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Snapfire
Strength attribute symbol
Agility attribute symbol
Intelligence attribute symbol
21 + 3.2
16 + 1.2
21 + 2.1
Level 0 1 15 25 30
Health 120 582 1550 2518 2914
+0.75 +2.85 +7.33 +11.73 +13.53
Mana 75 327 675 1071 1215
+0 +1.05 +2.52 +4.17 +4.8
Armor 1 3.67 6.47 10.47 11.8
Magic Resist 25% 27.1% 30.04% 33.34% 34.59%
Damage Block -
Damage

4
10

44
50

108
114

179
185

205
211

Attack Rate 0.63/s 0.73/s 0.83/s 0.98/s 1.03/s
Attack Range Ranged 500 (800)
Attack Speed ▶️ 100 (1.6s BAT)
Attack Animation 0.35 + 1.23
Projectile Speed 1800
Move Speed ▶️ 300 (Nighttime 330)
Turn Rate Takes 0.175s to turn 180°. 0.6
Collision Size 27
Bound Radius 24
Vision Range (G) 1800 (Nighttime 800)
Gib Type Default
Internal npc_dota_hero_snapfire
Mows down her enemies with heavy artillery and her trusty lizard.
The plucky Keen known as Beatrix Snapfire has survived to venerable old age in the harsh deserts of Nanarak, owing to her ingenious craftsmanship, and overwhelming firepower. Just as happy to blow your legs off with her Trusty Scattergun as to fill your belly up with a deliciously-dangerous Firesnap Cookie, she delights in riding into battle with her dragon toad Mortimer, always ready to mow down their enemies with her Lil' Shredder, a homemade heavy artillery, or finish them off with a surprise — a steady, long range artillery barrage of Mortimer's Kisses and sometimes an ally Mortimer Gobbled Up, covering the battlefield in pools of flame.
Scatterblast
Firesnap Cookie
Firesnap Cookie
Lil' Shredder
Gobble Up
Gobble Up
Spit Out
Spit Out
Mortimer Kisses
Roles: Support Support Nuker Nuker Disabler Disabler Escape Escape
Complexity: Hero Complexity
Adjectives: Red, Steed, Nose
Legs ( 2 )


Bio[]

Snapfire minimap iconBeatrix Snapfire
▶️ "Beadie and Mortimer. We're kind of a package deal."
Beatrix Snapfire and her dragon toad Mortimer are a welcome sight to the ragged folk who scratch out lives along the desert routes and oases scattered throughout Nanarak, the rain-forsaken gateway to the Outlands.

As well known for her unrivaled skills as a weaponsmith as for dispensing wisdom, mirth, and the meanest firesnap cookies the world has ever seen, Beadie's survived to a ripe old age in a young keen's trade by being quick with her wits and even quicker with her guns.

Indeed, the Outlands are littered with the bones of bandits and ne'er-do-wells who thought to take advantage of her small stature and propensity for kindness.
Alias:
Mortimer

Abilities[]

Scatterblast
Scatterblast icon
Affects
Enemies
Damage
Magical
Snapfire unloads with a wide blast that damages and slows enemies in a cone. Enemies caught at point-blank range take an extra 1.5 damage.
Cast Animation: 0.4+0.83
Cast Range: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 800
Starting Radius: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 225
Travel Distance: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 800
End Radius: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 400
Point-Blank Distance: 450
Damage: 100/160/220/280 (Talent 170/230/290/350)
Point-Blank Damage Multiplier: 1.5
Move Speed Slow: 100%
Attack Speed Slow: 100
Slow Duration: 1
Cooldown symbol
 16/14/12/10
Mana symbol
 85/90/95/100
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
modifier_snapfire_scatterblast_slow
modifier_snapfire_scatterblast_disarm
Death
A favorite from her collection, Beadie crafted Ol' Rackatee as her first line of defense when she ventured into the Outlands.
Scatterblast targeting indicator

Scatterblast's custom targeting indicator.


  • Scatterblast travels at a speed of 3000, taking 0.27 seconds to travel the full distance.
  • With the travel distance and end radius, it can hit units up to 1200 range away.
    • The complete area is shaped like a cone.
  • Scatterblast's damage is determined upon projectile hit, and not upon cast.
    • It has a custom ability targeting indicator and the damage dealt is determined by two cones, with the darker color cone indicating the point-blank damage distance, and the remaining cone distance.
    • Cast range bonuses only increases the arc length and reduce the angle of the cone. It neither increases the point-blank distance, nor the remaining cone distance.
    • Deals 150/240/330/420 (Talent 255/345/435/525) damage (before reductions) to units within point-blank distance.
  • Leveling up Scatterblast, or learning the damage increasing Talent talent does not update the damage of an already launched instance.


