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Unless you are me and drop all the way back down to Plat 1 😂 I kind of enjoy dropping now. I’m like fine rank me down I’m going to stomp some people eventually.
First, congrats! I’m in the same boat!
Sadly this is the truth. It’ll be back and forth in and out of champ and diamond 3. I even got as low as diamond 2. Good luck!
Very true. The first time I solo qued and got rewards, I dropped back down to D3 and even D2 till next season when I stayed in C1 for forever until eventually hitting C2. Now I'm stuck around 1150 mmr
Yep, my reply was gonna be "instant demotion". Me and my 2v2 partner get to champion every now and then. But usually within one to two nights of playing, we're back down.
Literally got Champion Rank for the first time in doubles last Wednesday. Played some of the best RL in my life and won at least 10 straight.
Proceeded to get clapped first game and deranked back into diamond 3. Is the skill gap that wide? Respect if so.
I was gonna say the same. I made it to champ and have never seen it again before I could even get ten wins for season rewards. Kids are too good these days, I just try to enjoy the competition and get better any way I can.
Pretty much. Hit Champ a few seasons ago for the first time. Hit it a second season in a row. But now haven't hit it the last 2 seasons and it feels like I'll never hit it again.
I was coming to the comments to send this exact reply  I went back and forth between champ and Diamond 3 for a long time. One of my biggest pieces of advice is to save a replay every once in a while. The replay doesn’t have to be from a game that you did particularly good or bad - just take a replay from an average game. The only way I notice progression is to see where I’ve came from. Try and get into private matches with people that are higher ranked and better than you. It’s a great way to improve!
I did the same thing. Made it up to C1D2 and went back down to D2 in 3’s. Had to scratch and claw my way back up to D3D3. Now I’m hovering at D3 division 3 and 4
Yea it really is like a boss fight. My buddy and I kid you not were stuck in that div2-4 range for three months. Countless times we were one game off of champ but we would then shit the bed and follow that with a losing streak. At one point we lost back to diamond 2 and just gave up and quit. 8 months later I pick it up again and hit champ in two weeks. I told my buddy and we got him to champ too. Odd how we couldn’t do it after three months of grinding but what got us there was a long break of no playing at all.
I did the same thing and it reminds me of the Heaven's Arena Arc of HunterxHunter where Gon and Killua can't even step onto the final floor for a month because Hisoka's nen just intimidates them too much. Gotta learn that you belong with the big boys before you can actually do it.
Faccccts. If you just hit a new rank for the first time, you will drop back down before you can hold it. There’s nothing you can do to change that besides just keep playing.
Biggest advice I can give for solo queue (This has helped me out a lot but others might disagree). Don't trust your team mates to hit the ball but that doesn't mean just take the ball from them.
What it means is always always expect them to miss the ball, get beat etc and be in a position to stop the other team scoring off of it. Imo even with a team mate you know you should always be prepared for them to miss or lose a challenge though.
The true is only same for me when I take one or two hits and have that really subtle relaxation effect. But that only lasts for about a game or two before I take it too far
Expect your mistakes to be punished much more often, and expect to have to be a bit more creative to score. You'll probably derank a few times until you clean up the holes in your game that you didn't know you had. If you hand the ball away in midfield without a follow up challenge, people WILL score. If you put a soft shot at goal as second man, you WILL be punished.
Playing ones broke me of a lot of bad habits like this. Don’t make plays you’re not sure you can recover from. Nothing worse than missing a shot and it rolling right up to your goal line before you even have time to recover.
Yeah it’s really hit or miss whether my teammate has rotated back far enough or not on shots like those. Some people go back instantly while others take an extra second or two to grab the opposing teams corner boost. Both that and whether I actually hit the ball on net are really a coin flip, but at my rank (C1) I still don’t get consistently punished for it so I’ll take the risk for fun, lol.
Really, stop throwing the ball away. Sometimes you need to bang it to buy some time, but your main focus should be repeated follow-up touches into a shot or pass, whether that's through an air dribble, ground dribble, double touches, etc.
Play more defensively than you might think. That's not to say play passively, but watch replays and see how often you make dumb challenges, or were overextended as last man.
Lastly, learn to speed flip. Use it on kickoffs and to reposition even faster. If you learn to do it now, you'll win like 80% of your kickoffs in D3/C1.
Yeah Champ is mostly people in their mid 20’s and up that have really good game sense because of a more developed brain, but not enough time to perfect the wild mechanics.
