The Icon Swaps 1 in FIFA 20 are now available. From now on, you can earn Legends. How the event works, you can find out here.
These are Icon Swaps: In previous FIFA titles, getting Legends was not easy at all. You could either pull them from packs with a lot of luck or buy them on the transfer market for a high price. These two options are still available. However, the Icon SBCs will no longer exist.
This third way of getting Legends, is replaced in FIFA 20 by the new Icon Swap event. According to EA, it is intended to allow more players to use Icons. Overall, the event aims to allow players to earn Legends. How exactly does it work?
Since when is Icon Swaps running? Icon Swap 1 has been live since Friday, October 11, a bit behind schedule! From now on, you can earn tokens through various tasks to exchange them for Icons in SBCs.
This is how the Icon Swaps event works
These Legends can you earn: Overall, there will be three major Icon Swaps during FIFA 20. At each of the three event times, there will be a new selection of exchangeable Icons. Once an Icon has been in a Swap selection, it will not appear again in another form in the remaining Swaps. The first selection of Icons available since the event started looks as follows:
Icon Swaps: Player Tokens and Rewards
This is how you get Icons: Each Icon card in the Icon Swaps costs a certain number of so-called Player Tokens. These are player items earned by completing various tasks. From October to December, you can earn a total of 24 tokens, which you can then exchange in Icon Exchange SBCs.
At the current time, you can earn 12 tokens – the second half of the tokens for Icon Swap 1 is now online. So if you have received all the tokens from the first half, you can now go after Legends like Drogba.
The Icons cost a different number of tokens. The cheapest Icon is Schmeichel with 6 tokens. Then come Jay-Jay Okocha and Pep Guardiola with 8 tokens:
The top Icons, on the other hand, will be significantly more expensive. Hagi or Owen, for example, will cost you a total of 20 tokens. This means you have to complete many tasks over a long period.
This is how much Drogba costs: For Didier Drogba, you need a total of 23 tokens. The striker will be very hard to get – you may miss only a single token if you want to have the Chelsea legend.
The Swap items only work for their respective Icon Swap selection. This means: If you earn a token in Icon Swap 1, you must exchange it in Icon Swap 1. In the second selection, it will no longer work.
All rewards at a glance: How many tokens do you need for which Icon? Here you will find all Icons in the list:
- Schmeichel – 6 tokens
- Okocha – 8 tokens
- Guardiola – 8 tokens
- Giggs – 9 tokens
- Nesta – 9 tokens
- Roberto Carlos – 11 tokens
- Crespo – 12 tokens
- Kluivert – 12 tokens
- Klose – 12 tokens
- Ballack – 14 tokens
- Pirlo -14 tokens
- Keane – 15 tokens
- Rivaldo – 15 tokens
- Wright – 16 tokens
- Ferdinand – 16 tokens
- Rui Costa – 17 tokens
- Zanetti – 17 tokens
- Sánchez – 17 tokens
- Base Icon Pack – 18 tokens
- Butragueno – 19 tokens
- Gerrard – 19 tokens
- Hagi – 20 tokens
- Owen – 20 tokens
- Drogba – 23 tokens
This is what the Icon Swap tasks look like
This is what the tasks look like: The tasks in the Icon Swap will be quite challenging. For example, you will have to score goals in FUT Champions – which already requires at least qualifying for the Weekend League.
Also, the First Owner Tasks will be used as announced by EA. These are objectives that can only be achieved with players you have owned as the first user. This means: Players that you have either pulled from
- Objectives
- Packs
- Or SBCs.
Players from the transfer market, however, are not eligible. This makes completing the tasks more difficult because you cannot simply buy suitable players. Instead, you have to hope to pull strong players – and that takes a lot of luck.
For example, there are tasks where you must have seven first-owner players from a specific league in your team. With this team, you then must win a certain number of games. This is not necessarily high, but gathering the players will not be easy.
The community was already expecting that the tasks could be quite tough. Because the Gold Weekly Objectives, which currently exist as part of the season progress, are quite difficult. However, the rewards in the Icon Swaps are worth it.
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