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I have seen the PM icon the last 2 season about 4,5 times each,most of the times it was after a counter and the player with the SA(PM) was never credited with the assist because he was with the first pass,never the last pass,once,i was so close to take the screen shot...[emoji57]
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I started a new thread, because I can't post Screenshots here.
New thread here
I had an icon appear today for defensive wall. I never really thought much about that SA before, just took it for granted the player was a 'better' defender but today, when an opponent had a free kick, it hit my player, he blocked it and 'defensive wall' icon popped up.Quote:
Originally Posted by nikolgiorgos
Can someone explain to me how special abilities work.
Are they essential?
Are they irrelevant?
Should almost every player in my team have one?
Which specific special abilities are more important than others?
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This is the continual debate, but the theory is as follows:
1) Special abilities are not essential.
2) No, they are not irrelevant. If the right players have the right SA then they can be very useful.
3) It depends on if you can get them/develop them on the player. Don't try and put an SA on every player you buy. The best players to put an SA on are the Youth graduates, and 18yo players from the Transfer Market if they are Fast Trainers (if these exist any more). And put the SA on after you put an extra position on a player (if you are going to), and before you train up the player's Quality.
4) There are SAs which should work better depending on position, eg GK (1-on-1 stopper and Penalty stopper); Dx (Aerial defender, Defensive wall); Mx (Dribbler, Playmaker - these are particularly useless, IMO); AMx (Shadow striker); ST (1-on-1 scorer). Corner kick can be put on any wing player (xL or xR) with good crossing skill; Free-kick and Penalty kick on any forward player (AMx, ST) with good Shooting and Finishing skills.
The effect of the SA is to give an extra star performance in the particular area the SA is aimed at, e.g a 4* striker with Penalty kick SA should have the chance of scoring a Penalty that a 5* ST would have.
IMO, there are only 4 good SA. Those are Free-kick, Corner-kick, Defensive wall & Aerial defender.
My AML/AMR players with Shadow Striker are the dog's dangly bits... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MNK Kaskada
Shadow striker also, it's debatable. Apart from these 5, I think nothing is worth training.Quote:
Originally Posted by MNK Kaskada
I've also seen many teams without SA or maybe only 1 freekick taker being successful.
Most of them are just like shadows on pitch, your SS is just one exception.Quote:
Originally Posted by talisman
I would say Playmaker is OK, I trained a lot of Shadow striker (or bought them) but they didn't perform. I don't train dribler either because I don't have ML/MR, and Penallty kicker is missing almost every penallty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der_Ryan_M
posts transferred from Season's thread.
This is also useful
https://forum.topeleven.com/tutorial...ss-useful.html
Interesting but the last post in this topic is from almost five years ago. I couldn't find but is there something more recent about these special skills? Because I would like to see which one is really useful in the game nowadays.Quote:
Originally Posted by nikolgiorgos
For example, my team started to suffer more goals from free kicks now with two players in the team with defensive wall than in seasons before that I didn't have anyone with this skill.
It's happening a lot the ball deflecting in the player with defensive wall and going to an opponent's player in good position to score the goal.
I think it's because you have two of them (sigh)Quote:
Originally Posted by rmatos1
It also started to happen to me when I had two def.walls, but doesn't happen when I field only one. The logic (pardon me if the logic seems empty, I'm trying to provide meaning to something which, if true, has very little) is perhaps that if you have more defenders that want at all costs to be in the wall, then you have less defenders to mark opponents, an so are more at risk if the ball bounces on the barrier.
I think many SA's have this kind of balancing properties, where two players with the same SA for one reason or another don't give you much more than a single player with that SA. I still have to figure out details/theories though :) However, be warned that not many people agree with me.
For FK, CK, PK I think this is not the case, you can have any number and they don't interfere with each other. As many will tell you though, PK seems rather useless.
doesn't matter if you have one or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by rmatos1
But matters the quality between your defenders and the player who shots the f-k , maybe the skills, maybe luck, maybe team chemistry, maybe form.
Also, nothing changed in special abilities the last 5 years.
Only the visualization, the live animations, those last 3 years.
But it's more cosmetic than helpful for conclusions.