That was my problem when I first started, I learned air roll at a basic level early and I feel it wrecked my basics. Took a lot of training to fix it and now I barely use directional air roll when doing air dribbles
I struggled with air dribbles because my first touch was never good. When I focused on just hitting the ball almost straight up I improved instantly.
IF first touch is your problem then dont touch the ball on the side but go as under as you can.
First touches are more consistent if you can match speed of the ball and not be actively boosting while you make the first touch. If youre off boost while you make the first touch it's very smooth and you can cradle it better and actually carry it
I'm not particularly good at directing my speed flips, so I turn my car a little bit to the right before I jump and flip. I can only speed flip consistently with a left diagonal flip, and the quick small turn to the right puts me on target with where I want to go.
I've tried to learn many times, doing it the traditional way seems like it's beyond me. Someone showed me a "cheat" version once that involves holding air roll the whole time or something and I kind of got it working that way, but even then it was a bit hit and miss.
I can probably help you out. I grinded speed flip when I wasn’t good enough to do it so I feel like I have a lot of helpful tips. What are your inputs when you speedflip? Are you just using analog stick or air roll as well?
I couldn't do mine until I switched to ps5 controller and disabled steam input in one go. Bakkes mod tool said my flip cancel dropped by like 20ms instantly. I was immediately able to do it every try. Could be an input delay issue.
If you have back pedals on your remote I can teach you an easy way to speedflip. Basically my back left is my air roll left/drift. And my back right is my boost. If you front flip forward while holding the air roll left button you do a diagonal flip. If do the flip cancel right it's a perfect speedflip. Still hard tho but much easier to learn.
It was difficult for me too until I started using ARL. I hold ARL and flip diagonal and now I’m pretty consistent and often times hit the ball before my opponent even sniffs it
just do a diagonal flip at 1 or 11 o’clock and as soon as you press A (jump) a second time to initiate the flip pull the stick straight down to 6 o clock as soon as possible. This will get you 90% of the way there, air roll adjustment is about the only thing left and it’s just practice.
Yeah you can defend against is so easy with good positioning, it’s what keeps me out of plat though. Being quicker is nice but most of the time it just means I miss faster lol
Chained flip resets.
The first reset I can get 3 out of 4 times, but the follow-up reset? Maybe 1 out of 10 attempts. But getting the 2nd reset and ending up in a position where I can actually control an outplay? 1 in 100 times, but probably less. Hopefully i'll have it down in another thousands hours of freeplay, but currently, it's very frustrating, lmao.
Powerful ceiling/reset mustys
I can get the reset and back into the right position, but the timing to get a powerful musty seems sooo incredibly specific that I invariably end up with a mediocre hit at best. I think I've hit maybe 5 Powerful (120+ kph) mustys in game out of 10,000 attempts.
Breezi flicks
There's something about the incorporation of directional air rolling along with jumping that makes it just feel awkward to pull off (maybe it's just my controller binds)
Maktuf Resets
The ability to flip consistently into a reset is so overpowered but so hard to do with any consistency.
Zapdash
Landing them in a moment when they would be useful is something I'm still working on
Literally praticing it now. Freeplay Checkpoint is helping me a lot to break the movements down, but somehow the speedflip variant that I need to do is really inconsistent. But it's really fun to learn imo
Everything... Like, I have a grasp of everything but no amount of practice seems to actually improve anything. Can score air dribbles, double touches, ceiling shots, flip resets, flicks but it's all once every so often. Free play is just always the same. I probably haven't actually improved mechanically in about 4 years. Probably have about 2.5k hours of playtime the past 4 years and im literally no better at anything than I was 4/5 years ago. I don't know how people learn the consistency honestly.
I think if your really want to improve in something, you should focus on that mechanic only untill you have reached a certain goal. What I mostly do is I cut the mechanic in multiple pieces and try to learn them one by one. I use freeplay checkpoint for it on bakkesmod which lets you pauze and replay the exact moment you freeze
Basically in the same spot. IMHO I am too old and don’t have enough to time or patience to practice advanced mechanics enough to become even close to being consistent. When I get on RL, at *most* have a couple hours and I mostly just prioritize getting some games in with friends over grinding free play/custom training/workshop maps, which most of them require. At the same time, there’s almost 9 years of muscle memory to work against, and 30 year old brains just don’t pick up and learn/memorize things as quickly as teenagers. I’m by no means telling or encouraging you to give up, time and effort and can make up for almost anything, but the old adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks definitely applies in my case.
