how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

[nick_sr]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

M25 was my first time playing MUT an I ended up winning a couple Super Bowls and having a record of somewhere around 60-30.

Here's my strategy, which I'm also employing in M15:

1) Don't buy anything. I just don't like the idea of "pay-to-win" games and I feel like MUT comes close to being a pay-to-win game. I also take pride in having a better team than some people who paid for theirs =P This is largely personal preference, though. If you don't buy packs, it'll just take longer to develop your team. However, regardless of whether you end up buying packs with real money or not, NEVER BUY PACKS WITH COINS. Never. 7500 coins can go a very long way getting you players with the team styles and positions that you know you need.

2) Build your team on Team Styles, not your favorite players. The stat bonuses can go a long way to helping you win. You could have an 80 OVR team with your favorite players, but that can easily be beaten by an 80 OVR team that benefits from a 70+ Team Style. While those numbers are arbitrary, I think it illustrates my point.

3) Play plenty of solo challenges. You may not have to do this is you buy packs and sell some of those players, but this is the main way to accumulate coins for the auction house. Once you've beaten your favorite team's entire regular season challenge, move on and play any other team's challenge. Without the coins earned from Solo challenges (you can get 3000+ vs ~1500 for H2H matches) it'd be hard to build your team.

That's all I have. I know I'm not the best but I'm definitely proud of the M25 team I built last year and I hope this year is just as fun! Good luck!!

I want to sincerely thank you for this post!!!! don't have guys i want right now but i'm getting there by playing all these solo challenges.

[JBH3]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

I broke down and bought a pack today although only having a little over 8k in coins. The payout was worth it though as I pulled a Mike Evans LP Rising Star. Now I will use buy it now auctions to find a 2nd LP Mike Evans Rising Star and combine them for the elite card.

[sullivan2106]

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Newbie MUT guy here. Chose Short Pass. Opened the preorder packs so far and got an elite tackle I sold for about 35k which is nice start to build the team. I am just a bit confused about the style bonuses. If the player fits your style, his card gets a bump? Where is the bump? Am I seeing this correct haha, any help would be appreciated

[kaletore11]

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After playing the first week without any money invested, I decided to drop 50$ for an all pro bundle, just to see how it is. This is my first and last such transaction.


Let's see if I get anything usefuil.

Pack 1 - 83 Dansby, 80 Amukamara
Pack 2 - scrubs
Pack 3 - SCRUBS
Pack 4 - 82 Melton, 81 Keenan Allen
Pack 5 - 80 Mercedes Lewis
Pack 6 - more scrubs
Pack 7 - 82 Rodgers-Cromartie
Pack 8 - omg so bad
Pack 9 - ..........
Pack 10 - 82 Ferguson, 82 Bowe
Pack 11 - ELITE 87 Myers, finally something ok
Pack 12 - beyond bad
Pack 13 - 80 Mike Evans
Pack 14 - 81 Albert
Pack 15 - lol nothing again


Well, there it is. I had to do it just to see what it's like. It sucks

[jm2054]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

After playing the first week without any money invested, I decided to drop 50$ for an all pro bundle, just to see how it is. This is my first and last such transaction.


Let's see if I get anything usefuil.

Pack 1 - 83 Dansby, 80 Amukamara
Pack 2 - scrubs
Pack 3 - SCRUBS
Pack 4 - 82 Melton, 81 Keenan Allen
Pack 5 - 80 Mercedes Lewis
Pack 6 - more scrubs
Pack 7 - 82 Rodgers-Cromartie
Pack 8 - omg so bad
Pack 9 - ..........
Pack 10 - 82 Ferguson, 82 Bowe
Pack 11 - ELITE 87 Myers, finally something ok
Pack 12 - beyond bad
Pack 13 - 80 Mike Evans
Pack 14 - 81 Albert
Pack 15 - lol nothing again


Well, there it is. I had to do it just to see what it's like. It sucks

DRC sells for a lot

[JBH3]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

After playing the first week without any money invested, I decided to drop 50$ for an all pro bundle, just to see how it is. This is my first and last such transaction.


Let's see if I get anything usefuil.

Pack 1 - 83 Dansby, 80 Amukamara
Pack 2 - scrubs
Pack 3 - SCRUBS
Pack 4 - 82 Melton, 81 Keenan Allen
Pack 5 - 80 Mercedes Lewis
Pack 6 - more scrubs
Pack 7 - 82 Rodgers-Cromartie
Pack 8 - omg so bad
Pack 9 - ..........
Pack 10 - 82 Ferguson, 82 Bowe
Pack 11 - ELITE 87 Myers, finally something ok
Pack 12 - beyond bad
Pack 13 - 80 Mike Evans
Pack 14 - 81 Albert
Pack 15 - lol nothing again


Well, there it is. I had to do it just to see what it's like. It sucks

I don't know....I would be pretty happy with that haul. I bought with my own money about $20 worth of packs and the only 80 rated player I got was Harrison Smith who didn't fit my man defense style so I sold him.

