I haven't figured it out either. The only time I swing at it is if I have 2 strikes and it's coming down the middle.

I'm currently in the 'World 1' league, and I kinda gave up on trying to hit diamond pitchers... especially if they have a knuckle ball/fast ball switch up. The best thing to do is just pitch your side, then simulate the batting side throughout the game. If still no runs by the 9th, use the inning with your best hitter and just keep closing down the app until you get a favorable side ��

Sometimes I just don't hit them at all. But other times I'm bad and swing and miss

Never throw a straight ball again.

Find big Pokemon, wailmer, Tauros if US, makuhita, spheal. Those are much easier to hit. Took me two weeks to get "3 excellent throws in a row" for larvitar. I only ever curve throw and am actually worse at normal throws. And three excellent curves are not easy lol.

Use nanab berries do they don’t jump/attack as much. Certain mons are a lot easier than others - ponyta and nosepass both are close with big catch circles. I usually kind of pick out a spot on the side of my phone that I use as a “target” that I throw towards. Other than that just be patient and don’t force a throw.

Edit: raid bosses can be a good way to do it as well since they have a low catch rate, usually have a decent sized catch circle and can’t run away until you run out of balls.

Practice, practice, practice

You just have to practice. Watch some YouTube videos on hot to curveball. Here's one.

https://youtu.be/J1nAdDEO-Hs

Have your buddies stand in the box on bullpens. Force yourself to throw it, first pitch, 2nd pitch, back to back curveballs. Don’t worry about the outcome, just get your reps in. Don’t be afraid to bury one on a two strike count. Most people can’t hit it, just get used to throwing it.

Throw it short in the dirt, i.e. bounce it. That way you get the whole thing out of your head. At least the "direction" will be correct, but just short of the plate.

One of two things will happen... 1. He swing at it. Great. 2. He doesn't swing. No problem that means you just made him think of the front part of the strike zone with slow stuff. That should set up your next pitch.... fastball up in the zone. (Back part of the zone).

Focus on a mental mechanical cue to focus on when you’re in a game

Could be telling yourself to “stay back” or “get on top” “rotate backside”

Whatever you’re thinking about mechanically when you throw it in practice

The best way to gain confidence is just to throw it more, throw it when you're playing catch, specially for long toss, every throw if you need to. I love doing it for long-toss because it gets you used to throwing it hard, just babying it up there. and if you can't hit your target with long toss, adjust your grip to get less spin and more control. Rinse repeat.

Remind yourself that you WANT the hitter to hit your curveball.  Swings on curveballs often lead to weak contact.  And just by throwing your curveball around the plate it makes your fastball play so much better.

Naturally you don't want to leave a hanger waist high in the middle of the plate.  But you don't have to throw the perfect curveball for it to be effective.  Focus on good spin and trust it!

Looks good! Remember a curveball isnt thrown to blow anybody away. If it plays well off your fastball, i.e. it looks similar to your fastball until it breaks, then it’s a good pitch. The advice I was always given was to think fastball until your release and then spin it. But it looks fine to me if you can throw it for a strike or tunnel with your fastball.

Work on a change up before the curveball

Let's start with "how to tilt the camera"

Develop a slider instead. It works better with your arm angle, trust me.

You don’t throw a curveball harder… you throw EVERYTHING harder, and your curveball speeds up with it.

To get better at throwing the curve, having a higher arm angle helps. Also, shortening your stride by 6 inches on that pitch helps to get on top of it. Pull down on the far side of the ball; don’t twist your hand around.

Best I can do seeing this video.

If the pitch looks like it's coming in over the zone, put your cursor just inside the zone and swing if you see the curve dropping in. Might take a couple reps to feel out that particular pitcher's curve but it makes them easy to hit once you figure it out

Ha, years playing this game, and I still struggle with them. It's a good game that way.

There's a batting practice function you can use, will give you one pitch again and again, until you get decent at the pitch.

Of course that doesn't help you anticipating what pitch is coming during a game, but at least I can more consistently foul things off on two strikes.

Oh, and contact helps more than batting eye I think.

Knuckle balls get me every time

Sit fastball haha

I struggle with the curveball too, but in the recent times I've been taking an approach that made me hit it a decent amount of times.

