I can confirm, i spent 2 thousand hours in champ 2 (2v2) and diamond 2(1v1) and i started actually locking in and getting consistent with all the basics and realizing ive just been auto piloting freeplay and ranked the entire time, and within only 4ish weeks of doing that i managed to hit champ 3 for the first time ever and hit c1 in 1v1
broo me rn. I always a trying to hit clips n shit, and im on console which i thought held me back. But im focusing im rn and im nearly gc2. Hopefully i get it this season. Goodluck to you bro!
So what did you do though? What were the drills you did or the thoughts you had during games? How did you maintain those thoughts instead of autopiltoing? Everyone says “oh I finally starting getting better when I focused on the basics”. Yeah but what does that MEAN?
@signedupfordoconly4275 instead of just getting on everyday, doing whatever in freeplay and just "trying my best" in ranked instead of playing a bunch of casual I developed a daily training routine for consistent resets, dribbles, shooting (lots of shooting), double taps, aerial shot placement etc, and I'd do all of that via either training packs or freeplay. Only reason I ever do training packs is because the situations in some training packs aren't really easy or worth it to set up, plus if you can score a read on 50 backboard shots in a pack you can easily score the slightly different angle shots. For autopiloting during games I'd literally just either do a tiny bit of slow mo before a match or after every goal I'd make sure I wouldn't say "oh that's stupid" or "that's my teamates fault" or "what am I doing?" I'd make sure I pointed out SOMETHING I could've gone differently, because at the end of the day even if your teamate own goals there's some sort of better rotation you could've made 10, 20, 30 seconds before that would've caused the entire play no have never happened. Also obviously I wasn't going to explain all of this in the post? You say it's like a given I have to fckin provide replay evidence of my consistency over time to make my claim valid. At the very least I get on and do my 1 to 2 hour daily training even if I don't play any games after. If i do play games the priority list is 1v1>2v2>anything else.
@signedupfordoconly4275 by basics I just meant anything I could already kind of do I wanted to get consistent, rather than going for a quad reset that I will usually miss why not focus and master the single reset, the carry, scoop, placement, everything
Im the closed too ssl ever before rn. And i got 4,2k hours in my bag, spending a good part of learning any freestyle mechanic. it helped me a lot improving my car controll and ball controll over all. The rest i trained by playing 2v2 which is about gamesense. The final boss before hitting ssl for me is consistency and mentality
dice dont stop uploading videos, youre helping more people than you think. 1 month ago i was champ 1 and now im champ 2 and im not that far from champ 3
Im gc2-3 and being good at the basics is so true. Im not very high level compared to actual ssl but everytime i get in game i realise how having boost in defense is 1000times more important and impactful instead of hitting that reset. I think at my level we already know what is being said in this video but for gc1 or low gc2 this is a masterclass
Something people need to realise is with mechanics, consistency if not mastery of the base fundamental mechanics is vital before moving onto advance mechanics, so many players have a disfigured mechanics tree, where they can flip reset without even air dribbling, or can air dribble without even being able to dribble. The amount of players that don’t know how to dribble, which is vital in every game is kind of mind boggling.
I started my RL journey a few months ago and I remember watching a certain creator telling me "NEED TO KNOW MECHANICS FOR EACH RANK" and it felt very overwhelming but I swore it didn't feel accurate. A few months of playing and I am currently D3 a few games from champ! I have a buddy who is GC and I recently played a few games with him for the first time and he told me my boost management, rotation, and positioning were miles ahead of my actual rank and man I feel it. Almost every goal I give up is me intentionally going for a mechanic and messing it up and almost never from me being out of position/not having enough boost/etc. It's hard too because I tried looking for replay reviews on the learning sub but almost every comment was "you need to learn this mechanic" or "you need to be able to wall to air dribble" etc. Obviously I am training those things and I can feel my rank increasing as I get more successful with these mechanics but almost no one talks about rotating/positioning/boost management/etc. and it's quite annoying lol.
there is no other way to give advice for rocket league lmao 😂 XD hours played is one thing but you have to get the mechanics down and even then you have to get down alot of different strategies on top of dealing with different talent levels on top of that being spread across the world not worth the investment unless you are trying to go pro to win tournaments for a return investment other then that the titles arent worth it LOL XD and im happy to hit plat after 777 years hard stuck in gold after taking a retirement break lmao and i actually air dribbled once so im happy i now can officially retire rocket league and just play for fun once in a blue moon 😂 anyways hope you are well and keep being awesome my friend ^.^ cheers! :D
no he's saying to not try and master everything and all these random mechanics, focus on becoming consistent with the foundations and the mechanics will eventually come naturally once you spent so much time mastering the basics a.k.a. understanding car control, ball physics, boost physics etc.
Mechanics are a good thing to learn still, having the ability to air dribble and flip reset will help, especially at the higher ranks. When people bring up having not many mechanics they always bring up monkeymoon, but mm actually has great mechanics he just doesn't constantly use them but they still bring him a lot of use in game. The advice here is fine but just dont take mechanics as useless or whatever since they can help get you a step up on people. Rotating and positioning is super important but mix that with mechanics and you have a good spot in game. Learn positions and rotation first than get mechanical when they start to matter more.
