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Version History

Version

Description

7.40b
(2025-12-23)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  +10 Incapacitating Bite attack damage bonus reduced to +8.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +25% Incapacitating Bite movement slow/miss chance reduced to +20%.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +14% Spin Web and unlocks max movement speed reduced to +7%.

   

  LVL 25

   

  -0.25s base attack time during Insatiable Hunger reduced to -0.2s.

7.40
(2025-12-15)

• Spin Web now benefits all Broodmother-created illusions.
• Increased Incapacitating Bite attack damage bonus from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • No longer increases Insatiable Hunger duration by 2.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +1.5% Spider's Milk enemy max health as heal ➜ +20% Insatiable Hunger lifesteal.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +125 Spiderlings health increased +150.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +12 Incapacitating Bite attack damage bonus reduced to +10.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +35 attack speed ➜ +25% Incapacitating Bite movement slow/miss chance.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +30% Incapacitating Bite movement speed slow/miss chance ➜ +14% Spin Web and unlocks max movement speed.

7.39b
(2025-05-29)

• Spin Web Necrotic Webs
  • Now follows the health restoration mechanic.
  • Applies a 10%/15%/20%/25% health restoration reduction.

7.39
(2025-05-21)

• CHANGED
  Spider's Milk buff dispel type from Death to None.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +0.5% Spider's Milk enemy max health as heal increased to +1.5%.

   

  LVL 15

   

  -5s Spin Web charge restore time ➜ +12 Incapacitating Bite attack damage bonus.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +12 Incapacitating Bite attack damage bonus ➜ -5s Spin Web charge restore time.

7.38b
(2025-03-05)

• Reduced base attack damage from 29‒35 to 27‒33.
• Spin Web Necrotic Webs no longer affect the enemy's Fountain area.

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Broodmother no longer is a Universal hero and has Agility as the primary attribute.
• Increased base strength and gain from 19 + 2.3 to 18 + 2.9.
• Increased agility gain from 2.6 to 3.4.
• Increased intelligence gain from 1.4 to 2.
• U
  Increased base attack damage from 8‒14 to 29‒35.
• Rescaled Spin Web Necrotic Webs health regen reduction from 15%/20%/25%/30% to 10%/30%/50%/70%.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +2 max Spin Webs ➜ +0.5% Spider's Milk enemy max health as heal.

   

  LVL 25

   

  -0.3s base attack time during Insatiable Hunger reduced to -0.25s.

7.37
(2024-07-31)

• Spin Web Necrotic Webs now applies the health regeneration reduction if Broodmother is within the same Spin Web as the enemy unit.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +3 max Spin Webs reduced to +2.

   

  LVL 15

   

  -7 Spin Web charge restore time reduced to -5s.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +10 Incapacitating Bite attack damage bonus increased to +12.

7.36b
(2024-06-05)

• Reduced Spider's Milk heal interval from 1 to 0.5.
• Spin Web
  • Increased cast range from 1000 to 1200.
  • Reduced Necrotic Webs enemy health regeneration reduction from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.

7.36
(2024-05-22)

• ADDED
  the Spider's Milk innate ability for Broodmother:
  • Grants Broodmother a stackable 3-second buff that heals her for 0.04 * DyingUnit MaxHP per second within 600 radius upon killing an enemy hero.
  • The heal utilizes the lifesteal mechanic and affects all of her player-controlled units.
  • Has a 0.6 creep heal factor.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • ADDED
    the Feeding Frenzy facet.
    • The ability is now an 800-radius aura that applies all ability effects to all Broodmother's Spiderlings.
• Spin Web
  • No longer grants health regeneration bonus to Broodmother and her Spiderlings.
  • REWORKED
    the movement speed component.
    • OLD
      Grants a max 10%/22%/34%/46% movement speed bonus based on the affected unit's max health. [?]
    • NEW
      Grants 10%/22%/34%/46% movement speed bonus to affected units.
  • ADDED
    the Necrotic Webs facet.
    • Additionally applies a 10%/15%/20%/25% health regeneration reduction to enemy units within the radius.
• REMOVED
  Silken Bola.
• ADDED
  new Incapacitating Bite ability.
  • This is now Broodmother's      third ability.
  • Attacks now passively applies a 2-second 30%/40%/50%/60% miss chance and a 15%/20%/25%/30% movement speed slow debuff.
  • Grants Broodmother and her Spiderlings 2/4/6/8 conditional attack damage bonus to attacks on the debuff units.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Now applies a 4-second 25%/35%/45% movement speed slow upon projectile impact.
  • Spiderling
    • Reduced health from 320 to 300.
    • REMOVED
      Spawn Spiderite.
    • ADDED
      new Spawn Spiderlings ability.
      • This is now Spiderling's   second ability, now creates Spiderlings instead.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  +150 Spiderlings health reduced +125.

   

  LVL 20

   

  400 Silken Bola radius ➜ +10 Incapacitating Bite attack damage bonus.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +35% Silken Bola movement speed slow/miss chance ➜ +30% Incapacitating Bite movement speed slow/miss chance.

7.34c
(2023-09-08)

• Spiderling
  • Reduced base attack time from 1.35 to 1.2.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  +130 Spiders health increased to +150.

7.34
(2023-08-08)

• Increased base strength from 18 to 19.
• Increased agility gain from 2.4 to 2.6.
• Reduced base armor from 0 to -1.
• Reduced Insatiable Hunger creep lifesteal multiplier from 1 to 0.6.
• Reduced Silken Bola damage from 120/140/160/180 to 90/120/150/180.

