In FIFA 22, you can currently complete the SBC “FUT-Hero-Upgrade.” But is this challenge really worth it?
What is the FUT-Hero-Upgrade? It is an SBC for which you need to solve three sub-tasks. The SBC requires you to:
- An 83-rated team with a TOTW player and 60 chemistry
- An 85-rated team with a TOTW player and 55 chemistry
- An 86-rated team with 40 chemistry.
Each of the sub-challenges offers a small pack reward. The overall reward is a “Hero-Upgrade-Pack” – a pack that contains one of the new FUT Heroes. These are football heroes from past times assigned to various leagues. Mario Gomez is one of the Bundesliga heroes.
The heroes are new cards that are included in FIFA 22 for the first time – and some of them are incredibly useful. Since they are not easily pulled from packs, the SBC offers an interesting chance to secure a Hero.
But is it even worth it?
Only a few Hero cards are worth the investment
What does the SBC cost? Currently, on the portal futbin, the SBC is listed with total costs of just over 180,000 coins.
- The 83-rated challenge costs players worth approximately 20,000 coins.
- The 85-rated challenge requires cards worth about 65,000 coins.
- The 86-rated challenge requires players worth around 100,000 coins.
This only applies if you would buy all the players for the challenge anew – if you use existing players from your club, you can lower the cost. However, even these players may be needed for other SBCs and similar.
Therefore, you should carefully consider whether you really want to pursue the upgrade. Because: There are many heroes available for cheaper on the transfer market.
What do Heroes currently cost? Currently, there are only 6 Hero cards that cost more than 180,000 coins on the transfer market (via futbin, PlayStation prices).
- David Ginola (approx. 2.2 million)
- Abedi Pelé (approx. 950,000)
- Antonio Di Natale (approx. 947,000)
- Iván Córdoba (approx. 510,000)
- Robbie Keane (approx. 475,000)
- Joe Cole (approx. 379,000)
If you actually pull one of these cards, you can consider yourself lucky. However, there are many heroes that you could also get for less on the transfer market.
The current costs (on PlayStation, via futbin):
- Morientes (approx. 165,000)
- Solskjaer (approx. 112,000)
- Ljungberg (approx. 95,000)
- Mostovoi (approx. 83,500)
- Milito (approx. 78,000)
- Gomez (approx. 68,500)
- Kohler (approx. 65,600)
- Dudek (approx. 54,000)
- Ricken (approx. 41,000)
- Cahill (approx. 38,500)
- Campos (approx. 20,500)
- Sami Al-Jaber (approx. 18,000)
Accordingly, there are more cards whose price does not necessarily match the current SBC. It is therefore a big risk that you take with the Hero-Upgrade, which will only pay off with a lot of luck. Additionally, it should be considered that the cards are untradeable – therefore, you can’t sell them on the transfer market and they should fit better into your own team.
The upgrade might be worth it if you have a lot of untradeable SBC fodder in your club that you want to get rid of. Otherwise, you should think it through carefully.
In general, there is currently a lot of talk in FUT about card prices and also the transfer market. YouTuber “RunTheFUTMarket” sees a big problem in Ultimate Team that is related to the market.
