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Clockwerk icon
  • Battery Assault icon Battery Assault interrupts Earthshaker's long cast animations, preventing him from using any abilities apart from Echo Slam.
  • Power Cogs icon Power Cogs often separate the battlefield so that both enemies and allies are unlikely to cluster.
  • Rocket Flare icon Rocket Flare allows Clockwerk to scout Earthshaker before a fight starts and potentially cancel his Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger.
  • Hookshot icon Hookshot enables Clockwerk to catch Earthshaker before he gets a chance to initiate a fight.
Death Prophet icon
  • Death Prophet's Crypt Swarm icon Crypt Swarm and Spirit Siphon icon Spirit Siphon can repetively damage Earthshaker, preventing him from using Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger.
  • Silence icon Silence can be used to silence Earthshaker after he blinks in with Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger, preventing him from executing his combo.
  • Spirits from Exorcism icon Exorcism are completely invulnerable and cannot interact with anything at all, which will greatly weaken damage from Echo Slam icon Echo Slam. This can put Earthshaker in a serious disadvantage against Death Prophet.
Disruptor icon
Earth Spirit icon
Jakiro icon
Lifestealer icon
  • Rage icon Rage prevents Earthshaker from damaging and stunning Lifestealer.
  • Feast icon Feast is very effective against Earthshaker, because of him being a strength hero, allowing Lifestealer to heavily harass and kill him.
  • Open Wounds icon Open Wounds prevents Earthshaker from escaping after he initiated.
  • Infest icon Infest gives Lifestealer an easy way to escape should he get caught out by Earthshaker. And against carry Earthshaker, Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Infest icon Infest can be used to disarm Earthshaker and attack him from within, rendering him unable to attack with Enchant Totem icon Enchant Totem.
Luna icon
Necrophos icon
  • Frequent healing from Death Pulse icon Death Pulse and Mekansm icon Mekansm/Guardian Greaves icon Guardian Greaves or Pipe of Insight icon Pipe of Insight makes it difficult for Earthshaker to execute his combo with Echo Slam.
  • Necrophos usually buys Radiance icon Radiance to improve their burning aura damage from Heartstopper Aura icon Heartstopper Aura will usually disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger prior to a teamfight, preventing him from initiating or re-initiating.
  • Reaper's Scythe icon Reaper's Scythe allows to kill Earthshaker while he blinks in, preventing him from executing his combo (although Earthshaker is rarely a primary target).
Outworld Destroyer icon
  • Outworld Destroyer's pure and magical damage is particularly effective against Earthshaker.
  • Astral Imprisonment icon Astral Imprisonment catches Earthshaker while he blinks in, preventing him from executing his combo.
  • Earthshaker has mana troubles, and Outworld Destroyer's abilities can press this by stealing intelligence comes from Arcane Orb icon Arcane Orb, therefore depleting his mana pool and mana regeneration.
  • Sanity's Eclipse icon Sanity's Eclipse deals high damage to Earthshaker, due to his low intelligence and mana pool.
Puck icon
Razor icon
Skywrath Mage icon
  • Arcane Bolt icon Arcane Bolt allows Skywrath Mage to harass Earthshaker out of lane.
  • Ancient Seal icon Ancient Seal is an instant silence that can be pre-cast onto Earthshaker to disrupt his combo, before he uses Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger to initiate.
  • Mystic Flare icon Mystic Flare will nuke Earthshaker down while he stands in place during his long cast animations.
Sniper icon
  • Shrapnel icon Shrapnel can be used to disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger from long range.
  • Take Aim icon Take Aim allows Sniper to harass Earthshaker in lane, and stay out of Echo Slam initiation radius.
Spectre icon
  • Spectral Dagger icon Spectral Dagger can be used to traverse past Fissure.
  • Haunt icon Haunt will usually disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger prior to a teamfight, preventing him from initiating.
  • On the other hand, Haunt icon Haunt will amplify damage done from Echo Slam. Use this to your advantage.
Templar Assassin icon
Venomancer icon
  • Venomancer's slows and magical damage-over-time works well against Earthshaker's which completes lack of mobility.
  • Plague Ward icon Plague Wards are useful for slowing and kitting down Earthshaker, revealing him from initiating and re-initiating and putting his Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger on cooldown if Venomancer has vision over Earthshaker.
Viper icon
  • Poison Attack icon Poison Attack and Viper Strike icon Viper Strike allowing to kite and slow Earthshaker significally, putting Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger on cooldown and preventing him from initiating or re-initiating.
  • Nethertoxin icon Nethertoxin breaks Aftershock. The silence from Level 25 talent also prevents Earthshaker from initiating or re-initiating.
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Good against...[]

Broodmother icon
  • Echo Slam's damage potential increases phenomenally due to Broodmother's hordes of spiderlings and spiderites.
  • Long ranged Fissures can hit Broodmother if she runs into the treeline at the edges of the map.
Chaos Knight icon
  • Echo Slam's damage potential increases due to Chaos Knight's Phantasm icon Phantasm illusions.
Enigma icon
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Meepo icon
  • Each of Meepo's clones count as real heroes, meaning that an Echo Slam hitting them will deal catastrophic damage to Meepo and his team.
  • Eathshaker's AoE stuns can interrupt Meepo's Poof icon Poof cast animation.
Naga Siren icon
Nature's Prophet icon
  • Treants increase Echo Slam's damage.
  • Earthshaker's AoE stuns can hit Nature's Prophet through Sprout icon Sprout, without having direct line of sight, in order to interrupt Teleportation icon Teleportation.
Phantom Lancer icon
  • Phantom Lancer's many illusions increase Echo Slam's damage.
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Works well with...[]

Dark Seer icon
  • Vacuum icon Vacuum sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.
  • A group of stunned enemies are ripe targets for Dark Seer's Wall of Replica icon Wall of Replica.
  • Combining Vacuum icon Vacuum and Fissure can position and re-position the enemy team to set up for strong AoE abilities.
  • Surge icon Surge can be an early game alternative to a Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger.
Enigma icon
  • Black Hole icon Black Hole sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.
  • Earthshaker's initiation can give ample time and space for Enigma to line up a good Black Hole icon Black Hole.
Magnus icon
Naga Siren icon
Puck icon
  • Dream Coil icon Dream Coil sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.
Sand King icon
  • Burrowstrike icon Burrowstrike sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.
  • Sand King can travel underneath Fissure with Burrowstrike icon Burrowstrike.
  • Caustic Finale icon Caustic Finale pairs well with Enchant Totem for mana-effective lanepushing.

Others[]

  • Lich minimap icon Lich and Gyrocopter minimap icon Gyrocopter's large AoE abilities can quickly clean up an enemy team after Earthshaker's initiation.


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