7.33e
(2023-07-13)

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased mana cost from 50/60/70/80 to 80 on each level.
  • Increased cooldown from 40/35/30/25 to 45/40/35/30.
• Reduced Silken Bola movement speed slow from 25%/35%/45%/55% to 10%/25%/40%/55%.

7.33d
(2023-06-15)

• Reduced Spin Web charge restore time from 30 to 27.
• Increased Silken Bola damage from 100/120/140/160 to 120/140/160/180.

7.33c
(2023-05-13)

• Reduced base attack damage from 14‒20 to 8‒14.

7.33b
(2023-04-25)

• Increased strength gain from 2 to 2.3.
• Increased base attack damage from 11‒17 to 14‒20.
• Increased attack range from 150 to 175.
• Increased Insatiable Hunger base attack damage bonus from 30%/40%/50%/60% to 40%/50%/60%/70%.
• Increased Spin Web radius from 900 to 1200.
• Reduced Spawn Spiderlings mana cost from 120 to 100.

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• Broodmother no longer has Agility as a primary attribute and is now a Universal hero.
• Reduced strength gain from 3.2 to 2.
• Reduced base agility and gain from 19 + 3.4 to 18 + 2.4.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 2 to 1.4.
• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Reduced base attack damage from 29‒35 to 11‒17.
• CHANGED
  Insatiable Hunger from granting 35/45/55/65 flat attack damage bonus to granting 30%/40%/50%/60% base attack damage bonus.
• Reduced Spin Web health regeneration bonus from 5/7/9/11 to 2/5/8/11.
• Reduced Spawn Spiderlings damage from 260/340/420 to 220/320/420.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • CHANGED
    Insatiable Hunger from granting a 12 flat attack damage bonus to granting 4% base attack damage bonus per second while active.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  -10s Spin Web charge restore time reduced to -7s.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +25 agility ➜ +35 attack speed.

7.32e
(2023-03-07)

• Spin Web
  • Reduced min movement speed bonus from 9%/14%/19%/24% to 5%/11%/17%/28%.
  • Reduced max movement speed bonus from 18%/28%/38%/48% to 10%/22%/34%/46%.
• Spiderling
  • Reduced duration from 40/45/50 to 40 on each level.
• Spiderite
  • Reduced duration from 60 to 40.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Spinner's Snare charge restore time from 20 to 30.

7.32d
(2022-11-29)

• Spiderling
  • Reduced daytime vision radius from 700 to 400.
  • Reduced nighttime vision radius from 700 to 400.
• Spiderite
  • U
    Reduced daytime vision radius from 700 to 400.
  • U
    Reduced nighttime vision radius from 700 to 400.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Spinner's Snare debuff duration from 4 to 3.

7.32c
(2022-09-27)

• Increased Spin Web health regeneration bonus from 3/5/7/9 to 5/7/9/11.

7.32b
(2022-08-30)

• Spin Web
  • Increased min movement speed bonus from 0% on each level to 9%/14%/19%/24%. [?]
  • No changes to the max movement speed bonus of 18%/28%/38%/48%.

7.32
(2022-08-24)

• Increased base movement speed from 280 to 285.
• Spin Web
  • Now increases all affected unit's turn rate by 0.2 within the radius.
  • Reduced movement speed bonus from 18%/30%/42%/54% to 18%/28%/38%/48%.
• Increased Silken Bola miss chance from 40% on each level to 40%/45%/50%/55%.
• REWORKED
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • OLD
    Silken Bola
    • Turns into a 550-radius area-targeted ability.
    • Increases miss chance to 80%.
  • NEW
    Insatiable Hunger
    • Increases duration by 2.
    • Grants an incremental 12 attack damage bonus per second while active.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  +16 agility ➜ +130 Spiders health. [?]

   

  LVL 20

   

  +400 health ➜ +25 agility.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +15% Silken Bola movement speed slow ➜ 400 Silken Bola radius.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +350 Spiders health ➜ +35% Silken Bola movement speed slow/miss chance.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +50/+50% Insatiable Hunger attack damage/lifesteal ➜ -0.3s base attack time during Insatiable Hunger.

7.31c
(2022-05-04)

• Reduced Spin Web mana cost from 50 to 40.

7.31
(2022-02-23)

• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Reduced Spiderling duration from 60 on each level to 40/45/50.
  • Spiderling
    • Rescaled attack damage from 14‒16 on each level to 13‒15/16‒18/19‒21.
    • Poison Sting
      • No longer deals 2 magical damage per second.
      • Rescaled movement speed slow from 8% on each level to 6%/8%/10%.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Spinner's Snare can now be cast from anywhere as long there is a Spin Web within 900 range of the targeted point. [?]

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +10 agility ➜ +3 max Spin Webs.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +30 attack speed ➜ +16 agility.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +50% Spiders damage against buildings ➜ +15% Silken Bola movement speed slow.

7.30e
(2021-10-28)

• Increased base movement speed from 275 to 280.
• Reduced Spin Web charge restore time from 40 to 30.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  -15s Spin Web charge restore time reduced to -10s.

7.30d
(2021-09-25)

• Increased Spin Web number of charges from 3/5/7/9 to 4/6/8/10.
• Increased Spawn Spiderlings damage from 240/320/400 to 260/340/420.

