Best blitzball team?

quote Mohd Naufal

I don't know why there's so many that want to comment to this threat

I believe Blitzball's a very popular minigame for the Final Fantasy franchise; some hated it but a lot of people tend to enjoy it. The little differences between the top players in the game, and how good they are at low levels vs high levels, also make for a lot of differing opinions and therefore posts.

The only thing that we can universally agree on is that Nimrook is the best goalkeeper in the game. He's not as dominant at high levels as he is at low levels (18 CA at level 1 makes him a one-man brick wall, whereas 67 CA at level 99 usually gets beaten by the top-tier strikers) but even so, his CA stat is always the highest throughout the levels. The downside is that the Psyches have him at first, making them easily the toughest team to beat early on (the rest of the Psyches also being early-game beasts doesn't help).

After that however it becomes a crapshoot. A lot of people favour Brother, which makes a lot of sense because he's fast and has a lot of great stats. By level 35-40 AT and SH are his only weak points and even they are in the low 20's. Of course from there his stat growth slows to a crawl, making speed his only saving grace by level 99, but you should have your Jupiter Sigil WAY before that happens (even if you don't use the reset trick).

Location is also important. See, ideally I would've preferred Vilucha in my team to Shaami, but Vilucha is stuck in Besaid, and I can't sign players before the Luca tournament meaning I have to backtrack all the way back to Besaid once I complete Djose Temple, or wait until the post-game and then defeat Dark Valefor (International LOVE!), which is too much effort for one player when there's an alternative in Luca. This is also the reason why Ropp in the Mi'hen Highroad is a good player to sign; his AT isn't anything special at first, but it's good enough, plus he can pass the ball well and he's available early on.

Anyway, level 99 is out of the question for all of the most dedicated Blitzball players. Without the reset trick you should have the Jupiter Sigil in no more than 50 games if you know what you're doing, but even that is roughly 14-15 hours put into just Blitzball and your player levels will still only be in the mid 30's by then (the keeper will probably be lower). So don't necessarily aim for the players that are best at level 99, instead sign players that are best in the mid-levels. I still like the looks of this team:

quote overthetop2

LF: Tidus (Start)
RF: Shaami (Luca)
MF: Zev Ronso (Luca)
LD: Wedge (Luca)
RD: Ropp (Highroad)
GL: Kyou (Djose)

By the time I won the Sigil (which was easy), Tidus and Shaami were level 37, Zev was a 35, Wedge and Ropp were 33's and Kyou was a 26.

By the way, the reset trick involves using the reset data option once you win the attack reels to immediately get to play for the Status Reels, resetting again when you win the status reels to go straight to the auroch reels tournament, and resetting a third time after the auroch reels to skip straight to the sigil league. This reduces the number of games you need to play to 26, but your player roster and levels will also reset every time and you'll have to recruit all of the FA's you want again. If you use this trick, the player's initial stats are more important than their stat growth, so just sign the players with the highest stats/levels. WARNING: if you use the reset trick Nimrook will never lose his brick wall status so make sure you have a good game plan worked out to beat him and his Psyches at low levels.

Just for trivia purposes, here's what would be my level 99 dream team (now edited to reflect OnionKnight's suggestions):
LF: Tidus
RF: Larbeight
MF: Mifurey
LD: Kulukan
RD: Ropp
GL: Nimrook
Bench: Vilucha, Kiyuri
Notable: Vujora, Navara Guado

I can't believe how many words I just wrote about a Final Fantasy minigame! Is this a bad thing?