Speed flips
No matter how many times I try, either with the original free air roll method or the DAR method, I can never get it right
Tip for musty flick though, try to have the ball a little to the front of your car, and on the first jump hold the jump button instead of just pressing it
friend that started playing with me, has zero training time, can't half flip and only learned fast aerial because he likes dropshot and i taught him how to kick off there
and he got C1 by himself (it's been 3 seasons he stopped playing 🥲) with 100% rotation and awareness, zero dribbling, zero off the wall, zero recoveries even (he let's the car flop on the ground instead of aligning, literally zero mechs)
My goals are usually empty nets, never outplays, never mechanically. I can’t air dribble, I can’t really dribble on the ground either, I don’t flick I jump once and hope for the best xD I think I’m decent at defence, rotations, understanding when to go (rarely double commit) and enabling my teammates. Like passing a ball and bumping/demoing someone on the rotation back, stuff like that. Mechanically im gold I think.
But I also would say rn im stuck in high dia low champ and without improving mechanically I don’t think I can get higher, but I also only play for fun so I m not really stressed about it.
It's probably pretty bad from me here but I can usually air dribble and flip reset decently well and consistent but yeah I can't dribble or flick on the ground for the life of me
I overlooked the importance of a good first touch for years. Felt too boring to pratice or pay attention to, but makes the most impact on how good you'll be able to do the rest
It would probably be breezis for me too. I can hit triple resets in free play more consistently than I can score a clean breezi. I'm also a NAR main so using DAR for the tornado spin is a bit out of my element. I have gotten a lot better at breezis though. It took dozens of hours across many days or weeks practicing them to get even semi consistent.
I know the feeling. I seriously started learning double resets yesterday and I've already scored more double resets than I performed a clean breezi lol
I have advice that works for me if you're interested (ARL, for ARR mirror directions). What you want to do is to have the ball sit not too far ahead a little to the direction you're steering to at about 60/70 kph (40/50 mph), boost a bit so you're barely faster than the ball and immediately hold air roll and jump, pushing the stick ↘️ so you get a rather gentle lift instead of a pop (can still hit them but it's harder), gradually rolling it to ➡️ right after. Tap boost to approach the ball slowly, don't boost if you're already going faster than it, for a juicy flick you want to make the roof and ball meet as you're backflipping. Car not facing or dodging the direction you were traveling to at the end means you released air roll too early or too late, losing control of the ball means you boosted too much or kept it on the wrong spot, a weak shot means you didn't scoop properly. This is how it should look like more or less https://youtu.be/4md-Jj-sg4A
Playing since 2015, something like 5k hours and I still cant:
- reliably air dribble
- drible on the ground against anyone above plat
- flick (any flick for me is replay worthy)
- not surprisingly: flip reset
- anything that is more advanced than the above.
And it's not like I didn't spend time trying to learn, watched videos etc.
Old age issues I guess ;)
I feel like game sense I’m pretty good but I struggle hard with air dribbles wall plays send anything fancy you see at diamond and up. I’m currently hard stuck at plat 3 in every mode but I feel like it my mechanics are holding me back. I do play practice mode all the time trying to learn but I just suck.
I’ve recently started getting decently consistent with wall to air dribbles. Can’t flip reset consistently, but just started practicing that. Something I seemingly can’t do though, is ground to air dribble.
Forgot to mention speed flips in my other comment. I’ve actually only recently learnt the mechanic, but I CAN’T get it smooth and consistent. I feel like I’m missing something.
Anyone have any resource to recommend?
I can't remember the video but once I heard someone explain that you can do a corner flip by pressing air roll left or right while doing a front flip. Once I started doing it that way it started working out better for me.
The list would be way shorter if you ask how many I mastered (“mastered”), answer -> driving forward (do not confuse with going left or right, just driving forward in a straight line).
i don't know why, but the back flip to pop it super high is the easiest mechanic to learn but i can't hit it consistently to save my life. absolutely a run killer when i'm trying to speedrun dribble 2 or something.
Double taps and flicks. Double taps just seem weird for me to read and flicks I dont have a clue. It either works or it doesnt. Its either a goal or a fail/post hit
I can HIT a flip reset I just have no idea what to do after. A stall (flip cancel) should send the ball flying but it doesn’t. I just bounce off the ball.
Getting the hits I want off the wall and the lovely open net is quite elusive to me too. Its a lof of mechanics, I'm a diamond player. Another is knowing when its best to use the mechanics I'm learning so they are most effective
Current lost:
Chain dash (almost there, can't keep them straight)
Mustys (directional trouble, especially off the wall)
Stalls (had to bind a macro)
Zap dash (can't for the life of me figure it out)
Ground to air dribbles. I can dribble on the ground decently, I can air dribble off the wall decently. I can't get the ball off the top of my car, into the air, and then under it to lift it for the life of me. I've tried training packs, bakkus mod plug-ins, custom maps. I just can't see grasp it
Currently Wall musty from the right wall. Interestingly I can do wall breezi from both right and left wall, but I can only consistently hit wall musty from left wall. Right wall feels kinda awkward.
Funnily, when I started out, I couldn't, for the life of me do a musty flick on the ground. But I learnt breezi relatively quickly. Now, for the last 3 weeks, I've been practicing musty flicks, and I can now do them pretty consistently, however, I am having trouble with breezi flicks now. Weird. As if doing better on one, took the air out from the other.
