🧬 Who is E.T.C.?
Elite Tauren Chieftain, the headbanging, axe-shredding rock star of the Nexus, brings his heavy metal chaos to every battlefield. As one of the most playmaking tanks in the game, E.T.C. excels at controlling the flow of fights through disruptive crowd control and game-changing ultimates. If you love sliding into the enemy team, knocking them around like concert security, and setting up devastating combos, it’s time to crank the volume to 11 and let E.T.C. take the stage.
Main Roles:
🛡️ Main Tank | 🎵 Crowd Control King | 🤘 Playmaker |
👨🎤 Initiator
🛠️ Abilities (Quick Look)
- Rockstar (Trait – D): Generate stacks when using basic abilities, granting armor and healing.
- Powerslide (Q): Slide forward, damaging and stunning enemies in your path.
- Face Melt (W): Knock back enemies and damage them in a frontal cone.
- Guitar Solo (E): Channel to heal yourself over time.
- Mosh Pit (R1): Channel to stun nearby enemies, forcing them to dance.
- Stage Dive (R2): Leap to a target location with global range, slowing enemies.
🎮 Gameplay Guide
E.T.C. dominates the battlefield through aggressive playmaking, strategic crowd control, and team-enabling ultimates that can single-handedly win fights.
✅ Early Game
- Use Powerslide conservatively for ganks or escapes.
- Maintain lane presence with Guitar Solo sustain.
- Disrupt enemy positioning with Face Melt.
✅ Teamfights
- Look for multi-hero Powerslides to maximize value.
- Chain Face Melt after Powerslide to reposition enemies toward your team.
- Time Guitar Solo between CC abilities to maximize healing and trait stacks.
- Position carefully for Mosh Pit opportunities.
✅ Objective Control
- Contest vision with your excellent disruption kit.
- Use Face Melt to interrupt enemy channels.
- Save Powerslide to peel when teammates are vulnerable during objectives.
🛡️ Builds & Gameplay Focus
⚔️ The Mosh Pit Maestro Build
Level 1: Block Party
Level 4: Loud
Speakers
Level 7: Hammer-on
Level 10: Mosh
Pit
Level 13: Face Smelt
Level 16: Show
Stopper
Level 20: Death Metal
Focus: Team Fight Domination, CC Chains, Game-Changing Ultimates
The Lowdown:
This build transforms E.T.C. into the ultimate fight
controller — a rock god capable of turning the tides of battle with one perfect Mosh
Pit. Your game plan revolves around positioning, patience, and the perfect moment to
slide in and drop the beat. When executed correctly, few ultimates in the game are as
devastating as a well-placed Mosh catching multiple enemies. This build maximizes your
survivability and crowd control potential, ensuring you can create those highlight-reel
moments consistently.
The build focuses on enhancing your CC chain potential through improved Powerslide and Face Melt, allowing you to disrupt enemy positioning before and after your Mosh Pit. By level 16, with Show Stopper, you gain crucial armor during your ultimate, making it much harder for enemies to punish your channel. Death Metal at 20 ensures that even your death becomes a potential team fight winner, as your posthumous Mosh can catch enemies off guard.
Where other tanks might focus on sustain or damage mitigation, you exist for those perfect moments when the stars align, and the entire enemy team dances to your deadly rhythm.
The Core Loop & Synergy:
- Block Party (1) increases your Block stacks when near allies.
- Loud Speakers (4) increases Face Melt range and knockback distance.
- Hammer-on (7) reduces Powerslide cooldown when hitting multiple heroes.
- Mosh Pit (10) provides potentially game-winning AOE stun.
- Face Smelt (13) adds slow after Face Melt for easier follow-up.
- Show Stopper (16) grants armor during Powerslide and Mosh Pit.
- Death Metal (20) triggers Mosh Pit on death for surprising comebacks.
Key Tactics & Pro Tips:
- Wait for key enemy interrupts to be used before Mosh Pitting.
- Standard combo: Powerslide → Face Melt → Mosh Pit when enemies try to re-engage.
- Position against walls for easier multi-hero Powerslides.
- Track enemy stun and displacement abilities religiously.
In short: You’re the conductor of chaos. You wait, you position, you slide, and then you make the enemy team dance to their deaths.
⚔️ Global Rock Tour Build
Level 1: Prog Rock
Level 4: Crowd
Surfer
Level 7: Pinball Wizard
Level 10: Stage
Dive
Level 13: Mic Check
Level 16: Echo
Pedal
Level 20: Tour Bus
Focus: Global Presence, Split Push Pressure, Sustained Battlefield Control
The Lowdown:
This build transforms E.T.C. from a teamfight-focused
tank into a globally mobile playmaker who can pressure multiple points on the map
simultaneously. Rather than banking everything on the perfect Mosh Pit, you become an
omnipresent threat, capable of split pushing lanes and then instantly joining teamfights
across the map. Perfect for larger maps where objectives are spread out, this build
gives your team a significant macro advantage while maintaining E.T.C.’s
disruptive team fighting capabilities.
Stage Dive becomes your signature move — a global leap that lets you join any skirmish or escape dangerous situations. Crowd Surfer and Echo Pedal give you surprising wave clear for a tank, allowing you to pressure lanes effectively before diving into action elsewhere. By level 20, Tour Bus makes you nearly impossible to pin down, as you can Stage Dive, disrupt the enemy team, and then immediately Powerslide to safety or deeper into the fight.
Where the Mosh Pit build makes you fear for positioning and interrupts, this build liberates you to play more aggressively, knowing you always have an escape or engage option available.
The Core Loop & Synergy:
- Prog Rock (1) increases healing from Guitar Solo with globe collection.
- Crowd Surfer (4) allows Powerslide to move through enemies and terrain.
- Pinball Wizard (7) increases Face Melt damage after Powerslide.
- Stage Dive (10) provides global mobility and AoE slow.
- Mic Check (13) reduces Face Melt cooldown, increasing disruption.
- Echo Pedal (16) deals passive AoE damage for waveclear and teamfight presence.
- Tour Bus (20) resets Powerslide after Stage Dive for extended combos.
Key Tactics & Pro Tips:
- Split push before objectives spawn, then Stage Dive to join team.
- Use Stage Dive defensively to save allies across the map.
- Look for Stage Dive → Tour Bus → Face Melt combos to isolate targets.
- Track the minimap constantly to maximize global value.
In short: You’re the rock star on tour. You appear where least expected, disrupt enemy plans, and control the macro game through omnipresence and unpredictability.
📊 Final Thoughts
E.T.C. rewards bold playmaking and strategic thinking like few other tanks. Whether you’re catching the entire enemy team in a game-winning Mosh Pit or applying pressure across the map with Stage Dive, your impact comes from reading the battlefield and striking at the perfect moment.
Turn it up to eleven, headbang onto the battlefield, and show everyone why rock n’ roll will never die! 🎸🤘