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| “ | This high-tech hero can pursue the Bloons wherever they go with his remote-controlled drone. | ” |
| ~ BTDB2 description |
Etienne is a Hero in the game Bloons TD Battles 2, released in the Version 4.0 update. He is a drone operator who launches flying attack drones.
At base, Etienne operates two drones at once. Each drone independently flies around the range of Etienne, and shoots darts that each pop up to 2 bloons and attack every 0.7s. Drones follow the bloons according to their targeting priorities, which are determined by Etienne's current targeting priority. He starts with First targeting and can be switched to Divide and Conquer. He gains a third drone at Level 11 and a fourth drone at Level 19.
Etienne gains much more support utilities in Battles 2. At Level 2, he gains a spy drone that reveals the current cash and bloon queues of the opponent, allowing the player to anticipate the opponent's actions. Level 6 adds a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) that grants a chance for all towers on screen to damage any bloon type, Level 7 applies camo detection to all towers on screen, and further levels increase chance of popping all bloon types, Level 15 guaranteeing popping of all bloon types. Additionally, he is uniquely able to voice out warnings in advance against notable bloon rushes, such as Camo, Regrow, and MOAB-class.
He has two activated abilities: Drone Swarm (Level 3+) and UCAV (Level 10+). Drone Swarm temporarily adds 4 extra drones. UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) drops down at lower altitude for a limited time to regularly deploy 9 seeking missiles at bloons. Level 20 upgrades the UCAV into a Perma-UCAV, which permanently has the Level 10 UCAV strength but alters the ability to unleash significantly stronger missiles.
He costs way cheaper than BTD6 to place in-game. To unlock him, he requires a one-off purchase of 
3000.
He costs $650 to place in-game.
Upgrades[]
Upgrades[]
Etienne levels at 1.531234x the rate of base heroes, equal to 1.3x leveling speed compared to Quincy.
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Level 1 COST: $650 UNLOCK: N/A XP | |
| Description: Flies deadly little droes around to shoot at the Bloons.
Effect: Starts with 55 range and operates two independent dart-firing drones that targets bloons within his range. The first drone comes after 0.5s after placing him down, the second comes 0.5s after that. Etienne himself doesn't directly attack. Drones each shoot darts that pop up to 2 bloons each, at a rate of every 0.7s. The second drone has a separate target priority compared to his first drone, as directed by two targeting options the he comes with by default: First (default) and Divide and Conquer. | ||
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Level 2 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Etienne's range increased and he sends a drone to spy on your opponent's bloon queue and cash.
Effect: Etienne's range increased from 55 to 60. Additionally, Etienne summons a drone spy on the opponent's side, revealing information about the opponent's current cash and bloon queues. He will also voice out warnings if the opponent is preparing dangerous bloon sends. | ||
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Level 3 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Drone Swarm: Etienne launches 4 more temporary drones to wreak some Bloon popping havoc.
Effect: Unlocks Drone Swarm ability. When activated, summons 4 temporary drones with fixed targeting and identical stats to his other drone(s). The duration is 16.5s at Level 3 and increases by +0.5 seconds every level. | ||
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Level 4 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: All drones have increased pierce.
Effect: Increased drones pierce by 1 (?). | ||
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Level 5 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Drones get increased attack speed and infra red cameras for camo detection.
Effect: Drones attack every 0.55s and now can target camo bloons. Etienne will also get Camo Prioritization option. | ||
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Level 6 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Launches a UAV to gather additional intel, giving all monkeys a chance to bypass bloon damage immunities.
Effect: All towers on screen will now gain a 33%(?) chance to pop any bloon type. | ||
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Level 7 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: This UAV's advanced thermal cameras give all monkeys camo detection.
Effect: All towers on screen will now receive external camo detection. | ||
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Level 8 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Drones pop an extra Bloon layer.
Effect: Etienne's drones deal 2 damage instead of 1. | ||
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Level 9 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: The UAV obtains greater intel, providing all monkeys with a higher chance of bypassing bloon damage immunities.
Effect: Increased towers' chance of popping any bloon to 66% (?). | ||
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Level 10 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: UCAV: high altitude surveillance drone becomes devastating combat drone for a short time.
