Firesnap Cookie is your escape as well as initiation. It can be used on an ally who wants to initiate or as a secondary initiation to extend a stun duration.
Follow-up with Scatterblast after using Firesnap Cookie. The range is quite low but deals a significant amount of damage.
The point-blank shot is nice but not always necessary, dont force it unless theres an opportunity. Use this ability to farm, ferry over clarities regularly.
Lil Shredder amplifies your range to make each attack safer. Its ideal to use against towers, Undyings Tombstone, Phoenixs Egg and physical carries that rely on their attack speed to get off bashes, damage or critical hits.
Get this early if you want to harass the lane with armor reduction by casting Lil Shredder.
Mortimer Kisses is especially useful if youre far away from battle and cannot engage closer. It is how you initiate with Lil Shredder before forcing yourself into the battle with Scatterblast and Firesnap Cookie.
Rely on Mortimer Kisses either to catch fleeing enemies after a fight or to combine with AoE abilities or initiations.
Regurgitate your food like youre just discovering what grapefuit tastes like.
Any abilities that are occuring when you gobble up an ally will continue after you spit them out. For example, Pangoliers Rolling Thunder.
If your teammates doesnt have the proper initiation, this is a good alternative to assist them initiating without sacrificing your positioning.
Also good as a last-minute escape for your allies.
starting items
Iron Branch can be placed on the ground to then be consumed by your tangos for additional healing.
Core items
Arcane Boots is most importantly used to give you the necessary mana to heavy use your spells and abilities. You should think about picking up Ring of Basi or Boots of Speed first depending on if you need movement in the early-game to harass or engage or your team relies on the mana regen from Ring of Basi to do more spells throughout.
Opt for Magic Stick early if the enemy spam a lot of spells or you’ll be in the lane significantly. Magic Wand can be bought as early as before Boots of Speed or as late as after your core Boots upgrade depending on how the enemy and their spell usage. Magic Wand can also be bought to make room for other items due to limited space.
Snapfire is an inherently tanky ally that makes her a great Guardian Greaves holder. Snapfire doiesnt inherently need many items, justifying the opt for a large item like Greaves.
Snapfires Firesnap Cookie and Scatterblast means you want to be close in fights but your Lil Shredder and Mortimer Kisses also want you to be afar.
Force Staff assists you in being able to maneuver comfortably between the different ranges, as well as assist in your low movement speed.
Situational items
Improve team-fights and pushing power with Vladmirs Offering. Snapfire is a great holder of auras given his ability to maneuver and stay in and out of fights when necessary.
Use Blink Dagger to blink onto enemies and immediately burst them down with Scatterblast, Lil Shredder and Firesnap Cookie.
A Solar Crest not only gives you a larger mana-pool in the early-game to help alleviate harassment with your spells but it also provides strong armor, attack speed, movement speed and a barrier to protect your ally who can then initiate or gank someone with all that value.
You can also apply Solar Crest on yourself for additional protection to make enemies you gank harder to fight back with you without losing or taking significant damage.
For Snapfire, being in and around your team is essential. Pipe of Insight will keep your team alive and avoiding massive magic damage.
Extension items
The value of Lotus Orb is both its stats in mana and armor but also the ability to dispel slows and silences that would be keeping you down.
Furthermore, the ability to cast back big nuking abilities to your enemies has tremendous value, especially against stuns or ultimate damaging abilities.
Aghanims Scepter can be gotten early if youre playing especially well. Rely on it to farm lanes even faster or, most importantly, to initiate on enemies with either an initiating ally like a Tidehunter or Axe or even with a creep.
Can also use it to save an ally who is getting targeted.
Late in the game, Scythe of Vyse solves all your mana issues but more importantly guarantees to lock enemies down before they can even pop BKB. Its a great initiating tool when you know the enemy relies on BKB to safely output their damage.
Glimmer Cape can be used both for you or for an ally to ensure they survive against targeted big spell abilities. The goal of Glimmer is to reduce the damage your ally is taking and to disconnect the enemy’s from targeting your ally for future attacks such as follow-ups after a stun.
Other Items
If you decide to be a more active player, Spirit Vessel can be useful to capitalize on your high early-game burst damage and ganking capabilities.
The extra movement speed and the Soul Release actve ability of Spirit Vessel means this item will be good vs. late-game tanky enemies.
Combines well with Firesnap Cookies for additional heal.
Heavens Halberd provides more survivability through evasion. To add, it also increases your life-steal/regeneration, reduces stuns and can disable foes.
Use before your opponents pops their BKB as the Disarm will pursue even after.
Blight Stone combined with Lil Shredder means incredible harassment and follow-through damage to muscle out most supports.
Movement may be more necessary for Snapfire over additional mana if you have the right neutral item or find yourself constantly needing to change positions.
For heroes that rely on physical damage like Juggernaut (and Omnislash) and Riki, Ghost Scepter can be a cheap option to delay their ganks and make them waste their abilities that do no damage.
Aeon Disk helps you get out of a jam where you are constantly being chain-stunned or destroyed by abilities like Faceless Voids ultimate or PAs massive critical strikes.
Ethereal Blade is a great nuking component as an addition to your abilities.
To add, it can also be used defensively to either disable physical carries from attacking or save an ally from being targeted by physical attacks.
An early bracer increases your survivability in the lane especially versus a heavy harassing team.
Combined with your Lil Shredder and Talents, you can deal massive damage to multiple targets at an incredible range.
For heroes who are dependent on their abilities to engage fights, Octarine Core is a great assistance, especially if you naturally build into it by having its components created earlier in the game.
Pavise is a good intermediary item to provide additional protection for yourself or allies while also giving you incredible magic regeneration so you wont need to pick up regen or go back to base.
