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Storm Spirit 21 + 2 22 + 1.7 23 + 3.9
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 200 620 1180 1820 2060 +0.25 +2.35 +5.15 +8.35 +9.55 Mana 75 351 999 1611 1875 +0 +1.15 +3.88 +6.43 +7.51 Armor 2 5.67 9.63 14.47 16.22 Damage Block - Magic Resistance 25% Status Resistance 0% Damage 24‒34 47‒57 101‒111 152‒162 174‒184 Attack Rate 0.65/s 0.78/s 0.92/s 1.09/s 1.15/s Attack Range 480 (800) Attack Speed ▶️ 110 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.5+0.3 Projectile Speed 1100 Movement Speed ▶️ 285 Turn Rate 0.8 Collision Size 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 • 800 Legs 2 Gib Type Electric Ability Upgrades Electric Vortex Overload

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.

Since 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.

Bio

Raijin Thunderkeg, the Storm Spirit

▶️ "Everyone complains about the weather…well, I'm doing something about it!"

Lore:

Storm Spirit is literally a force of nature--the wild power of wind and weather, bottled in human form. And a boisterous, jovial, irrepressible form it is! As jolly as a favorite uncle, he injects every scene with crackling energy. But it was not always thus, and there was tragedy in his creation. Generations ago, in the plains beyond the Wailing Mountains, a good people lay starving in drought and famine. A simple elementalist, Thunderkeg by name, used a forbidden spell to summon the spirit of the storm, asking for rain. Enraged at this mortal’s presumption, the Storm Celestial known as Raijin lay waste to the land, scouring it bare with winds and flood. Thunderkeg was no match for the Celestial--at least until he cast a suicidal spell that forged their fates into one: he captured the Celestial in the cage of his own body. Trapped together, Thunderkeg's boundless good humor fused with Raijin's crazed energy, creating the jovial Raijin Thunderkeg, a Celestial who walks the world in physical form.

Voice:

John Patrick Lowrie (Responses)

Abilities

Static Remnant

▶️▶️QR

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Creates an explosively charged image of Storm Spirit that lasts 12 seconds and will detonate and deal damage if an enemy unit comes near it.

Cast Animation: 0+1.1

Trigger Radius: 235

Damage Radius: 260

Activation Delay: 1

Damage: 120/180/240/300 ( 160/220/280/340)

Remnant Duration: 12

3.5 ( 2.25)

70/80/90/100

Procs on spell immune enemies. Does not attempt to damage spell immune enemies.

Modifiers

modifier_storm_spirit_static_remnant_thinker: Undispellable. Persists death.

Raijin Thunderkeg's duality allowed him to admire himself in shocking fashion.

Notes:

• Static Remnant interrupts Storm Spirit's channeling abilities upon cast.

• After a remnant is placed, it takes 1 second for it to be able to explode and deal damage.

• When a remnant expires, it still explodes and deals damage around it.

• Remnant can be triggered by invisible units and deal damage to them.

• The remnants are visible on the minimap with the same color as Radiant or Dire units, not the color of the player.

• Remnants provide 500 radius flying vision at their location for its duration or until exploding.

• The damage increasing talent does not update already placed Static Remnants.

Electric Vortex

▶️WE

Ability
Target Unit
( No Target)

Affects
Enemies / Self

A vortex that pulls an enemy unit to Storm Spirit's location.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.77

Cast Range: 300 ( 0)

Pull Duration: 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6 ( 1.8/2.2/2.6/3)

Pull Distance: 180/220/260/300

 Radius: 475

22/20/18/16

60/70/80/90

Electric Vortex affects all enemies within a radius around Storm Spirit.

Cannot be cast on spell immune enemies. Effect persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Not blocked when upgraded.

Modifiers

modifier_storm_spirit_electric_vortex_pull: Dispellable with strong dispels.

Raijin's thunderous, boisterous energy often draws others into an electrifying situation.

