What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
254 buys
2ndSecond most
84 buys
3rdThird most
59 buys
4thFourth most
31 buys
5thFifth most
27 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Earthshaker
Melee · Strength
- Win rate
- 50.3%
- Pick share
- 1.5%
- Matches
- 685,165
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsSupportInitiatorDisablerNuker
NeedsCarryFrontlineTower damageEscape
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 30–40 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 50.9% over 7,534 matches.
- You are playing around Divine — its strongest medal, 51.3% over 65,470 picks.
Avoid
- Monkey King is on their side — this hero wins 25.0% of 48 matches against it.
- Ember Spirit is on their side — this hero wins 38.5% of 91 matches against it.
- Gyrocopter is on their side — this hero wins 38.6% of 88 matches against it.
254 buys84 buys59 buys31 buys27 buys
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Earthshaker took at each level.
QFissure
Slams the ground with a mighty totem, creating an impassable ridge of stone while stunning and damaging enemy units along its line.
Point Target · Magical damage
WEnchant Totem
Empowers Earthshaker's totem, causing it to deal extra damage and have 100 bonus attack range on the next attack.
No Target
EAftershock
Causes the earth to shake underfoot, adding additional damage and stuns to nearby enemy units when Earthshaker casts his abilities.
Passive · Magical damage
REcho Slam
Shockwaves travel through the ground, damaging enemy units.
No Target · Magical damageMax Order
EQW
Max E first, then Q, then W. Most took R at 6 / 13.
Level-up Order
- QFissure
- WEnchant Totem
- EAftershock
- REcho Slam
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QFissure | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||||||||||
| WEnchant Totem | W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| EAftershock | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||||
| REcho Slam | R | R | ||||||||||||||
| TTalent | T | T |
Matchup map
How Earthshaker performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
98 opponents · public matches40%60%Earthshaker's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard
If this happens, use this
- They are running away
Something that holds them still, or closes the gap yourself. Matched on “stun”.
- Kill them in one window
Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”.
By medal
- Herald49.6%17,939
- Guardian49.4%57,201
- Crusader49.5%98,114
- Archon50.3%136,916
- Legend50.6%147,701
- Ancient50.8%101,550
- Divine51.3%65,470
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min47.2%4,420
- 20–30 min48.7%10,701
- 30–40 min50.9%7,534
- 40–50 min49.6%3,339
- 50 min +50.0%1,727
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Earthshaker
Abilities
Fissure
Point Target · Magical damageSlams the ground with a mighty totem, creating an impassable ridge of stone while stunning and damaging enemy units along its line.
Enchant Totem
No TargetEmpowers Earthshaker's totem, causing it to deal extra damage and have 100 bonus attack range on the next attack.
Aftershock
Passive · Magical damageCauses the earth to shake underfoot, adding additional damage and stuns to nearby enemy units when Earthshaker casts his abilities.
Echo Slam
No Target · Magical damageShockwaves travel through the ground, damaging enemy units. Each enemy hit causes an echo to damage nearby units. Real heroes cause two echoes.
Slugger
PassiveEnemies killed with Enchant Totem or Earthshaker's other abilities are sent flying, dealing damage to enemies they hit.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 22 +3.7
- Agility
- 12 +1.4
- Intelligence
- 18 +2.1
- Move · range
- 315 · 150
Talents
- 4-50% Echo Slam Cooldown-1.5s Enchant Totem Cooldown
- 3+50 Echo Damage+65% Enchant Totem Damage
- 2+200 Fissure Range+50 Aftershock Damage
- 1+25 Base Damage+75 Fissure Damage
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Enchant Totem
Enchant Totem becomes a ground target ability, causing Earthshaker to jump in the air and land at the target spot, casting Enchant Totem there. Self-casting the ability will behave in the original form, without jumping. Grants Enchant Totem a cleaving attack.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Fissure
Reduces Fissure cooldown and releases an Aftershock along its path that stuns for a shortened duration when Earthshaker casts another ability.
Sources
- Kit, talents and upgrades · mechanicalread 22 Sept 2026
Ability names, icons, behaviour, damage type and text, plus the Aghanim’s Scepter and Shard descriptions — as the game itself ships them. Nothing here was counted over matches.
- Win rate by medal · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The same hero at each of Valve’s eight medals, over 4,610,063 public matches. Each medal carries its own sample, because the eight buckets are nothing like the same size.
- Matchups and match length · counted, on a narrower windowread 16 Sept 2026
Win rate against each opponent and across five match-length bands. This channel reports far fewer games than the medal figures above: the median hero pairing is 51 matches and the largest on the whole roster is 707. Rows under 30 games are absent rather than shown small, and the ones that remain are ORDERED by a figure shrunk toward even by its own sample — the rate you see is the real one, the ranking is the careful one.
- What players build · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The five most common items in each of Valve’s four game stages, with each row’s own pick count.
- Skill order · counted, in league matchesread 3 Oct 2026
Where skill points go, read off every player's own learning order in premium and professional league matches on patches 7.41 and 7.40. Each level shows the ability most players took there and the share that did — a column only a third agree on is printed as a third, not as the rule. Heroes under 30 counted games show no path.
- Situation index · derived, and checkableread 22 Sept 2026
Each situation is a phrase match against Valve’s own ability text, and every row shows the phrases that matched. No win rate is attached, because nobody counts one per situation.
Mechanics are the ones Valve publishes for patch 7.41f. GamGem is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation.