PES Manager - The importance of your first badge

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When you start a new game, you get a 4*Star player draw with unlimited retries if you are not happy with the badge you get. How smooth your initial journey will be depends on your first badge. Since  you do not have the luxury of choosing your badges in your future draws, retry as many times until you find your preferred badge. Personally I prefer non-EPL players for a start due to the ugly grey jerseys. (Licensing issues)

Which one looks nicer on your homepage?

Positions - Always go for FW badges with COST 20 or 1200 as they will help you with the goal scoring and EPs in the early games. But some FWs like Pedro and (Iker) Muniain are wingers. They can’t help much at a start. But in the later game, you need them if you are playing 4-3-3.

Club - The player’s club is also an important factor during training as the multiplier (x1.5, x2) makes a huge difference when you are using the 5*Star Head Coach Badge. Eg. Will you be willing to sacrifice a 4*Star Barca badge to train another Barca star badge?

Team Skills – For a start, look out for attacking team skills like Full Steam Ahead (FW) or Inside Track (MF) which has a ‘B’ skill but nets you 10% increase in offence. Mid game you will still be able to upgrade them with a 4*Star Team and Coach Badge and be on your way to train up an Ultra Badge.

Special Skills – If you are planning to train an Ultra Badge early on, aim for a ‘B’ Team Skill and ‘C’ Special Skills Badge. Volley and headers are useless if you do not have another player with the Early Cross skill. I found Block Buster a ‘C’ skill useful for hitting long shots. Honda is the only 4*Star Player (not incl GK) I’ve seen with a useful ‘A’ Special Skill. He can activate his skill more than 4 times in a game early on which helps in goals and EP.

TEAM COST - This is the magic number when comes to playing your badges. Even if you have 11 4*Star Players, you will not be able to field all of them if your TEAM COST is only 100. Through the promotions, your TEAM COST will be raised and you can add in higher valued badges.

COST – 4*Star Badges start at 15 and end at 24. Although it is ideal that the COST be low so as to allow other badges to be in the team, it may be the case where a high COST player may not have a high parameter. Some NDG/NDS badges have a lower COST compared to their normal badges which is one of the benefits.

De Gea has a lower cost but much higher parameter and skills than Toni

 So finally after 30 mins of retries, hopefully you can finally get off to your first game.

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