Today we go through the best abilities for Madden 23 and how you should look to deploy them.
Madden 23 Abilities (Offense & Defense) Tier List & Ranking
Let's talk about them because there are some that are absolutely needed to win games, now this applies for franchise two as well as mutt, we'll go through, but we'll go through the tier list too, we'll show you that in a second defense, we got a whole bunch of them too as you guys know abilities are very scheme dependent some are scheme independent obviously, but a lot of it defense is reacting to the better offense, some of the offenses reacting some of the overpowered stuff on defense.
Offense Tier List
Let's go ahead and just let's go do offense first, so tier list here, we updated this stuff from earlier in the year, we think it's basically you know as close to the minute as possible, previous in the year, we would have this set based off how much AP it was, but because EA is so aggressive in this kind of AB, AP and some of these, we kind of got rid of a lot of that requirement about things being too expensive because some crazy ones are super cheap now.
S Tier
-Hot Route Master
-Deep Out Elite
-Route Technician
-Fearless
-Set Feet Lead
-Pass Lead Elite
-Short In Elite
-Threat Detector
-Identifier
-Secure Protector
A Tier
-Slot Apprentice
-WR Apprentice
-TE Apprentice
-Gunslinger
-Backfield Master
-Outside Apprentice
-Deep in Elite
-Edge Protector
-Slot-O-Matic
-Short Out Elite
-Evasive
-Tank
-Bruiser
B Tier
-Post Up
-Route Apprentice
-RB Apprentice
-Red Zone Threat
-Playmaker
-QB Playmaker
-Matchup Nightmare
-Nasty Streak
-Return Man
-Spin Cycle
-Juke Box
-Arm Bar
-Honorary Linemen
-Run-Off Elite
C Tier
-Backfield Mismatch
-Bulldozer
-Mid In Elite
-Mid Out Elite
-Gift-Wrapped
-HI/Low Deadeye
-Quickdraw
-Roaming Deadeye
-Sideline Deadeye
-Inside Deadeye
-Long Range Deadeye
D Tier
-Reach For It
-Screen Protector
-Protected
-Dashing Deadeye
-Human Joystick
-Recuperation
-Second Wind
-Fastbreak
-Leap Frog
E Tier
-Gusty Scrambler
-Safety Valve
-Balance Beam
-Sleight of Hand
-Grab-N-Go
-Tight Out
-Energizer
-NO-Look Deadeye
-Backlash
F Tier
-Lofting Deadeye
-Redzone Deadeye
-Pocket Deadeye
-Clutch
-Homer
-Closer
-Comeback
-All Pass Blocking OL (exc EP+SP+PU)
-Indoor Baller
-Persistent
-Agile Extender
-Anchored Extender
-Conductor
Defense Tier List
S Tier
-Film Study
-Under Pressure
-Medium Route KO
-Deep Route KO
-Short Route KO
-Inside Shade
-Outside Shade
-One Step Ahead
-Edge Threat Elite
A Tier
-Lurker (On LBs)
-Inside Stuff
-Double or Nothing
-Edge Threat
-Pick Artist
-Deep Out Zone KO
-Mid Zone KO
-Acrobat
-Tackling Supreme
-Tip Drill
B Tier
-Flat Zone KO
-Secure Tackler
-Bench Press
-Deflator
-Crusher
-Enforcer
-Strip Specialist
-Defensive Rally
C Tier
-Reach Elite
-EI Toro
-Deep In Zone KO
-No Outsiders
-Run Stopper
-Out My Way
-Stonewall
-Goal Line Stuff
-Speedster
-Unpredictable
-Unfakeable
D Tier
-Chuck Out
-Mr. Big Stop
-BOGO
-Instant Rebate
-On The Ball
F Tier
-Lurker (on DBs)
-Ripper
-Spinner
-Swim Club
-Adrenaline Rush
-Extra Credit
-Outmatched
-Second Wind
-Recuperation
-Demoralizer
How You Should Look To Deploy Them in Madden 23
Offense
So what are we running on offense, and we're being a risk taker, we're not running Fearless on Tom Brady right, we're not doing it, because we got Megatron with route tech for one specific route or like, it's a couple different routes battery route Tech on that we can't use with short in or anything else, Herman Moore, now this is the one card that we could potentially take off short out Elite, because like we have a backup Deebo Samuel with short on Elite for zero, if you remember what we said about short out Elite, we need it to beat press man right, you streak against press man and then it wins after it beats the Press, so short out, so we just did it on him because we could save the 2 AP, we might go back to Fearless on Brady, but we had to take off the 2 AP probably on Zach Martin and Creed Humphrey to get rid of that, we don't want to get rid of the route Tech on that, so that's where we’re currently sitting is, it's 4 AP dad Fearless time Brady, it's so expensive and fearless which should be just like built in to a lot of these cards, on Nick Mangold, he's get he gets two free abilities and then secure protector, we don't really care about the two secure protector, nasty, we put nasty streak on my guards because we do go against dollar quite a bit, okay, dollar is the main defense we do run against and so we can run like 01 trap we can run the ball a little bit better with these guys here, we have