Semi-daily hero tips. Day 31: Ember Spirit

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• Abaddon
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• Ancient Apparition
• Anti-Mage
• Arc Warden
• Axe
• Bane
• Batrider
• Beastmaster
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• Earth Spirit
• Earthshaker
• Elder Titan

DISCLAIMER

A lot of you probably know about the weekly hero discussion, but that often ends up in a meta discussion (whether or not the hero needs buffs, etc) or a meme war than actual tips to play, itemize and build the hero.

This is what I'd like to do. Please discuss any notes I made and possible improvements while also giving tips of your own if you have them.

The roles, skill builds and item builds, as well as a lot of the notes are my opinion on matters and should not be seen as a must do or don't. Also remember that almost every single build or role is situationally possible.

A lot of the tips on heroes were also mentioned in tsunami's amazing hero tips series he did over the last couple of years.

Ember Spirit

Notes:

• UAM's are applied through sleight of fist
• Also hits units in the AOE that are in the fog of war
• Hits all units that were in the AOE when the spell was cast
• Jumping to a fire remnant breaks any trees he passes through
• Your skill build should differ so that sleight is maxed when you start teamfighting with the BFury build. 7.01 build: Searching chains max
• You can jump to a remnant if it's still there when you respawn
• You can use searing chains while midst SoF or flying to a fire remnant
• You can use SoF to dodge projectiles
• Don't farm like a hard carry. Farm like a snowballing one. Roam and kill.
• You can pick up items (like aegis) while using fire remnant or SoF.
• If Sleight of Fist is cast during the fade time of Shadow Blade, each target will receive the bonus backstab damage. Furthermore, upon completing the Sleight of Fist, Ember Spirit will be invisible.
• You can use your ult to get out of slark leash or disruptor kinetic field, but if you still have to use a fire remnant, make sure you're not walking against the edge of the leash/cage, since your remnant will not move if you do.
• Good versus: Spectre, Centaur (easy escape, invulnerable to damage when in SoF), Axe, SD (ember has one of the fastest escapes in the game), SK (flame guard, great escape), Timber (new build has high magic damage, Timber can't control you)
• Counters: Huskar (can't disjoint ult, ember has high magic damage, spears keep ticking), Oracle (Fate's edict, Fortune's end makes ember unable to cast a decent remnant and dispels flame guard), Lifestealer (rage), Viper (DoT), DP, Drow (silence), diffusal, eul's, invoker tornado (dispel flame guard) (/u/oberynMelonLord)

Role: Semi-carry, Hard carry, Mid

Items:

• Phase/Arcanes, Drum, BFury, Deso, Daedalus, (Bfuries, Linken's)
• 7.01: RoA, Phase/Arcanes, Veil, (Maelstrom, Blink, Eul's, Blade Mail, Radiance), Octarine, Travels, Mjollnir(, Dagon, EBlade, Skadi, Moon Shard, Linken's)