Intelligence · Ranged
Zips across the map to engage in fights
Win rate
46.8%
D across all ranks
Pick rate
5.4%
of public matches
Public picks
182.8K
in the sample
Pro scene
9
13 bans · 89% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 4K · Guardian 13.4K · Crusader 25.4K · Archon 40.4K · Legend 47.7K · Ancient 30.1K · Divine+ 21.9K.
Last 6 days
46.7%
Bought before the horn
Iron Branch
Faerie Fire
Tango
Observer Ward
The first minutes
Boots of Speed
Bottle
Power Treads
Soul Ring
Null Talisman
Core items
Kaya and Sange
Witch Blade
Black King Bar
The full build
Parasma
Black King Bar
Aghanim's Scepter
Linken's Sphere
Kaya and Sange
Shiva's Guard
Most-bought items for Storm Spirit in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (2,150 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Storm Spirit bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Storm Spirit’s average). Teams that are ahead buy items sooner, so a high number shows the item goes with winning games, not that it causes the win. Items with fewer than 100 games show no percentage. Cheap components are hidden from the mid and late game.
Kaya
98 games
Oblivion Staff
176 games
Power Treads
817 games
Witch Blade
184 games
Kaya
262 games
Oblivion Staff
225 games
Mithril Hammer
92 games
Kaya and Sange
166 games
Sange
173 games
Mystic Staff
166 games
Parasma
144 games
Ultimate Orb
75 games
Final items compared within the same purchase window (at least 60 games each), so they are not simply ranked by how late or expensive they are. Still a correlation: a team that is far ahead can buy anything sooner.
55
Use: Plant Tree: Targets the ground to plant a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds.
65
Use: Imbue: Instantly restores 85 health.
5s
Use: Imbue. Instantly restores 85 health.
90
Use: Devour: Consumes a target tree to gain 7 health regeneration for 16 seconds. Consuming an Ironwood Tree doubles the heal duration. Comes with 3 charges.
0
Use: Plant: Plants an Observer Ward, an invisible watcher that gives ground vision in a 1600 radius to your team. Lasts 6 minutes.
1s
Use: Plant. Plants an Observer Ward, an invisible watcher that gives ground vision in a 1600 radius to your team. Lasts 6 minutes. Hold Control to give one Observer Ward to an allied hero.
500
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
675
Active: Regenerate: Consumes a charge to restore 110 health and 60 mana over 2.7 seconds. If the hero is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost.
0.5s
Active: Regenerate. Consumes a charge to restore 110 health and 60 mana over 2.7 seconds. If the hero is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost. The Bottle automatically refills at the fountain. Hold Control to use on an allied hero.
Passive: Store Rune. Runes can be stored in the Bottle for later use by right-clicking them. Unused runes will automatically activate after 90 seconds. Using a stored rune fully refills the Bottle.
1,400
Active: Switch Attribute: Switches between +10 Strength, +10 Agility, or +10 Intelligence. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
Win rate when bought50.2% · 859 games
Active: Switch Attribute. Switches between +10 Strength, +10 Agility, or +10 Intelligence. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
805
Active: Sacrifice: Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds.
30s
Active: Sacrifice. Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds. If the mana gained cannot fit in your mana pool, it creates a buffer of mana that will be used before your mana pool.
505
4,200
Win rate when bought60.8% · 513 games
2,775
Passive: Witch Blade: Causes your next attack to apply a poison for 4 seconds, slowing by 25% and dealing 0.75x your intelligence as damage every second.
Win rate when bought54.3% · 668 games
9s
Passive: Witch Blade. Causes your next attack to apply a poison for 4 seconds, slowing by 25% and dealing 0.75x your intelligence as damage every second. This attack has True Strike.
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
Win rate when bought53.6% · 386 games
95s50
Active: Avatar. Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage. For the duration of the effect, any negative effect from enemy spells has no effect. Duration: 9 / 8 / 7s Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
5,975
Passive: Witch Blade: Causes your next attack to have true strike, apply a poison for 4 seconds, slowing by 25% and dealing 0.75x your intelligence as damage every…
Win rate when bought78.9% · 152 games
7s
Passive: Witch Blade. Causes your next attack to have true strike, apply a poison for 4 seconds, slowing by 25% and dealing 0.75x your intelligence as damage every second.
Passive: Magic Corruption. Your attacks reduce the enemy's Magic resistance by 20% for 4 seconds.
4,200
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades the ultimate, and some abilities, of all heroes.
4,800
Passive: Spellblock: Blocks most targeted spells once every 14 seconds.
14s
Passive: Spellblock. Blocks most targeted spells once every 14 seconds.
Active: Transfer Spellblock. Temporarily removes Spellblock from the item's owner and transfers it to an allied unit for 14 seconds.
4,500
Active: Arctic Blast: Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
27s75
Active: Arctic Blast. Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
Passive: Freezing Aura. Reduces the attack speed of all enemies by -40. Radius: 1200
Will detonate and deal damage if an enemy unit comes near it.
A vortex that pulls an enemy unit to Storm Spirit's location.
Aghanim’s ScepterElectric Vortex affects all enemies within a radius around Storm Spirit.
Casting a spell creates an electrical charge, which is released in a burst on Storm's next attack, dealing damage and slowing nearby enemies.
Aghanim’s ShardCan be activated to grant Storm Spirit and nearby allied heroes 3 Overload charges. Provides bonus Attack Speed. Lasts up to 12 seconds or until the charges are depleted.
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 10+0.65% of his total mana pool. Damage is expressed in damage per 100 units traveled.
Storm Spirit gains a charge of 0.2 mana regeneration per kill, and a charge every 3 levels. Loses 2 charges per death. Additionally every time he gains a charge he also gains 0.1 Mana Regen permanently.
2x Overload Attack Bounce
25450 Distance Auto Remnant in Ball Lightning
+0.2s Electric Vortex Duration
20-1.25s Static Remnant Cooldown
+250 Health
15+60 Static Remnant Damage
+25/25% Overload Attack/Movement Speed Slow
10+1.5 Mana Regen
Strength21+2/lvl
Agility22+2.6/lvlIntelligence23+3.7/lvlStorm 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.
Win rates come from public Dota 2 matches (OpenDota), 3.4M matches counted, refreshed Oct 24, 2026. Tiers use the win rate in the chosen rank: S 52.5%+, A 51%+, B 49%+, C 47.5%+, D below; heroes with too few games are left unrated. Hero data and patch notes are Valve’s. Builds Forge is an unofficial fan site, not affiliated with Valve.