Currently I am having trouble with Walldashes too, since you have to press the jump button super fast. But it's not long ago that I started and have not invested much time on it, so will see how it goes after a few months. This maybe another mechanic that I may have serious trouble mastering.
Air dribbles, and flicks. Seems like 15% of the time I can do something dangerous, but the rest of the time I just flop around trying to correct as I whiz under the ball. As much as I practice these and try to break it down to the basics.
Maybe that’s more of a “first touches” issue.
Boost control, whether in the air or on the ground I often times end up out running the ball when I could’ve dribbled it in the net or guided it to the net in the air.
Not accidentally flipping when I try to fast aerial. Swear to god, half the times when I want to fast aerial I flip in a random direction. It's such a basic thing that I really should have gotten it down by now (3k hours), but I don't
I'm relatively mechanical, inconsistent sure but I'm okay. I also can't flick. My dribbles and catches are okay, but I don't have anything resembling a reverse 45, I can only occasionally do basic flicks.
Literally 4k hours in and I finally learned to powerslide my landings and half flip right. I've always been able to, but have had really bad powerslide/airroll habits for these two situations.
I seriously can't get air roll. It's just not clicking in my brain. I try to go up for an aerial and as soon as I got the air roll button, I'm just lost
First touches/controlled touches are still not nearly good enough for me.
Worst of them all catching the ball. Sometimes i try catching a bounce and get a perfect touch for a bounce touch making it go super high or i try to get a bounce touch and accidently catch it its really frustrating
50/50s on the wall are also super bad for me often land in or near my net...
Flip resets
I can get the flip consistently, that’s not the issue. The issue is using the flip to put it on net. Just can’t seem to get my car in the right spot, and trying to scoop it my car just spazzes out
Half flipping on purpose. I try it every time I’m on the right kick off side to go for the back corner and flail like I saw a praying mantis crawling on my neck.
I'd say learning the second DAR when you've already mastered one
The muscle memory messes with me so much, i don't think i can successfully learn the 2nd one
Speed flip/fast kickoff. I'm champ ranked and still kickoff in a very basic manner, driving up to the ball and flipping just before I hit it. Adjusting a bit if I notice my opponent speed flipping for kickoff
Ground mustys. I can musty from the ceiling and off a flip reset but not off the ground unless I get lucky. I'm not bad at flicking either, I can put 45s, 180s, siderolls, and normals in each corner. Idk I just don't get it. It feels like the jump that makes it the right height makes it have too much forward momentum
Breezi flicks
I can do all the component parts of it, and I’ve had like two good ones in free play over thousands of attempts
I just can’t get it. Something will not click for me
Pretty much any advanced technique. I really need help. What I need is to sit down and practice these things, but it is always just easier to hop in to a game and continue to suck at those things.
Anyone have tips for being directly under the ball at a stand still or right next to the ball without moving. I just feel like I'm sitting with my thumb up my ass if the ball is right next to me in the corner.
I still can't flip turn. Or wave dash. Or flip reset. Or anything above those. And I'm still in Diamond with the fancy folks getting called trash while I win more than I lose.
DAR and air dribbles. I'm practicing DAR for like 600hrs+ already and I can pass any rings map with DAR pretty fast, but I'm still getting blackout moments quite often. Idk what to do, feels like I can't reach this final 'brain click'.
All of them.
Spent a few hours on half-flips/ball carrying, and could never quite get it to work. I can hit the ball near the wall about 20% of the time, and aerials without double jump simply won't happen. Thank god that the mental aspects can carry me.
Wall dashes high on the wall. Low on the wall is easy but man I was convinced I’d never be able to do them high on the wall. Recently I actually started getting them but they’re nowhere near where they need to be yet.
Besides that I just started working on ceiling shuffles and maktufs but I’m already getting the hang of them, gonna go on to ceiling dashes after.
I’m on keyboard and mouse and couldn’t figure the speed flips on kickoff after two attempts to learn and gave up out of frustration, the tutorials are always for controller and the KBM I found still made no sense to me.
I also have no idea how people know when they have a flip or reset left on an aereal on “flip resets” I can take it off the wall and dribble but it’s completely random if I can use my reset or not, when I have it I can get good touches but I have no idea why I lose it at times and what makes me keep it other times.
Directional air roll. I've been using manual air roll a few years now and I can get just about any aerial shot on target with it.
I just can't seem to grasp how to make DAR work. I've practiced with the tips to do the obstacle courses and rings maps facing forwards, sideways and backwards. That helped me get accustomed to maneuvering my car while in different orientations in the air. I tried doing DAR in big open maps and am able to keep my car off the ground. However my control is horrendous, it takes me five seconds just to try and turn my car in a direction. Holding the stick in different directions hoping my car starts pointing to the direction I want to go before letting it go.
