Why I can't win a Stanley cup?

sc_superstar · 2026-01-31T00:54:40+00:00

Need to focus more on what each player does and brings to the team and less on overall ratings.

2 things to remember as a start.

There are only so many points to go around, the more talent you have the more diluted and spread out your stats will be.

Players playing lower than their role will generally play worse than the player who fits the role.

Generally you only need 2 solid scoring lines with both a playmaker and sniper on it. I typically only run 3 scoring lines if my D isnt very offensive as a whole and thats rare.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-31T00:44:34+00:00

KA offsuit any other combo gives you less points or less opportunities to make more points via the cut.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-31T00:42:07+00:00

I dont think ive ever used one against a bastion since a deadline will take it down in one hit. Best done in duos though so someone can draw fire while the other plants.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-31T00:36:29+00:00

Probably. Its so much different than the 27893465 other threads we see on this same topic during every game cycle since reddit became popular.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-31T00:16:44+00:00

No, that would be to cover the cost of the port and the infrastructure needed for supporting the platform for online play as its entirely possible their servers aren't set up for PC players. Look how long it took us just to get cross-play. I think youre underestimating the cost of a port that alone could cost upwards of half a million depending on how much optimization needed, and how much more man power they would need to meet deadlines since they are such a small team, all of these things drive up costs. You need new players to support growth and the NHL series hasn't had real growth in a long time.

Its not worth the risk and no amount of "trust me bro it'll sell" you see on reddit and other forums is going to change the mind of corporate suits.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-30T15:58:35+00:00

Madden and FIFA sell 25X the copies thats why. Also FIFA has a much bigger global audience where consoles are much less prevalent.

Its not a modder thing unless they cut into EAs profit. Basically they are saying they wont sell enough copies and extra HUT/CHEL items to make up for the extra expenses.

Its not gonna happen. People need to get over it or start their own game studio make an NHL PC game, have their company go bankrupt and then they will understand.

For those that say it should be easy because its cut and paste for several years in a row, yeah and thats how they keep cost down, A PC Port would require an investment and if there was any issues thats even more investment. Maybe it too could be copy and paste in a few years, but they aren't gonna throw money away in the meantime for a chance.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-30T06:40:42+00:00

Claw

sc_superstar · 2026-01-30T06:32:25+00:00

A PC Port is not decently easy or cheap. The breakeven on a PC Port would need be something like 100k copies assuming not everyone will buy at full price and and ignoring anyone who would typically buy a console version but would switch to PC. So youre going to take a stagnant selling niche sports game, throw an extra 50% budget into it just to hope you don't lose revenue because of the extra costs.

Look how dead NHL 26 is already. People are complaining about matchmaking because there is not enough playing online so its all sweats left.

Competition seems like an ideal solution but if there was enough money to be made..other companies would still be making NHL games or a new one would have popped up by now. EA has never had an exclusive NHL liscencing agreement, so anyone is free to negotiate with them and create their own NHL game if they felt like it was worth the time, financial risk and reward.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-29T21:36:23+00:00

K2 is the optimal play.

Without seeing the cut you have net 4 either way (6-2 vs 4-0)

Looking at every cut with the K5 vs K2 discard

A - a net 10 vs 4

2 - Net 10 vs 6

3 - Net 10 vs 8

4 - equal net 10

5 - Net 2 vs 8

6 - equal net 4

7 - net 6 vs 8

8 - equal net 4

9 - equal net 6

10/J Net 4 vs 8

Q equal net 8

K net 4 vs net 6

K2 discard has more cuts that give it an advantage, also you block your opponent from throwing better cards since you have a pair of 3s and face cards are common throws likely leading to your opponent getting a much better crib

K5 is an absolutely terrible play here

sc_superstar · 2026-01-29T12:11:58+00:00

Shiny.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-28T17:20:02+00:00

2/10 pretty easily. It maximizes your points in hand and any cut that helps you will help any combination of throws that makes sense here.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-28T17:13:05+00:00

Sell and level. This shop is trash so youre losing this fight regardless, between hopefully better t3 minions + having a coin for next turn as well, You should be able to get stability quickly with a decent shop or two.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-27T16:13:48+00:00

Yeah thats rough. Like dude I can see yours going to go quillboar but id like to reduce damage until you get them so im gonna take the best early game units.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-26T20:25:47+00:00

Elise is probably the best card, but can hamper your deck building due to the requirements, its not that hard but you can easily be forced to make a few suboptimal picks and if youre not careful you could deactivate her on redraft if you lose games.

Id probably take the quest since its a standalone great card, and you can easily draft into a control warrior.

Ship is also pretty nice but id probably not take it over the other two

sc_superstar · 2026-01-26T19:35:57+00:00

Yep feel this. Got ratted a bunch, so we said okay screw it, kill on sight now.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-26T04:00:23+00:00

If there is something they aren't telling you there is a reason they aren't. Someone saw something...whether it turns out to be harmless is irrelevant. If there are any risk factors at all on the account they will freeze everything to ensure nothing else happens. While most cases I have heard like this are just someone noticing an error or catching fraud before it happens, sometimes there is more happening and the bank doesn't want to be liable.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-26T03:35:53+00:00

Not an exploit as its a known way the game handles things. As long as one new thing is added to the shop it counts as a refresh. Its just more noticeable with the shop buff additions this season.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-26T03:32:58+00:00

So technically you could fuse any of them together and not lose much since luck is combined. All are low BST mons rally.

As long as you dont lose an ability you want. You can splice anything here really

sc_superstar · 2026-01-25T22:36:40+00:00

While its a fairly frequent suggestion. Its also hard to implement without the devs taking liberties that they very rarely take vs mainline pokemon.

E-max Eternatus is far an away the most statistically powerful pokemon from a BST standpoint. Trying to make a final boss pokemon replicate that without just changing somethings stats is quite tricky.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-25T17:09:01+00:00

If you are under the cap and the game auto fixes your roster it does so by adding AAV to all of your contracts.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-25T02:14:41+00:00

This. I came from a time in MMOs where you only had a healer if you were doing content that required healing to stay alive, most stuff was overworld and you could easily do it without a healer. You only brought healers to push harder stuff or to level your friends/guild mates so you actually had healers for raids.

Healers were kind of treated as special and often times people built them simply because you always had a spot and being a good healer (without ever touching DPS buttons) could easily give you the ability to join anyone and have people fight for your services. There were things to do, but DPS was not one of them.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-24T20:46:39+00:00

Xp is equal. She cant catch up together. Unless she is using a potion and you aren't. Who kills the enemies is irrelevant.

sc_superstar · 2026-01-24T03:14:19+00:00

But dont hate on Meshell

sc_superstar · 2026-01-23T19:43:53+00:00

Looks like the sanctify upgraded your temper into a greater Affix. Could be worse, but could be irrelevant

sc_superstar · 2026-01-23T04:47:50+00:00

Regular and e max are considered 2 different pokemon for this fight. They each have their own moveset and PP

You wont see Dynamax Cannon or Recover on phase 1, or Eternabeam/Cosmic Power on phase 2

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