Storm Spirit + Tidehunter

Why this works

Using Ravage to set up a kill for Storm Spirit often feels like a waste of a big ultimate. Tidehunter provides this huge, fight-winning lockdown, but Storm's damage is mostly single-target. He can't clear the whole enemy team during the stun duration by himself, unlike other mids with more area damage. Storm prefers to get in, secure a quick kill on a key support, and get out. He needs a simple catch for that, not a five-man Ravage. The two heroes are operating on different scales: Tidehunter wants a big, decisive teamfight, while Storm is looking for constant pick-offs across the map.

This dynamic means their teamfights can feel disjointed. Tidehunter might land a perfect Ravage, but Storm Spirit can only burst down one enemy, leaving the rest to recover and turn the fight. More often, Storm gets initiated on and forces Tidehunter to use his ultimate defensively, which rarely wins the engagement. For this pair to work, the team needs another source of damage to follow up on Ravage. Opponents will play spread out to make landing a big ultimate difficult, often leaving Storm without a good target for his initial jump.