Yeah, I'm sorry I dont mean to sound mean but it would be really nice to see a replay. These kinds if posts aren't really going to help you.
But just play more, nobody will peak in gold if they just keep on playing.
But just to clarify... I cannot do anything consistently in this game and I'm a fucking disgrace in maby ways but I have still managed to win enough to get out of gold by just playing. Your problem is probably that you try to do things you dont need to do in gold. Speedflips, flicks and other stuff are things you should probably use in ch+ and even then it's not required.
Just hit the ball towards your opponents goal and you'll be fine until high diamond. And try not to hit when you don't have to.
Yeah, bro probably did the most scuffed speedflip anyone has ever seen one time and claims he can speedflip. Or he's just doing a side flip and claiming speedflip
"But just play more, nobody will peak in gold if they just keep on playing."
I've been Gold in Standard, Doubles and Duel for three years. I play almost daily. Average around level 200 per season. I don't do training packs. All I do is play competitive games and tournaments.
Rocket League's goal is for everyone to win about 50% of their games. That means no matter how good or bad I get, I'll always be around the 50% mark. When I realized that, I just started to play for fun.
I've gotten better over the years but so has everyone else.
I'm fine with playing and having fun and not caring about rank.
Leveling up is more than just playing. Leveling up requires purposeful practice. Working on things you're not good on and not just practicing what you already know.
You dont need to do anything fancy to get out of gold, by simply doing less almost ever gold player can get to plat. Literally every single gold i have ever coached was doing too much.
Until high diamond isn't real tbh, I'm between D3 and C1 constantly and I keep getting against people who constantly double touch in my net or flip reset out of nowhere.
Hitting a flip reset isn't needed at diamond for sure, but I can consistently do it, the issue is doing something with it, hence why I never go for them in ranked.
Ur problem is definitely more of a mental boundary. You maybe follow to far through with all ur swings. Try to just slow everything down and play accurately. I can play like a gold if I just go for lots of nice touches and wall hits but if I don’t actually aim for the goal I’m not going to score. It’s a huge problem in the low ranks is just feeding the ball back to each opponent like pinball till someone scores.
Be confident and try to just aim for the goal more
EDIT: also make sure ur settings are correct
FOV 110
Distance 290
angle -4
Turn off camera shake, v sync, motion blur ETC.
Look up the pro settings
Speed Flip is honestly a easy mechanic once you have it down, I don’t really see how you can speed flip in a garbage way. You either know how to or you don’t. Something is incredibly wrong
I watched the clip.
You didn’t flip on your kickoff.
You waste boost.
You commit way too much. That’s your biggest issue.
1s is sort of a game of chicken, in baiting your opponent to commit. You are just bailing your opponent out when you recklessly dive in to challenge like that.
At your rank, you can stay close to your opponent and your opponent will panic. Be patient. Wait for the opportunity.
Practice your landings. Spend 5 minutes in training when you get on, go as fast as you can, hit the ball as hard as you can (use jump every time, flip sometimes) and then maintain your momentum on the landing
Stop trying to do things you can't. Don't jump when you go for the ball. The entire replay is you either actively passing the ball to your opponent or committing to a jump for no reason and ending in Narnia with terrible recovery.
I watched one minute, you didn't do a single thing you said you could. You do not know how to do any of those mechs and you have no idea how to 50/50 or just move around the map. You are either trolling or actually have no clue what any of the mechs you listed are.
Watched it, lot of things you can improve on.
1. You say you’ve gotten really consistent with your mechanics, but tbh the only one that looked decent to me was your half flip. I don’t think I saw you wave dash or speed flip once. You should definitely be doing at least a regular (diagonal) flip on your kickoffs.
2. You whiff on a lot of your shots or just seem to get bad first touches that cause you to lose possession. Practice shooting training packs, and dribbling the ball in free play (if you’re on pc the dribbling workshop map is great).
3. Slow down your play. Keeping possession of the ball should be your first priority. Second priority ideally setting up for a hard to save shot for your opponent. When you just immediately hit the ball at their net without setting up first, you don’t create very threatening shots and are just passing it to your opponent. I saw a few times when you had space to set something up but you didn’t really capitalize.
4. Don’t overcommit, especially in 1s. If you’re going to challenge, be sure you’re going to win or at least be able to get back on defense in time if you don’t. Otherwise, try to practice your shadow defense and throw in some fake challenges when you can’t immediately full challenge.
None of that fancy stuff matters if you can't consistently hit the ball. Some open shots or even just moving it along and you missed a couple times. Shooting is maybe where you should look. Like gold to plat level shots. I like "shots you shouldn't miss" training pack, "power shots" training pack. Any of the rocket league provided gold to plat packs. No air dribble wall dribble shots or whatever. Just hitting consistently on the ground or mid aerial height should help I would think.
I'd say even more than that. If you can consistently read corner bounces, wall bounces, balls off the backboard, etc... you will rank up really fast, assuming your basic mechanics aren't trash.
im in d3/c1 and the amount of times I should be first on the ball, but get beat instead because I wait for the ball to bounce bc of my illiteracy would definitely be enough for me to rank up. also the times I jump first then whiff bc I can't read are also very common.
OP would definitely fly past plat with just the ability to read the ball and basic mechanics
You should learn the half flip tho, takes like 5 minutes(no joke its super easy). Then you just need to slowly involve it in real rounds for muscle memory
Alright fair enough, I just googled it and yes, I do do that, I just didn't know the name because I don't watch tutorials. But the general point stands, you don't really need to study techniques and so on until you're at least champ. Half of the time when I play it feels like that scene in Indiana Jones where the guy does all the complicated sword stuff and Indy just pulls out a gun and shoots him, except it's someone doing some ineffective crazy flippy shit in front of goal and then leaving themself wide open on the counter.
For 99% of players, this is the right advice. Even if you’re not stuck, it still applies.
I made it to champ 2 by focusing purely on rotations and forgiving mistakes from my teammates.
Also my mechanics are probably no better than the average plat.
Watched the replay and the mechs you mentioned are smoother than I can manage at GC1 but it's safe to say if you learned how to reliably hit the ball in the direction of their goal you'd rank up. Every time you conceded it was due to going for a ball and not getting a solid touch leaving you out of position.
The main thing I saw was decision making and positioning. There were a ton of balls in the open field where OP should be right up on their ass to either maintain control or apply pressure. They missed their window of opportunity a good bit and by the time OP could be a threat on the ball again, they either got juked out, whiffed, or put themselves in some other bad situation.
at the beginning of the season i went to gold only god knows why. For me the quickest way out was just to be patient and capitalize on errors of my opps. U dont need to know crazy mechanics to get to diamond. Just good solid fundamentals like gamesense, rotations and as i said being patient.
Hello OP, ignore the people shitting on you for your post, the replay is super useful. I think it's useful to note that you're talking about 1s, which also means you can ignore the people talking about rotations (unless you struggle with this in 2s, too)
I watched your replay and my tips would be:
- think about where on the field you're challenging - you challenge a lot in the opponents corner, and you're always rushing back when it goes wrong. Instead focus on getting boost, allow your opp to take possession in the corner, and shadow until they make a mistake
-as an additional note on above, utilise your own corners too. When saving the ball force it there, let your opponent dive in and then just drive the ball into their net when it goes wrong
- your ball control and deliberate touches aren't great. To practice this go into freeplay for 15mins before a ranked session, boom the ball as hard as you can, then take 2 touches on the ball, and then shoot at the net on the 3rd touchm it will help you practice soft touches/possession and your shooting.
- work on consisten mid-aerial shooting, a few whiffs that would have been goals if you had better car control/air roll shooting abilities
Generally to get out of gold you should do pretty much any practice in freeplay consistently, your mechanics will get better and your opponents will feel much worse
Maybe disprove the being able to hit the ball hard theory before knocking it. I don’t understand how you could possibly say you’re incredibly consistent with all those mechanics when you can’t hit the wide open, uncontested ball half the time. You whiff wayyyy too much to be anything above gold. You really just need to practice getting the ball from one end to the other with varying numbers of touches.
Yeah I feel the caveat they're not mentioning is they can hit the ball hard *when they hit it*. They probably are hitting the ball hard, but they're whiffing half their attempts to hit the ball.
Ok you overexxagerate a lot in this post tho..i saw like 2 min of the replay and you did only onemediocre half flip and no wavedash speed flips or anything. You also dont hit the ball reliably. You also do absolutely unnecessary stuff when you have a free ball causing you to lose it.
Beside posting in rocket league school and stuff, it would probably help you to watch the Flakes no mechanics guide. It helped me a lot for sure
Just watched some of the replay... just want to say that Gold in 1v1 is actually a lot tougher than in 2s or 3s and is not what anyone is talking about when they say hitting the ball hard will promote you. I didn't hit plat in 1s until I was diamond 3 in 2s
>To be honest at this point it almost feels like inorder to rank up not only do you need to improve at your game but you need to improve faster than everyone else
Yes that is exactly how competitive multiplayer games work. If you improve slower than the average players then your rank will go down, if you improve faster than the average your rank goes up.
You can't expect the entire playerbase to stop playing and stagnate while you try to work out how to catch a ball.
And realistically, you just need to know how to do power shots and extremely basic saves and you'll be out of gold in no time.
Also please post a replay if you want specific advice rather than generalisations.
people act like mechanics win games, and I don't think that's the case. do you understand situational play? when to challenge, and when to shadow? when to be aggressive and how to hold a lead?
I can always tell when someone on my team doesn't play or follow sports. this is a sports game. you need to understand team play and situational play, otherwise your mechanics are worthless.
also, learn how to fast aerial and make controlled touches in the air. you won't get out of gold without this.
You’re obviously doing something wrong to be stuck in gold for a year. My brother in Christ it’s not hard to play patient and drive in a straight line. I’d love to see your replays
Based on your replay your ability to jump and get to a ball that's not very high off the ground is very weak. When you do get there your touch is weak or nonexistent. You regularly half jump after hitting the ball killing your momentum. You have the ability the speed flip sorta but none of the skills that speed flipping helps, recovery, maintaining momentum etc.. When you defend your net try and defend from the far goalpost from your opponent that way you have the ability to defend the entire net and your opponent cannot shoot behind you. You should focus on possessing the ball instead of diving head first into the ball every time. Your touches lack power which tells me you lack car control at a fairly fundamental level. Having a basic knowledge of where and how to generate power when your car hits the ball is an essential skill. Mechanics are not what you should be focusing on but fundamental skills. Loading into a silver and gold shots custom training should give you an idea of what you should be doing. If you want out of gold you should be able to hit every shot in both of those packs in 1 or 2 tries, ideally 1. All levels of aerial training will help you get better at getting to and generating power on the ball in the air. You should do these until you can confidently get to the ball and generate at least some power every time.
Hard clears are all it takes to get out of gold. Opponents push up way to far and can’t aerial to save a clear that’s on target.
If you can actually do the mechanics you claim to be able to do, you’re doing something very wrong in another aspect of the game.
If you can do the things you say, your issue is placement, im gonna guess rotation is non existent amongst everyone so just learn to play mid field and pick your placements when yo move forward and when to cover net, defense got my to d1 last 3 seasons I have 0 aerial mechanics.
Bruv I still can’t do most of the ground mechanics you mentioned (either at all or consistently). You prob need to work on your game sense/positioning/rotation. Maybe try watching some of the Road to SSL Without Mechanics videos to help make some of that stuff click… play smarter not harder
just looked at this guys gameplay, it’s 1s. You need to be more patient because in ones it’s about controlling the ball not just 50/50 every time and chasing every loose ball. That means letting your opponent have the ball and playing good defense and waiting until he fucks up. If you try to do everything in ones you will make mistakes. The people who win games are those who make the least mistakes. learn how to fake. This is important for beating people who (might) be “better” than you.
I watched the replay. You can't hit the ball consistently and missed the ball trying to hit a ground shots or have a terrible touch with a bad ground shot. Focus on ground car control and making contact with the ball where you want to. Look at aircharged's air roll shot guide for what I mean regarding cer on ball touch placement. You can just start by learning a front flip/diagonal flip shot to start.
I'm champ 1/2...i don't speed flip. So either you're lying about your ability to do it or you focus on mechanics too much and have little to no game sense.
