MUT Item Archetypes
Good Afternoon! Wanted to put out a post about the current state of Madden 27 Ultimate Team in terms of the archetypes in the game. For example, in the current defensive meta, it is quite helpful to run route running abilities at wr, te, and rb (short elite, short in elite, route technician, slot-o-matic). But certain archetypes prevent cards from being useful in certain metas. For example, today EA dropped Collectors Series Dalton Kincaid, a vertical threat TE, who does not get short in elite or short elite. Therefore he is not as good when lined up at TE (slot-o-matic does not activate from the TE specific position) in this meta than someone like Collector Series item Darren Waller or Season 3 item Dalton Schultz. Making Dalton Kincaid not nearly as good an option to run at TE than most. Something I do not understand is that just two weeks ago EA dropped Collector Series item Josh Metellus. He is a run support archetype but EA gave him one run support bucket and one coverage bucket, allowing the item to be much more versatile for whatever scheme that user wanted to do defensively. Would love for EA to make more items more versatile with the archetype system. Even if Dalton Kincaid is a vertical threat TE, maybe you allow him to get short in elite at a higher threshold. For example, Darren Waller unlocks short in elite at 85 SRR, so maybe since Kincaid is a vertical threat, he still can unlock short in elite but at 90 SRR instead. Just some food for thought, would love to run Kincaid at TE with my Bills theme team but would definitely hurt me on the field. Any comments, thoughts, questions, concerns welcomed below. Have a Blessed Week!