defense abilityBRONZE
Secure Tackler
Higher chance to avoid fakeoutsTIER LADDER
What each tier is worth
MECHANICS
Read at bronze. This ability gains effects as it climbs — the ones it picks up at this tier are marked. Triggers and shutdowns are shown at every tier because the data does not say which tier gates them — not because the game treats them the same.TRIGGER
When it turns on
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ActiveTackleType
This condition activates when the tackle type is active.
RequestedTackleMechanic
This condition activates when the tackle mechanic is requested.
THEN
EFFECT
What changes in-game
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Tackle Chance2ManTackleOutcome NotBroken OnFakeoutMove
Grants the defender an improved chance to prevent broken tackles when the ball carrier attempts a fake-out move.
Tackle ChanceFakeSkillMoveOutcome NoFake
Grants the defender an improved chance to prevent being faked out vs fake-out moves.
Tackle ChanceNManTackleOutcome NotBroken OnFakeoutMove
Grants the defender an improved chance to prevent broken multi-defender tackles when the ball carrier attempts a fake-out move.
THEN
STOP
What shuts it down
No recorded what shuts it down.
AT BRONZE
What you need to know
Defenders with this ability have an increased chance to avoid fakeouts.
TRIGGERS2GAMEPLAY EFFECTS3DEACTIVATORS0
What players have figured out
A free ability that only improves conservative and dive tackle rolls — it does nothing for hit sticks, which is the most common point of confusion around it.It is gated to a specific tackle mechanic
The game's own activation conditions scope the boost to conservative and dive tackle attempts. A hit stick is a different request entirely, so Secure Tackler is silent on it no matter how the attempt is made.
It covers what a CPU defender actually does
CPU-controlled defenders default to conservative tackling, which is exactly the mechanic this ability boosts — hit-stick-focused abilities like Enforcer Supreme need an actual hit-stick attempt to do anything, so they sit idle on a CPU defender in a way this does not.
Forum framing has shifted toward "just get him down"
With trucking and spin ballcarrier abilities common, forum posters increasingly favor reliably landing a tackle over going for a hit-stick highlight — which is precisely the situation this ability is built for.
Best placed on first-contact defenders
Forum scheme discussion recommends prioritizing it on the defenders who make first contact with the ballcarrier — D-line and linebackers — ahead of defensive backs.
The free cost is the real reason to weigh it against Tackle Supreme
Because it costs no AP, the decision to upgrade to Tackle Supreme is a budget question, not a case where Secure Tackler underperforms on its own terms.
What else touches this.
Every ability writes a set of gameplay effects. These are the abilities whose sets meet this one's.No shared effectsAt this tier, no other published ability writes any of the gameplay effects this one writes.
GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE
See it in action
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