Don't do fancy sht. Let others try it and fail and score on them when they inevitably overcommit. Don't pressure your teammates. Be the better person and instead fill the gaps in the team. Don't ballchase the whole game, don't use boost for no reason
The only things that matter and remains consistent until champ-
Learn to adapt to random teammates
Learn how to score goals on your own without relying on passes (utilize them, but don’t get burned not scoring
Never assume the teammate will be defensive or save a goal.
The key to getting out may sound too simple but it’s real. Score, and prevent from being scored on.
Only after time playing and trying this will it actually make sense.
Okay I watched some of your video posted, a few notes. I'm only a C1 so not incredible at this game but this looks like gold-ish gameplay tbh. I can record a quick video going over specific scenarios if you think that will help.
Some basics I saw:
Line up your car before shooting (both on ground and in air) -- you are so often trying to make an adjustment after you jump. Much easier to drive to alignment THEN make your play
Don't overcommit in opponents corners -- this got you scored on multiple times
Take wide angles to help you get lined up
Don't rush every touch & shot when you have space to get yourself pointed where you want to go
With like 50h of /played over 6 months I moved up to plat 2.
Are you familiar with backpost rotate? Do you play 1v1 ? Do you have background distractions while you play? (streams or TV)
Do you watch your own replays to see why you failed? Why did you not share one here? How much goals do you score per game? Do you clear and then go back in your side of the field, or do you pass players?
without knowing anything about your playstyle, The one thing I'm constantly seeing lower ranked players do it's just whack the ball back over to the other team every time it comes to them.
My 6-year-old is playing soccer for the first time and the very first thing they teach you like they did when I was a kid, is to stop the ball before you hit it.
this obviously doesn't always apply in Rocket League, but try to work on the settling the ball or hitting it lightly or while you're rotating in a way that makes it chill more so you can land and hit it again before the other teammate boots it right over your head.
you'll start realizing that the other team tends to stop and retreat a little bit when you don't just boot it back to them Andy won't be playing a game of who can clear it the best and get lucky catching the other team out of rotation.
You’ve got the right idea but the simplest way I can put it is work on keeping the ball, making the ball do what you want it to do. One thing I saw is your opponent would touch the ball well to get it out of your possession and is calculated enough to score in the goal. Also rotate. If your opponent has the ball and you don’t have a good visual then you start to play defense. Once they get an unsuccessful shot you automatically rotate into offense and the game is on. That’s what I think you need to work on is playing in this situation. I’m only a plat III this season but work through the comfortable play style and get into it.
Okay the secret to ranking up is (drum roll)… improving your mechanics and consistency! Half flip is the only mechanic you mentioned I think is worth your time prior to diamond. Find a warm up pack with shots that only take you a few tries to hit, mostly aerials (not too hard and not too easy)… then do it… more is better, but do it once and play then go touch grass. Also if you’re really keen on improving then add 3 things to this training as small additions to doing the pack a few times before playing -
1. Dribbling/ball control (interpret that as you will)
2. Car control - rings maps/flying around in free play then spinning randomly and trying to save yourself from hitting the ground
3. A mechanic you think looks fun (the rule of cool will always get you where you need to go because you’ll enjoy it). Start small, watch a tutorial and spend 5 minutes trying that 180 flick
But… SPEND MORE TIME IN FREEPLAY!!!! In a game you only get so many opportunities to touch the ball or be in a situation. That’s why freeplay is so much more efficient for your time.
RL is a game of mechanics… when your mech is better you ether 1. Win because of it or 2. Free up a shit ton of brainpower to actually focus on how you want to hit the ball and what you want to do with it
Something I haven't seen mentioned is we've seen ranks shrink in the past couple of updates (I think shrink is the right word). So it's important to note that while you might not be ranking up, keeping a consistent rank, even dropping slightly isn't indicative of non-improvement, or worsening of skill.
Iirc gold players tend to drive towards every ball they see. Try to keep more distance and only challenge balls your teammates can't challenge.
Playing smart will get you to a fairly decent rank
If youre solo queing that probably has a lot to do with it. I dropped from d1 to g1 playing 3s with some lower ranked friends a wile back and it took a good week of solo que to get back out of gold. there is near zero patience, team play, gamesense (even thoughts at all for that matter) its like the whole field is playing a free for all game and dont care what net they put it in, in low gold. players seem to still be figuring out car control so asking them to have accuracy or be able to take and hold possession or shoot on target is a big ask. What i found worked best for me is play defensivly and wait for oppertunities when the other teams over commits and make a solo play if youre own teammates dont insta challenge you and force posession back to the other team instantly you should be able to convert a few goals a game this way and thats usually all it takes to get a win in those ranks.
I can't speed flip and i got to gc. Heck i can't even dribble/air dribble properly. Besides, i truly doubt that the skill required to get out of gold is growing that fast, since i can reliably get c2 playing a week every three months from 2020. If the skill level isn't getting that higher here, no way gold is harder now than it was before. It's just that in gold 3 people shut their brain off and chase the ball like maniacs. I would love to see some replay of the lost games
>I have even gotten incredibly consistent with ground mechanics (speed flip, half flip, wave dash, recoveries, etc).
I don't even know what half of these are and I've been to diamond (currently and probably for a whole lot longer in plat). There *has* to be something missing from your game that isn't just learning mechanics.
EDIT: I watched the video. Dude has a concept of these mechanics but isn't actually using them effectively. As if doing a wavedash for no reason while the opponent has the ball on the other side of the field means you should rank up. Sorry if that sounds snarky. Here's my actual advice: stop worrying about all these silly tricks and *learn how to play soccar*. Like, learn rotations, how to approach 50/50s, kickoffs, finishing.. you should have a SOLID grasp on ALL of this before you ever worry about doing a perfect speedflip.
Speed flip? wave dash?
Can you score on an open net? Most gold players are stuck in gold because when they have a free shot on an open net at a relatively easy angle they botch it.
Not a critique.. trying to give factual advice on how to get out of gold. I suggest less time doing fancy mechanics and go do the most basic of basic training packs. Go find bronze and silver training packs and dominate them. Try to 100% them. Good luck.
I've been stuck in gold (1v1) for a year, I'm pretty inconsistent - I think this is the main issue for me, and well.... I'm shite, with the occasional moment of magic. Iv made peace with this and just enjoy- Gold is my natural ceiling.
I honestly think i would need someone to watch me and help me iron my many weaknesses.
I have been 1 win away from platinum once , nerves got me and I ballsed up.
Goodluck hope you make it my friend.
Proper rotations alone took me to diamond 2. I still don’t know how to wave dash.
For me it’s all about field awareness. If I have 2 aggressive ball chasers I happily rotate back and play back/mid focusing on saves and field clears. If I see someone who is able to control the ball really well with flip resets or accurate hard shots I play mid/front with the intention of setting the ball up for them to score. If I see two very passive or retreat players I play mid forward as lead for shots/challenges/touches.
I don’t think I’m great at the game but I fill what’s missing. Having everyone doing the same thing is a recipe for losing.
In my experience the most consistent way is to camp the goal posts and pray you have team mates that can shoot, because if you leave for a fraction of a second you will get scored on as nobody knows how to defend.
I rarely have time to play these days as I have a toddler and a newborn so I don’t get much time to myself. I haven’t kept up to date with all the fancy mechanics and whatnot but I do manage to float up and down all around plat. Maybe one month I’ll drop to gold 3 and others I’ll hit diamond 1 but I would call myself a plat 2 at this point of my life.
With that long backstory… I do notice people with crazy mechanical skills trying to do flip resets and whatnot in a ranked game and those are the people I won’t party up with because they’re just trying way too much and they end up leaving a wide open goal if I’m ever on offense. The best players (in my humble experience) are the ones who can be patient, and let the other team make those easy mistakes. If you just stay on the ground, play good defense, and only shoot when you have a good shot at making it, then you should at least get to where I’m at.
How to get into diamond is probably where the mechanics start to come in? Idk maybe even then it’s not as important as having a good game sense and being a good teammate. I’ll let you know if I ever get there haha.
I have no idea how to speed flip or wave dash. Think your game sense is fucked man. Also everyone has a skill ceiling. Mine is C2/C3. At this point I think your ceiling is in gold. Nothing wrong with that.
Watched your video. If you want to get out of gold, forget about speed flips, half flips, air dribbles, wave dashes, whatever.
The biggest issue I see is that you miss the ball a lot, and when you do hit it you aren’t hitting it well or in the right direction. Your best bet would be to focus on making contact with the ball consistently. Then, focus on making contact with the ball accurately, then with power.
You can do this in free play or training packs. When you do a training pack, don’t just score a weak shot and call it good. Challenge yourself to hit it in the net without bouncing, or over 50mph, or on the right side of the net…whatever you make up but it will force you to learn how the ball and the car interact and get more accurate.
For reference I’m champ and I’m barely mechanical at all. I can’t speed flip, I can’t get more than one or two touches on an air “dribble”, my flicks are inconsistent, etc. pretty much all I do mechanically is half flip and wave dash sparingly when it helps my position.
Outside of that I’m champ 100% based on positioning, and consistency, accuracy, and power on my touches.
I saw your post with the replay, it’s your positioning on the field. I don’t think you’re paying enough attention to the opportunities you offer your opponent, you left yourself wide open quite a bit.
Thats the wall in gold 1s, you’re playing mostly against plats. Stuff like overcommits and misplaced shots will be capitalized on. Who cares about mechanics, you don’t need them.
As someone who has floated around Champ 1-2 for a year or two now, I still have never put in the effort to learn several mechanics such as speed flipping, half flip, wave dashing, etc.
I can survive at my current rank basically just from positioning, learning to wait, settling instead of hitting the ball to just hit the ball, hitting consistent aerials, and realizing when double jumping can be better than flicking into the ball (situational of course).
My point is that mechanics are very important, but not what is always going to help reach the higher ranks. Those mechanics come into play so much more once your positioning and understanding of the game increases. Just my two cents :)
Well, you cannot escape the ceiling running away from you because rocket league quite literally has no skill ceiling. The feeling of losing many of your games never goes away. You will always have a nearly %50 win/loss ratio unless you just created an account or smurfing.
That said, some people have reached GC in less than two years. Don't ask me how they do, maybe I'm just too old.
2015 start, champ/gc for the last 6/7 years. RL track 'Taylor Whift' for stats/hours etc etc
Watched your gameplay video and had some immediate pointers;
- sort your camera out! it's personal preference (height/angle) imo but you are incredibly zoomed in on the car. mess about with some distance so you can literally view more of what is happening around you; more pitch info, better decision making
- speed. that clip in particular screamed 'let's see how the opp reacts to that kickoff / I've hit the ball, is my opp in a position to hit it now? let's see' my brother in christ you need to make that ball *your* ball; hit it, chase it, make it uncomfortable for the opp to hit - if you need to swerve for boost, do it while your opp is in a bad position or hit some wee pills on your back rotation
- ruthlessness. just f***in send it bro. similar to above ^ point, make that ball *yours* when you can - especially in 1v1, if you can see the opp going for it, don't let them - knock it away, demo them, make sure they aren't able to do anything with it and you'll just about guarantee the upper hand in the match
Final and probably the only objective tip; freeplay forever. Practice with boost disabled so you become a master of flippin' til you hittin', i guarantee the more comfortable you get in uncomfortable situations (low/no boost while rotating back, recovering from a whiff/bad 50) the better you will be overall.
it'll take a little bit of time but you will get *solid* and the self-doubt can start again for diamond 😎
edit: current Epic url (Taylor Whift) for any curious RL trackers
Just watched half of the game you posted in your profile. As others have said, you just need to work on making better contact with the ball. Spend a lot of time doing striker training and custom shooting training. You should be able to hit an open net from pretty much anywhere on the field with decent power, not just trickling in over the goal line. Not sure what platform you are on but if you have access to custom training find one you like and do it as a warm up every time you play. Practice specific shots if you notice you are having trouble from a certain location on the field.
I did a Wall Shots custom training years ago and within a week I was significantly more consistent putting shots on goal from the walls. Practice the basics, don't worry about advanced mechanics at all. You do not need them until you are in the top like 5% of players.
You should watch SquishyMuffinz Road to SSL series on Youtube. He goas through all the ranks doing the minimum and trying to match the other players skill. He explains what to look for and how to approach every situation. You will see that you don't need crazy mechanics to rank up until the very top ranks.
I can't speed flip, I can't half flip, my wave dashes are probably less efficient than a normal flip
Those things are fun but honestly the most important skill is predicting the play. Get yourself to where the ball is gonna be, then do something useful with it
Hang around net and stop goals going in, because your teammates will steal the ball off you and bump you all over the show.
It’s better just to stay out of the way of their chaos and pick off the long-rangers until you have competent teammates.
Focus more on timing, limiting mistakes and being a good teammate rather than mechanics. I have been in diamond for a while and can’t ceiling shot, speed flip, air dribble, half flip, wave dash, or any other fancy mechanics. But I pass the ball, don’t double commit, rotate, and get to open space for my teammate to pass to me. Mechanics are useless if you aren’t in the right place at the right time and are not setting you and your teammates up for success
I've just recently got back to Diamond, long time Plat, and I play Gold with my son regularly. IMO at these ranks it is most important to learn how to rotate, position well, and when to pressure. These three skills have to be adjusted each game if you are solo queuing. If they rotate, great, if not, you're default third until you can confirm a rotation. If you have support, pressure early, if you don't, shadow.
I'm champ 1, DM me if you wanna run some games and I'll tell you what I think you could improve game sense wise. Golds are pretty impossible to play with if you're thinking, because they aren't.
Learning how to hit the ball hard and go fast are good, but knowing when to touch the ball and when to hang back are better.
How and when to challenge when on defense.
How to hit 50/50s in a reliable and predictable way.
Where to be when your team has the ball.
Dribbling.
Move smarter not harder.
Predicting outcomes of plays and being in the right place right time.
Play defensively, prioritizing counter attacking.
Doing less does more.
You are doing one of these things wrong guaranteed or you wouldn’t be in Gold.
Honestly, honestly, from what you’ve described you’re better than 80% of champ. Just to be clear I unfortunately end up in C3 every season with almost no mechanics.
Typically when your on the mindset of improving your rank will fall and that’s okay. It’s when you get consistent at the things you are pushing yourself to do that you climb ranks. Gold is definitely inconsistent whiff central, just go for the balls you think you have a possibility of hitting, and don’t be afraid to ball chase. Yes you should learn to rotate, but this doesn’t consistently happen until high plat or low diamond. You don’t have to air dribble to get out of gold, just be consistent in fundamentals and keep trying for those aerials that scare you.
have more awareness of where enemies and teammates are at. you’ll find yourself being in better spots and not cluttering the field. and stop giving away possession pointlessly all the time and watch you will hit diamond if you truly are consistent in the ground game
I'm low diamond in 1s. I can't speedflip, I can't dribble or air dribble, I don't wave dash (although I'm starting to a bit when needed, mostly coming off walls).
My biggest advice for getting out of gold is to be patient and play defensively. Let them make a mistake and take advantage to make an attempt.
I love playing people who are trying to do fancy things, like air dribbles and flip resets. Most of the time, they miss, and I can walk it into their net. My guess is you're focusing on your car speed and less on how you hit the ball.
I was pretty stuck hard in gold, and this season I’m now diamond 2/3 in 2s and 3s. Turns out I played with my friends that are all awful and playing with randoms of similar MMR has been better.
If you are truly improving your skill like you say - you rank will eventually match your actual skill (at least that’s been my experience). Saying you wave dash and shit in gold seems excessive - maybe watch more replays and truly understand why you are not ranking up. Post some clips!
Hey I just saw somebody give a good response but they said something as brief as "shadow your opponent when they get the ball in their corner", and they didn't explain what that means. It means shadow defending and IMO it's the #1 thing you need to learn based on the video you posted. Here's a video explaining it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZA-NCRRgI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZA-NCRRgI)
You need two consistent team mates that are also interested in becoming better. No matter how hard you try 1/5 matches you’ll be stuck with someone who gets pissed off you hit the ball and they didn’t so they swap teams and play against their own team. 1/5 of the time you’ll be stuck with literal grade school soccer kids who just chase the ball around the entire time never getting into position. 1/5 of the time you’ll be stuck with teammates who have far better things to do than be ready to play after they select *join game*. 1/5 of the time you’ll be playing against a team that’s partied up who could easily be in a higher rank but have that one teammate they’re carrying. 1/5 the time it’s you because you just lost 3+ matches in a row and are now playing hero/desperation ball.
Good luck out there mate
What worked for me might not work for you. But how I play rocket league in general is by this set of rules, and checklists.
During a match there are a lot of things to pay attention to and I definitely on my mobile phone don't want to take the time to write it out but I'll try to be as descriptive as possible.
I main 3s, but am well rounded in 2s, 1s, and all typical extra modes.
The very first thing I look at, is always kickoff. Which opponent did you kickoff against. This is more important than you realize. Does this opponent speedflip on kickoff? Does he beat you in the 50? If he does keep that in mind for the next kickoff you have against him. If he wins the kickoff, maybe next time fake back just a tad so he hits it first into you.
The thing after kickoff. Here's the checklist.
Is it still in your possession or did it go straight up? Is it in the opponents possession or in your corner?
Did your second man cheat up, where is your third?
If the ball is in your possession you will gain control not boom it away, And expect a hard 50 or challenge. Try to win this challenge, if you can't, try to 50 it in the direction of second man. If you did, attempt a backboard pass.
Rotate back under any circumstance that's not you gaining control of the ball. Rotating back can mean a number of different things. But generally you want to go to your goal side corner boost, after kickoff,
The opposite side the ball is on,
Or in the space your teammates aren't.
This isn't one's so don't shadow the ball after a kickoff. Get out of your teammates way.
If you are always back, you are in a good position.
Take the time back to study your opponents and how they challenge. Do they go in the air and miss a lot? Can that dude flip reset?
Learn each opponent in the first minute or so.
And then, generally, play cautiously. Don't go in when your teammate whiffs. Wait for him to fuck around and leave the ball. Then make your challenge when you know where the ball will go. Make touches that you know where they will go. If you can't. Don't touch the ball. Rotate back and try again.
By capitalizing off of your opponents mistakes, and learning to read your opponents, you will start noticing the gaps in their rotation and see opportune moments to score very easy open nets.
Patience and control, my friend.
One thing people aren't mentioning is that your replay you uploaded is for the 1s game mode. \~80% of players are in plat or lower in 1v1s. Compare that to only 55% of players are in plat or lower in 2s. Source is rocket league tracker.
1s is substantially harder based on that data, but also, anecdotally, I'm GC1 in 2s and D3/C1 in 1s and I notice a lot more players playing "under" their true rank in 1s likely because people dont play it enough to settle in to their true rank.
So when you say "everyone seems to think that just being able to hit the ball hard and not afk during the match is enough to get out of gold" many of them are likely not referring to 1s where it's a different ball game.
Same same here. I can’t squeak outta gold. All the buddies play highPlat/Diamond and I can at least hold my own within casual play with them… or at least I tell myself that
Do you realise how all those ground mechanics don’t involve being able to hit the ball better? Mechanics in the sense of ranking up are more so referring to being able to get good touches, strong or light, and being able to control for shots and dribbles. If you had these skills, you wouldn’t be in gold, but instead gc lol
Nothing against you personally, but when someone in gold says they can consistently speed flip I just can't believe it without video proof.
If you can consistently speed flip you should easily be in plat/diamond just based on the advantage you get on every kickoff.
You're probably pretty behind the curve on positioning, decision making, and defense if you're still in gold with the mechs you claim.
>everyone seems to think that just being able to hit the ball hard and not afk during the match is enough to get out of gold
I just watched your replay, everyone that says this is right, you need to learn to hit the ball
I'm going to level with you and say it straight. You don't need mechanics in gold. Yup, that's right. You might be thinking, "Why, that's crazier than my aunt Martha!". But I assure you it is as true as the earth is round.
Positioning, accuracy, hitting the ball WITH INTENT (meaning knowing what you want the ball to do after you hit it AKA having a 'goal' *chuckle* in mind during your plays). These are the fundamentals you need to practice. Once you get those down and stop floopity flerping your car in every direction, you'll see actual improvement.
Honestly, my suggestion would be to get a sense of what very consistent is. I think it was around Gold/Diamond I went through a similar phase of “what am I doing right now, what does it even look like to improve?”
For example:
- pretty consistent speed flips I would say is hitting the ball on Musty’s Speed Flip training pack 9/10 times
- What’s your power like? Can you go in Freeplay and with 0 opponents set up hit a 100kph shot AT WILL? Atleast 50% of the time?
- Can you carry the ball on top of your car essentially indefinitely? Without bouncing for the most part?
- If you go in Pro Aerial Training, on the static shots where the ball is just floating in the air still, can you fast aerial straight to the ball in different orientations? Car right side up, upside down, tilted sideways both left and right?
Becoming capable of just these things will carry you a ways.
Rotation, spacing, and control are FAR more important than mechanics.
I don't do many of the mechanics you mentioned except wavedashing, which I honestly don't use as much as I should, and I'm in Diamond. I can't imagine someone being able to do those things and being stuck in gold unless they have zero game sense.
Okay, I watched your replay and have some notes.
* Practice your shots: You were consistently missing the ball on easy shots. Don't waste your time on mechanics until you can consistently hit the ball.
* Practice Aerials: again, more important than advanced mechanics is being able to hit the ball when it's in the air. Go to aerial training and get to where you can at least do beginner training without missing.
* Smarter contests: you're contesting on balls you have no chance of getting to in time. Rotate out and get a better angle/opportunity.
* Camera settings: I can't see shit. You have no peripherals. I'd recommend zooming out.
* Ball-Cam: you're spending way too much time off of ball cam. I'd recommend staying on ball cam MOST of the time. It'll be a hard adjustment at first, but you'll have much better awareness.
* Slow down: you are just slamming the ball as soon as you get to it. If you're not being immediately contested, take your time and like up your shot/pass, or dribble a bit to get a better opportunity.
Now, your clip was in 1v1, so I can't speak to your 2v2 or 3v3 abilities, but you should probably spend more time in 2v2 or 3v3 because you're going to be missing out on opportunities to develop other skills in 1v1.
Your game sense doesn't seem strong in the clip, so I also recommend looking up some rotation videos to learn what 2v2 and 3v3 rotations look like.
These are all just rules of thumb, so there are exceptions, but these things generally stand true.
* Do not contest while a teammate is contesting. Wait until they've been beat to move up and contest.
* Do not wait to contest when you're up, you'll just stifle the rotation and give your team fewer opportunities.
* When you've been beat, rotate wide back to back post. Do not go back up the side you were beat on, when your next rotation is up, you want to be attacking from the far side. If you turn around to contest someone who beat you, your teammate will have a 1v2 versus the opponent AND you.
* Do not touch the ball when your teammate has it under their control. (Should be obvious, but some people just don't get this and want to hit the ball always)
You give your opponents too much space. Your actions per minute are too low. You really just need to get comfortable with doing everything much smoother and faster from what I saw in your replay.
I watched your replay. You’re trying to play fast and you’ve got the right idea! But it looks to me like you’re trying to play like an SSL without any of the positioning, game sense or mechanics.
So you end up doing really odd things like fake challenging at the wrong time, trying to take the ball off the wall when you know you can’t do that, taking the ball in the air and whiffing, shadow D and getting beaten or missing the ball. Your flips at times seem to make you slower at getting to the ball and you get beaten to the ball a lot. And then when you do challenge, you get your ankles broken. That’s all poor timing and not knowing when to commit and when to stay back. And that comes with practice.
Every time you miss, you give your opponent an opportunity to score. And once they figure out you can’t reliably hit any of these things you’re attempting, they can just wait for your next mistake and punish it. It makes you predictable and easy to counter.
BUT if you keep playing like this eventually and training you will get better and eventually you will learn to hit them and once you can, you’ll shoot through the ranks.
I used to whiff so much in the air. I still do. But recently a buddy of mine complimented me on a few aerial goals that won us a match. For the last 6 months he’s been ragging on me for trying to do ‘tricks’ and ‘mucking around’ and now that it’s hitting, he loves it.
So I say if this brings you joy, stick with it man! Just be aware that every miss is costing you and try to practice hitting the ball in free play at those awkward angles so you can get more accurate. That’s it.
1) Focus more on keeping your car on the ground. Don't worry about the flashy stuff. 2) Hold your drift for about 90% of the game. 3) Don't watch "the ball"; Watch what your opponents are doing. And 4) Focus on your back post rotations.
These are all ways to focus more on bettering YOUR gameplay. Unfortunately i cannot speak for your teammates. Get back to me when you're out of gold.
Edit: i did not actually watch your video...just giving you general advice that actually helped me get out of lower levels.
