Reverse hit and the side backwards skating.

Hi there. Thanks for the feedback. We're aware of the issue with LT/L2 skating that you're mentioning. As far as reverse hitting goes, can you get a video of this? I get what you're saying about it. It's not intended to be used to defend against poke checks and stick lifts. It would be good to see how this is being used against those. 

I will try. I’ll ask my GF to record it while I am playing I guess from my phone next time I match up against someone that is using it. 

Mainly, at the blue line on the rush when I challenge them. If my players body gets close to them so mainly with smaller players when I poke or stick lift they just A button and knock my players over. But there’s times when I am using a 6’4 defender and they have a player like Jack Hughes who is like 5’9 and he is able to knock me over like I am a traffic cone. 

You can use the built in game DVR on your console to record clips. Then, you can view that club and publish it. Just respond with a link to it.  Thank you!

I can tell you its been that way since last year, it's not a reversal counter as in a fighting game. It allow the carrier to muscle trough a defender, i figured its how it was intended by the devs, kinda fits the overall theme.

It wasn't used so much before, but people are picking up on its effectiveness now. However, it shouldn't be exploited. If you can get me a video, I'll pass it on to the team.

Wrong, people picked up on it last year. 

RSall14 wrote:

Wrong, people picked up on it last year. 

Wrong. Reverse hitting logic was specifically tuned in NHL 25 and it's much more intuitive. 

PJaxBear wrote:

the A button really make me not be able to do anything if they are able to just reverse hit me and not get a penalty when all I am doing is poke checking or stick lifting

This is the point. If you time a reverse hit incorrectly, a poke or stick lift will be effective. But if the puck carrier times reverse hit correctly, they can avoid the poke/lift/hit. This is because a poke check action will poke to where the puck is when the action is initiated, but the reverse hit button will actually move the puck's position compared to its position when in stride. Meaning; once the stride stops (pressing reverse hit) the location of the puck has changed. If a poke check or stick lift is executed while this change happens, the reverse hit allows the puck carrier to avoid the action taken by the defender. 

PJaxBear wrote:

gaining speed while facing the boards and their back towards you at top speed. 

They're not gaining speed. They're just able to use vision control to negate any lateral movement animations that would impact a skater's top speed, giving the impression they are still accelerating. Combined with the penalty to backskating actions (poke check or hit) causing a massive reduction in backskating speed, if you're blindly poke checking you're going to get burned.

PJaxBear wrote:

You cannot defend that.

You can. You need to ignore the urge to poke in favor of your defender getting to top speed while forward skating. Gain body position on the vision control abuser and simply execute a shove. It will cause them to stumble and lose the puck if executed correctly.

Please don't take this as me advocting that the game is 'perfect' or that there's no need to fix the current vision control abuse. It needs to be fixed.

However, it can be defended against if you pay close attention and practice not instructing your defender to take any action until absolutely necessary in order to match top speed with a puck carrier. 

I got a video but it doesn’t let me upload it to the comments. 

So how is there a penalty for poke checking when they can essentially skate sideways  facing the boards and not skip a beat? And 99% of the time when they do that I am not poke checking as that’s how you get a penalty. So no I am not poke checking untimely or just spamming it… but it’s a little discouraging when they are able to skate in that way stop and then when you do have a chance to poke check and they are almost at a dead stop twirling the puck behind them that you do finally get a chance to poke the puck away and they hit the A button and knock your defender down and are able to score off of that.  

Yeah but there’s times when they stop at the face off circle to turn and pass to the point or open something across the slot and you go to poke check and they just knock your defender over using the A button. 

so after skating in facing the boards they are stopping to turn and when they have almost no movement speed I poke check or stick like and they are able to plow over my defender.