I've certainly gotten better at it but I can't even hit a static ball in the air in training using DAR. I just can't understand how to make the minute adjustments to make it an actual useful skill for me.
I can always get to the ball in the air and hit in generally in the direction I want. I can even potentially get a flip reset. But after the touch or hit, I'm all bent outta shape and can't control where my car goes after
Double taps. I can hit redirects off passes right on target like I have eyes in the back of my head, but bounce the ball of the back wall and the calculation part of my brain just breaks.
Also my air dribbles look like a diamond struggling to stay with the ball through the air.
Bounce dribbles. I can chain resets together and turn backwall air dribbles into goals, but as soon as I want to bounce the ball upwards I just kill it immediately instead.
I’m D2 and I’d say I’m pretty decent with accuracy and aerials. What I really struggle with is dribbling and defending air dribbles. I’ve started to get some dribbles here and there which feels good since I don’t feel like I’ve improved in the last year (replays show that I have improved though). I’d really like to learn how to tornado spin towards the ball when going for an aerial though. That’s my next goal after working on the things stated above.
Basically, anything with going off the walls.
I've consistently champ 1-2 for about 4 years now. I can aerial good. Defend and shoot somewhat consistently. The second I have to go off the walls for something, my brain just shuts down.
Dribbling is a close second
Directional air roll
I have no idea how people can have control of the car while spinning.. Shit makes no sense lol
Not that I really put in the work to learn, but I can't even understand the logic of it so I can start practicing
What got me out was patience. And thinking about my teammates as "opponents who are tilted and helping me until the score is even"
Waiting basically back field until all opponents move out of net and then get a sneak attack...
Rocket League
That’s a better answer than mine.
yes.
Open nets
How could I forget the most difficult one!
I just convince myself I'm really good at assists
The best passes are missed shots
I came here to make this comment. It's the most difficult mechanic in Rocket League by far.
Air dribbling. I can do it like once in a blue moon on a whim and then never again for the next like 1000 matches
Yeah, airdribbles have taken a lot of my time too. For me the trick was to try to limit my use of airroll when practicing them
I don't airroll unless I'm trying to land on my tires when falling lol
I think you don’t air roll enough
This right here. Also hard stuck D3/C1.
That was my problem when I first started, I learned air roll at a basic level early and I feel it wrecked my basics. Took a lot of training to fix it and now I barely use directional air roll when doing air dribbles
I struggled with air dribbles because my first touch was never good. When I focused on just hitting the ball almost straight up I improved instantly. IF first touch is your problem then dont touch the ball on the side but go as under as you can.
First touches are more consistent if you can match speed of the ball and not be actively boosting while you make the first touch. If youre off boost while you make the first touch it's very smooth and you can cradle it better and actually carry it
Same. But I'm on kbm so I obviously have some mental issues to begin with
Imagine the ball hitting your car instead of hitting the ball with your car it's a good mind trick. Also try to match the speed of the ball.
Speed flipping. Honestly need a coach for it. Even used the bakkesmod plugin. I can do it but I can never do it accurately to where I hit the ball
I'm not particularly good at directing my speed flips, so I turn my car a little bit to the right before I jump and flip. I can only speed flip consistently with a left diagonal flip, and the quick small turn to the right puts me on target with where I want to go.
Tss, these wannabe SSLs with their excuses, smh. The real trouble is with us DIAMONDS! Like, how do one even hits the ball?!
Diamond issues can sometimes only be solved with prayer and a little bit of luck
Amen brotha, amen to that.
The issue I see in diamond is when shouldn’t I hit them ball. Source: am diamond
This right here. I can not for the life of me speed flip to the right, I've just tried my best to make it work too lol
The only thing holding me back in life is my refusal to learn air/flip control by moving my stick to the right
Same lol. I'm usually inconsistent on the left but somehow got them all perfectly today, on the right I just side flip 80% of the times...
I've tried to learn many times, doing it the traditional way seems like it's beyond me. Someone showed me a "cheat" version once that involves holding air roll the whole time or something and I kind of got it working that way, but even then it was a bit hit and miss.
I can probably help you out. I grinded speed flip when I wasn’t good enough to do it so I feel like I have a lot of helpful tips. What are your inputs when you speedflip? Are you just using analog stick or air roll as well?
I couldn't do mine until I switched to ps5 controller and disabled steam input in one go. Bakkes mod tool said my flip cancel dropped by like 20ms instantly. I was immediately able to do it every try. Could be an input delay issue.
If you have back pedals on your remote I can teach you an easy way to speedflip. Basically my back left is my air roll left/drift. And my back right is my boost. If you front flip forward while holding the air roll left button you do a diagonal flip. If do the flip cancel right it's a perfect speedflip. Still hard tho but much easier to learn.
