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MUT 21: New Abilities and Ability Point Changes

Four new Superstar Abilities have been added to Madden Ultimate Team (Backlash, Recuperation, Honorary Lineman, and Deflator). Ability Point adjustments have been made to individual abilities and the AP limit on offense and defense have both been raised from 10 to 12. Check out all of today's AP adjustments and new Superstar Abilities below:

To read Kraelo's forum post on today's changes, Click Here.

New Abilities

Backlash

Tacklers will get a fatigue penalty for any non-conservative tackle on a ball carrier with this ability equipped.

Power HBs - Tier 2 Ability, requires 90+ Truck (2 AP)
Physical WRs - Tier 2 Ability, requires 75+ Truck (2 AP)
Elusive HBs - Tier 3 Ability, requires 88+ Truck (4 AP)
Utility FBs - Tier 3 Ability, requires 90+ Truck (2 AP)

Recuperation

Quicker fatigue recovery.

All Archetypes - Tier 2 Ability (1 AP)

Honorary Lineman

More likely to produce impact blocks against defensive backs.

Physical WRs - Tier 2 Ability, requires 60+ Impact Block (2 AP)
Blocking TEs - Tier 3 Ability, requires 80+ Impact Block (3 AP)
Blocking FBs - Tier 3 Ability, requires 85+ Impact Block (3 AP)

Deflator

Produces more ball carrier fatigue when using non-conservative tackles.

Field General MLB - Tier 2 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (3 AP)
Run Stopper MLB - Tier 2 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (2 AP)
Run Stopper OLB - Tier 2 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (2 AP)
Run Support Safety - Tier 2 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (2 AP)
Hybrid Safety - Tier 2 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (3 AP)
Pass Coverage MLB - Tier 3 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (3 AP)
Pass Coverage OLB - Tier 3 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (3 AP)
Zone Safety - Tier 3 Ability, requires 90+ Hit Power (3 AP)

Ability Point Adjustments

Offensive and Defensive AP Limit has been raised from 10 to 12.

Double or Nothing - Increased +1 AP across all Archetypes

Acrobat - Increased +1 AP to all non-CB Archetypes

Escape Artist - Decreased -1 AP to Scrambler QB

Enforcer - Decreased -1 AP to all LBs and CBs, Run Stopper MLB/OLB now set to 1 AP

Identifier - Decreased -1 AP to Field General QB, Improvisor QB, and all O-Line Archetypes

Threat Detector - Increased +1 AP across all Archetypes

Juke Box - Decreased -1 AP to Elusive HB and Deep Threat WR

Spin Cycle - Decreased -1 AP to Elusive HB and Deep Threat WR

Evasive - Decreased -2 AP to Elusive HB and Deep Threat WR

TE Apprentice - Decreased -1 AP to Possession TE

Secure Tackler - Decreased -1 AP to Run Stopper DT and Run Stopper DE

Human Joystick - Set to 8 AP across all Archetypes

Playmaker - Set to 4 AP across all Archetypes

QB Playmaker - Set to 7 AP for Improvisor QB

Gunslinger - Increased +1 AP to Strong Arm QB, Field General QB, and Scrambler QB

Which new Ability do you think will have the greatest impact on MUT? Share your thoughts on today's AP adjustments and new Abilities in the comments below.

Comments

swale411

Does Tom Brady automatically get deflator?

chdbjkhcshfiu

he should but who the hell is going to use him anyways.

thevoiceactor06

Beat me to the punch line dammit

markii2351

,😂😂😂Lmao nah that's his guys job he knew nothing ,😉🤥

C3_225

You have won life sir LoL

Rsonyx50

How about you patch a way to quick sell these leftover blitz tickets you useless piece of shit ea?!

Thevikingmike

cant remember where i saw it now, but apparently they are ACTUALLY putting out more blitz ticket content, so AS LONG as thats true... this could be a W for those of us grinding and not having a bunch of extra cash during this pandemic.

Ajb7298

—-Yeah during this pandemic for sure they should at least quick sell for like 5K each it would be reasonable I’ll be at least something give it back because even in the daily objectives you’re lucky if you get 5000 lol so I got like 30 of em I would appreciate The extra mut coins, because doesn’t look like the markets going to crash anytime soon cards are gone for like 800- 900 K — 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🤞

wait for the new series to come out, people will rip packs and tank the market with older cards

Thevikingmike

but if not, you are absolutely right

808KING

All of this and then some!!! Could not agree more!

kliq__xfactor

FACTS!!!

