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Nation87
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1 year ago

Direct Counter for Elite Edges

First and foremost this is a suggestion, as being posted in "game suggestions" board and not a criticism of the game, this is also from a CHEL / EASHL point of view.

After the decision to give every class Elite Edges in the current season of the game it's clear that it was an attempt to level the playing field instead of addressing or tuning the ability directly.

We know that the ability says it does, but we also all know what it's actually used for by a majority of the player base.

We know why it's the "meta" in every competitve level of this game and the only X-Factor used by "professional" players at every position, especially now on every class.

Shutdown or Truculence, even combined with an elevated body checking stat, are often completely negated by Elite Edge's extra "feature", therefore causing you to spam poke checks that more often than not result with you taking a tripping penalty against the Elite Edges user who was spinning in circles bouncing off all of your team mates.

If we're going into the next title with this ability in the game, and not tuned or fixed whatsoever from it's current form, then it needs to have a direct counter added.

I suggest removing Yoink from the game entirely and replacing it with an ability called something like "Shadow" (or whatever you want), which would increase your stick lift effectivness while also boosting your players agility within the proximity of the player they are covering, activating like Shutdown does already in 1v1 situations. This would allow you stay close and match the sporadic movements of Elite Edges while offering you an oppertunity at possesion with good timing.

Elite Edges in it's current state is rampantly abused and unfortunately needed in almost every build to play the game at pace with everyone else, and if not addressed for the upcoming title than it needs an ability that directly competes with it to keep it in check.

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  • @Nation87Elite Edges is used not because of spinning but because it helps keep your speed up on turns. If anything does happen with Elite Edges it probably means that Agility will get a buff increase in movement to mimic that of current Elite Edges if high enough.

    Also the reason some traits like Truc, Shutdown, Unstop Force, Big Tipper, and some others not used as much are because leagues ban them from being used. So we're not going to use them outside of league. So some of these traits would get more love. Also they fixed the balance issue by giving it to everyone. So there is no imbalance but instead a lack of other traits worthy of using.

    Speed/Movement will always trump the other abilities.

    PS.>  It's not hard to poke the puck off these elite edge users anymore than a non user.  You just have to be smart about where and when to do it.

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