Best Players With Metavision, Ranked

Key Takeaways

• Metavision grants footballers an omnipotent perspective, allowing them to exploit tactical vulnerabilities effectively.
• Reo Mikage, Yo Hiori, and Oliver Aiku are among the best players with metavision, excelling on the field.
• Players like Michael Kaiser utilize metavision, coupled with tactical genius, to outsmart opponents and score goals.

Footballers in the Blue Lock series are gifted with, or manage to develop, unique techniques, which they call weapons, to impose their presence on the field and outplay competitors. Among the many weapons, metavision stands out as it gives footballers an almost omnipotent perspective of the field, allowing them to exploit tactical oversights and vulnerabilities.

Players gifted with the unique skill thrive and frequently outplay their opponents by creating scoring opportunities where none exist. In the world of Blue Lock, these are the best players who use metavision, who have frequently demonstrated that they are a step ahead of everyone else.

8 Reo Mikage

Manshine City’s Center Midfielder

• Manga Debut: Chapter 1
• Anime Debut: Episode 1
• Positions: Center Back, Offensive Midfielder, Defensive Midfielder, Center Midfielder, Forward

As the heir of the Mikage Corporation, Reo could have chosen a life of comfort, but from a young age, he was enamored by the sport of football. Reo eventually got selected for the Blue Lock project, where he competed with the best forwards from Japan.

His experiences there helped him reinvent his game and become a better player. Of all the weapons that he ended up adding to his arsenal, his ability to use metavision made him a game-changing star who could trouble any team on his day.

7 Yo Hiori

The Prodigious Offensive Midfielder Who Plays for Bastard München

• Manga Debut: Chapter 93
• Anime Debut: Episode 24
• Positions: Forward, Winger, Sideback, Offensive Midfielder

Unlike most players at Blue Lock, who were always driven to play football, Yo Hiori’s parents trained him from childhood, as they wanted him to become the best in the world. Despite being pushed to pick the sport, Hiori has grown up to develop world-class talent and is respected as a playmaker. His most formidable weapons include metavision, flow state, ball control, and passing.

6 Oliver Aiku

Dreams to Become the Best in the World

• Manga Debut: Chapter 110
• Anime Debut: Episode 25
• Positions: Center Back, Forward

Oliver Aiku is a respected footballer who gave up his dream of becoming a striker following a series of unfortunate incidents early in his career. Instead, he decided to become the world’s greatest defender. He is one of the few players who can consciously enter the flow state, and has also used metavision in crunch situations to help his team.

Oliver masterfully utilizes his central and peripheral vision to understand the opponent’s positioning and to read their movements. By making predictions based on these insights and data, Aiku has successfully saved several goals and turned the game on its head. His metavision produces better results due to his experience as a forward, which allows him to guess what the strikers are thinking in real time.

5 Charles Chevalier

Paris X Gen’s Heart

• Manga Debut: Chapter 244
• Position: Midfielder

Midfielders are expected to develop a balance between offensive creativity and defensive diligence, in order to serve the team’s interests. Paris X Gen’s midfielder Charles Chevalier does exactly that with his exceptional passing accuracy and speed to beautifully control the game and create chances for his strikers to thrive.

As a contrarian, Charles invents new defensive and offensive strategies to support his team, sometimes not even hesitating to go against senior players like Julian Loki. In his unique playing style, Charles frequently utilizes metavision to outsmart his opponents.

4 Yoichi Isagi

The Blue Lock Forward Chasing Greatness

• Manga Debut: Chapter 1
• Anime Debut: Episode 1
• Positions: Forward, Offensive Midfielder

Isagi arrived at Blue Lock as a talented striker with tremendous unexplored potential, which only Jinpachi Ego saw at the time. After playing alongside some of the best footballers from Japan and realizing that he still had a lot of holes in his game, Yoichi underwent a dramatic transformation and evolved his technique.

Isagi was gifted with spatial awareness, but his game truly reached a new level as he developed metavision, which granted him an omnipotent perspective of the field and positioning. As a striker, Yoichi used these insights along with his other weapons to score goals and establish himself as one of the best forwards in the Blue Lock facility.

3 Marc Snuffy

Malta’s Playmaker Who Is Recognized by the Greats

• Manga Debut: Chapter 155
• Positions: Forward, Defensive Midfielder

Malta’s Marc Snuffy is a master striker whose game is deeply influenced by jujutsu. Regarded by Noel Noa as the world’s best playmaker, he represents Italy’s Ubers as a forward and is a great team man.

His on-field genius is recognized around the world, and very few can keep up with him. Marc’s playstyle relies heavily on metavision along with his superior physicality to lead the team’s offense.

2 Sae Itoshi

The Japanese Genius

• Manga Debut: Chapter 4
• Anime Debut: Episode 2
• Positions: Midfielder, Forward

Sae Itoshi is a gifted Japanese footballer and a member of the New Generation World XI. Although he is arguably the best footballer in his country, he feels that he was born in the wrong place after having experienced competition in the European leagues. Sae’s pessimistic view of Japanese football and its future does not change until he plays a match against the Blue Lock Eleven.

As a playmaker, Itoshi loves to control the flow of his team’s offensive gameplay using his unique weapons, among which metavision stands out. He can easily bypass a team’s defense by exploiting the tactical vulnerabilities which, in turn, he exposes using his evolved vision. Along with metavision, Sae also often uses his unique weapons like perfect kick technique, reflex, dribbling, and accurate passing.

1 Michael Kaiser

The Clinical Finisher Who Plays for Bastard München

• Manga Debut: Chapter 149
• Position: Forward

Regarded as a future international football star, Michael Kaiser is a prodigious striker whose exceptional talent and tactical genius are unparalleled. He plays as a forward for Germany’s Bastard München, and has made his mark despite playing alongside the world’s best striker, Noel Noa.

Michael Kaiser thrives on the soccer field by using his lightning-fast shot to score from unexpected angles, which takes the opposition by surprise. He is able to pull off goals that seem impossible using his tactical genius and well-developed metavision that gives him an almost omnipotent view of the field. While several other footballers can use metavision, very few can come close to brilliantly utilizing their high football IQ to make predictions as well as Kaiser.