Broodmother — hero grid for mains

Broodmother is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Брудмазер” (or “бруда”, “паучиха” and “бруд”). Short names for Broodmother you will see in chat: “brood”.

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Hunts with her army of spiderlings”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Broodmother by any of “Broodmother”, “Брудмазер” and “brood”.

Broodmother: Agility attribute, shared with 34 other heroes; melee attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.

Role dots from Valve: Escape ●●●, Pusher ●●●, Carry ●○○, Nuker ●○○; full marks for Escape and Pusher.

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (19th of 35) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (5th of 59) band of By complexity.

Broodmother is played in two positions — mid (2) and carry (1) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is mid. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.64 · mid 1 · offlane 0.21 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Broodmother in the “2 · MID” and “1 · CARRY” rows and nowhere else.

Median gold per minute for Broodmother is 571, experience 774 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); by lane, 209 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 36% safe, 47% mid and 17% off. There are few matches with parsed lanes for Broodmother, so the positions are rough.

Broodmother is not in Classic: positions 1–5, which holds the 18 most popular heroes per position, but each row fits 20 portraits — add Broodmother to the “2 · MID” row with “+ Hero” and the portraits keep their size.

Other ready grids with Broodmother: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

The “Make a grid with Broodmother” button opens Mains + situational with Broodmother first in the MAINS block, followed by Ember Spirit, Sniper and Viper — all three share the same main position (mid) and the same attribute.

To get the grid into the game, press “Download grid” and, with Dota closed, put hero_grid_config.json into Steam → userdata → account number → 570 → remote → cfg — details in how to install a hero grid.

Broodmother has 86,306 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 117th of 127 by games played — and a 50.6% win rate, 45th of 127.

Rank barely changes the picture: 50.8% at Herald–Crusader and 50.4% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Broodmother more than usual at Herald (+92%) and less at Ancient (−33%).

Broodmother in the snapshot's pro matches: 1 pick, 0 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 66,598 games at 48.2%, worse than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Broodmother yet, but any art or screenshot of the hero turns into dots in Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as mid, the closest to Broodmother are Dragon Knight, Monkey King and Invoker — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.