Effect: Summons a UCAV flying on the sky that shoots explosive homing missiles at the first bloons, attacking every 0.6s shooting 10 projectiles at once at a 240° cone. UCAV missiles explode on impact, the explosion deal 2 damage and have 25 pierce, and a blast radius of 20. | ||
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Level 11 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Etienne gains third drone to control.
Effect: Deploys a permanent third drone and Etienne gains the Zone Defense targeting option. | ||
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Level 12 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Drone upgrades! Increased pierce and flight speed.
Effect: Increased drones' pierce by +3, increased to 6, and their flight speed by ?%. | ||
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Level 13 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: UCAV ability cooldown reduced.
Effect: UCAV ability cooldown reduced from ? to ?. | ||
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Level 14 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Drones damage greatly increased.
Effect: Increased drones damage from 2 to 3 | ||
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Level 15 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: UCAV damage output and duration increased. Superior intelligence allows all monkeys to pop all bloon types.
Effect: UCAV ability now deals 4 damage, have 30 pierce, and now lasts ? seconds. All monkeys now can pop any bloon property. | ||
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Level 16 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Etienne's range, drone pierce, and Drone Swarm cooldown are all improved.
Effect: Increased range from 60 to 80, drone pierce from 6 to 9. Reduced Drone Swarm cooldown from ? to 40s. | ||
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Level 17 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: UCAV damage output greatly increased again!
Effect: Increased UCAV damage from 4 to 7. | ||
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Level 18 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Drone damage increased.
Effect: Drones now deal 6 damage. | ||
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Level 19 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Etienne now controls four drones!
Effect: Deploys a permanent fourth drone. | ||
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Level 20 COST: $??? UNLOCK: ??? XP | |
| Description: Perma-UCAV: Surveillance drone becomes permanent UCAV. When activated becomes more powerful for a short time.
Effect: UCAV is now permanent, gaining the base UCAV statistics permanently. Activating ability instead increases its damage to 10(?) and pierce to 30(?). | ||
Targeting[]
Level 19 Etienne with all 8 drones of various target priorities
Etienne has three different targeting modes. Initially, he will only receive First and Divide and Conquer, but additionally receives Zone Defense unlocked at Level 11. First sets all drones to target first. Divide and Conquer sets the first and fourth drones to target First, and the second and third drones to target Strong. Zone Defense sets the first drone to target First, second to target Strong, third to target Last and the fourth to target Close. Upon activating the Drone Swarm ability, two of the extra drones target Strong, while the remaining two drones target First and Last.
| Divide and Conquer | Zone Defense | First | |
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| Drone 1 | First | First | First |
| Drone 2 | Strong | Strong | First |
| Drone 3 | Strong | Last | First |
| Drone 4 | First | Close | First |
Etienne's drones will change the colour of the small triangular button on their top side:
- Blue = First
- Yellow = Strong
- Green = Last
- Purple = Close
Hero Rewards[]
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WIP EXP and money requirement. |
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Robotic Uprising COST:  150 and 12,000 Etienne EXPTYPE: Match Up Animation | |
Requirements: Etienne
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| Description: Viva La Revolution!
Effect: Unlocks "Robotic Uprising" Match Up Animation. | ||
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Covering Fire COST: TBA TYPE: Taunt | |
Requirements: Robotic Uprising
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| Description: Distraction techniques
Effect: Unlocks "Covering Fire" Taunt. | ||
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Delinquent Drone COST: TBA TYPE: Defeat Animation | |
Requirements: Covering Fire
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| Description: It's out of control!
Effect: Unlocks "Delinquent Drone" Defeat Animation. | ||
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Stylish Specs COST: TBA TYPE: Bloon Decal | |
Requirements: Delinquent Drone
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| Description: They have a certain je ne sais quoi.
Effect: Unlocks "Stylish Specs" Bloon Decal. | ||
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Drone Delivery COST: TBA TYPE: Placement Animation | |
Requirements: Stylish Specs
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| Description: Blow them away!