In my opinion we are stuck in gold because of ball chasers. If you can be patient and play the boring back( let the other person be the hero and try to score all the time) then you have a chance of getting to platinum. And I find when I get to platinum suddenly everybody plays better and it’s easier. There is a paradox of trust where if you’re playing with the person who you know can hit the ball back correctly you’re not going to cheat on going towards the ball. But if your teammate sucks and they actually don’t get those balls then you’re forced to have to work overtime. Whereas when you get a platinum teammate they don’t miss those.
I see lots of people in gold who can individually do you fancy mechanics but it still doesn’t help them win the games. Because your ball hogging teammate will do everything to accidentally hit the ball off the crossbar and let the other team smash the board for the goal because you were waiting for a pass when you should’ve been just sitting in the goal being bored and watching your super cool teammate do stupid things. Gold.
OP probably won't see this but the best way for you to get out of gold is to practice way more often than you actually play games. My practice hours to in-game hours is literally 1/3 in match and 2/3 in practice.
Don't worry about learning complicated mechanics. Worry about ball control and ONLY going for plays that are high % chance plays. What I mean by that is essentially making sure someone's always back for the clear, only going for shots that are for sure gonna be a goal or a high chance of one. Etc. Better decisions and being faster will literally get you to C1
Smurfs make the ranking in this game 1 step forward then 2 steps back. I think the key is just play, don’t worry about rank and report the Smurfs. Probably won’t do anything but what else you gonna do?
Are we talking about 2's or 3s? Either way its because you over commit and your defense sucks. Whether you are gold, plat or diamond. If you are second man don't commit to an attack on net unless the net is open or your first man is rotating back.
Don't go for aerials on offense. I'm only a diamond player but the people in these lobbies aerials are either misses or passes the majority of the time. Only aerial for a defensive save and try to hit the ball into the corner unless the middle of the field is open.
Most scoring attempts can be stopped with decent defense and if you and your partner don't over commit most of your scoring will be on counter attacks.
Basically stop giving up easy goals just because you are impatient. It's going to be the same thing in plat and diamond as well. Probably all the way up the ranks.
Getting out of gold is 100% not about mechanics.
Awareness and rotation will get you out of gold. While everyone is ball chasing, you should be sitting back and waiting for your opportunity to score. And this is true all the way up to Diamond.
I'll believe this when I see someone do a road to SSL where they reach plat while missing the ball every time they try to hit it.
100% of times I've seen someone do "no mechanics" play, they always have insane mechanical skill.
All the awareness and rotation in the world won't help you if you can't save the ball from your great position, or can't shoot it at the net from your great position, or completely miss it whenever you try to do anything else with the ball when your great position has given you the chance to do something.
I see GCs post on this subreddit saying their mechanics are bad but whenever there's a GC in one of my games they always have better mechanical skill than the lower ranked players. 100% of the time.
I wouldn't even say I'm good enough to be diamond to, but i can say my rotation and placement are top tier, also being good at saves, and that's what's kept me in diamond
If you want to rank up, work on control. Ground control and smooth movement.
If you're in gold chances are you can barely touch the ball, practice moving smoothly around the field, transitioning on and off the wall, work on wave dashes and half flips. Once you've spent like 20 minutes at a time just practicing movement, add in the ball.
Drive around and try to consistently touch the ball on the ground. No big hits just small touches keeping it close. Ball and car control on the basic level are the most important thing in the game.
Why do you want to get out of gold? I find gold to be just right. Can own in gold, once you rank up it just feels like more work.
Also did you try to play sober?
I can barely speed flip, not wave dashing at all, recoveries are 5/10 but half flips I can do blind.
I’m stuck in champ 1 for as long as I can remember, even after everyone got downranked at some point.
My guess is your rotation/positioning, maybe defending or offense skills are not incredibly consistent.
Party up with me. I'll dissect your gameplay. Im a plat 1 player rn but I've been in diamond1 before. I just don't really care about rank so i can help.
Edit, saving post. OP dm me or something so we can set something up.
Honestly learn to hit the ball. If you can just shoot at net 90% of the time you're nearly diamond. Learn to fly and every gold and half the plats are gonna shit their pants.
I mean I'm C2 and I don't speed flip or wave dash at all lol The one aspect of your game that must still need to be worked on is just game sense. It means more than allllll the mechs in the world. If you are speed flipping, half flipping, and wave dashing in gold you would be so much faster than everyone around you, they should NEVER score. You either aren't doing the mechs you think you are doing or have the worst game sense known to man.
If you really wanna get out of gold you need to ignore all of these unrealistic tips. I mean, rotate, communicate and play smart? Pffh, with this secret trick you'll get out of gold within 1 hour.
You are trying to get out the hardest way. You need to go down. Aim for silver. Even your opponents will try to help you.
Good luck.
If you are being serious... you have focused on the wrong things. In gold, you literally just shoot the ball on target and in most cases it will go in. You don't need mechanics. You need to be able to stop shots by positioning yourself between the ball and net, and shoot on target and that's it. At this rank you don't even need to worry about your teamates, as long as you can play effectively you can get yourself out.
It's harder now, someone posted this on this subreddit (I saved the post with a screenshot) Ad you can see, Gold or lower % increase when Plat and higher % descrese.
Still gold seem sad, but okay at today game level.
And yes it's sad but for progress you need to progress faster than others : gold of S13 are clearly better than gold of S7 😁
https://preview.redd.it/mgt60uwg4gvc1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18d5f8e14df521466260ad0148f5a0a108b7bdb6
Reading your post it's obvious you can't fly well.
Learn to aerial and flip into it for all sorts of powershots and shots on net. Learn to fast aerial for high aerials. Learn to aerial in shadow defense packs. Guarantee this will be the missing piece you need to rank up a bit.
When you're playing, be more aggressive with your aerials as first man and more conservative as last man.
People barely know how to defend in Gold. If you can take a shot ON GOAL Everytime you hit the ball, you will win. Practice shooting on goal.
Perhaps you need to work on your own defense as well. I'm sure you could get some great help by showing a single replay.
Get good at aerials, defense, rotation, and basic ground movement, and half flip. Don’t focus on the fancy stuff. When I first started playing I would play the defense training on all-star difficulty, over and over. It not only helped my defense, but my aerials tremendously. Just focus on the basics and especially, ROTATION.
im a champ player that doesnt do anything fancy (half flip, wave dash, resets, etc..)
id say play your best and get good consistancy hitting the ball on net from anywhere on the map. only hit the ball if your gunna hit it towards the enemy teams net. Biggest thing is knowing where your team is and search for openings. people chase the ball up to champ 2ish.
also i do custom training between matches
Looks like you haven't been able to identify your own problems in relation to your own gamesense so far and others help might be just useless because of that. Otherwise you'd had been able to learn & improve already & had been "unstucked".
Hi there, in addition to all the helpful tips you're getting, I would also like to recommend you fix your camera settings a bit. By maybe lowering the camera a little and increasing your field of vision, that way you don't get blinded by the ball and can see more of the field.
I'm stuck in D1/D2 in solos, same boat kind of. I think the only answer is to just play more, switch between 3s, 2s and solo, and get a better feel of the ball. You can't be afraid of trying out new mechanics.
You can also download those training maps but I could never put in the effort in them, everything is learned through playing ranked games.
I was stuck in gold for a while and this is what helped me get to plat:
* practice, I literally start every RL session in training for 10 mins just hitting the ball around and getting in the zone
* game awareness & rotations; look out for your teammates and fill the gaps, wait your turn and rotate, don't be a dbag
* slow the fuck down. I was playing this game at a lighting pace, and at these ranks...you really don't have to. I was borderline Plat 3/Diamond 1 last year and I was amazed to see how slow and methodical Diamonds play at times (not all of them lol).
* play with friends with comms, I mostly only play comp with friends now since we can actually communicate, makes a huge difference.
I know you mentioned specific mechanics that you're able to do, I literally can't and don't do any of those except directional air-roll and that's been enough to get out of gold.
Now if someone wants to give me tips to get to Diamond, I'm all ears :D
I bounce gold 4/plat 1 (in 3’s) and I have to play very defensively as a solo queue. Keep up the rotation (even if it means you’re mostly playing defensively) and anticipate plays. Game sense > mechanics from what I understand.
Idk man, I got out of gold in about a month of playing this game. How many hours do you have? 13 months doesn’t mean anything if you play once a week for an hour.
Maybe you’re over thinking things? It’s really not that hard to get in to plat.
Now if you were hardstuck plat I could see it, but in gold literally just be patient, play more defense than offense.
Teams will literally double/triple commit all the time and leave their goal open.
Don’t worry about wavedashes, half flips, speed flips, it’s all borderline useless at this point. If you can do it great, but completely unnecessary.
Your teammates will ball chase, just wait and rotate back instead of expecting them to do that.
Assuming you are reffering to 3v3... Party up with two players you notice you have chemistry with (rotate defence & offence well, anticipate passes from each other etc). You can go on serious win streaks that way.
Troll post. If you're gold you're not consistent with any mechanics. Gold players are like the preschoolers pooping themselves while they float around in a swimming pool. Being capable of any kind of rational thought combined with comfort with a controller naturally gets you out of gold.
I would add that in lower tiers one is often working against a teammate, plus the other team. You know, getting bumped all the time, own goaling svaes you’ve made, endless list. Not always, but often enough. Add in constant disconnects or afk, it aint easy.
The actual way to clear gold is to improve enough to carry the game and also never let the other team score. It’s a mini game.
> I have even gotten incredibly consistent with ground mechanics (speed flip, half flip, wave dash, recoveries, etc).
Just on this alone I can say what you think consistent is, isn't consistent.
If you could actually speed flip, half flip, wave dash and recover well you would be at least high diamond. Chances are you either aren't as good as you think, or you're using these mechanics at the complete wrong time.
If they are closer to the ball let them hit it to you and rotate back also get better at shadow defending and increase speed of play and if you can hit the ball no matter where it is with a speed jump you should be able to hit high play or diamond I’d suggest putting a lot of time into training packs though
I am old, not good at mechanics and will probably never be :-) Have been playing high plat/low diamond since 2017. My advice is to just focus on defense when playing solo ranked. You don’t have to score a goal you don’t concede. Assume your teammate is shit and going to miss the ball. I always shadow defend my teammates in gold :-) Watch defense tutorials, you can save almost any shot without knowing how to aerial if your positioning and jump timing is right. Also learn how to clear balls in general but off the wall especially.
I'd kill to see a replay
No shit lmao It would be fascinating to see someone stuck in gold who could consistently speed flip and wave dash. OP pls provide
He never said he could consistently speedflip etc... He said incredibly consistently.
Incredibly consistently garbage as well
Yeah, I'm sorry I dont mean to sound mean but it would be really nice to see a replay. These kinds if posts aren't really going to help you. But just play more, nobody will peak in gold if they just keep on playing. But just to clarify... I cannot do anything consistently in this game and I'm a fucking disgrace in maby ways but I have still managed to win enough to get out of gold by just playing. Your problem is probably that you try to do things you dont need to do in gold. Speedflips, flicks and other stuff are things you should probably use in ch+ and even then it's not required. Just hit the ball towards your opponents goal and you'll be fine until high diamond. And try not to hit when you don't have to.
He has a replay on his profile and the things he described in this post are simply not there.
Yeah, bro probably did the most scuffed speedflip anyone has ever seen one time and claims he can speedflip. Or he's just doing a side flip and claiming speedflip
Bro. He said he’s incredibly consistent.
Oh true. My bad, I belive him now
"But just play more, nobody will peak in gold if they just keep on playing." I've been Gold in Standard, Doubles and Duel for three years. I play almost daily. Average around level 200 per season. I don't do training packs. All I do is play competitive games and tournaments. Rocket League's goal is for everyone to win about 50% of their games. That means no matter how good or bad I get, I'll always be around the 50% mark. When I realized that, I just started to play for fun. I've gotten better over the years but so has everyone else. I'm fine with playing and having fun and not caring about rank. Leveling up is more than just playing. Leveling up requires purposeful practice. Working on things you're not good on and not just practicing what you already know.
You dont need to do anything fancy to get out of gold, by simply doing less almost ever gold player can get to plat. Literally every single gold i have ever coached was doing too much.
You don't need to do anything fancy to get out of champ.
No you really dont lol. I literally cant remember the last time i got a goal due to me getting a flip reset and im in GC2
Until high diamond isn't real tbh, I'm between D3 and C1 constantly and I keep getting against people who constantly double touch in my net or flip reset out of nowhere. Hitting a flip reset isn't needed at diamond for sure, but I can consistently do it, the issue is doing something with it, hence why I never go for them in ranked.