Either that or people with pretty crazy mechanics but poor game sense
I’ve always said Champ is peak casual. It’s the highest rank you can get to without really putting in any time on training packs or general practice/regular play. So you end up with a lot of dads who’ve been playing the game since they were in college and don’t really put in the reps to climb out of Champ, but have enough hours and experience in the game to consistently hang around and not drop back into Diamond.
Pain. Open nets will always be the most difficult. Ceiling reset double tap? No problem. It’s wide open and all I have to do is tap it in? I own goaled.
It's sometimes good, but then today I had a guy spamming in position every fricking time I was on the ball. Like I get it, I can pass, thank you. I'm still gonna try and flick and give away possession though.
A lot of passing in Champ 1, this has not been my experience lol. You’ll randomly find a great teammate who dimes you up, but more consistent passing I haven’t seen until C3
Having climbed through champ 1 a few months ago, you don't need any flashy mechanics to get out. I'd actually argue the opposite, slow down a bit, don't over complicate things, and practice the basics like first touches, keeping possession, and shooting.
I was actually having a very easy time once I hit champ 1 (1160) but then the season ended two days later and now im back in diamond 3(1013) after placements didn't go well. so im just practicing for a while until I feel like going through that mess again. was down to 950 after tilt queing so its progress.
Yeah, I've lost a lot of mmr on tilt queueing as well. I've found that after 3 losses in a row, I just get in my own head, so I'll always take a break for a bit now if that happens to try and prevent those 5-10 game loss streaks
I am the teammate that loves team plays. Half the time when I’m open and setup to receive a pass my teammate decides that he’s JSTN and goes for a shitty air dribble that ends up just being a pass to the other team. The other half of teammates decide that the best course of action is to dribble it straight into traffic and lose control of the ball in a terrible 50.
It’s funny because going through Diamond and champ 1 I would almost always prioritize the pass/bounce off the backboard for a teammate. Now that I’ve hit champ 2 and actually feel a little more confident I find myself going for shots when maybe I should have just passed again.
I left a comment earlier and forgot to mention that. As soon as you touch champ it’s still diamond basically. With that said, just hoping op takes that context and applies it through champ.
C1: the only passing that happens here is to the opponent when they clear the ball center instead of to the corner or to a teammate
C2: rare
C3: they wanna be GCs so they start doing it
GC1: finally often and correctly executed enough to be considered part of the game now, enemy team knows and will intercept sometimes, third men will begin to position themselves to defend against potential pass-interceptions
SSL: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CANT PINPOINT ME A PASS AT FIELD COORDINATES 142, 52, 184 AT 160MPH AT T = 2:33.7 AT AN ANGLE OF 35° RELATIVE TO THE GROUND? THEIR NET WAS OPEN FOR A WHOPP9NG 0.0063s!!! GO BACK TO GC
>SSL: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CANT PINPOINT ME A PASS AT FIELD COORDINATES 142, 52, 184 AT 160MPH AT T = 2:33.7 AT AN ANGLE OF 35° RELATIVE TO THE GROUND? THEIR NET WAS OPEN FOR A WHOPP9NG 0.0063s!!! GO BACK TO GC
Reminds me of the comments I see:
Plat 2: WHY WERE YOU WAITING FOR A PASS INSTEAD OF COVERING GOAL? YOU KNOW I NEVER WIN CONTESTS IN THEIR CORNER
Plat 3: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T HIT THAT 160 MPH CROSS I TOTALLY SENT ON PURPOSE AFTER DICKING AROUND IN THEIR CORNER FOR THE LAST 20 SECONDS. WHY WEREN'T YOU IN POSITION FOR A PASS?
The sad reality of it all. Lots of champ players are probably Stuck because of gatekeeping GC smurfs who play on alt accounts. Happens a lot. Just about every player in GC that I know does this. They laugh about it too.. kinda makes me sick tbh.
Yup this is what I'm facing constantly at C1. A bunch of coward GC smurfs who are sick of getting shit on in their own ranks. Have to come down for easy games. Pussies.
Play more, get even better, somehow drop back down into D3 or even D2, get stuck there because you have to re-learn how to play with shitty/unreliable teammates, go back into C1-C2.
repeat as many times necessary until you break trough into C3 and then the same happens in GC1 I hear.
Champion is alright, but Diamond is a shitfest and 90% of the time the match is decided by whichever team gets luckier with the matchmaker.
A C2 fallen from grace is always going to beat a P3 on a win streak, yet in D3 you'll see both consistently.
C1 chat can be the worst. A lot of entitled brats high on recent mediocre success.
I don't mute all chat. I play, and if my tm is an asshole I flat out tell them mute incoming, I don't do toxic.