Effect: Unlocks "Drone Delivery" Placement Animation. | ||
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Aerial Surveillance COST: TBA TYPE: Avatar Icon | |
Requirements: Drone Delivery
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| Description: You won't need to strike twice.
Effect: Unlocks "Aerial Surveillance" Avatar Icon. | ||
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Careful Flying COST: TBA TYPE: Emote | |
Requirements: Aerial Surveillance
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| Description: Easy does it!
Effect: Unlocks "Careful Flying" Emote. | ||
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Aerial Stunts COST: TBA TYPE: Level Up Animation | |
Requirements: Careful Flying
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| Description: Flying with finesse.
Effect: Unlocks "Aerial Stunts" Level Up Animation. | ||
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Fancy Flying COST: TBA TYPE: Victory Animation | |
Requirements: Aerial Stunts
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| Description: I have you now!
Effect: Unlocks "Fancy Flying" Victory Animation. | ||
Strategy[]
Summary[]
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Tips[]
- Placement of Etienne is usually best placed in a position of a lot of range coverage, as his drones do decent DPS.
- The Level 2 Etienne's drone spy allows for spying activity of the opponent's cash and bloon queue. Newer or inexperienced players can use this information to study an experienced player's playstyle. Experienced players will be able to better react in advance to an opponent's actions in battle.
- To find out the opponent's eco as an Etienne player, watch for the next eco cycle and roughly calculate the cash gain after the eco cycle. Note that cash spying can only round up to the nearest $100 if the opponent's cash is above $1000, which hinders knowledge of the precise eco quantities.
- Some players will try to stockpile a lot of cash to then send a gigantic rush. Do be prepared for a large rush, but also note that Farm players may also hold onto high cash to buy an expensive T4 or T5 Farm upgrade instead; be aware of the context of a high cash stockpile.
- Etienne will also make voicelines that note incoming dangerous rushes, including against typical R11-16 rushes like Camo Leads and Regrow rushes. This helps alert Etienne players in advance about deadly rushes.
- Use the UCAV in order to clean up and wipe bloons.
- Some strategies entirely depend on Etienne to counter Camo. A good example is Druid-Farm-Alch.
- Because the Level 7 upgrade of Etienne can be expensive, Spactory is a good tower to pair with if not wishing to manually buy Level 7 Etienne. This is where some Etienne-Spactory loadouts such as Bomb-Farm-Spactory can take advantage of this knowledge.
- Buying Level 7 is quite expensive, so place Etienne early so that the global camo detection buff afforded by R12 will be cheaper to manually buy if necessary.
- R1 Etienne makes the Level 7 upgrade cost $2424 on R12. R2 Etienne's manual purchase of Level 7 on R12 costs about $3000 (about $720 more).
- Etienne gets his Level 3 naturally on R5 if he is placed on R1. On R4, his Level 3 will cost just $67, which is sometimes worth it to survive part of R4 whilst carrying over into R5.
Quotes[]
When unlocked:
- "Ready to fly!"
When selected in the Hero menu:
- "Oui?"
When selected in-game:
- "Oui?"
- "Oui?" (different tone)
- "Hé!"
- "Eye's up."
- "Objective?"
- "Systems... check!"
When leveling up:
- "Yeah!"
- "Oui!" (means "Yes!")
- "Oui!" (Different tone)
- "C'est beau!" (means "That's beautiful!")
- "C'est beau!" (Different tone)
- "Upgrade time!"
- "Drone power!"
- "Yeah!" (Different tone)
- "That's some serious damage!" (Level 20)
When detecting a serious bloon threat:
- "They're planning something!"
- "Attack incoming!"