I have perfect positioning and can ceiling musty double consistently and reset musty or reset flick pop but when I play the game I never use them, I'm plat 3 d 4, and I my mistakes are always dumb mistakes I never make so I have no way of fixing them.
@@utliscarletaaron6287in plat you literally need to learn how to aim the ball at the net.. no way you can do any of those mechanics twice in a row meanwhile being a plat.
@DizzyWho i will post a video if needed. I learned triple tap consistently and ball reads after writing this. I have had insane improve but it never ranks me up. I play like an ssl, lose like a plat. I can shoot and call out dividing the net into a third to aim at. I just give up mistakes that are impractical to the knowledge i comprehend
@@utliscarletaaron6287lmao you do NOT have perfect positioning or ANY consistent mechanics as a plat. I can’t stand yall always saying this it’s become a meme. If you had perfect ANYTHING at all you’d be a much higher rank. If you want even beat plats you’re simply not good
Literally the main thing wrong with rocket league these days. I've been playing for 8 years and started out playing regularly with friends. As we levelled up, it was because we all improved these fundamentals by simply playing game after game. Even if you solo queued 4 years ago, all your teammates in diamond were at an equal level in terms of fundamentals. Nowadays, you get so many people who've only been playing for 2 years and basically learned everything they know from grinding free play. Yeah they are mechanical gods and doing things I will never be able to do even after 8 years of playing but at least I'm a very reliable and consistent player for my level. None of my old school friends play anymore so I'm left solo queueing in champ mostly with these new school players who just want to clip like Zen. They are so inconsistent and unreliable that you end up losing a lot of games for the most basic mistakes. They ball chase like gold players, they can't reach simple saves because haven't learned how to rotate. They can't manage their boost in game, using everything they have trying to score a flip reset goal. There's zero passing or team plays just constant individual mechanical plays. They've focused way too much on mechanics to help them climb the ranks but it's impossible to develop these fundamentals in free play on your own. It's the most frustrating thing while playing rocket league to see people so much better than you mechanically but losing the game because you weren't able to get the basics together as a team. Obviously their usual response to the loss is that it was my fault because I'm not able to flip reset and that I need to uninstall the game or 1v1 them to reinflate their ego and confirm their belief that mechanics are better than old school fundamentals.
Cant agree more, i just met a random spanish dude who became my mate, we spent time playing 2s and we got gc2 today, im not really mechanical but the chemestry and team plays went crazy
I see why my friends who have played rocket league for years are still diamond while I just started playing this year and hit diamond. I only focus on fundamentals
This is the way. I see these flashy players and think of the Invicible meme: look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power. Hundreds of hours only practicing these flashy mechanics, while I got to the same rank in 1/10th of the time and only by playing competitive and trying to improve at the basics.
I was gc in season 3 in all playlists (then I had to quit) and i swear i had terrible mechanics, poor aerials, but game sense and consistency for basics was enough to win most games. That + not leaving the match after getting scored on a few times. Frustration loses a lot of winnable games
Conclusion : If you want to practice double tap, go for it but don't stop until you can but get 9/10 inside the net so it's consistant and you have something deadly as an option
Personally I think Ball Chasing is a result from young gamers, or gamers in general that hadn't played organized sports in real life. Which is why positioning when you're not involved in the play is probably a hard concept to grasp. Imagin if kids played basketball in this manner, 2 feet from whoever possesses the ball (Teamates included) Trying to get every rebound which involves overpowering a teammate. I think if you played sports as a kid you quickly learn some team sport common sense that you don't always see in Rocket League.
Even funnier, imagin playing Counter Strike, and your teammate is always following you, never walks tho, always runs. Also will shoot to kill a member from the other team, even if that means through you. Can't seem to see any flaw in said playing style, and insists it's everyone else's fault when he looses.
@@Anonymous426_ after following this video a month ago im now champ 3 even though the vid is was 16 hours old at the time My mistake guys but ill leave this here so you can see how sill i am xD
True bro all the way. How do you feel about sensitivity? I use to quick scope badass in cod with max sensitivity and I use to tell people "just turn it up and get use to it, you'll thank me later" I feel like this is misunderstood. Just go max 10 - 10 - .5-.10 deadzone (assuming your controller is fresh enough) for like a week straight bro and see for me! I almost guarantee you will like it more than wherever it's at by the end of a weeks play. No cheating I'll shoot my shit up too but I've been at 8ish so it won't be super massive difference but I'll rock 10/10 till Halloween at least. I don't play much though and I suck so 😅
After watching monkey moons new "super team" go against the new vitality team go against the new KC team after a monkey Moon and exotic drop Dralli to join Zen. I would have to say that Dralli is what made monkey Moon so good... If you disagree with me, feel free to watch Dralli $#!+ on monkey Moon's new super team.
