Alexenferman is not responsible for any damages or bricks made to your device. Please do some research if you have any concerns about rooting, its features and downsides. You are choosing to make these modifications, you should blame yourself for any mistakes you make.

Rooting may require a factory reset, please backup your data. Rooting will void your device warrany. By rooting your device, you will not be able to install OTA updates on your phone.

US carrier specific devices such as Verizon and Sprint might not be bootloader unlockable, therefore, not rootable.

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Due to the limited layout options of an AndroidForums thread, I have made an article on my website about rooting this phone with images and better layout. You can follow my article here: https://www.alexenferman.com/articles/MotoE2020/root-moto-e-2020-magisk

If you wish to follow the tutorial on this thread, feel free to do so.

You will need:

• Platform Tools (Download from here)
• Motorola Drivers
• Windows or Linux PC
• Bootloader Unlocked Moto E 2020

Your phone must be bootloader unlocked. Rooting your phone and not unlocking the bootloader will result in a soft brick.

Download the latest Magisk Manager APK from Github
Install the APK file. Make sure to enable "Unknown Sources" in the Settings app

PATCHING THE BOOT IMAGE

To retrieve the boot image in order to patch it, you will need to download the stock ROM for your specific variant.
Download the ROM from your variant from here.
To check which region is your device, go to Settings > About Phone > Software Channel.

After downloading, open the ROM zip file with an archive manager.
Extract the boot.img file only.
Transfer the boot.img file on your phone.

On your phone, open the Magisk app.
Select "Install" > "Install" > "Select and Patch a File"
Locate the boot image in the internal storage on your phone. Select the boot.img file.

Transfer the magisk_patched.img file on your computer.

ROOTING THE DEVICE

Boot the device into fastboot mode by holding the [Volume Down] and [Power] buttons.

Connect your phone to your PC.
On your PC, open a fastboot console window.
Type:

• fastboot devices

Your phone serial number should be displayed along with the word "fastboot" or "device" in the console.
Now, type the following commands:

• fastboot flash boot_a patched_boot.img
• fastboot flash boot_b patched_boot.img

Replace patched_boot.img with the path to your boot image we patched previously.
To reboot the device, type:

• fastboot reboot

Once the device rebooted, open the Magisk app.
If you see the "Magisk is installed" message, you have successfully rooted your device!
You are done!

 

It's odd to see that it's not working for you. I will first ask what is your device Model and variant (Retail US, MetroPCS, Verizon, Boost...). Did you do a factory reset? And you also mentioned that you could not boot to recovery from fastboot? You should try flashing a patched Vbmeta.img (I have it) to disable Android Verified Boot. Also check in the magisk app if it says "Ramdisk: Yes", maybe some variants don't have the same things. Also a 32MB image that shrinks to ~11MB is normal, because that is the actual size of the boot image. Manufacturers increase the size of it with Zeros to increase it to the partition size of the phone (in this case 32MB) maybe to make it easier to flash it.