Ember

“A tiny ember with a temper. Burns through crowds.”

Ember is Fire's maze brick, the cheapest tower the race has: small splash, dealing fire damage. It costs 20 gold and builds in 1 s. It upgrades to tier III for 80 gold.

Race: Fire (free)
Damage: Fire
Role: Small splash
Tiers: I to III
Cost: 20 / 40 / 80 gold

Stats per tier

Ember: tiers I to III
Tier	Cost (gold)	Damage	Range (tiles)	Attacks every	Damage / s	Build time	Specials
Ember I	20	4.4	2.5	0.78 s	5.6	1 s	splash 1 tile
Ember II	40	8.7	2.7	0.57 s	15.1	1.4 s	splash 1.1 tiles
Ember III	80	14	2.9	0.5 s	28	2.2 s	splash 1.3 tiles

From the game's data when this page was built. Damage per second is per target, before elements, armour and auras.

Upgrade path

Ember has no branches: it upgrades in place from tier I to tier III.

Strong and weak against

Ember deals fire damage. Fire beats nature, nature beats water and water beats fire.

Strong against nature creeps (1.5× damage): Scout, Swarmling, Howlrunner and Thornwarden.
Weak against water creeps (0.5× damage; bosses still take 0.75×): Bat, Regenerator, Rimeshroud and Stormwake.
Neutral creeps take its normal damage.