Firesnap Cookie icon
Affects
Allies / Enemies
Damage
Magical
Snapfire feeds a potent cookie to Mortimer or an ally, causing them to hop a short distance. The hopping unit stuns and damages enemies in the landing zone.
Cast Animation: 0.2+0.57
Cast Range: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 700
Impact Radius: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 300
Jump Distance: 425 (With Aghanim's Shard 600)
Impact Damage: 70/140/210/280
Jump Duration: 0.484 (With Aghanim's Shard 0.684)
Impact Stun Duration: 1/1.4/1.8/2.2
With Aghanim's Shard Glob Impact Damage Multiplier: 0.5
Talent Heal: 175
Cooldown symbol
 21/19/17/15 (Talent 17/15/13/11)
Mana symbol
 85/90/95/100
Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Firesnap cookies become even more potent, getting increased jump range and launching a Mortimer Kiss to the landing destination.
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
modifier_snapfire_firesnap_cookie_pre_hop
Death
modifier_snapfire_firesnap_cookie_short_hop
Death
modifier_snapfire_firesnap_cookie_ally_flail_anim
Death
modifier_snapfire_firesnap_cookie_landing_gesture
Death
modifier_stunned
With the help of a secret mixture that pairs Beadie's baking skills with her passion for black powder, these battle biscuits pack a punch.

  • The projectile travels at a speed of 1100.
  • Cannot be cast on allied units that are currently channeling. This includes self-casting.
    • Cannot be cast on invulnerable and hidden units.
    • If the ally starts channeling, turns invulnerable, or is hidden after the projectile launch, the projectile does nothing upon impact.
    • Can target, but has no effect on units affected by Chronosphere icon Chronosphere and Black Hole icon Black Hole, the projectile does nothing on impact.
  • Upon projectile impact, the target jumps 425 (Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard. 600) range forwards and 257 (Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard. 362) range upwards. While in the air, other units can pass below them.
  • Can jump over other units and over impassable terrain.
  • The area damage and stun are applied upon losing the hop buff. This means if the leap gets interrupted, the effects are applied earlier.
    • Firesnap Cookie first applies the heal, then the damage, then the stun, then the Mortimer Kisses debuff.
    • The health restore Talent talent immediately upgrades already launched cookies, making them heal on impact.
  • Destroys trees within 300 radius around the target upon landing.
  • upon cast landing the unit deals one instance of impact damage based on the current level of Mortimer Kisses icon Mortimer Kisses, and leaves a lava puddle behind. The puddle applies the debuff in 0.5-second intervals, starting immediately and lasts for 3 seconds.
    • Mortimer Kisses notes fully apply. If it is not learned, no glob is launched.
    • Firesnap Cookie can deal up to the following amount of impact damage and total damage per second (before reductions) per level of Mortimer Kisses, considering its impact damage, and standing within the puddle for the full duration:
      • LEVEL 1
        160/230/300/370 (Talent 190/260/330/400) + 270 total damage per second
      • LEVEL 2
        205/275/345/415 (Talent 235/305/375/445) + 360 total damage per second
      • LEVEL 3
        250/320/390/460 (Talent 280/350/420/490) + 450 total damage per second
  • The projectile provides 500 radius flying vision as it travels. This vision lingers for 3.5 seconds at the impact area.
  • Since Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard. Firesnap Cookie, Spit Out icon Spit Out and Mortimer Kisses use the same modifer, they do not stack, with the damage from the first applied debuff taking priority.


Lil' Shredder
Lil' Shredder icon
Ability
No Target
Affects
Self / Enemy Units
Snapfire heats up her mounted turret to rapidly fire 6 fixed-damage attacks. Each attack reduces the enemy's armor. Provides bonus attack range for the duration.
Attack Range Bonus: 75/150/225/300
Attack Speed Bonus: 300
Base Attack Time: 1
Set Attack Damage: 30/55/80/105 (Talent 0)
Number of Attacks: 6 (Talent 8)
Armor Reduction per Attack: 0.5
Armor Reduction Duration: 5
Buff Duration: 6
Talent Secondary Targets Search Radius: Affected by Attack Range bonuses. 575/650/725/800
Talent Bonus Attack Targets: 3
Talent Attack Damage as Damage: 100%
Cooldown symbol
 24/20/16/12
Mana symbol
 70/80/90/100
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
modifier_snapfire_lil_shredder_buff
modifier_snapfire_lil_shredder_attack
modifier_snapfire_lil_shredder_debuff
Beadie constantly tinkers with a design she first dreamed up plotting an exodus from her old gang.