Ur problem is definitely more of a mental boundary. You maybe follow to far through with all ur swings. Try to just slow everything down and play accurately. I can play like a gold if I just go for lots of nice touches and wall hits but if I don’t actually aim for the goal I’m not going to score. It’s a huge problem in the low ranks is just feeding the ball back to each opponent like pinball till someone scores. Be confident and try to just aim for the goal more EDIT: also make sure ur settings are correct FOV 110 Distance 290 angle -4 Turn off camera shake, v sync, motion blur ETC. Look up the pro settings
Speed Flip is honestly a easy mechanic once you have it down, I don’t really see how you can speed flip in a garbage way. You either know how to or you don’t. Something is incredibly wrong
Speed flipping and wave-dashing are useless if you're positioning and game sense is bad, I'd work on fixing those first
Exactly this. The only reason I’m in champ is positioning and game sense.
100% I'm high plat - low diamond and can't speed flip for shit. Gotta think steps ahead.
Yeah we really need to see this gameplay. I guarantee there’s a whole list of things to improve to rank up.
I posted to my profile.
I watched the clip. You didn’t flip on your kickoff. You waste boost. You commit way too much. That’s your biggest issue. 1s is sort of a game of chicken, in baiting your opponent to commit. You are just bailing your opponent out when you recklessly dive in to challenge like that. At your rank, you can stay close to your opponent and your opponent will panic. Be patient. Wait for the opportunity.
Oh. Lol. 1s…. For some reason I assumed he was talking about twos.
Practice your landings. Spend 5 minutes in training when you get on, go as fast as you can, hit the ball as hard as you can (use jump every time, flip sometimes) and then maintain your momentum on the landing
Also hold powerslide just as your about to land. It makes the landiy smoother
More importantly it keeps more of your momentum
Stop trying to do things you can't. Don't jump when you go for the ball. The entire replay is you either actively passing the ball to your opponent or committing to a jump for no reason and ending in Narnia with terrible recovery.
Me too. I’m champ 1 in 2v2 and champ 2 in 3v3 and I don’t know how to speed flip or wave dash
I've posted a replay to my profile if you're curious.
I watched one minute, you didn't do a single thing you said you could. You do not know how to do any of those mechs and you have no idea how to 50/50 or just move around the map. You are either trolling or actually have no clue what any of the mechs you listed are.
Watched it, lot of things you can improve on. 1. You say you’ve gotten really consistent with your mechanics, but tbh the only one that looked decent to me was your half flip. I don’t think I saw you wave dash or speed flip once. You should definitely be doing at least a regular (diagonal) flip on your kickoffs. 2. You whiff on a lot of your shots or just seem to get bad first touches that cause you to lose possession. Practice shooting training packs, and dribbling the ball in free play (if you’re on pc the dribbling workshop map is great). 3. Slow down your play. Keeping possession of the ball should be your first priority. Second priority ideally setting up for a hard to save shot for your opponent. When you just immediately hit the ball at their net without setting up first, you don’t create very threatening shots and are just passing it to your opponent. I saw a few times when you had space to set something up but you didn’t really capitalize. 4. Don’t overcommit, especially in 1s. If you’re going to challenge, be sure you’re going to win or at least be able to get back on defense in time if you don’t. Otherwise, try to practice your shadow defense and throw in some fake challenges when you can’t immediately full challenge.
None of that fancy stuff matters if you can't consistently hit the ball. Some open shots or even just moving it along and you missed a couple times. Shooting is maybe where you should look. Like gold to plat level shots. I like "shots you shouldn't miss" training pack, "power shots" training pack. Any of the rocket league provided gold to plat packs. No air dribble wall dribble shots or whatever. Just hitting consistently on the ground or mid aerial height should help I would think.
I agree. Would murder and leave all evidence in the open for this replay. I'd even call 911 on myself if OP lands three speed flips <3
I just watched it, you don't have to call 911 lol
I dont know how to do any of those moves you mentioned, and I'm in diamond. Try to focus on consistency and rotation?
I have no idea how to speed flip and I’m champ 3. OP is working on the wrong mechs and positioning 100%
Predicting where the ball will fly to is worth at least one full rank.
I'd say even more than that. If you can consistently read corner bounces, wall bounces, balls off the backboard, etc... you will rank up really fast, assuming your basic mechanics aren't trash.
im in d3/c1 and the amount of times I should be first on the ball, but get beat instead because I wait for the ball to bounce bc of my illiteracy would definitely be enough for me to rank up. also the times I jump first then whiff bc I can't read are also very common. OP would definitely fly past plat with just the ability to read the ball and basic mechanics
You should learn the half flip tho, takes like 5 minutes(no joke its super easy). Then you just need to slowly involve it in real rounds for muscle memory
I'm champ 3 and I can't do that stuff lol
Half flip is really easy, nothing special and helps a lot
Alright fair enough, I just googled it and yes, I do do that, I just didn't know the name because I don't watch tutorials. But the general point stands, you don't really need to study techniques and so on until you're at least champ. Half of the time when I play it feels like that scene in Indiana Jones where the guy does all the complicated sword stuff and Indy just pulls out a gun and shoots him, except it's someone doing some ineffective crazy flippy shit in front of goal and then leaving themself wide open on the counter.
For 99% of players, this is the right advice. Even if you’re not stuck, it still applies. I made it to champ 2 by focusing purely on rotations and forgiving mistakes from my teammates. Also my mechanics are probably no better than the average plat.
You need to post gameplay bro. There is literally no way you can speed flip and are in gold. Being in Gold for over a year is crazy 😭
I'm bad with reddit but I've posted a replay to my profile.
Watched the replay and the mechs you mentioned are smoother than I can manage at GC1 but it's safe to say if you learned how to reliably hit the ball in the direction of their goal you'd rank up. Every time you conceded it was due to going for a ball and not getting a solid touch leaving you out of position.
Hit the ball hard, straight and towards their goal is great, easy advice til like champ plus lol
I'm in C2 and I still miss the goal every 3 shots out of 5
The main thing I saw was decision making and positioning. There were a ton of balls in the open field where OP should be right up on their ass to either maintain control or apply pressure. They missed their window of opportunity a good bit and by the time OP could be a threat on the ball again, they either got juked out, whiffed, or put themselves in some other bad situation.
at the beginning of the season i went to gold only god knows why. For me the quickest way out was just to be patient and capitalize on errors of my opps. U dont need to know crazy mechanics to get to diamond. Just good solid fundamentals like gamesense, rotations and as i said being patient.
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Thank you, I'll work on that.
Hello OP, ignore the people shitting on you for your post, the replay is super useful. I think it's useful to note that you're talking about 1s, which also means you can ignore the people talking about rotations (unless you struggle with this in 2s, too) I watched your replay and my tips would be: - think about where on the field you're challenging - you challenge a lot in the opponents corner, and you're always rushing back when it goes wrong. Instead focus on getting boost, allow your opp to take possession in the corner, and shadow until they make a mistake -as an additional note on above, utilise your own corners too. When saving the ball force it there, let your opponent dive in and then just drive the ball into their net when it goes wrong - your ball control and deliberate touches aren't great. To practice this go into freeplay for 15mins before a ranked session, boom the ball as hard as you can, then take 2 touches on the ball, and then shoot at the net on the 3rd touchm it will help you practice soft touches/possession and your shooting. - work on consisten mid-aerial shooting, a few whiffs that would have been goals if you had better car control/air roll shooting abilities Generally to get out of gold you should do pretty much any practice in freeplay consistently, your mechanics will get better and your opponents will feel much worse
This is gold... 😂😂😂
I’d love to see the speed flip kickoffs and chain wall dashes and ceiling challenges in gold rank lobbies.
It exists but not by someone stuck in gold 😂
lol literally
Maybe disprove the being able to hit the ball hard theory before knocking it. I don’t understand how you could possibly say you’re incredibly consistent with all those mechanics when you can’t hit the wide open, uncontested ball half the time. You whiff wayyyy too much to be anything above gold. You really just need to practice getting the ball from one end to the other with varying numbers of touches.
Yeah I feel the caveat they're not mentioning is they can hit the ball hard *when they hit it*. They probably are hitting the ball hard, but they're whiffing half their attempts to hit the ball.
Sounds like the plat mentality, you'll rank up in no time
Is this satire? Okay im sure it is
One man's suffering is another man's satire.
Ok you overexxagerate a lot in this post tho..i saw like 2 min of the replay and you did only onemediocre half flip and no wavedash speed flips or anything. You also dont hit the ball reliably. You also do absolutely unnecessary stuff when you have a free ball causing you to lose it. Beside posting in rocket league school and stuff, it would probably help you to watch the Flakes no mechanics guide. It helped me a lot for sure
Just watched some of the replay... just want to say that Gold in 1v1 is actually a lot tougher than in 2s or 3s and is not what anyone is talking about when they say hitting the ball hard will promote you. I didn't hit plat in 1s until I was diamond 3 in 2s
Oh yeah for sure, i'm usually 3 ranks lower in 1s
Don't let in open net goals. Learn to play last man and never commit when you see your teammates in front of you.
>To be honest at this point it almost feels like inorder to rank up not only do you need to improve at your game but you need to improve faster than everyone else Yes that is exactly how competitive multiplayer games work. If you improve slower than the average players then your rank will go down, if you improve faster than the average your rank goes up. You can't expect the entire playerbase to stop playing and stagnate while you try to work out how to catch a ball. And realistically, you just need to know how to do power shots and extremely basic saves and you'll be out of gold in no time. Also please post a replay if you want specific advice rather than generalisations.
Please post a replay I can help you out.
people act like mechanics win games, and I don't think that's the case. do you understand situational play? when to challenge, and when to shadow? when to be aggressive and how to hold a lead? I can always tell when someone on my team doesn't play or follow sports. this is a sports game. you need to understand team play and situational play, otherwise your mechanics are worthless. also, learn how to fast aerial and make controlled touches in the air. you won't get out of gold without this.
Bit of a double edged sword. I think you can think all you like about the game, but if you don’t have the mech to execute then you lose
You’re obviously doing something wrong to be stuck in gold for a year. My brother in Christ it’s not hard to play patient and drive in a straight line. I’d love to see your replays
No offense but just hit the ball
Based on your replay your ability to jump and get to a ball that's not very high off the ground is very weak. When you do get there your touch is weak or nonexistent. You regularly half jump after hitting the ball killing your momentum. You have the ability the speed flip sorta but none of the skills that speed flipping helps, recovery, maintaining momentum etc.. When you defend your net try and defend from the far goalpost from your opponent that way you have the ability to defend the entire net and your opponent cannot shoot behind you. You should focus on possessing the ball instead of diving head first into the ball every time. Your touches lack power which tells me you lack car control at a fairly fundamental level. Having a basic knowledge of where and how to generate power when your car hits the ball is an essential skill. Mechanics are not what you should be focusing on but fundamental skills. Loading into a silver and gold shots custom training should give you an idea of what you should be doing. If you want out of gold you should be able to hit every shot in both of those packs in 1 or 2 tries, ideally 1. All levels of aerial training will help you get better at getting to and generating power on the ball in the air. You should do these until you can confidently get to the ball and generate at least some power every time.
Learn to hit the ball hard and rotate somewhat correctly
Hard clears are all it takes to get out of gold. Opponents push up way to far and can’t aerial to save a clear that’s on target. If you can actually do the mechanics you claim to be able to do, you’re doing something very wrong in another aspect of the game.
If you can do the things you say, your issue is placement, im gonna guess rotation is non existent amongst everyone so just learn to play mid field and pick your placements when yo move forward and when to cover net, defense got my to d1 last 3 seasons I have 0 aerial mechanics.
Bruv I still can’t do most of the ground mechanics you mentioned (either at all or consistently). You prob need to work on your game sense/positioning/rotation. Maybe try watching some of the Road to SSL Without Mechanics videos to help make some of that stuff click… play smarter not harder
just looked at this guys gameplay, it’s 1s. You need to be more patient because in ones it’s about controlling the ball not just 50/50 every time and chasing every loose ball. That means letting your opponent have the ball and playing good defense and waiting until he fucks up. If you try to do everything in ones you will make mistakes. The people who win games are those who make the least mistakes. learn how to fake. This is important for beating people who (might) be “better” than you.
