Storm Spirit

Raijin Thunderkeg , the Storm Spirit, is a ranged Intelligence hero who wields the elemental power of lightning. He has high mobility, strong ganking and carrying potential, and very good synergy between his hero abilities.

Static Remnant creates an immobile clone of himself that, upon contact with an enemy, shocks all enemies in a small area for damage. It has a very low cooldown, making it a good farming skill. Electric Vortex binds an enemy to himself, drawing it in slowly; at higher levels of the skill, it will always be able to pull the target into a Static Remnant. Overload further supplements this combo by harnessing the excess charge whenever Raijin casts a spell, adding it in the form of magical damage to his next attack and zapping enemies in a radius around the target. Finally, Storm Spirit's ultimate and signature skill is Ball Lightning, in which he transforms into pure energy, sacrificing his own mana to dash quickly around the map in an invulnerable state, inflicting minor damage to foes he impacts as well as giving him an Overload charge. It can be used to initiate and escape long distances with ease.

Because his ultimate disjoints enemy projectiles and has no cooldown, he can prove to be one of the most slippery foes in the game, provided that he has enough mana regeneration to sustain it and/or the enemy team does not have strong disables such as stuns and silences. However, without proper mana management, he will run out of juice very quickly and become a sitting duck. While extremely vulnerable early game before he acquires his ultimate, once he does so, if he gets a few quick kills and some mana-sustaining items, he will become an unstoppable force of nature.

Tips

 * allows Raijin to pull his target close enough to his, triggering its damage.
 * can be cast at minuscule ranges to trigger.
 * Using, can travel behind enemies, forcing them to turn around to attack him. Dance around an enemy with  to confuse them even more.
 * A very common combo uses to nuke down lone heroes is to ambush them with:  > Attack >  > Attack > > Attack >  through them to dodge their retaliation > Attack > Escape if enemy has not died. This will greatly injure most heroes, and kill those foolish enough to be walking around alone with weakened HP.
 * Another alternative would be to use > Attack >  > > Attack > then just normal attack and use  to chase enemies when out of range. When engaging heroes like /, a wise move would be to use  after  is over since the enemy would most likely cast a stun first which  would be able to dodge.
 * When engaging a group of heroes, can actually, although at a risk, be the first one to engage them, followed by several allies already behind him to back him up. This strategy can make enemy heroes blow most cooldowns on  while he can simple run away with, disable a hero with , leave a  behind and pave the way for allied heroes and their counter initiation.
 * While in, you can use items like to bring a dazzling yet deadly cold storm which follows around while rolling on. Great for initiating and crippling enemies, along with , escaping away is most unlikely. You can also cast  for farming or pushing, or just show some amazing power.
 * gives flying vision for its duration, so is wise use it to reveal enemy jukes or to check the Roshan's Pit. Use it in high ground like the ward spots for a greater effect.
 * should be your first item to farm, its composed by small parts so its easy to farm even with some deaths along the way, once finished it gives you good intelligence, mana regen, atk speed and the silence ability to prevent enemy retaliation, an excellent pickup in with great killing potencial.
 * gives intelligence, loads of mana regeneration, a flat movement increase of 40, and its cyclone can be used on one self to dispel all silences in the game with the exception of 's (However, if the player finds himself stuck in the spell, the simple solution is to use the cyclone on Riki himself than Storm, walk out of the smoke screen, and continue normally).
 * With enough charges, no single item is going to give Storm the amount of mana regen that can grant him -It should rarely be build first as it does not grant storm any kill potential, but it should never be skipped.

Trivia

 * , like, and , was a Pandaren in DotA. However, he was re-skinned to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard Entertainment, since Pandaren are a race of creatures in the Warcraft Universe.
 * Raijin is the name of the god of thunder and lightning in the Japanese Shinto religion.
 * The line ss attack 10.mp3 I'll spirit you away!, as well as him muttering Spirit... Away... when he dies may be a reference to the film Spirited Away.
 * Storm Spirit's speech is very similar to Ninjor, a character from the Power Rangers franchise, who's voice acting is largely based on the character Dudley Do-Right, from the Dudley Do-Right Show.
 * Euls Sceptre of divinity's similar item was called Stormspirit in Heros of Newerth.