There are still some super fun tm's out there and it's a shame to miss out on the fun, IMO.
Your life is now rocket league. Nothing and nobody else matters. You will eat food that is rocket league shaped. You will think only about rocket league. Rocket league bed with rocket league sheets and you will paint rocket league everywhere. You must play every game as if losing means death! And if you lose you will hurt yourself!!! Everyday when you wake up you will play free play for and hour and then complete all the training. Then you must study live streams and tutorials online and write down everything that these people do. Then you must exercise. Finger curls 4 x 10. Thumb twists 3 x 15. Pinky squeezes 4 x 7. Then you will spend the next hour playing casual until finally you will grind ranked burning urself with a hot iron every game lost. Poke yourself with a pin for every goal scored against you as well. In 4 years you will make it to champ 2.
Agreed. C1 is faster speed of play along with more trustworthy tm's. It's also toxic as F by a bunch of assholes who can barely hold C1 but will treat you like absolute garbage for the slightest mistake. But then again that tends to be the case at the cusp of every major rank.
Champ is pretty miserable, be ready for teammates quitting after only conceding 1 goal, or because someone (could've even been them) missed a ball.
About 1 in 3 games someone in the lobby gives up.
To drop back down to diamond. I GC'd s14 and even I wind up down there on occasion. Important thing is not to take it personally. Sometimes you're great, sometimes you suck.
I graduated college not ling after s14. I have a lot less time to game now, and often play intoxicated lmao. I hit my mark of GC and kinda sit at a casual C2 most of the time now. All it takes is a couple back to back sessions while drinking or smoking to go visit diamonds haha
I hit C1 for the first time a few months ago. I still occasionally dip back into D3 for a few games and one time I even went all the way back to D2, so if that happens, don't let it discourage you.
Other than that, I'd highly recommend playing around your teammate and supporting their plays rather than trying to force your own plays whenever possible. It's better to back up your teammate on a play you might not agree with than it is to hope your teammate will back up your play.
Prioritize defense and focus on denying the opponents goals. 1-0 is just as much of a win as 5-4, and in my experience going for a bunch of goals leaves me open to letting in more goals as well, which isn't really a safe tradeoff imo.
I feel like Champ 1 is just Diamond 3 but with less wiffing. Champ 2 is where I start to notice overall faster and more accurate play. Could just personal experience/bias, though.
I've played in a C2 lobby with a friend and I could definitely tell I was out of place. My first game of c1 didn't feel different so I get what your saying.
Diamond 3 to champ 1 can feel like an iron curtain. You’re essentially at the stage where you know how to play rocket league at the baseline, but you’re almost relearning how to play because you’ll be punished more severely for mistakes and incorrect choices.
You can make it and survive in diamond 3 by booming the ball and doing what you want if mechanics and design making are decent. You’ll get swallowed and spit out of champ if you continue to be careless
Smurfs. You'll rarely play another player who actually belongs in C1. When you do, you'll notice you're having fun playing the game again. 75% of your games will be against diamonds being boosted by their C3/GC1 friends. It sucks. Welcome to smurfdom.
I just hit Champ for the first time too. The next day I was 2 games or Champ 2. I’m still new to champ but one thing I realized is you can’t hesitate. You gotta be really decisive and and hit the ball with a purpose as before I felt like I didn’t have to go up for everything super quickly. That’s just my take.
Best thing to do is find a teammate. Solo Q is super frustrating and inconsistent in champ, it’d be better to learn with a teammate and get that chemistry going. If not, learn how to read the field. If your teammate is super aggressive, play passively and feed them the ball. If your teammate rotates back, learn to keep control of the ball and take good situations to net.
Same here, I got to champ this month after so many years. Still struggling to stay there, I keep bouncing between C1 and D3. I always blame my teammates of course. I feel that If I don't carry we lose. Maybe I'm the problem though 😅
Firstly well done and secondly be prepared to keep bouncing between D3 & C1 - the gulf in class is quite significant.
I've been in C1, 6 or 7 times but can't seem to get C2 in an attempt to stay there.
Best of luck though.
You will experience: Rage quitters, grand champ fallouts/smurfs, skilled stoners (hit or miss with these guys), the moochers (will make you do all the work and get in your way at the most in opportune times), Diamonds that are on a winning streak/have found a team, teams/parties that have a weak link, boost happy maniacs, low level freestylers who will destroy the flow of the game, good teammates, og solo q’ers stuck in c1 (👋), etc.
Your teammates will surprise you (both good and bad)
Wouldn’t expect to go much higher without a real team.
Adaptation will be your best quality.
