Special Ability - Useless or useful?

[Nicky]

My experience

Goalkeepers penalty stopper - Useless
I've conceded 3 penalties in 6 seasons (and almost all teams have a penalty specialist) and never played penalty shoot outs.
One-on-one stopper - Almost useless
Every time an attacker is on-on-one with the gk, he doesn't shot on goal but gives an assist to another player, who scores.


Aerial defender - Very useful
Defensive walll - Useful
Totally quote dv8r


Playmaker - Useless
Few assists, few goals
Dribbler - Useless
Totally quote dv8r
Shadow striker - Slightly useful
I had a AML-AMC for 3 seasons, 7*, 6*, now 5*. He's good but he scores from long range from time to time. Not more then other good attackers.


Striker, One-on-one scorer - Slightly useful
quote dv8r
Penalty taker - Slightly useful
My players with this ability never missed a penalty, on the contrary of other good attackers. But I don't shot many penalities in a season


Free kick specialist - Very useful
They alwayes scores a lot of goals from free kicks
Corner specialist - Very useful
My DC-DR with this ability gets a lot of assist through the seasons

[dv8r]

I shall be updating this today with your feedback. I'll also add a short description about each special ability.

[Chris Kemp]

the special abilities are there to give a small % increase. for example a Goalkeeper without a special abilty for example would have a 80% of a save but WITH the special ability would have say a 85% chance.....not a lot but the advantage IS there.

[Anaphros]

I think my penalty kick taker has lost all the penalties he has shot but I can't find that now can I?

[shwanko07]

i share your opinion 100% .. although shadow striker worked brilliantly for me, just give him slightly more attacking skills and he will be on fire more than if you give to any other player

[July Fourth]

This is good now we've got this topic as a sticky, unfortunately It's still in the wrong section of the forum.

TUTORIALS AND GUIDES.

Edit: It's been moved since.

[Keith Gaule]

I have a DL/DC with free kick special, he has out-scored some of my strikers over the last 2 seasons. For a striker I think one-on-one scorer. For MC I like playmaker or dribbler, for AMC: shadow striker [works best against weaker opposition] and for DC, Aerial defender

[SPKROM]

a corner specialist is also good with free kicks and the same happens with a free kick specialist and corners

[Tyrone Woods]

Regarding shadow strikers from my experience so far this season

first 2 are non-shadow, the last picture is the shadow. Obviously, my shadowstriker has the edge by being higher stats also.

[Nick Woodall]

what bothers me about this game is how a team that has lot less stars than you is always top of the league and never loses a game