Knowing the rules of this game mode in its fullness is a halfway walk to success. Many people think that they know everything but small details can make a huge difference.
In this article, we explain what FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables are and how to use them in this game mode.
What FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables are
FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables are all the game items that applied to players, managers or even the whole team, improve certain features of these.
Consumables can be applied from the menu “Team” and we can not have simultaneously more than 50 items of this type (not counting the trade pile). We can use consumables of any of the three levels (gold, silver or bronze) independently of players’ or coach’s level where the cards are applied.
There are nine different types of FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables divided into two major groups:
- Training Items
Player
Goalkeeper
Manager
Position
Training
- Development Items
Contract
Team Talks
Fitness
Healing
FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables – Player Training Card
Each player training card can only be applied to one football player. Its effect is reflected in the following game, expiring after that. Basically, this card corresponds to minister one specific technical training to the player. Depending of the card type, we can increase one or all six player’s technical attributes.
It is very common to find beginners buying these cards thinking that its effect is permanent. It is not. This type of card is essentially useful for the most important matches and when there are high prizes involved.
There are 21 different player training cards corresponding to seven of each one of the three levels. Its effects are shown in the following table:
FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables – Goalkeeper Training Card
The goalkeeper training cards are very similar to the player training cards, but only applicable to goalkeepers, so the rules are the same. The only reason to exist a different type of card is because the technical attributes of goalkeers are different from the technical attributes of other players.
There are 21 different goalkeeper training cards corresponding to seven of each one of the three levels. Its effects are shown in the following table:
FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables – Manager Training Card
The manager training cards allow you to change the preferred tactics of the manager to the one that is written on the card. For each card that you spend, you can change tactics once. Can be applied to any manager that you have on the roster. The great interest of these cards is to match the team’s tactics with the manager’s tactics. This will give you a very substantial increase in the team’s chemistry.
These cards exist only at gold level and at 16 different types, as many as the tactics of FIFA Ultimate Team.
FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables – Position Training Card
One of the most important factors in the team’s chemistry is if players are playing in their preferred position. Although they could play at any position, the team’s chemistry is strengthened if they are placed in the position written on their cards or at least in similar position. As it is not always possible to make these positions match, there are position training cards that help us to solve this problem. These cards are equivalent to trainings to adapt to a new position in the field. By applying one of these cards to a player, we are changing the preferred position written on his card.
However, it is necessary to have in mind that the position training cards contain informations about the old and the new positions. If a player’s favorite position is not equal to the old position written on the position training card, we can not apply that card to him. In practice, this means, for example, that we will never be able to become a central back in a striker.
There are 17 different types of position training cards, all of the gold level.
FIFA Ultimate Team Consumables – Formation Training Card
All players have written on their cards in which tactics they prefer to play. If the player’s tactics and the team’s tactics match, the chemistry will gain some points. Otherwise, one of the fastest solutions is to purchase and implement a formation training card.
As it happens with the manager training card, by applying one of these cards in a player, the preferred tactic become to be the tactic written in the formation training card.
These cards exist only at gold level and at 16 different types, as many as the tactics of FIFA Ultimate Team.
In the second part of the article, we will explain the development consumables.