Easy Blitzball Win?

[Bevinator]

Ok il be honest I suck horribly at Blitzball and I kinda just want to get it over with so I can get Wakka's Overdrive and Ultimate Weapon. as well as the Blitzball champion Achievement.

[barracuda-rostigraben]

Step 1: Learn the Jecht Shot.
Step 2: Use Jecht Shot, get up 1-0.
Step 3: Hide behind own goalie.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit.

[Bevinator]

I tried that but the Glitch behind the goalie never worked for me.

[Hinnyuu]

Sit down, grasshopper, and let Grandma tell you the secret ways of the Blitz.

It's all about having the right team. Recruit good players, and you're mostly there. Which players those are depends on where you're at in the story - if you've got the airship, then you're all set for maximum pwnage.

The key to stupidly easy wins are two players: Brother and Tidus. Brother is one of the best MF in the game, and one of the fastest players available at low levels. His speed is what makes everything possible. Grab the ball as soon as you can, and pass to Brother. Then use his superior speed to round up EVERY enemy player, getting them to follow you in one big clump. Once you have all of them on your tail, swim diagonally across the map to the top right corner, essentially the maximum distance from the enemy goal. Once there, and with sufficient distance to the pack following you so they won't engage, pass the ball to Tidus. Swim right into the enemy goalie's face, and score. Repeat at will. The reason you pick Tidus is that sometimes you do encounter an enemy defender or two - in which case Jecht Shot comes in to break the game wide open and remove 2 defenders entirely for easy goals.

Using that strategy, it is trivial to get through the early brackets of Blitzball without as much as getting an enemy goal in, let alone lose a game. I can say without exaggeration that I have not had the enemy score against me, ever, in what must be over 6 or 7 years now.

As for the rest of the team, it pays to have strong players still, since you do actually need to get possession of the ball, and bad luck does happen as well. Some of the top choices include:

Defense: Ropp (best defender in the game), Naida, Kyou, Kulukan
Forward: Vilucha, Shaami, Larbeight
Goal: Nimrook (best goalie in the game, but annoying to get), Miyu, Durren

Note that who's the 'best' often varies depending on what level you're at. If you're using the reset trick for minimum games played to unlock all of Wakka's stuff, you'll never really go past lvl 25-35. High-level Blitzball can be very different, but is only really ever seen by players who play it for the game itself, as there are no unique prizes once you have all of Wakka's overdrives/sigil.

Also, regarding Nimrook - while he is undoubtedly extremely powerful even at low levels, recruiting him requires you to expire his contract with the Psyches by repeatedly conceding exhibition matches, and then reloading over and over until they don't renew his contract. This can take a long time, and frankly, is often just not worth the hassle. If you're using Brother Fishing as described above, the enemy will almost never even get a chance to shoot, so your goalie is almost irrelevant. And the easily recruitable alternatives do a perfectly fine job for those few occasions where the enemy does get through.

[CD143]

I feel you, and this is what i do to avoid it. For fast easy wins to get wakkas weapon/overdrive without investing to much time in blitzball you need to get to a point where you can recruit players. Recruit Brother from the airship, hes extreemly OP at early LV use him as you mid field, and recruit wakka for your right field. for a goalie recruit Miyu at the end of the moonflow, I would say thats the only players you need for a quick easy blitzball without getting deep into it.Keep jassu and bota as your LD and RD, they have high AT, and thats a simple roster, not to deep into blitzball, not to complicated and you dont have to wait for contracts to end with other teams in order to recruit these players, all these players are free agents and can be recruited right of way, and are very good at their positions for early game blitzball.

EDIT: I agree with Hinnyuu's guide when using brothers speed to throw defenders off their positions, hes very fast. use this method with the center attack formation, and pass to the open man near the goal.