7.30c
(2021-09-11)

• Reduced Spin Web min health threshold for min movement speed bonus from 20% to 1%.
• Increased Silken Bola attack damage bonus against target from 5/6/7/8 to 6/7/8/9.

7.30b
(2021-08-23)

• Increased agility gain from 3 to 3.4.
• Increased Insatiable Hunger attack damage bonus from 35/40/45/50 to 35/45/55/65.

7.30
(2021-08-18)

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Spin Web's movement speed bonus now diminishes based on Broodmother's and her Spiderlings'/ Spiderites' current health, granting 100% of the bonus at full health, and 0% of the bonus when below 20% health.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Reduced damage from 300/370/440 to 240/320/400.
  • Increased mana cost from 100 to 120.
• REWORKED
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • OLD
    Spin Web
    • Increases the max amount of webs to 6/10/14/18.
    • Increases max charges to 6/10/14/18.
    • Increases movement speed bonus to 35%/50%/65%/80%.
  • NEW
    Grants Broodmother the Spinner's Snare ability.

Spinner's Snare

Creates an invisible line of web after a short formation time. If an enemy hero crosses the line, allies get notified with a ping on the minimap. After a brief movement speed slow, the hero gets rooted and revealed. The line disappears once the root expires, but other heroes may get affected by it during this time. Multiple lines cannot be made to overlap.

Cast range: 600

Line length: 900

Line width: 50

Formation time: 2

Max number of snares: 5

Movement speed slow: 100%

Damage per second: 100

Root delay: 0.25

Root duration: 4

Number of charges: 2

Charge restore time: 20

Mana cost: 100

Notes: Uses vector targeting. When having max lines, creating a new one destroys the oldest one. Only affects heroes, including clones, excluding illusions.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 20

   

  +15 Spiders attack damage ➜ +50% Spiders damage against buildings. [?]

7.29d
(2021-05-24)

• Reduced Insatiable Hunger lifesteal bonus from 70%/80%/90%/100% to 40%/60%/80%/100%.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • No longer reduces Spin Web charge restore time by 15.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  15% cooldown reduction ➜ -15s Spin Web charge restore time.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +18 Spiders attack damage reduced to +15.

7.29c
(2021-04-29)

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • No longer causes Spin Web to removes the max movement speed limit.

7.29b
(2021-04-16)

• Insatiable Hunger lifesteal bonus no longer works against allies.
• Increased Spawn Spiderlings number of Spiderlings from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6.

7.29
(2021-04-09)

• Increased base agility from 15 to 19.
• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
• Spin Web
  • Increased max amount of webs from 2/4/6/8 to 3/5/7/9.
  • Reduced movement speed bonus from 25%/35%/45%/55% to 18%/30%/42%/54%.
  • Increased max charges from 2/4/6/8 to 3/5/7/9.
  • Reduced charge restore time from 45 to 40.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • MOVED
    to the first ability slot. This is now a basic ability.
  • Rescaled attack damage bonus from 60/100/140 to 35/40/45/50.
  • Rescaled lifesteal bonus from 60%/100%/140% to 70%/80%/90%/100%.
  • Rescaled duration from 14 to 8/10/12/14.
  • Rescaled mana cost from 100 to 50/60/70/80.
  • Rescaled cooldown from 45 to 40/35/30/25.
• REMOVED
  Incapacitating Bite.
• REWORKED
  Silken Bola.
  • MOVED
    to the third ability slot. This is now a basic ability.

OLD

Silken Bola

Consumes a Spin Web charge and roots the target enemy for a short duration.

Cast time: 0.1

Cast range: 900

Damage per second: 75

Duration: 2.5

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 12

Notes: Requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked. Cannot be cast when having no Spin Web charges. The projectile travels at a speed of 1200 and is disjointable. Deals damage in 0.5-second intervals.

NEW

Silken Bola

Slows the target enemy and makes them miss some of their attacks. Deals damage on impact. Any unit attacking the debuffed target deals extra magical damage against it.

Cast time: 0.1

Cast range: 750

Impact damage: 100/120/140/160

Attack damage bonus against target: 5/6/7/8

Movement speed slow: 25%/35%/45%/55%

Miss chance: 40%

Duration: 6

Mana cost: 70/75/80/85

Cooldown: 24/20/16/12

Notes: The projectile travels at a speed of 1200 and is disjointable. The impact damage and attack damage bonus are both magical.

• Spawn Spiderlings
  • MOVED
    to the fourth ability slot. This is now Broodmother's ultimate ability.
  • Multiple casts now stack the debuff on the target. [?]
  • Increased cast range from 700 to 900.
  • Increased debuff duration from 2 to 20.
  • Rescaled damage from 70/140/210/280 to 300/370/440.
  • Rescaled number of Spiderlings from 1/2/3/4 to 3/4/5.
  • Rescaled cooldown from 11/10/9/8 to 9/8/7.
• REWORKED
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • OLD
    Grants Broodmother the Silken Bola ability.
  • NEW
    • Silken Bola
      • Turns into a 550-radius area-targeted ability.
      • Increases miss chance to 80%.
    • U
      Also reduces Spin Web charge restore time by 15 seconds.
• ADDED
  Attribute Bonus.

7.28b
(2021-01-10)

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Silken Bola root duration from 2 to 2.5.

7.28a
(2020-12-22)

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Silken Bola now also deals 75 damage per second. [?]

7.28
(2020-12-17)

• Reduced agility gain from 3.2 to 3.
• ADDED
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Broodmother:
  • Grants Broodmother the Silken Bola ability

Silken Bola

Consumes a Spin Web charge and roots the target enemy for a short duration.