I didn’t hit a flip reset or a double tap until I was in champ 3. You don’t needs mechs to get to champ. 1s is a different story, D1 in 1s isn’t horrible, and it’s probably closer to D3/C1 in 2s.
focused on it how? I would advice watching both your own replays and an entire game of a given gamemode from the pov of a pro player that isn't very mechanical. But then again, there is a gold with 10k hours
@@haydencoolidge8679im gc2 and i never hit resets, ever. Barely even do airdribbles. Sure I would be better if I did and could, but its far from needed
When talking about positioning u said third man is always guarding their goal. But would u say it's okay as third man to go for the ball like 10% of the time if u think ur chances of scoring are good?
Make sure you guys turn off unlimited boost in free play that has helped me a lot and I find myself not running out of boost more in the game and knowing better what I can do with the boost I have
6:52 Please explain why people do this. Dark is in SSL getting corner boost and just letting you get a free goal. Why do people feel they need to grab corner boost on kickoff when there's plenty of boost between them and the ball? I see this at D3/C1 levels and think it's simply asinine. Seeing this in SSL makes me wonder: Am I missing something or is it actually a garbage decision? On topic, I can say for certain that if you just put 20 minutes a day into a training pack like Shots You Shouldn't Miss, it makes a huge difference. It's the whiffs that really hurt when you get to a rank where your teammates start to read the plays and moving to position based on a touch that's not yet happened.
back post is where u should be positioning right? with access to the wall, yet i see in the video u going to near post even tho u have plenty of time to go back, i go there all the time, always, yet players who go near post n get on the wall make it more difficult, its one or other no? emergencies only?
realistically, if someone practiced mechanics expecting to rank up nowadays, they've got to be ignorant, casue EVERYONE gives the advice that it is not the secret to it. I practiced mostly mechanics and freestyled a bit in 2021-22 with the goal to make the experience more fun in comp, I always thought the dull gameplay was just not for me, made the game 3x better than just doing the basics efficiently in my experience.
I got all the way to c2 playing fast asf and doing dumb air dribbles and ceiling shots. Now that I am playing 'correctly' its so much more fun lol and so much easier
the way to rank up is to not solo q and party up with people around the same rank or better. i solo q and its literally impossible even when i switch up my playstyle.
Seen this video dozens of times on other channels. Tells you focus on the basics but doesn’t tell you HOW! I don’t think like the ranks above me, therefore I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. You only know what you’re doing wrong when you’re better than your previous rank.
GC2 is hell. However the big difference between 1600 and 1700 is people keeping possession at the ball at all times. They get these small touches that always keeps them in control. That's really the biggest difference with consistency really getting a bump up.
Guys remember, you have 0 control about your trashm8s. If you lose 2 consecutive games on comp when solo queuing just leave cuz it’ll never stop. RL loves fucking with you
one of my problems is using the camera. sometimes the camera messes me up and I can't figure out what is happening. my steering becomes off and it throws me off my game. any camera tips? I'm a silver player atm
try solo queing 3s in diamond 1 ives spent the better part of 500+ hours in the training room and have made zero improvments but when i play against my champ 3 friends with over 6000 hours in the game i win because of the exact points you've made. the game finally pushed me over the edge 3 days ago and for the first time with over 2000 hours combined with consol when i got the game on release i deleted it. i cant compete with cracked out kids on aderall with brain dead teammates, it sucks because this is my all time favorite game but its just not even fun anymore. good luck to everyone out there pushing ranks.
Im the opposite of the norm i have shit mechanics(only 400 hours though so expected) but always have been good at positioning and rotating. Im champ. Half the time i just watch the other team do fancy stuff and wait for them to over do it and over commit then just shoot the ball on their net lol.
SSL Is possible for anyone who doesn't have actual hardware holding them back (delay, controller drift on low deadzones etc) it's just that it's really hard to have time to get really good at mechanics if you also want to hit ssl at the same time. My goal is gc1 to gc 2 (I'm c3 atm) and then just consistently stay at that rank while getting cracked freestyle mechanics.
@@ElixirVlixur may I ask how much mmr do u have currently? I was trying to rank up to gc1 too last season but I only got to 1389 or so. Do you have an advice by any chance? jajaj
@frana1437 I just got ranked like a day or two ago so I'm only like 1320 rn, I've never hit gc but my peak is around 1389, but I know I can hit gc this season or the next. I'd genuinely say it's a lot about making sure you are consistent with everything you try to do in your ranked games (ie don't go for triple resets if you can't hit them 19 out of 20 times) keep possession, don't boom the ball away but also try not to make a meaningless attack that does nothing except give the ball away, if you go for a bad air dribble and they save it they just get possession so it's basically the same thing (again make sure you're consistent and good at anything you go for) play 1v1s atleast a little and try analyze your rotations in replays as annoying as it is, make sure you don't do it right after a loss tho, I'd say review replays from the day before because I was kind of ignoring my positioning and rotations for like over a year and I didn't rank up at all during that time cuz I just assume my rotations "weren't that bad"
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Plz make a video about champ 2 cuz this shit is a hellhole to get out of( took me 2k/3.5k of my hours to get out of it and I keep getting stuck back in it for hundreds of hours.
