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where is goalie ability bans? 🤔

Community vote would've been the best way to decide these right?

Wait if all these are banned, how aren't second wind and ankle breaker? 🤔 They seem pretty broken to me, not even saying they're too good but they lead to very inconsistent situations...

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Great ability bans!

Ban them all. The most competetive and fun way to play the game.

3x pfw meta coming🐐

Red Sponge is op. It sucks shots in open net situtations on the glove. Bad positioning makes you save open goals. Being bad should not be rewarded.

Everything I have previously said about the Xfactors in EASHL still stand: they don’t work as intended in EASHL. They were added to the game to differentiate superstar players in other game modes. Having them in competitive 6v6 makes absolutely zero sense.

How do you fight against a red Warrior on defense? 😆 This is the attacker meta, red abilities should all be banned, many can unlock Quick Release/Second wind/1T, before the season..

Prefer leaving Wheels or elite edges out of this list. Otherwise very good changes

"Ban them all" isn't very constructive in my opinion. It can be your genuine opinion, but we would love to hear the thoughts behind it. The plan is not to ban them all, so it would be more helpful to discuss which X-Factors drive you mad and why.

Yeah. Ankle Breaker should’ve definitely been on the list. Way too much rng.

I guess this is more of a bug fix than a nerf, the ability still gives a considerable stamina boost (even if it is only a one time thing now) I think it can be directly compared to wheels tbh - when it activates, you get a boost in stamina which equals a boost in speed in practice. It's also a very odd game mechanic, where you're incentivised to actually use all your energy when you're already low on energy? So to gain energy you can just use more energy lol. It's just not realistic in the slightest. (And ankle breaker imo is just stupid, because it makes defenders fall over for no reason)

How is it OP actually? It boosts your cover speed and ability to make controlled save. So without Sponge you would still make those saves only difference being that you have bigger chance of giving rebounds. I do agree that being bad shouldn't be rewarded and increasing handicap is a good thing, but IMO Sponge isn't even strongest X-Factor for goalies.

Ban them all

In ECL Elite Winter '24 there was average 5,11 goals per game. In ECL Elite Spring '24 this average was 4,78 goals per game. In ECL Elite Winter '25 there was average 5,78 goals per game. In ECL Elite Spring '25 this average was 5,53 goals per game. In Krike Cup (on-going) there are 9 Elite teams who have scored average 6,25 goals per game in a pretty serious 1 350 € buy-in tournament. So goal scoring is actually going up every version and players even have new X-Factor "Quick Release" that reduces goalies reactions by maximum of 50 %.

Ban all X-FACTORS! Without the X-Factors , the game looks more like reality and offers a balanced experience, it approaches reality and better competitiveness.

It's the most easy way to have a fair, equal and objective competition, for players and goalies

Ban them all

Ban all red abilities

Ben them all

Ban all

Ban them all

Rip goons

Ban them all

Please keep the constructive feedback coming. If there is a strong consensus that something else must be blocked, it can be reviewed.

Apparently Second Wind just got nerfed (or rather it’s now working as it was always intented to work). https://www.ea.com/games/nhl/nhl-26/news/nhl-26-update-notes-3 Some of them seem a bit overpowered. But then again there was no bans to shooting perks either so maybe it evens out.