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Bad against...

Clockwerk

• interrupts Earthshaker's long cast animations, preventing him from using any abilities apart from Echo Slam.
• often separate the battlefield so that both enemies and allies are unlikely to cluster.
• allows Clockwerk to scout Earthshaker before a fight starts and potentially cancel his Blink Dagger.
• enables Clockwerk to catch Earthshaker before he gets a chance to initiate a fight.

Death Prophet

• Death Prophet abilities disables Earthshaker's Blink Dagger.
• Silence can be used to silence Earthshaker after he blinks in, preventing him from executing his combo.

Disruptor

• Thunder Strike can be used to cancel Earthshaker's Blink Dagger.
• Static Storm if used on a fight can prevent Earthshaker from executing his combo after blinking in.

Earth Spirit

• Geomagnetic Grip can be used to silence Earthshaker after he blinks in, preventing him from executing his combo.
• Magnetize does damage over time and thus disables Earthshaker's Blink Dagger for a long time.

Jakiro

• Both Ice Path and Macropyre are the good setup while Earthshaker after blinking in and stay out of Echo Slam initiation radius.

Lifestealer

• Rage prevents Earthshaker from damaging and stunning Lifestealer.
• Feast is very effective against Earthshaker, because of him being a strength hero, allowing Lifestealer to heavily harass and kill him.
• Open Wounds prevents Earthshaker from escaping after he initiated.
• Infest gives Lifestealer an easy way to escape should he get caught out by Earthshaker.

Necrophos

• allows to kill Earthshaker while he blinks in.
• Necrophos usually buys Radiance to improve their burning damage from will disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger prior to a teamfight, preventing him from initiating or re-initiating.

Night Stalker

• Fissure has a short stun and creates an impassable ridge. However, his Dark Ascension can fly over it.
• Crippling Fear can be used to silence Earthshaker after he blinks in, preventing him from executing his combo (although Earthshaker is rarely a primary target).

Outworld Devourer

• allows to catch Earthshaker after he blinks in, preventing him from executing his combo.
• His can kill Earthshaker quickly due of his low mana pool.

Puck

• Beware of playing as a Puck, his Phase Shift allows to dodge all of Earthshaker abilites.
• Both Illusory Orb and Waning Rift allows to kite and chase Earthshaker.
• Dream Coil takes a stun from Earthshaker if he tries to escape from Blink Dagger or Enchant Totem upgraded from Aghanim's Scepter.

Razor

• Static Link reduces the damage bouns from Enchant Totem.
• Both Plasma Field and Unstable Current slow prevents Earthshaker's escaping from Blink Dagger.

Rubick

• Earthshaker's abilities are very useful to Rubick's Spell Steal:
  • Fissure has shorter cast time, makes it a nice ability to either initiate or interrupt enemy's gank from long distance.
  • Echo Slam isn't as powerful from Rubick's hands because didn't gain bonuses from Aftershock but the damage can still be massive on enemies.

Skywrath Mage

• allows Skywrath Mage to harass Earthshaker out of lane.
• is an instant silence that can be pre-cast onto Earthshaker to disrupt his combo, before he uses Blink Dagger to initiate.
• will nuke Earthshaker down while he stands in place during his long cast animations.

Sniper

• Shrapnel can be used to disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger from long range.
• Take Aim allows Sniper to harass Earthshaker in lane, and stay out of Echo Slam initiation radius.

Spectre

• Haunt will usually disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger prior to a teamfight, preventing him from initiating.

Templar Assassin

• Her Psionic Traps will usually disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger prior to a teamfight, preventing him from initiating.
• Earthshaker's abilities takes the little damage thanks to Refraction.
• A combination of Meld and Desolator tears through his Earthshaker's abysmal armor.

Venomancer

• Venomancer's slows and magical damage-over-time works well against Earthshaker's which completes lack of mobility.
• is useful for slowing and kitting down Earthshaker, revealing him from initiating and re-initiating and putting his Blink Dagger on cooldown if Venomancer has vision over Earthshaker.

Viper

• Poison Attack and Viper Strike allowing to kite and slow Earthshaker significally, putting Blink Dagger on cooldown and preventing him from initiating or re-initiating.
• Nethertoxin breaks Aftershock. The silence from the Level 25 talent also prevents Earthshaker from initiating or re-initiating.

Windranger

• Windrun can used to dodge Earthshaker abilities, especially Fissure.
• Focus Fire upgraded to Aghanim's Scepter allows to kite and kill Earthshaker.

Zeus

• Thundergod's Wrath will often disable Earthshaker's Blink Dagger before a fight starts.

Others

• Heroes with invisibility and high mobility can jump on and focus down Earthshaker before he has a chance to initiate: Clinkz, Slark, Storm Spirit
• Invoker's EMP can instantly put Earthshaker out of commission due to his low natural mana.
• Warlock often stays back and counter-initiates by dropping his Chaotic Offering on Earthshaker and his allies.
• Luna's Lucent Beams and Eclipse will prevent Earthshaker from initiating or re-initiating.
• Tinker's March of the Machines will disable Blink Dagger over a large area.
• Silencer's Global Silence and Doom's Doom makes Earthshaker temporarily useless.
• Careful not to blink into Riki's Smoke Screen or Disruptor's Static Storm, as these field effects will instantly silence Earthshaker and prevent him from initiating.

Items

• Pipe of Insight and Black King Bar significantly reduce Earthshaker's damage output.
• Radiance prevents Earthshaker from using Blink Dagger.

Good against...

Broodmother

• 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

• Echo Slam's damage potential increases due to Chaos Knight's illusions.

Enigma

• Fissure does a great job at interrupting Black Hole immediately, especially with Blink Dagger and Aether Lens.
• Echo Slam's damage potential increases due to the eidolons created by Demonic Conversion.

Meepo

• Echo Slam's damage potential increases due to Meepo's clones.
• Eathshaker's AoE stuns can interrupt Meepo's Poof cast animation

Naga Siren

• Mirror Image's illusions increase Echo Slam's damage.

Nature's Prophet

• Treants increase Echo Slam's damage.
• Earthshaker's AoE stuns can hit Nature's Prophet through Sprout, without having direct line of sight, in order to interrupt Teleportation.

Phantom Lancer

• Phantom Lancer's many illusions increase Echo Slam's damage.

Others

• Heroes with channeled abilities can be interrupted by a long-range Fissure: Crystal Maiden, Witch Doctor
• Earthshaker's many stuns can lock down slippery heroes like Slark in his Shadow Dance

Works well with...

Dark Seer

• Vacuum sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.
• A group of stunned enemies are ripe targets for Dark Seer's Wall of Replica.
• Combining Vacuum and Fissure can position and re-position the enemy team to set up for strong AoE abilities.
• Surge can be an early game alternative to a Blink Dagger.

Enigma

• 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.

Magnus

• Reverse Polarity sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.

Naga Siren

• Song of the Siren sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.

Puck

• Dream Coil sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam.

Sand King

• Burrowstrike sets Earthshaker up for an easy Echo Slam
• Sand King can travel underneath Fissure with Burrowstrike.
• Caustic Finale pairs well with Enchant Totem for mana-effective lanepushing.

Others

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