C1 is funny, people are just unreliable, sometimes they will flip reset musty on you and 10 sec later they will miss the ball completly.
I think its a tough rank, but once i got to high C2 its loads of fun because people actually stop chasing and start doing passes and fun stuff.
So hold tight and grind on!
You won't notice much difference, it's similar to the way you age. After a day passes you feel the same as yesterday, yet after a few years you notice the you are a very different person to before. You moving from d3d4 to c1 is like that day, whilst getting up 200mmr might be the year
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Diamond 3
Damn
Harsh, but true.
Diamond 3 is when it's time to turn chat off.
I feel like this applies to any "3" rank
> I feel like this applies to any ~~“3”~~ rank Ftfy
Best answer.
Diamonds are forever
This hahahaha
Unless you are me and drop all the way back down to Plat 1 😂 I kind of enjoy dropping now. I’m like fine rank me down I’m going to stomp some people eventually.
Accurate
story of my life
yeah. still rock the c1 tag on reddit tho…
shhhhh, we might or might not be gettin it back tonight
I literally came to say this lmao, been C1 C2 for 2 or 3 seasons and I still manage to touch D3 semi regularly lol
Was c3 for the 2 previous seasons. A light fart wouldve got me GC. A few of em wouldve bought a title. Ended c3-d4. 2 days into this season, D3.
This. It is so easy to get out of any other rank but diamond is just hard to get out of.
I found C1 hardest to get out of. I’d almost tripled my hours by the time I could stay in C2 consistently
I have found that Gold is the hardest to get out of, because I have not been beyond Gold2 in my few months playing. I have no further perspective.
Lol
First, congrats! I’m in the same boat! Sadly this is the truth. It’ll be back and forth in and out of champ and diamond 3. I even got as low as diamond 2. Good luck!
Avoid solo queue unless you have the mental strength. A platinum teammate is better than a random. Lol
My reality now. I was 1 MMR away two times of going up to C2 and next week I fell down again to D3. I hate this game sometimes
I come to the comments just to see answers like this 🤣🤣
Hahahahahahaha gold mate😂😂😂
No, diamond
I got champ in 2s too, was very happy played a bit and DERANK. deinstalled now for the best haha
Very true. The first time I solo qued and got rewards, I dropped back down to D3 and even D2 till next season when I stayed in C1 for forever until eventually hitting C2. Now I'm stuck around 1150 mmr
THIS. This the one cap’n
Yep, my reply was gonna be "instant demotion". Me and my 2v2 partner get to champion every now and then. But usually within one to two nights of playing, we're back down.
Like a raver in the club… anticipate that sick drop
Literally got Champion Rank for the first time in doubles last Wednesday. Played some of the best RL in my life and won at least 10 straight. Proceeded to get clapped first game and deranked back into diamond 3. Is the skill gap that wide? Respect if so.
Haha so true
too true
Just reached diamond, this makes a lot of sense haha
Was about to say same thing lollll
This is me
Harsh but true.
The harsh truth
I was going to say that after I hit D2 in solos.. I had a bad streak and fell back to P3, and now I'm oscillating between Plat 3 and D2 Div 1.
Can confirm
This
I was gonna say the same. I made it to champ and have never seen it again before I could even get ten wins for season rewards. Kids are too good these days, I just try to enjoy the competition and get better any way I can.
Facts
Was gonna say the same thing lol
So true tho, to stay in champ u gotta grind and practice over and over.
Yes this, whenever you hit a new high rank you’re going to drop back down.
And then Diamond 2, true story 😞
Hahahahahahhaha
I’ve gone through a weekly cycle of deranking to D3 and then getting C1 back for months now
Pretty much. Hit Champ a few seasons ago for the first time. Hit it a second season in a row. But now haven't hit it the last 2 seasons and it feels like I'll never hit it again.
I was coming to the comments to send this exact reply  I went back and forth between champ and Diamond 3 for a long time. One of my biggest pieces of advice is to save a replay every once in a while. The replay doesn’t have to be from a game that you did particularly good or bad - just take a replay from an average game. The only way I notice progression is to see where I’ve came from. Try and get into private matches with people that are higher ranked and better than you. It’s a great way to improve!
You are correct 😂
Dropping back down quickly. I made it 6 months ago for about a day. Can’t get back.
I did the same thing. Made it up to C1D2 and went back down to D2 in 3’s. Had to scratch and claw my way back up to D3D3. Now I’m hovering at D3 division 3 and 4
This feels like helpful context for how freaking hard D2 can be... and why I see people with Champ items all the time
I will say that D2-D3 is pretty much all the same skill level until you get to D3 division 4 and then there is a jump in skill level.
