How Broodmother and Earthshaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Broodmother and Earthshaker win 53.35% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 16,131 matches.
Creating space for an Earthshaker to farm his core items is often the main contribution here. Broodmother can completely take over one side of the map, forcing the enemy team to react to her pressure. This buys time and provides a safe area for Earthshaker to find the gold he needs for a Blink Dagger. Once he has it, the roles can reverse slightly. A long-range Fissure provides excellent setup, trapping a single hero for Broodmother and her spiderlings to swarm and overwhelm. The lockdown is helpful, but it isn't something Broodmother's game plan is necessarily missing.
The success of this pairing often feels like two heroes playing their own separate games that happen to align. If Broodmother has a great start, the whole team benefits, including Earthshaker. If she gets shut down, there's little he can do to directly help her recover. In teamfights, their goals can also diverge; Earthshaker is looking for the perfect multi-hero Echo Slam, while Broodmother is trying to slip past the frontline to assassinate a support. They can certainly win fights together, but it’s rarely because of a specific interaction between them.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate in recent ranked matches, split by average match rank. Ranks with too few recent matches are omitted. These rows use the last 30 days of quality-filtered ranked matches, all patches in that span combined — a wider window than the patch-scoped count above, so the per-rank match totals can exceed it.
| Rank | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 59.83% | 239 |
| Crusader & Archon | 57.75% | 542 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.58% | 388 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 53.35% | ▲ +1.6pp | 16,131 |
| 7.41e | 51.79% | ▲ +0.5pp | 43,724 |
| 7.41d | 51.29% | ▼ -0.1pp | 51,290 |
| 7.41c | 51.39% | — | 24,729 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.