Shadowing Practice: I TESTED Passing Stats in eFootball - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I tested passing stats in eFootball, and if you want to become a better player, Then you need to understand these 2 passing stats, their secrets, and their connection between curl, kicking power, and skill bonuses.
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Welcome to eFootball Lab, I'm Al Amin, and today I will be testing ground pass, through pass, lofted through pass, lofted pass, and crosses in eFootball.
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We will be testing Ground pass first.
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For this test, I changed the passing assist level from 2 to level 4 for fully manual passing.
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For the testing method, I called the 2nd man for kick-off and directly  passed to my own goal post.
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I used a macro on my keyboard application so that the keybinds for each test would be identical.
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I tested low pass stats from 70 to 99.
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I tested each passing stat multiple times to get the average data.
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From my testing, I found that when the low pass stat is lower, there is a higher chance of making errors.
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And when the low pass stat is higher, the passes are more accurate.
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You can also see the ball trajectory from 70 passing to 99 passing.
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When the low pass stat was lower, the ball trajectories were far from each other, and when the low pass was 99, the passing trajectories were close to each other.
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Suppose you're aiming at the middle of this board.
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With lower passing stats, your chances  of hitting outside this area are higher.
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But with higher passing stats, you can hit the middle  almost every time.
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You can also see the speed difference between 70 and 99 low pass.
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With a higher low pass stat, ground passes are faster and more accurate.
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With higher passing speed, your opponents get less time to react and match up.
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Some people think kicking power also affects ground passes.
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Or is it just a myth?
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I tested the ground passes with different kicking power stats.
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After doing multiple tests, I found no difference with higher kicking power.
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The speed of ground passes is only determined by the low pass stat.
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Now It's time to test through passing.
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I tested through passing the same way as low passes, but the results were identical. It was very hard  to see the difference between all these scenarios.
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So I changed the camera to a different angle to see the difference.
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After doing multiple tests, I found the difference.
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You can clearly see the passing lane gap difference from 67 to 99 passing.
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When the low pass is 67, the chance of error is higher compared to 99 low pass, and it is not as accurate as 99 low pass.
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Again, I tested this with the Through Passing skill, and when the low pass is around 82, it is almost identical to 99 passing.
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You might ask why.
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Because the Through Passing skill adds 20% to the low pass ability when using the through command.
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Now you might be thinking, "What happens to a  player with 99 low pass and the Through Passing skill?" As the stat cap is 99, if a player has 99 low pass and has the Through Passing skill, then the skill bonus is totally wasted.
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But low pass is still valuable for normal ground passes.
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It is not ideal to set it only 82 for your midfielders because more is always better.
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Now it's time to test lofted pass.
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I will start with the current meta Capello lofted through pass.
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I tested this in 4 different scenarios.
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Each of them shares the same kicking power.
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You can see that when the lofted pass stat is higher, the lofted through pass is more powerful and accurate.
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Higher lofted pass has more speed than lower lofted pass.
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Also, when the lofted pass is higher, the ball trajectory becomes lower.
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With a lower trajectory, opponents' defenders get less chance to react to the ball.
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Also, it will be easier for your players to receive the ball.
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Just like before, I tested again where one had 82 lofted pass with Through Passing skill vs 99 lofted pass, and the results were identical.
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The Through Passing skill gives a 20% bonus  to both ground and lofted through passes.
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Now the most important question: Does kicking  power affect your lofted through pass?
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I ran multiple tests with different kicking power, but I couldn't see any difference.
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The speed of lofted through passes depends on the  lofted pass stat, not kicking power.
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Now for the lofted pass test, I used the in-game skill up training mode.
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After multiple tests, I couldn't find any difference between low and high kicking power.
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From my tests, I found that when the lofted pass stat is  low, the ball trajectory range is wider, just like I tested with ground passes.
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With a high lofted pass stat, the ball lands closer to the player.
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With this different scene, you can see when the passing stat is high, the ball trajectory is closer to the player.
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This helps the player receive the ball easily.
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Now one of the most important test still  remains, which is crossing.
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For this test, I will compare 65 lofted pass with 99 lofted pass.
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Let's run the clip.
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You can see 99 lofted pass has more speed in  crossing the ball just by looking at the ball's shadow.
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Also, the ball trajectory is lower than 65 lofted pass cross.
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Your opponent's defender gets less time to react if the ballspeed is higher.
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Now to see if any skill makes changes, I tested this with Pinpoint Crossing Skill, and I found that 90 lofted pass with Pinpoint Crossing skill is identical to 99 lofted pass cross.
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Because Pinpoint Crossing skill gives a 10% bonus to lofted pass value.
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With Pinpoint Crossing Skill, the animation of crossing the ball is different.
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The animation almost looks like a blitz curler animation.
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Let's answer another question.
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Does curl make any difference in crossing?
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To find this out, I tested this with 76 curl vs 97 curl, leaving  kicking power and lofted pass value the same.
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From this test You can see curl actually  makes a difference when crossing.
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You can clearly see the curve range.
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97 curl have more curve on the ball compared to 76 Curl.
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Now does kicking power affect crossing?
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To find this out, I tested this again with 2 different kicking power stats, and I was very surprised to see there was no difference, as both crosses were almost identical everytime.
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Then I tested this with corner kick set pieces.
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Now you can clearly see the difference between kicking power.
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Kicking power does not affect your crosses. It only applies to set pieces.
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Now you might ask why some players' crosses  feel different?.
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It's because of their boosters and player ID.
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For example, the new David Beckham comes with a Crossing +3 booster, which gives him +3 in lofted pass and +3 in Curl.
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If you also give him a crossing booster, he will get an additional +1 in curl and lofted pass.
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As only boosters can break the 99 cap, his lofted pass and curl stats can reach up to 103.
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Also only a few players with edge crossing skill  have high curl with high passing stats.
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Now in the end, how should you distribute passing stats to your players?
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Well, it's pretty complicated and totally depends on your playing style.
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If you play possession game (even if you don't) and make lots of passes, then your midfielders should have at least 90 in low pass.
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And your strikers should have at least 70–80 low pass.
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Some strikers have much lower passing stats.
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Lower passing stats do not mean he won't make good passes.
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It just means the chance of making errors is greater.
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But more passing stat is always better.
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And every player should have the Through Passing skill.
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For lofted pass, if you cross frequently with your wingers or fullbacks, then you should aim to have 90 lofted pass with Pinpoint Crossing.
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Also try to give them more curl if possible, because  increasing curl stat also increases finishing, which is very useful for wingers.
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Kicking power does not affect your passes but with that your speed and stamina also increase.
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So you always have to make a balance between all of them.
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There are some other skills that make a big difference  in passing, which I will discuss in the future.
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I'm Al Amin. Thanks for watching.
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