Notes:

• Electric Vortex pulls affected units at a speed of 128.57/122.22/118.18/115.38 ( 100).

• If the affected unit gets affected by another source of horizontal forced movement, it stops pulling, and continues as soon as the other source expires.
  • This means, unlike other forced movement effects, Electric Vortex is not canceled by them, but is temporarily stopped instead.

• If the target gets moved more than 1200 range away from the original cast location, the link breaks immediately.

• With Aghanim's Scepter, Electric Vortex turns into a non-targetable ability affecting all enemy units within 475 radius.
  • Does not target invisible, invulnerable or hidden units or units in the Fog of War within the radius.
  • When cast while no enemies are within range, it still triggers Overload.

• Multiple casts on the same target refresh the pull duration, and reset the pull distance, but do not update the pull location.

Overload

▶️▶️EV

Ability
Passive
( No Target)

Affects
Enemies
( Allies)

Damage
Magical

Casting a spell creates an electrical charge, which is released in a burst on Storm's next attack, dealing damage and slowing nearby enemies.

 Cast Animation: 0+0

Damage Radius: 300

Damage: 40/60/80/100

Move Speed Slow: 80%

Attack Speed Slow: 80

Slow Duration: 0.6

 Bounce Search Radius: 700

 Number of Bounces: 2

 Bounce Attack Damage as Damage: 75%

 Active Radius: 750

 Active Attack Speed Bonus: 40

 Active Number of Overload Charges: 3

 Active Duration: 12

 30

 150

Can be activated to grant Storm Spirit and allied heroes within 750 AoE of him 3 Overload charges. Provides 40 Attack Speed. Lasts up to 12 seconds or until the charges are depleted.

Procs and applies area effect when attacking spell immune enemies. Does not slow and does not attempt to damage spell immune enemies. Slow persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Prevents gaining a new charge. An already existing charge still fully works.

When disjointed by the primary attack target, it does not bounce. When disjointed by a secondary target, the disjointing unit is not registered as hit, meaning the attack can immediately bounce on it again if within range. A disjointed bounce still counts towards the max bounces.

Modifiers

modifier_storm_spirit_overload_passive: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_storm_spirit_overload: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_storm_spirit_electric_rave: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_storm_spirit_overload_debuff: Dispellable with any dispel.

Pow! Zip! Zap!

Notes:

• Does not trigger on active item abilities, on abilities with 0 cooldown, or on abilities which do not trigger on-cast effects.

• The bonus damage is dealt in a separate damage instance, and counts as spell damage.
  • This means it is not affected or considered by anything that works with attack damage.
  • This also means that it fully works with spell damage amplification and spell lifesteal.

• The slow and damage are applied to all enemy units within the radius around the attacked target.
  • On the primary target, the attack first applies the debuff, then its own damage.
  • On secondary targets, it first applies the damage, then the debuff.

• The charge is released upon successfully hitting a target. If the attack misses or is disjointed, nothing happens.

• Each attack checks for the buff on Storm Spirit upon successfully hitting the target. If the buff is present, the charge is released.
  • This means when Storm Spirit gains the buff while an attack projectile is flying, that attack still releases the charge when it hits.

• Attacking buildings or allies does not release the charge. However, attacking wards does.

• With the level 25 talent, Overload attacks bounces towards the closest enemy unit within 700 range of the attack target.
  • The bouncing attack travel at the same speed as the leading attack's projectile.
  • This means their speed can be further increased by other attack projectile speed bonuses.

• The bounces do not perform instant attacks. The projectiles deal regular spell damage.
  • This means they do not trigger any attack modifier or on-hit effects, and ignore evasion. However, damage block affects them.
  • Although being spell damage, they ignore outgoing spell damage amplification and cannot spell lifesteal.

