auras do not stack. Its just taking up a slot. If you really feel that you need a vlads, skip the aquilla and buy that soul ring instead.

Quelling blade should be considered for the starting items. Her base damage is so very weak, getting that last hit can be tricky.

Lastly, I don't thing a poor man's shield should be picked up. You can go invis, you shouldn't be tanking up creep damage. There are better items to pick up.
Thanks for your comment! I would like to say firstly that the main reason that spawn spiderlings is not prioritized is that this build isn't about harassing enemies as much since you can just sit in your web and kill off creeps. I always take Aquila with agility heroes so it's up to you wether you prefer Aquila or vlads.I wouldn't take quelling blade as you get a damage boost from the slippers and whatever else you decide to buy and last hitting isn't tricky as long as you know exactly when to strike and when a creeps health is low enough to kill them. I always take a poor mans shield due to the fact that it always blocks damage from heroes and if you are attacking a hero the shield helps you if you draw creep agro. Thanks for taking the time to give me a comment, even though it wasn't very helpful.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by SuperNova » September 3, 2012 12:53pm | Report
in addition, the main reason vlads is taken is because it stacks with incapacitating bite which MoM and HotD do not. If you would prefer to take a quelling blade then fine, if slippers are taken then it increases attack rate DMg and +1 armor and can be built into poor mans shield. Quelling blade at lvl 1 gives you 15 bonus dmg against creeps only so it may be something that can also be taken start game

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Quote | PM | +Rep by SuperNova » September 3, 2012 1:02pm | Report
I have noticed that my views if going up quickly, please guys leave a comment and vote so I can write better guides in future.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Blitxxen » September 3, 2012 1:44pm | Report
You made a wall of text, thats not good, you should customize a bit by checking the guide of "How to make guides". Also, every skills have 4 lvls, except for the ultimate and invoker, spawn spiderling you put only 3 levels of it.

The item build is fine but, the wall of text just, I didnt wanted to read that.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Atlas » September 3, 2012 1:47pm | Report
Soul Ring is the only thing that makes Brood a huge threat early on. Without it, she can't spam her nuke. If the enemy gets sentry wards, you are literally useless without Soul Ring.

On top of that, BKB is her next core item. Without it, she just dies too easy in teamfights as she has no escape ability.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by SuperNova » September 3, 2012 2:00pm | Report
Sorry about the wall of text, this is my first guide and I didn't know wether to make it short or long. The reason I don't use soul ring is because early on with this build I'm not intending to harass, I played a few games like this and it is easier to show rather than explain.thanks for suggesting improvements which I shall take into account in my next guide. I understand what you mean with bkb but if she's does get critically injured then fleeing via your webs is what I put in the guide. In response to the wards well, most games I play aren't against very knowledgable players who rarely ward and don't understand the tactics that go into this game. So thank you both for your helpful criticism .

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Hades4u » September 3, 2012 2:40pm | Report
Read this to learn how to turn a wall of text into the most readable thing ever.

http://www.dotafire.com/dota-2/blog/dr-d/guide-formatting-and-you

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Blitxxen » September 3, 2012 4:56pm | Report
TardRifle wrote:

this cud possibly be the worst brood guide ever.


Your guides arent shine and brighty dude, its his first guide and he asked for constructive and helping comments. You arent doing anything of those.

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