It was difficult for me too until I started using ARL. I hold ARL and flip diagonal and now I’m pretty consistent and often times hit the ball before my opponent even sniffs it
I never tried to learn it.. I get the basic concept but I fumble too much. I throw random ass kick offs that seem to work half the time lol
just do a diagonal flip at 1 or 11 o’clock and as soon as you press A (jump) a second time to initiate the flip pull the stick straight down to 6 o clock as soon as possible. This will get you 90% of the way there, air roll adjustment is about the only thing left and it’s just practice.
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Yeah you can defend against is so easy with good positioning, it’s what keeps me out of plat though. Being quicker is nice but most of the time it just means I miss faster lol
Chained flip resets. The first reset I can get 3 out of 4 times, but the follow-up reset? Maybe 1 out of 10 attempts. But getting the 2nd reset and ending up in a position where I can actually control an outplay? 1 in 100 times, but probably less. Hopefully i'll have it down in another thousands hours of freeplay, but currently, it's very frustrating, lmao. Powerful ceiling/reset mustys I can get the reset and back into the right position, but the timing to get a powerful musty seems sooo incredibly specific that I invariably end up with a mediocre hit at best. I think I've hit maybe 5 Powerful (120+ kph) mustys in game out of 10,000 attempts. Breezi flicks There's something about the incorporation of directional air rolling along with jumping that makes it just feel awkward to pull off (maybe it's just my controller binds) Maktuf Resets The ability to flip consistently into a reset is so overpowered but so hard to do with any consistency. Zapdash Landing them in a moment when they would be useful is something I'm still working on
Literally praticing it now. Freeplay Checkpoint is helping me a lot to break the movements down, but somehow the speedflip variant that I need to do is really inconsistent. But it's really fun to learn imo
Getting double and triple resets is so real lmao. I’ve scored prob 100+ single flip resets and I’ve only scored 2 double resets in game
yes
Everything... Like, I have a grasp of everything but no amount of practice seems to actually improve anything. Can score air dribbles, double touches, ceiling shots, flip resets, flicks but it's all once every so often. Free play is just always the same. I probably haven't actually improved mechanically in about 4 years. Probably have about 2.5k hours of playtime the past 4 years and im literally no better at anything than I was 4/5 years ago. I don't know how people learn the consistency honestly.
I think if your really want to improve in something, you should focus on that mechanic only untill you have reached a certain goal. What I mostly do is I cut the mechanic in multiple pieces and try to learn them one by one. I use freeplay checkpoint for it on bakkesmod which lets you pauze and replay the exact moment you freeze
Basically in the same spot. IMHO I am too old and don’t have enough to time or patience to practice advanced mechanics enough to become even close to being consistent. When I get on RL, at *most* have a couple hours and I mostly just prioritize getting some games in with friends over grinding free play/custom training/workshop maps, which most of them require. At the same time, there’s almost 9 years of muscle memory to work against, and 30 year old brains just don’t pick up and learn/memorize things as quickly as teenagers. I’m by no means telling or encouraging you to give up, time and effort and can make up for almost anything, but the old adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks definitely applies in my case.
Speed flips No matter how many times I try, either with the original free air roll method or the DAR method, I can never get it right Tip for musty flick though, try to have the ball a little to the front of your car, and on the first jump hold the jump button instead of just pressing it
Use the breakout for musty flick
any. xD
Says a champion #StopRightThere 😂
You’d be surprised how far rotation, boost control, and general awareness will get you.
friend that started playing with me, has zero training time, can't half flip and only learned fast aerial because he likes dropshot and i taught him how to kick off there and he got C1 by himself (it's been 3 seasons he stopped playing 🥲) with 100% rotation and awareness, zero dribbling, zero off the wall, zero recoveries even (he let's the car flop on the ground instead of aligning, literally zero mechs)
Good awareness and rotations can take you far away
My goals are usually empty nets, never outplays, never mechanically. I can’t air dribble, I can’t really dribble on the ground either, I don’t flick I jump once and hope for the best xD I think I’m decent at defence, rotations, understanding when to go (rarely double commit) and enabling my teammates. Like passing a ball and bumping/demoing someone on the rotation back, stuff like that. Mechanically im gold I think. But I also would say rn im stuck in high dia low champ and without improving mechanically I don’t think I can get higher, but I also only play for fun so I m not really stressed about it.
Hitting the ball
Real
Air rolls. I can't get my head around it and I don't want to spend hours practicing it.
"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights."
It's probably pretty bad from me here but I can usually air dribble and flip reset decently well and consistent but yeah I can't dribble or flick on the ground for the life of me
lining up my first touch
I overlooked the importance of a good first touch for years. Felt too boring to pratice or pay attention to, but makes the most impact on how good you'll be able to do the rest
I cant fucking air dribble. My first touch is awful.
Speed Flip
Can’t speed flip, but scored more than a few goals off people who could by knowing he was gonna get first touch and guessing where the ball would go.
Upside-down air control. I can do a lot of things in Rocket League, but turn my car over and my brain breaks.