• The bounce attacks deal damage based on the damage amount calculated for the leading attack. Attack damage amount is calculated upon attack begin.
  • This means it works with critical strike and quell, since these are included in the initial damage calculations.
  • This also means that it does not matter how much damage the attack actually did to the target, since that part is being calculated on projectile hit.
  • It also means that other conditional attack damage bonuses (i.e. Javelin damage proc) are not included, since these happen later in the calculations as well.

• With Aghanim's Shard, Overload turns into an active ability. The passive component is still present.
  • Overload interrupts Storm Spirit's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • Triggers Overload upon cast as well, and fully stacks with it on the same attack.
  • The buff is only placed on allied heroes, including clones and creep-heroes, excluding illusions.
  • The buff is not placed on invulnerable or hidden units.
  • The Overload values for the buff are set upon cast, and do not update if it gets leveled up after cast.
  • The Overload effects applied by an ally is credited to that ally, and not to Storm Spirit.
  • The bouncing Overload talent only works for Storm Spirit, and not for buffed allies.
  • Recasting Overload refreshes the buff's duration and resets the charges. The number of charges is visible on the buff's icon.

Ball Lightning

▶️RG

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Self / Enemies

Damage
Magical

Storm Spirit becomes volatile electricity, charging across the battlefield until he depletes his mana or reaches his target. The activation mana cost is 25+7.5% of his total mana pool, and the cost per 100 units traveled is 0.65%+ of his total mana pool. Damage is expressed in damage per 100 units traveled.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Cast Range: Global

Damage Radius: 200

Travel Speed: 1400/1850/2300

Damage per 100 Units: 8/12/16

Base Mana Cost per 100 Distance: 10

Max Mana as Cost per 100 Distance: 0.65%

 Auto Static Remnant Drop Distance: 550

0

25 + 7.5% of max mana

Modifiers

modifier_storm_spirit_ball_lightning: Dispellable with death only.

The Storm is coming in.

Notes:

• Ball Lightning disjoints projectiles upon cast.

• Storm Spirit is invulnerable and can turn, attack, and cast abilities during Ball Lightning.

• Recasting Ball Lightning while traveling has no effect, but is still registered as cast, proccing on-cast effects. The activation mana cost gets refunded.

• Destroys trees within 100 radius and provides 400 radius flying vision around Storm Spirit while traveling.

• Ball Lightning deals damage around Storm Spirit as he travels. An enemy may only be damaged once per cast.
  • The damage starts at 0 and increases by 8/12/16 for every 100 distance traveled.
  • Ball Lightning deals no damage for distances less than 100 range.

• Drains Storm Spirit's mana after every 100 range traveled, resulting in 0.07/0.05/0.04-second intervals.
  • If Storm Spirit runs out of mana while traveling, he stops immediately.

• The mana cost displayed in the ability's tooltip is based on Storm Spirit's maximum mana, showing how much it costs to initially cast Ball Lightning.

• This is how much damage Ball Lightning can deal around Storm Spirit at certain travel distances (before reductions):
  • 500 Distance: 40/60/80 damage, 75 + 10.75% max mana.
  • 1000 Distance: 80/120/160 damage, 125 + 14% max mana.
  • 2500 Distance: 200/300/400 damage, 275 + 23.75% max mana.
  • 5000 Distance: 400/600/800 damage, 525 + 40% max mana.

• The auto remnant in Ball Lightning talent automatically creates a Static Remnant based on its current level every 550 distance Storm Spirit travels.
  • These remnants do not cost mana, are independent from the active ability's cooldown and it does not prevent Storm Spirit from manually casting Static Remnant during Ball Lightning.

Talents

Hero Talents
550 Distance Auto Remnant in Ball Lightning	25	2x Overload Attack Bounce
-1.25s Static Remnant Cooldown	20	+0.4s Electric Vortex
+25 Attack Speed	15	+250 Health
+2.5 Mana Regen	10	+40 Static Remnant Damage

Notes:

• The health talent increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Storm Spirit/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.30e

• Reduced base attack damage from 26‒36 to 24‒34.
• Increased Electric Vortex cooldown from 16 on each level to 22/20/18/16.

