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By GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026

Broodmother

Melee · Agility

Win rate
49.8%
Pick share
0.2%
Matches
92,019
Patch
7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsCarryPusherEscapeNuker
NeedsSupportInitiatorDisablerFrontline

Recommendation

Pick

  • The game is heading for 0–20 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 67.0% over 1,704 matches.
  • You are playing around Divine — its strongest medal, 51.1% over 5,421 picks.

Avoid

  • Shadow Demon is on their side — this hero wins 37.5% of 40 matches against it.
  • Jakiro is on their side — this hero wins 44.2% of 52 matches against it.
  • Tiny is on their side — this hero wins 45.7% of 35 matches against it.

What players buy

The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages

Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
154 buys
2ndSecond most
94 buys
3rdThird most
62 buys
4thFourth most
46 buys
5thFifth most
37 buys

Skill Order

Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Broodmother took at each level.

W

Spin Web

Spins 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.

Point Target · AOE
E

Incapacitating Bite

Broodmother'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.

Passive
R

Spawn Spiderlings

Broodmother injects her young into an enemy unit, dealing damage and slowing them for 4 seconds.

Unit Target · Magical damage

Level-up Order

  • W
  • E
  • R
Ability123456
WSpin WebWWWW
EIncapacitating BiteE
RSpawn SpiderlingsR

Matchup map

How Broodmother performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games

23 opponents · public matches40%60%Broodmother's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard

If this happens, use this

  • They are running away

    Something that holds them still, or closes the gap yourself. Matched on “slow”.

  • Kill them in one window

    Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”.

  • Clear or push the wave

    Creeps, summons and anything that hits a building. Matched on “creep”.

  • Stay in lane

    Healing, regeneration or lifesteal — not having to walk back. Matched on “heals”, “healing”.

By medal

  • Herald49.7%4,190
  • Guardian50.3%11,225
  • Crusader49.6%15,690
  • Archon49.2%16,785
  • Legend50.0%14,116
  • Ancient50.7%7,739
  • Divine51.1%5,421

One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.

By match length

  • 0–20 min67.0%1,704
  • 20–30 min52.5%3,220
  • 30–40 min51.0%1,997
  • 40–50 min50.6%777
  • 50 min +43.0%305

Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.

Learning Broodmother

Abilities

  • Insatiable Hunger

    No Target · Physical damage

    A violent lust for vital fluids increases Broodmother's attack damage and gives her and her Spiderlings a vampiric attack.

  • Spin Web

    Point Target · AOE

    Spins 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.

  • Incapacitating Bite

    Passive

    Broodmother'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.

  • Spinner's Snare

    Point Target · Hidden · Channeled · Magical damage

  • Spider's Milk

    Passive · Hidden

    Whenever 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

    Unit Target · Magical damage

    Broodmother 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.

Base attributes

Strength
18 +2.9
Agility
18 +3.4
Intelligence
18 +2.0
Move · range
285 · 175

Talents

  • 4BAT during Insatiable HungerSpin Web Move Speed and Ignore Speed Limit
  • 3Spin Web Charge Restore TimeIncapacitating Bite Slow/Miss Chance
  • 2Incapacitating Bite Attack BonusSpiderlings Health
  • 1Spawn Spiderlings DamageInsatiable Hunger Lifesteal

Aghanim’s Scepter

Changes Spinner's Snare

Broodmother may create up to 5 invisible web lines touching any existing web. Enemy Heroes that cross the web line will spring the trap, becoming rooted, revealed in fog, and take damage over time. Multiple Heroes can trip on the same line until it's destroyed after being initially triggered. Broodmother's team is alerted via the minimap when an enemy has triggered the snare.

Aghanim’s Shard

Changes Insatiable Hunger

While Hunger is active, the bonus damage is increased by 4% every 1s.

Sources

  • Kit, talents and upgrades · mechanicalread 22 Sept 2026

    Ability names, icons, behaviour, damage type and text, plus the Aghanim’s Scepter and Shard descriptions — as the game itself ships them. Nothing here was counted over matches.

  • Win rate by medal · countedread 15 Sept 2026

    The same hero at each of Valve’s eight medals, over 4,610,063 public matches. Each medal carries its own sample, because the eight buckets are nothing like the same size.

  • Matchups and match length · counted, on a narrower windowread 16 Sept 2026

    Win rate against each opponent and across five match-length bands. This channel reports far fewer games than the medal figures above: the median hero pairing is 51 matches and the largest on the whole roster is 707. Rows under 30 games are absent rather than shown small, and the ones that remain are ORDERED by a figure shrunk toward even by its own sample — the rate you see is the real one, the ranking is the careful one.

  • What players build · countedread 15 Sept 2026

    The five most common items in each of Valve’s four game stages, with each row’s own pick count.

  • Skill order · counted, in league matchesread 3 Oct 2026

    Where skill points go, read off every player's own learning order in premium and professional league matches on patches 7.41 and 7.40. Each level shows the ability most players took there and the share that did — a column only a third agree on is printed as a third, not as the rule. Heroes under 30 counted games show no path.

  • Situation index · derived, and checkableread 22 Sept 2026

    Each situation is a phrase match against Valve’s own ability text, and every row shows the phrases that matched. No win rate is attached, because nobody counts one per situation.

Mechanics are the ones Valve publishes for patch 7.41f. GamGem is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation.