Best Chemistry Styles In EA Sports FC 24

Highlights

• Chemistry styles are crucial for players in FC 24, boosting stats to correct weaknesses or enhance strengths.
• Applying the right style can give a significant advantage in close games, especially for attacking Icons.
• Specific styles like Sniper for strikers or Shadow for defenders can maximize performance on the pitch.

Which chemistry style to apply to a player is a very important one. Playing without chemistry styles or playing with the wrong ones can give opponents a significant advantage in close games. Chemistry styles boost certain stats on a card by a small but meaningful amount. This can be used to correct weaknesses or exacerbate strengths in existing cards. It should be noted that different cards can get different boosts but the group (e.g. pace, defending) remains the same.

Although players will need to think on their feet and apply the chemistry style that best suits them and their players, some are generally suited to many of the cards on FC 24 and will be used far more than others. This topic covers all the bases for attacking, midfield, and defending options. Finally, it should be noted that players should be sure to have their cards on maximum chemistry to get the greatest possible boost to their stats.

1 Sniper

For The Big And Quick Strikers

The Sniper chemistry style is perfect for players who enjoy playing a big and strong striker at the top of the pitch. An example of this sort of player is Erling Haaland. With his pace already being high for a man his stature (89), players who prefer a target-man approach may wish to improve his shooting and physicality.

A Sniper improves the respective stats to 97 and 92 from 93 and 88. This will make Haaland even more dominant in the air and holding up the ball than he already was.

2 Sentinel

Perfect For Speedy Full-Backs

• + Defending
• + Physicality

Many of the full-backs that players will come across in FC 24 will already be incredibly quick in-game. Take Kyle Walker as an example. His pace of 90 (which feels faster in-game) is already enough to deal with most attacking threats coming his way.

By applying a Sentinel to him, players improve his defending and physicality to enable him to defend in a far better way. Specifically, Sentinel improves both jumping and heading accuracy, making a full-back a far more effective back-post defender.

3 Catalyst

Help Out The Tricky Wingers

The boost to pace and passing is an effective partnership for many different positions. It could be used to improve a top midfielder’s pace and passing from high to very high levels but the example here will be wingers. Some of the best dribblers in the game, such as Neymar, have comparatively poor pace and passing stats (86 and 85).

Catalyst will boost these two by a significant amount and in Neymar’s example, will improve his pace to 94. Alongside his dribbling, he will become a major threat on the left side of the attack.

4 Basic

Sometimes It’s Better To Do Nothing

• + Pace
• + Shooting
• + Passing
• + Dribbling
• + Defending
• + Physicality

Basic is the default chemistry style for all cards that players pack and earn. For most cards, the direction in which players should go is fairly clear, but some very well-rounded midfielder players present a conundrum. Basic improves all stats by around 1-3.

This can be very useful on cards like Valverde where every stat is already above 80. If players plan to use a card like this as a box-to-box midfield player then it is a viable option to do nothing.

5 Engine

Only Way To Increase Pace + Dribbling

• + Pace
• + Passing
• + Dribbling

The Engine Chemistry style should be used to give boosts to players that need a simultaneous pace and dribbling boost as Engine is the only style that will allow for that. This is particularly useful for attacking players such as those who already have high-level shooting like Harry Kane.

Improving his pace, passing, and dribbling by 4, 5, and 4, Kane becomes a much more versatile option for players with the ability to now play just in behind the striker.

6 Shadow

Default Option For Defenders

If players are ever in doubt over what Chemistry style to apply to their defenders, a Shadow is more often than not the best possible option. Quick players are a necessity on FC 24 and Shadow can be used to amplify existing pace or make up for a lack of it.

An example of the former type of player is Virgil Van Dijk, already one of the best gold cards in the game. With a shadow, his pace goes up to 86 and his defending up to 96.

7 Hunter

If In Doubt, Apply A Hunter

Much like the Shadow style and defenders, Hunter is the style most used for attackers in Ultimate Team. This is justified when players consider the boost that a card gets with the style and the fact that scoring is the most important part of the game.

A card like Messi has his shooting and pace upgraded from 80 and 87 to 88 and 93. In this case, the style made up for a lack of pace and shooting but it can be used just as effectively with a striker with better base stats in those two attributes.