7.30

• Increased health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Increased Static Remnant damage from 120/175/230/285 to 120/180/240/300.
• Reduced Ball Lightning activation mana cost from 30 + 8% of max mana to 25 + 7.5% of max mana.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent changed: +200 health ➜ +40 Static Remnant damage.

Level 15 right talent changed: +65 Static Remnant damage ➜ +250 health.

7.29

• Rescaled Ball Lightning travel speed from 1250/1875/2500 to 1400/1850/2300.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Merged Electric Rave with Overload. Electric Rave is now an active component of Overload, instead of being in a separate ability slot.
  • The level 25 bouncing Ovearload talent is no longer applied to allied attacks.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent changed: +24 Overload damage ➜ +200 health.

Level 15 left talent changed: +375 health ➜ +25 attack speed.

Level 20 left talent changed: +25 attack speed ➜ -1.25s Static Remnant cooldown.

Level 25 left talent: 600 range auto- Static Remnant during Ball Lightning reduced to 550 range.

Level 25 right talent: Reduced bouncing attacks' damage from 100% to 75%. [?]

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango regenerates health so Storm Spirit can trade hits better.
• Healing Salve also restores health in lane.
• Clarity allows Storm Spirit to replenish his mana so he can use Static Remnant more.
• Iron Branch gives cheap attributes and can regenerate more health from Tango.
• Enchanted Mango gives burst mana for Storm Spirit to use Static Remnant.

Early game:

• Magic Stick can give Storm Spirit a quick burst of mana and health when needed. This can help give Storm the extra bit he needs to survive and escape a gank, or enough to cast one more spell to finish off a foe.
• Boots of Speed are important on all heroes as early as possible. For Storm Spirit, the ability to outmaneuver his lane opponent is crucial to victory.
• Null Talisman gives Storm Spirit a good balance of attributes, most importantly intelligence and damage for more mana and last-hitting power. Depending on the situation, two Null Talismans can be useful for giving Storm good early attributes.
• Bottle is crucial to obtain early when playing in the mid lane. Bottling runes allows Storm Spirit to maintain his HP and mana against his lane opponent, and the runes themselves can be put to use at a time of the player's choosing, making it an extremely potent item at all stages of the game.

Mid game:

• Magic Wand is a cheap upgrade from Magic Stick which provides very cost effective attributes, as well as additional burst HP and mana regen.
• Power Treads give Storm Spirit the ability to treads switch, crucial when combined with a Bottle. The attribute bonus can be shifted between strength for more survivability, or intelligence for more mana and attack damage.
• Kaya reduces the cost of Storm Spirit's abilities allowing them to be cast more in the mid game as well as amping spell damage.
• Bloodstone gives Storm Spirit many strong benefits, allowing him to become a force to be reckoned with by any foe. The large HP and mana bonuses make Storm Spirit much more survivable and allow him to cast his spells more profligately, and the bonus mana regen allows him to be active on the map for extended periods of time. If it can be built early and multiple charges obtained, Storm Spirit can quickly snowball out of control and dominate the battlefield.
• Orchid Malevolence is extremely strong on Storm Spirit, as it greatly magnifies his offensive potential. The intelligence and mana regen bonus allow him to remain relatively autonomous when roaming the battlefield, giving him the mana to engage on enemies. The damage and attack speed bonuses, combined with the intelligence bonus, increase Storm's right-click power, allowing him to use his physical attacks to greater effect. Most importantly, the active allows Storm Spirit to silence enemies that he initiates on with Ball Lightning, magnifying the amount of damage he deals due to the damage amplification, as well as preventing targets from simply using their escape spells. Later you can upgrade your Malevolence into a Bloodthorn.

