Earthshaker — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Earthshaker. In chat Earthshaker also goes by “es”. On Russian servers you will hear “Эртшейкер” (or “шейкер”, “шейк” and “эс”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Disrupts enemy team with his chain stuns”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Earthshaker” or “Эртшейкер” or “es” brings up Earthshaker.

Earthshaker is a Strength hero (36 of them in the game), melee, complexity 2 of 3 by Valve's rating.

Valve's roles for Earthshaker, rated 1 to 3: Initiator ●●●, Disabler ●●○, Support ●○○, Nuker ●○○ — maxed out: Initiator.

By attributes puts Earthshaker in the “STRENGTH” (2nd of 36) block; By complexity — in the “MEDIUM” (11th of 59) band.

Earthshaker is one of the rare flex heroes, scoring 0.5 or more in three positions (soft support (4), mid (2) and offlane (3)), highest as soft support; only 8 heroes have more than two. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.06 · mid 0.99 · offlane 0.65 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.10, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “4 · SUPPORT”, “2 · MID” and “3 · OFFLANE” rows only.

Lanes over 1,341 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 5%, mid 47%, off 47%. Median GPM 470, XPM 696 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.54 by the site's formula.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Earthshaker sits in the “2 · MID” row, 8th portrait of 18. The rows are filled in turn, carry to hard support, each with the 18 most popular heroes of that position not placed above — that is how Earthshaker ends up there; by the highest score, add the hero to “4 · SUPPORT” as well — it has two free slots.

Other ready grids with Earthshaker: Meta by stats — “MID”, 5th of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 24th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Earthshaker first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Underlord, Spirit Breaker and Pudge: all three share the same main position (soft support), the same attribute and melee attack.

The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.

Win rate 50.8% for Earthshaker (42nd of 127) over 659,591 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 15th.

Low (50.1%) and high (51.3%) brackets differ by less than two points. Earthshaker's share of games is 4% above its average at Ancient and 2% below at Crusader.

Earthshaker in the snapshot's pro matches: 16 picks, 8 wins, 8 bans. Turbo: 392,972 games at 49.0%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Planetfall arcana plus a second arcana style for Earthshaker: 16 ready dot drawings, from 1,974 to 3,888 of the grid's 4000 slots.

Ready grid with this drawing: Earthshaker · Planetfall — 1,794 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.