Community ManagerIn NHL 21 I only used two builds which both suited my style of play. I play 6’s only.
A 5’7, 169 lbs Sniper for RW and after successfully killing so many penalties and playing effective defensively with this build I decided to create another Sniper build for my RD with a few tweaks. I increased my height to 5’10 and weight to 185 lbs for this one. I generally used the same traits and specialities for both. Booming slap shot, back checking and PK specialist and sometimes one timer instead of PK a for my RW Sniper.
These two builds allowed me to keep pace and not get beat by the opposing small Snipers which so many often used. I don’t often throw hits and don’t need to to play effect D so I didn’t need the hitting and strength although these builds were weak while holding the puck which I try not to do too much. I’m more of a quick pass, get open, pass, shoot, one timer player anyway. I had no issues with passing either whether it was in the offensive zone or quick and long breakout passes to my forwards. Defensively I didn’t have many issues with either build. It was like using a hybrid between the Puck Moving and Offensive Dman builds. My biggest strength was my slap shot. I could rip both slap shots and one timers pass goalies from anywhere in the offensive zone.
For NHL 22 I’m basically going to try to recreate both builds but with the customization back and the other new aspects I’ll tweak this build to add to my areas of strength and decrease/improve my areas/categories of weaknesses.
Would be interested but you can’t finish a game with it glitching out.
Or people just doing one timers and glitch shot from the slot, can't wait EA to fix these lame goals that everyone does
Community ManagerShots from the slot are always going to be dangerous. The best thing to do is not let those plays develop. Good human defenders are going to be watching for this and break up those plays before they happen.
I dunno, it seems like the x-factors and perks are kinda muddying the waters, like the number stats don't matter that much? Like drop your shooting accuracy and power to minimum, and then compensate with the one-timer, or up close x-factors... do they really factor that much? Then you crank your speed and acceleration to 90+ and dominate the ice? For goodness sake, I think I saw one power forward build with 90 speed and acceleration!🤭
Controlling your gap and closing down pass lanes is very difficult against zippy teams like this, and guess waht is the best or easiest way to do it? Yes, upping YOUR speed and accleration to 90+ as well. So this is what we have right now, at least on the European servers, everybody is fast as heck regadless.
I've said it for a long time now that this game has way too fast skating. in comparison to pass speeds etc. And it's getting worse with builds like these. Passing the puck around after face-off was really slow in NHL18 etc., and even if passing is way faster and better now, it's still rather slow in comparison with the acceleration players can get. So you're often struggling to pass the puck before opponents get to you... and this is from standing still mind you!. The puck should move faster than the players surely.
