Man Coverage: Shades or KO’s?

I recently switched to mostly Man Coverage. I have up to 9 AP that I’m willing to spend on DB abilities. Currently using as many OSA, Inside Shade as possible. It seams like I’m getting beat by WR’s no matter what abilities I have. All my DB’s have 99 SPD, 99/98 ACC, and 99/88 MCV. 

Wondering if people are having more success with Route KO’s or Shades/OSA?

I only use KOs so far. Havent tried shades unfortunately.

kaotikords said:

I only use KOs so far. Havent tried shades unfortunately.

Do you find the KO’s to be effective if your DB is already beat? Like, does he activate, make up ground, and knock the ball out?

SlowAndSteady said:

Do you find the KO’s to be effective if your DB is already beat? Like, does he activate, make up ground, and knock the ball out?

If theyre already beat, dont think you can do much but if its close, better chance to try to hit the ball out with their hand/body even on flying tackles

kaotikords said:

If theyre already beat, dont think you can do much but if its close, better chance to try to hit the ball out with their hand/body even on flying tackles

Thanks man, I might try Man KO’s everywhere and see if it works better for me. Maybe I will end up with a mix of Man abilities based on where my players are lined up.

SlowAndSteady said:

I recently switched to mostly Man Coverage. I have up to 9 AP that I’m willing to spend on DB abilities. Currently using as many OSA, Inside Shade as possible. It seams like I’m getting beat by WR’s no matter what abilities I have. All my DB’s have 99 SPD, 99/98 ACC, and 99/88 MCV. 

Wondering if people are having more success with Route KO’s or Shades/OSA?

Shades can be really good if you get lucky with who you are playing.. meaning if you get someone whose scheme is based on a tight formation and you are using all inside shade you’re probably gunna kill then.. but as soon as you put anyone on the outside you are gunna get cooked.. KOs are nice cuz formation doesn’t matter. I would run KOs personally and keep 2 high safeties with deep zone KO to help.. maybe put inside shade on your slot CB since they will almost always lineup inside.

Loco1332 said:

Shades can be really good if you get lucky with who you are playing.. meaning if you get someone whose scheme is based on a tight formation and you are using all inside shade you’re probably gunna kill then.. but as soon as you put anyone on the outside you are gunna get cooked.. KOs are nice cuz formation doesn’t matter. I would run KOs personally and keep 2 high safeties with deep zone KO to help.. maybe put inside shade on your slot CB since they will almost always lineup inside.

Great advice  man.

i have kos and they will light up after the receiver has already caught the ball lol

Loco1332 said:

Shades can be really good if you get lucky with who you are playing.. meaning if you get someone whose scheme is based on a tight formation and you are using all inside shade you’re probably gunna kill then.. but as soon as you put anyone on the outside you are gunna get cooked.. KOs are nice cuz formation doesn’t matter. I would run KOs personally and keep 2 high safeties with deep zone KO to help.. maybe put inside shade on your slot CB since they will almost always lineup inside.

I will give that a try and see how it works for me. I have been using OSA on my two outside CB’s and Inside Shade on two CB’s that lineup inside the numbers. It has been very good against most tight formations.

Then yesterday morning it seemed like my abilities weren’t doing anything. Played a few H2H games and it was like all of my CB’s were getting burned.

Thanks for the advice!

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