Snapfire

When to Pick Snapfire?

Tips & common mistakes

• Mortimer Kisses globs can be individually redirected with a right-click WHILE channeling—most pub Snapfire players fire their ultimate toward one location and then stand still for the entire five-and-a-half-second channel, watching globs miss moving targets. Every single glob that launches can be independently targeted to a new location mid-channel. If the enemy repositions during the channel, redirect the next glob to their new location rather than letting it land where they used to be.
• Scatterblast deals 1.5 times damage at point-blank range — most pub Snapfire players fire it at maximum range for safety and deal base damage. The correct use in fights where enemies are already disabled or slowed is to walk INTO point-blank range before firing for the full 1.5x multiplier. At close range, the first hit applies a 100% attack speed slow for one second that prevents the enemy from retaliating while Scatterblast damage registers. The damage difference between max-range and point-blank scatterblast is enormous.
• Firesnap Cookie cannot be cast on channeling allied heroes—most pub Snapfire players try to Cookie a carry who is inside Chronosphere or Fiend's Grip and wonder why it does not work. Against debuffs that are NOT channeling abilities on the ally—Doom, Winter's Curse, Duel—Cookie instantly saves the target. Against disables that ARE channeling on the ally—Fiend's Grip, Reaper's Scythe incoming—use Aghanim's Scepter Gobble Up instead, which has no such restriction and works on any non-channeling allied hero.
• Lil' Shredder fires five attacks with dramatically increased attack speed and extended range, reducing enemy armor with each hit—most pub Snapfire players use it exclusively against heroes in fights. Lil' Shredder is one of the most efficient tower-killing tools available on a support hero: five rapid attacks at extended range against a tower while your team's creeps tank, rapidly destroying structures before the enemy can respond. Use Lil' Shredder aggressively on towers during push opportunities rather than saving it exclusively for hero fights.
• Aghanim's Scepter Gobble Up can swallow CREEPS as well as allied heroes—most pub Snapfire players use Scepter only for hero swallows and saves. Gobbling a large creep and spitting it into the enemy team as a projectile deals impact damage and stun in the landing area from the creep's body impact. Gobbling your own catapult during a high ground push and spitting it directly into the base area provides both damage and a stun inside the enemy's defensive position without any allied hero risking high ground exposure.
• Snapfire has 305 base movement speed — the lowest meaningful movement speed of any support hero in the current meta. Blink Dagger is not optional—it converts her from a stationary artillery platform that enemies simply walk away from into an initiator who can position for point-blank Scatterblast, find a high-ground vantage for Mortimer Kisses, and immediately escape after channeling. Most pub Snapfire players delay Blink building aura items first and spend the first twenty minutes of the game unable to get close enough to threaten anyone.
• Mortimer Kisses provides flying vision around each glob as it travels and at each landing site—which means every glob fired gives Snapfire's team vision of the target area in real time. Most pub Snapfire players never think about using Mortimer's Kisses as a vision tool, firing it only into areas they already have ground vision of. Against a suspected Roshan attempt, firing Mortimer Kisses over the pit wall provides real-time vision of whether Roshan is being attempted without any hero risking the entrance.