Do something you never do. Play 1s a lot if you don't. Play workshop maps or training packs that you would never consider doing. Learn a specific mechanical play if you never do that
@@Jontexperia I play 1s and 2s i have a lot of mechanical verity, i do workshop maps, i do free play, I do custom training, i watch replays, I play casual, heck i play snowday(not this season cuz it’s out), i try every playstyle i know. Nothing works i just have a hard time predicting my weird ass opponents and tm8s with little gamesense. I simply can’t read anything my opponents do.
Why do most streamers have a rectangle on their stream with a live cam on the streamer. Why do people use thumbnails on videos. When something works, everyone does it
Ya ya ya yap yap yap. That’s boring. I’ll remain in champ with my heli resets. I know if I play boring I’ll do well. It’s very hard to make that happen though
F_ _k SSL LMAO! was gold for 777 years and finally got to platinum without thinking about it when giving ranked matches another try and im satisfied i can air dribble twice every 9000 attempts XD LOL but i air dribbled once in my life so i just play for fun and enjoy watching professional tournaments from time to time not going through the headache to get that high of a rank and platinum is wicked cool too! feels good and sounds good lol anyways gave a like and keep being awesome my friend 😎👍🙏 and side note if you are or if someone decides to go for SSL you really need a good team outside of mechanics otherwise its kind of a wrap unless you are a pro and if its 1v1 then yeah mechanics strategy and a lot of focus not wort hthe time and headache for me im happy i ranked up not too long ago to get plat ^.^ cheers!
Ummm bro showing air mechs constantly when saying you dont need air mechs. Yes, of course you can get far without most of the fancy mechs. It doesn't excuse the fact that you still need many hours to refine even the simpler air mechs and counters. Use freeplay, just know how to use freeplay. Training packs are almost useless. Bruce Lee once said, Karate is stiff and relies on the opponent making a cetain move for you to counter it. A lot of Training packs are perfect setups or playing from a certain position. When you play in real games, you dont have the chance for perfect setups handed to you. Train in freeplay but just know how to train, and you will do fine.
I spent 4,700 hours in plat 2. Then I started locking in. 2 weeks later I am now SSL at only 5 months out of the womb. It takes time, effort, dedication, but anyone can truly stand on my level. Best of luck losers 😎
dice i really love your content tips and tutorials but can we please stop that spookluke adhd type editing i cant watch these vids anymore like its really hard to actually watch a whole video like that i know you wanna make the most out of the channel but atleast imo thats just not the way to give actual valueable advice
I can confirm, i spent 2 thousand hours in champ 2 (2v2) and diamond 2(1v1) and i started actually locking in and getting consistent with all the basics and realizing ive just been auto piloting freeplay and ranked the entire time, and within only 4ish weeks of doing that i managed to hit champ 3 for the first time ever and hit c1 in 1v1
broo me rn. I always a trying to hit clips n shit, and im on console which i thought held me back. But im focusing im rn and im nearly gc2. Hopefully i get it this season. Goodluck to you bro!
So what did you do though? What were the drills you did or the thoughts you had during games? How did you maintain those thoughts instead of autopiltoing? Everyone says “oh I finally starting getting better when I focused on the basics”.
Yeah but what does that MEAN?
@@gespinoza6069 im on console too, I hope to get a pc soon.
@signedupfordoconly4275 instead of just getting on everyday, doing whatever in freeplay and just "trying my best" in ranked instead of playing a bunch of casual I developed a daily training routine for consistent resets, dribbles, shooting (lots of shooting), double taps, aerial shot placement etc, and I'd do all of that via either training packs or freeplay. Only reason I ever do training packs is because the situations in some training packs aren't really easy or worth it to set up, plus if you can score a read on 50 backboard shots in a pack you can easily score the slightly different angle shots. For autopiloting during games I'd literally just either do a tiny bit of slow mo before a match or after every goal I'd make sure I wouldn't say "oh that's stupid" or "that's my teamates fault" or "what am I doing?" I'd make sure I pointed out SOMETHING I could've gone differently, because at the end of the day even if your teamate own goals there's some sort of better rotation you could've made 10, 20, 30 seconds before that would've caused the entire play no have never happened. Also obviously I wasn't going to explain all of this in the post? You say it's like a given I have to fckin provide replay evidence of my consistency over time to make my claim valid. At the very least I get on and do my 1 to 2 hour daily training even if I don't play any games after. If i do play games the priority list is 1v1>2v2>anything else.
@signedupfordoconly4275 by basics I just meant anything I could already kind of do I wanted to get consistent, rather than going for a quad reset that I will usually miss why not focus and master the single reset, the carry, scoop, placement, everything
NGL. This entire video is so useful 😮 and the fact it's coming from an actual SSL just makes it the creme de la creme 😃
"creme de la creme" 😭
The key to becoming SSL is hitting "subscribe" on this channel!
