Geode Broodmother art
A crystal queen who trickles out adds while she lives.

Geode Broodmother

Rules the The Hollow Vein

The Geode Broodmother in the Hollow Vein: her geodeling trickle keeps pouring out until she falls, so speed is the counterplay.

The mechanic

The Geode Broodmother has the biggest raw health pool of the whole roster and no armor. Unlike the threshold bosses, she does not wait to be hurt to spawn adds: she does it on a clock the entire time she is alive.

Every 6 seconds she lays 1 geodeling, a lightly armored add, up to a cap of 8 alive at once. The longer she stays alive, the more geodelings pile onto the path, which flips the usual rule on its head: killing her faster means fewer adds, not more.

When she finally dies her geode bursts into 4 geodelings at once as a parting shot.

How teams beat it

Race her down. Because the adds come from a timer rather than damage thresholds, every second she lives is another geodeling, so pour your heaviest sustained damage into the queen herself and clear the trickle of geodelings as they come.

Like every boss, it fights inside the showdown rules: kill it and it respawns about twenty percent stronger on the rival's lane, let it leak and it crosses unescalated. The full showdown rules are in How a match works.

The Hollow Vein map painting
Its battlefield

The Hollow Vein