Cast time: 0.1

Cast range: 900

Duration: 2

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 12

Notes: Does not pierce spell immunity. The projectile travels at a speed of 1200 and is disjointable.

7.27d
(2020-08-26)

• Rescaled Spin Web movement speed bonus from 20%/35%/50%/65% to 25%/35%/45%/55%.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Rescaled Spin Web movement speed bonus from 30%/50%/70%/90% to 35%/50%/65%/80%.

7.27c
(2020-07-17)

• Spiderite
  • Increased health from 100 to 120.
  • Reduced magic resistance from 40% to 25%.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +100 Spawn Spiderlings damage reduced to +80.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +25 Spiders attack damage reduced to +18.

7.27b
(2020-07-15)

• Increased agility gain from 2.8 to 3.2.
• Spiderling
  • Increased health from 280 to 320.
  • Reduced magic resistance from 40% to 25%.
• Increased Incapacitating Bite movement speed slow from 16%/26%/36%/46% to 20%/30%/40%/50%.

7.26c
(2020-05-02)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +200 health ➜ +10 agility.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +15 agility ➜ +30 attack speed.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +40 attack speed ➜ +400 health.

7.26b
(2020-04-28)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +250 health reduced to +200.

   

  LVL 10

   

  +125 Spawn Spiderlings damage reduced to +100.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +20 agility reduced to +15.

   

  LVL 15

   

  20% cooldown reduction reduced to 15%.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +50 attack speed reduced to +40.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +30 Spiders attack damage reduced to +25.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +450 Spiders health reduced to +350.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +60/+60% Insatiable Hunger attack damage/lifesteal reduced to +50/+50%.

7.26a
(2020-04-21)

• Reduced Spin Web movement speed bonus from 25%/40%/55%/70% to 20%/35%/50%/65%.

7.25
(2020-03-17)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +200 health increased to +250.

7.22g
(2019-09-06)

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Spin Web
    • Reduced max amount of webs 8/12/16/20 to 6/10/14/18.
    • Reduced max charges from 8/12/16/20 to 6/10/14/18.
    • Reduced movement speed bonus from 40%/60%/80%/100% to 30%/50%/70%/90%.

7.22e
(2019-07-14)

• Incapacitating Bite's blind now uses pseudo-random distribution.

7.22
(2019-05-24)

• Increased base attack speed from 100 to 125.
• ADDED
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Broodmother:
  • Spin Web
    • Increases the max amount of webs to 8/12/16/20.
    • Increases max charges to 8/12/16/20
    • Increases movement speed bonus to 40%/60%/80%/100%.
    • Now removes the max movement speed limit for all affected units.

7.21d
(2019-03-24)

• Increased base attack damage from 26‒32 to 29‒35.

7.21c
(2019-03-02)

• Increased agility gain from 2.5 to 2.8.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  +15 agility increased to +20.

7.21
(2019-01-29)

• Increased agility gain from 2.2 to 2.5.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +75 Spawn Spiderlings damage increased to +125.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +35% experience gain ➜ +15 agility.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +20 Spiders attack damage increased to +30.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +350 Spiders health increased to +450.

7.20d
(2018-11-30)

• Increased base movement speed from 270 to 275.

7.20
(2018-11-19)

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Spiderling
  • Reduced magic resistance from 50% to 40%.
  • Poison Sting no longer pierces spell immunity.
• Spiderite
  • Reduced magic resistance from 50% to 40%.

7.19b
(2018-09-01)

• Reduced base agility from 18 to 15.

7.19
(2018-07-29)

• Spin Web
  • Reduced movement speed bonus from 40%/50%/60%/70% to 25%/40%/55%/70%.
  • Increased charge restore time from 40 to 45.

7.16
(2018-05-27)

• Spiderling
  • Increased health from 250 to 280.

7.15
(2018-05-10)

• Increased base strength from 17 to 18.

7.14
(2018-04-26)

• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Reduced mana cost from 120 to 100.
  • Rescaled cooldown from 10 on each level to 11/10/9/8.
  • Spiderling
    • Reduced attack damage from 18‒19 to 14‒16.
    • Reduced armor from 8 to 0.
    • Reduced gold bounty from 11‒13 to 9 .
    • Reduced experience bounty from 31 to 9 .
    • Spiderite
      • Reduced armor from 8 to 0.
      • Reduced gold bounty from 16‒21 to 3 .
      • Reduced experience bounty from 20 to 3 .

7.07d
(2017-12-19)

• Spiderling and
  • Reduced daytime vision from 1100 to 700.
  • Reduced nighttime vision from 800 to 700.
• Spiderite
  • Reduced daytime vision from 1100 to 700.
  • Reduced nighttime vision from 800 to 700.

7.07c
(2017-11-17)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +60 Spawn Spiderlings damage increased to +75.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +60 attack speed reduced to +50.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +75/+75% Insatiable Hunger attack damage/lifesteal reduced to +60/+60%.