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yooo u here, fr
Im the closed too ssl ever before rn. And i got 4,2k hours in my bag, spending a good part of learning any freestyle mechanic. it helped me a lot improving my car controll and ball controll over all. The rest i trained by playing 2v2 which is about gamesense. The final boss before hitting ssl for me is consistency and mentality
dice dont stop uploading videos, youre helping more people than you think.
1 month ago i was champ 1 and now im champ 2 and im not that far from champ 3
good luck man. hope you're not hardstuck c3 as long as i have been once you get there.
@@duck323I peaked gc1 in season ten and have yoyo’d between c2 and c3 ever since😔
Im gc2-3 and being good at the basics is so true. Im not very high level compared to actual ssl but everytime i get in game i realise how having boost in defense is 1000times more important and impactful instead of hitting that reset. I think at my level we already know what is being said in this video but for gc1 or low gc2 this is a masterclass
Going for them titles man
I’m been trying to get GC for forever
( SSL is haunting )
10/10 video
You got it 💪
Something people need to realise is with mechanics, consistency if not mastery of the base fundamental mechanics is vital before moving onto advance mechanics, so many players have a disfigured mechanics tree, where they can flip reset without even air dribbling, or can air dribble without even being able to dribble. The amount of players that don’t know how to dribble, which is vital in every game is kind of mind boggling.
that one hit deep I finally learned how to (barely) air dribble and can barely even dribble and can't understand how to flick
1:34 woah lets not get crazy
I started my RL journey a few months ago and I remember watching a certain creator telling me "NEED TO KNOW MECHANICS FOR EACH RANK" and it felt very overwhelming but I swore it didn't feel accurate. A few months of playing and I am currently D3 a few games from champ! I have a buddy who is GC and I recently played a few games with him for the first time and he told me my boost management, rotation, and positioning were miles ahead of my actual rank and man I feel it. Almost every goal I give up is me intentionally going for a mechanic and messing it up and almost never from me being out of position/not having enough boost/etc. It's hard too because I tried looking for replay reviews on the learning sub but almost every comment was "you need to learn this mechanic" or "you need to be able to wall to air dribble" etc. Obviously I am training those things and I can feel my rank increasing as I get more successful with these mechanics but almost no one talks about rotating/positioning/boost management/etc. and it's quite annoying lol.
In a way, the advice you're giving us is: Don't just master one thing; master everything, especially the basics.
there is no other way to give advice for rocket league lmao 😂 XD hours played is one thing but you have to get the mechanics down and even then you have to get down alot of different strategies on top of dealing with different talent levels on top of that being spread across the world not worth the investment unless you are trying to go pro to win tournaments for a return investment other then that the titles arent worth it LOL XD and im happy to hit plat after 777 years hard stuck in gold after taking a retirement break lmao and i actually air dribbled once so im happy i now can officially retire rocket league and just play for fun once in a blue moon 😂 anyways hope you are well and keep being awesome my friend ^.^ cheers! :D
no he's saying to not try and master everything and all these random mechanics, focus on becoming consistent with the foundations and the mechanics will eventually come naturally once you spent so much time mastering the basics a.k.a. understanding car control, ball physics, boost physics etc.
why is dice this underrated fr
Cuz hes not even gc3 and he telling u how to get ssl
@@Fanoliswait what rank is he 😭
@@Fanolishe said he’s top 100 in the video
@@Fanolis Well thats most creators so why hate
@@JustGD_08 false info
Fantastic video. I was aware of a good amount of this, but it’s a great video to have all of it in a concise way
Started playing rocket league 2 weeks ago and I hit plat today the grind don’t stop
Love your content Dice. Keep up the great work
your save at 9:54 is nice
6:37 i like how you explained what to do but the video showed what not to do, spot on lmao
absolutely good advice. great video!
Mechanics are a good thing to learn still, having the ability to air dribble and flip reset will help, especially at the higher ranks. When people bring up having not many mechanics they always bring up monkeymoon, but mm actually has great mechanics he just doesn't constantly use them but they still bring him a lot of use in game.
The advice here is fine but just dont take mechanics as useless or whatever since they can help get you a step up on people. Rotating and positioning is super important but mix that with mechanics and you have a good spot in game. Learn positions and rotation first than get mechanical when they start to matter more.
I have perfect positioning and can ceiling musty double consistently and reset musty or reset flick pop but when I play the game I never use them, I'm plat 3 d 4, and I my mistakes are always dumb mistakes I never make so I have no way of fixing them.
@@utliscarletaaron6287in plat you literally need to learn how to aim the ball at the net.. no way you can do any of those mechanics twice in a row meanwhile being a plat.
