Glimmer Cape
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2150The stolen cape of a master illusionist.
The Glimmer Cape is like your hero's magical shroud, a remarkable cloak that not only conceals your hero from enemy sight but also offers a protective shimmer of resistance, all in the friendliest and most enchanting manner!
Base Combat Stats
Combat Stats
+ 25% Magic Resistance
Recipe
Abilities
Active: Glimmer
After a 0.5 second delay, grants invisibility, 40 movement speed and a magic damage barrier that absorbs up to 300 damage to you or a target allied unit for 5 seconds.
Range: 600
Can be cast while channeling.
Mana: 90
Cooldown: 14
Additional Insights
What's truly amazing is that this magnificent cape not only makes your hero invisible but also provides a substantial bonus to magic resistance. It's like having a shield against magical assaults, protecting your hero and making them more resilient to enemy spells while hidden from view.
Statistics
The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Glimmer Cape as a core or non-core item for each role. These statistics are based on our .
Itemization Strategy
Glimmer cape is a support item that is usually built from the early game specially out of the post laning stage that helps boost the confidence of your cores to play a little more risky and brave against heroes that have high burst damage and spells.
Heroes with Glimmer Cape as Core Item
A core defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Works well in combination with Aphotic Shield to build a massive magic damage barrier.
A defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Also helps defend against magical damage with the barrier.
A core defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Can also be cast on yourself while channeling Fiends Grip to become untargetable without detection.
A core defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Can also be cast on yourself while channeling Freezing Field to become untargetable without detection.
A defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Also helps defend against magical damage with the barrier.
A defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Also helps defend against magical damage with the barrier.
A defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Works well to sneak close to enemy heroes and lock them down with Sinister Gaze.
A defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Also helps defend against magical damage with the barrier.
A defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Can be applied on yourself while channeling Life Drain.
A core defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Can be cast on yourself before using Blast Off! to reduce the self damage taken.
A defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Also helps defend against magical damage with the barrier.
A core defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Can also be cast on yourself while channeling Upheaval to become untargetable without detection.
A core defensive item that lets you or a teammate become invisible and get out of trouble. Can also be cast on yourself while channeling Death Ward to become untargetable without detection.
Heroes countered by Glimmer Cape
Lets you kite Abaddon by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Alchemist by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Ancient Apparitions magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally from Ice Blast.
Lets you kite Anti Mage by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Arc Warden by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you save an ally through invisibility if they get caught with Nightmare of Fiends Grip.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Batriders magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally from Flaming Lasso.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Beastmaster and his summons as well as save an ally caught by Primal Roar.
Lets you kite Bloodseeker bt protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility in Rupture duration.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Brewmaster during Primal Split as well as have magic resistance against his magic heavy toolkit.
Lets you kite Bristleback by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Broodmother and her army of Spiderlings and save yourself or an ally from them.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Centaurs magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally.
Lets you kite Chaos Knight by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Clinkz by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you an invisibility tool to save yourself or an ally from getting continuously stunned by Battery Assault.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Crystal Maidens magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Frostbite.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Dark Seers magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Vacuum.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Dark Willows magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by her lockdown.
Lets you kite Dawnbreaker by protecting yourself or an ally against Starbreaker and her right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Death Prophet as well as magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from her magic heavy toolkit.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Disruptors magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally from getting Glimpsed.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Dooms magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Doom.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Dragon Knight and save yourself or an ally caught by his stun.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Drow Ranger and save yourself or an ally caught by her silence.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Earth Spirit as well as magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from his magic heavy toolkit.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Earthshaker as well as magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from his magic heavy toolkit.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Elder Titan and save yourself or an ally caught in the Echo Stomp or Earth Splitter AoE.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Ember Spirit as well as magic resistance to significantly reduce the damage taken from his magic heavy toolkit.
Lets you kite Enchantress by protecting yourself or an ally against her Impetus right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Enigmas magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Black Hole.
Lets you kite Faceless Void by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility. Also provides tankiness against Time Lock damage.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Grimstrokes magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Soulbind.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Gyrocopters magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally stunned by Homing Missile.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Hoodwinks magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally from Sharpshooter.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Huskars magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Life Break.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Invokers magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally from his full spell combo.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Io and his Tethered ally. Can also be used to get close to him and burst him down.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Jakiros magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Ice Path.
Gives you an invisibility tool to kite Juggernaut as well as save yourself or an ally from Omnislash.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Keeper of the Lights magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally affected by Solar Bind.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Kunkkas magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by his spell combo.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Leshracs magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Split Earth.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Lich's magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Sinister Gaze.
Lets you kite Lifestealer by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Linas magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Light Strike Array.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Lions magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by his lockdown.
Lets you kite Spirit Bear and Lone Druid by protecting yourself or an ally against their right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Luna by protecting yourself or an ally against her right clicks and Eclipse Beams through invisibility.
Lets you kite Lycan and his Wolf pack by protecting yourself or an ally against their right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Magnus by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Marci by protecting yourself or an ally against her right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Mars' magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by his control spells.
Lets you kite Medusa by protecting yourself or an ally against her right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Miranas magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally stunned by Sacred Arrow.
Lets you kite Monkey King by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Muertas magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Dead Shot.
Lets you kite Naga Siren and her illusions by protecting yourself or an ally against their right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Nature's Prophet and Treants by protecting yourself or an ally against their right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Night Stalker by protecting yourself or an ally against his right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Nyx Assassin's magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally stunned by Impale.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Ogre Magis magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally stunned by Fireblast.
Lets you kite Omniknight by protecting yourself or an ally against his Hammer of Purity and Aghanims Shard right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Outworld Destroyer by protecting yourself or an ally against his Arcane Orb right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Pangoliers magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught by Rolling Thunder.
Lets you kite Phantom Assassin by protecting yourself or an ally against her right clicks through invisibility.
Lets you kite Phantom Lancer and his illusions by protecting yourself or an ally against their right clicks through invisibility.
Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Phoenix's magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally caught inside the Supernova AoE.
Go invisible to escape from her. Also gives magic damage barrier that can be helpful against her spells.
It is useful against every other spell than Demonic Purge
To hide from Shadow Fiend so that he cannot burst you or your teammate down.
Go invisible to prevent getting right clicked by Slark.
Going invisible can save you from when Spectre jumps on you with Shadow Step.
To save yourself or an ally from being bursted down by him. The magical damage barrier also helps against his spells.
To hide from Sven before getting bursted down by him.
To become invisible to avoid getting bursted down by Templar Assasin.
To go invisible so that Ursa cannot chase you and right click you down.
Go invisible to hide from Void Spirit. The magical damage barrier and movement speed also helps to escape from his and his spells.
Go invisible to prevent getting targeted by Wraith King or his skeletons.
Trivia
Originally, the item provided 66% magic resistance to the targeted ally for 5 seconds upon activation. However, this amount of magic resistance was considered quite potent and could potentially be overpowered.