  • Interrupts Snapfire's channeling abilities on cast.
  • Sets Snapfire's damage to the given values, attack damage bonuses, and reductions are completely ignored.
    • TALENT
      This restriction is removed with the Lil' Shredder uses attack damage Talent talent.
    • Leveling up Lil' Shredder or learning the Talent talent does not update the damage of the currently active instance.
  • An attack charge is lost whenever an attack is executed, regardless of the outcome. This means missed attacks use up charges as well.
  • The number of charges left is visible on the buff icon.
  • Lil' Shredder uses a single debuff on the target. Following attacks increase its stack count.
    • A number on the icon reveals the number of stacks. The number is visible to everyone.
    • Since only one debuff is used, each attack resets the duration of the entire stack.
  • The armor reduction is applied on any attacked target, including buildings and allies.
  • Can deal a total of 180/330/480/630 (Talent 240/440/640/840) damage with all 6 (Talent 8) attacks (before reductions).
  • Can reduce a total of 3 (Talent 4) armor with all attacks.
  • The attacks first place the debuff, then apply their own damage.
    • Since the Lil' Shredder debuff is applied before the damage, the ability's damage benefits from the armor reduction applied.
  • Successive casts do not stack but refresh the buff, resetting the number of attacks and updating the attack range bonus.
  • TALENT
    The multishot Talent talent performs instant attacks on 3 different random targets within attack range whenever attacking during Lil' Shredder.
    • These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, and are affected by disarms.
    • The secondary attacks have no target priorities, they choose random valid targets within range, excluding buildings.
    • The secondary attacks' search radius can be further increased by other attack range bonuses.


Gobble Up icon
Affects
Enemies / Allies
Mortimer gobbles up a creep or an allied hero, which he can then spit towards enemies. The unit stays in his belly up to 3 seconds.
Cast Animation: 0.3+1.27
Cast Range: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 150
Max Duration: 3
Cooldown symbol
 40
Mana symbol
 120
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
modifier_snapfire_gobble_up_creep
Death
modifier_snapfire_gobble_up_belly_has_unit
Death
Ability Draft Notes
Ability Draft Notes:
Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
Requires drafting Mortimer Kisses icon Mortimer Kisses to be unlocked.
Gobble Up overhead indicator

Visual indicator above Snapfire when gobbling a unit.


  • Disjoints projectiles for the target unit upon cast.
  • During Gobble Up, the unit is periodically moved to Snapfire's current position. This periodic movement cannot be interrupted.
    • This means their auras are effectively bestowed around Snapfire until spat out.
  • The unit is automatically released after 3 seconds if Spit Out icon Spit Out is not cast.
  • Swallowing a unit turns this ability inactive and turns the Spit Out sub-ability active.
    • This ability stays inactive until the unit is released, either by timing out, by using the sub-ability, or upon Snapfire's death.


Spit Out icon
Affects
Enemies / Allies
Mortimer spits out the unit that's in his mouth, causing impact damage and stun in a large area. The glob leaves a pool of firespit that slows and applies damage over time.
Cast Animation: 0.3+1.03
Cast Range: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 3000
Impact Radius: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 400
Debuff Damage per Second: 100
Move Speed Slow: 25%
Puddle Duration: 3
Debuff Duration: 1
Stun Duration: 1.2
Projectile Flying Vision Radius: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 500
Projectile Max Height: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 130
Cooldown symbol
 0
Mana symbol
 0
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
modifier_snapfire_spit_creep_arcing_unit
Death
modifier_snapfire_ground_magma_thinker
Undispellable
modifier_stunned
modifier_snapfire_magma_burn_slow
Ability Draft Notes
Ability Draft Notes:
Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
Requires drafting Mortimer Kisses icon Mortimer Kisses to be unlocked.
Sub-ability
Sub-ability of Gobble Up.

