Topic: Tips for successful volleying in Wii Sports Tennis?

[gust0208]

Hey everyone,

I am wildly addicted to Tennis on Wii Sports, but I have been pretty so-so on my net volleying skills so far.  Does anyone have any tips on the correct swing / arm movement to maximize my shots?  So.... addictive....

[ShyGuy]

What's a volley? I have a hard time making the ball go where I want it to. My record on the target game is three. Three!

[Mario]

Three? WTF? My mum can beat that. What I love about this tennis game over any other is the ability to hit the ball wherever you want, even really far off court. Volleys are when you're at the net. I can't say much about them except smash them down, depending on the angle you want strike earlier or later. When I try to hit the opposite way it goes really slow so I try and put some spin on it, lure them out to the side and then smash the next one the opposite way.

[gust0208]

Volley is the tennis stroke one uses while playing at the net.  This is where you strike the ball out of the air before it bounces, usually with a very short swing, more of a deflection than anything else.  Here is a wikipedia link that explains much better than I can:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volley_%28tennis%29

Just can't stop playing Tennis, the pros are suprisingly difficult!

[ShyGuy]

I'm convinced Wii tennis is biased against left handers.

[Mario]

My brother is left handed and beats me.

[ShyGuy]

Mario makes me feel like less of a man.

[Edfishy]

I've only played for a few days, but as far as I can tell Nintendo seems to have done a bangup job on giving the Tennis game some depth.

The direction you swing the Wiimote really does matter, going from low to high on a swing will give the ball some altitude once its been hit, and just oppositely going from high to low will typically cause the ball to either hit the net, or skim right over its surface.  This it particularly useful when you're the guy close to the net, as it'll allow you to spike the ball right over the net.

The angle of the Wiimote appears to have an effect on the ball's overall direction when its been hit.  Keep the buttons facing up, and the ball will be inclined to go forward.  Tilt the Wiimote clockwise, so the buttons are facing the right, and the ball will fly(quite sharply, depending on your angle) in the opposite direction.  So if you tilt to the right, it'll fly left, tilt to the left, it'll fly right, etc.

Be sure to be swinging in the appropriate direction when the ball has reached you, if you do a left swing while the ball is coming from your left, you're unlikely to get a succesful hit.

I really wish Nintendo had some more four player games like Tennis on Wii Sports, it's been a great deal of fun for me and my siblings.  Good luck!  

[BlackNMild2k1]

Why don't we have a Wii Sports Score thread? I am a master at Tennis as I've only been defeated by the computer once. They had to cheat me to do it and when I saw they were cheating, I just let them have the win, and I've been undefeated ever since then. Anyway I like to play with my front man as much as possible and if I can i bouce the ball as far right as possible and when they go to get it I then hit it all the to the back the left splitting both of the other players. It works almost every time if you can set it up.

Oh I I think my record on Target practice is around 22-25 or something like that.
We really should start a Wii Sports Score thread. Bring some competition into the forums. It would be a reason to continue increasing my point score in Wii Sports.

[Artimus]

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Originally posted by: Edfishy
I've only played for a few days, but as far as I can tell Nintendo seems to have done a bangup job on giving the Tennis game some depth.

The direction you swing the Wiimote really does matter, going from low to high on a swing will give the ball some altitude once its been hit, and just oppositely going from high to low will typically cause the ball to either hit the net, or skim right over its surface.  This it particularly useful when you're the guy close to the net, as it'll allow you to spike the ball right over the net.

The angle of the Wiimote appears to have an effect on the ball's overall direction when its been hit.  Keep the buttons facing up, and the ball will be inclined to go forward.  Tilt the Wiimote clockwise, so the buttons are facing the right, and the ball will fly(quite sharply, depending on your angle) in the opposite direction.  So if you tilt to the right, it'll fly left, tilt to the left, it'll fly right, etc.

Be sure to be swinging in the appropriate direction when the ball has reached you, if you do a left swing while the ball is coming from your left, you're unlikely to get a succesful hit.

I really wish Nintendo had some more four player games like Tennis on Wii Sports, it's been a great deal of fun for me and my siblings.  Good luck!

Direction is controlled by when you hit the ball (just like baseball). When doing a right-handed forehand the earlier the further to the left and the later the further to the right. For a backhand it's reverse. For left handers it's reversed again.

[Edfishy]

While playing with three of my siblings we got up to 20 or so hits, much "Yeeeeeaaah" followed.

[Edfishy]

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Originally posted by: Artimus

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Originally posted by: Edfishy
I've only played for a few days, but as far as I can tell Nintendo seems to have done a bangup job on giving the Tennis game some depth.

