Abilities

peatrick said:

Here's an absolutely fantastic Reddit post from the community that reviews (and directly answers) your questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/MaddenUltimateTeam/comments/1jgojxh/abilitieswhichtopickandwhichtoavoidnow/

I definitely run the combo of Colossus + ETE, but not for the specific pass rush move, i'm paying 1AP on ETE for that "Under Pressure" component, to hopefully cause some random overthrows/inaccurate passes.  It's nowhere near as impactful as in prior seasons, but it's so late in the year we're struggling to find meaningful abilities to spend all of our AP, so why not?

Universal Coverage is DEF all the Zone + Man KOs (flat/short, mid & deep) as well as One Step Ahead.  If you prefer something liek Reinforcement, that will give you the knock-out component of Universal, but not the improved reaction time... as such, you'd almost certainly want to pair Mid Zone KO with Reinforcement to sort of build your own "Universal" (for that all important improved reaction time).

I'm not 100% certain on Bazooka... i guess if you throw tons of 60-80+ yard passes, it might be useful, but i'd focus on PLE/SFL and not worry about the extra +15 yards.  I don't have any issues throwing deep balls with JJ McCarthy, i'm using the Dots + Gambit stack.  Gambit has Gunslinger + velocity (SFL/PLE).

wgs84 is the goat on write ups

You all have been extremely helpful. Thank you!

Lildrift56 said:

ill edit some of my things and make a repost, I know by description that dots is all of the passing accuracy abilities, but I've had it on several QBs and all of them seem to miss cross body throws without blue, and before you ask, yes I am on the right passing setting. Do you know if strips only work with strip specialist or what? I haven't had an issue with that this year, but did notice that last year. as for shutdown, I used to beileve it was in Man specifically, but I've dropped PA and primarly run zone coverage, and notice a difference in coverage skills in both man and zone. By description shit down does not indicate it being a man coverage only ability either.

Shutdown will only light up in man coverage assignments. If you run straight up zone and set zone drops (disabling match coverage) it will not light up. Also when I tested Shutdown I didn’t see it light up at all on INT’s, I’m not convinced that it has Pick Artist. 

I have had strip fumbles against my QB and against my opponents QB with Truzz enabled and no strip specialist ability. It’s been pretty rare but I have seen it a couple of times.