7.07
(2017-10-31)

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 270.
• Spiderling
  • Increased magic resistance from 0% to 50%.
  • Increased armor from 0 to 8.
  • Reduced health from 450 to 250.
  • Increased health regeneration from 0.5 to 2.
  • Spiderite
    • Increased magic resistance from 0% to 50%.
    • Increased armor from 0 to 8.
    • Reduced health from 175 to 100.
    • Increased health regeneration from 0.5 to 2.
• Spin Web
  • No longer grants invisibility with a 2 second fade delay.
  • No longer loses free pathing or halves movement speed for 6 seconds upon taking player-based and Roshan-based damage.
  • Increased max charges from 1/2/3/4 to 2/4/6/8.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +25% experience gain ➜ +200 health.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +350 health ➜ +35% experience gain.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +70 attack speed reduced to +60.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +14 Spiders attack damage increased to +20.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +225 Spiders health increased to +350.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +8 max Spin Webs ➜ +75/+75% Insatiable Hunger attack damage/lifesteal.

7.06e
(2017-07-02)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 20

   

  +12 Spiders attack damage increased to +14.

7.06b
(2017-05-21)

• Increased Spin Web health regeneration bonus from 2/4/6/8 to 3/5/7/9.

7.06
(2017-05-15)

• Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.8.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.

7.05
(2017-04-09)

• Increased Incapacitating Bite movement speed slow from 14%/24%/34%/44% to 16%/26%/36%/46%.

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  +325 health increased to +350.

   

  LVL 25

   

  +200 Spiders health increased to +225.

7.04
(2017-03-23)

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased lifesteal bonus from 60%/90%/120% to 60%/100%/140%.
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 60/90/120 to 60/100/140.

7.03
(2017-03-15)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 15

   

  +250 health increased to +325.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +50 attack speed increased to +70.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +8 Spiders attack damage increased to +12.

7.02
(2017-02-08)

• Talents:
   

  LVL 10

   

  +15% experience gain increased to +25%.

   

  LVL 10

   

  +10 agility ➜ +60 Spawn Spiderlings damage.

   

  LVL 15

   

  +7 armor ➜ +250 health.

   

  LVL 20

   

  +300 health ➜ +8 Spiders attack damage. [?]

7.01
(2016-12-20)

• Increased Incapacitating Bite movement speed slow from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 14%/24%/34%/44%.

7.00
(2016-12-12)

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Can no longer be dispellable.
  • Increased lifesteal bonus from 60%/80%/100% to 60%/90%/120%.
• REMOVED
  Attribute Bonus.

• ADDED
    Talents:

  +15% experience gain

   Level 10 

  +10 agility

  +7 armor

   Level 15 

  20% cooldown reduction

  +50 attack speed

   Level 20 

  +300 health

  +200 Spiders health [?]

   Level 25 

  +8 max Spin Webs

6.87
(2016-04-25)

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
• Spawn Spiderlings is now dispellable.

6.86
(2015-12-16)

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Reduced Spawn Spiderlings damage from 75/150/225/300 to 70/140/210/280.
• Spiderling
  • CHANGED
    attack type from Chaos to Hero.

6.85b
(2015-11-01)

• Spiderling
  • Reduced Poison Sting movement speed slow from 12% to 8%.

6.84c
(2015-05-18)

• Spiderling
  • Reduced Poison Sting movement speed slow from 15% to 12%.

6.84
(2015-04-30)

• Hero kills by Spiderlings and Spiderites now provide Experience credit to the hero.
• Incapacitating Bite is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier.
• Increased Insatiable Hunger attack damage bonus from 60/80/100 to 60/90/120.

6.83
(2014-12-17)

• Reduced the following units' daytime vision from 1400 to 1100.
  • Spiderling
  • Spiderite

6.82
(2014-09-25)

• Spin Web
  • Now has 1/2/3/4 charges with a 40 second restore time, instead of a 30 second cooldown. [?]
  • Can now be cast from anywhere as long as the new web touches another.
  • Unobstructed movement is now lost for 6 seconds upon taking damage, instead of 3.
  • Movement speed bonus is now doubled while having unobstructed movement.
  • Unobstructed movement and movement speed bonuses now affect Spiderlings and Spiderites.
  • Now destroys trees around Broodmother or her spiders upon them losing the unobstructed movement.
  • Spin Webs are now selectable units.
    • ADDED
      the Destroy Spin Web sub-ability, instantly destroys the selected web when used.

6.81
(2014-04-29)

• Spiderling
  • Increased Poison Sting damage per second from 4 to 8.
• Spin Web
  • Unobstructed movement is no longer lost when enemies have vision over Broodmother.
  • Unobstructed movement is now lost for 3 seconds when Broodmother takes damage.

Notes: Uses the same damage source rules as Blink Dagger.

• Increased Insatiable Hunger lifesteal bonus from 40%/60%/80% to 60%/80%/100%.

6.80
(2014-01-29)

• Spin Web
  • No longer provides 200 daytime and nighttime vision.
  • No longer allows Broodmother to leave the map boundaries.
  • Unobstructed movement is now lost when enemies have vision over Broodmother.

6.79
(2013-10-21)

• REMOVED
  from Captain's Mode.
• Spin Web
  • Increased radius from 650 to 900.
  • Increased cast range from 600 to 1000.
  • Increased cast point from 0.2 to 0.4.
  • No longer destroys trees.
  • Now grants Broodmother unobstructed movement.
  • Bonuses no longer linger and are instantly lost upon leaving a Spin Web.

6.78
(2013-06-04)

• Increased Spawn Spiderlings number of Spiderlings from 1/2/3/3 to 1/2/3/4.
• Increased Incapacitating Bite enemy miss chance from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 30%/40%/50%/60%.

6.75
(2012-10-04)

• Spiderite
  • Increased gold bounty from 11‒13 to 16‒21.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • No longer grants 2/4/6/8 attack damage.
  • Increased enemy miss chance from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.

