Chapter 3: Season Tips

This section provides tips for WWE Smackdown vs. RAW’s season mode. Season mode plays out like weekly Smackdown or RAW brand shows with appropriate pay-per-views in between. Choose your favorite WWE superstar or create your own persona and start your season. Actions you make during season mode cut scenes will affect your role as a babyface, good guy, or heel, bad guy. Your role as either is important because you can perform actions during matches to elevate your clean or dirty meter depending on your standing.

Each wrestler has a weight classification that determines his or her maximum statistics.

Your first decision in season mode is wrestler selection. As you advance through season mode, victories reward you with experience points, cash, and prestige, or superstar points. Use experience points to increase your wrestler’s statistics, spend accumulated cash at the shopzone, and receive superstar points for match successes and lose superstar points for match failures. Higher superstar rating--essentially your standing within the company--means you’ll be able to compete for the coveted championship titles.

A wrestler’s weight classification determines maximum ratings for each attribute. For instance, a light heavyweight won’t be able to reach strength of 10 nor will a super heavyweight be able to increase their speed attribute over six. The following chart reveals each selectable wrestler’s weight classification.

A wrestler’s weight classification determines the maximum rating for each particular attribute. The table below reveals the maximum attribute rating for each weight classification.

As you win matches (that’s the goal, anyhow!), you’ll gain experience points to spend on your wrestler’s attributes. The following list describes each attribute and how higher rating affects each attribute.

Mold your wrestler by spending experience points on your superstar’s attributes.

• Strength: Represents the amount of damage your superstar inflicts for strike and grapple attacks. Superstars with high strength attribute values will cause more limb damage on their attacks.
• Submission: Determines how long you can hold submission moves and how quickly you can get out of them. Increasing the submission attribute allows for greater submission meter control.
• Durability: Represents how much damage your superstar can withstand in a match. The higher your durability rating is, the less limb damage you will receive from attacks.
• Technique: Determines your success rate for countering attacks. Superstars with ratings of 8 or above in technique have the ability to counter irish whips at the ropes.
• Speed: Represents the speed at which your superstar walks, runs, and climbs. Superstars with ratings of 9 or above in speed have the ability to quick jump onto the turnbuckle.
• Charisma: Determines how quickly your adrenaline and match tactics meter fill up. Superstars with high charisma will find it easier to build up finisher moves and their match tactics meter.

Base attributes begin with a rating of two. Each half-point increase requires a particular amount of experience points. The chart below reveals experience points required for each rating increment up to the attribute’s highest rating for that weight class.

WWE Smackdown vs. RAW’s season mode is a series of non-linear storylines that typically run from pay-per-view to pay-per-view. There’s no fixed walkthrough for completing season mode. Use the match strategies earlier in this game guide for tips on winning each specific match type. Season mode unveils new feuds, big battle climaxes to ongoing feuds, and swings from fan favorite good guy to despised heel. You may get bounties placed on your head, have the opportunity to gain the services of a WWE diva, battle for position in the royal rumble, or even switch show brands.

Occasionally you’ll have a decision or two during the cut scenes between matches. For instance you might have the chance to attack a competitor from behind or simply let him walk out of the locker room. These decisions shape your storyline and can affect your standing as a babyface or heel. For example, if you attack the superstar, you will likely begin a feud or perhaps he’ll get revenge during or after the next match. But if you let the superstar go, perhaps he’ll lend a helping hand at a later time.