ECL ’26: Winter - Ability & Build Bans Update

No ban on Sponge? Aight 🤣

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Just bought ability yesterday for playoffs and u ban it now👍👍👍👍

Mid-season bans 😎

vart är sponge ban då?

"Second Wing" 

Edited 1 hour ago by iSvamp

Wtf? 👎👎👎 new bans midseason is ridiculous

So we nerfing me 😭😱😕

If you have to make this change in the middle of the season why wont you ban all elite abilities then to make it fair? There is absolutely no point just banning certain abilities. 
 

Elite stick em up is also a pay to win perk? Elite backhand is very broken. Elite sponge the same.

You can make a glitch goal with elite backhand shooting from the boards. Goalie goes to some weird animation..

So while your at it. Ban all the elite perks from skaters and goalies!

 

Edited 1 hour ago by imosi

not banning sponge xddddd is this a joke

That's an awful decision

2 minuter sedan, imosi säger:

Why wont you ban all elite abilities then? 
 

Elite stick em up is also a pay to win perk? Elite backhand is very broken. Elite sponge the same.

You can make a glitch goal with elite backhand shooting from the boards. Goalie goes to some weird animation..

 

This time at least they did not write that they "listened to the community" and turn it into a lie.
Now they just did what they wanted without asking anyone.
You have to give them that. This was the most honest post in years!

4 minuuttia sitten, imosi kirjoitti:

Why wont you ban all elite abilities then? 
 

Elite stick em up is also a pay to win perk? Elite backhand is very broken. Elite sponge the same.

You can make a glitch goal with elite backhand shooting from the boards. Goalie goes to some weird animation..

 

100%.

By this same logic there are Elite perks from season 1 (like Stick Em Up for example) that are/were also ”locked behind a paywall” if you didn’t grind the Battle Pass for them.

I’m confused about the community response. Having to pay 40€ for abilities is insane. 

Big fail from gamer to ban something mid season and 90 mins before we start playoffs 👎

2 minuuttia sitten, tbnantti kirjoitti:

I’m confused about the community response. Having to pay 40€ for abilities is insane. 

kympin+kukaan ei pakota ostaan👍

Just now, 1mmu9 said:

kympin+kukaan ei pakota ostaan👍

It was ~40€ last I checked. Of course you’re not forced to buy anything or even add attribute points to your player but if superior abilities are locked behind a paywall the game becomes pay to win. 

5 minutes ago, fisu123 said:

Big fail from gamer to ban something mid season and 90 mins before we start playoffs 👎

No i dont think so 

Just ban everything...

But now!!!  🍿🍿🍿🍿time!

1 minuutti sitten, tbnantti kirjoitti:

It was ~40€ last I checked. Of course you’re not forced to buy anything or even add attribute points to your player but if superior abilities are locked behind a paywall the game becomes pay to win. 

They are in chel store 10€/ability

Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game.
So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors.

But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs.

3 minuter sedan, tbnantti säger:

It was ~40€ last I checked. Of course you’re not forced to buy anything or even add attribute points to your player but if superior abilities are locked behind a paywall the game becomes pay to win. 

Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game.
So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors.

But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs.

Forgot to Quote Antti

2 minutes ago, 1mmu9 said:

They are in chel store 10€/ability

Must have missed it. 10€ per ability is even more insane. 

2 minutes ago, iSvamp said:

Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game.
So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors.

But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs.

Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game.
So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors.

But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs.

Sure, everyone had time to unlock the abilities but that means they have had to not play password games and play the game enough to do so. Why would people need to be punished for not doing so? In what world does it competitively make sense you have to spend money to become better in the game?

I think it would be better to ban them all at this point as well (which is the case for next season if I’m reading the post correctly).

10 minuter sedan, tbnantti säger:

Must have missed it. 10€ per ability is even more insane. 

Sure, everyone had time to unlock the abilities but that means they have had to not play password games and play the game enough to do so. Why would people need to be punished for not doing so? In what world does it competitively make sense you have to spend money to become better in the game?

I think it would be better to ban them all at this point as well (which is the case for next season if I’m reading the post correctly).

Why are you flipping the argument the wrong way? Why should everyone who actually put time and effort into the game and their season be punished just because you did not?
I have not seen anyone complain that another player has Elite Quick Pick just because they do not have it themselves. If you really wanted it, you had the same chance to unlock it as everyone else.
If players did not care about getting it during the whole regular season, why should it suddenly become unfair now only because the “lazy” player now wants to be “smart”?

If you want it now, you can buy it. If you wanted it before, you could get it for free.

Just ban elite sponge also then ffs, simple as that...

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34 minuuttia sitten, pakjiz kirjoitti:

100%.

By this same logic there are Elite perks from season 1 (like Stick Em Up for example) that are/were also ”locked behind a paywall” if you didn’t grind the Battle Pass for them.

Yeah even these selections are not making any sense. If i remember correctly, season 1 battle pass abilities were Stick em Up, Sponge, Post to Post maybe something else also(?)

And like Svamp said above, AGAIN doing decisions without asking any opinions from community. 

And especially this timing?? LA knew since release of NHL 26 that there is abilities behind paywall/grind, so they could do this before season? No... Midway of the regular season? No... 1-2h before teams start their playoffs. 💀

10 minutes ago, iSvamp said:

Why are you flipping the argument the wrong way? Why should everyone who actually put time and effort into the game and their season be punished just because you did not?
I have not seen anyone complain that another player has Elite Quick Pick just because they do not have it themselves. If you really wanted it, you had the same chance to unlock it as everyone else.
If players did not care about getting it during the whole regular season, why should it suddenly become unfair now only because the “lazy” player now wants to be “smart”?

If you want it now, you can buy it. If you wanted it before, you could get it for free.

Weren’t the previous season’s XFs granted to everyone after the season?

And it’s not me, I don’t care either way. I’m just confused about the community response as I would have assumed everyone would have been against pay to win. But I guess HUT has fried our brains in that aspect. 😅

u cant ban before a playoff wtf is this?

Amateur hour. Releasing this update two hours before playoffs starts... fck me sideways, cause I paid the other day for the quick pick trait. Back to black... truly a game changer.

7 minuter sedan, tbnantti säger:

Weren’t the previous season’s XFs granted to everyone after the season?

And it’s not me, I don’t care either way. I’m just confused about the community response as I would have assumed everyone would have been against pay to win. But I guess HUT has fried our brains in that aspect. 😅

The reactions are probably because nobody asked for this, but it’s happening anyway. If they had listened to the community, they would have banned everything before the season started. People have adapted their playstyles based on perks. There are even teams that actively “hunt” X-factors to trigger during their attacks.

I also think it’s reasonable that some things get removed. I recently played another tournament without them and it was actually pretty fun.

But there is no valid argument that it’s “pay-to-win”, because everyone could get these things for free. And there are still items in the game right now that were on the Season Pass in Season 1 as well.

And I remember, for example, Furyan saying “make the choices before the season starts”, and those choices were made. But now they are changing things right before playoffs start, and it affects teams. It’s honestly pretty clumsy.