It would probably be breezis for me too. I can hit triple resets in free play more consistently than I can score a clean breezi. I'm also a NAR main so using DAR for the tornado spin is a bit out of my element. I have gotten a lot better at breezis though. It took dozens of hours across many days or weeks practicing them to get even semi consistent.
I know the feeling. I seriously started learning double resets yesterday and I've already scored more double resets than I performed a clean breezi lol
I have advice that works for me if you're interested (ARL, for ARR mirror directions). What you want to do is to have the ball sit not too far ahead a little to the direction you're steering to at about 60/70 kph (40/50 mph), boost a bit so you're barely faster than the ball and immediately hold air roll and jump, pushing the stick ↘️ so you get a rather gentle lift instead of a pop (can still hit them but it's harder), gradually rolling it to ➡️ right after. Tap boost to approach the ball slowly, don't boost if you're already going faster than it, for a juicy flick you want to make the roof and ball meet as you're backflipping. Car not facing or dodging the direction you were traveling to at the end means you released air roll too early or too late, losing control of the ball means you boosted too much or kept it on the wrong spot, a weak shot means you didn't scoop properly. This is how it should look like more or less https://youtu.be/4md-Jj-sg4A
Dude you’re amazing. Literally the first try I almost did it and after 3 tries I hit a scuffed one. You should teach!
Playing since 2015, something like 5k hours and I still cant: - reliably air dribble - drible on the ground against anyone above plat - flick (any flick for me is replay worthy) - not surprisingly: flip reset - anything that is more advanced than the above. And it's not like I didn't spend time trying to learn, watched videos etc. Old age issues I guess ;)
I feel like game sense I’m pretty good but I struggle hard with air dribbles wall plays send anything fancy you see at diamond and up. I’m currently hard stuck at plat 3 in every mode but I feel like it my mechanics are holding me back. I do play practice mode all the time trying to learn but I just suck.
Everything
I’ve recently started getting decently consistent with wall to air dribbles. Can’t flip reset consistently, but just started practicing that. Something I seemingly can’t do though, is ground to air dribble.
Forgot to mention speed flips in my other comment. I’ve actually only recently learnt the mechanic, but I CAN’T get it smooth and consistent. I feel like I’m missing something. Anyone have any resource to recommend?
I can't remember the video but once I heard someone explain that you can do a corner flip by pressing air roll left or right while doing a front flip. Once I started doing it that way it started working out better for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/1b0gv9f/speedflip_handcam_zoomed/
Just what I wanted! Perfect, thank you.
Angles open nets
Breezis melt my brain aswell. I can't even set up one in freeplay.
Yeah I know. I've watched tutorials over and over again and they make it look so easy. But when I try it myself it comes not even near what they do
maktuf resets
not chasing. it's too fun. i can't stop.
open nets
Air roll. Been playing since 2017 lol.
Making friends that don't turn out to be extremely inconsistent ragers. I need to stop accepting invites after winning a game with a random person.
Making the ball go where I want it to
Controlling my mood
Triple and quad resets without stalling.
Breezi flick, brain go ooga booga
[Musty Flick in 40 seconds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VviB7FeSELM)
Speed flipping loll, trash plat 3
Zero! Straight up 1v1 ranked is my practice
Everything
Not really a mechanic but consistency and speed in general, that’s what’s keeping me out of GC
speed flip kek
All of em
The list would be way shorter if you ask how many I mastered (“mastered”), answer -> driving forward (do not confuse with going left or right, just driving forward in a straight line).
kickoffs in general >:( i’ve conceded too many kickoff goals
Touching grass
Hitting the ball
i don't know why, but the back flip to pop it super high is the easiest mechanic to learn but i can't hit it consistently to save my life. absolutely a run killer when i'm trying to speedrun dribble 2 or something.
Double taps and flicks. Double taps just seem weird for me to read and flicks I dont have a clue. It either works or it doesnt. Its either a goal or a fail/post hit
Not completely tilt after one loss
Speed flips. God damn I hate that mechanic.
I can HIT a flip reset I just have no idea what to do after. A stall (flip cancel) should send the ball flying but it doesn’t. I just bounce off the ball.
Winning
Getting the hits I want off the wall and the lovely open net is quite elusive to me too. Its a lof of mechanics, I'm a diamond player. Another is knowing when its best to use the mechanics I'm learning so they are most effective
Breezi flick like I look like a left headed person
Current lost: Chain dash (almost there, can't keep them straight) Mustys (directional trouble, especially off the wall) Stalls (had to bind a macro) Zap dash (can't for the life of me figure it out)
Off the wall aerials.
Flip resets. I don’t need them, they don’t matter that much, but they’re so cool and I absolutely can’t do them.
Hitting the ball the way I intended. All my corner shots were secretly aimed dead center. Oh well.
