OP Socrates all-embracing review: by anyone who didn't get forth with Zlatan.
Intro:
So I apperceive there are in actuality a few reviews bustling up on this guy, but I anticipation I'd still be able to allotment some adventures of my own of this guy and conceivably afford some ablaze on some new areas.
Personally I feel that reviews are abortive if you don't analyze them with added players, even CR7 can feel bulky if you analyze him to Mertens (even if they both got 90 dribbling on the card) artlessly due to actualization archetypal etc. So I'd like to abject my allegory on some altered types of accepted meta players including the cast of Zlatan, Mbappé and some others.
Who am I?
I'm just your boilerplate absorbed FIFA player. I hover about div 3 a lot of of the time, sometimes even div 4 (never in actuality crop Rivals actively though), and in WL I end up gold 1 usually if I play all 30 games. Fabricated it to aristocratic 3 already this fifa and a brace of gold 2 if I didn't adeptness my games.
Stats:
I've played about 30 amateur with Socrates so far, 10 with his accommodation and 21 with his absolute card. I've approved two altered chemstyles: engine and hawk. I've played him mainly as a ST in a 4411 and 4231, as able-bodied as CAM in a 4231. He averages hardly over 2 goals/game (bear in apperception that I'm absorption a lot of play through him because he's the new jewel in the team) with 67 goals in 31 matches (all in Rivals div 3-4) and 12 assists in 31 matches. A lot of of these assists were from his time as a CAM, I'd say I've played about 8 of the 31 matches in a CAM position, and I'm constant he'd accept afterpiece to a 1:1 assist/game arrangement if I was abandoned arena him in CAM, maybe even academy (but with a lower scoring arrangement as a consequence).
Best position:
This is a boxy one. At aboriginal I planned to use him as a CAM, and I still do agreement with it, but abandoned he's accomplishing the a lot of accident up foreground as a abandoned striker. He'll in actuality be able to play both positions on a top level, so I anticipate it mainly comes down to playstyle. As a striker he's agnate to Zlatan but abundant bigger (read description below) and as a CAM he's added like a admixture amid Pogba/De Bruyne but abundant bigger too. Whatever you choose, he'll shine.
Comparison to Zlatan:
Generally in FIFA I consistently play with abate alive players (think Mbappe, Jesus, Reus), so it was no abruptness that Zlatan was abhorrent for me in every position I approved him in. However, Socrates (even if he is agnate to Zlatan on paper) is accomplishing a abundant bigger job for me.
He feels abundant added agile, turns faster, and the +20 antithesis is VERY noticable (which was my capital affair with Zlatan). His dispatch is faster too.
His finishing alfresco the box is bigger (and added chiefly he can in actuality actualize amplitude vs acceptable opponents, which Zlatan couldn't do for me). Central the box I'd say they are in actuality agnate in foreground of an accessible goal, but the +20 antithesis in actuality helps in bound situations if a apostle is affairs your shirt just afore shooting.
Socrates casual is bigger than Zlatans (who does accept decidedly acceptable casual though), which you abnormally apprehension from the CAM position. Some through assurance Socrates does will just accomplish you laugh, and you will alpha to anticipate that you are in actuality acceptable at the bold until you apprehend that it's just Socrates accepting Socrates. I assumption it's a bit approximate to analyze with Zlatan on this point aback it's in actuality attenuate to play Zlatan in CAM, but if annihilation it just goes to actualization how adjustable Socrates is.
In agreement of physicality, Zlatan on cardboard beats Socrates on aggregate except stamina. About 86 backbone (91 with hawk) does not feel weaker than Zlatans 99 strength. If annihilation Socrates feels stronger, and I anticipate already afresh it's because of the balance.
The abandoned breadth I can in actuality say that Zlatan is bigger than Socrates in is aeriform dominance. Don't get me wrong, Socrates will bang-up the air too, but Zlatan with his 6"5 over Socrates 6"4, 80 jumping vs 71 jumping (90 vs 81 with militarist on both), 99 assailment vs 78 assailment (88 with hawk), and assuredly 99 branch accurateness over Socrates 89 branch accuracy, in actuality are stats that prove that Zlatan is the aloft amateur in the air. About somehow I'm still scoring added headers with Socrates, but the sample admeasurement is way too baby to accomplish the annual that Socrates is bigger in the air, and it'd aswell be a bit arguable so I'll just say that Zlatan is apparently bigger in the air! Annual to acknowledgment that both players got adeptness attack as affection as well.
Finally Zlatan got 5*/4* admitting Socrates got 4*/5*, now abandoned I'd crop 5* wf over 5* sm any day of the week, because a 5* anemic basal makes you so unpredictable. Arguably a 5* adeptness move aswell makes a amateur unpredictable, and I'm not gonna pretend like I'm the best skiller out there, but with such a big actualization archetypal I feel like accepting able to do heel-to-heel and la croquetas is added than abundant which Socrates is acutely absolute able of. A 5* wf is aswell something anyone can get advantage of.
At the end I just wanna say that, the acutely adverse altercation is that Socrates is about 2M bill and Zlatan was 1/10th of that and appropriately you shouldn't analyze them. This is acutely authentic to some extent, but the acumen I chose Zlatan is because he's the a lot of agnate blazon of amateur (at atomic for a ST position) and I apperceive a lot of humans accept him so maybe you can chronicle to some of the comparisons.
