0:00 Are you struggling to get the best out of your cards in eFootball 2026? Strikers not scoring, defenders not defending, dribblers not dribbling. We're going to break everything down and talk about the most important aspect of building cards, stat thresholds, and showing you guys every position, every player how to train cards properly, effectively. We're also going to talk on stat nerfs and stat buffs, and of course talk about the gameplay animation based off as well as script, dynamic difficulty, and everything else that you're going to see on screen here by focusing on five pillars with training cards. Let's get straight into it, and I hope you guys enjoy this video. So, we're going to start with training cards, right? And this is something that has confused a lot of people, and it is confusing, right? Now, I've already mentioned five pillars that we're going to focus on, and these are the five core aspects of building cards to train cards
0:46 correctly. It doesn't matter the position, we will break that down in further detail. And we'll revisit this again, but essentially you can take a little screenshot of this if you want. We will talk about this, but this is the core foundation of what we're basing all of this knowledge on. And also, there's going to be a lot of text in this, and tre- thresholds and 90 ratings and all this, right? You can have as much knowledge of as you want out of this, but I'll also simplify it. So, Konami originally balanced this game for 90 overall stats, right? After an individual stat hits 90, everything above that, including 91 to 99, is going to be a small little diminution return style of boost to the card. How does this work? What does that actually mean? Well, this is an example, right? We're going to show you standard Kylian Mbappé in the game right here, okay? Now, if you look at Kylian Mbappé's stats, his
1:32 highest stat is 89 speed. If you go into any of the player of the week cards that we've had released, you will notice that it's very, very rare that a card goes past 90 in pretty much any stat. Yes, there's an an exception here or two with aggression and stuff like that, but with the cards that Konami released that you don't actually go past 100. Like, we're not talking about the super players like Messi, like Cannavaro, like Pelé. Obviously, these cards are just beyond above and beyond absolutely insane. Like, they have no weakness and they're absolutely breaking the game. We'll get into that as well. But, for the rest of the cards, right? If you look at even the free cards, it's very rare that cards will go past certain thresholds, which is 95. Now, I know I already talked about being a stat being at 90, but the stat at 90 is kind of
2:17 like the bare kind of minimum. Like, that is what you need for a player to perform the best of his abilities or to the best of his abilities at that position. So, with this graph that you're seeing here, you've got a minimum, a threshold, and an above threshold. What happens when a card hits the threshold? Well, he's going to perform above like his gold standard, right? Now, the core stats for most cards is 85. The exception to this is obviously position-based stats. So, for Ronaldo here, he's going to want to have really high attacking awareness because he's not super quick. Even though he's got good speed and acceleration, he's not zippy. He doesn't have a good player model uh like Romário or any of those. So, if you were to break this down further so you have a general understanding of it, core stats being at 85 is no weakness. That is just performing at a standard
3:04 level. Stats at 90 are the threshold. They're going to perform at the optimal level that you want for the position. And then, anything over 90, including 95 plus, is going to be playing above that level but with diminishing returns. Now, this is key, right, when you're training certain cards. We're going to take three examples here. We've got Cannavaro, we have got the free Costacurta, and we've got the premium Virgil van Dijk, who of course is a build-up. We've got a CB hybrid in Costacurta, who was free, and we have the free Cannavaro that we got as well. So, two free-to-play cards versus a premium card. But, you will notice here that we're focusing on different things. So, for our aggressive destroyer ball-winning back center back Cannavaro aggression defensive awareness, and speed. For Costacurta, it's speed, tackling, aggression. And
3:49 for van Dijk, it's going to be a different style with trait, and we're going to go through this. So, this is all about how you actually, you know, you deal with the threat on the pitch, right? Costacurta and Cannavaro, because they've got the speed and they've 90 plus speed if you want them to have that, they're going to be more aggressive. Where the likes of Saliba, the likes of Rijkaard, the likes of van Dijk, they're going to be more patient, holding the defensive line as a slower defensive rock, and you'll be able to just, you know, absorb the pressure rather than chasing around willy-nilly. Compare this to Cannavaro. This is where a little bit of your own knowledge comes into the game. If you want a fast striker up front, you're not going to play Harry Kane. If you want a fast destroyer at the back that's going to be very aggressive and in your face, you're going to go with Cannavaro over somebody like Rijkaard or van Dijk. Costacurta, again, he doesn't have max max defensive
