Team synergies - offense or defense ?

shawn_h21

I am able to do 2 Team synergies with my Team without heroes and are Not sure which ones.

What are your experience?
Better 2 offensive or defensive ones, or 1 and 1?

And which ones do you like best?

nWoDust

I ran Tape-to-tape. After scoring 1.70 Goals-per-game over my last 10, I switched over to It's-a-trap and have had more success both defensively and scoring wise. I didn't see any difference in my pass completion % with or without Tape-to-tape.

mattborowiec

I've been running it's a trap all year. don't think I'll change

ESPOtheDON

This is a very subjective question... here is how I decided...

before running my good team, when I grinding out with my 84-86 overall team (with no synergies) to use up contracts and stack coins, I tracked my play... I would see:

1) how many quality chances
2) how many goals I would score
3) passing percentage
4) neutral zone game
5) how many quality chances am I letting up
6) how many goals am I letting up

after about 50-75 games ( a pretty decent amount to judge accordingly ) I noticed my Defense would always be rated B+ to A... but my offense would only be B- to B (most games)

It was clear that my defensive play ( positioning, sticklift, poke check, and overall play) was fantastic but it was my offense that lacked a bit of fire power...

I decided to utilize 2 Offensive Team Synergies first and go from there. I started running Tape to Tape and OneTimer, giving my entire team +6 Off.Awareness and +6 Passing, plus others...


I feel this helped quite a bit. my defense still stayed in the A range and my offense jumped up to B+ to A

hope this helps...

mattborowiec

I'm sold that they help. I make sure every player has at least 1 activated. I haven't done the research like espothedon did, just noticed better play from my guys

h8ttrick

Ya I like tape to tape. I will try for 1timer here soon once I get some coins or players to back it up. Need a tape to tape +2-3 player though or 1 timer.

EddieZny

To me, Team Wheel is the one I'll never stop using. Speedsters get a +5 to speed, agility and acceleration. Speed kills in this game and it's helped me out a lot.

I also run Bombers since this is the year of the slapshot.

h8ttrick

Idk why people think it is... It's the year of the skate across opposite side wrister. Slapshots are OK but I used to be able to skate down to the slot rip a slapper and it would be a goal Everytime. Not so much this year.

Lowernu82

I only tried tape to tape for 2 games and my passing was brutal. Im somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% a game, the 2 games with TT was somewhere around 50ish. Pucks were all over the place, giveaways left and right.

Right now I have a lot of synergies activated and have been playing a lot of one sided games lately. The games i've lost, or has been extremely competitive were teams with NO synergies! I have yet to try this out but my only losses are to guys with no synergies and no head coach. I have a lot of fast guys, but these games were ridiculous. the Sedins should not be able to catch Bure, but my Chara has a rocket pack on when jumping up in the rush. Im having a hard time making any sense of this game, synergies are suppose to help improve your team but players with no synergies out perform you? I'm tried playing with the line energies, increasing them, maxing them, minimalizing them... same results.

i'm guessing everyone else has the same experiences with incosistancies?

h8ttrick

No I haven't when I lose games it's to people with team wheel or because I mess up. Can't catch guys with Myers and I think that is accurate.

ESPOtheDON

h8ttrick wrote: »

Idk why people think it is... It's the year of the skate across opposite side wrister. Slapshots are OK but I used to be able to skate down to the slot rip a slapper and it would be a goal Everytime. Not so much this year.

people think its the "Year of the Slapper" because Bacon said so..

ESPOtheDON

Lowernu82 wrote: »

I only tried tape to tape for 2 games and my passing was brutal. Im somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% a game, the 2 games with TT was somewhere around 50ish. Pucks were all over the place, giveaways left and right.

Right now I have a lot of synergies activated and have been playing a lot of one sided games lately. The games i've lost, or has been extremely competitive were teams with NO synergies! I have yet to try this out but my only losses are to guys with no synergies and no head coach. I have a lot of fast guys, but these games were ridiculous. the Sedins should not be able to catch Bure, but my Chara has a rocket pack on when jumping up in the rush. Im having a hard time making any sense of this game, synergies are suppose to help improve your team but players with no synergies out perform you? I'm tried playing with the line energies, increasing them, maxing them, minimalizing them... same results.

i'm guessing everyone else has the same experiences with incosistancies?

you cannot make a judgment call based on a 2 game test...

h8ttrick

Oh that's right I forgot what YouTubers say is law. Silly me. Thank you for reminding me espo always able to make me realize the error in my ways.

Only sarcasm there aimed at youtubers

ESPOtheDON

... year of the slapper

EddieZny

ESPOtheDON wrote: »

... year of the slapper

I only said that because to me it is and maybe I should have specified -- from the point. I score more point shots than I ever did.

ESPOtheDON

EddieZny wrote: »

ESPOtheDON wrote: »

... year of the slapper

I only said that because to me it is and maybe I should have specified -- from the point. I score more point shots than I ever did.

lol, no I agree to an extent.. I definitely score more from the point as well

shawn_h21

Thanks for your answers, guys.

Caught a cheap Bucyk and LaFontaine, so I think I'll give TW and TT a chance, when completing DC Emery, I hope I can keep the trap activated.
But I definitely have to do something for my offense.


@Lowernu82
I noticed this, too.
Had 3-4 games in row against a team with 84-86 players, maybe CG and S activated, with no chance to get a puck, because the players were way to fast, e.g. Myers out-skating my Lafontaine (90+ speed)
and no my line was not tired.

Lowernu82

ESPO, ive played 30+ games with TW on, when i went to TT it was so bad I wanted to quit when i was winning 1-0 after the first. My passing had never been so bad, my players would not complete the simplest of passes. yes 2 games wasnt much but i wasnt about to play anymore to find out, lol.

ESPOtheDON

lol.. that's crazy... my passing is pretty great with the addition of synergies... maybe its all in our head, who knows?

Lowernu82

I'm tempted to go back and try it again. I didnt clear my roster as planned for movember so maybe i will

Casinator39

This is a great thread guys. Very helpful