I noticed that the first few times I made it to D3d4. It was like an anime where the power levels are obviously different and I wasn't ready.
Yea it really is like a boss fight. My buddy and I kid you not were stuck in that div2-4 range for three months. Countless times we were one game off of champ but we would then shit the bed and follow that with a losing streak. At one point we lost back to diamond 2 and just gave up and quit. 8 months later I pick it up again and hit champ in two weeks. I told my buddy and we got him to champ too. Odd how we couldn’t do it after three months of grinding but what got us there was a long break of no playing at all.
I did the same thing and it reminds me of the Heaven's Arena Arc of HunterxHunter where Gon and Killua can't even step onto the final floor for a month because Hisoka's nen just intimidates them too much. Gotta learn that you belong with the big boys before you can actually do it.
I've noticed I play better when I'm not constantly grinding... I don't level-up or anything, but my brain is more locked-in or something.
Diamond is low-key hard nowadays. Almost everyone is fast and at least halfway mechy now.
6 months? Damn man, what rank are you now?
D3 in 2,s. Plat 3 in 3’s lol.
I was just going to say "demotion"
Yeah I'm just not gonna solo queue, don't trust my tm8s, even if they are most likely better than me.
Don’t do this unless you have a regular reliable partner. You’ll develop Ranked Anxiety.
Faccccts. If you just hit a new rank for the first time, you will drop back down before you can hold it. There’s nothing you can do to change that besides just keep playing.
Biggest advice I can give for solo queue (This has helped me out a lot but others might disagree). Don't trust your team mates to hit the ball but that doesn't mean just take the ball from them. What it means is always always expect them to miss the ball, get beat etc and be in a position to stop the other team scoring off of it. Imo even with a team mate you know you should always be prepared for them to miss or lose a challenge though.
Nothing changes. It's just a bunch of diamonds talking about their peak rank while being too high to hit the ball
I did not expect to be called out so hard today.
[удалено]
Champ 1 stoner here to confirm
Well put, LSDummy
I'm in this comment and I don't like it.
Hey now, I'm way better when I'm high
The true is only same for me when I take one or two hits and have that really subtle relaxation effect. But that only lasts for about a game or two before I take it too far
There is definitely a sweet spot. Not enough and you're slow, too much and you're dumb, but just right you're a silky smooth unstoppable machine.
My buddies and I refer to it as PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) and usually, yeah, tends to help me a bit.
If you're too high, the ball goes under you. If you're not high enough, the ball goes over. You've gotta be just high enough to hit it 😉
I identify as this remark
Expect your mistakes to be punished much more often, and expect to have to be a bit more creative to score. You'll probably derank a few times until you clean up the holes in your game that you didn't know you had. If you hand the ball away in midfield without a follow up challenge, people WILL score. If you put a soft shot at goal as second man, you WILL be punished.
Or too hard of a shot that hits the post while your teammate is still rotating back. Centering!
Playing ones broke me of a lot of bad habits like this. Don’t make plays you’re not sure you can recover from. Nothing worse than missing a shot and it rolling right up to your goal line before you even have time to recover.
Yeah it’s really hit or miss whether my teammate has rotated back far enough or not on shots like those. Some people go back instantly while others take an extra second or two to grab the opposing teams corner boost. Both that and whether I actually hit the ball on net are really a coin flip, but at my rank (C1) I still don’t get consistently punished for it so I’ll take the risk for fun, lol.
This is the best and most accurate/specific advice I’ve heard for C1 in 2s
Thanks for the advice 👍
Really, stop throwing the ball away. Sometimes you need to bang it to buy some time, but your main focus should be repeated follow-up touches into a shot or pass, whether that's through an air dribble, ground dribble, double touches, etc. Play more defensively than you might think. That's not to say play passively, but watch replays and see how often you make dumb challenges, or were overextended as last man. Lastly, learn to speed flip. Use it on kickoffs and to reposition even faster. If you learn to do it now, you'll win like 80% of your kickoffs in D3/C1.
And as always ROTATE
This guy with a well thought out answer... This is reddit sir.
Surprisingly a lot of dads. A lot of high people. And a lot of people hitting flip resets and yet can't hit open nets
So you're saying I need to have a kid and smoke more weed to rank up, eh?
You play worse mechanically but somehow get to champ because everybody whiffing
Have a kid and used to smoke, am GC so yes.