4:36 stats, but he has more than enough because he's going to be a hybrid CB that can play left or right back, and you're going to have to train him up in a specific way. Now, we will round this out, right? Again, in going back to our original discussion where we talked about the stats. 85 to 90. Look how many stats that this Costacurta has at 90, and look at the style of his skills as well. That comes into it, too, with the skills. You compare that with van Dijk. Now, this is an older version of van Dijk, but he doesn't go past 80 speed, but he blows Costacurta out of the water with his defensive capabilities and with his aerial presence and his overall defensive capabilities. So, for me to, you know, like require or demand van Dijk and Costacurta to play the same style, it's just not going to work. I'm
5:21 not going to play van Dijk if I need speed and aggression. That's where Cannavaro comes in. Now, obviously, there are exceptions, of course, with the super-duper, you know, meta men that have come out, such as Thuram. This is where the game gets a little bit, you know, above and hypocritical when you're talking about the 90 stat rating, right? Now, again, this is going to be a lot of knowledge dropped on you, but this is kind of again where you need to have a little bit of contradictory information for it to make sense, if that makes sense. So, a general rule of thumb, get as many stats to 90 as possible. This does not come into it if you've got Thuram, SMS, Messi, any of those. But, if a stat can't easily go past 95, forget about it. Just ignore it. Leave it at 95 as your max. Pretend that 95 is the limit. Now, there are exceptions to this. I've already mentioned Cristiano Ronaldo. If you have a player and a
6:08 striker that is a little bit slower, I'm not talking about his stat speed and acceleration being slower. I'm talking about how he handles. Romário and Eto'o versus Cristiano Ronaldo, there's no, you know, they're different type of players. So, for slower base center forwards, Lewandowski, Harry Kane, Osimhen, any of those, attacking awareness at 95 plus, finishing at 95 plus for your absolute killers. Tackling for defenders, defensive engagement, they're tied to gameplay-based stuff that Konami have introduced with v5.0 for 95 plus, and then acceleration and balance unlocks different animations based against other players. I'll show you an example of Gareth Bale at the end of the video. Now, Thuram is going to have no weakness. If you spun for Thuram, this again flies in the face of the information. And this is where I think Konami have to be very careful because
6:54 the game is teetering on broken when you have players like this that literally Thuram has every single stat past the threshold, and he still has stats left over. This is what I talked about. Is it worth actually putting the stats anywhere else, or will we just throw them into defending because we still have points left over? This is where the game kind of like makes a little bit of a mockery of itself in terms of having players at 100, because there's no real difference between 100 and 96, 97 in terms of what you're going to see on the pitch. Maybe one in 50 games you will see it. Now, we will go We're going to break this down, right? And this is to simplify it. While I'm dropping a lot of knowledge, I'm talking a lot, I'm I'm bringing you a lot of information. We're also going to simplify it in a way that there are four player categories in the game: stoppers, work horses, passers and finishers, and dribblers. Stoppers,
7:40 right? Essentially, what a stopper's role is, it doesn't matter if it's a slower base player that's still hitting threshold stats like 85 with Rijkaard here. It doesn't matter if it's Patrick Vieira, who is one of the best players in the game, or it doesn't matter if it's a chase-down artist like Makélélé. Essentially, what you were doing with these players is you were trying to disrupt your opponent's play and stop the ball from sprea- spraying through. Patrick Vieira is one of the best in the business at this as an anchor man or a box-to-box or a destroyer, it doesn't matter. Edmílson is another one. Busquets is another one. Their role is primary to win the ball back or primarily to win the ball back. Claude Makélélé is a little bit different in this in that he has huge speed. Now, you compare that to the brand new Yu-Gi-Oh! free Neymar that they released. This Neymar is never going to have stats
8:25 above the threshold. It just won't happen, right? If you compare him with the other super-duper cards that are already here, like the likes of Varane. Varane is going to hit 90 speed, but he also hits a couple of other threshold stats. But, he's missing, even though he's 103 overall, he is missing that attacking awareness, and he's missing a couple of other stats. Same with Cristiano Ronaldo. Yes, he has high attacking awareness, he has high speed, acceleration, kicking power, jumping, and all of that, but he's missing curl on his shooting, and his dribbling does not go to 85 with this build. Yes, you can put him at an 85 dribble build and bring him in line with the likes of Hazard. Of course, you can. But, with Hazard here, even though he's got his double booster, Hazard is missing that 90 speed. So, there's kind of trade-offs between the cards that are rated 100 to 102 overall. Compare that