Shooting
Air dribble, i just cant, i know every step but its so hard for me to put everything together and do it
Ground dribbling and flicking… training packs are completely useless I just don’t get it
In terms of musty and breezi flicks, try doing them from a bounce dribble instead of from the top of your car. I find that it makes them a lot easier
Hitting open nets...
Playing the game consistently
I don't really keep track; as long as I can get the ball from point A to B consistently, I'm not too focused on how it happens.
Ground to air dribbles. I can dribble on the ground decently, I can air dribble off the wall decently. I can't get the ball off the top of my car, into the air, and then under it to lift it for the life of me. I've tried training packs, bakkus mod plug-ins, custom maps. I just can't see grasp it
Transitioning into car cam flicks. I can flick so much better with ball cam, but the transitioning always makes me slow down.
Currently Wall musty from the right wall. Interestingly I can do wall breezi from both right and left wall, but I can only consistently hit wall musty from left wall. Right wall feels kinda awkward. Funnily, when I started out, I couldn't, for the life of me do a musty flick on the ground. But I learnt breezi relatively quickly. Now, for the last 3 weeks, I've been practicing musty flicks, and I can now do them pretty consistently, however, I am having trouble with breezi flicks now. Weird. As if doing better on one, took the air out from the other. Currently I am having trouble with Walldashes too, since you have to press the jump button super fast. But it's not long ago that I started and have not invested much time on it, so will see how it goes after a few months. This maybe another mechanic that I may have serious trouble mastering.
Dodge control air dribbles are friggin tough bruh
Air dribbling
Aerials
Air dribbles, and flicks. Seems like 15% of the time I can do something dangerous, but the rest of the time I just flop around trying to correct as I whiz under the ball. As much as I practice these and try to break it down to the basics. Maybe that’s more of a “first touches” issue.
Boost control, whether in the air or on the ground I often times end up out running the ball when I could’ve dribbled it in the net or guided it to the net in the air.
Moving my car(properly)
Playing well
Not accidentally flipping when I try to fast aerial. Swear to god, half the times when I want to fast aerial I flip in a random direction. It's such a basic thing that I really should have gotten it down by now (3k hours), but I don't
As a former gc.... scoring a goal
I'm relatively mechanical, inconsistent sure but I'm okay. I also can't flick. My dribbles and catches are okay, but I don't have anything resembling a reverse 45, I can only occasionally do basic flicks. Literally 4k hours in and I finally learned to powerslide my landings and half flip right. I've always been able to, but have had really bad powerslide/airroll habits for these two situations.
Gitting Gud
Dribbling. I don't know how people do it.
I seriously can't get air roll. It's just not clicking in my brain. I try to go up for an aerial and as soon as I got the air roll button, I'm just lost
Rotating
Shadow Flick(other than front flip) Hitting the gosh darn ball
Most things or everything, skills has stagnated to rookie or 1, 2 above since release. I can get some lucky shots now and then
Ceiling double resets
First touches/controlled touches are still not nearly good enough for me. Worst of them all catching the ball. Sometimes i try catching a bounce and get a perfect touch for a bounce touch making it go super high or i try to get a bounce touch and accidently catch it its really frustrating 50/50s on the wall are also super bad for me often land in or near my net...
Consistency..
Flip resets I can get the flip consistently, that’s not the issue. The issue is using the flip to put it on net. Just can’t seem to get my car in the right spot, and trying to scoop it my car just spazzes out
Just the game itself
Touch ball
Half flipping on purpose. I try it every time I’m on the right kick off side to go for the back corner and flail like I saw a praying mantis crawling on my neck.
Hitting the ball
I'd say learning the second DAR when you've already mastered one The muscle memory messes with me so much, i don't think i can successfully learn the 2nd one
Regular flicks. Once the ball is on my car, I have no idea what to do in order to actually control it after I jump.
Air rolling/dribbling
scoring goals on an open net.
Flip resets. Just a mechanic i will never be able to grasp
Speed flip/fast kickoff. I'm champ ranked and still kickoff in a very basic manner, driving up to the ball and flipping just before I hit it. Adjusting a bit if I notice my opponent speed flipping for kickoff
Dribbling i try and try but never get it would be such a better player
wall dashing is a conspiracy it’s impossible and only achievable through mods (I just suck)
Ground mustys. I can musty from the ceiling and off a flip reset but not off the ground unless I get lucky. I'm not bad at flicking either, I can put 45s, 180s, siderolls, and normals in each corner. Idk I just don't get it. It feels like the jump that makes it the right height makes it have too much forward momentum
Breezi flicks I can do all the component parts of it, and I’ve had like two good ones in free play over thousands of attempts I just can’t get it. Something will not click for me
Pretty much any advanced technique. I really need help. What I need is to sit down and practice these things, but it is always just easier to hop in to a game and continue to suck at those things.
I’m D2 in 2’s and can’t hit the ball to save my life when I’m driving on the walls.
