Manual defending is like a comedy sketch.
We bit about my background , I play manual I don’t use ai defending and I always get high elite every year and 12-15 champ wins depending the meta. I’m over 1000 games played this year and my experience of manual defending is comical . Players slow down by ai interference before reaching the ball , players run into each other , balls bounce about everywhere , tackles rarely land no matter how well timed (unless from behind) , the ball can be on ur toe but they get it 1st if u manual swap to the player about to win ball , there is no block animation when u manually control , intercepting no animation u need to be 100% accurate and then it bounces off u half the time , ball goes through u so much like u think u have the ball but u don’t it’s 2mm away from ur foot and u don’t lock on . It’s a proper disaster. I can get 15 wins in a good weak abusing the ai 13 in a good week not but how much ur punished for trying to play the game urself is a crime and the sole reason this fake is dying . Us older players have no interested in letting the ai defend , we want to have control of our players or at least have the option to with equal effectiveness