9:11 to Romário, no weakness, zero weakness apart from the curl, which is not really needed if you control your shots or you just take a lot of simplified shots. Even the free Embolo, who they brought as a contract, like uh free nominating contract, this guy is really good, but he misses a couple of thresholds with the 85 kicking power or the 90 kicking power, the 85 finishing, and the 80 attacking awareness. This is also bringing in a huge part of the game that a lot of people ignore when they talk about stats, and they treat this game as an Excel simulator. Player ID and player model, I cannot stress this enough, right? It's a unique blend of skills, stats, height, and weight combined with animations and code-specific behavior. This includes leg length, jump, reach for goalkeepers, player model, shoulder width, bodies. It's a small part of the
9:57 game, but a huge part of the game in another way, right? If that makes sense. So, the likes of Color is not going to be able to dribble around the keeper like Messi, but he's going to be able to score headers even against players that have got better stats than him defending. The likes of Eden Hazard, we'll talk about AI playing styles. If you guys want me to drop a specific video on this cuz it requires a lot of information, let me know in the comments below as well on player styles, right? And AI playing styles. But essentially with this, you can override a lot of the the limitations that cards have in the game. With random skills, if you get a random skill or if you actually do a fusion to get a proper skill, you can do a lot of manipulation of it. And that's where this comes into it, right? Manipulating the player ID and manipulating the player model. Not nefarious, not illegal, nothing
10:42 cheating, nothing. This is literally using the stats and the powers to be in the game that they give you. So, 75 plus on physical contact, 90 plus on kicking power, and then of course for defensive as well. This is why you will consistently see the likes of Cannavaro beast taller players with really good stats or similar stats in the air. This is also going to be comparable to animation-based gameplay that override the core gameplay of the game. Now, this has become a bigger issue or a bigger solution depending on how you see these cards. But with the new cards, right? That are coming out, they're all 103, 104 overall, right? If not more with showtime skills that simply can break the game such as Blitz Curler as you saw there or long range tackle fortress, any of those, right? Now, this is another one that I would talk about long range
11:29 tackle. This is animation-based. It's not necess- necessarily uh a skill that a lot of people will see, but when you're defending and you're using it, it's very effective. Is it as effective as Blitz Curler? I would probably say so from a defensive point of view, yes. Whereas acceleration burst is a little bit more subdued. Now, that brings us on to another very important point, stat nerfs and stat buffs. So, these are also known stat nerfs as stat mitigators. Stats that are reduced or nerfed in game to limit the effect of the stat strength or consistency, and these stats affect the gameplay and often include two key factors. Alters the random number generator, the RNG effect of situational moments, and determines the strength of certain stats in game. What does that mean, Barry? Stop talking, shut up. What does it
12:14 actually mean? Well, this is what it means. You're through on goal, you've got a really good player up front, and you're hitting the post. Now, this could be explained away when you have the likes of Vieira, but it can't be explained away when you've got the likes of these boys up front. Really good cards that should be drilling these balls in. And this is also got to do with hidden adjustments in the game. Now, I know what you're screaming at this at the screen. Script, talk about script. Well, we are. This is what it is. Now, I asked ChatGPT what script was, and they gave me a definition about eAFC. It wasn't eFootball, but the same thing can apply. And this is what it says here, you can read about it that it artificially kind of, you know, manipulate certain outcomes. So, you're through on goal, and the ball will hit the post instead of going in. The next time you're through on goal, the ball will go in even though you do identical things. Now, with the good or with the bad comes
13:00 the good, and this is why if you are scoring goals like this with Patrick Vieira after just missing one in front of goal, where Patrick Vieira is able to score that with no gameplay mechanic, no stunning shot, nothing with 67 finishing, with zero shooting skills. Whereas Neymar with his skills and his build with loads of shooting skills and 90 plus finishing is going to miss a chance like this. That's where a lot of people get confused and get frustrated. Basically, it stuff just happens in the game. There's a lot of random stuff in the game. There's a lot of gameplay mechanics and a lot of stuff happening at once that sometimes does not behave well together. This is why you will see the best keepers in the game like Schmeichel as you're seeing on screen here infuriate with letting the ball drop through his hands. Now, you'll say, "Oh, what about his build? What about this? What about that? What about
13:47 his granny, man?" It's nothing got to do with it. It has got to do with RNG, scripting, dynamic difficulty, whatever you want to call it, plus other factors such as connection, gameplay, everything, mechanics of the game. Even though we've got the best goalkeeper in the game, you are still going to concede goals like this. Don't let anyone tell you differently that there's some hidden build or hidden trick or you know, you need a PhD to understand what you're doing. It is also explained away here that yes, that was Michael Owen beating me in a in the in an aerial duel for a header for a knockdown. Also, you see overhead passes here, and in the same match, you were going to see things different, right? In this. Now, we have to talk about smart assist, right? This is the definition of smart assist in the game when you are defending with smart assist. And you guys can read through that. I literally have talked until I'm
