Baba Guide — Abilities, Builds & Strategy

Baba Base Stats

• Role: Mystic
• Max Health: 780
• Max Move Speed: 6.5
• Stamina: 2
• Base Health Regen: 2.5
• Light Melee Damage: 50
• Heavy Melee Damage: 116

Baba Weapon Stats

• DPS: 28.387
• Sustained DPS: 18.462
• Bullet Damage: 8.8
• Rounds Per Second: 3.2258
• Clip Size: 15
• Reload Time: 2.5s
• Bullet Speed: 177.8
• Can Crit: Yes

Baba Abilities

• Ability 1: Threadsap
• Ability 2: Granny Long Legs
• Ability 3: Baba's Brew
• Ability 4: Feed The Birds

Baba Guide — Strategy & Tips

Quick Answer: Baba is a Deadlock Hexing support. Her main tool, Baba's Brew, is a thrown pot of tea that cycles between a soothing barrier, a silence, and a scalding burn. Threadsap steals enemy Spirit and converts it into bonus bullet damage, Granny Long Legs extends her legs for mobility and disrupts with a kicking melee and a ground-pound knockup, and her ultimate, Feed The Birds, hexes enemies into pigeons. Play her as a second-line utility support.

Baba is a Hexing support who controls fights with status effects rather than raw damage. Her identity is Baba's Brew: a pot of tea she can cycle between a barrier, a silence, and a burn, which makes her one of the most flexible utility heroes in the game. Threadsap lets her steal enemy Spirit and turn it into bonus bullet damage, so she scales without buying pure damage. Granny Long Legs turns her into a disruptor — extended legs for mobility, a kicking light melee, and a ground pound heavy melee — and her ultimate, Feed The Birds, hexes enemies into pigeons. Play her as a second-line support who decides which utility the fight needs.

Early Game

Farm with Bunko-Night Special and poke with Threadsap. The thread steals Spirit and stores it as bonus bullet damage, so even a couple of hits give your next trade an edge — think of it as free damage you earn by landing a skillshot. Baba's Brew is your lane sustain: cycle it to the soothing barrier when you are trading and to the burn when you want to push the enemy off creeps. Do not commit to long autos — Baba has a spreadshot weapon with equal damage regardless of pellets, so precise aim matters less than staying alive. Your goal early is to keep pace on souls and set up for her utility to matter later.

Mid Game

This is where Baba's Brew decides fights. Before a fight start, ask which brew you need: a barrier to survive a burst, a silence to stop an escape or a key ultimate, or a burn to chunk a tanky frontline. Throwing the right tea at the right moment wins more fights than any amount of damage. Granny Long Legs makes you a real disruptor mid game — the ground pound's knockup and slow scatter an enemy push, and the extended legs give you the mobility to reposition or escape. Keep Threadsap up as often as possible; the stolen Spirit stacking into bullet damage makes her surprisingly threatening for a support.

Late Game

Late game Baba's ultimate, Feed The Birds, is a fight-ending tool. It covers targets in bread that stacks a slow; when the channel ends, a flock of pigeons bombards them, deals heavy spirit damage, and hexes each target into a pigeon — a hex is effectively a removal, and on two or three enemies at once that usually decides the fight on its own. Hold it for the moment the enemy commits, and land it on the heroes who matter, not the tank. Keep cycling Baba's Brew in the meantime: the silence variant on a fleeing carry is one of the most reliable kill-secures in the game. Baba has no escape ability of her own, so position behind your frontline and let Granny Long Legs' movespeed be your panic button.

Combos

Utility combo: lead with Baba's Brew — the scalding burn reduces spirit resist, so everything else you do afterwards hits harder. Then Threadsap to steal Spirit and add bullet damage, and finish with Granny Long Legs' ground pound for the knockup. Fight-winning combo: Feed The Birds onto the enemy backline as they commit, so the stacking slow pins them and the pigeons hex them into place. Save combo: keep the soothing barrier brew ready and throw it on whoever gets dove — a 100-point barrier plus the burn/silence options makes Baba's lane partner very hard to kill. One rule: never throw all three brews in a panic. Each one has a job, and the silence is usually the one worth saving.

