Do special abilities work in the "wrong" position?

[ponzu]

Sir you should really learn how to shorten your ideas

You are so right! Even truer I should learn to stick to one idea per post. My problem is I develop ideas while writing. Then I try to explain them to prevent misunderstanding. In this case I started with "I am doing X, will it work?" and progressed to "Is X worth doing or should I switch to Y, which is said to be a bad idea, but is it really?"

On question 1.

Thank you for clarifying that once a SA is developed, it will apply in any position, but is less likely to be in demand in some positions. I have a DC/DMC who is training his Aerial Defender SA. I wonder if this SA will be triggered when he is playing DMC.

On question 2.

The guy in question is a fast trainer. In fact, the only fast trainer on the team All my machinations and calculations led me to buying a bunch of mid-grade trainers who are slowly chugging along towards the next star. This guy has the lowest Q (he is a Q44 4* on the team with three Q55 6*s and counting). Obviously, he is not going to train up to Q49, but he is one skill away from becoming a Q45. Now, it has been said -- and tell me if I took it too close to heart -- to sell players when they have a rating ending in 4 or a 9 because then they attract the most attention in the market. So the decision I made was to develop a largely useless third position (MC in addition to MR/AMR) in order to keep the rating at 44.8.

In Question 1 I was asking for information and I got it, thank you!

In Question 2 I was asking for opinion and inviting a (hopefully meaningful) conversation. I ended up hearing that Q is nothing and form is everything. If my 4* fast trainer with MR/AMR and "Shadow Striker" scored 4 goals in the first Cup match (never mind that it was a 9:0 blowout of a misformed team) I was supposed to keep giving him starts over his higher rated teammates and keep giving him a chance to improve Q to a mid-grade 5* rather than holding him back for dubious reasons of future marketability. Yes? No? Maybe so?

Of course it is all complicated by the fact that the guy in question is competing for a starting job with a Q46 MR/AMR who is my star performer over two seasons. Hence the decision to develop MC and give him a chance to compete with my highly rated, but average performing MCs. He is at 5/50 progress for MC. It will probably take him most of the season to train the MC role and if his rating is lowish for the current season, it will become ridiculous in the next.

Unless he is one of my lowbies whom I carry in order to lower the avQ for cup draws. 3* next season, 2* season after, and so on. He can become my mascot, my good luck charm.

Did I explain my ideas better? Or made it worse?