The Ap changes are great in my opinion

zuspekt

not for strong arms :( other than that, yeah

DeeperThought42

Truth. This sucks so badly for anyone who was using acrobat on MLB / FS or gunslinger... I was using both

javalos008

Same here man, they really screwed me on the 2 I like the most!

owenkarpisnki

but you have the extra two ap on offence that makes up for it, personally since i run threat detector and gunslinger plus other abilities that add up to ten now with this it adds up to 12

gravanana

Cool now I have something to play around with today. Great update wizzle.

I am going be having 12 players with recuperation

robskins21

They should do a 100% training refund on abilities for now since THEY changed them. I’m not saying I don’t like the changes, but it’s going to affect how most of us choose and redistribute our AP points and abilities.

socalblunts

THIS. EA is such a joke.

Scottystrand

They would never lol

hawkfans

Pain. I have acro and Double or Nothing

157305

Backlash is gonna become a go to for guys using Bo Jackson, Derrick Henry, Shaun Alexander, or Kamara(if he gets it)

darthfleas

I'd like kickoffs back

hassan_2021

Does anyone know what will happen to my snow when this promo is over? Will it convert into double the amount into training like what they did with the blitz points?

GauravDaBoss

So, no content at all. Absolutely wonderful.

bigben7x7

Exactly. What's the use in daily increases in our players ovr, etc if there are no challenges to play.

buccaneers724

content is every other day if you dont know by now

bigben7x7

yep, but we need more so we don't have to wait and not play with our big, new players lol

buccaneers724

well theres the 50, theres new zero chill tmr, theres solo battles idk or just play something else for a day lol

bigben7x7

I've completed everything :)

buccaneers724

dont you know by now the content is every other day?

GauravDaBoss

TOTW is usually on Tuesdays. I understand that they shifted it to after the Ultimate Freeze promo, but you're telling me that they couldn’t put ANYTHING else out?

Thevikingmike

https://ir.ea.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2020/Electronic-Arts-Reports-Strong-Q2-FY21-Financial-Results/default.aspx

Just a link for everyone. Just facts to read, EA did very well this year. You should know what they plan to spend that money on, BUYING stocks back from shareholders.

i agree with you, if they used 00.5% of their profits on hiring programmers and not stock buy backs, they could have a specialty 40 programmer crew just to fix game changing bugs immediately, test out the next update on a private server to make sure we dont get in to 30 second UI button presses, or have our AI stand around daily with their thumbs in their butt. They also could have had their copy paste plan written out ahead of time so they could have content drops ready to go and merely having to choose which player path to create out of their tree of possibilities as they see what the season unfolds. They could, ahead of time, have the game actually ready. Not be working on things, and they could be working on next years game. They could. But they chose to do buybacks instead of getting ahead, or fixing the game.

I will say todays ability drop was needed, but i would also say, we knew this fix needed to be here when this game came out. So as much as today was needed, its a day(few months) late and a dollar short.

Edited by Thevikingmike

sc3_twitch

take a break please

Thevikingmike

stop taking the time to respond please, no one cares, we know you dont like reading anything negative, move on.... we wont be stopping

buccaneers724

well they're working on the next chill release, and they did, they put the new abilities and stuff

lllllllce

Don't ever defend EA, thanks

sc3_twitch

that’s stupid to say lol like you won’t defend EA if they saved your mothers life

GauravDaBoss

That's not content, that's just transferring abilities that weren’t previously on MUT into MUT

buccaneers724

well idk then. play franchise or h2h until tmr

spongebob567321

their not new theyve been in franchise for like a month

imaginationasdf

New to MUT you smart one.

spongebob567321

no shit sherlock

beantownpierce34

Chemistries: Walter White Abilities: Heisenburg

elitegeneral

So wheres the new content? Lazy mofos

prodigy_36_

Does anybody know what the thresholds are for Gunslinger?

trumpthewimp

They had to add deflator because of Brady, hes the only offensive player to get this ability

gossedal4

When are they going to release chill factor 20? It's the 31st and nothing.

cadecros

bruh cmon now

Edited by cadecros

trumpthewimp

Spammers 21

uhhhrey07

I like the AP changes. And I ran with acrobat on my safeties.