Strong Against

Baba is strong against heroes who rely on a single key ability or a clean escape. Her silencing brew and her ultimate both cut those options off, and the burn brew drops spirit resist so her team's damage lands harder. She is also good against dive-heavy compositions because Granny Long Legs' knockup plus the barrier brew gives her and her carry real disengage. Slow, grindy fights favour her, because the more times she can cycle Brew and Threadsap, the more value she generates.

Weak Against

Baba's weakness is that almost all of her value is utility, so if her team is behind she cannot carry with damage. Heroes who burst her before she can throw the right brew deny her entire kit, and any enemy with a dispel can strip the silence or the burn just as it lands. She also has no escape ability, so if she gets caught out of position she dies like any other support. Long-range poke that keeps her from cycling Threadsap safely also gives her trouble.

Synergies

Baba pairs best with a carry who benefits from Spirit-steal pressure and a frontline who can hold space while she cycles her brews. Any hero with crowd control makes the silencing brew and Feed The Birds far more reliable, and a durable brawler benefits most from the barrier brew. She also likes a teammate who can follow up on her ultimate's hex — a pigeon is a free target, and someone has to be there to punish it. She struggles on teams with no frontline, because her utility needs someone to use it on.

Common Mistakes

• Throwing the wrong brew. Baba's Brew cycles between barrier, silence and burn — each has a job. Panic-throwing it usually wastes the one effect that would have won the fight. Decide before the fight starts which tea you are holding.
• Not using Granny Long Legs for mobility. The extended legs are not just a melee tool — they give move speed, higher jumps, debuff and melee resistance, and a charged high jump. As a hero with no escape ability, that mobility is her only way out.
• Wasting Feed The Birds on a single tanky target. The ultimate hexes every hero hit, and hexing two or three squishy enemies is a fight-ending play. Landing it on a full-health frontline hero throws the game's best removal tool away.

Matchup Notes

• vs Abrams — silence his charge and he becomes a slow melee hero with no gap-closer. Keep the silencing brew ready and he can never safely engage your carry.
• vs Haze — hold the silence for the moment she commits. Cutting off her escape or her ultimate mid-fight turns a losing duel into a kill.
• vs Vindicta — she plays far away and cannot be reached by your brew easily. Use Feed The Birds the moment she takes an angle, because the slow stacks and pins her in place.
• vs Wraith — her burst can kill you before you throw a brew. Stay behind your frontline and keep the soothing barrier on yourself until her cooldowns are spent.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I play Baba?

Play her as a utility support: cycle Baba's Brew between barrier, silence and burn depending on what the fight needs, use Threadsap to steal Spirit and add bullet damage, and disrupt with Granny Long Legs. Her ultimate, Feed The Birds, hexes enemies into pigeons.

What does Baba's Brew do?

It is a thrown pot of tea that cycles between three effects: a soothing barrier for allies, a silencing brew for enemies, and a scalding burn that deals damage over time and reduces spirit resist. Press zoom to pause or resume brewing.

What is Baba's ultimate?

Feed The Birds. She covers enemies in front of her with bread, stacking a slow, then a flock of pigeons bombards them for spirit damage and hexes each hero hit into a pigeon — a hex is effectively a temporary removal.

Is Baba good for beginners?

She is mid-difficulty. Her abilities are easy to use, but getting value means choosing the right brew at the right time and knowing when to hold the silence — most new players just throw tea on cooldown.

What items should I build on Baba?

Spirit and healing items first — her damage and her brews scale with Spirit Power, and healing items trigger her Tempo synergy. Mobility or a defensive item helps, because she has no escape ability of her own.

What heroes counter Baba?

Burst heroes who can kill her before she throws the right brew, and anyone with a dispel, which can strip her silence or burn just as it lands. She also struggles when her team is behind, because her value is all utility.