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[Biizz713]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

bought 2 all pro packs and got absolutely nothing. don't do it...

[Matty86]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

So if you aren't buying packs, it's pretty much impossible to complete sets right? And is there really any point in bothering with sets?

I've played a very little bit of this type of mode in the past, but I may actually try and get into it this year.

[JBH3]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

So if you aren't buying packs, it's pretty much impossible to complete sets right? And is there really any point in bothering with sets?

I've played a very little bit of this type of mode in the past, but I may actually try and get into it this year.

No you can complete sets by being a swift auctioneer. You need to invest some time into it, but it can be done. It also pays to gamble on completing one of the QUICKSELL sets.


The regular quicksell set will net you a card redeemed for coins in the range of 1,000 - 25,000. It costs 10 badges, 5 silver and 5 bronze.


The large quicksell set will net you a card ranging from 1,000 to 1,000,000.


I invested about 7k of my own coins to buy bronze/silver badges on auction. I got a quicksell card worth 15,000 so I made an 8k profit.

[Matty86]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

No you can complete sets by being a swift auctioneer. You need to invest some time into it, but it can be done. It also pays to gamble on completing one of the QUICKSELL sets.


The regular quicksell set will net you a card redeemed for coins in the range of 1,000 - 25,000. It costs 10 badges, 5 silver and 5 bronze.


The large quicksell set will net you a card ranging from 1,000 to 1,000,000.


I invested about 7k of my own coins to buy bronze/silver badges on auction. I got a quicksell card worth 15,000 so I made an 8k profit.

Interesting, I'll have to do some more research with the market, sounds like that alone might be fun (I'm weird)

[kaletore11]

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I did two big quicksels and put like 70k worth of badges into them just to get 2k twice.

It's safe to say I won't be doing that again.

[JBH3]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

I did two big quicksels and put like 70k worth of badges into them just to get 2k twice.

It's safe to say I won't be doing that again.

It's a gamble, no doubt about it. But the hope of winning a 100k+ quicksell card is enticing.

[Biizz713]

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im never doing anything luck based in MUT ever again. bought 2 all-pro packs, got nothing. did the large quicksell set, got 2k coins. I see the lengendary packs out now but eff that.

[andyacecandy]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

So, is the basic strategy to play solo challenges, rack up a bunch of coins then go to the auction and buy players you need/want?

Because I sure as hell am not getting anyone great in these damn packs!


Hell, I don't even know who I would want in an auction. Any advice there? How do you even know who to go for? Just by position?

[mgwisni]

Re: how do YOU attack Ultimate Team?

So, is the basic strategy to play solo challenges, rack up a bunch of coins then go to the auction and buy players you need/want?

Because I sure as hell am not getting anyone great in these damn packs!


Hell, I don't even know who I would want in an auction. Any advice there? How do you even know who to go for? Just by position?

This is my first year playing MUT, but I'll tell you what I've been doing so far.

My first instinct was to buy packs with coins (no way I'm putting real money into this mode). After the first two packs, I decided that wasn't the way to go. The first couple get you a decent lineup to start with, but after that it seems very difficult to get more than one card that's useful. So I changed my strategy.

I get coins by playing the market. If you spend just a little time looking at sets or browsing the market, it's easy to see where you can make money. When I started playing the market I was doing it with a very small amount of coins (maybe 3k). I'd look for players where most of the cards were selling for a certain price, but one or two were at a much lower Buy it Now (BiN) price. I'd buy those and immediately repost them at a price that was higher than I bought them for, but lower than the rest (particularly the BiN price). Some cards in sets are rare and the quality of the card doesn't always necessitate it's value. I've sold some bronze cards for 2k coins that I bought for 150 because the original owner didn't see if the card was valuable.

That's basically all I do besides play solo challenges to get coins. Overall I've made about 70k coins just playing the market. That's not much compared to what others have done, but it's been plenty for me to build a good team. My OVR is only 77 now, but when I started playing the market it was around 63.

In terms of building your team, buy cards that fit your team style. Mine is speed run, so my goal is always to improve positions on my roster with players that have a higher OVR (though that doesn't always mean they're better) with the speed run attribute. While I'm doing that I'm still playing the market to get the best value. When I'm looking for players, I try to narrow my search as much as I can. A search for "LG, 80-84 OVR, Speed Run" will net you better prices than just looking for Gold players. Usually I'm using BiN, but I'll also put in bids on players and then just keep searching. I don't like to get into bidding wars, but placing bids will sometimes net me a player an hour or two later. I got Sam Bradford for 300 coins on a bid like that.

Same thing goes for defense. I don't have a bonus for that, but I try building my defense around one specialty so that I can get a bonus eventually.

Hope that helps.