Incoming MOAB-class bloons:
- "Tracking M.O.A.B!" - MOAB appears
- "Tracking B.F.B!" - BFB appears
- "Tracking Z.O.M.G!" - ZOMG appears
- "D.D.T.! D.D.T.!" - DDDT appears
- "Heads up, tracking B.A.D.!" - BAD appears
Abilities:
- "Swarm deployed!" - Drone Swarm
- "Weapons, hot!" - UCAV
Taunts:
- "Out of the way!" - Drone Driveby
- "How do you like this?" - Covering Fire
Match-up animations:
- "Ready to fly!" - Ready to Fly
- "All drones attack!" - Robotic Uprising
Victory animations:
- "It's a party!" - Portable Party
- "Drone skills!" - Fancy Flying
Version History[]
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- 4.0 (Compared to BTD6 during Version 42.0)
Starts with 2 drones at Level 1.- At Level 2+, can now spy opponent's cash and bloon queue
- At Level 6+, provides all towers with a chance to pop any bloon
- At Level 9+, increases the chance for all towers to pop any bloon
- At Level 15+, allows all towers to pop any bloon
- Global camo detection is given at Level 7 instead of 8
- Drone damage increased by 1 at Level 8 instead of 9
- 4.0.2
- Now gains Camo Prioritization option at Level 5
| “ | We’ve added this in since all other heroes with camo detection have this option. Note that this targeting option affects both his drones and the UCAV. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- 4.1
- Drone Swarm ability duration: 17+0.5*Level → 15+0.5*Level
| “ | We love the impact that Etienne has had on the game - it’s been great to see all the new strategies that he has made possible. With that being said, we would like to make one very small adjustment to his ability, which we don’t expect will have much of an impact on his viability. Etienne provides so much utility that he doesn’t need to have strong DPS, and it does feel like his level 3 ability stretches on for longer than necessary. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
Bugs[]
Current
- [4.0.2] Drones summoned by Drone Swarm ability do not have skin if Flying Flags weapon skin is equipped.[1]
Patched
- [4.0] On certain devices, spy drone's UI is misplaced, appearing on the player's side instead of opponent's. This bug occurs on right-side players, and doesn't occur on left-side players. Fixed in Version 4.0.1.
Example of BTDB2 Mobile on iPhone SE 2 with right-sided spy drone UI on right-sided player's side of the screen
Etienne's mismatched drones
Gallery[]
Unlocking Etienne
4.0 update with the drone in flight
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Etienne in the hero selection menu
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Etienne in the loadout selection menu
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Drone attacks Jericho
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Etienne with his drone in the default matchup animation
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Matchup screen
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Etienne's placement cost
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R1 Etienne leveling up
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Level 2 Etienne spy drone
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Drone Swarm under initial cooldown
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Drone Swarm
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Etienne Level 3 clear appearance
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Level 4 Etienne selected, with R1 Etienne only $314 till Level 5
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Level 7 Etienne with Camo UAV
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Defeated
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End of default defeat animation
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Level 9 (7-9?) Etienne appearance
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Level 10 Etienne appearance with some drones
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Etienne default victory screen
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Etienne victory and his hero points reward icon buffed with reward booster
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Etienne in the main menu
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Level 7 cost with R1 Etienne, also Etienne buff and his warning against Camos
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Opponent's Etienne giving a warning with player sending Regrows
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Level 1 Etienne
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Etienne spooked by Obyn's forest army
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$1 for Level 4 with R2(?) Etienne on R6
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Etienne with his UAV buff shown on himself
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Level 7 Etienne with two drones attacking and nothing else in the background
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UCAV activated and shooting missiles
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Level 10 Etienne and his two drones
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Level 1 Etienne set on Divide and Conquer and his two drones
Level 2 Etienne with his drones idling
Etienne loading screen tip
Flying Flags drones with different colors
Level 20 Flying Flags drones
Cosmetics[]
Flying Flags weapon skin preview
Flying Flags drones in-game
Level 1, 7, 10 and 20 appearance respectively
Official artwork[]
Etienne in-game
Videos[]
Etienne unlocked
Unlocking Etienne
Trivia[]
- Unlike in BTD6, Etienne is seen standing.
- Etienne's ETN skin from BTD6 also makes a cameo in Clan Wars with one of the purchasable island cosmetics.
- Etienne is the first hero returning from BTD6 to not debut in the order that other heroes appeared. Admiral Brickell would've been after the release of Adora if not for Etienne.
- Etienne is the second hero to not have a skin at launch, the first being Adora.
- Before his release, Etienne's hat appeared in Smudge Catt Ezili's Season 11 showcase.
References[]
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