  • This ability stays inactive until Gobble Up icon Gobble Up is cast and turns inactive again once the targeted unit is spat out in any way.
  • The swallowed unit serves as a projectile, and is moved in an arc towards the targeted point, with a max height of 130.
    • The projectile has a min and max travel time of 0.6 – 2.1 seconds respectively, and a projectile speed of 1400.
    • This means up to 2333 range, the speed adapts to lower values, and for distance starting at 2940, the speed adapts to higher values.
  • Neither requires Mortimer Kisses to be leveled to be unlocked nor relies on Mortimer Kisses to work, once Aghanim's Scepter is acquired.
  • Upon landing, the unit deals one instance of impact damage based on the current level of Mortimer Kisses icon Mortimer Kisses, and leaves a lava puddle behind. The puddle lasts 3 seconds.
    • The puddle applies the debuff on enemies in 0.5-second intervals, starting immediately as it is created, resulting in 7 instances.
    • The debuff lasts 1 second, and deals 50 damage in 0.5-second intervals, starting immediately upon being placed, resulting in 3 instances.
    • Can deal a total of 630/720/810 (Talent 690/780/870) damage, considering impact damage, and standing within the puddle for the full duration (before reductions).
    • Multiple instances of the debuff do not stack.
    • Since Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard. Firesnap Cookie icon Firesnap Cookie, Spit Out and Mortimer Kisses use the same modifer, they do not stack, with the damage from the first applied debuff taking priority.
  • The impact first applies the damage, then the stun.
  • Spit Out has no minimum distance.
  • The projectile provides 500 radius flying vision as it travels. This vision lingers for 3.5 seconds at the impact area.
  • Destroys trees within 150 radius around the projectile upon landing.


Mortimer Kisses icon
Affects
Enemies
Damage
Magical
Snapfire's friend launches a barrage of firespit globs over 5.5 seconds. Globs cause impact damage and create pools of firespit, which slow and apply damage over time. Snapfire has a reduced turn rate for the duration and a minimum launch range of 600. Each glob can be targeted with a right click.
Cast Animation: 0.5+0.73
Cast Range: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 3000
Min Distance: 600
Max Distance: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 3000
Impact Radius: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 275
Self Turn Rate Slow: 75%
Number of Projectiles: 8 (Talent 14)
Impact Damage: 180/270/360 (Talent 240/330/420)
Debuff Damage per Second: 60/80/100
Enemy Move Speed Slow: 15%/20%/25%
Launch Duration: 5.5
Puddle Duration: 3
Debuff Duration: 1
Projectile Flying Vision Radius: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 500
Projectile Max Height: Affected by AoE Radius bonuses. 130
Cooldown symbol
 120/110/100
Mana symbol
 125/150/175
Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Grants the Gobble Up ability.
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
modifier_snapfire_mortimer_kisses
Death
modifier_prevent_taunts
Death
modifier_snapfire_mortimer_kisses_vision_source
Undispellable
modifier_projectile_vision
Undispellable
modifier_snapfire_ground_magma_thinker
Undispellable
modifier_snapfire_magma_burn_slow
Little did Beadie know when she adopted Mortimer, dragon toads--which aren't even toads at all--share more than just a name with their distant draconic cousins.

  • The projectiles have a min and max travel time of 0.8 – 2 seconds respectively, and a projectile speed of 1300.
    • This means up to 1625 range, the speed adapts to lower values, and for distance starting at 2600, the speed adapts to higher values.
  • Launches globs in 0.688 (Talent 0.393)-second intervals, starting immediately upon cast, resulting in 8 (Talent 14) globs.
  • Mortimer Kisses is not a channeling ability. It can only be interrupted in the following conditions:
    • When Snapfire is affected by silence, cyclone, hex, sleep, taunt, or fear sources.
    • When other orders, except for attack and movement orders, are given to Snapfire.
    • Stun sources using the modifier_stunned reliably interrupt Mortimer Kisses.
    • Other disabling sources (e.g. forced movement from enemies) may interrupt Mortimer Kisses only if the disabling duration is greater than the intervals between two launched globs.
  • The following effects are applied on Snapfire while Mortimer Kisses are active:
    • Sets Snapfire's movement speed to 0 (has priority over hastes) and disarms Snapfire for its duration, so it cannot move or attack.
    • Attack orders behave like move orders during disarms, Keyboard White Mouse Right Right Click on an enemy sets a new location as well.
    • Reduces Snapfire's turn rate to 0.15 while launching globs.
  • The location for the globs can be changed with a move order (Keyboard White Mouse Right Right Click or M).
    • The destination for each glob is marked with a red circle indicator, which is visible to allies only.
    • Although the ability reduces Snapfire's turn rate while active, the globs are launched where the order was targeted, they are not launched based on facing angle.
  • Each glob deals the impact damage and leaves a lava puddle behind. The puddles last 3 seconds.
    • The puddles apply the debuff on enemies in 0.5-second intervals, starting immediately as they are created, resulting in 7 instances.
    • The debuff lasts 1 second, and deals 30/40/50 damage in 0.5-second intervals, starting immediately upon being placed, resulting in 3 instances.
    • Multiple instances of the debuff do not stack.
    • Since Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard. Firesnap Cookie icon Firesnap Cookie, Spit Out icon Spit Out and Mortimer Kisses use the same modifer, they do not stack, with the damage from the first applied debuff taking priority.
  • A single glob can deal a total of 450/630/810 (Talent 510/690/870) damage, considering impact damage, and standing within the puddle for the full duration (before reductions).
  • Provides 275 radius flying vision at the current targeted location for the globs, lasting until Mortimer stops launching projectiles.
  • The projectiles provide a 500 radius flying vision as they travel. This vision lingers for 3.5 seconds at the impact area.
  • Leveling up Mortimer Kisses does not update the impact damage of already launched globs.
    • However, the lava puddles are updated to apply the debuff with the current value.
    • Already placed debuffs are not updated to the current values.


