How to best spend Evolution Points in EA Sports UFC

According to EA’s new sports title, everyone can be Bruce Lee. But he is just the start of the skilled and powerful character roster in UFC. With the help of Xbox One and PS4 consoles, players will be able to build careers and progress through UFC to be the number one contender. However, it isn’t just about winning fights anymore. No, instead players will have to make use of the Evolution Points available in the game. By using your Evolution Points effectively you can maximize the competitors’ skill sets, moves and fighting potential. The range of possibilities presents the player with a good helping of flexibility, but also confusion and hesitation. Sometimes they just don’t know what’s good for them and that’s where we step in. What follows is a guide to how you can best spend your Evolution Points in UFC and become the ultimate champion.

In the course of UFC, you’ll collect Evolution Points from an array of activities. Such tasks include training, finishing a match, winning a match and also the Performance of the Night bonuses you’ll collect. But you needn’t collect the minimal Evolution Points for very long. To make quicker progress in UFC, players should work their way through the various skill levels as soon as they can. By doing so, players will give themselves the best chance of seeing success in fights and thus earn more Evolution Points. But more importantly, as players develop their abilities, they will earn more Evolution Points for performing the skills they have acquired.

You could easily expect that, in a game dependent on character physical ability, your best strategy is to develop your player’s range of attacks. In spending your Evolution Points on new moves, you will have total choice in every moment you’re in a match. That is, unless you’ve neglected the fighter’s skills. There is little point in having big, flashy moves if you can’t execute them to their full potential. UFC players should instead look to spend their points on the variety of skills, including submissions, movement and takedowns. Even if you can only perform a couple of moves for each skill, it is better to do so with strong skills to support you rather than to go for a bigger yet less effective move.

However in time you will be ready to attain more moves and only then will your fighter be fully ready for them. Don’t let yourself be stunned by the choices available, you still need to consider them tactfully. You may find that the moves you consider boring, or pointless, will actually be the best ones for selection. It may look cooler to pull out one of your big moves, but in UFC your strategy will make the difference between you being a champ and a chump. Make sure you look out for moves such as Submissive Side Control To Dominant and Submissive Full Mount to Half Guard to help get you the upper hand in a fight.

The significance of these decisions must not be underestimated. Of course, you could sit back and let the game allocate your Evolution Points for you, making the gameplay slightly randomized. But unless you want to put yourself at a massive disadvantage, it is not recommended. By deciding for yourself how your fighter should develop, you’re also taking control of how your game will unfold. Consider your ingame fighting style, is there a move or technique you normally go for? How about when your back is down on the matt, what is your savior maneuver? It is the answer to these questions that will reveal what kind of a player you are, which must be considered in your UFC career plan.

There are two ways of assessing your stance in UFC. Option one is that you stick to what you can do best, improving only the skills that you find frequently useful and making yourself an unbeatable opponent of that style. However that will leave your weaknesses open to brutal attacks, which, if you specialize entirely, you won’t be able to overcome. Hence the second choice is to work on your preferred moves, but develop the skills that will defend your weak points. This means you won’t be the all mighty and powerful fighter, but you will have more options when things do get a bit tough. The choice is yours, but you should keep making those choices rather than hand them over to the game.

 
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