FIFA 22 Tips, Tricks with 7 Things to Know Before You Play

FIFA 22, is a football simulation game released globally for all consoles last year in October. It is the 29th version of the video game by Electronic Arts, an American video game company and its headquarters are in the Redwood City of California.The FIFA 22 video game has been released on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Xbox series, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. For the second consecutive year, Kylian Mbappé is the cover athlete for this video game.

The 7 things you should keep in mind before you play FIFA 22

This new version of FIFA has been released with various compelling features and these features will intrigue the fans of this game. Some of the top features are listed below:

  • HyperMotion Technology

It is one of the most advanced technologies in the video games industry. The HyperMotion technology captures motion data from real-life players playing a real football game on the ground. These real players play the game wearing motion-capture suits to record their movements on the field such as aerial duels, tackles, and on-ball actions. All these actions are recorded and used in the machine learning algorithm of this game to process over 8.7 million frames of match capture for realistic animations and graphics.

  • Career Mode

Career mode allows the players to play the game as a player or a manager. Players can also create and design clubs with customized kits and stadiums. This game has a career mode option so that players can design their career plans in the game by collecting experience points.

  • Skipping the Welcome to FIFA story

FIFA 22


The FIFA 22 starts with a welcome story where a few top players like David Beckham and Eric Cantona are seen crossing paths with the player you created on the streets of Paris. This welcome story part of the game seems non-skippable but you can skip it easily. The kickabout in the streets can be paused and can be exited to the main menu easily.

  • Selecting Players

When it comes to selecting players, you should consider the ones with the best rating and highest potential. Making your club is also an option to enjoy the game but selecting the established players is one easy and most used option. See below the list of top ten potential players with the best ratings:

  • Kylian Mbappe (PSG)
  • Kai Havertz (Chelsea)
  • Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG)
  • Jadon Sancho (Manchester United)
  • Erling Haaland (Dortmund)
  • Matthijs de Ligt (Piemonte Calcio)
  • Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
  • Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid)
  • Phil Foden (Manchester City)
  • Pedri (Barcelona)
  • No More BPM

The Bronze Pack Method, also known as BPM is no more effective in FIFA 22. This decision of FIFA was in the news and created chaos among the lovers of this game. Players can now only buy 750-coin premium packs.

Players can sell the players that are priced above 200 coins in the market at a comparable price and keep the ones under 200 coins in their club to generate more profits in the long run.

  • Ultimate Team

Ultimate Team

The Ultimate Team is a game mode in FIFA 22. In this mode, the players can create a team to play online and offline games. Players can win cards like FUT Heroes to add to the team. The FUT card showcases multiple players with their ratings and attributes. The players included in the FUT card are Mario Gómez, Tim Cahill, Diego Milito, Jorge Campos, Fernando Morientes, Sami Al-Jaber, Robbie Keane, Abedi Pelé, Clint Dempsey, Lars Ricken, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Antonio Di Natale, Iván Córdoba, Freddie Ljungberg, Jürgen Kohler, Jerzy Dudek, Aleksandr Mostovoi, David Ginola, and Joe Cole.

  • Player Traits

The qualities which a player possesses during the game are called player traits. Every trait a player showcases its functionality and control. These traits are of 4 types, namely, Standard, CPU AI, Career mode, and VOLTA Football traits. There are various types of shots associated with these traits such as throw-ins, passing skills, dribbling skills, and player health.

Tips and Tricks to play FIFA 22

Now, let us look at some tips and tricks to play this game efficiently, these tips and tricks are useful for both new and seasoned players. These tricks include playing styles and shortcuts. Please see below some of these most useful tricks to play FIFA 22:

Some basic moves

The below-shared moves are FIFA 22’s 1-star skill moves

1-STAR SKILL MOVESFor Bridge

PlayStation – Tap R1 (x2)

Xbox – Tap RB (x2)

Directional Nutmeg

PlayStation – Hold L1+R1+Flick RS

Xbox – Hold LB+RB+Flick RS

Flick Up

PlayStation – Hold L1+Click R3 / Xbox – Hold LT+Click RS

Open Up Fake Shot

PlayStation – Hold L1+Tap Square then Tap X and move LS top left/right

Xbox – Hold LB+Tap X then Tap A and move LS top left/right

Standing Ball Juggle

PlayStation – Hold L1+Tap R3

Xbox – Hold LB+Tap R3

Below are the FIFA 22’s 2-star skill moves:

2-STAR SKILL MOVESBall Roll

PlayStation: Hold RS right/left / Xbox: Hold RS right/left

Body Feint

PlayStation: Flick RS right/left / Xbox: Flick RS right/left

Drag Back

PlayStation: L1+R1+LS flick down / Xbox: LB+RB+LS flick down

Feint Forward and Turn

PlayStation: Flick RS down (x2) / Xbox Flick RS down (x2)

Reverse Stepover

PlayStation: Roll RS right/left to front / Xbox: Roll RS right/left to front

Stepover

PlayStation: Roll RS front to right/left / Xbox: Roll RS front to right/left

There are 5 categories of skill movements in FIFA 22. For every type of player, there are different types of skill movements. The first-star players can use some of these player movements from these categories but five-star players can use all of these movements.

Detailed understanding of the skill moves in FIFA 22

There are 4 new skills added to the FIFA 22 video game by EA Sports. These skills require four-star players to use them. These skills are:

Scoop Turn Flake

This move has been part of previous versions for a long time, but this time it is added with some changes.

It is operated by tapping shoot then pass then holding LS in the opposite direction after a forward Scoop Turn.

Four-Touch Turn

It is a quick spin to get out of the tricky situations and is operated by holding L2/LT down while flicking back on the right stick twice from your face direction.

Skilled Bridge

In the previous versions, this skill was available for the first-star players but in the FIFA 22 version, it is limited to the four-star players and above.

To operate it hold down L2/LT and double-tap R1/RT to use this skill.

First-Time Skill

It is the skill movement for five-star players only. In this movement, they can perform 360 spins on the spot to rush the defenders.

This skill movement can be operated by holding down L1+R1/LT+RT to complete this skill.

These are all the skills and basic things to keep in mind while playing the new FIFA 22 video game by EA Sports. You can expect a level up and more entertainment in the game. So, go and try this on your own.