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Keep these creepy crawlers at a distance! Their attacks will web you, hindering your movement, and they curse nearby towers on death...
Found in Chaos VIII maps.
==Behavior==
Death Weavers have quite fast movement speed and often spawn in clusters. Being quite small, they do not have a considerably large health pool yet can pose a threat with their ranged web attack, slowing heroes' movement speed. Even in close range the spiders can deal significant melee damage and continue to pose a threat on death, leaving a debuffing web where they die. This web reduces defense power, range and attack rate while also slowing heroes caught within it.
They remain quite resistant to crowd control effects and if left unchecked can be dangerous to both defenses and heroes.
==Strategy==
The largest threat the Death Weaver carries is its web debuff to defenses on death. Therefore, Auras, Traps and Nodes are not recommended against the Death Weaver because of their placement within lanes resulting in being easily debuffed. Towers and even Blockades are optimal counters as they can safely take out the spiders without being at risk of their dangerous debuff.
== Miniboss Variant - [[Queen Death Weaver]] ==
The Queen Death Weaver is a larger miniboss but is not as intimidating as first glance. Lacking the melee attack and death web debuff of the Death Weaver, she can be quite trivial to take out. She has a chance to appear on wave 5 in Chaos 8 and can also appear on Omega Waves (wave 6) in The Lost Temple in Onslaught or in the lane with the Arachnophobia mutator.
==Notes and Trivia==