Skills

[Vile-Shadow]

So what skills are the best to start with ? Any one have some good idear. i am clueless on what will give me that small upperhand in the begining :)

[Skully]

Watch some youtube vids from Killrob and Benji. Killrob is much more experienced with pro cyclist than Benji but his vids are awesome too.

Nearly all skills matter and few matter much more than others circumstance depending.
Time Trial, Prologue and Cobblestones are specific you wont need them except for their specific circumstance.

Flat is usefull to preserve red and yellow. But not essential.

Mountain and Hill will help you with Mountain stages obviously.
60 effort is 100% mountain
and I think
85 effort is 100% hill attribute

70-73 is about 50/50.

Acceleration and Sprint obviously help with the sprint stages, but you have to be there and there is a skill to getting into the right position. Took me many many hours of play and frustration to get good at this.

Stamina, Resilience and Recovery are all very important to have the most energy at the end of a stage.

For some easier points - focus on mountain, hill and recovery. This will help you with those hilly and mountain stages. A good combo is
Stage Racer
Climber

If you pick climber as primary it kills your flat but maximises your mountain obviously.

Cheers.

[Vile-Shadow]

Well was thinking of the new skill system :) but thanks for that detailed post mate :)

[Benji Naesen]

Thanks for the kind words, Skully.

@Zebro, I went for the XP one first. I wouldnt invest much in the observation stuff yet, since that just makes you learn about others and better your rider.

I went for XP for long term quicker XP, But other skills might indirectly give quicker XP like Fitness Peak if they give an extra win...

[Vile-Shadow]

@benji. Love your videos. Saw your video and choose that XP one. Then i saw Killrobs and choose the tiredness one.

[Benji Naesen]

Killrob's a legend

[Vile-Shadow]

@Benji. I started watching your Team career videos and one day it had one of Killrob´s in the recomended. He is a Legend but so are you. Your work on the World DB is first class

[DonJhonE]

agregar los equipos continentales de colombia como el team medellin

[DonJhonE]

y en personalizados team manzana, team sky

[Skully]

Im focusing on peak first - get it to 3. Then ill switch to technique and observation skills. I get plenty of exp just playing dont need to enhance it and I have tiredness under control. For me you cant beat the benefit of extending peak fitness to 28 days. Its massive. I pick a race with many races for the next month to aim for and given the early advent ensure I have a few before as well.

[S.Colding]

Originally posted by Skully:

Mountain and Hill will help you with Mountain stages obviously.
60 effort is 100% mountain
and I think
85 effort is 100% hill attribute

70-73 is about 50/50.


Cheers.

Wait was this changed?
Last year it was 85 effort is 100% mountain and 95 effort is 100% hill.

[Benji Naesen]

S.Colding, Skully made a mistake indeed. It's between 85 and 95 that it switches.

[S.Colding]

Originally posted by BenjiNaesen:

S.Colding, Skully made a mistake indeed. It's between 85 and 95 that it switches.

Thanks.
Another question. If you attack on a mountain, is it then your hill or mountain stat that is being used (together with acceleration i guess)?
My guess would be hill since an attack is 100 effort (I guess).

[Killrob]

Attacking on a mountain is basically 100% effort, i.e. uses your hill stat only as far as I understand it. :)
The only thing that acceleration does is to lower the amount of time required to get to that top speed defined by your hill stat, the slope, and by how full your stamina bar (green) is.

[ABLEC6]

I'm having a blast with the new Skills feature. My question is about the Stealth skill: do I h have to activate it before an attack, or does it just "give" me the first couple seconds? Maybe my eyes are bad, but the icon always seems to be grey'd out.

Side note: Aerodynamic Downhill is my favorite!!!

[iamdemeno]

Originally posted by S.Colding:

Wait was this changed?
Last year it was 85 effort is 100% mountain and 95 effort is 100% hill.

According to this article[pcmdaily.com]：

Mountain is below 85% effort,and hill is above 95%,between 85%~95% that is
collective effect.

By the way, Attack = 100%effort + passing maneuver i guess.