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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Giving up after 8 attempts.

I really don't know what they were thinking here. I know they wanted to establish how much better the other team was, but the amount of frustration from this first match is such that it's damaging to average players opinion not the minigame period. It either ended to be less lopsided or straight up unwinnable, offering the actual ability to win and earn a reward but making it this bullahit just makes the entire system look like crap. It wouldn't be so bad other than the unskippable 8 minutes of cutscene before and during the process.

It is actually quite easy to exploit Blitzball in your favor, even the first game against the Luca Goers. Absolutely have controls on Manual because your teammates will straight up swim towards opposition on Auto, which results in either them getting blocked by 2-3 players and guaranteeing you lose the ball or someone straight up tackles you and grabs the ball.

Have someone with decent passing stats maneuver in a way where there is no opposition close by to block them and pass the ball to Tidus. Have Tidus go as close to the goalie as possible (doesn't matter if you get blocked by a player or two because Jecht Shot bypasses two of them) and use the Jecht Shot. That pretty much guarantees a goal. After that just waste time by passing the ball to a defense player at the back of your own court and have them just stand next to your goalkeeper. This pretty much guarantees you a win as long as you are ahead on goals. Also remember that Tidus can use the Jecht Shot twice in a game (once every half).

When you play Blitzball later for Wakka's Sigil, you'll see that the Luca Goers are actually a really weak team and that the biggest problem is ironically the Al Bhed Psyches (the chumps you beat off-screen without the star player of the Zanarkand Abes), mainly because their goalkeeper has absurd catching stats when your players are likely very very underleveled early on. This makes it very hard to score against them if you meet them in your first or second match.

After that though Blitzball pretty much becomes braindead easy when you have a proper team and you start levelling up. That is when you start scoring 8 goals on average against your opponents and you just play it for Wakka's overdrive and the Sigil for his ultimate weapon.