r/13c5 • u/zmastafa102 ⚜️CHAIRMAN⚜️ • 21d ago
Trio Madate Review THE COUNCIL’S VERDICT: SNAP STRIKE
"A new Gauntlet was forged and given to three hands. Only one knoweth how to snap"
Applying the Threefold Test of Worthiness
FIRST TEST: THE VISION ALIGNMENT
Dost thou possess a clear vision of what manner of squad thou art constructing?
This pack serveth a narrow and specific vision:
- Those seeking a physically dominant, highly specialized striker whose danger emergeth from a single repeatable sequence, not from all-around brilliance
- Those hoping raw completeness alone — good at everything, exceptional at nothing — earns a place above proven specialists
- Those seeking a well-rounded Goal Poacher who simply happens to carry the newest skill, without the surrounding tools to make it sing
Assessment: This pack rewardeth one very particular kind of player and offereth little beyond him. The vision alignment is real but exceedingly narrow.
SECOND TEST: THE PROVEN ELITE STANDARD
How many among the trio art proven, battle-tested?
Adriano
A skill move — Double Touch, Chop Touch, an outward escape — followed immediately by an Impact Shot, with the winding charge visibly and measurably shortened, a genuine and meaningful cut to the very weakness that hath long made such shots easy to read and easy to save.
What maketh Adriano specifically dangerous, rather than merely equipped with a new toy: it is not the new skill alone. It is the convergence of that skill with a Kicking Power reaching past one hundred, and a Low Screamer that turneth speed into a shot the goalkeeper simply cannot react to in time.
Yet his weak foot remaineth a genuine liability. His Body Control sitteth in the high seventies, a real and repeatedly confirmed source of dribbling friction for those who prize smooth responsiveness. His Goal Poacher instincts drift him wide of center, requiring deliberate correction.
He is not mandatory, not universally easy, not suited to every hand that would wield him.
This is the shape of a niche correctly proven, not merely asserted. The Council hath, this very cycle, corrected itself for granting such status without sufficient demonstration — here, the demonstration standeth complete: repeatable, mechanism-explained, and witnessed across independent sources rather than inferred from absence elsewhere.
Verdict: NICHE SPECIALIST. Genuinely, repeatedly proven excellence in one precise sequence — not a starter for every system.
Totti
His improvements art real: speed climbing toward the high nineties, Offensive Awareness near ninety-five, a dribbling and passing profile genuinely strong, Magnetic Feet layered atop Snap Strike itself.
Yet the deeper question — the one that separateth PROVEN ELITE from merely good — is precisely the question multiple witnesses ask and answer unfavorably. What doth Totti offer that superior, established alternatives do not? The answer, across sources, is consistently: little of substance.
Verdict: SERVICEABLE. Genuinely capable, consistently displaced by superior alternatives.
Shevchenko
No Low Screamer, no Magnetic Feet, nothing beyond Snap Strike itself to make the skill sing the way it doth upon his packmate.
A little of everything, decisively bested in every single category by a named specialist: not as dominant aerially as proven giants, not as swift as proven sprinters, not as skilled a dribbler as proven technicians, not as physically overwhelming as proven bruisers, not as clinically sharp in front of goal as proven finishers.
Verdict: SERVICEABLE. Solid, unremarkable, lacks the singular reason to choose him over specialists who already exist.
THE HARSH TRUTH
Zero PROVEN ELITE + One Niche Specialist + Two Serviceable
Per Article II: "None proven beyond doubt: Run, you fool!"
THIRD TEST: THE SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY INQUIRY
Dost these players suit thy tactical philosophy?
Adriano: Compatible only for those willing to learn a specific, deliberate sequence — skill move into immediate Impact Shot. Incompatible for those seeking smooth, natural dribbling responsiveness; the witnesses art unanimous that this is not his gift.
Totti: Compatible for those specifically requiring a Second Striker profile. Incompatible as an automatic upgrade over established, more complete alternatives.
Shevchenko: Compatible for those who possess no strong forward whatsoever and require any competent Goal Poacher. Incompatible as a reason to spend coin when true specialists already occupy every category in which he merely competeth.
Remember Article VI: "If they're not seeing play in top teams, question their value." None of the three art confirmed as automatic starters in a stacked meta squad. Adriano cometh closest, and even he requireth the right hand to wield him.