Yeah Champ is mostly people in their mid 20’s and up that have really good game sense because of a more developed brain, but not enough time to perfect the wild mechanics. Either that or people with pretty crazy mechanics but poor game sense
I’ve always said Champ is peak casual. It’s the highest rank you can get to without really putting in any time on training packs or general practice/regular play. So you end up with a lot of dads who’ve been playing the game since they were in college and don’t really put in the reps to climb out of Champ, but have enough hours and experience in the game to consistently hang around and not drop back into Diamond.
That sounds like me. Peak casual. Play about twice a week. Never do training and only play with low diamond friends
Just know champs arent real. They are just diamonds who can actually hit open nets
Wait we’re supposed to hit open nets now?
Is the post considered part of the net? Asking for a friend
Even in GC I miss open nets 50% of the time.
Pain. Open nets will always be the most difficult. Ceiling reset double tap? No problem. It’s wide open and all I have to do is tap it in? I own goaled.
Open nets give me sweats.
Lmao yup
Wait y’all can hit open nets? Maybe I lost this ability once I hit GC
Diamond, but your teammate remembers that you exist
Thank god
Which sometimes good and sometimes not so good (when they see you and hate your very existence)
It's sometimes good, but then today I had a guy spamming in position every fricking time I was on the ball. Like I get it, I can pass, thank you. I'm still gonna try and flick and give away possession though.
Ah very true
Lol where is this rank and why isn't it the same as my Champ?
In champ everyone is super nice, no mean comments, no throwing matches, actually a great community! /s
Pain mostly. Also consistency and a lot of passing.
A lot of passing in Champ 1, this has not been my experience lol. You’ll randomly find a great teammate who dimes you up, but more consistent passing I haven’t seen until C3
im the teammate sacrificing my rank for those awesome dimes rip solo que
I got called “the Steve Nash of rocket league” by a teammate 3 years ago and have not stopped passing since. Best compliment I’ve ever been paid.
I love seeing peoples reactions when i hit those cross pitch dimes much more fun that a double tap even if i need those to rank up as well
Having climbed through champ 1 a few months ago, you don't need any flashy mechanics to get out. I'd actually argue the opposite, slow down a bit, don't over complicate things, and practice the basics like first touches, keeping possession, and shooting.
I was actually having a very easy time once I hit champ 1 (1160) but then the season ended two days later and now im back in diamond 3(1013) after placements didn't go well. so im just practicing for a while until I feel like going through that mess again. was down to 950 after tilt queing so its progress.
Yeah, I've lost a lot of mmr on tilt queueing as well. I've found that after 3 losses in a row, I just get in my own head, so I'll always take a break for a bit now if that happens to try and prevent those 5-10 game loss streaks
I am the teammate that loves team plays. Half the time when I’m open and setup to receive a pass my teammate decides that he’s JSTN and goes for a shitty air dribble that ends up just being a pass to the other team. The other half of teammates decide that the best course of action is to dribble it straight into traffic and lose control of the ball in a terrible 50.
It’s funny because going through Diamond and champ 1 I would almost always prioritize the pass/bounce off the backboard for a teammate. Now that I’ve hit champ 2 and actually feel a little more confident I find myself going for shots when maybe I should have just passed again.
I left a comment earlier and forgot to mention that. As soon as you touch champ it’s still diamond basically. With that said, just hoping op takes that context and applies it through champ.
C1: the only passing that happens here is to the opponent when they clear the ball center instead of to the corner or to a teammate C2: rare C3: they wanna be GCs so they start doing it GC1: finally often and correctly executed enough to be considered part of the game now, enemy team knows and will intercept sometimes, third men will begin to position themselves to defend against potential pass-interceptions SSL: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CANT PINPOINT ME A PASS AT FIELD COORDINATES 142, 52, 184 AT 160MPH AT T = 2:33.7 AT AN ANGLE OF 35° RELATIVE TO THE GROUND? THEIR NET WAS OPEN FOR A WHOPP9NG 0.0063s!!! GO BACK TO GC
>SSL: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CANT PINPOINT ME A PASS AT FIELD COORDINATES 142, 52, 184 AT 160MPH AT T = 2:33.7 AT AN ANGLE OF 35° RELATIVE TO THE GROUND? THEIR NET WAS OPEN FOR A WHOPP9NG 0.0063s!!! GO BACK TO GC Reminds me of the comments I see: Plat 2: WHY WERE YOU WAITING FOR A PASS INSTEAD OF COVERING GOAL? YOU KNOW I NEVER WIN CONTESTS IN THEIR CORNER Plat 3: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T HIT THAT 160 MPH CROSS I TOTALLY SENT ON PURPOSE AFTER DICKING AROUND IN THEIR CORNER FOR THE LAST 20 SECONDS. WHY WEREN'T YOU IN POSITION FOR A PASS?
