Squads This Year
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What captain combos have y'all run this year? Any good builds that worked or stayed consistent throughout the season rotations?
I found I have used the Jeter and Hoffman or Jeter and Nathan buffs ALOT together this year. I like the cards and many core cards where able to work with the very minimal wildcards I've gotten this year.
I feel like the captain cards are almost the only way to help keep you competitive in overalls but the buffs from captains are hardly noticable across the whole squad.Only had at most 2 wildcard slots all year and with the S4 no restrictions approaching that feels pretty crappy.
Did many of you get your 4 wildcard slots? How much have you had to play to get them? What modes did you grind to get them quicker?
I feel like it's insane amount of time and grinding you need to do to get all 4. I'm not even close to 3 and won't even need them soon anyways.This year has not been the greatest in fact, likely the worst so far with this whole sets and seasons nonsense.
It's been very frustrating going into ranked games with a 86+ rated squad when everyone else is rocking 97+. I've managed to get it up to 94 without captains or cards I actually like but just the highest overall I own and many in secondary positions to make it work.
Yeah there has been a few games I played that my squad was better overall but not many. Everyone has stacked HoF cards that don't even need wild cards then they have their 4 wild cards to just stack more HoF cards.
I don't think I've ever seen or played any other multiplayer video game that punishes you this hard for not being able to grind hours upon hours a day just to keep up.Captains were really the best part of squads I really happened to cling to and appreciate. It made me feel like I was deck building again like Magic or other card games. Only to get dramatically disappointed with such a [censored] poor overall team rating every season. Theme teams are absolutely awful compared to just God squading it and putting in your max. The only good theme teams were Yankees and Dodgers and that's IF you had the live series completed. Every other theme team was just awful. Cant get above 89 with any of them. It's as if the captains are setup to be quickly replaced with highest overalls in content drops.
Captains really needs so much work cause I think they are a great idea and can give character to your play style. But my goodness......this game is sweaty and captains feel useless. -
@AdeptOfMemory_PSN I’ve tinkered around with most of them except for the team captains I don’t have. Not sure why we still don’t have more than half of those at this point in the year, but I won’t beat that dead horse.
I’ve used a lot of Santana and Cruz. The Rockies, Yankees, Dbacks and Padres can put together a good squad. It really depends on what cards you have though. If you have them all, most of the captains are viable. It also depends on who you play well with too.
What I’ve been doing is using certain captains depending on who I’m pitching in the game. When Randy Johnson is on the mound, I do a DBacks theme team. I tried out the new Darvish with a Padres theme team. It’s not usually a full theme team build either. Usually just the minimum with the best of those teams and fill in the rest with the hall of fame cards that don’t need a boost like Hank etc.
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The D-backs and (surprisingly) the A's both have pretty decent theme team options. I don't think I've ever created a theme team using one of the Cornerstone captains (I've used that 87 Carroll quite a bit, but not as a captain).
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@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS Cruz works well with the Padres pitching captain because they both fit a few of the best Padres including Gwynn which gets his power over 100. A lot more team builds will work in season 4 without restrictions.
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@GoozeFn_PSN padres probably is pretty good if you have all wildcards available. I like many of the padres pitchers I just feel like S4 will be the best time for these builds
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@AdeptOfMemory_PSN Definitely. The Padres build worked better last season. This season the Rockies seems best with Bichette, Castillo, Blackmon and the OOP pitchers if we’re talking theme team.
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I've only used Santana boost but now there's so many non switch cards that I'd like to use that I'm not using one
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@AdeptOfMemory_PSN said in Squads This Year:
It's been very frustrating going into ranked games with a 86+ rated squad when everyone else is rocking 97+.
If you had spent half as much time actually playing the game as you do complaining about it, you could have been "rocking 97+" too.
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@ref479ode_PSN said in Squads This Year:
I've only used Santana boost but now there's so many non switch cards that I'd like to use that I'm not using one
I tried Santana and just didn't catch on for me. i can see how it became super meta
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@AdeptOfMemory_PSN The boost isn’t much, but he’s one that I actually want to use. He has a great swing.
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@AdeptOfMemory_PSN said in Squads This Year:
@ref479ode_PSN said in Squads This Year:
I've only used Santana boost but now there's so many non switch cards that I'd like to use that I'm not using one
I tried Santana and just didn't catch on for me. i can see how it became super meta
At the time, I think I had
C posada
DH polanco
1b santana
3b chipper
SS rollins
2b ketel
RF santander
Cf/lf I forgotBut at the time most of those players where who I'd want to use anyway
I think I was actually using tatis somewhere as my one non switch guy
