Final Fantasy X Guide #1 - Blitzball Tips

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Blitzball is fun and challenging, but can also be frustrating. Recently we found out some tips and tricks that we would like to share will all of you. If you have some more, please leave them in the comments. Thanks!

Resetting Tournament Prizes with save states

If a save state is made just before the Tournament becomes available, it's pretty easy to restore and then force a different set of prizes.
  1. Continue checking the Blitzball Tournament until its no longer available. Between checking you can wait, run in circles, or zone back and forth.
  2. Once the Tournament is NOT available, zone and come back an make a save state just before checking the sphere.
  3. Now check the sphere. If the Tournament is not available, then zone again, save state next to sphere, and then check again. Continue this until the Tournament IS available.
  4. This is the most important step. Now that you know the Tournament will be available just after this save state, we didn't want to lose this save state. RESTORE to just before you checked the sphere. 
  5. Now we just need to kill about 10-20 game seconds and then create a New save state.
  6. Check the Tournament prizes should have changed. If they are what you want, then you are good to go. If not, RESTORE, wait 10-20 seconds, and then save again.
  7. Repeat these steps until the desired rewards are available. Remember, its very important to create a save state after you wait the 10-20 seconds, but before you have activated the sphere.
We found that this process worked great for the Save Sphere on Mi'ihen Highroad, but required an extra step for Rin's Travel Agency. At Rin's, we have to create the save state outside the agency to get this to work.


Changing Blitzball Defense

Okay, so save states can only do so much for a Blitzball game. We have found that many times actions are predetermined by the way the players meet. And if you save once there is a confrontation, the outcome of a certain action will always be the same even though there is a random factor for all actions. This random factor was determined as the conflict was created or shortly before. What we did find that can change outcomes is your defense. At one point in the game, we had a save state while the other team had the ball. They took it in and scored and every time we choose different defending attacks on the confrontations, they still were able to score.
BUT! if we changed our automatic defense stance, our players acted slightly different on the field, and in turn, the opposing team choose different actions and never scored. We had just about given up trying everything, and then we found this nice nugget of insight into how the Blitzball actions for the opposing team are decided.

Techcopy Distance


We realized that the player does not have to be that close to learn techs through tech copy. And for the Goalie, they can learn them directly from the other goalie all the way across the field. I would estimate that for the rest of the players they would have to be at least 1/2 of the field away.


Sharing Top Scorer


The most exciting realization was that it is possible to get 2 or maybe even 3 of the Top Scorer prizes in a Tournament, and especially League. We did not get to test it out, but we found a post the online that explained the situation. If more than one player from the same team ties for Top Scorer, you get a prize for each player with that top score. We are very excited to try this out.

 Happy Game Nights!

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