Earth Spirit

Kaolin the Earth Spirit is a highly adaptable strength hero with great utility, able to effectively fill the role of a support, ganker, or offlaner, while still having a large game presence due to his strong initiation. Unlike most heroes, his abilities revolve around an innate ability, Stone Remnant. Because of Stone Remnant's synergy with his other abilities, Earth Spirit has an incredibly high skill ceiling, and can be challenging to master. He can be surprisingly mobile, owing to his Rolling Boulder, and can use this in combination with his other skills to position himself to disable multiple enemies, save allies from certain death and generally become a commanding presence in a teamfight, even without a great deal of farm. With good timing he can initiate fights from a distance, and given the right circumstances can deal a surprising amount of damage to both single and multiple targets, all the while disrupting enemy positioning allowing for easy kills. A useful ally and a dangerous enemy, the Earth Spirit's versatility and flexibility make him an ideal hero in almost any lineup or lane.

Trivia

 * Earth Spirit, like, and , was a Pandaren in DotA. However, he was re-skinned to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard, since Pandaren are a race of creatures in the Warcraft Universe.
 * His innate skill, Stone Remnant, is called Stone Caller in DotA, and it summons an actual Rock rather than a Remnant. Its function and mechanics are just the same.
 * Earth Spirit is the fastest hero to be ported from Warcraft DotA to Dota 2 since his creation (Kaolin was released the June 04 2013 in WCDota, and was released on Dota 2 by November 14 2013).
 * Earth Spirit's name, Kaolin, is a reference to a type of fine white clay of the same name.
 * Earth Spirit's lore drew inspiration from the Terracotta Army, a collection of statues depicting Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang's armies.