Late game:

• Scythe of Vyse is a very strong item to purchase on any intelligence hero, and is good on Storm Spirit for all the same reasons as Orchid Malevolence. The item grants a strong intelligence and mana regeneration boost, making Storm extremely mana-independent, and the bonus strength and agility shore up his weaknesses in those areas as well. The active ability allows Storm Spirit to instantly disable an enemy during an initiation, and more than double up on the time that the enemy is hard-disabled when combined with Electric Vortex.
• Linken's Sphere gives Storm Spirit attributes across the board and increased mana regen, as well as a very strong survivability passive. Spellblock can block targeted disables, making him much harder to catch out of position and an extremely slippery foe.
• Black King Bar is useful when the enemy team has numerous disables that they can use to catch and kill Storm Spirit. The spell immunity can be used during a fight to focus down enemies without fear of being stunned or silenced.
• Shiva's Guard gives Intelligence, armor, and a giant slow that is useful for teamfights. It can be a strong item if Storm Spirit needs survivability against physical damage instead of against disables.
• Bloodthorn's active ability guarantees critical damage and accuracy, allowing Storm Spirit to melt his targets.

Situational items:

• Dagon can be a situationally strong item if Storm Spirit needs more single-target killing power and already has a strong advantage over the enemy team. The item itself provides more intelligence, and the active can put more damage on an enemy in order to accelerate the amount of time required to kill them.
• Octarine Core can be a good item to purchase on Storm Spirit. The bonuses it grants are powerful on any intelligence hero, and the spell lifesteal can allow Storm to maintain his HP pool by using his spells, making him harder to bring down in fights if the enemy is able to damage him. More importantly though, the cooldown reduction can greatly improve Storm's turnaround time, as his spells and items become ready for use faster; in particular, the reduced cooldown on Static Remnant can allow for greater damage output and more Overload procs.
• Eul's Scepter of Divinity can be a cost-effective item that both increases your mana regen and purges silences.

Gameplay

Roles:	Carry Escape Nuker Initiator Disabler
Complexity:	★★☆
Playstyle:	In a final act of desperation, the elementalist Thunderkeg cast a suicidal spell that merged his being with the Storm Celestial. From this fusion, the Storm Spirit was born. Now known by his combined name, Raijin Thunderkeg leaves behind crackling images of himself, boastful poses that shock foes as he pulls them into his Electric Vortex. Every ability Overloads him with energy, which he gleefully discharges on the next unfortunate target. Like a jolly weatherman, Raijin forecasts victory with a boisterous laugh. The Storm Spirit flashes across the land in the form of Ball Lightning, zaps his enemies senseless, and zips away before any can hope to catch him.

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Equipment

Storm Spirit Equipment (expand sets) Sets Blossoming Harmony Complete Corridan Maestro Corridan Maestro Gifts of Fortune Set Heavenly General Origins of the Storm Djinn Raikage Warrior Sizzling Charge Storm Dragon Potente Vestments of the Thunderfold Virtuous Roar Head Ring of the Storm The Lightning Orchid The Lightning Orchid of Eminent Revival Thunder Rogue's Braid Arms Golden Mandate of the Stormborn Mandate of the Stormborn Taunt Taunt: In the Spirit of Peace Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Good Fortune Remnants

Trivia

• Storm Spirit, like Brewmaster, Earth Spirit and Ember Spirit, was a Pandaren in DotA. He was re-skinned to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard, since Pandaren are a race of in the Warcraft Universe.
• The line ▶️ 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, whose voice acting is largely based on the character Dudley Do-Right, from the Dudley Do-Right Show.
• Eul's Scepter of Divinity has an equivalent in Heroes of Newerth called "Stormspirit".
• Ball lightning is an unexplained and potentially dangerous atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term refers to reports of luminous, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. Though usually associated with thunderstorms, the phenomenon lasts considerably longer than the split-second flash of a lightning bolt.
• Storm Spirit's voice line "I'll save this till it's five oclock somewhere" is a reference to the song It's Five O' Clock Somewhere by Alan Jackson.

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