How to Earn Evolution Points in UFC 5 Career Mode

If you're diving into UFC 5 Career Mode already, you'll soon realize that Evolution Points are absolutely crucial to increasing the skills of your fighter. There are several different ways to earn them, but with a limited amount of activities each week you don't wanna miss out on any.

Before you get too deep into Career Mode in UFC 5, we'll break down all the best ways to earn evolution points and some tips to make sure you're getting the most out of every single sparring session and fight.

How to Earn Evolution Points in UFC 5 Career Mode

If you're hoping to upgrade your fighter's attributes in UFC 5 Career Mode, the only way to do that will be with Evolution Points. Seen in previous years, this feature is back with some slight changes in a revamped Career Mode interface but remains just as important.

You'll not only use Evolution Points to upgrade your attributes, but they'll also be used occasionally to recover attributes following an injury. If you're hurt too badly during a sparring session or fight, it can lead to a permanent reduction in attributes like Cut Resistance.

Before you can continue upgrading that attribute, you'll first need to spend a few Evolution Points to recover the damage that's been done due to injury. Fortunately, there are several different ways to earn Evolution Points in UFC 5.

Every single fight and sparring session you participate in will be able to earn you Evolution Points, and it'll be your own performance that dictates how many you're able to snag each time. You'll have standard objectives with fixed Evolution Points rewards in sparring sessions, but these actually increase with each consecutive session of the same type.

While you might only have 4 Evolution Points available in objectives for the first week of Boxing sparring, advancing to the next drill will offer up 8 Evolution Points via objectives. These rewards continue to increase, so there's a definitie incentive to doing as many of the same type (Boxing, Muay Thai, Wrestling, or BJJ) during each training camp.

UFC 5 Career Mode Tips to Earn Evolution Points

If you want to make sure your fighter is as upgraded as possible as you progress through the rankings, then the most important thing to do is make sure you do the longest possible training camp for every fight. This allows time to build up hype which will increase payouts and fans, but most importantly it gives you multiple weeks to do sparring sessions.

After you've completed a particular sparring drill you'll also have the option of simulating, but that's not actually something we recommend. While it can save time, the biggest loss of simulating sparring sessions is actually the potential Evolution Points you'll get from move progress.

Every single time you use a particular attack or move in UFC 5, it'll make progress towards leveling up that specific maneuever. Every single jab, straight, elbow, knee, or takedown in a sparring session directly grows your move progress and rewards you with Evolution Points when each move reaches the next star-level (five-star moves being the highest they can get).

You can also count on a few Evolution Points when you choose to Invite A Fighter in Career Mode to learn one of their techniques. If you immediately hit that given move in your sparring session, you'll get the five Evolution Points for learning a new move but miss out on any move progress that could be gained by extending the session and hitting more attacks.

The fastest way to upgrade moves also happens to be by scoring knockouts and knockdowns with them, as these high damage impacts boost your progress. While this is particularly valuable and can be utilized in sparring sessions and fighter invites, you'll have to be careful and keep the consequences in mind.

If you knockout a fighter you've invited to learn a move before you execute that new move, you won't get the Evolution Points for learning it. If they're too damaged and you do knock them out with the move, you'll learn it but run the risk of slightly damaging your relationship with that fighter because of the knockout.

Similarly, knockouts in standard sparring sessions are useful but can't be overdone. If you knockout a sparring partner, they'll likely be injured and that particular sparring drill type won't be available the next week. This means you'll have to avoid it if you're hoping for the higher Evolution Point boosts from objectives in the later in camp drills, and you also want to be careful your fitness level doesn't reach the red Overtrained status past the green Peak fitness level.

Before long, you'll find yourself breezing through objectives on sparring drills and able to spend more of each session taking advantage of move evolution boosts. When it's time for your actual UFC fights, how you approach them will depend whether you want to prioritze the impact of your win or the Evolution Points you can earn.

While an early first round knockout can be fantastic for your career and push you up the rankings, the one flaw is that you're losing out on an extended opportunity to push move progress and deal damage. You're also unlikely to ever win Fight of the Night if you're just scoring first round knockouts every single time.

Once you're comfortable enough with your own skills, try extending your fights into later rounds and pushing forward with quick moves and various techniques to upgrade your fighter. Whether you look to end it early or late, submission or knockout finishes are best as they'll make a huge difference in improving or being able to Prestige a move in UFC 5.