The direction you swing the Wiimote really does matter, going from low to high on a swing will give the ball some altitude once its been hit, and just oppositely going from high to low will typically cause the ball to either hit the net, or skim right over its surface.  This it particularly useful when you're the guy close to the net, as it'll allow you to spike the ball right over the net.

The angle of the Wiimote appears to have an effect on the ball's overall direction when its been hit.  Keep the buttons facing up, and the ball will be inclined to go forward.  Tilt the Wiimote clockwise, so the buttons are facing the right, and the ball will fly(quite sharply, depending on your angle) in the opposite direction.  So if you tilt to the right, it'll fly left, tilt to the left, it'll fly right, etc.

Be sure to be swinging in the appropriate direction when the ball has reached you, if you do a left swing while the ball is coming from your left, you're unlikely to get a succesful hit.

I really wish Nintendo had some more four player games like Tennis on Wii Sports, it's been a great deal of fun for me and my siblings.  Good luck!

Direction is controlled by when you hit the ball (just like baseball). When doing a right-handed forehand the earlier the further to the left and the later the further to the right. For a backhand it's reverse. For left handers it's reversed again.

Ahhhh, that makes a lot of sense, I just realized that we typically do backhanded swings.  Thanks Artimus.

[Smoke39]

I couldn't figure out how to control the ball at all in tennis.  It'd be nice if the training minigames gave you more info than just "KEEP THE BALL IN THE COURT."

[Edfishy]

That's part of the beauty though, you can start the game easily without any idea of the depth, and later on through gameplay catch on to little tricks, etc.

In part though, I must agree, witholding gameplay information seems a little backwards to me. Maybe Nintendo knows something that every other game developer doesn't, who knows.

[IceCold]

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Originally posted by: Smoke39
I couldn't figure out how to control the ball at all in tennis.  It'd be nice if the training minigames gave you more info than just "KEEP THE BALL IN THE COURT."

You really DO suck at all games.

[KDR_11k]

I wish there were real training modes that aren't just minigames but a mode where you can e.g. make your opponent shoot in a specific way to train countering a hard move in addition to feedback telling you how you hit it.

The manual could also be more complete, noone of us knew what the "ball" error meant in baseball until we had an American explain it to us.

[Smoke39]

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Originally posted by: Edfishy
That's part of the beauty though, you can start the game easily without any idea of the depth, and later on through gameplay catch on to little tricks, etc.

In part though, I must agree, witholding gameplay information seems a little backwards to me. Maybe Nintendo knows something that every other game developer doesn't, who knows.

I have no problem with the "easy to play, difficult to master" concept.  But I was playing round after round in the first training minigame, hitting almost every ball out of the court and having no idea what I was doing wrong.  I somehow fared slightly better when I played a few actual games against the computer, but I was still hitting plenty out of the court, unless I was playing the net.  The baseball training at least tells you when you swing too early or too late (which I always overcompensate for).

IceCold: I'm even worse at sports than I am at video games.  

[vudu]

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
The manual could also be more complete, noone of us knew what the "ball" error meant in baseball until we had an American explain it to us.

Nintendo probably assumed everyone was at least familiar with the sport.  I sure wouldn't play a cricket game unless I knew what the hell to do with that big flat bat.

[KDR_11k]

I sure wouldn't play a cricket game unless I knew what the hell to do with that big flat bat.

Oh that's easy, you hit zombies in the head with it.

We played baseball because it's included in the game. Noone watches or plays actual baseball in this country.

[couchmonkey]

I've never actually seen a ball in Wii Baseball.  Well, not in the sense you're talking about.

My tips for tennis:
- try some underhand swings, they seem to give me a bit more control
- work on your timing: there are a lot of different points at which you can hit the ball, and if you're always swinging at the same time, you're probably getting heavily-angled shots.

I haven't really had any problems with volleying, I usually just throw it in once in a while to keep the other player on their toes.  I just tend to smash it hard overhand every time.

[KDR_11k]

I've never actually seen a ball in Wii Baseball. Well, not in the sense you're talking about.

When your opponent throws to the left or right don't swing your bat at all. It sometimes triggers on curve/screwballs and splitters but not 100% of the time I think.

[vudu]

You guys realize you can move where you're aiming while pitching via the D-pad, right?  It's really easy to throw a ball if you want to.

I don't think the CPU ever throws balls at the lower difficulty levels.  I'm only around 600 skill level in baseball so I don't know if they will once you start approaching pro level.