Aui_2000 interviewed by joinDOTA

An except from the interview

Unconventional builds indeed. In one of the games against CLG, you showcased an item/skill build on Broodmother that would make some public teammates think they have a noob on their team. Yet, you pulled that unconventional strategy off to massive effect. Could you elaborate on your reasoning behind that? Is that your normal way to play Broodmother?
Yes that's my normal way to play Broodmother. My skill build is to only get 3 in Spawn Spiderlings unless I'm doing really poorly and need to spam someone out of lane with the spell damage instead of Spiderling summons (so basically only against Tidehunter or Darkseer). This is because levels three and four of Broodmother's nuke both cause three summons to spawn, which is really what is important from the nuke.

As for item build, I really dislike most players’ choice of going for a quick Orchid Malevolence or Black King Bar on Broodmother. There are a few reasons for this: Number one being the fact that a Broodmother with an Orchid is still relatively easy to gank, and even a BKB is not as good as a Manta Style for avoiding ganks and stretching out opponents, as Manta makes her reach almost haste speed in her web, and allows her to dispel of a lot of debuffs such as Dust of Appearance, Track and Amplify Damage.

BKB/Orchid doesn't allow Broodmother - a hero who is supposed to pretty much be power solo farming a lane and a few jungle camps - to be a ticking time bomb in terms of carry potential, where if left alone she will completely control and destroy every team fight. Furthermore, a BKB and/or Orchid Broodmother accomplishes relatively little in terms of pure damage in team fights/skirmishes, meaning that she cannot really be the main carry.

Finally, Manta allows Broodmother to slowly push into the tier 3 towers and barracks, whereas other builds tend to stagnate once the tier 2 tower goes down.

People tend to play Broodmother only as a split push hero, but I think that her straight battle potential can be also be really high with two or three damage items before a BKB, and no Orchid because a buff of 512 movement speed, an additional 100 damage, 80% lifesteal, and constant a 40% slow on a hero is probably one of the scariest things to go against in Dota 2.

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If we go back to your best-of-three against CLG, one fight at the Roshan pit comes to mind where their Sand King had positioned himself perfectly to use Epicenter and then blink in on your team, but you guys drew the fight away from the pit and through intelligent movement and coordination, won that fight to secure your advantage. That makes us wonder, who calls the shots?
For that particular fight I don't recall anyone really calling anything specific other than Fogged saying that he stopped the SK from blinking. I think pretty much all five of us made small calls during that fight.

PB tends to make a lot of calls as a team, which has the downside of making our Skype a bit hectic, but we have a rule of thumb: "listen to your teammates, and if it’s a bad call, at least you have something to learn from rather than a missed opportunity" (not listening would be a double mistake of sorts, as we both can't learn from the mistake and we lose getting a potential advantage in game).