E.T.C. Build Guide “You can't kill the metal!”

E.T.C. is a disruptive but moderately durable Tank. Teammates will find his outstanding ability to engage and peel valuable, however, his limited damage output means that E.T.C. players must work well with allied Heroes in order to secure kills.

Strengths

• Ability to engage from medium distance
• Some mobility to get out of danger
• Huge amount of crowd control
• Opportunity to become global at Level 10

Weaknesses

• Relatively low damage output
• Not as durable as most Tanks
• Low waveclear

Face Melt Build

Recommended

Level 1 ?

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ?

Level 16 ? ?

Level 20 ? ? ? ?

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E.T.C.'s Face Melt Build is designed to give you the highest amount of crowd control when playing as main Tank. Thanks to that, you will be able to disrupt enemy moves and peel for your team.

Loud Speakers at Level 4 enables defensive plays that would be otherwise impossible to execute. The extra range makes you able to interrupt enemy Abilities from afar, something which is particularly important against some Heroes (such as Garrosh).

Echo Pedal Build

Situational

Level 1 ? ?

Level 4 ? ?

Level 7

Level 10

Level 13 ? ?

Level 16 ? ?

Level 20 ? ? ?

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E.T.C.'s Echo Pedal Build boosts your waveclear and turns you into a global Hero, a combination that allows you to play as Solo Laner with great success, especially on big Battlegrounds because you can get more value from Stage Dive there.

Echo Pedal at Level 7 is extremely useful when playing as Solo Laner because it increases your waveclear when using Guitar Solo and therefore, contrary to Pinball Wizard, it does not force you to waste Powerslide and Face Melt that you will need right after landing with Stage Dive.

Guitar Solo Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ?

Level 16 ? ?

Level 20 ? ? ? ?

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E.T.C.'s Guitar Hero Build increases your self-sustain and sustained damage when you are allowed to deliver Basic Attacks for multiple seconds while laning or during team fights. You can play this Build as either a Tank or a Solo Laner.

The key Talents for this Build are Guitar Hero at Level 1, increasing your survivability, and Hammer-on at Level 7, increasing your damage. They heavily improve each other, so do not pick them separately.

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E.T.C. synergizes with

E.T.C.'s aggressive crowd control-oriented Ability set makes him particularly useful to any Hero who is able to follow up on said crowd control with powerful damaging and/or crowd controlling Abilities.

If you pair E.T.C. with a Hero who, like him, is capable of playing as either Tank and Solo Laner, you can keep E.T.C. in the 4-man until Stage Dive gets unlocked and then swap.

Healers who can provide Unstoppable during Mosh Pit (such as Kharazim with Cleansing Touch) are great to deny enemy interrupts which will otherwise shut it down.

E.T.C. is countered by

E.T.C. struggles against Heroes who can easily dodge, quickly interrupt, or completely ignore his crowd control Abilities.

E.T.C.'s stronger maps

E.T.C.'s average maps

E.T.C.'s weaker maps

Having a well-rounded Ability set, E.T.C. works well on most Maps but performs better where he can flank—to Face Melt and then Powerslide as a safe engage—or fight near choke points—where he can easily hit enemy Heroes with Powerslide and his Heroic Abilities.

Battlefield of Eternity is particularly interesting for E.T.C. because he can Knockback and Stun enemy Heroes right below the allied Immortal to make it impossible for them to dodge his Abilities.

While it is not necessarily a huge problem depending on the rest of your draft, E.T.C. is not that good for Maps where the Objective takes extremely long to be secured because, even if he has some self-sustain, he will struggle to be alive for long due to his below-average durability.

• When dangerous to go forward, use Powerslide from the side of the enemy Hero you intend to Stun, possibly more towards allied Heroes than enemy Heroes.
• Face Melt is a great tool to peel or interrupt stationary channeled Abilities.
• Guitar Solo is the least important Ability at your disposal, thus being great for triggering Rockstar to mitigate incoming damage.
• Mentally track of enemy crowd control Abilities so that Mosh Pit does not get interrupted.
• Stage Dive allows you to quickly join your team when playing E.T.C. as Solo Laner and/or to dive together with other allied Heroes.

E.T.C. is a disruptive Tank as he provides a huge amount of crowd control which can be used to peel or engage. Thanks to his versatile kit, E.T.C. can be used as either an aggressive or defensive Tank, depending on the draft and based on the situation.

Not being extremely durable, E.T.C. has to be careful when going for aggressive plays, making sure that his team is ready to follow-up and being confident that the chosen move will translate to an advantage, otherwise he may end up dying for no reason and thus leaving his team without a key component for multiple seconds.

If your team drafted accordingly, E.T.C. can be played as Solo Laner. Even better, if the main Tank is capable of solo laning, you may put E.T.C. in the 4-man until Level 10 and then switch them once Stage Dive gets unlocked.