Specialties
From Hattrick
Player Specialties are special attributes that that differentiate some players in Hattrick from other players. A player may have only one specialty, and no more. All specialties, except regainer, may result in a special event during a match, some giving a scoring chance and some giving improved performance due to weather. Some of the events that lead to a scoring chance are influenced by opposition players, sometimes leading to "game-planning" (as in using a technical player against a head defender, or matching a quick defender against a quick attacker). Each special event can only appear once in a match, but be aware that there are different events due to the same specialty (for example quick-passing and quick-scoren) It can also happen that an event appears once as its scored from and once at his missed form in a match.
You can increase the chance on special events by using the tactic Play creatively in a match.
List of Specialties
Head- gives you increased scoring opportunities in corners.
Powerful- players perform better in bad weather and worse in good weather. Powerful players are also good at pressing.
Quick- players can outrun the opposing defenders.
Unpredictable- can create chances by sheer unpredictability of their passes.
Technical- players perform better in good weather and worse in bad weather. Technical players have also a Bonus for their Passing skill when playing as a Defensive Forward.
Rare Specialties
Some rare specialties also exist, in addition to the 5 well-known specialties. Players with 'rare' specialties are harder to find. Regainer was the first new rare specialty to appear.
Support- ?
Specialties by position
Goalkeeper
- Unpredictable (only with high skill in passing)
- A rare positive event chance may occur with conversion rate higher than 50%.
- Powerful (only with high skill in defending)
- It's not proved, but in theory they might perform better in 1/3 of all rain matches.
Central Defender
- Powerful
- Improves pressing tactic.
- - In the sun: lose more stamina in the sun (lose also some Scoring but the negative effect happens only 1/6 of all sun matches)^ 1.
- - In the rain: gain some Scoring (not really important), Defending and Playmaking (the positive effect from weather happens 1/3 of all rain matches).
- Head
- Improves chance of scoring on a set pieces.
- Can have negative effect from Technical wingers and forwards.
- Each player adds about 7% average chance for a header event.
- Each player reduces about 5% average chance for opponent a header event.
- Support
- When support players will try to help teammates that are close by on the field, they can randomly increase (or rarely decrease) central defence's rate (this makes the teammates perform better if successful, but if not successful it can cause a drop in organization).
- Technical
- Technical defenders are only affected when played offensive, thus making use of their playmaking ability. It has no effect on their defending abilities.
- Unpredictable (only with high passing level and assuming has sufficient high defending to eliminate negative effects (the negative event being converted for Defenders is ~1/99 matches)
- Chance can be create only with good passing and the positive event for Defenders chance of happening is about 1/3 matches and the conversion rate for this event is more than 50%.
- Quick (only recommend to stop a quick event from wingers and forwards)
- The negative effect for defenders from weather happens about 1 time every 5 matches:
- - In the rain: lose some Scoring and Defending (the negative effect from weather happens 1/3 of all rain matches).
- - In the sun: lose some Defending (not recommended) (the negative effect from weather happens 1/6 of all sun matches).
Wing Back
Same rules as Defenders with little changes in event odds.
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- Head
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- Powerful
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- Quick
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- Unpredictable
Sitting Midfielder
Same rules as Inner Midfielder unless he is a powerful one.
Powerful defensive Inner Midfielder can concentrate on breaking up attacks and winning the ball. If he succeeds in pressing, the opponent's attack breaks down. Man Marking Powerful players will have an advantage when performing man marking.
Inner Midfielder
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- Head
- Improves chance of scoring on a set pieces.
- Can have negative effect from Technical wingers and forwards.
- Each player adds about 7% average chance for a header event.
- Each player reduces about 5% average chance for opponent a header event.
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- Powerful
- (Player with high Defence) improves pressing tactic.
- In the rain: gain some Scoring (not really important), Defending and Playmaking (the positive effect from weather happens 1/3 of all rain matches); lose more stamina in the sun and that can have a really negative effect.
- In the sun: lose some Scoring (not really important) (the negative effect from weather happens 1/6 of all sun matches).