@DizzyWho i will post a video if needed. I learned triple tap consistently and ball reads after writing this. I have had insane improve but it never ranks me up. I play like an ssl, lose like a plat. I can shoot and call out dividing the net into a third to aim at. I just give up mistakes that are impractical to the knowledge i comprehend
@@utliscarletaaron6287lmao you do NOT have perfect positioning or ANY consistent mechanics as a plat. I can’t stand yall always saying this it’s become a meme. If you had perfect ANYTHING at all you’d be a much higher rank. If you want even beat plats you’re simply not good
@@utliscarletaaron6287 thats a lie
Literally the main thing wrong with rocket league these days. I've been playing for 8 years and started out playing regularly with friends. As we levelled up, it was because we all improved these fundamentals by simply playing game after game. Even if you solo queued 4 years ago, all your teammates in diamond were at an equal level in terms of fundamentals. Nowadays, you get so many people who've only been playing for 2 years and basically learned everything they know from grinding free play. Yeah they are mechanical gods and doing things I will never be able to do even after 8 years of playing but at least I'm a very reliable and consistent player for my level. None of my old school friends play anymore so I'm left solo queueing in champ mostly with these new school players who just want to clip like Zen. They are so inconsistent and unreliable that you end up losing a lot of games for the most basic mistakes. They ball chase like gold players, they can't reach simple saves because haven't learned how to rotate. They can't manage their boost in game, using everything they have trying to score a flip reset goal. There's zero passing or team plays just constant individual mechanical plays. They've focused way too much on mechanics to help them climb the ranks but it's impossible to develop these fundamentals in free play on your own. It's the most frustrating thing while playing rocket league to see people so much better than you mechanically but losing the game because you weren't able to get the basics together as a team. Obviously their usual response to the loss is that it was my fault because I'm not able to flip reset and that I need to uninstall the game or 1v1 them to reinflate their ego and confirm their belief that mechanics are better than old school fundamentals.
Thank you I was D2 yesterday and I watched this by the next morning I am ssl🎉😂
Cant agree more, i just met a random spanish dude who became my mate, we spent time playing 2s and we got gc2 today, im not really mechanical but the chemestry and team plays went crazy
Great video and a fun fact: you don't need a flipreset if you can demo at the right time
this channel needs more attention
I see why my friends who have played rocket league for years are still diamond while I just started playing this year and hit diamond. I only focus on fundamentals
This is the way. I see these flashy players and think of the Invicible meme: look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power. Hundreds of hours only practicing these flashy mechanics, while I got to the same rank in 1/10th of the time and only by playing competitive and trying to improve at the basics.
9:01 this is why i find higher ranks easier than lower ones
I was gc in season 3 in all playlists (then I had to quit) and i swear i had terrible mechanics, poor aerials, but game sense and consistency for basics was enough to win most games.
That + not leaving the match after getting scored on a few times. Frustration loses a lot of winnable games
Dawg the production and the music is dope. I like this guy, I might just sub in or bust i…..n pause
Conclusion : If you want to practice double tap, go for it but don't stop until you can but get 9/10 inside the net so it's consistant and you have something deadly as an option
Personally I think Ball Chasing is a result from young gamers, or gamers in general that hadn't played organized sports in real life. Which is why positioning when you're not involved in the play is probably a hard concept to grasp. Imagin if kids played basketball in this manner, 2 feet from whoever possesses the ball (Teamates included) Trying to get every rebound which involves overpowering a teammate. I think if you played sports as a kid you quickly learn some team sport common sense that you don't always see in Rocket League.
Even funnier, imagin playing Counter Strike, and your teammate is always following you, never walks tho, always runs. Also will shoot to kill a member from the other team, even if that means through you. Can't seem to see any flaw in said playing style, and insists it's everyone else's fault when he looses.
W video Dice. Not what I wanted to hear, but what I NEEDED TO HEAR!
I was c1 a month ago and I just hit c3 today. Thank you Dice!
Lol this vid is 16 hours old, after following this video a month ago im now champ 3 even though the vid is was 16 hours old at the time xD
@@devs5765How is that related to the comment?
@@Anonymous426_ after following this video a month ago im now champ 3 even though the vid is was 16 hours old at the time My mistake guys but ill leave this here so you can see how sill i am xD
@@devs5765 He had been following dice for a month, not this video.
this isn't the only video Dice has hruh @@devs5765
Congrats, everyone is going to be ssl now
True bro all the way. How do you feel about sensitivity?
I use to quick scope badass in cod with max sensitivity and I use to tell people "just turn it up and get use to it, you'll thank me later"
I feel like this is misunderstood.
Just go max 10 - 10 - .5-.10 deadzone (assuming your controller is fresh enough) for like a week straight bro and see for me! I almost guarantee you will like it more than wherever it's at by the end of a weeks play.
No cheating I'll shoot my shit up too but I've been at 8ish so it won't be super massive difference but I'll rock 10/10 till Halloween at least.
I don't play much though and I suck so 😅
After watching monkey moons new "super team" go against the new vitality team go against the new KC team after a monkey Moon and exotic drop Dralli to join Zen. I would have to say that Dralli is what made monkey Moon so good... If you disagree with me, feel free to watch Dralli $#!+ on monkey Moon's new super team.
