# Storm giant

H storm giant 

Difficulty

19

Attacks

Weapon 2d12

H storm giant 

Difficulty

19

Attacks

Weapon 2d12

Base level

16

Base experience

536

Speed

12

Base AC

3

Base MR

10

Alignment

-3 (chaotic)

Frequency (by normal means)

1 (Very rare)

Genocidable

Yes

Weight

2250

Nutritional value

750

Size

Huge

Resistances

shock

Resistances conveyed

shock (50%), Increase strength (50%)

A storm giant:

 has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso.

 is carnivorous.

 is a giant.

 is nasty.
 is strong.
 can throw boulders.

 likes gems.
 can pick up weapons and food.

 has infravision.
 can be seen through infravision.

 normally appears in small groups.

Reference

monst.c#line1431

The storm giant, H, is a monster that appears in NetHack. It the strongest giant in in terms of difficulty level. 
Like all giants, they can pick up and throw boulders, and eating their corpse has a 50% chance  of increasing your strength. The storm giant corpse additionally has a 50% chance of granting shock resistance. 

Contents

1 Generation
2 Strategy
3 History
4 Variants

4.1 SpliceHack

5 Encyclopedia entry
6 References

Generation
Main article: Giant#Generation
Like other giants, storm giants can appear in small groups. They may be generated with a small assortment of gems and have a 50% chance of receiving a boulder.[1][2]
Storm giants may be generated in throne rooms as early as dungeon level 13, and may appear when a throne at this depth or lower is looted.[3] Storm giants can also be generated if a chaotic spellcaster casts the summon nasties monster spell. They are also eligible to appear in the Valkyrie quest and Caveman quest, which have ​H giant humanoid as the second quest class, though in practice this will usually not occur by the time the Quest is actually finished.

Strategy
Main article: Giant#Strategy
Storm giants are usually not seen until late in the dungeon, but are generally not that much different from other giants. They have a fairly strong weapon attack with the same hit dice as fire giants, and can move at the same speed as an unhasted hero - but most players should have sufficient experience with their kin (and usually a source of speed) by the time they encounter storm giants. As with most giants, be wary of any attack wands they may spawn with - taking advantage of their low monster magic resistance is generally a good idea.

History
The storm giant was introduced to the vanilla game in NetHack 3.3.0. Before that, it first appeared in SLASH 6, the last release of SLASH based on NetHack 3.1.3.

Variants
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, the Drinking Hall special level is "staffed" by two storm giants.

Encyclopedia entry

Giants have always walked the earth, though they are rare in these times.  They range in size from little over nine feet to a towering twenty feet or more.  The larger ones use huge boulders as weapons, hurling them over large distances.  All types of giants share a love for men - roasted, boiled, or fried.  Their table manners are legendary.

 

References

↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 183

↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 706

↑ courtmon in mkroom.c