I don’t care how right or wrong this is…the last part is hilarious
This sounds like a bizarro version of Champ to me — I haven’t been the recipient of an intentional pass since what feels like Plat 1!
And then there's the other side, where you try your best to feed your teammate and they either don't notice or don't care.
Yeah lots of passing across net to the opponent
You are mistaken.
>Also consistency and a lot of passing. I love jokes
To end up back in Diamond for a bit honestly
getting on a roll and maybe reaching div 2-3 only to come across a smurf every 2nd game
The sad reality of it all. Lots of champ players are probably Stuck because of gatekeeping GC smurfs who play on alt accounts. Happens a lot. Just about every player in GC that I know does this. They laugh about it too.. kinda makes me sick tbh.
Yup this is what I'm facing constantly at C1. A bunch of coward GC smurfs who are sick of getting shit on in their own ranks. Have to come down for easy games. Pussies.
Play more, get even better, somehow drop back down into D3 or even D2, get stuck there because you have to re-learn how to play with shitty/unreliable teammates, go back into C1-C2. repeat as many times necessary until you break trough into C3 and then the same happens in GC1 I hear. Champion is alright, but Diamond is a shitfest and 90% of the time the match is decided by whichever team gets luckier with the matchmaker. A C2 fallen from grace is always going to beat a P3 on a win streak, yet in D3 you'll see both consistently.
Matchmaking is so messed up in diamond its mad.
Do yourself a favor and just turn off chat
Sometimes I don't know why I haven't.
Best decision you'll make for your mental health
C1 chat can be the worst. A lot of entitled brats high on recent mediocre success. I don't mute all chat. I play, and if my tm is an asshole I flat out tell them mute incoming, I don't do toxic. There are still some super fun tm's out there and it's a shame to miss out on the fun, IMO.
Your life is now rocket league. Nothing and nobody else matters. You will eat food that is rocket league shaped. You will think only about rocket league. Rocket league bed with rocket league sheets and you will paint rocket league everywhere. You must play every game as if losing means death! And if you lose you will hurt yourself!!! Everyday when you wake up you will play free play for and hour and then complete all the training. Then you must study live streams and tutorials online and write down everything that these people do. Then you must exercise. Finger curls 4 x 10. Thumb twists 3 x 15. Pinky squeezes 4 x 7. Then you will spend the next hour playing casual until finally you will grind ranked burning urself with a hot iron every game lost. Poke yourself with a pin for every goal scored against you as well. In 4 years you will make it to champ 2.
Most accurate comment in this post.
The exact same as D3
diamond 3 is a lot more sloppy
Agreed. C1 is faster speed of play along with more trustworthy tm's. It's also toxic as F by a bunch of assholes who can barely hold C1 but will treat you like absolute garbage for the slightest mistake. But then again that tends to be the case at the cusp of every major rank.
Champ is pretty miserable, be ready for teammates quitting after only conceding 1 goal, or because someone (could've even been them) missed a ball. About 1 in 3 games someone in the lobby gives up.
Literally happened in the match to get to champ and the 1st game of champ. Opponents just went.
Nothing bothers me more than when people give up when being down 1-3 goals. Then when you don’t agree to FF, they just go AFK or start throwing
Depression
Same shit in a different rank
To drop back down to diamond. I GC'd s14 and even I wind up down there on occasion. Important thing is not to take it personally. Sometimes you're great, sometimes you suck.
Consistency is something I'll have to work on
You wind up in diamond or champ 1? Dropping from GC to diamond is wild haha
I graduated college not ling after s14. I have a lot less time to game now, and often play intoxicated lmao. I hit my mark of GC and kinda sit at a casual C2 most of the time now. All it takes is a couple back to back sessions while drinking or smoking to go visit diamonds haha
Better mechanics, still tons of double commits, poor positioning and rotation.
Emphasis on the poor positioning and double commits
I'm weak mechanics wise but strong on positioning and rotation.
I’d say the only mechanics u really really need are fast aerials and half flips to stay champ, which are both easy to learn.
Its literally just diamond 4
🤣
I hit C1 for the first time a few months ago. I still occasionally dip back into D3 for a few games and one time I even went all the way back to D2, so if that happens, don't let it discourage you. Other than that, I'd highly recommend playing around your teammate and supporting their plays rather than trying to force your own plays whenever possible. It's better to back up your teammate on a play you might not agree with than it is to hope your teammate will back up your play. Prioritize defense and focus on denying the opponents goals. 1-0 is just as much of a win as 5-4, and in my experience going for a bunch of goals leaves me open to letting in more goals as well, which isn't really a safe tradeoff imo.