I focused in fundamentals for two years now, just like this dude says, and I only ranked up from plat3 to diam1 in 1s
I didn’t hit a flip reset or a double tap until I was in champ 3. You don’t needs mechs to get to champ. 1s is a different story, D1 in 1s isn’t horrible, and it’s probably closer to D3/C1 in 2s.
focused on it how? I would advice watching both your own replays and an entire game of a given gamemode from the pov of a pro player that isn't very mechanical. But then again, there is a gold with 10k hours
@@haydencoolidge8679im gc2 and i never hit resets, ever. Barely even do airdribbles. Sure I would be better if I did and could, but its far from needed
bcause ones does not need rotation
When talking about positioning u said third man is always guarding their goal. But would u say it's okay as third man to go for the ball like 10% of the time if u think ur chances of scoring are good?
Make sure you guys turn off unlimited boost in free play that has helped me a lot and I find myself not running out of boost more in the game and knowing better what I can do with the boost I have
Another great video
Bro said “another great video” without even watching it 💀
6:52 Please explain why people do this. Dark is in SSL getting corner boost and just letting you get a free goal. Why do people feel they need to grab corner boost on kickoff when there's plenty of boost between them and the ball? I see this at D3/C1 levels and think it's simply asinine. Seeing this in SSL makes me wonder: Am I missing something or is it actually a garbage decision?
On topic, I can say for certain that if you just put 20 minutes a day into a training pack like Shots You Shouldn't Miss, it makes a huge difference. It's the whiffs that really hurt when you get to a rank where your teammates start to read the plays and moving to position based on a touch that's not yet happened.
The key is to tell us how to play, while watching gameplay of you getting dusted
back post is where u should be positioning right? with access to the wall, yet i see in the video u going to near post even tho u have plenty of time to go back, i go there all the time, always, yet players who go near post n get on the wall make it more difficult, its one or other no? emergencies only?
Good advice as usual
Nice work here thanks
realistically, if someone practiced mechanics expecting to rank up nowadays, they've got to be ignorant, casue EVERYONE gives the advice that it is not the secret to it. I practiced mostly mechanics and freestyled a bit in 2021-22 with the goal to make the experience more fun in comp, I always thought the dull gameplay was just not for me, made the game 3x better than just doing the basics efficiently in my experience.
Hello dice just wondering do u offer coaching?
I got all the way to c2 playing fast asf and doing dumb air dribbles and ceiling shots. Now that I am playing 'correctly' its so much more fun lol and so much easier
Youre probably annoying to play with then
the way to rank up is to not solo q and party up with people around the same rank or better. i solo q and its literally impossible even when i switch up my playstyle.
whole heartedly agree
Great advice i should share this to my team mates that bc im normally 3rd man 17000 games played 15000 saves haha
That ratio isn't actually that high. I have 10k games, 12k saves, and 20k goals😅
Seen this video dozens of times on other channels. Tells you focus on the basics but doesn’t tell you HOW!
I don’t think like the ranks above me, therefore I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. You only know what you’re doing wrong when you’re better than your previous rank.
Been stuck at gc2 since season 4, would be nice if you could make some pointers for gc2 to push through gc3
GC2 is hell. However the big difference between 1600 and 1700 is people keeping possession at the ball at all times. They get these small touches that always keeps them in control. That's really the biggest difference with consistency really getting a bump up.
Guys remember, you have 0 control about your trashm8s. If you lose 2 consecutive games on comp when solo queuing just leave cuz it’ll never stop. RL loves fucking with you
truth
Great video
But u dont have fun if u dont learn mechs
one of my problems is using the camera. sometimes the camera messes me up and I can't figure out what is happening. my steering becomes off and it throws me off my game. any camera tips? I'm a silver player atm
Yeah, press the ball cam button. 😂
Bro how are dribbles and flicks considered boring mechanics?
Idk they are pretty fun to learn
try solo queing 3s in diamond 1 ives spent the better part of 500+ hours in the training room and have made zero improvments but when i play against my champ 3 friends with over 6000 hours in the game i win because of the exact points you've made. the game finally pushed me over the edge 3 days ago and for the first time with over 2000 hours combined with consol when i got the game on release i deleted it. i cant compete with cracked out kids on aderall with brain dead teammates, it sucks because this is my all time favorite game but its just not even fun anymore. good luck to everyone out there pushing ranks.
You need to be consistent at mechs. Doing basic things only get you so far and easy to read.
C2 to C3 $50 for boost and another $75 for C3 to GC1
Im the opposite of the norm i have shit mechanics(only 400 hours though so expected) but always have been good at positioning and rotating. Im champ. Half the time i just watch the other team do fancy stuff and wait for them to over do it and over commit then just shoot the ball on their net lol.
But Dice may I still practice mechanics pwease.
Oh, so...we should try to play good? Crazy
W vid
Shiiiii I didn’t know you made videos
bro wth did he win that second game or not
wheres losfeld at? losfeld is this valid??
W
Heres the real advice. SSL is for a different breed of humans. I wouldnt go for SSL unless i was a highly skilled musician or artist.
SSL Is possible for anyone who doesn't have actual hardware holding them back (delay, controller drift on low deadzones etc) it's just that it's really hard to have time to get really good at mechanics if you also want to hit ssl at the same time. My goal is gc1 to gc 2 (I'm c3 atm) and then just consistently stay at that rank while getting cracked freestyle mechanics.