14:33 blue in the face about smart assist. I feel like I'm just, you know, I'm annoying you guys at this stage. That is what smart assist does in defending, and that is what smart assist does in attacking. Now, remember that overhead pass to Messi in the game just a minute ago. The things that stand out to me on smart assist here, boys, it just feels like smart assist is hand-holding too much. This is also another factor that brings the game into a lot of like, you know, mismatch of gameplay mechanics, animation-based stuff, RNG, scripting, whatever. There's a lot of movement going on within the game code now that simply wasn't there with eFootball. So, how do you control that? Well, the best way to do it, I suppose, is doing those stat nerfs and stat buffs and making them work for you. So, while we talked about stat nerfs, there is also stat
15:19 boosts in the game that we saw that you can do. Now, a couple of ways to do this are going to be on display in a second, but stat nerfs and stat buffs a stat buffs affect the gameplay the same except one goes for you and one goes against you. So, one is thumbs up, one is thumbs down. And that's why sometimes you will win games that you don't feel like you need you deserve to win or you will lose games, you know, with kickoff glitches and scoring corners at the last second, right? This is the perfect example of it here of using a stat buff that we previously talked about. Look at the strength of a a depleted stamina Gareth Bale. What is happening here is the stats are not really factoring into this. Gareth Bale's actual physical contact and his player model, as well as the defender's gameplay animations, are actually overriding Gareth Bale's or
16:04 Gareth Bale is overriding that. Similarly with Schmeichel, we just absolutely threw Schmeichel under the bus. However, now we're going to redeem him a little bit with some truly extraordinary saves, like class saves that literally has no right of making. Now, you will say it's manual goalkeeping, you will say this or that. That one wasn't manual goalkeeping. It's just a perfect save from Oliver Kahn and Schmeichel previously. That brings us full circle, right? Full circle at school with Paz. This is what the gameplay is really about, player stats and player training. How you train your cards, how you actually build up your cards. We've showed you loads of examples in this video. That is going to be about 35% of a card. Player ID is going to be 25, but the other aspects of the game is going to be different things that you can't really control. Gameplay
16:50 animations, I'm not just talking about Blitz Curler. I'm also talking about you pressing a button and nothing happening, and I'm also talking about gameplay mechanics that sometimes Peter Schmeichel will make a save, sometimes he won't with all the factors. And we're not even mentioning up and down network connection issues. We're not even mentioning people that are cheating. We're not even mentioning, you know, a game that is just crazy, uh you know, with loads of factors going on. There's lots of different factors. My advice to you guys would be, right? And I want to keep this video under 18-20 minutes. My advice to you guys would be, go back and watch this video, right? If you have any questions about how the game works. Hitting certain stat thresholds is extremely important. Of course it is. It's very, very, very important to hit certain thresholds, but literally do not overanalyze and do not become overwhelmed when one of your players is
17:36 not producing the goods. Players are nerfed and buffed all the time. Ronaldinho's good this week cuz he's got a new card, he might be terrible next week. Messi can't stop scoring this week, he could be terrible next week. Cristiano Ronaldo, the showtime Cristiano Ronaldo, was absolutely dog in front of goal when he first launched. Now, he literally is a hat-trick a game if you play him right and you you meta sweat him. He's a beast. Same with the linkup. They've brought in so many aspects of the game. We haven't even in this video touched on player skills and what they do. We'll do a little bit today this, but I didn't want to make this video super, super, super long. Let me know if you enjoyed this. It has taken me pretty much weeks to edit this video and get all the information out without conflicting myself. If there's anything you disagree with, anything
18:23 that I missed out that you'd like to see in a part two, let me know in the comments below. We'll have a couple of screens going up to cover a lot of stuff that I have even talked about in post, but let me know what you guys are thinking about this video. Stat thresholds explained, skills, stats, how to train your cards, and of course, breaking down the gameplay to its most simplest fundamental form without complicating it. I know some people like to complicate this game and play it as if it's an Excel simulator or an Excel spreadsheet, and they're trying to get all the the cells in the same color and make it look pretty. A lot of the time, man, it's just, you know, you have to just go with what the game is giving you and have a basic understanding of it. So, that is it for me, lads. I will talk to you guys later. If you enjoyed the video, do not forget to smash that like button and subscribe to the channel.
19:08 I will talk to you later. Peace.
