Help How to improve Technique

[Raymond7cn]

Hiya Managers, I wonder whether or not we can improve this attribute of one player by training (focus), I mean I have tried almost all of my players in squad for three seasons, whereas rarely saw any changes somewhere, The only doable method is "Mentoring", Yes, I have done once by choosing a proper teacher who doesn't have high leadership etc. 

Anyways, I do need some valuable infos about this, Is it a special attribute that we couldn't improve it in normal training? I did have seen some players who improved it when upgrading after match though I didn't select the technique. Besides, as we all know the poacher's training regime has the technique, I tried on this but still no luck there.

Any tips is appreciated, TIA!

Edited October 10, 2025 by Raymond7cn

[DanEnglish]

I recently had two young DCs with 1 and 2 technique each. Both of whom I selected a ‘technique’ training focus.

• One DC didnt improve it at all (remained at ‘1’ technique)
• The other DC improved a good amount (to ‘5’ or ‘6’ technique).
• Both were developing in my reserves, being mentored in other attributes

🤷 not sure

[Raymond7cn]

2 minutes ago, DanEnglish said:

I recently had two young DCs with 1 and 2 technique each. Both of whom I selected a ‘technique’ training focus.

• One DC didnt improve it at all (remained at ‘1’ technique)
• The other DC improved a good amount (to ‘5’ or ‘6’ technique).
• Both were developing in my reserves, being mentored in other attributes

🤷 not sure

Thanks a lot for the valuable infos DanEnglish!

If I may ask that which training regime did you choose for them, Ball playing defender?

I dived into this issue yesterday after I asked the question. By looking through my players, I got something, It seems like the technique improved along with other attributes developed, such as crossing passing creative etc…. I'm not pretty sure about this.

[Raymond7cn]

This guy Johnston, You can tell that he is the only one get improved on technique whereas I didn't let him focus on that. It seems that the tec got improved along with creativity and dribbling etc.

Besides, Another guy is Modric's regen, he was born with 20 tec but terrible technical attributes on others, However he got Impressive improved for one season on loan, However I choosed his training regime as BWM.

So I have a feeling, Is it possible that the technique attribute is a relative one as leadership➡communicate as well?

Edited October 11, 2025 by Raymond7cn

[Raymond7cn]

I even have doubt "focus", I thought that it's not that important in training regimes, However It's Indeed very useful. This is Garnacho get improved on shooting after I choosed focus.

[Raymond7cn]

@Scratch Sorry to throw this to you rudely, Scratch🤠, I have no idea if It's relevant. I just found two digits for each player when hexing my issue, It's just before each player's number and prefer number and height & weight, By looking through a couple of dozen players with your tool🙏, I found that that's maybe their prefer Position or Roles, since most goalkeeper has the same one "e089", in this case Haaland is "08d8", and also some Target forward or defenders. I absolutely have no clue that if It's relevant to training as well.

Edited October 11, 2025 by Raymond7cn

[Raymond7cn]

Just found this post where @Marc Vaughan had mentioned it years ago that technique is a natural skill, Does that mean we can't develop it specifically? 😅

Edited October 11, 2025 by Raymond7cn

[eternalaurora]

It certainly can improve if technique is one of the covered attributes in his training. I have a player whose technique went up from 9 to 15. All you need is a bit of luck (or reloading).

[Raymond7cn]

13 minutes ago, eternalaurora said:

It certainly can improve if technique is one of the covered attributes in his training. I have a player whose technique went up from 9 to 15. All you need is a bit of luck (or reloading).

Many thanks for the info Buddy, Do you remember which training regime you choose for this player?

[eternalaurora]

57 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

Many thanks for the info Buddy, Do you remember which training regime you choose for this player?

I don't think the role matters as I've improved technique for many players at different positions. Just make sure you cover technique in training.

[Raymond7cn]

36 minutes ago, eternalaurora said:

Just make sure you cover technique in training.

Got it, It's just weird to me that all the player(8) I select focus on tec didn't get improved, but some players get improved there even with a training regime without technique. Anyway, Thank you!

[rseven]

When player training progress get max, he will improve attributes randomly! 1-3 points once. 

