FIFA 18 Ultimate Team: Squad Battles Tips and Tricks

Choose a Difficulty You’re Comfortable With

Tips and Tricks for Squad Battles in FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

Playing on a difficulty you are comfortable with is vital to climbing the rankings in FIFA 18’s Squad Battles. While being challenged makes playing against the computer more enjoyable, you need to make the most of the potential points on offer. For example, rather than having close matches on World Class difficulty, it is better to win comfortably on a lower difficulty.

That being said, if you are able to win by two or three goals on one difficulty and by five or six on the next difficulty level below, then choose the harder one. Doing so will see you get more points due to the increased multiplier of the higher difficulties. The difference in the multiplier outweighs the bonus for scoring more goals on a lower difficulty. Simply work out which difficulty you are comfortable with and stick to it.

Play All the Matches

Tips and Tricks for Squad Battles in FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

This may sound like a simple tip but it is helpful to know exactly how many matches you can play a week and when you can play them. The leaderboards and points tallies reset once a week, on Tuesdays, but the matches themselves reset daily. On weekdays, you can play up to four matches and that number triples over the weekend, with an additional, more difficult featured squad giving you the chance to rack up some extra points once a week. That means you can play a maximum of 45 matches a week, spread out across the days.

Playing all of them will give you a much better chance of finishing the week in a higher rank and getting better rewards. In the ‘Your Rank’ section of the Squad Battles menu, you can also check how many matches players in the top ranks have played so that you can see how your score compares.

Score Five Goals in Each Match

Tips and Tricks for Squad Battles in FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

The most important thing to attempt to do in every match you play in FIFA 18’s Squad Battles is score five goals. If you concede a goal in a game, losing your clean sheet bonus, then you do not need to worry how many you concede because the points awarded for scoring heavily outweighs what you lose for conceding. The reason I say you need to score five, rather than saying score as many as you can, is because the maximum number of points you can get for goal scoring is capped at five goals a game. You will get the same number of goal scoring points for scoring five as you would 1000. If you score five goals early in the game, you can calm your play down and focus on other point-scoring elements.

The other things you should focus on during Squad Battles matches are having 60 per cent possession, having 80 per cent pass accuracy, and getting shots on target. Doing all these things well will see you maximize the number of points you get and will see you rocket up the rankings.

Take Advantage of the Opponent Refresh

Tips and Tricks for Squad Battles in FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

The opponents in Squad Battles change daily, but many people will not be able to play every single day. Thankfully, there is a way of making sure that you do not miss too much and fall down the leaderboards. If you enter FIFA 18’s Squad Battles on any given day and refresh the opponents to get access to the current day’s matches, those matches will then stay active until the next time you refresh. This means that you can return another day to complete those matches and then that day’s matches.

If you play a previous day’s matches and then refresh, it will only give you the current day’s matches, so you cannot leave it more than a day if you intend to play all the matches each week. This feature is helpful, though, because it allows you to leave matches for a time that suits you, ensuring that you do not lose out too much in your attempts to climb the leaderboards.

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