Ultimate Team has been the flagship game mode of FIFA for years and it is no different for FIFA 23. Every year at the start of the season gamers begin again with a squad they're given, the goal being for everyone to create their Ultimate Team and battle against others for a place in the ranked game mode FUT Champions. The fastest players in FIFA 23 will help gamers to get a good start.
Gamers will want to improve their chances of succeeding in FIFA 23's Ultimate Team game mode. Luckily, there are some tried-and-tested tips that players can take heed of to improve their experience from the beginning. Ultimately, this game mode is based on how much wealth a player has: either in money or time.
Updated on February 25, 2023, by Ritwik Mitra: Ultimate Team is one of FIFA's biggest game modes by a country mile. Regardless of the ethical problems one may have with the structure of this mode, there's no denying that the concept of Ultimate Team is pretty riveting, allowing players to create amazing squads with their favorite players while ensuring that both the formation and chemistry are top notch. Here are some of the best tips to keep in mind if players are struggling in Ultimate Team and want to start winning more often than not.
10 Never Waste Precious Coins
FUT Coins are the bread and butter of Ultimate Team, governing exactly how much players can invest in a squad to make it stronger. Suffice it to say, it's important to use coins judiciously in the game and store them for better offers instead of splurging them whenever players can.
After all, coins are extremely rare and take a long while to farm. Unless players don't mind spending bucketloads of real money to buy coins, it's important to save this currency instead and invest it when the time is right.
9 Be Patient, The Team Will Get Better With Time
At the start, it can be really hard to get into Ultimate Team. The players are not really the highest level around and can be quite unwieldy due to their low stats, which is something that most casual FIFA players aren't accustomed to. As a result, it can be easy to just give up and try out the other game modes instead.
However, players who get through this rough patch will find themselves enjoying the game mode after accumulating enough coins and strengthening the squad with some familiar names. It can take a lot of time without the investment of actual money, but players who tough it out will be rewarded with the best Ultimate Team has to offer.
8 Use Tactics That Accommodate The Squad's Best Players
The recruitment of high-level players in the team is a slow one, and players will have to wait quite some time before they have a squad chock-full of superstars. This means that players may face a situation where better squad members are overloaded in one position.
At this moment, it's important to switch up the tactics and place these higher-ranked players into the squad instead. It may be a temporary adjustment, but players need to win games and a sub-par starting 11 won't help in the slightest.
7 Go Pay To Win
Players who do not have much time to play or just have a vested interest in succeeding in the game mode (such as wanting to go pro, or creating content about FIFA) will want to use another means of wealth: money.
Ultimate Team carries different types of packs that players can purchase either with in-game cash or FIFA Points (bought with real-life money) to obtain the highest-rated goalkeepers in FIFA 23, amongst other players. The chances of obtaining good players in these packs are entirely RNG-based, but players who pay more money certainly tend to succeed more in the game mode.
6 Prepare To Spend A Lot Of Time
Most players probably don't have the cash to go pay-to-win, in which case they need something else: time, a lot of it. It's true that Ultimate Team is very much grind-based, with new cards released throughout the season and lists of challenges required to unlock them, those with jobs and families may find the time investment of obtaining the highest-rated players in FIFA 23 too much.
Players who can't blow money on the game will need to have a lot of time and preferably a lot of skill. In future years players may see a lessening of the time investment required to get the most out of Ultimate Team, but it is not the case on FIFA 23.
5 Use What's Meta In FUT Champs And Division Rivals
As unfortunate as it is, metas exist in all multiplayer games and FIFA has a profound one. Gamers can definitely use squads, formations, and custom tactics that aren't part of the meta, but it is unadvised to use that when playing the FUT Champions mode. Gamers will need the best strikers in FIFA 23 as well as a good all-round squad that follows the meta to succeed.
FUT Champions is where gamers prove themselves. In the ranked mode, games are taken more seriously, leading to a lot of meta-abuse and sweaty gameplay. Gamers who want to get the best rewards and earn a decent place in Rivals and FUT Champions should fight fire with fire and use a meta team.
4 Always Apply Chemistry Styles
Player cards can have chemistry styles applied to them, boosting different sets of skills. These chemistry style changes do make a big difference, with players performing noticeably better than they would if they were using the Basic archetype. The best central midfielders in FIFA 23 will be boosted further with chemistry styles.
Check a player's stats and use that to gauge which chemistry style to use. Players can either use these cards to buff a set of weaker stats and lead to a better all-round card, or further buff stats that are already high for a more overpowering feel.
3 Find A Cheap Overpowered Team
Overpowered teams are not exactly few-and-far-between. It's a bit of a grind in the beginning to get a decent team, but after a month or two the market settles and overpowered teams are everywhere. Players should use the Futbin website to find a cheap team for 10-20k, grind for that amount of coins at the beginning, and then coast with that team while earning coins throughout the year and making new teams.
YouTube is also a great resource for finding teams that are currently cheap to put together. Players should remember to filter the search results to videos that were posted 'Last week' to ensure they are finding videos that are up-to-date on Ultimate Team's meta. Even having the best LW and RW in FIFA 23 will improve a gamer's goal-to-game ratio and help them out in the early game.
2 Don't Bother With SBCs...Except At The Start
Squad Building Challenges (SBCs) are pretty much just a coin sink. Gamers are expected to create teams according to a list of prerequisites, before submitting it and losing it in exchange for rewards. The problem is, other gamers choke the market out and make it so that gamers have to overpay for players simply to fulfill the SBC.
The starting SBCs, however, are worth it and will help gamers to get their Ultimate Team journey on FIFA 23 off to a good start. EA releases new SBCs with popular legendary players as rewards, which could be worth it if a gamer wants a particular player in their squad regardless of taking a loss or not. They can be useful for obtaining the best players in the Premier League on FIFA 23 and other leagues.
1 Try Out Moment
The new Moments game mode sees gamers completing challenges and games to earn stars. These stars can then be spent on packs and other items to increase the gamer's overall squad quality.
Moments is similar to Squad Battles and Squad Building Challenges in that the gamer has to play single-player in a grindy mode. Unlike the other two modes, Moments seems to be very generous in its offerings.
FIFA 23 is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, Nintendo Switch, and PC.