Earth Spirit/Counters

Bad against...

 * Abaddon's  is a strong dispel, meaning it can save allies from Earth Spirit's stun, slow, silence, and Magnetize. His ultimate, Borrowed Time, also makes killing him with Magnetize nearly impossible.


 * roots which is very dangerous for Earth Spirit, since he can't use to escape while rooted.


 * Lycan can chase down Earth Spirit with easily.


 * Huskar's passive ability,, greatly reduces magic damage. Because Earth Spirit practically only deals magical damage, this is problematic.


 * Even though Enchantress is squishy she can sustain the damage of Earth Spirits abilities with her powerfull healing spell.
 * Earth Spirit is often very centered in a teamfight while Enchantress likes to hold her distance from the group. She will use this range advantage to deal crucial damage with her attacks and can shoot down Earth Spirit quickly.

Others

 * Abaddon
 * Razor
 * Weaver

Items

 * ignores all skills or Earth Spirit which does magical damage.
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Good against...

 * Earth Spirit can easily disrupt Pudges + into combo because he can stun enemies from a very large distance with a +. With an  he can even pull his teammates out of Dismember and most likely also silencing Pudge with.
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 * Tinker is an easy target for Earth Spirit to initiate on. He likes to split push lanes once he acquieres and Earth Spirit can jump him with his  and quickly silence/stun/push him towards his teammates, making short work of Tinker.
 * The huge range of Stone Remnant+Boulder Smash enables Earth Spirit to stop Tinker teleporting to his fountain since Tinker tends to buy most of the time to escape safely.


 * Earth Spirit is a dangerous foe to encounter for Invoker in the early stages of the game. Since Invoker needs to gain levels as fast as possible and is not very strong in the early game, Earth Spirit can use his incredible early game power to gank Invoker and ruin his game plan.
 * Earth Spirit combines stuns and silences with his spells and can apply them from a great distance. This is very bad for Invoker as he is very dependent on a smart usage of his spells with and Earth Spirit can disrupt his combos easily.


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Others

 * In general heroes which are reliant on their spell usage especially drafts with more than one hero of that sort since most of Earth Spirits crowd-controlling spells have an AoE-effect.
 * Squishy heroes (,, ...), as Earth Spirit can deal tons of damage, especially with his ultimate ability.
 * Positioning-reliant heroes (,, ...), since Earth Spirit can disrupt positioning with his Boulder Smash.

Works well with...

 * Earth Spirit can "kick" enemies into mine fields of Techies with his.


 * Lifestealer can use to hide inside Earth Spirit. Because of Earth Spirits high mobility thanks to  this is a deadly combo duo for pickoffs.
 * Earth Spirit can "kick" Lifestealer towards a fleeing enemy if needed to close the distance. (since Lifestealer has only to do it by himself and the spell has not really a long cast range)


 * Alchemist can farm an for Earth Spirit with ease. This is especially good for him, since Earth Spirit is most likely played as a support and has not the best farming capabilities, making it hard for him to reach such an expensive item. But the Aghanims Scepter is very strong on him and grants him his  ability which is very usefull to have.
 * Like for other melee heroes, Earth Spirit can solve the positioning problems of Alchemist with using Boulder Smash to bring him in range for his.


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List of heroes that counter Earth Spirit, and list of heroes that work well with Earth Spirit.