Earthshaker is exceptional at ganking the mid lane, because at a good angle, Fissure can completely block the enemy midlaner from running back to their tower.

What position is Earthshaker?

Why is Earthshaker Mid Cheese? Earthshaker's main role is not mid. As you can see in the picture below, he is mostly played as a position 4 on the offlane as a support or core, or in some situations –as the third person on a safelane trilane/roaming.

Why is Earthshaker so good?

Earthshaker benefits greatly from the recent buff towards Strength, which now provides on HP more per level and provides double the HP regeneration it used to. His Strength gain was also buffed from 2.9 to 3.2 in 7.06. That is an increase of 7.5 Strength (150 HP) at level 25.