Talents[]

Hero Talents
+6 Mortimer Kisses icon Mortimer Kisses Launched25Lil' Shredder icon Lil' Shredder Uses 100% of Your Attack Damage
+60 Mortimer Kisses icon Mortimer Kisses Impact Damage203x Lil' Shredder icon Lil' Shredder Multishot
-4s Firesnap Cookie icon Firesnap Cookie Cooldown15+2 Lil' Shredder icon Lil' Shredder attacks
Firesnap Cookie icon Firesnap Cookie Restores 175 Health10+70 Scatterblast icon Scatterblast Damage

Recent Changes[]

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore
Version
Description
  • Increased Lil' Shredder icon Lil' Shredder set attack damage from 25/50/75/100 to 30/55/80/105.
  • Increased Mortimer Kisses icon Mortimer Kisses impact damage from 160/240/320 to 180/270/360.
  • Lil' Shredder icon Lil' Shredder
    • Increased set attack damage from 20/45/70/95 to 25/50/75/100.
    • Increased mana cost from 50/65/80/95 to 70/80/90/100.


Recommended Items[]

Starting items:

  • Tango icon Tango keeps Snapfire's HP up in lane.
  • Healing Salve icon Healing Salve gives you a burst of healing to get back up to full in laning phase.
  • Enchanted Mango icon Enchanted Mango lets you cast more spells in the lane.
  • Clarity icon Clarity is a cheap way to refill your mana when you have a break from the fighting.

Early game:

Mid game:

  • Arcane Boots icon Arcane Boots provides mana for Snapfire and her teammates.
  • Mekansm icon Mekansm keeps Snapfire and teammates alive in teamfight.
  • Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger offers mobility,as Snapfire is a particularly slow moving hero.

Late game:

Situational items:

  • Javelin icon Javelin gives each Lil' Shredder chance to deal extra damage at a very low price. Multiple Javelins stack to increase proc chance during Lil' Shredder.
  • Scythe of Vyse icon Scythe of Vyse gives you an amazing disable, but is very expensive.
  • Vladmir's Offering icon Vladmir's Offering gives your team a powerful lifesteal aura.


Dota Plus Progress[]

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Relics Voice Lines
Relic Rare icon
Point Blank Scatterblast icon Scatterblast Hits
Relic Rare icon
Two Hero Firesnap Cookie icon Cookie Stuns
Relic universal icon
Scatterblast icon Scatterblast Slow Duration
Relic universal icon
Teleports Leading to Kills
Relic universal icon
Stuns Leading to Kills
Relic universal icon
Slows Leading to Kills
Relic universal icon
Dusts Leading to Kills
Relic universal icon
Mega Kill Streaks
Relic universal icon
Triple Kills
Relic universal icon
Wards Placed
Relic universal icon
Kill Assists
Relic universal icon
Kills
Plus Hero Badge 1
Bronze
Plus Hero Badge 2
Silver
Plus Hero Badge 3
Gold
Plus Hero Badge 4
Platinum
  • ▶️ I won't eat you, dear. But Mortimer might.
Plus Hero Badge 5
Master
  • ▶️ You looking for cookin tips, violence, or both?
Plus Hero Badge 6
Grandmaster

Equipment[]

Trivia[]

  • ▶️ "Say hello to my little friend!" is a reference to Tony Montana's line from the movie "Scarface".
  • ▶️ "I love the smell of black powder in the morning" is a reference to Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore's line from "Apocalypse Now ".
  • Snapfire's voice actress, "Laraine Newman", was a character in the 1993 movie "Coneheads", which explain the responses to Dark Seer minimap icon Dark Seer as references to said movie.

Gallery[]

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