Warrior General Games

When I first started making my player, I assumed that a break block would be determined by either using technique or by power. But now, I've started to see that both seem to be equally important for a pass rusher.

My question is, even if you have your player set to elusive rush, is pass rush power still a part of the break block roll?

Nobody knows for sure. It is assumed your ability to "push back" a blocker is definitely due to power. I've assumed it's indirectly related to breaking a block in that the pushback effect may give you better positioning for a future break block. Supposedly Angles and momentum and stuff like that do matter on the rolls.

Evasive rush is just your player basically trying to end-around the blocker instead of bee-lining for the QB

I've found it works best at Rookie/Sophmore when you can pump speed to outrun the blockers that need to build their technique/power stats first, but by the time you are in Seasoned/Journeyman even as a technique blitzer it's better to just run the power setting in order to either engage the block as fast possible (to get spin cycle faster) or rarely get through unblocked for easy pressure.

I think at veteran if you are building a 80-90 sprinting blitz DE for example you could go back to evasive around then with spin cycle / first step but that's just conjecture on my part. Even then power might still be better, there are just too many times in evasive (unless you are rly fast) that you take a route to the QB that takes too long to develop and the ball gets thrown/pitched/etc.

Afaik power just matters for you getting pushed back or pancaking the blocker. I think you can "win" the block with power before they get pancaked (for stuff like Spin Cycle) but I don't know, I don't think it's worth very much TBH. Spin Cycle is just too godlike for power to matter very much it seems.