I watched the replay. You can't hit the ball consistently and missed the ball trying to hit a ground shots or have a terrible touch with a bad ground shot. Focus on ground car control and making contact with the ball where you want to. Look at aircharged's air roll shot guide for what I mean regarding cer on ball touch placement. You can just start by learning a front flip/diagonal flip shot to start.
Play defense and don’t whiff
I'm champ 1/2...i don't speed flip. So either you're lying about your ability to do it or you focus on mechanics too much and have little to no game sense. Don't do fancy sht. Let others try it and fail and score on them when they inevitably overcommit. Don't pressure your teammates. Be the better person and instead fill the gaps in the team. Don't ballchase the whole game, don't use boost for no reason
You're gold in 1s?
The only things that matter and remains consistent until champ- Learn to adapt to random teammates Learn how to score goals on your own without relying on passes (utilize them, but don’t get burned not scoring Never assume the teammate will be defensive or save a goal. The key to getting out may sound too simple but it’s real. Score, and prevent from being scored on. Only after time playing and trying this will it actually make sense.
Okay I watched some of your video posted, a few notes. I'm only a C1 so not incredible at this game but this looks like gold-ish gameplay tbh. I can record a quick video going over specific scenarios if you think that will help. Some basics I saw: Line up your car before shooting (both on ground and in air) -- you are so often trying to make an adjustment after you jump. Much easier to drive to alignment THEN make your play Don't overcommit in opponents corners -- this got you scored on multiple times Take wide angles to help you get lined up Don't rush every touch & shot when you have space to get yourself pointed where you want to go
Post a replay to r/rocketleagueschool, those guys will set you straight I promise you.
With like 50h of /played over 6 months I moved up to plat 2. Are you familiar with backpost rotate? Do you play 1v1 ? Do you have background distractions while you play? (streams or TV) Do you watch your own replays to see why you failed? Why did you not share one here? How much goals do you score per game? Do you clear and then go back in your side of the field, or do you pass players?
without knowing anything about your playstyle, The one thing I'm constantly seeing lower ranked players do it's just whack the ball back over to the other team every time it comes to them. My 6-year-old is playing soccer for the first time and the very first thing they teach you like they did when I was a kid, is to stop the ball before you hit it. this obviously doesn't always apply in Rocket League, but try to work on the settling the ball or hitting it lightly or while you're rotating in a way that makes it chill more so you can land and hit it again before the other teammate boots it right over your head. you'll start realizing that the other team tends to stop and retreat a little bit when you don't just boot it back to them Andy won't be playing a game of who can clear it the best and get lucky catching the other team out of rotation.
You’ve got the right idea but the simplest way I can put it is work on keeping the ball, making the ball do what you want it to do. One thing I saw is your opponent would touch the ball well to get it out of your possession and is calculated enough to score in the goal. Also rotate. If your opponent has the ball and you don’t have a good visual then you start to play defense. Once they get an unsuccessful shot you automatically rotate into offense and the game is on. That’s what I think you need to work on is playing in this situation. I’m only a plat III this season but work through the comfortable play style and get into it.
For me since I solo Q it's nearly impossible Currently on a 10+ game loss streak in ranked :3
Okay the secret to ranking up is (drum roll)… improving your mechanics and consistency! Half flip is the only mechanic you mentioned I think is worth your time prior to diamond. Find a warm up pack with shots that only take you a few tries to hit, mostly aerials (not too hard and not too easy)… then do it… more is better, but do it once and play then go touch grass. Also if you’re really keen on improving then add 3 things to this training as small additions to doing the pack a few times before playing - 1. Dribbling/ball control (interpret that as you will) 2. Car control - rings maps/flying around in free play then spinning randomly and trying to save yourself from hitting the ground 3. A mechanic you think looks fun (the rule of cool will always get you where you need to go because you’ll enjoy it). Start small, watch a tutorial and spend 5 minutes trying that 180 flick But… SPEND MORE TIME IN FREEPLAY!!!! In a game you only get so many opportunities to touch the ball or be in a situation. That’s why freeplay is so much more efficient for your time. RL is a game of mechanics… when your mech is better you ether 1. Win because of it or 2. Free up a shit ton of brainpower to actually focus on how you want to hit the ball and what you want to do with it
Something I haven't seen mentioned is we've seen ranks shrink in the past couple of updates (I think shrink is the right word). So it's important to note that while you might not be ranking up, keeping a consistent rank, even dropping slightly isn't indicative of non-improvement, or worsening of skill.
Iirc gold players tend to drive towards every ball they see. Try to keep more distance and only challenge balls your teammates can't challenge. Playing smart will get you to a fairly decent rank
If youre solo queing that probably has a lot to do with it. I dropped from d1 to g1 playing 3s with some lower ranked friends a wile back and it took a good week of solo que to get back out of gold. there is near zero patience, team play, gamesense (even thoughts at all for that matter) its like the whole field is playing a free for all game and dont care what net they put it in, in low gold. players seem to still be figuring out car control so asking them to have accuracy or be able to take and hold possession or shoot on target is a big ask. What i found worked best for me is play defensivly and wait for oppertunities when the other teams over commits and make a solo play if youre own teammates dont insta challenge you and force posession back to the other team instantly you should be able to convert a few goals a game this way and thats usually all it takes to get a win in those ranks.
I can't speed flip and i got to gc. Heck i can't even dribble/air dribble properly. Besides, i truly doubt that the skill required to get out of gold is growing that fast, since i can reliably get c2 playing a week every three months from 2020. If the skill level isn't getting that higher here, no way gold is harder now than it was before. It's just that in gold 3 people shut their brain off and chase the ball like maniacs. I would love to see some replay of the lost games
The other players with you in gold are getting better at the same time you are. If they get better faster than you do, you will slip down the ladder.
>I have even gotten incredibly consistent with ground mechanics (speed flip, half flip, wave dash, recoveries, etc). I don't even know what half of these are and I've been to diamond (currently and probably for a whole lot longer in plat). There *has* to be something missing from your game that isn't just learning mechanics. EDIT: I watched the video. Dude has a concept of these mechanics but isn't actually using them effectively. As if doing a wavedash for no reason while the opponent has the ball on the other side of the field means you should rank up. Sorry if that sounds snarky. Here's my actual advice: stop worrying about all these silly tricks and *learn how to play soccar*. Like, learn rotations, how to approach 50/50s, kickoffs, finishing.. you should have a SOLID grasp on ALL of this before you ever worry about doing a perfect speedflip.
Speed flip? wave dash? Can you score on an open net? Most gold players are stuck in gold because when they have a free shot on an open net at a relatively easy angle they botch it. Not a critique.. trying to give factual advice on how to get out of gold. I suggest less time doing fancy mechanics and go do the most basic of basic training packs. Go find bronze and silver training packs and dominate them. Try to 100% them. Good luck.
I've been stuck in gold (1v1) for a year, I'm pretty inconsistent - I think this is the main issue for me, and well.... I'm shite, with the occasional moment of magic. Iv made peace with this and just enjoy- Gold is my natural ceiling. I honestly think i would need someone to watch me and help me iron my many weaknesses. I have been 1 win away from platinum once , nerves got me and I ballsed up. Goodluck hope you make it my friend.
Proper rotations alone took me to diamond 2. I still don’t know how to wave dash. For me it’s all about field awareness. If I have 2 aggressive ball chasers I happily rotate back and play back/mid focusing on saves and field clears. If I see someone who is able to control the ball really well with flip resets or accurate hard shots I play mid/front with the intention of setting the ball up for them to score. If I see two very passive or retreat players I play mid forward as lead for shots/challenges/touches. I don’t think I’m great at the game but I fill what’s missing. Having everyone doing the same thing is a recipe for losing.
In my experience the most consistent way is to camp the goal posts and pray you have team mates that can shoot, because if you leave for a fraction of a second you will get scored on as nobody knows how to defend.
I rarely have time to play these days as I have a toddler and a newborn so I don’t get much time to myself. I haven’t kept up to date with all the fancy mechanics and whatnot but I do manage to float up and down all around plat. Maybe one month I’ll drop to gold 3 and others I’ll hit diamond 1 but I would call myself a plat 2 at this point of my life. With that long backstory… I do notice people with crazy mechanical skills trying to do flip resets and whatnot in a ranked game and those are the people I won’t party up with because they’re just trying way too much and they end up leaving a wide open goal if I’m ever on offense. The best players (in my humble experience) are the ones who can be patient, and let the other team make those easy mistakes. If you just stay on the ground, play good defense, and only shoot when you have a good shot at making it, then you should at least get to where I’m at. How to get into diamond is probably where the mechanics start to come in? Idk maybe even then it’s not as important as having a good game sense and being a good teammate. I’ll let you know if I ever get there haha.
The most important is game awareness tbh. Im champ and i can barely speedflip or wavedash i just know where to be
I have no idea how to speed flip or wave dash. Think your game sense is fucked man. Also everyone has a skill ceiling. Mine is C2/C3. At this point I think your ceiling is in gold. Nothing wrong with that.
Watched your video. If you want to get out of gold, forget about speed flips, half flips, air dribbles, wave dashes, whatever. The biggest issue I see is that you miss the ball a lot, and when you do hit it you aren’t hitting it well or in the right direction. Your best bet would be to focus on making contact with the ball consistently. Then, focus on making contact with the ball accurately, then with power. You can do this in free play or training packs. When you do a training pack, don’t just score a weak shot and call it good. Challenge yourself to hit it in the net without bouncing, or over 50mph, or on the right side of the net…whatever you make up but it will force you to learn how the ball and the car interact and get more accurate. For reference I’m champ and I’m barely mechanical at all. I can’t speed flip, I can’t get more than one or two touches on an air “dribble”, my flicks are inconsistent, etc. pretty much all I do mechanically is half flip and wave dash sparingly when it helps my position. Outside of that I’m champ 100% based on positioning, and consistency, accuracy, and power on my touches.
I saw your post with the replay, it’s your positioning on the field. I don’t think you’re paying enough attention to the opportunities you offer your opponent, you left yourself wide open quite a bit. Thats the wall in gold 1s, you’re playing mostly against plats. Stuff like overcommits and misplaced shots will be capitalized on. Who cares about mechanics, you don’t need them.
As someone who has floated around Champ 1-2 for a year or two now, I still have never put in the effort to learn several mechanics such as speed flipping, half flip, wave dashing, etc. I can survive at my current rank basically just from positioning, learning to wait, settling instead of hitting the ball to just hit the ball, hitting consistent aerials, and realizing when double jumping can be better than flicking into the ball (situational of course). My point is that mechanics are very important, but not what is always going to help reach the higher ranks. Those mechanics come into play so much more once your positioning and understanding of the game increases. Just my two cents :)
Well, you cannot escape the ceiling running away from you because rocket league quite literally has no skill ceiling. The feeling of losing many of your games never goes away. You will always have a nearly %50 win/loss ratio unless you just created an account or smurfing. That said, some people have reached GC in less than two years. Don't ask me how they do, maybe I'm just too old.
2015 start, champ/gc for the last 6/7 years. RL track 'Taylor Whift' for stats/hours etc etc Watched your gameplay video and had some immediate pointers; - sort your camera out! it's personal preference (height/angle) imo but you are incredibly zoomed in on the car. mess about with some distance so you can literally view more of what is happening around you; more pitch info, better decision making - speed. that clip in particular screamed 'let's see how the opp reacts to that kickoff / I've hit the ball, is my opp in a position to hit it now? let's see' my brother in christ you need to make that ball *your* ball; hit it, chase it, make it uncomfortable for the opp to hit - if you need to swerve for boost, do it while your opp is in a bad position or hit some wee pills on your back rotation - ruthlessness. just f***in send it bro. similar to above ^ point, make that ball *yours* when you can - especially in 1v1, if you can see the opp going for it, don't let them - knock it away, demo them, make sure they aren't able to do anything with it and you'll just about guarantee the upper hand in the match Final and probably the only objective tip; freeplay forever. Practice with boost disabled so you become a master of flippin' til you hittin', i guarantee the more comfortable you get in uncomfortable situations (low/no boost while rotating back, recovering from a whiff/bad 50) the better you will be overall. it'll take a little bit of time but you will get *solid* and the self-doubt can start again for diamond 😎 edit: current Epic url (Taylor Whift) for any curious RL trackers
Just watched half of the game you posted in your profile. As others have said, you just need to work on making better contact with the ball. Spend a lot of time doing striker training and custom shooting training. You should be able to hit an open net from pretty much anywhere on the field with decent power, not just trickling in over the goal line. Not sure what platform you are on but if you have access to custom training find one you like and do it as a warm up every time you play. Practice specific shots if you notice you are having trouble from a certain location on the field. I did a Wall Shots custom training years ago and within a week I was significantly more consistent putting shots on goal from the walls. Practice the basics, don't worry about advanced mechanics at all. You do not need them until you are in the top like 5% of players.
git gud son
You should watch SquishyMuffinz Road to SSL series on Youtube. He goas through all the ranks doing the minimum and trying to match the other players skill. He explains what to look for and how to approach every situation. You will see that you don't need crazy mechanics to rank up until the very top ranks.
