Ember Spirit Tips [#1] - Dodging Glimpse, Chronosphere, etc. as Xin

As someone who plays a lot of Ember, I've seen a decent amount of threads about the viability of Ember in pubs and I feel like I've seen a good amount of misinformation from players who perhaps haven't player a lot of Ember games or taken the time to really learn his mechanics.

In particular, after watching the SumsRift vs. Wayto Stack game with Tralf on Ember against Disruptor, I had an idea to post some tips about more advanced Ember mechanics. I think he's a very high skill cap hero that rewards mechanical skill and positioning, but I think some of his advanced mechanics are kind of obtuse until you see them in action, so I figured I'd write something up.

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Disruptor is a solid counter to Ember Spirit; if you get in vision of Disruptor, you can get Glimpsed into Static Storm and you're just dead. I'm firmly under the belief that you need BKB on this hero in less than 1% of games since you can dodge almost every spell or disable in the game and Disruptor's spells are no exception.

I figured that since Disruptor has one of the most powerful position-altering spells in the game, he would be a great candidate to demonstrate an advanced mechanic on Ember Spirit, which is his ability to force himself to a position with a properly timed Activate Fire Remnant or Sleight of Fist. Essentially, regardless of what your positional status or disable status is, Ember Spirit will 100%, under all circumstances, return to the position where he started his Sleight of Fist at the end of his cast and also end up at his activated remnant after the 0.4 seconds or 1300 movement speed (which is faster) when using his ult. Even things like Chronosphere do not stop this.

You can use this to your advantage in a lot of matchups. If Disruptor uses Glimpse on you, you can activate a Remnant right before the Glimpse takes you back (you can track this with the glowing ball of light that the spell creates) and, even if you end up silenced or stunned, you will end up back at your Remnant.

[Dodging Disruptor Glimpse with Remnant](https://gfycat.com/RemoteParallelHookersealion)

The same thing can be done with Sleight of Fist with regards to Glimpse, but the timing is much harder unless you have at least 3 targets to hit.

For one last demonstration of this, you can dodge things like Chronosphere even if Void places his Chrono on your original Sleight of Fist position, even without first placing a Remnant if you have enough targets to hit. This takes some mechanical skill, but it's pretty easy once you get used to it. This is of course easier if you have a remnant out already, but in this clip, I actually place the Remnant while I Sleight of Fist and completely evade the Chronosphere even though it was over the position from which I casted Sleight of Fist.

[Dodging Sleight of Fist-aimed Chronosphere with Remnant](https://gfycat.com/OffbeatMasculineBorderterrier)

Obviously, Ember's positional tools and mechanics are super powerful and can create high skill plays that make you perhaps the most elusive hero in all of Dota.

Feel free to ask any questions about the hero!