6.72d
(2011-07-22)

• CHANGED
  Broodmother hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO. [?]
  • Increased collision size from 18 to 27.
  • Increased bound radius from 12 to 24.
• Fixed ability interactions between Static Remnant and Spin Web.

6.72c
(0000-01-01)

• Reduced base movement speed from 310 to 295.
• CHANGED
  Broodmother hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL.
  • Reduced collision size from 27 to 18.
  • Reduced bound radius from 24 to 12.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Reduced number of spiderlings from 1/2/3/4 to 1/2/3/3.
  • Rescaled mana cost from 80/100/120/140 to 120 on each level.
• Spiderling
  • CHANGED
    armor type from Normal to Heavy.
  • CHANGED
    attack type from Normal to Chaos.
  • Increased model size to make them easier to distinguish from Spiderites.
• Spiderite
  • CHANGED
    armor type from Normal to Heavy.
• Spin Web
  • Now also affects Spiderlings and Spiderites.
  • Increased radius from 500 to 650.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 20%/23%/26%/29% to 20%/25%/30%/35%.
  • Reduced cooldown from 90/70/50/30 to 30 on each level.

6.71
(0000-01-01)

• Reduced base movement speed from 315 to 310.
• Fixed Spin Web having a health bar.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Fixed ability interactions with Ethereal sources.
  • Increased debuff duration from 0.9 to 2.
  • Increased mana cost from 75/90/105/120 to 80/100/120/140.

6.70
(2011-01-18)

• ADDED
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Broodmother has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.69
(0000-01-01)

• Spiderling
  • Increased experience bounty from 20 to 31 .

6.67c
(0000-01-01)

• Fixed ability interactions between Insatiable Hunger and the Beetles.

6.68
(0000-01-01)

• Reduced base armor from 2 to 0.

6.66b
(0000-01-01)

• Fixed ability interactions between Essence Shift with enemy transformation abilities (e.g. Insatiable Hunger).

6.63
(0000-01-01)

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased lifesteal bonus from 40%/55%/70% to 40%/60%/80%.
  • Increased duration from 12 to 14.

6.60
(0000-01-01)

• CHANGED
  the following units' armor type from Medium to Normal:
  • Spiderling
  • Spiderite

6.55
(0000-01-01)

• Spin Web
  • Reduced daytime vision radius from 500 to 200.
  • Reduced nighttime vision radius from 500 to 200.
  • Reduced mana cost from 140 to 50.
  • Reduced cooldown from 90/75/60/45 to 90/70/50/30.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 60/75/90 to 60/80/100.
  • Reduced lifesteal bonus from 40%/60%/80% to 40%/55%/70%.
  • Reduced duration from 20 to 12.

6.54
(0000-01-01)

• ADDED
  Unique Attack Modifier notes for the following abilities:
  • Insatiable Hunger
  • Incapacitating Bite
• Increased transparency of Spin Web to prevent them from blocking vision.

6.52
(0000-01-01)

• Rescaled Insatiable Hunger cooldown from 60/45/30 to 45 on each level.

6.50
(2008-02-06)

• Spin Web
  • No longer provides True Sight.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 20% on each level to 20%/23%/26%/29%.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Can no longer be dispelled.
  • Increased lifesteal bonus from 40%/50%/60% to 40%/60%/80%.
  • Reduced cooldown from 60 on each level to 60/45/30.

6.49
(0000-01-01)

• Reduced attack point from 0.5 to 0.4.
• Increased attack backswing from 0.3 to 0.5.
• Reduced the following abilities' cast point from 0.5 to 0.2:
  • Spawn Spiderlings
  • Spin Web
  • Insatiable Hunger

6.40
(2007-01-13)

• Spiderling
  • Increased health from 350 to 450.

6.39
(2007-01-02)

• Fixed Poison Sting slowing attack speed instead of movement speed.
• Increased Spin Web health regeneration bonus from 2 on each level to 2/4/6/8.

6.35
(2006-08-02)

• Increased base armor from 0 to 2.
• CHANGED
  the following units' armor type from Heavy to Medium:
  • Spiderling
  • Spiderite

6.34
(2006-06-22)

• Spin Web
  • Now provides 500 daytime and nighttime vision within its radius.
  • No longer blocks neutral creep camps.

6.24
(2005-11-17)

• Fixed an issue with Spin Web in Deathmatch mode.

6.20
(2005-11-04)

• Reduced Insatiable Hunger duration from 30 to 20.

6.19
(2005-10-01)

• Updated Spin Web ability tooltips.

6.18
(2005-09-25)

• Fixed Spiderlings giving way more Experience than intended.

6.17
(2005-09-23)

• Increased base movement speed from 313 to 315.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Fixed Spiderlings and Spiderites from crashing the game.
  • Spiderling
    • Increased attack damage from 15‒16 to 18‒19.
  • Spiderite
    • Increased attack damage from 7‒8 to 9‒10.
• Spin Web
  • Reduced mana cost from 200 to 140.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 10% to 20%.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Reduced attack damage bonus from 60/90/120 to 60/75/90.
  • Increased duration from 20 to 30.
  • Reduced mana cost from 125/145/175 to 100 on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 100/90/80 to 60 on each level.

6.15
(2005-09-13)

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 40/75/85 to 60/90/120.
  • Increased duration from 15 to 20.

