Re: Contact or Power swinging?
The Strategy Guide that I often refer to is only accessible in the pause menu during you play a game. During a game, pause and one of the menu items on the first screen should have it.
Much of what I say is mostly coming from my own experience using these swing styles, so I don't know if I'm totally correct.
I didn't mean to say that high Vision wouldn't help with your power swing, though. You would be getting a bit more help making contact with power swing if Vision is high. What I meant is that power (or normal or contact, for that matter) swing is a power swing, regardless of the situation you use it, meaning the game doesn't automatically penalize/boost you based on the "situation," since I thought that's what you were asking.
The way I currently understand how Contact, Vision, and Power get modified by the type of swing goes like this... Relative to normal swing:
Contact swing: Your Vision increases, while Contact and Power both decrease. In turn, you can foul off more pitches around the PCI, but your ability to square up (to produce line drives) and hit harder suffers a bit.
Power swing: Your Vision and Contact decrease, while Power increases. In turn, you lose ability to foul off borderline pitches and also the ability to square up, but when you actually make contact, you tend to hit the ball much harder.
This is how *I* feel when I use different swings. So this dictates how I choose which type of swing.
The Strategy Guide that I often refer to is only accessible in the pause menu during you play a game. During a game, pause and one of the menu items on the first screen should have it.
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It could impact my gameplay on when I use power swings so getting a clear answer is huge benefit to me and this thread. For instance, I have a player with average contact & power but high vision. I thought that the high vision allowed me to be more aggressive with the power swings. Now I see that it does but not as much as I thought previously. I also have a player like in Nomo's video but with average rather than low contact that I'd try to maximize what little power he had with power swings early. Now, I have to rethink that to an extent. I'm glad that OP made this thread.
It could impact my gameplay on when I use power swings so getting a clear answer is huge benefit to me and this thread. For instance, I have a player with average contact & power but high vision. I thought that the high vision allowed me to be more aggressive with the power swings. Now I see that it does but not as much as I thought previously. I also have a player like in Nomo's video but with average rather than low contact that I'd try to maximize what little power he had with power swings early. Now, I have to rethink that to an extent. I'm glad that OP made this thread.
I didn't mean to say that high Vision wouldn't help with your power swing, though. You would be getting a bit more help making contact with power swing if Vision is high. What I meant is that power (or normal or contact, for that matter) swing is a power swing, regardless of the situation you use it, meaning the game doesn't automatically penalize/boost you based on the "situation," since I thought that's what you were asking.
The way I currently understand how Contact, Vision, and Power get modified by the type of swing goes like this... Relative to normal swing:
Contact swing: Your Vision increases, while Contact and Power both decrease. In turn, you can foul off more pitches around the PCI, but your ability to square up (to produce line drives) and hit harder suffers a bit.
Power swing: Your Vision and Contact decrease, while Power increases. In turn, you lose ability to foul off borderline pitches and also the ability to square up, but when you actually make contact, you tend to hit the ball much harder.
This is how *I* feel when I use different swings. So this dictates how I choose which type of swing.
- Easy on the arm (as far as pitching goes anyway) and the movement might stop the fouling off because he'll get fooled
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