hey shini

I'm not trying to find out about the arrows with the numbers. I'm not sure why you believed that I was and included my name in your post. Did I say something about it in one of those older guides I emailed you?

At any rate, I already have a pretty good idea of what those arrows and numbers mean. The arrows that point in various directions with different numbers indicate a hitter's trajectory tendency. So if a guy has an arrow pointing diagonally up, he's going to hit lots of high flyballs. But if a guy's arrow is more level, he's more of a line drive hitter. The numbers indicate how strong the tendency is. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'm fairly certain.

I don't think there's a post that lists all of the pitches. But there are posts that list all of the individual player attributes. If you want to learn the pitches, print yourself out a Katakana chart and keep it next to you as you play. Last night, I faced a guy with a pitch that had the symbol "na" and the symbol "ku." I deduced that this was a "knuckle" ball.

I'm not sure if you can teach pitchers new pitches. But you can definitely improve the pitches they already have. In my last pennant, many of my pitchers increased their number of "dots" for some pitches over the course of the season. How many dots they're able to add depends on your coaching staff's abilties, how you decide to coach each pitcher, and the pitchers' individual abilities.

Jom have it slightly on point with the arrows. The arrows are the trajectory of how far you can hit the ball out of the park.

If someone have a trajectory of 1 than he's only gonna get 1-3 HRS in a season

Trajectory 2 means 4-10 HRS

Trajectory 3 means 10-18

Trajectory 4 means 18-25

Trajectory 5 means 25-35

Trajectory 6 means 35-42

Trajectory 7 means 42 & above

This if form Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2

Pawapuro goes up till Trajectory 4 (I saw Alex Cabrera with 4 so that must be the limit) so the numbers are different from Pro Yakuu Spirits.


The arrows have a huge impact on the stats of your player. For example, Aoki (from the swallows) have a B rating for contact,a D for Power, but a 1 for trajectory. He will get a lot of hits but will probably only get 2 HR in your pennant season.

Also, Shinjo might have a rating of B for Power but only a trajectory of 3 means he will only get 15-20 HRs in a season. Its not only the ratings you need to look at to make your judgement on a player,I found that out the hard way.

After examining various players in Pawapuro, I've concluded the following. Again, I'm not 100% certain about this, but I'm pretty sure.

Like Skinz said, there are only 4 arrows in Pawapuro: a high diagonal, a medium diagonal, a low diagonal, and one that's nearly horizontal. Each of the 4 has a color too. For example, the high diagonal is always RED. And each of the 4 has a designated number. For example, the high diagonal always has the number "4" next to it.

Finally, this might be a better way to describe the arrows' effect. Imagine playing homerun derby and hitting a ball just about as hard as you can - perfect cursor allignment and perfect timing. The flight path the ball takes depends on your bat's direction/trajectory just before it hit the ball. A RED high diagonal #4 arrow means your hitter has more of an upper-cut swing. So the ball tends to travel in high, looping arches.

ya, jom's got it all correct. That thing is the arch of the hitter. In pawapuro it goes from 1-4, with 1 usually resulting in linedrives and 4 having the highest arch. U can barely hit a homerun if ur arch is 1, coz the ball doesn't fly high enuff even if u have power. This stat works for both meet hitting and power swing. The power hitters (Cabrera, Matsunaka, Zuleta...etc) all have 4 arche, so even if they have the same power with some other guys, but with a 3 arche, they're gonna hit the ball out of the park easier bcoz it travels higher.

so...if u're ever to test out success mode...make sure ur power hitter have at least an arche or 3, or else u'll have a harder time hitting a homerun even with 160 power compared to some guy with maybe 140 but a 4 arche (not sure if this comparison works, coz arch 3 is already very enuff to hit homeruns easily, and the 20 extra power should have a bigger impact actually...^_^