Natalie Broodmother

By Natalie

here is an essay on how to be an awful person and a bad dota player enjoyBrood is a hero that is good. If you would like to play this hero and have no idea what to do, then look at my guide so you know what NOT to do... Kappa?I always start my Broodmother games with the same item build. Tangos for regen, Salve, 1 Set of sentry wards and the Soul Ring Recipe. I am to complete my Soul ring recipe ASAP, as I believe this item to be the most important item in the early game on brood, as your Q is so mana dependant. Once I have completed my SR, I go for treads, as you do not need phase in webs and you rely a lot on the attack speed that treads provide no matter what build you decide on going for. Then I go for I Vladimir’s Offering, as the Regeneration is not only great on brood herself, but more importantly on her spiderlings, as it allows them to survive whilst stealing enemy jungle camps and attacking heroes.This is now where the choice lies. Option A is to go full yolo and build Dagon into Dagon etc until you reach level 5, then build that straight into Ethereal Blade (Kappa) and then pushing and survivability items like Manta style and Butterfly. This build is exceptional against lineups with squishy carries and support heroes, such as crystal maiden and Witch Doctor, but suffers in the late game or against heroes with built in Magic resistance like Anti Mage or Rubick. I usually go this build because it’s the most fun and allows me to finish quickly against heroes that I do not want to fight late game, however this build is very 'All in' and if you fail you will likely lose the game and will be useless late game.Option B however is to Build right Click damage items, and to use these in tandem with your Ultimate ability. This build opts to go for a Yasha into Manta Style after vlads, then to go for Crit and then butterfly. This option allows you to fight much more of the higher HP heroes in the Game like Centaur and Pudge, without having to rely on Dagon or Spiderlings for your Damage. I do not go this build a lot anymore, but I do everytime against heroes such as Shadow Demon, Kunkka or Legion Commander, where spiderlings are not a viable option to spam at all.**Okay also i am adding option c because its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ funny, Go Radiance first after soul right and then go orchid, proceed to delete people (assuming you can get both of those before 20mins). Idk this build is pretty useless but its good against AM, QoP or if the enemy have an earthshaker and you have faster fingers than Dendi. I only started doing this recently because i had a compendium challenge or something i dunno lol works for me xd**Option A heavily relies on spiderlings for damage along with your Dagon, which is why the soul ring is so important on Brood, as all of these items and spells are very mana heavy.On lane I like to use my Q twice before gaining my soul ring, only once I have hit level 2 Spiderlings. This is because I now have 4 spiders from the spell itself, as well as a possible 4 more from the last hits gained from spiderlings themselves. Once I have 8 and my soul ring is available I will usually go for a kill on the support if possible, using the spiders alone to do the damage whilst I stay back, then using the Q to finish the kill. This method is amazing for supports and carries who only have single target spells to stun you such as Rubick or Vengeful Spirit.Once I have a kill or 2 I will place webs in their jungle, on the large camp for the dire jungle and the Radiant medium camp for radiant. Then I will farm the camps or kill their jungler if I can, to keep my spiderling count high and to continue my farm. Then I will keep repeating this whilst slowly expanding my area of kills and farm, whilst always keeping an eye out for roaming ganks from the jungle or the enemy mid hero.Here is my guide for web locations, which I have learnt over time to be the best locations for my webs. Sometimes I may place one in order to get Roshan or a kill, but I will always revert back to these locations. They allow me to farm almost all of the enemies jungle (especially on Dire offlane) whilst still being able to push lanes and towers effectively. I place the webs so that they do not overlap visibly, yet the invisibility and movement speed buffs are never quite broken when changing webs. Ignore the terrible quality lol, but the Black numbers indicate the first 8 webs you have as broodmother, as you can only have 8 at a time. The first should be placed at the creep equilibrium point, where the edge just allows access to the enemy’s side shop and the majority of the side of the web is in the trees opposite. This allows you to access their secret shop whilst giving you as much room as possible to chase people away from lane whilst still in webs. The next web entirely depends on your success in lane and if the enemy is pushing the creep wave. If the enemy is pushing hard web number 2 is placed in front of your Offlane T1 tower, as you will have to fall back to farm the creeps. If you push the lane, then the web towards their Safelane T1 is the best bet, as you again, need to follow the farm in the extremely early game. The order does not matter and you will need to place webs in both places anyway. If necessary on both Offlanes a 4th temporary web can be placed behind their T1 so you can dive the forest, but this is not very common with my playstyle. The 4th web I place is towards the enemy jungle. Radiant offlane is the better option by far as it is only 1 web placement away from the camp, which you can farm with your spiderlings in order to gain extra spiders and to farm whilst the creepwave is under the enemies T1 tower. For Dire offlane, you need to place 2, so make sure that you have time, mana and cooldowns required to place the 2 webs. The idea is still the same though. However for Dire offlane, you can place the web so that it covers both the Medium camp and the top of the Small pull camp through the trees, which you can pass through via web.The red web numbers are the ones you will aim for in the later stages of your brood game, if things are going well. This is where your aim is to dominate the ememy jungle and push the safelane barracks. I have only included 7 for both as it is convenient to have an extra web to place on the map, for example you may be chasing somebody who runs out of webs, or you would like to Solo roshan.Radiant Jungle (Dire offlane Broodmother) : http://oi57.tinypic.com/28uovm.jpg Dire Jungle (Radiant offlane Broodmother) : http://oi60.tinypic.com/mi1k6p.jpg Please comment on my guide and let me know what changes you would recommend for my build and playstyle, and give an appropriate rating. Thanks and enjoy the tears of your enemies :P :] /