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August 21, 2012 by Sallomi
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Build 1: Pusher

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 Items

Early Game

Mid game

Late game/Luxury

Situational



Hero Skills

Spawn Spiderlings

2 4 6 7

Spin Web

1 3 5 8

Incapacitating Bite

10 12 13 14

Insatiable Hunger

9 11 16

Stats

15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


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Sallomi
August 21, 2012


Items

For pushing, i'd recommend a ring of aquila, it gives much needed stats, mana regen and the armor for your spiders (it enables then to take one extra tower hit).

Treds are the best but phase can be looked at if your in a very hard lane and need mobility, or if you're being heavily countered (bh, slarder, loads of early wards/smokes).

soul ring is needed to spam spiderlings and your webs are much like a tranqil boots combo-you regen hp very quickly to offset your ring.

Orchid is the next item to go for, it provides attackspeed, damage, tons of mana regen and soul burn (easy one on one kills) this allows for faster pushing and makes you unstoppable in a 1vs1, meaning many enemies will need to come to stop your push.

Yasha is a soild pick up next-the move speed, damage and attack speed are all very useful on this hero (you could opt for a bkb before this if needed)

bkb is next, with this combined with your lv2/3ulti, your basicly unkillable during your bkb duration, nuff said.

Manta next, if you manta split and attack 3 different heroes with your illusions, your making 3 enemies have 40%move speed slow and 25%miss chance, that could easily turn the tide of a fight. Also, you'll never have to worry about pesky dusts ever again!

Butterfly and mkb or a heart are the next items you could get, i'd recommend butterfly over mkb, but if the enemy carry has butterfly then you'll need this item to stay relevant late game. Also, If the enemy just have too much damage or have things that go though bkb then getting a heart is defiantly viable.

A quick note about vlads/AC-vlads are bad as you don't need lifesteal, generally have low base damage (most damage from orchid, bkb and ulti untill late game), u'll have ample mana with orchid and the extra 3 armor isn't worth it for the remaining price, it just delays other core items.

AC is absolutely great and sounds like a no brainer on paper, but it will always allow enemies to know if your near, not particularly helpful, also, the armour aura doesn't stack with vlads. Although AC is decent, it gives away your position (like radiance) and would be much better on other heroes (again, like radiance)


A quick note about blink dagger, if the enemy have some high mobility (e.g anti mage, storm forstaffs) then blink dagger is an excellent item, don't underestimate its power, also, if your pushing a tier 3 tower or rax and see the enemy coming, a blink could easily save your life. Also, against heroes like bounty hunter or slarder, when you get the debuff you can just blink away to safety, or you can use blink to initiate unexpectedly on a solo hero.

Skills

Webs should be the priority till level 7, you don't deal enough damage to need your ulti and its unlikely you could get a kill with incapacitating bite (if your soloing the hard lane like a good little mommy), your first priority early on is surviving as your hp is low early, so webs are leveled, then, the spiders- safe way to harass and push early if possible.

You can either get your passive or ulti at level 9, but by lv 11 you should have your 1st 2 skills maxed, one in your passive and 2 in your ulti.

Tactics

Basicly, you lane for almost all the game, when there is a team fight, u'll do what a natures prophet does and split push, if your in pub games its more than likey that the enemy won't carry tps so its easy to get raxes like that early or at least easy towers. If there is 1 person in your lane, kill 'em then push, more than one, just farm the enemy jungle and if u happen to find an enemy hero just orchid then ulti and bkb if nessessary -you have the ability to stop the fight when ever so check the guys inventory for truesight and go for a kill/harass your brood needs food, and in this case, the enemy jungle.

Guide Discussion
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Quote | PM | +Rep by xscr » August 21, 2012 11:54pm | Report
I dont really like any of your builds because u dont put vlads cuirass which is the core of brood and u put manta and phase i dont get why? that are so bad items for brood. Your skill build is also bad u were maxing spiders then webs u dont need to do that u should take 1 lvl of webs then max spiders and bite. Thats maybe just my opinion but i dont like this

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Quote | PM | +Rep by StevenLK » August 22, 2012 1:50am | Report
xscr wrote:

I dont really like any of your builds because u dont put vlads cuirass which is the core of brood and u put manta and phase i dont get why? that are so bad items for brood. Your skill build is also bad u were maxing spiders then webs u dont need to do that u should take 1 lvl of webs then max spiders and bite. Thats maybe just my opinion but i dont like this


I agree that broodmother doesnt need phase at all so even putting it in situational is pointless. Maxing spiderlings first and webs second is standard. The webs are so important to you since they give +ms and 8 hp regen per second at max lvl. Bite just cant be compared. Also, vlads is decent on brood but i wouldnt say its core and neither is ac. The only core brood has is bkb and soulring. Besides that, everything is luxury.

P.S Please fix your grammar. >_>

Edit: Almost forgot to say nice job on the guide. I just have to say that its better to start with the soul ring recipe instead of getting 3 branches if you decide to get a quelling blade.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » August 22, 2012 2:31am | Report
Hi, and thanks for the feedback, the only reason why I put phase as situational (although i usually don't get it) is because occasionally if your in a very tough lane/against heroes that revel truesight and the extra movespeed (combined with webspeed) can easily stop you getting ganked early and can help you escape if people come to defend your push. You max your 1st 2 skills, that's just standard, manta is great because you can split out of dusts, use them as wards and all your illusions get your passive, so if in a fight you click your illusion on a diffent hero, your bite will be placed on multiple foes, Linkins is just there incase your against heroes such as slarder and bounty hunter. Vlads really just delays core items and generally there are better carriers for an AC than brood, as she doesn't really gain that much from it, aside from the -5armor on buildings i guess.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Hades4u » August 22, 2012 2:55am | Report
You should also have an early level in Incapacitating Bite, that slow and miss chance is really useful for you, trust me, it comes in handy in chasing :) You got speed from your web, he has that slow, you'll catch him easily.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » August 22, 2012 4:34am | Report
well, my guide is for a solo-the-hardlane Brood, so the survivability of webs and spiderling harass/pushing is more important imho, but if your trying to be aggressive and get kills (e.g mid lane or easy lane) then yeah, one level could be picked up :)

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Quote | PM | +Rep by StevenLK » August 22, 2012 5:01am | Report
Its really easy to get kills as brood even without incapacitating bite since you potentially have unlimited mana for a 300 damage nuke when you get soul ring. The only reason why I max broodlings is because its her only nuke and its so easy to get kills with it early game in pubs.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by jaslam » August 22, 2012 6:19am | Report
I see nothing wrong with this build - It's pretty standard. Some may argue boots of travel over treads, but that's it.
Broods job is to push, if you were planning to farm her to be a semi-carry or carry, you picked the wrong hero. If you've got a strong lineup that can hold a tower well (turtle), it will be easy for brood to do her job of knocking out towers in a few seconds..
for push brood, I would also recommend a necronomicon - very good optional item
crit for carry brood is also good..

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » August 22, 2012 6:26am | Report
yeah, i'll put necros on for pushing brood, the reason i didn't put boots of travel is, unlike most pushers, brood can't easily move from lane to lane so its less efficient on her, but ty, i never thought about necros on brood :)

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » August 23, 2012 1:43am | Report
xscr wrote:

I dont really like any of your builds because u dont put vlads cuirass which is the core of brood and u put manta and phase i dont get why? that are so bad items for brood. Your skill build is also bad u were maxing spiders then webs u dont need to do that u should take 1 lvl of webs then max spiders and bite. Thats maybe just my opinion but i dont like this


Also, you do know that the +5armor aura doesn't stack if u get valds and ac, right? so its a waste to get both

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Jonathan Hancock » August 25, 2012 1:15am | Report
You shouldn't skip the basilius ring, it's main purpose is to give your spiders more pushing power, the ring's aura allows each spider to take 1 more hit which is incredible for pushing.

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