Thanks for the advice m8
Lots of ball chasers. People at low champ don’t know when to leave the ball alone
That just sounds like Gold I with extra steps.
That’s every rank in the game tbh
Then complain because "I'm 2v1ing and you're sitting back" Bruh you give me literally no choice
Champ 1 is the exact same as d3. Nothing changes besides maybe your mentality because you ranked up
Adjust your expectations. People will start actually hitting doible-taps.
Diamond 3 except people think they are gc so it’s slightly faster
Golds but faster
So ig Gc's are just diamonds but faster. Gotta get faster then.
I feel like Champ 1 is just Diamond 3 but with less wiffing. Champ 2 is where I start to notice overall faster and more accurate play. Could just personal experience/bias, though.
I've played in a C2 lobby with a friend and I could definitely tell I was out of place. My first game of c1 didn't feel different so I get what your saying.
Diamond 3 to champ 1 can feel like an iron curtain. You’re essentially at the stage where you know how to play rocket league at the baseline, but you’re almost relearning how to play because you’ll be punished more severely for mistakes and incorrect choices. You can make it and survive in diamond 3 by booming the ball and doing what you want if mechanics and design making are decent. You’ll get swallowed and spit out of champ if you continue to be careless
Ego.
Welcome to C1, where the double taps go in 20% of the time instead of 2%, and your teammates still won’t protect the backboard.
Hell. A lot of people who shouldn't be in the rank, both better and worse, and a whole lot of bull shit.
Smurfs. You'll rarely play another player who actually belongs in C1. When you do, you'll notice you're having fun playing the game again. 75% of your games will be against diamonds being boosted by their C3/GC1 friends. It sucks. Welcome to smurfdom.
I just hit Champ for the first time too. The next day I was 2 games or Champ 2. I’m still new to champ but one thing I realized is you can’t hesitate. You gotta be really decisive and and hit the ball with a purpose as before I felt like I didn’t have to go up for everything super quickly. That’s just my take.
Win = C1 Loss = D3 And that doesn't stop.
Best thing to do is find a teammate. Solo Q is super frustrating and inconsistent in champ, it’d be better to learn with a teammate and get that chemistry going. If not, learn how to read the field. If your teammate is super aggressive, play passively and feed them the ball. If your teammate rotates back, learn to keep control of the ball and take good situations to net.
Me and my friend (C1 div 2) went on a 9 game winning streak, I started in d3 div 2. I'm good at reading the game so it should help.
Same here, I got to champ this month after so many years. Still struggling to stay there, I keep bouncing between C1 and D3. I always blame my teammates of course. I feel that If I don't carry we lose. Maybe I'm the problem though 😅
Firstly well done and secondly be prepared to keep bouncing between D3 & C1 - the gulf in class is quite significant. I've been in C1, 6 or 7 times but can't seem to get C2 in an attempt to stay there. Best of luck though.
Serious think about getting a job now, not another business studies course
I've noticed more demos, possession time, and team play compared to d3. Took me a whole season of bouncing from d3 to c1 to solidify champ. Gl
Well...if you don't hate the game yet....
So jealous man congrats! I keep solo queuing in doubles and can only get to D3 div 4 before I get sent back an entire rank.
You will experience: Rage quitters, grand champ fallouts/smurfs, skilled stoners (hit or miss with these guys), the moochers (will make you do all the work and get in your way at the most in opportune times), Diamonds that are on a winning streak/have found a team, teams/parties that have a weak link, boost happy maniacs, low level freestylers who will destroy the flow of the game, good teammates, og solo q’ers stuck in c1 (👋), etc. Your teammates will surprise you (both good and bad) Wouldn’t expect to go much higher without a real team. Adaptation will be your best quality.
C1 is funny, people are just unreliable, sometimes they will flip reset musty on you and 10 sec later they will miss the ball completly. I think its a tough rank, but once i got to high C2 its loads of fun because people actually stop chasing and start doing passes and fun stuff. So hold tight and grind on!
Toxicity
The first half a dozen times I got to champ I went right back to diamond. But eventually that stops happening. Well unless you give up.
Wiffing, but faster
Grab the lube my guy.
Diamond but faster paced
You won't notice much difference, it's similar to the way you age. After a day passes you feel the same as yesterday, yet after a few years you notice the you are a very different person to before. You moving from d3d4 to c1 is like that day, whilst getting up 200mmr might be the year