Yes, Random!

Edited October 12, 2025 by rseven

[Raymond7cn]

1 hour ago, rseven said:

When player training progress get max, he will improve attributes randomly! 1-3 points once. 

Yes, Random!

Thanks Mate, I see, I just thought the technique is a special attribute, It won't be regressive as player grow older. And also the Newgens get it completely as well. So I presume that we don't need to choose focus on technique during training, or some training regimes already has technique training beneath. Since when I was playing FM years ago, Ball-playing-Defender and other regimes has technique training inside, But I can only found it in poacher training.

[Scratch]

@Raymond7cn Heh, I was going to say training some roles would improve it, but if @eternalaurora says role doesn't matter then I'd believe him - he has a LOT of experience with player development. I feel like I might have seen it improve when training as a P - but that's just a feeling and I generally ignore technique so don't really take notice of what's happening with it. 

I do think that players have a 'shape' field which probably comes into it - where some players will be able to improve technique because that is in their shape or DNA, whereas others may not. And yes, the shape field is somewhere just before the height and weight, but I'm not sure exactly where now as the format changed a little since I worked that out and my app just skips it (so looking at my code doesn't have the answer).

[eternalaurora]

19 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

Got it, It's just weird to me that all the player(8) I select focus on tec didn't get improved, but some players get improved there even with a training regime without technique. Anyway, Thank you!

After all it comes down to randomness, so if you really want to improve technique, you'd better do some pretty intensive reloading. And yes technique can improve without focusing on it, but it's a very rare instance.

[rseven]

47 minutes ago, eternalaurora said:

After all it comes down to randomness, so if you really want to improve technique, you'd better do some pretty intensive reloading. And yes technique can improve without focusing on it, but it's a very rare instance.

The better way is mentor and the comment saying will improve technique.

[Raymond7cn]

@Scratch @eternalaurora @rseven Many Thanks to you, I have learnt a lot from your posts here, And Yes, I couldn't think of other better ways than Mentoring,😅 This issue actually started with a friend's tapping at other Forums, Frankly, I have never paid attention at this before, Since…

1 hour ago, Scratch said:

and I generally ignore technique so don't really take notice of what's happening with it.

Yepp, I agree with it. 🤠  Anyways, I did some test these days, choose focus on technique for all players in squad, keep reloading the save after match when they're almost upgrading, But got no luck there.

@Scratch First, Let me tip my hat to you for the fabulous tool. It helps a lot. 🤠🙏 Along with digging, I found some interesting things:

When I searched some player's id+uid for twice, I found that everyone has some data (53 bytes), long story short, I just filled McTominay's data as this below,

THEN I got this, [Before]

[After]

🤠🤠

[Raymond7cn]

Sorry that My cell's battery is almost dead now. so I will continue this when I get ready, Sincerely thank you for your replys again!🤠

[EarlRagnar]

On 12/10/2025 at 15:23, eternalaurora said:

After all it comes down to randomness, so if you really want to improve technique, you'd better do some pretty intensive reloading. And yes technique can improve without focusing on it, but it's a very rare instance.

How does reloading help with improving stats? 

[TenAdrian]

16 hours ago, EarlRagnar said:

How does reloading help with improving stats? 

If you save a game before an improvement happens reloading that save after your not happy with the result of the improvement can give you a chance for reloading until you get what you want. 

[Raymond7cn]

Well, Thought I'd better close this issue, Just as @eternalaurora mentioned, I started a new save for a test, I saved the game just before nearly upgrading, and he was about to play for his nation's match, I made the test for almost [80] times. He got improved on Technique [26] times, Among these tests, I found that the Poacher training regime is the best choice for the Technique.

Besides, It's funny that this guy got improved accidentally as well. As the pic below you can tell that he's training under the guidance of a fitness Coach, So By now, I absolutely have no clue on how to decide whether or not a player deserves a Technique training focus. Anyways, Thank you for all you specialists paying attention on this amd your valuable tips. 🤠

[Raymond7cn]

Just for a record here:

After making some tests for 4 seasons and 54 players involved, All I could observe which is relevant to Technique is "Flair", I have recorded the info at xls file, Will share it when making further progress.