@@ElixirVlixur may I ask how much mmr do u have currently? I was trying to rank up to gc1 too last season but I only got to 1389 or so. Do you have an advice by any chance? jajaj
@frana1437 I just got ranked like a day or two ago so I'm only like 1320 rn, I've never hit gc but my peak is around 1389, but I know I can hit gc this season or the next. I'd genuinely say it's a lot about making sure you are consistent with everything you try to do in your ranked games (ie don't go for triple resets if you can't hit them 19 out of 20 times) keep possession, don't boom the ball away but also try not to make a meaningless attack that does nothing except give the ball away, if you go for a bad air dribble and they save it they just get possession so it's basically the same thing (again make sure you're consistent and good at anything you go for) play 1v1s atleast a little and try analyze your rotations in replays as annoying as it is, make sure you don't do it right after a loss tho, I'd say review replays from the day before because I was kind of ignoring my positioning and rotations for like over a year and I didn't rank up at all during that time cuz I just assume my rotations "weren't that bad"
Here's the real loser ☝️😊
Definitely don't listen to dice. He obviously knows nothing.
If anyone is looking for an interesting playlist for background music I highly suggest "Soundtrack for a Supervillain - Dark and Sinister Music Mix" here on RUclips. No affiliation I just find myself going 19th century villain playing a futuristic game on a magical device!
Plz make a video about champ 2 cuz this shit is a hellhole to get out of( took me 2k/3.5k of my hours to get out of it and I keep getting stuck back in it for hundreds of hours.
Maybe it’s time for a new hobby ma boy
Are u on console. Or are u using keyboard over controller
Do something you never do. Play 1s a lot if you don't. Play workshop maps or training packs that you would never consider doing. Learn a specific mechanical play if you never do that
@@Jontexperia I play 1s and 2s i have a lot of mechanical verity, i do workshop maps, i do free play, I do custom training, i watch replays, I play casual, heck i play snowday(not this season cuz it’s out), i try every playstyle i know. Nothing works i just have a hard time predicting my weird ass opponents and tm8s with little gamesense. I simply can’t read anything my opponents do.
@@stevebru1373 pc with a controller
Is this not more of a motivational video than it is advice
why is this editing style and the general video extremely similar to spooklukes
Why do most streamers have a rectangle on their stream with a live cam on the streamer. Why do people use thumbnails on videos.
When something works, everyone does it
Ya ya ya yap yap yap. That’s boring. I’ll remain in champ with my heli resets. I know if I play boring I’ll do well. It’s very hard to make that happen though
F_ _k SSL LMAO! was gold for 777 years and finally got to platinum without thinking about it when giving ranked matches another try and im satisfied i can air dribble twice every 9000 attempts XD LOL but i air dribbled once in my life so i just play for fun and enjoy watching professional tournaments from time to time not going through the headache to get that high of a rank and platinum is wicked cool too! feels good and sounds good lol anyways gave a like and keep being awesome my friend 😎👍🙏 and side note if you are or if someone decides to go for SSL you really need a good team outside of mechanics otherwise its kind of a wrap unless you are a pro and if its 1v1 then yeah mechanics strategy and a lot of focus not wort hthe time and headache for me im happy i ranked up not too long ago to get plat ^.^ cheers!
imma be honest youre wrong, its diff for everyone and ill tripple flip reset on everyone here so🤷🏽♂️
Dice boost me I’ll pay you good
Ummm bro showing air mechs constantly when saying you dont need air mechs. Yes, of course you can get far without most of the fancy mechs. It doesn't excuse the fact that you still need many hours to refine even the simpler air mechs and counters. Use freeplay, just know how to use freeplay. Training packs are almost useless. Bruce Lee once said, Karate is stiff and relies on the opponent making a cetain move for you to counter it.
A lot of Training packs are perfect setups or playing from a certain position. When you play in real games, you dont have the chance for perfect setups handed to you. Train in freeplay but just know how to train, and you will do fine.
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Dice can I pay you to boost me on an alt account..? I can over pay you I’m rich..
Or just get it yourself?? 😂 everyone's gonna see how sh** you are anyway... it's a waste of money lil bro
Dark can compete in SSL while ignoring all of these.
We don't care about SSL, we want to be mechanically better !!!
W grandplat brother
And we want that ppl like u will leave comp and play cas instead
Then practice mechanics…. Not that hard
I wanna get higher rank doing both ranking up (obviously) and mechanics lol
@@yowhatsupnoobno you gotta rememer freestylers get banned if they play cas
I spent 4,700 hours in plat 2. Then I started locking in. 2 weeks later I am now SSL at only 5 months out of the womb. It takes time, effort, dedication, but anyone can truly stand on my level. Best of luck losers 😎
dice i really love your content tips and tutorials but can we please stop that spookluke adhd type editing i cant watch these vids anymore like its really hard to actually watch a whole video like that i know you wanna make the most out of the channel but atleast imo thats just not the way to give actual valueable advice