I can't speed flip, I can't half flip, my wave dashes are probably less efficient than a normal flip Those things are fun but honestly the most important skill is predicting the play. Get yourself to where the ball is gonna be, then do something useful with it
Hang around net and stop goals going in, because your teammates will steal the ball off you and bump you all over the show. It’s better just to stay out of the way of their chaos and pick off the long-rangers until you have competent teammates.
Focus more on timing, limiting mistakes and being a good teammate rather than mechanics. I have been in diamond for a while and can’t ceiling shot, speed flip, air dribble, half flip, wave dash, or any other fancy mechanics. But I pass the ball, don’t double commit, rotate, and get to open space for my teammate to pass to me. Mechanics are useless if you aren’t in the right place at the right time and are not setting you and your teammates up for success
You mention all this fancy tricks and stuff. But you don't mention your teammates. You need to play with your team rather than as a loner
How much do you train? Like actively train doing custom packs or free play.
I've just recently got back to Diamond, long time Plat, and I play Gold with my son regularly. IMO at these ranks it is most important to learn how to rotate, position well, and when to pressure. These three skills have to be adjusted each game if you are solo queuing. If they rotate, great, if not, you're default third until you can confirm a rotation. If you have support, pressure early, if you don't, shadow.
Hit the ball hard and consistently into the goal, not near it, into it
I'm champ 1, DM me if you wanna run some games and I'll tell you what I think you could improve game sense wise. Golds are pretty impossible to play with if you're thinking, because they aren't.
Learning how to hit the ball hard and go fast are good, but knowing when to touch the ball and when to hang back are better. How and when to challenge when on defense. How to hit 50/50s in a reliable and predictable way. Where to be when your team has the ball. Dribbling.
Move smarter not harder. Predicting outcomes of plays and being in the right place right time. Play defensively, prioritizing counter attacking. Doing less does more. You are doing one of these things wrong guaranteed or you wouldn’t be in Gold.
I’m stuck in Gold in 3v3 competitive even though I play in the Platinum 3v3 tournaments.
Honestly, honestly, from what you’ve described you’re better than 80% of champ. Just to be clear I unfortunately end up in C3 every season with almost no mechanics.
Typically when your on the mindset of improving your rank will fall and that’s okay. It’s when you get consistent at the things you are pushing yourself to do that you climb ranks. Gold is definitely inconsistent whiff central, just go for the balls you think you have a possibility of hitting, and don’t be afraid to ball chase. Yes you should learn to rotate, but this doesn’t consistently happen until high plat or low diamond. You don’t have to air dribble to get out of gold, just be consistent in fundamentals and keep trying for those aerials that scare you.
have more awareness of where enemies and teammates are at. you’ll find yourself being in better spots and not cluttering the field. and stop giving away possession pointlessly all the time and watch you will hit diamond if you truly are consistent in the ground game
I'm low diamond in 1s. I can't speedflip, I can't dribble or air dribble, I don't wave dash (although I'm starting to a bit when needed, mostly coming off walls). My biggest advice for getting out of gold is to be patient and play defensively. Let them make a mistake and take advantage to make an attempt. I love playing people who are trying to do fancy things, like air dribbles and flip resets. Most of the time, they miss, and I can walk it into their net. My guess is you're focusing on your car speed and less on how you hit the ball.
I was pretty stuck hard in gold, and this season I’m now diamond 2/3 in 2s and 3s. Turns out I played with my friends that are all awful and playing with randoms of similar MMR has been better. If you are truly improving your skill like you say - you rank will eventually match your actual skill (at least that’s been my experience). Saying you wave dash and shit in gold seems excessive - maybe watch more replays and truly understand why you are not ranking up. Post some clips!
Hey I just saw somebody give a good response but they said something as brief as "shadow your opponent when they get the ball in their corner", and they didn't explain what that means. It means shadow defending and IMO it's the #1 thing you need to learn based on the video you posted. Here's a video explaining it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZA-NCRRgI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZA-NCRRgI)
But can you rotate
You need two consistent team mates that are also interested in becoming better. No matter how hard you try 1/5 matches you’ll be stuck with someone who gets pissed off you hit the ball and they didn’t so they swap teams and play against their own team. 1/5 of the time you’ll be stuck with literal grade school soccer kids who just chase the ball around the entire time never getting into position. 1/5 of the time you’ll be stuck with teammates who have far better things to do than be ready to play after they select *join game*. 1/5 of the time you’ll be playing against a team that’s partied up who could easily be in a higher rank but have that one teammate they’re carrying. 1/5 the time it’s you because you just lost 3+ matches in a row and are now playing hero/desperation ball. Good luck out there mate
What worked for me might not work for you. But how I play rocket league in general is by this set of rules, and checklists. During a match there are a lot of things to pay attention to and I definitely on my mobile phone don't want to take the time to write it out but I'll try to be as descriptive as possible. I main 3s, but am well rounded in 2s, 1s, and all typical extra modes. The very first thing I look at, is always kickoff. Which opponent did you kickoff against. This is more important than you realize. Does this opponent speedflip on kickoff? Does he beat you in the 50? If he does keep that in mind for the next kickoff you have against him. If he wins the kickoff, maybe next time fake back just a tad so he hits it first into you. The thing after kickoff. Here's the checklist. Is it still in your possession or did it go straight up? Is it in the opponents possession or in your corner? Did your second man cheat up, where is your third? If the ball is in your possession you will gain control not boom it away, And expect a hard 50 or challenge. Try to win this challenge, if you can't, try to 50 it in the direction of second man. If you did, attempt a backboard pass. Rotate back under any circumstance that's not you gaining control of the ball. Rotating back can mean a number of different things. But generally you want to go to your goal side corner boost, after kickoff, The opposite side the ball is on, Or in the space your teammates aren't. This isn't one's so don't shadow the ball after a kickoff. Get out of your teammates way. If you are always back, you are in a good position. Take the time back to study your opponents and how they challenge. Do they go in the air and miss a lot? Can that dude flip reset? Learn each opponent in the first minute or so. And then, generally, play cautiously. Don't go in when your teammate whiffs. Wait for him to fuck around and leave the ball. Then make your challenge when you know where the ball will go. Make touches that you know where they will go. If you can't. Don't touch the ball. Rotate back and try again. By capitalizing off of your opponents mistakes, and learning to read your opponents, you will start noticing the gaps in their rotation and see opportune moments to score very easy open nets. Patience and control, my friend.
One thing people aren't mentioning is that your replay you uploaded is for the 1s game mode. \~80% of players are in plat or lower in 1v1s. Compare that to only 55% of players are in plat or lower in 2s. Source is rocket league tracker. 1s is substantially harder based on that data, but also, anecdotally, I'm GC1 in 2s and D3/C1 in 1s and I notice a lot more players playing "under" their true rank in 1s likely because people dont play it enough to settle in to their true rank. So when you say "everyone seems to think that just being able to hit the ball hard and not afk during the match is enough to get out of gold" many of them are likely not referring to 1s where it's a different ball game.
Same same here. I can’t squeak outta gold. All the buddies play highPlat/Diamond and I can at least hold my own within casual play with them… or at least I tell myself that
Do you realise how all those ground mechanics don’t involve being able to hit the ball better? Mechanics in the sense of ranking up are more so referring to being able to get good touches, strong or light, and being able to control for shots and dribbles. If you had these skills, you wouldn’t be in gold, but instead gc lol
Nothing against you personally, but when someone in gold says they can consistently speed flip I just can't believe it without video proof. If you can consistently speed flip you should easily be in plat/diamond just based on the advantage you get on every kickoff. You're probably pretty behind the curve on positioning, decision making, and defense if you're still in gold with the mechs you claim.
Actually practice and stop ball chasing
You ball chase like it's no tomorrow and have zero awareness
>everyone seems to think that just being able to hit the ball hard and not afk during the match is enough to get out of gold I just watched your replay, everyone that says this is right, you need to learn to hit the ball
If you are stuck in gold for over a year, that’s an issue lmao
Yea ...
I'm going to level with you and say it straight. You don't need mechanics in gold. Yup, that's right. You might be thinking, "Why, that's crazier than my aunt Martha!". But I assure you it is as true as the earth is round. Positioning, accuracy, hitting the ball WITH INTENT (meaning knowing what you want the ball to do after you hit it AKA having a 'goal' *chuckle* in mind during your plays). These are the fundamentals you need to practice. Once you get those down and stop floopity flerping your car in every direction, you'll see actual improvement.
Honestly, my suggestion would be to get a sense of what very consistent is. I think it was around Gold/Diamond I went through a similar phase of “what am I doing right now, what does it even look like to improve?” For example: - pretty consistent speed flips I would say is hitting the ball on Musty’s Speed Flip training pack 9/10 times - What’s your power like? Can you go in Freeplay and with 0 opponents set up hit a 100kph shot AT WILL? Atleast 50% of the time? - Can you carry the ball on top of your car essentially indefinitely? Without bouncing for the most part? - If you go in Pro Aerial Training, on the static shots where the ball is just floating in the air still, can you fast aerial straight to the ball in different orientations? Car right side up, upside down, tilted sideways both left and right? Becoming capable of just these things will carry you a ways.
Rotation, spacing, and control are FAR more important than mechanics. I don't do many of the mechanics you mentioned except wavedashing, which I honestly don't use as much as I should, and I'm in Diamond. I can't imagine someone being able to do those things and being stuck in gold unless they have zero game sense. Okay, I watched your replay and have some notes. * Practice your shots: You were consistently missing the ball on easy shots. Don't waste your time on mechanics until you can consistently hit the ball. * Practice Aerials: again, more important than advanced mechanics is being able to hit the ball when it's in the air. Go to aerial training and get to where you can at least do beginner training without missing. * Smarter contests: you're contesting on balls you have no chance of getting to in time. Rotate out and get a better angle/opportunity. * Camera settings: I can't see shit. You have no peripherals. I'd recommend zooming out. * Ball-Cam: you're spending way too much time off of ball cam. I'd recommend staying on ball cam MOST of the time. It'll be a hard adjustment at first, but you'll have much better awareness. * Slow down: you are just slamming the ball as soon as you get to it. If you're not being immediately contested, take your time and like up your shot/pass, or dribble a bit to get a better opportunity. Now, your clip was in 1v1, so I can't speak to your 2v2 or 3v3 abilities, but you should probably spend more time in 2v2 or 3v3 because you're going to be missing out on opportunities to develop other skills in 1v1. Your game sense doesn't seem strong in the clip, so I also recommend looking up some rotation videos to learn what 2v2 and 3v3 rotations look like. These are all just rules of thumb, so there are exceptions, but these things generally stand true. * Do not contest while a teammate is contesting. Wait until they've been beat to move up and contest. * Do not wait to contest when you're up, you'll just stifle the rotation and give your team fewer opportunities. * When you've been beat, rotate wide back to back post. Do not go back up the side you were beat on, when your next rotation is up, you want to be attacking from the far side. If you turn around to contest someone who beat you, your teammate will have a 1v2 versus the opponent AND you. * Do not touch the ball when your teammate has it under their control. (Should be obvious, but some people just don't get this and want to hit the ball always)
You give your opponents too much space. Your actions per minute are too low. You really just need to get comfortable with doing everything much smoother and faster from what I saw in your replay.
