Semi-daily hero tips. Day 28: Earth Spirit

PREVIOUS HEROES

• Abaddon
• Alchemist
• Ancient Apparition
• Anti-Mage
• Arc Warden
• Axe
• Bane
• Batrider
• Beastmaster
• Bloodseeker
• Bounty Hunter
• Brewmaster
• Bristleback
• Broodmother
• Centaur Warrunner
• Chaos Knight
• Chen
• Clinkz
• Clockwerk
• Crystal Maiden
• Dark Seer
• Dazzle
• Death Prophet
• Disruptor
• Doom
• Dragon Knight
• Drow Ranger

DISCLAIMER

A lot of you probably know about the weekly hero discussion, but that often ends up in a meta discussion (whether or not the hero needs buffs, etc) or a meme war than actual tips to play, itemize and build the hero.

This is what I'd like to do. Please discuss any notes I made and possible improvements while also giving tips of your own if you have them.

The roles, skill builds and item builds, as well as a lot of the notes are my opinion on matters and should not be seen as a must do or don't. Also remember that almost every single build or role is situationally possible.

A lot of the tips on heroes were also mentioned in tsunami's amazing hero tips series he did over the last couple of years.

Earth Spirit

Notes:

• At level 3 you can already combo someone to death: Place remnant behind them, pull, roll through it, push them to your tower. This is no longer a 100% kill as of 6.80 however, but still a great combo.
• A lot of changes have come through the years to make your life easier, such as boulder smash automatically choosing its target, allowing you to click the direction in which you want to smash, instead of it always going in the direction you're facing.
• You can channel TP during Rolling boulder
• Boulder smash on someone doesn't cancel TP. The stun from the stone of course does.
• Gripping an ally does not cancel TP
• Friends: Batrider (you can grip him during lasso)
• Stone remnant does not trigger magic stick charges
• Counters: Naga (net disables roll), Doom (ult), Huskar, Visage (magic resistance), Death Prophet (easy to hit silence), Alch, Razor (tanky)
• Good versus: Storm (silence), Rubick (has little use for your spells without rocks), Spectre (one of the worst laners in the game, earth spirit is amazing early)
• You can put a remnant in front of you while boulder rolling
• Using force staff while rolling is useless, but it works while casting
• Versus: Always stand in his way so he can't roll away from a gank.

Role: Anything, Nowadays mostly support

Item build: Bottle/wand, Arcanes/Tranquils, (Urn, Blink, Force, Glimmer, Aether lens, Drum, BKB, Eul's, Veil) Aghs

Skill build: lvl 1 roll, Magnetize > Smash > Grip > rolling boulder