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- Technical
- In the sun: gain some Scoring (not really important) and Playmaking (the positive effect from weather happens 1/3 of all sun matches).
- In the rain: lose some Scoring (not really important) and Playmaking (the negative effect from weather happens 1/3 of all rain matches).
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- Unpredictable (Player with low defending can give a chance to the opponent (the negative event is converted ~1/40 matches)
- A chance can be created only by player with high passing and the positive event for IMs happens about 1 time every 3 matches and the conversion rate for this event is more than 50%.
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- Quick (only recommend to stop a quick event from wingers and forwards)
- The negative effect for IMs from weather happens about 1 time every 5 matches:
- - In the rain: lose some Scoring (not really important) and Defending (happens 1/3 of all rain matches).
- - In the sun: lose some Defending (happens 1/6 of all sun matches).
Winger
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- Quick
- Can create quick event (the positive effect for WIs chance of happening is ~1/6 matches and the conversion rate for this event is less than 2/3).
- - In the rain: lose some Scoring (not really important) and Defending (the negative effect for WIs from weather is ~1/5 matches).
- - In sun: lose some Defending (the negative effect from weather happens 1/3 of all rain matches).
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- Head
- Improves chance of scoring on a set pieces.
- Can have a positive effect from winger event.
- Each player adds about 7% average chance for a header event.
- Each player reduces about 5% average chance for opponent a header event.
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- Unpredictable
- Player with high passing can create chance (the positive event for WIs chance of happening is ~1/18 matches and the conversion rate for this event is less than 50%).
- Note: Recommended because player with low defending don't give a chance to opponent!
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- Technical
- Create chances if an opposing defender or inner midfielder is a head specialist.
- - In the sun: gain some Scoring (not really important) and Playmaking.
- - In the rain: lose some Scoring (not really important) and Playmaking (the negative effect from weather happens 1/6 of all sun matches).
- Note: The effect on playmaking in the sun and rain is most important when wingers are played towards the middle, thus making more use of their playmaking skill.
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- Powerful (the positive effect is not really important)
- Improves pressing tactic, but loses more stamina in the sun (can have a very negative effect).
- - In the rain: gain a little Scoring ad some Defending and Playmaking (the positive effect from weather happens 1/3 of all rain matches).
- - In the sun: lose a little Scoring (the negative effect from weather happens 1/6 of all sun matches).
Forward
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- Quick
- Can create quick event positive effect for Forwards chance of happening is 1/6 matches and the conversion rate for this event is more than 80%).
- In the rain: lose some Defending (not really important) and Scoring (the negative effect from weather happens 1/3 of all rain matches).
- In the sun: lose some Defending (not really important) (the negative effect from weather happens 1/6 of all sun matches).
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- Head
- Improves chance of scoring on a set pieces.
- Can have a positive effect from winger event.
- Each player adds about 7% average chance for a header event.
- Each player reduces about 5% average chance for opponent a header event.
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- Unpredictable
- Player with high passing can create chance.
- Can use scoring skill to intercept the ball.
- Unpredictability itself may also create unlikely scoring opportunities
- No negative event is converted.
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- Technical
- Can create chances if an opposing defender or inner midfielder is a head specialist.
- - In the sun: gain some Scoring and Playmaking.
- - In the rain: lose some Scoring and Playmaking.
- Note: see also defensive forward
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- Powerful
- Size matters. If you have a big forward playing Normal, they can put their bodies in the right place, forcing a second chance to shoot and score after a normal chance for your team has been missed (keep in mind that this physical play could result in yellow cards and for that reason, if your player has already been carded, he will tread more carefully in these situations). Powerful Forwards need playmaking to get a Powerful Event (Playmaking of player VS Defending of central defenders and Scoring of your player VS Goalkeeping of the keeper).
- - In the rain Powerful forwards sometimes gain scoring skill or playmaking skill (only important when played defensive)
- - In the sun they sometimes lose scoring skill.
See Also
HTs_on_Global/Player_Speciality
Notes
^ All statistics: according to www.hattristics.org/ hattristics
