FIFA 18‘s single player Squad Battles are the big new addition to Ultimate Team this year, and players who invest a lot of time into the mode can expect to reap the rewards.
The new feature sees players going up against AI Ultimate Team squads, with a victory earning them points relative to their selected difficulty level. The more points, the higher the player’s ranking, with this ranking determining the rewards they’ll take home.
Each day four new AI squads are ready for players to take on, with these squads being recreations of existing teams within the game created by real players, and hand-picked by the FIFA community. These four squads are refreshed after 24 hours, which ensures that players can’t continuously grind the mode in order to earn more and more points — they’re instead limited to four matches per day, or eight matches on Saturday and Sunday when the rival team number is increased.
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After beating a team, players will see their ranking increase. This ranking places them in a specific percentile that will determine the rewards they’ll receive — for instance, players who rank in the top 1% of players would earn more than those who ranked within the top 50% of players. There are also major rewards for players who rank within the top 100 players, leading up to 100,000 coins along with 2 Ultimate Packs and 2 Rare Mega Packs, which each have a high chance of containing an expensive player or two.
The top tier of rewards is designated to Rank 1, the top player in the world. Ranks 1 – 100 each consist of individual players, with the Elite rankings reserved for those who fall within a percentage of players outside of the top 100. Take a look at the reward for each rank below:
Rank 1: 100,000 coins, 2 Ultimate Packs, 2 Rare Mega Packs,
Rank 2 – 10: 87,500 coins, 1 Ultimate Pack, 2 Rare Players Packs
Rank 11 – 20: 75,000 coins, 2 Rare Players Packs, 1 Jumbo Rare Players Packs,
Rank 21 – 50: 65,000 coins, 1 Jumbo Rare Players Pack, 2 Mega Packs
Rank 51 – 100: 65,000 coins, 2 Mega Packs, 1 Rare Players Pack
Elite 1 (1% of all players): 39,800 coins, 2 Mega Packs
Elite 2 (4% of all players): 25,200 coins, 2 Mega Packs,
Elite 3 (9% of all players): 20,800 coins, 1 Rare Gold Pack, 1 Premium Gold Players Pack, 1 Jumbo Premium Gold Pack
Gold 1 (15% of all players): 12,400 coins, 1 Premium Gold Players Pack, 2 Jumbo Premium Gold Pack, 12,400 Coins
Gold 2 (27% of all players): 13,000 coins, 1 Premium Gold Players Pack, 1 Jumbo Premium Gold Pack
Gold 3 (39% of all players): 12,000 coins, 2 Jumbo Premium Gold Pack
Silver 1 (51% of all players): 10,900 coins, 2 Premium Gold Packs, 1 Gold Pack
Silver 2 (64% of all players): 4,850 coins, 2 Gold Packs, 1 Premium Gold Pack
Silver 3 (79% of all players): 2,000 coins, 2 Gold Packs
Bronze 1 (86% of all players): 1,150 coins, 1 Silver Pack, 1 Gold Pack
Bronze 2 (93% of all players): 1 Ultimate Loan Player Reward Pack
Bronze 3 (100% of all players): 2 Premium Loan Player Reward Pack