Chem style: I candidly didn't feel a huge aberration amid militarist and engine. I'd like to say that his dribbling and movement acquainted hardly added alive with an engine and that his aeriform attendance + finishing acquainted hardly bigger with hawk, but the accuracy is that it's apparently placebo added than annihilation else. I'd say, if you wanna use him as ST go hawk, and if you wanna use him as CAM go engine, but I'm constant this guy will be astounding no bulk what chem actualization you go for.
Pace: decidedly fast in agreement of acceleration. His top dispatch is abutting to the cast of Zlatan (who is aswell in actuality fast already he gets going) but his +4 dispatch over Zlatan is in actuality noticable. He aswell weighs 79 kg compared to Zlatans 95 kg, and we can abandoned brainstorm how abundant such factors bulk in commendations to advancement and pace, but I anticipate it does bulk to some extent.
He consistently seems to be in the absolute position and time his runs accordingly, so calm with his backbone his clip is added than acceptable abundant to exhausted defenders from time to time.
He's acutely not as fast as players like Mbappé, Carniball Pulisic (holy sh- this card...), 94 Reus etc, but he's still fast.
Shooting: If you attending about this subreddit, you'll see videos of humans banging in goals with Socrates from anywhere on the pitch, and tbh, that's just how it is. Just columnist shoot and it's a ambition 99 times out of 100. Best finisher in the game, central the breadth he's on par with Zlatan, 94 Reus, Eusebio, and alfresco the breadth I'm yet to acquisition anyone who can shoot like he does.
Passing: Amazing. He'll accomplish passes from the CAM position that you didn't even see yourself and al of a sudden you're in a 1v1 with the gk (which you apparently will miss, but at atomic you can annual with Socrates from the afterward corner).
Dribbling: Flawless brawl control. Acceptable dribbling for a amateur with that size. For a amateur of that admeasurement he feels in actuality alive too, but if you're abandoned acclimated to abate players, you adeptness feel he's a little bit bulky to activate with (but no breadth abreast the clunkiness of Zlatan, and aswell decidedly bigger than Pogba).
Defending: Meh. Some attackers in actuality do a appropriate job in backtracking and affix with a tackle. Socrates is decidedly bad at this, which is aswell one of the affidavit I chose to put him in ST instead of CAM, but it's just a accessory detail. He will outmuscle players sometimes due to his animality if alive back, but I was assured a little bit added tbh. Luckily it doesn't in actuality bulk too abundant for a striker.
Physical: In actuality solid presence. He'll authority off defenders for canicule until he decides to pass, shoot, or whatever. He can do anything. You can calmly use him both as a "run in behind" striker, as able-bodied as a "target man". Abandoned I'd just leave him on balanced, and let him adjudge what to do, he usually makes the appropriate accommodation anyway. I acquainted like the militarist chem actualization bigger his concrete attendance in actuality a bit with +10 jumping, +5 backbone and +10 aggression, so I can in actuality acclaim that, but even with an engine he was still sublime.
Pros (that isn't mentioned too abundant above)
- 5* wf
- Traits: adeptness attack and adeptness (it's abnormally acknowledgment to the adeptness affection that you'll see some alarming goals with this guy).
- Acceptable nation, lots of able links because of Brazil.
- Can calmly awning both CAM/ST positions until the end of FIFA.
- Absolute plan ante (H/M is advised by abounding to be the best wr for a CAM/ST).
- Even with TOTS coming, there are few players with Socrates' altered aggregate of stats such as: 4*/5* and 6"4 with adeptness attack affection etc. Maybe a amateur like TOTS Pogba can compare, but we are still several months off from that and he'll apparently be added big-ticket than what Socrates is now anyway, so for me, this is in actuality an "end-game" card.
Cons:
- bulk (I see a lot of humans adage he's way too expensive, but imo the sbc bulk is fair, 1.7M-1.8M afterwards boilerplate packs on ps4 for a amateur that's as abutting to Gullit as you appear (at atomic in CAM/ST), but I'll still acknowledgment it as a con aback humans assume to anticipate it is one.
- no 5* adeptness moves. I know, I know. You could say 4* adeptness moves is a pro rather than 5* accepting a con, but if you pay abutting to 2M for a player, afresh 4* adeptness moves is a minimum axiological claim for an advancing player, and the abridgement of 5* adeptness moves has to be advised a baby con imo.
- may crop a little time to get acclimated to if you accept NEVER played with bulkier players (or if you're acclimated to application prime Gullit who has abundant bigger balance), but he's abundant easier to play with from the alpha compared to the players of like Zlatan, Higuain, Kane etc.
- not a abundant CM on cardboard (his arresting is too bad for this role, and this is breadth a amateur like Gullit has a aloft advantage over Socrates). Truthfully I haven't in actuality approved him as a CM, so some humans adeptness disagree with me on this point, but from what I've apparent from his arresting in general, I'd say he's ashen at this atom unless you play with a absolute abhorrent CM in a 41212 perhaps. I don't play this accumulation though, so I'll let anyone abroad try that out.
Summary:
9.5/10, this is about the absolute card. If you ambition to be in actuality absolutely captious you can consistently ask for 20+ added balance, 10+ added pace, 5* adeptness moves and bigger arresting (so he can angle into a CM role like Gullit), buy FIFA 19 Coins but there are absolute few added players that can accord you that and they will bulk 5x as much.
At the end of the day, I can HIGHLY acclaim accomplishing his accommodation card, it's abandoned about 10-15k which is so annual it for 10 games. Hell, even if you NEVER plan to in actuality do the final card, at atomic you can accept some fun in the next WL by aggravating out this monster. Imagine in actuality accepting fun in FIFA, even if abandoned for 10 games, for the simple sum of 10k coins... just do it!