Player Review
82 - SIF
There is something definitely strange here. I haven't felt this sensation for so much time, and maybe, we can say that 82 Wamangituka might probably be the best resemblance of what an OP, sweaty, hateful, mercilessly striker was back in the golden age of FIFA Ultimate Team. If you have played the old FIFAs and now you are trying out this card, you would probably have felt some rapid, instant flashback memories of what it was not only to play with those players, but to see them scoring against you. He is fast, he is lucky, he fights, he is a pain in the ass. I don't even know how to dribble, and he still manages to be so neat to use.
Even though his dribbling feels weird, he is very agile and once he gets his pace, there's very much nothing you can do about it. The great thing is that you can use this player in so many different ways, and as I said, even if you're not able to exploit his 5* skill moves, you can still have so much fun and tear down opponents. Yes, you can list passing and longshots as cons, but I feel like everything else just outperform the bad aspects of this player.
82 Wamangituka is a very simple striker, and behind that 82 rating, there probably lies the best (and worst) falsity. You know those bounces that players like R9 and Emmbappè gets people raging every weekend? Not gonna say Wamangituka does the same, but he just has some kind of magical trait that makes him so volatile and lucky but also extremely smart, as his positioning is so, so, so great. It really feels like he always is in the perfect place at the perfect time. His M/M workrates don't even matter. Even on 6 chem he is the reaper you don't want to face.
I was able to beat players with +2200 skill rating as he was scoring 3, 4, 5 goals per game, and I usually don't even go behind 2000. Actually, I just got 2007 for the first time ever playing these 8 games with Wamangituka, and scoring 25 goals. I really could not believe what was happening.
Obviously, use him as a striker.
Best positioning I have ever seen
Finishing is class
Very, very fast
Heading is good and can get easily past fullbacks
Longshots but I wouldn't even consider that as a con
Weird dribbling sometimes
Passing is ok, no Iniesta mumbo jumbos