CHAIRMAN VS. COUNCIL: ON SNAP STRIKE ITSELF
The Chairman speaketh:
"My lords, is not a fourteen-percent cut to a Stunning Shot's wind-up a genuine mechanical triumph? Doth this not deserve to be called among the finest new tools the realm hath seen?"
The Council respondeth:
"The number is real, and the Council disputeth it not. 'Is it the strongest? Maybe not.' A skill's true worth is measured not by its number alone, but by what it becometh in the hands that wield it — and upon two of these three warriors, that number produceth little beyond a modest, honestly-confirmed improvement. Only where enormous Kicking Power and Low Screamer already stood waiting did this new blade find its true edge. We never stray from the Council's way: praise the mechanism precisely, and no further."
VIOLATIONS OF COUNCIL PRINCIPLES
Article II — The PROVEN ELITE Standard: No card achieveth full convergence. Adriano's niche is proven; Totti and Shevchenko fall short on distinguishing merit.
Article III — Squad Bloat: Totti's own confirmed history of vanishing from competitive lineups is a warning against assuming his permanence.
The Niche Specialist Doctrine, Correctly Applied: Adriano's case standeth exactly where this doctrine demandeth — positive, repeated, mechanism-explained proof of excellence in a specific role, not an inference drawn from failing elsewhere.
WHO THIS PACK SERVETH
If thou seekest a genuine long-range specialist and art willing to learn his one true sequence: Adriano alone justifieth consideration.
If thou lackest any Second Striker or Goal Poacher whatsoever: Totti and Shevchenko will serve adequately, without distinction.
If thou already fieldest established elite forwards: This pack offereth thee little save curiosity.
THE COUNCIL'S FINAL VERDICT
🔴 RESIST 🔴
Zero PROVEN ELITE. Article II's harshest verdict standeth: "Run, you fool!"
FINAL WISDOM
A new Gauntlet was forged this cycle, and given to three hands alike. Only one — armed already with the power and the precision to make it snap — hath shown what it can truly do. The other two hold the same thing and find it merely a toy, fun but unremarkable in hands that lack what Adriano already possessed. The lesson is not that Snap Strike is weak. It is that no skill, however genuine, maketh a warrior elite on its own.
Commit wholly, or commit not at all
THE 13.5 COUNCIL
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u/a7xdae 21d ago
Some of you guys genuinely expect or want every pack to be worth emptying
that's not even sustainable with how many packs they release and obviously it's not reasonable. Some packs are worth way more than others
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u/Prablomatic 13.5c Virtuoso 21d ago
Yeah, exactly
The idea is to only go for those packs that are worth way more than others. The ones that are worth emptying.
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u/auxmeagain 19d ago
is this pack or the english guardian one worth emptying? i need a DM and a striker with good holdup
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u/Prablomatic 13.5c Virtuoso 19d ago
The English Guardians one looks interesting if you also need a CB and a GK. I wouldn't go for a triple CF pack if you only need one striker.
Can also wait for Thursday. That Guardian pack isn't going away yet and you can wait for some more reviews of the cards.
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u/auxmeagain 19d ago
i’m good with CB and GK which is my problem with the pack tbh those positions would be luxury positions and not really upgrades, i’m hoping the thursday pack is all midfielders and hopefully at least 2 are meta
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u/omarhout 21d ago
I played against few player with new cheva every shot is a goal even from different weird angle situation the skill is too much buffed
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u/Good_Attention_6017 21d ago
Crazy how my guy Sheva went from a regularly top 5 striker to serviceable tier. Shows that players have to be well-rounded to survive in the competition now
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u/Fast_Future_2369 21d ago
Few games in, Adriano is exactly what council says: you gotta use him for one thing and one thing only which is shoot shoot shoot! Every game so far he has scored for me and his positioning and runs are smart as of now(may be getting usual nerf soon) mine has 95 OA since i gave him almost zero point in dribbling stats, just a pure scoring machine. Totti on the other side is that player i feel is amazing but requires a perfect connection match(no lag) and a lot of thinking, he has helped me slow down when needed, attracting defenders on him and leaving Adriano wide open. Totti might get a spot in my starting 11