Warrior General Games

Have a handful of points to spend on a build. Closing Speed is a candidate. But will pivot on how often it will be active.

Anyone have a clue what distance from the runner that Closing Speed triggers and turns off?

It turns on as long as you are more than 5 yards away from the ball carrier. It turns off when you get close (Bort hasn't stated what this value is).

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
It turns on as long as you are more than 5 yards away from the ball carrier. It turns off when you get close (Bort hasn't stated what this value is).

Would it apply for a blitzing LB going after the QB? What about special teams?

Originally posted by whodey08
Would it apply for a blitzing LB going after the QB? What about special teams?

No for a player who is rushing the QB. Special teams it will work, though.

Just search closing speed in the Q&A's http://www.glbwiki.com/qa/

five yards, egads thats not very far away at all.

Cool thanks.

5 yards is a mile when the defender and the offensive player are the same speed because the defender can never close those last 5 yards

Yeah true that, just from the description I figured it was 7 yards at least, maybe ten and fifteen would not have been out of the question.

A lot of people tend to like the combination of First Step + Change Direction + Superior Vision + Zone Focus + Closing Speed on safeties. All those SAs sort of tie in with each other and when you pull in Ball Hawk's effects you end up with a fun dot to watch.

Hmm that does sound like a nice stack. Interesting.

I used to put closing speed on alot of dots but mostly limit myself to LBs lately. But I have begun to use deep covers more often so it may need to come back for safeties.