6.10
(2005-07-09)

• Updated hero description.
• Spin Web
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Now provides True Sight within its radius.
• Updated Insatiable Hunger ability tooltips.

6.00
(2005-03-01)

• Increased strength gain from 2 to 2.5.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Reduced miss chance from 10%/20%/35%/45% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 15%/25%/40%/50% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
• Fixed Spin Web granting permanent invisibility.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Added ability icon.
  • Reduced attack damage bonus from 50/75/100 to 40/75/85.
  • Reduced mana cost from 125/175/225 to 125/145/175.

5.74
(2004-10-11)

• Incapacitating Bite
  • Increased proc chance from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 100% on each level.
  • Reduced miss chance from 90% on each level to 10%/20%/35%/45%.
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 80% on each level to 15%/25%/40%/50%.
  • Now passively grants 2/4/6/8 attack damage bonus.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 25/50/75 to 50/75/100.
  • Increased duration from 10 to 15.

5.72
(2004-10-06)

• Changed Spin Web invisibility type.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Reduced chance to proc from 100% on each level to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
  • Increased miss chance from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 90% on each level.
  • Increased movement speed slow from 25%/35%/50%/65% to 80% on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 4 to 0.

5.65
(2004-09-23)

• Spiderling
  • Increased Poison Sting movement speed slow from 10% to 15%.
  • REWORKED
    Spawn Spiderite.

OLD

Spawn Spiderite

Can inject an egg in an enemy unit to create a Spiderite. If a unit dies with the debuff, a Spiderite is born.

Cast range: 700

Number of Spiderites: 1

Debuff duration: 3

Spiderite duration: 30

Cooldown: 14

Notes: Single-target ability with Autocast on by default. The Spiderlings uses this whenever it is off cooldown and an enemy is within range.

NEW

Spawn Spiderite

Plants Spiderite eggs in enemies. If the unit dies with the debuff, a Spiderite is born.

Number of Spiderites: 1

Debuff duration: 2

Spiderite duration: 60

Notes: Passive ability, which causes all attacks of the Spiderling to debuff enemies.

• Spin Web
  • Increased max allowed webs from 1/2/3/4 to 2/4/6/8.
  • Reduced mana cost from 250 to 200.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Increased movement speed slow from 25% on each level to 25%/35%/50%/65%.
  • Now has a 4 second cooldown.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • No longer drains 5% max health per second.
  • Increased cooldown from 90/80/70 to 100/90/80.

5.64
(2004-09-19)

• Fixed Spin Web's buffs lasting permanently on Broodmother.

5.63
(2004-09-19)

• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Can no longer be cast on allied units.
  • Spiderling
    • RENAMED
      Spawn Spiderling into Spawn Spiderite.
    • Spin Web no longer affects Spiderlings and Spiderites.
      • Can no longer be cast on allied units.
      • No longer deals 5 damage per second.
      • Increased cooldown from 8 to 14.
      • Now spawns a Spiderite, instead of another Spiderling.

Spiderite stats:

Health: 175

Attack damage: 7‒8

Armor: 0

Duration: 30

• Incapacitating Bite
  • Increased proc chance from 20%/30%/40%/50% to 100% on each level.
  • Reduced enemy miss chance from 50% on each level to 10%/20%/30%/40%.

5.62
(2004-09-18)

• CREATED

Patch History

Patch

Description

15 Dec 2025

• Updated base model and textures.

10 Nov 2025

• Updated Spin Web particle effects.

27 Sep 2023

• Typing Arachnia in the hero selection now highlights Broodmother.

30 Aug 2023

• Increased versus scale from 0.84 to 0.93.
• ADDED
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Broodmother has the following values: Female 1, Parent 1, Red 1, Legs 8 and Nose 0.

01 Jun 2023

• Updated Spawn Spiderlings ability backend strings.

27 Mar 2023

• Updated Spin Web ability backend strings.

14 Mar 2023

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed vector targeting abilities (e.g. Spinner's Snare) malfunctioning.

06 Feb 2023

• Updated the following abilities' backend strings:
  • Silken Bola
  • Poison Sting

01 Dec 2022

• Updated Insatiable Hunger ability tooltips.

29 Nov 2022

• Updated Spawn Spiderlings ability tooltips.

11 Nov 2022

• Updated Spinner's Snare ability backend strings.

03 Nov 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated the following abilities' descriptions:
    • Silken Bola
    • Spinner's Snare

29 Sep 2022

• Updated Spin Web ability tooltips.

14 Sep 2022

• Updated Silken Bola ability damage type tooltips.

09 May 2022

• Fixed acquiring Spin Web web charges talent granting more than the maximum charge allowed.

07 Mar 2022

• Updated Poison Sting ability descriptions.

04 Nov 2021

• Updated Spin Web lore description.
• Updated Spinner's Snare error message.

16 Sep 2021

• Updated Silken Bola modifier description.

11 Sep 2021

• Updated the following ability descriptions:
  • Spin Web
  • Spinner's Snare

19 Aug 2021

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Spinner's Snare's modifiers missing its description.

18 Aug 2021

• Spinner's Snare
  • Added error message to ability: Can't overlap Sticky Snares.
  • UPDATE 3
    • Fixed missing ability icon.

09 Apr 2021

• Updated Silken Bola particle effects.

18 Jul 2020

• Fixed Spiderling attack damage bonus talent from 18 to 20.

30 Nov 2017

• Added dark version of Spin Web.

06 Nov 2017

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated hero description, removing invisibility from it.