My approach is to NOT swing at the curveball if I don't have two strikes or if the pitcher has full or close to full energy. (Having higher energy makes the pitches better) Obviously if you don't want to get K'd try to hit the curveball with two strikes if you're sure that the pitch will land in the strikezone and not out of it.

With that, the AI doesn't think that you can't hit it everytime, you can focus in other types of pitches and you let the opposite pitcher throw more which will end up reaching 70 pitches thrown earlier which will make his pitches much more unefficient against contact.

The meta is to make the SP throw as much as possible in the least quantity of time so he gets replaced asap. If you are able to make the SP get replaced before the 6th inning, the game is over in your favour.

When I reach the two strikes I place the PCI (The thing u move to aim) in the bottom part of the strikezone expecting the curveball, so if he pitches a curveball I just need to land the timing correctly without needing to move the PCI too much. If he throws something else I still have the time to move the PCI and make contact if the ball is in the zone and if he pitches a curveball I'm absolutely ready for it.

Do not keep swinging and missing on the curveball because the AI will see your struggles and it will spam that pitch, which will make you struggle more in the long run. Swing at the correct time and the correct pitch.

In the higher levels the curveball becomes much easier because it goes much faster. I can say with confidence that the curveball on low levels is harder to hit than any other pitch in the high levels, knuckeball included.

Dunn’s got me feeling like Kendrick to Drake

B I’m a righty

Same here. I have wasted dozens of pokeballs trying to do the “A” throw and I literally can’t. I can do “B” without even trying though.

I am a righty and cannot land A. I’ve always just done B. The few times I’ve tried A I’ve just wasted balls.

I'm one of those weird right handed person who throws to the left.

Same here. When a Pokémon drifts to the right I just wait until it moves back lol.

Poll on this!

(I curve A and am right handed).

Edit: Huh. Right now the poll suggests right-handed players favor B ~5:3, but left handed players split almost 50/50.

I really just learned to wait back on them since they trade speed for movement. I have a diamond pitcher with both the pitches over 90 so I just hit against him when I need work on a certain pitch.

Euphes and knuckle balls the cursor doesn't move so it is just a matter of sitting back and waiting. Curves are a different animal. You don't really know where they'll end up. Wait, have your contact cursor on and pray. Usually, if it is early in the count I just wait since it'll Usually be out if the strike zone

Agree with most here. You don’t hit them. You let it go by and wait for a better pitch to hit. M

Sit on those pitches is my advice. Wait for a pitch you can hit.

Curves? You don't try to hit them...you sit back and them throw a couple of balls outside the zone and then they put one down the middle.

If you HAD to hit a curve the only real approach is manually adjusting for the movement with your aiming reticle.

It's tough, but you need to train yourself to identify the curve as it flies and then NOT swing.

Eephus pitch you will see so much less it's not worth worrying about. It also has a much bigger telegraph than the curve.

Knuckleballs? It's much harder to learn to read the speed of the pitch in the time we have to do it with no movement on the ball. That is the tricky pitch to learn to hit.

Also, especially in lower leagues, making the lower tier pitchers throw more gets them tired faster and then off the mound, to be replaced by some lower tier pitcher who will serve up more meatballs ;)

Seems semi common among women. Something just seems to naturally want to flip inward instead of out. Can be coached out, or coached up, nothing inherently stopping you from excelling with a backup ball.

That's called a backup ball. It's a good skill to have if you do it intentionally to pick up difficult spares. Not necessarily desirable if that's your only throw. But as long as you're consistent with it, that's all that matters.

My sister throws a backup ball “naturally,” but I think it’s due to poor technique.

It's the only way I can hook at all., but then again I suck and know nothing about bowling.

I bowl that way and I know it’s probably just bad form that makes me do it. But it works for me and so I just roll with it. It’s the only way I can seem to get the ball to hook. If I try to hook not backup it seems to never work for me.

Very nice! I still haven't adjusted very well to the different speed of the rockets that was changed a few months ago. Only been using them very close range but need to start practicing aiming with longer distances.

Way better than me with those things this was dope bro

Lol this is wild

Ok, now that was sick!

this is why i joined the metalstorm reddit