Attackers - Building your Offense

Cafa talking to suzukii regarding Attackers:

Diversify your offense. So you can make use of different holes in opponents' defenses. You need an OP attacker, a BC attacker, and an AE attacker.

Just decide what's the best player order for each of your attackers in each match, regarding the defense & goalie you're playing against. That's the key.

You check both defenders. If they lack AE (aerial), naturally, it's good to field AE offense.

If they lack DP, you field OP offense.

If they lack TA, you field BC offense.

DP (defensive positioning) = OP (offensive positioning)

TA (tackling) = BC (ball control)

The value of the pass affects the positioning duel.

Look at it this way. A defender has excellent DP. Attacker has good OP. But if he receives an awesome pass, he might lose the defender.

TA/BC duel happens only if the defender won the positioning challenge and is "there" with the attacker. Assistance affects this duel.

Markov talking

The perfect striker balances the probability of beating the defence with the probability of beating the keeper perfectly. So SC should be high enough, but not too high at the cost of other skills. And this is of course highly dependent on what goalkeeper and defender you are facing.

I personally prefer attackers with SC just below the other skills of BC and OP, but not much.

High SC strikers are important at the top level because you face "wall" keepers all the time (high RE, GP) so even an exc/awe/awe (SC/BC/OP) might struggle to score. You will find this at national team level especially. Personally I find that a high SC/BC combo makes for a great forward/striker, with good+ OP.

The trick in this game is to keep winning with as cheap players as possible. Then you advance constantly, as you always have money for reinforcements.