28 Nov 2017

• Spiderling
  • Added LOD0 support at 1000 polygons.
  • Reduced LOD1 from 1000 to 800.

17 Oct 2017

• Fixed ability tooltips.

14 Jul 2017

• Added additional bones for the default hero model.

23 Jun 2017

• Fixed Spin Web disappearing when Broodmother was not visible.

08 Jun 2017

• Updated minimap icon to match the default hero model.

17 Mar 2017

• Updated Spiderling talent stating spiders instead of spiderlings.

13 Jan 2017

• Fixed a bug which prevented Spiderling and Spiderite from saving into selection groups correctly.

21 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default item build.

15 Dec 2016

• Updated Spin Web web strand's particles so that the webs are more visible in certain terrains.

26 Jul 2016

• Updated Arcane Rune responses.

24 Mar 2016

• Spiderling and Spiderite
  • Now can be set to two different control groups.
  • Fixed Spiderling destroying nearby trees when they die.
  • Fixed a rare case where Spiderling could fail to summon Spiderite.
  • Fixed Poison Sting sometimes not crediting you for the kill.
  • Fixed Spiderling destroying nearby trees when they die.
• Fixed Destroy Spin Web from proccing Magic Stick
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Fixed ability's blind not affecting illusions.
  • Fixed a rare case where the ability would stop working when the debuff was placed by illusions first.

17 Feb 2016

• Updated workshop files of Broodmother and Spiderling to Source 2.

27 Jan 2016

• Fixed Spin Web ambient sounds.

05 Jan 2016

• Fixed Spin Web charge restore time not properly affected by cooldown reduction sources (i.e. Octarine Core or Arcane Rune).
• Spin Webs are now always visible for allies and spectators.

19 Jun 2015

• Fixed Spin Web from blocking neutral creeps from spawning in their camps.

29 Apr 2015

• UPDATE 5 (TEST)
  • Fixed Incapacitating Bite not being disable by Break.

04 Feb 2015

• Fixed Spin Web being refreshable.

17 Dec 2014

• Fixed the damage source of the Poison Sting to be Spiderling instead of Broodmother.

20 Nov 2014

• ADDED
  to Captain's Mode.

17 Oct 2014

• Fixed Spiderling's Poison Sting dealing two instances of damage instead of one instance per interval.

25 Sep 2014

• Spin Web
  • UPDATE 4 (TEST)
    • Fixed ability interactions with Reset Cooldowns.
    • Fixed visibility issue when multiple Spin Webs were in the same area.
    • Improved drag selection behavior on the Spin Web units.
    • Added a buff icon to show the remaining duration is left when Broodmother taken damage for Spin Web phase to be active.
    • Fixed movement speed under Spin Webs not updating properly in the HUD.
  • UPDATE 5 (TEST)
    • Fixed Spin Web ambient sound not stopping when the web is destroyed.

24 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed a Broodmother related crash.
  • Spin Web
    • Fixed various bugs with ability charges.
    • Fixed Spin Web selection priority.
• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Added new icon for the Destroy Spin Web ability.

29 Apr 2014

• Adjusted custom Spiderling hitboxes to be more consistent with default models.
• Fixed revealing Broodmother's position when leveling up Spin Web.
• Fixed Insatiable Hunger would not lifesteal from Spirit Bear.

18 Dec 2013

• Updated Dota2 workshop model and texture files.

21 Oct 2013

• Updated ability icons.

28 Mar 2013

• Fixed Insatiable Hunger cooldown on level 1 and 3.

30 Nov 2012

• Updated default hero model.

11 Oct 2012

• Fixed Incapacitating Bite working against the following Wards:
  • Observer Ward
  • Sentry Ward

03 Oct 2012

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed Incapacitating Bite ability tooltip still stating the bonus damage values.

02 Aug 2012

• U
  Added teleport animations.

25 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed not being able to ⇱⇲ Drag-select Spiderlings and Spiderites by dragging over their models.

12 Jul 2012

• Fixed Spawn Spiderite proccing on spell immune units (i.e. Undying Zombie).

11 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed Spiderling and Spiderite dying counting as denies.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.

26 Apr 2012

• U
  Updated the hero selection portrait.

28 Mar 2012

• U
  Updated default hero textures.

15 Mar 2012

• Fixed Demonic Purge not removing Insatiable Hunger.

08 Mar 2012

• U
  Added idle injured animations.

01 Mar 2012

• U
  Added new run animation for Spiderling.

16 Feb 2012

• U
  Added injured animations.
• U
  Added chase animations.

12 Jan 2012

• Fixed Spawn Spiderite working on Observer Ward and Sentry Ward.
• Fixed Repel revealing Broodmother under Spin Web.
• Summoned units now draw larger on the minimap.

16 Dec 2011

• Fixed Insatiable Hunger working against illusions.

08 Dec 2011

• Fixed Spin Webs not showing up if you connected after they were created.

27 Oct 2011

• ADDED
  to Captain's Mode.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Added ability voice lines.
  • Fixed ability not being a projectile.
  • Fixed Poison Sting from affecting wards.
  • Fixed Spiderling abilities (i.e. Poison Sting and Spawn Spiderite) working on buildings and Siege Creep.
• Fixed the wrong Spin Web sometimes getting removed when a new one is added.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Fixed ability being dispelable.
  • Fixed bonus damage being considered as base damage.

20 Oct 2011

• ADDED
  Broodmother.