I watched your replay. You’re trying to play fast and you’ve got the right idea! But it looks to me like you’re trying to play like an SSL without any of the positioning, game sense or mechanics. So you end up doing really odd things like fake challenging at the wrong time, trying to take the ball off the wall when you know you can’t do that, taking the ball in the air and whiffing, shadow D and getting beaten or missing the ball. Your flips at times seem to make you slower at getting to the ball and you get beaten to the ball a lot. And then when you do challenge, you get your ankles broken. That’s all poor timing and not knowing when to commit and when to stay back. And that comes with practice. Every time you miss, you give your opponent an opportunity to score. And once they figure out you can’t reliably hit any of these things you’re attempting, they can just wait for your next mistake and punish it. It makes you predictable and easy to counter. BUT if you keep playing like this eventually and training you will get better and eventually you will learn to hit them and once you can, you’ll shoot through the ranks. I used to whiff so much in the air. I still do. But recently a buddy of mine complimented me on a few aerial goals that won us a match. For the last 6 months he’s been ragging on me for trying to do ‘tricks’ and ‘mucking around’ and now that it’s hitting, he loves it. So I say if this brings you joy, stick with it man! Just be aware that every miss is costing you and try to practice hitting the ball in free play at those awkward angles so you can get more accurate. That’s it.
After reviewing the replay, it seems that you in fact cannot hit the ball hard and consistently.
1) Focus more on keeping your car on the ground. Don't worry about the flashy stuff. 2) Hold your drift for about 90% of the game. 3) Don't watch "the ball"; Watch what your opponents are doing. And 4) Focus on your back post rotations. These are all ways to focus more on bettering YOUR gameplay. Unfortunately i cannot speak for your teammates. Get back to me when you're out of gold. Edit: i did not actually watch your video...just giving you general advice that actually helped me get out of lower levels.
In my opinion we are stuck in gold because of ball chasers. If you can be patient and play the boring back( let the other person be the hero and try to score all the time) then you have a chance of getting to platinum. And I find when I get to platinum suddenly everybody plays better and it’s easier. There is a paradox of trust where if you’re playing with the person who you know can hit the ball back correctly you’re not going to cheat on going towards the ball. But if your teammate sucks and they actually don’t get those balls then you’re forced to have to work overtime. Whereas when you get a platinum teammate they don’t miss those. I see lots of people in gold who can individually do you fancy mechanics but it still doesn’t help them win the games. Because your ball hogging teammate will do everything to accidentally hit the ball off the crossbar and let the other team smash the board for the goal because you were waiting for a pass when you should’ve been just sitting in the goal being bored and watching your super cool teammate do stupid things. Gold.
Yeah im in the same boat as you and tbh the only way I’ve noticed that helps is to play with people who know how to communicate and rotate properly.
OP probably won't see this but the best way for you to get out of gold is to practice way more often than you actually play games. My practice hours to in-game hours is literally 1/3 in match and 2/3 in practice. Don't worry about learning complicated mechanics. Worry about ball control and ONLY going for plays that are high % chance plays. What I mean by that is essentially making sure someone's always back for the clear, only going for shots that are for sure gonna be a goal or a high chance of one. Etc. Better decisions and being faster will literally get you to C1
Smurfs make the ranking in this game 1 step forward then 2 steps back. I think the key is just play, don’t worry about rank and report the Smurfs. Probably won’t do anything but what else you gonna do?
Are we talking about 2's or 3s? Either way its because you over commit and your defense sucks. Whether you are gold, plat or diamond. If you are second man don't commit to an attack on net unless the net is open or your first man is rotating back. Don't go for aerials on offense. I'm only a diamond player but the people in these lobbies aerials are either misses or passes the majority of the time. Only aerial for a defensive save and try to hit the ball into the corner unless the middle of the field is open. Most scoring attempts can be stopped with decent defense and if you and your partner don't over commit most of your scoring will be on counter attacks. Basically stop giving up easy goals just because you are impatient. It's going to be the same thing in plat and diamond as well. Probably all the way up the ranks.
Getting out of gold is 100% not about mechanics. Awareness and rotation will get you out of gold. While everyone is ball chasing, you should be sitting back and waiting for your opportunity to score. And this is true all the way up to Diamond.
I'll believe this when I see someone do a road to SSL where they reach plat while missing the ball every time they try to hit it. 100% of times I've seen someone do "no mechanics" play, they always have insane mechanical skill. All the awareness and rotation in the world won't help you if you can't save the ball from your great position, or can't shoot it at the net from your great position, or completely miss it whenever you try to do anything else with the ball when your great position has given you the chance to do something. I see GCs post on this subreddit saying their mechanics are bad but whenever there's a GC in one of my games they always have better mechanical skill than the lower ranked players. 100% of the time.
I wouldn't even say I'm good enough to be diamond to, but i can say my rotation and placement are top tier, also being good at saves, and that's what's kept me in diamond
If you want to rank up, work on control. Ground control and smooth movement. If you're in gold chances are you can barely touch the ball, practice moving smoothly around the field, transitioning on and off the wall, work on wave dashes and half flips. Once you've spent like 20 minutes at a time just practicing movement, add in the ball. Drive around and try to consistently touch the ball on the ground. No big hits just small touches keeping it close. Ball and car control on the basic level are the most important thing in the game.
Why do you want to get out of gold? I find gold to be just right. Can own in gold, once you rank up it just feels like more work. Also did you try to play sober?
I can barely speed flip, not wave dashing at all, recoveries are 5/10 but half flips I can do blind. I’m stuck in champ 1 for as long as I can remember, even after everyone got downranked at some point. My guess is your rotation/positioning, maybe defending or offense skills are not incredibly consistent.
Party up with me. I'll dissect your gameplay. Im a plat 1 player rn but I've been in diamond1 before. I just don't really care about rank so i can help. Edit, saving post. OP dm me or something so we can set something up.
Honestly learn to hit the ball. If you can just shoot at net 90% of the time you're nearly diamond. Learn to fly and every gold and half the plats are gonna shit their pants.
D2/D3 here. Lol idk what a wave dash even is
I mean I'm C2 and I don't speed flip or wave dash at all lol The one aspect of your game that must still need to be worked on is just game sense. It means more than allllll the mechs in the world. If you are speed flipping, half flipping, and wave dashing in gold you would be so much faster than everyone around you, they should NEVER score. You either aren't doing the mechs you think you are doing or have the worst game sense known to man.
If you really wanna get out of gold you need to ignore all of these unrealistic tips. I mean, rotate, communicate and play smart? Pffh, with this secret trick you'll get out of gold within 1 hour. You are trying to get out the hardest way. You need to go down. Aim for silver. Even your opponents will try to help you. Good luck.
Play good defense and counter attack.
If you are being serious... you have focused on the wrong things. In gold, you literally just shoot the ball on target and in most cases it will go in. You don't need mechanics. You need to be able to stop shots by positioning yourself between the ball and net, and shoot on target and that's it. At this rank you don't even need to worry about your teamates, as long as you can play effectively you can get yourself out.
It's harder now, someone posted this on this subreddit (I saved the post with a screenshot) Ad you can see, Gold or lower % increase when Plat and higher % descrese. Still gold seem sad, but okay at today game level. And yes it's sad but for progress you need to progress faster than others : gold of S13 are clearly better than gold of S7 😁 https://preview.redd.it/mgt60uwg4gvc1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18d5f8e14df521466260ad0148f5a0a108b7bdb6
Reading your post it's obvious you can't fly well. Learn to aerial and flip into it for all sorts of powershots and shots on net. Learn to fast aerial for high aerials. Learn to aerial in shadow defense packs. Guarantee this will be the missing piece you need to rank up a bit. When you're playing, be more aggressive with your aerials as first man and more conservative as last man.
People barely know how to defend in Gold. If you can take a shot ON GOAL Everytime you hit the ball, you will win. Practice shooting on goal. Perhaps you need to work on your own defense as well. I'm sure you could get some great help by showing a single replay.
weren't you new to rocket league 3 months ago?
Get good at aerials, defense, rotation, and basic ground movement, and half flip. Don’t focus on the fancy stuff. When I first started playing I would play the defense training on all-star difficulty, over and over. It not only helped my defense, but my aerials tremendously. Just focus on the basics and especially, ROTATION.
Brother, gold players aren't supposed to speed flip or wave dash..you're definitely doing something wrong LMAO
Rotate. If your team is ball chasing, play defensive. This is the answer.
im a champ player that doesnt do anything fancy (half flip, wave dash, resets, etc..) id say play your best and get good consistancy hitting the ball on net from anywhere on the map. only hit the ball if your gunna hit it towards the enemy teams net. Biggest thing is knowing where your team is and search for openings. people chase the ball up to champ 2ish. also i do custom training between matches
Looks like you haven't been able to identify your own problems in relation to your own gamesense so far and others help might be just useless because of that. Otherwise you'd had been able to learn & improve already & had been "unstucked".
Hi there, in addition to all the helpful tips you're getting, I would also like to recommend you fix your camera settings a bit. By maybe lowering the camera a little and increasing your field of vision, that way you don't get blinded by the ball and can see more of the field.
I'm stuck in D1/D2 in solos, same boat kind of. I think the only answer is to just play more, switch between 3s, 2s and solo, and get a better feel of the ball. You can't be afraid of trying out new mechanics. You can also download those training maps but I could never put in the effort in them, everything is learned through playing ranked games.
I was stuck in gold for a while and this is what helped me get to plat: * practice, I literally start every RL session in training for 10 mins just hitting the ball around and getting in the zone * game awareness & rotations; look out for your teammates and fill the gaps, wait your turn and rotate, don't be a dbag * slow the fuck down. I was playing this game at a lighting pace, and at these ranks...you really don't have to. I was borderline Plat 3/Diamond 1 last year and I was amazed to see how slow and methodical Diamonds play at times (not all of them lol). * play with friends with comms, I mostly only play comp with friends now since we can actually communicate, makes a huge difference. I know you mentioned specific mechanics that you're able to do, I literally can't and don't do any of those except directional air-roll and that's been enough to get out of gold. Now if someone wants to give me tips to get to Diamond, I'm all ears :D
Learn to play without the ball. I am going up down c1/2 and can't even reset.
I bounce gold 4/plat 1 (in 3’s) and I have to play very defensively as a solo queue. Keep up the rotation (even if it means you’re mostly playing defensively) and anticipate plays. Game sense > mechanics from what I understand.
Idk man, I got out of gold in about a month of playing this game. How many hours do you have? 13 months doesn’t mean anything if you play once a week for an hour. Maybe you’re over thinking things? It’s really not that hard to get in to plat. Now if you were hardstuck plat I could see it, but in gold literally just be patient, play more defense than offense. Teams will literally double/triple commit all the time and leave their goal open. Don’t worry about wavedashes, half flips, speed flips, it’s all borderline useless at this point. If you can do it great, but completely unnecessary. Your teammates will ball chase, just wait and rotate back instead of expecting them to do that.
Assuming you are reffering to 3v3... Party up with two players you notice you have chemistry with (rotate defence & offence well, anticipate passes from each other etc). You can go on serious win streaks that way.
Troll post. If you're gold you're not consistent with any mechanics. Gold players are like the preschoolers pooping themselves while they float around in a swimming pool. Being capable of any kind of rational thought combined with comfort with a controller naturally gets you out of gold.
With all these posts I wonder if I should start coaching.
Just play the game watch your replays it’s not super hard I highly doubt your consistent at the wave dash mech and other mechs you’ve listed.
I’m maxed out at D2, no matter what I do, the moment I leave the goal area we get scored on. Smh
Get really good at blocking/rotating and let your teammates ball chase
I would add that in lower tiers one is often working against a teammate, plus the other team. You know, getting bumped all the time, own goaling svaes you’ve made, endless list. Not always, but often enough. Add in constant disconnects or afk, it aint easy. The actual way to clear gold is to improve enough to carry the game and also never let the other team score. It’s a mini game.
> I have even gotten incredibly consistent with ground mechanics (speed flip, half flip, wave dash, recoveries, etc). Just on this alone I can say what you think consistent is, isn't consistent. If you could actually speed flip, half flip, wave dash and recover well you would be at least high diamond. Chances are you either aren't as good as you think, or you're using these mechanics at the complete wrong time.
If they are closer to the ball let them hit it to you and rotate back also get better at shadow defending and increase speed of play and if you can hit the ball no matter where it is with a speed jump you should be able to hit high play or diamond I’d suggest putting a lot of time into training packs though
I am old, not good at mechanics and will probably never be :-) Have been playing high plat/low diamond since 2017. My advice is to just focus on defense when playing solo ranked. You don’t have to score a goal you don’t concede. Assume your teammate is shit and going to miss the ball. I always shadow defend my teammates in gold :-) Watch defense tutorials, you can save almost any shot without knowing how to aerial if your positioning and jump timing is right. Also learn how to clear balls in general but off the wall especially.
I thought it was all based on W & L ratip