secure protector and then free identifier and Creed Humphrey because secure protector will help neutralize any inside stuffs we run against so that's why we put it on Creed, and then secure protector out there and Anthony Munoz, so tackles the security protector guards with nasty streak center with identifier and secure protective, otherwise, this is short and then free medium out for any Corner routes, but it's free so, we wouldn't do it otherwise, we do have honorary lineman on Jim Taylor, we can sell them in that tight end if we're like in a two tight end set tasty Mill is free short and short is the best ability and tight ends so and then William period's Return Man as a fullback, so we got like two like big Power backs here Perry and Dickerson, we give the ball to in any sort of like runs up the middle.
Defense
We're currently running deep out and pick artist because we run a cover four scheme, we don't want to do the man coverage, we think man coverage is brainless, we have more fun adjusting zones and trying to predict where they're going and trying to do like a Justin based defense and then using my brains out, versus like man coverage was just like will randomly get you picks, and obviously, you have to adjust man coverage time to time because most good players like almost every single offense in the game right now, we would say 100 of the good offenses in the game right now have routes to beat man, if you don't you're not going to win games, and so make sure you have routes that's why everybody's in tight they're in Bunch, because those are the best man being routes in the game and plus they can pick up a blitz too, they can run the ball a little bit out of tight with the 01 trap, but anyways, we're running zone because we just think it's more fun to play and we want to be a little off meta on my offense, we're running the spread ebook on uh the D, on defense, definitely do that we're updating it, tonight there will be spread ebook updates please join the membership we just put out a mutt exploit also for Members Only, so we got mid Zone and deep Zone knockout on Megatron, the mid zones are our safeties, because people like to seam shot us they like to throw the ball immediately, and then so the mid Zone will help us react and then knock it out potentially in the seam shots, these are pick artists and deep outs on my Corners, we do currently have a inside stuff and two double or nothings on Smith and sap, we'll get rid of the double or nothings we haven't seen a whole lot of production out of them and then add one more mid Zone probably either on Sherman or Woodson probably on Sherman depends on where our opponent likes to attack, but we put it on one corner and then we can flip them if we like if we see them going more right or left, we got pick artists on Carmichael, but he's been okay we think, we might go to a free pick artist with either Cromartie when he gets reduxed or just go back and grab Night Train Lane, ask for my defensive line, we're just using free abilities everywhere else, speedsters free El Toro on Reggie, we got Speedster on camera weight free, deflator on Watt and then unpredictable on Jason Taylor, we do have a 3 4 or Blitz again against five wide, this is a membership only, please join the member if you want that, we got free lurk on nickey, Bobby Wagner's here with the free enforcer for kickoffs, we have Sean Taylor, he's a user with free Crusher also great on kickoffs, Bo Jackson's, our main user with pick artist for free best user in the game.
Special Teams
And then special teams, we got Legend punter Cunningham and Justin Tucker, we think that is that did we get that Justin Tucker that might be a n-a-t anyways.
Specialists
Specialists, Dickerson, CDMA slot Deebo like we talked about the free short Auto lead that we can sub in if we've seen press man, and then we rotate our defensive line, we rotate between these four and bass nickel, the other AP with Bruce Smith, those would be my big nickel defense here's our users and there's my slot Corner Carmichael to play the flats for us.
Strategy
Strategy items, we're running wrecking ball for extra Dickerson, because that's fun and then d-line, because we have abilities on the DBS, we decided the extra attribute out the D line for the extra power move finesse move block chaining impact block Etc, team Affinity Steelers, we even have the gold Steelers, we don't, we think we just quick sold it because we're not running a Steelers theme team running Legends our playbooks visuals basic Steelers because we like it straight up.
