Storm Spirit Dota 2 Guide – Use Your Mobility to get Kills in Patch 7.07d

Storm Spirit is a midlaner with exceptional mobility and a powerful skillset. His main strengths are the following:

• He can quickly kill creep waves thanks to his Static Remnant and Overload abilities.
• He can disable a target for 1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds using his Electric Vortex ability.
• He can move across the battlefield at extreme speeds using his Ball Lightning ability.

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What Items to build on Storm Spirit

When playing Storm Spirit in Dota 2 esports, your item build should be designed to improve your mana pool, mana regeneration, damage output and durability. Subsequently, these are some of the key items you should consider buying:

• Bottle: if you have good rune control or can often use the courier to Bottle crow, this item can give you good sustainability in the laning phase.
• Power Treads: they give you excellent stats and attack speed.
• Kaya: reduces the cost of your abilities and amplifies their damage.
• Bloodstone: greatly increases your health and mana pool, as well as your ability to regenerate them.
• Orchid Malevolence: gives you excellent damage, attack speed, intelligence, mana regeneration and the ability to silence enemy heroes for 5 seconds.
• Eul’s Scepter: it improves your mobility, mana pool and mana regeneration, and gives you the ability to escape from dangerous situations by using its active on yourself (when you get silenced for example). You can also use it to stop enemies from teleporting or prevent them from running away.
• Linken’s Sphere: gives you excellent stats, health and mana regeneration, as well as the ability to block a targeted spells every 13 seconds.
• Shiva’s Guard: this is a very strong defensive item against physical damage. It also gives you a lot of mana, damage and the ability to damage and slow enemy movement speed with its active.
• Black King Bar: this item is essential if the enemy team has a lot of disables and you don’t have good enough crowd control and initiation in your line-up to neutralize them.
• Scythe of Vyse: gives you good stats, a lot of mana and mana regeneration, as well as the ability to hex a target for 3.5 seconds.
• Boots of Travel: they give you very good mobility and the ability to be travel around the map more easily.
• Aghanim’s Scepter: upgrades your Electric Vortex ability, causing it to disable all enemy units in a 475 radius area around you.

Storm Spirit Abilities Explained

Static Remnant

Creates a static image of yourself that lasts for 12 seconds. When enemy units come near it the image explodes, dealing 140/180/220/260 damage in a 260 radius around itself. The best Dota 2 players use this to farm effectively.

Electric Vortex

Pulls an enemy unit to your location, disabling it in the process. The disable lasts for 1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds. Storm Spirit’s movement speed gets slowed by 50% for 3 seconds after using this ability.

Overload

Adds 40/60/80/100 bonus magical damage to your next basic attack, every time you cast a spell. When hit by one of your basic attacks that have the Overload buff, enemies also have their attack and movement speed slowed by 50 and 80% respectively. This debuff lasts 0.6 seconds.

Ball Lightning

Allows you to travel at a speed of 1250/1875/2500 units per second, at the cost of 30+ 8% of your maximum mana + 0.7% of your maximum mana per 100 units traveled. For every 100 units you travel with this ability, you gain 8/12/16 damage that gets dealt to all units at the target location (200 radius).

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The best Storm Spirit Talents

• +1.75 mana regeneration / +20 damage – The mana regeneration is much more valuable.
• +80 Static Remnant damage / +300 health – Given that your role is to go on a target and quickly burst it down, the first option is generally better.
• +0.5s Electric Vortex / +30 attack speed – The attack speed is more valuable if your damage is good enough.
• Overload pierces magic immunity / auto Static Remnant per 500 Ball Lightning distance – The second talent is almost always better, as it allows you to prevent creepwaves from reaching your base and also deal a lot of damage to the enemy team during fights.

Skill build

When playing Storm Spirit, you should start with a point in Static Remnant, followed by two points in Overload and then a point in Electric Vortex. At level 7 your skill build should be 1-1-4-1. Afterwards you maximize Static Remnant and Electric Vortex in this order, putting points in your ultimate ability and taking talents whenever you can.

When to pick the hero

Storm Spirit is a good pick whenever you are dealing with a lineup that either has high mobility or can severely decrease your own mobility. He also works well as an initiator against some of the hardest Dota 2 heroes that can be greatly weakened by silencing items (such as Orchid Malevolence).

Make use of your mobility

Storm Spirit is a midlaner with great mobility that can pickoff solo targets in the mid game with the help of an orchid, and disrupt the enemy lineup with his map movements. If pickoff potential and mobility is what you’re after, Storm Spirit is definitely a great candidate for your needs.

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