Packed myself the new Signature Mendy from an objective pack. And the Liga Portugal offline players have all been acquired. I'm back
Packed myself the new Signature Mendy from an objective pack. And the Liga Portugal offline players have all been acquired. I'm back
I think he is the online one but Uribe has been solid for me when I have used him so far.
Back on and just implausibly packed a dupe untradeable Goretzka from a 75+ single Rare player pack so may well do another Hero.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
Will be on in a bit to watch that. Was thinking about it myself for no reason other than I have a bunch of middle rated cards and nothing else really interests me.
Renato extinct at 750k
Some of the RTTK upgrades are out. Looking like 3 win upgrades only.
For those keeping score these are the upgrades coming from OTW this week:
Picked up Ronaldo after the weekend and this is what my team will look like (need to buy Fred still). Then I think I'm on the hunt for an Icon LB
IF Barella from one of the Two Rare Gold Packs from the icons.
Roberto Carlos Raoul? Not that the SBC's good value, but he'd be a cracking player.
Bob Carlos would be ideal but I won't have that sort of coinage for a long while. Something to work towards but I'll probably miss the SBC
In my infinite wisdom I decided to do another hero pack.
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Nice. He looks immense
Most broken card I’ve ever used when I had him on the draft. That may have been because teams don’t usually stack their defence though. 5* 5* to top it off
I am actually jealous Danny. Would love that card untradeable.
I genuinely was in shock. I tried him in one SB game and he felt ridiculous.
He will have to be on 8 chem in my main team for now until I decide to get Kante into midfield.
Played a few games this evening with the new team and it feels pretty nice. Not quite sure whether to play Beckham or Atal at right CAM (in a 4-2-2-2). Atal's stamina is a bit of a problem - at 81 it's not quite good enough to play there but Beckham doesn't have the skills to beat a man.
Ronaldo has been great so far too - I think every game he's got a goal that my previous strikers just wouldn't have scored, be it a header from a corner or a run and finish from a bonkers angle.
Got me preorder hero. The luck ran out.
Timmy Cahill
Was doing the 75 picks yesterday and got a load of 83s and 84s so I’m gonna do one more Hero tonight.
Is anyone else struggling in Rivals this season?
Was Div 2 last season and now in Div 4 and have just lost 5 games in a row. Same thing happened last week. It's as if the match making is fucked or no one is getting promoted.
I'm also coming up against ludicrously good teams. Constantly.
I've only played a few games but wasn't too bad. I'm down with the shitmunchers in division 6 at the moment though as I've not really played it much since the reset. It's a mix of teams there though - some full gold SBC fodder, some with IF Mbappe and a load of Icons.
Got my hero pre-order and it's a dupe Robbie Keane...
Put him towards a Hero SBC and got back Kohler.
Meh.
Dodo Brazilian RB Silver Star
Muira (85) and Nakamura (87) duo perfect link SBC. You get a pack for completing both
TOTGS is Friday
Back on. One more damn rivals win needed.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
Back in, with a new team that’s won 5 in a row in Fut champs qualifying and 4 in a row in Div Rivals so far.
Banza is deadly.
Switching into 4-1-2-1-2 wide.
Salah to LM, Davidson RM
Socrates CAM, Banza/Benzema up top.
TAA feels superb, and I’m glad to go back to Alaba/Militao whose on the ball attributes are much more ‘me’, in my use of my centre halves to progress the ball.
Walked through my silver games tonight. Dennis is just unfair, and I dont even have a chem style on him yet.
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Filth of a silver team, that.
Did a second icon sbc last night and packed Essien who while good inexplicably sells for 1m coins.
I’ve also decided to go for the rank 1 rivals milestones for the packs which means I need to play about 60 rivals games in three weeks.
Essien was mega last year. Loved that SBC card. He's probably even better this year with dribbling being less of the only route.
I picked up Fred again and so my team I linked earlier is now settled. Atal and Gelson Martins are the weak points right now - they're good but have the feel of cards that will drop behind the power curve very quickly. Ronaldo is immense though. Wins games by himself.
Rumoured leak of the TOTGS tomorrow:
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Bruno would be a shock.
Vini would be mad as he is right up there to get a POTM too!
I just want Anthony and Haller.
There will be no reason to do Haller (with Openda being around) but I probably would anyway
Marquinhos doesn’t need another card and the same goes for Nkunku. Anything for that moolah though
2-2 start to Weekend League, and Jesus, it's been tough. Everyone I've faced has been exceptional by usual standards.
My guess is that their stupid qualification system coupled with much more to do in the menus and more objectives has put the shitter people off (myself included) and that's having a knock on effect for good players like yourself.
I went 10/10 after deliberately losing the first 5 games. I read somewhere that skill based match making comes into it if you’re doing shit and it 100% does. Every game after the initial 5 games were absolute bots who were playing as if they were stoned. Every time I won a couple games in a row the 3rd game was a sweat demon.
It could be coincidental but I’m not so sure.
86 Osimhen objective. Nice.
I had RB Sangare as I was hoping something would spike him. An arguably better version of him doesnt help me
I still need to do Neres, Miura and Nakamura (ya fuckin' dougball) and then can look at Haller.
Just need an Eredivisie LB and I have a full special XI from there. Playing Sangare at CB mind
If I did Neres and Haller I could do the same. Including a Sangare at CB
I also have OTW Berghuis sitting on the bench.
Berghuis I have LM. Could do with a natural player there but he's fine on 7 chem. Could pick up Tadic but bit of a waste.
Means I'm less likely to pick up Van Ginkel now as I'm not sure I need another central player
Understandable. The qualification is a double edged sword, I guess. I see it as shifting my first ten WL games to the week, which means not having to fit 20 games a weekend into having a life. Massive positive for me, but I have seen lots of 'I can't get into WL this year even though I'm D3' on Twitter/Reddit whilst I've been away.
Decided to do Manquillo and bring gold Osimhen off the bench to double up.
It has worked pretty well overall. One Osi goal and 8 prem goals to go. Ashley Barnes being the player subbed off. He got the last volley goal with the worse overhead known to man
I worked through all of the offline Foundations players this week, as well as SS Baku, so after almost all 40 SB games, the club is filling up. I also picked up both IF Mitrovic and IF Wilson for future use.
Now I've started on Osimhen and Defrel tonight, doubling up on the two. 15 minutes in and 3 rage quit wins already so well on the way. Muriel is lightning against these shit gold defences.