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E.T.C. Build Guide “You can't kill the metal!”
Welcome to our guide for E.T.C., a Tank in Heroes of the Storm. Within these pages, you will find everything required to understand how best to play this hero, in both different map styles and team compositions.
E.T.C.'s Overview
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.
E.T.C.'s Strengths and Weaknesses
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
E.T.C.'s Talent Build Cheatsheet
Guitar Solo Build
Recommended
E.T.C.'s Guitar Solo Build increases your damage output and self-sustain when hitting enemies with Basic Attacks, which is particularly effective in prolonged team fights.
Face Melt Build
Advanced
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
(for example 
Discord Strike by Alarak)
or to knock away dangerous enemy Heroes
(such as Garrosh).
Hybrid Build
Situational
E.T.C.'s Hybrid Build boosts your waveclear
and turns you into a global Hero,
a combination that allows you to play as an Offlaner
with great success, especially on big Maps because
you can get more value from 
Stage Dive there.
ARAM Build
ARAME.T.C.'s ARAM 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
(for example Discord Strike by Alarak)
or to knock away dangerous enemy Heroes
(such as Garrosh).
E.T.C.'s Synergies and Counters
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 Offlaner, 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 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.
E.T.C.'s Tips and Tricks
- 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 Offlaner and/or to dive together with other allied Heroes.
E.T.C.'s Role in the Current Meta
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 an Offlaner. 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.
Changelog
- 20 Sep. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (talents page): ARAM Build added.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (this page): ARAM Build added.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 03 Feb. 2022 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 03 Feb. 2022 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 03 Feb. 2022 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 28 Jan. 2022 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 28 Jan. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 28 Sep. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 28 Sep. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 28 Sep. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 18 Aug. 2021 (talents page): Talent Build page updated.
- Build added.
- Descriptions improved.
- New layout.
- 18 Aug. 2021 (abilities page): Abilities and Strategy page updated.
- Descriptions improved.
- Tips and Tricks improved.
- New layout.
- 18 Aug. 2021 (this page): Introduction page updated.
- Build added.
- Descriptions improved.
- Synergies and Counters improved.
- Maps improved.
- Tips and Tricks improved.
- New layout.
- 27 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Talents and builds reviewed and updated.
- 07 Sep. 2020 (talents page): Talents and builds reviewed and updated.
- 30 Aug. 2020 (this page): Role in Current Meta section updated.
- 19 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Talents reviewed and updated.
- 05 Apr. 2020 (talents page): Description and recommendation updated for Pinball Wizard.
- 13 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added a note about current Anomaly.
- 11 Oct. 2019 (talents page): Talents section updated.
- 11 Oct. 2019 (abilities page): Abilities section reviewed.
- 11 Oct. 2019 (this page): Guide updated.
- 21 Jan. 2018 (this page): Guide fully updated.
- 26 Apr. 2017 (this page): Guide updated for Genji's patch and moved to the new format.
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Elitesparkle is a multiple times Master player in Europe who plays Heroes of the Storm since its release. He is an active member of the community who likes to teach new and veteran players all he knows about his favorite game. He also produces more teaching content on his Tips of the Storm page on Ko-fi.
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