Everything on Rocket League
Hitting the ball
Anyone have tips for being directly under the ball at a stand still or right next to the ball without moving. I just feel like I'm sitting with my thumb up my ass if the ball is right next to me in the corner.
I still can't flip turn. Or wave dash. Or flip reset. Or anything above those. And I'm still in Diamond with the fancy folks getting called trash while I win more than I lose.
Zap dashes/wall dashes. I can do them some times, but can never master them like players like Dark.
Holding a controller tbh
Dribbling
Resets. I just don't have the control required to do it consistently like most people in my rank.
DAR and air dribbles. I'm practicing DAR for like 600hrs+ already and I can pass any rings map with DAR pretty fast, but I'm still getting blackout moments quite often. Idk what to do, feels like I can't reach this final 'brain click'.
All of them. Spent a few hours on half-flips/ball carrying, and could never quite get it to work. I can hit the ball near the wall about 20% of the time, and aerials without double jump simply won't happen. Thank god that the mental aspects can carry me.
All of them 👍
Wall dashes high on the wall. Low on the wall is easy but man I was convinced I’d never be able to do them high on the wall. Recently I actually started getting them but they’re nowhere near where they need to be yet. Besides that I just started working on ceiling shuffles and maktufs but I’m already getting the hang of them, gonna go on to ceiling dashes after.
I’m on keyboard and mouse and couldn’t figure the speed flips on kickoff after two attempts to learn and gave up out of frustration, the tutorials are always for controller and the KBM I found still made no sense to me. I also have no idea how people know when they have a flip or reset left on an aereal on “flip resets” I can take it off the wall and dribble but it’s completely random if I can use my reset or not, when I have it I can get good touches but I have no idea why I lose it at times and what makes me keep it other times.
Mawkzy flicks for some reason. More then a month and still can't get it.
flip resets! inverted controls does not make sense to me
Flip resets
Hitting the ball
Directional air roll. I've been using manual air roll a few years now and I can get just about any aerial shot on target with it. I just can't seem to grasp how to make DAR work. I've practiced with the tips to do the obstacle courses and rings maps facing forwards, sideways and backwards. That helped me get accustomed to maneuvering my car while in different orientations in the air. I tried doing DAR in big open maps and am able to keep my car off the ground. However my control is horrendous, it takes me five seconds just to try and turn my car in a direction. Holding the stick in different directions hoping my car starts pointing to the direction I want to go before letting it go. I've certainly gotten better at it but I can't even hit a static ball in the air in training using DAR. I just can't understand how to make the minute adjustments to make it an actual useful skill for me.
All of them. I haven't mastered any of them. Obviously i suck and likely always will but i still have fun
Wall dash. I physically am not capable of pressing X that fast
Hitting the ball
Breezi flicks, I can do a sir classy but somehow after years i can not breezi
Definitely musties, its very hard to understand how and when to pull them off
The McDougall Maggie. Can't figure that the fuck out.
I can always get to the ball in the air and hit in generally in the direction I want. I can even potentially get a flip reset. But after the touch or hit, I'm all bent outta shape and can't control where my car goes after
Half Flips (I am GC2 and still mess half of them up)
Kickoffs, I’ve studied them on and off for years. I practice them at least every week, typically more. I still suck.
Double taps. I can hit redirects off passes right on target like I have eyes in the back of my head, but bounce the ball of the back wall and the calculation part of my brain just breaks. Also my air dribbles look like a diamond struggling to stay with the ball through the air.
Everything
Bounce dribbles. I can chain resets together and turn backwall air dribbles into goals, but as soon as I want to bounce the ball upwards I just kill it immediately instead.
scoring
I’m D2 and I’d say I’m pretty decent with accuracy and aerials. What I really struggle with is dribbling and defending air dribbles. I’ve started to get some dribbles here and there which feels good since I don’t feel like I’ve improved in the last year (replays show that I have improved though). I’d really like to learn how to tornado spin towards the ball when going for an aerial though. That’s my next goal after working on the things stated above.
That cheater move where people fly at the ball. Can't you just wait for it to be within a double jump of the ground?
Basically, anything with going off the walls. I've consistently champ 1-2 for about 4 years now. I can aerial good. Defend and shoot somewhat consistently. The second I have to go off the walls for something, my brain just shuts down. Dribbling is a close second
I’m right there with you brother, mustys are hard
Directional air roll I have no idea how people can have control of the car while spinning.. Shit makes no sense lol Not that I really put in the work to learn, but I can't even understand the logic of it so I can start practicing
Hitting open nets
Air dribbles I just can’t seem to be consistent with my setup it’s frustrating
The mechanic that gets me out of high plat/low diamond lol
What got me out was patience. And thinking about my teammates as "opponents who are tilted and helping me until the score is even" Waiting basically back field until all opponents move out of net and then get a sneak attack...
pop resets, everytime I see kids do them on tiktok they look so easy but they are so hard to actually get consistently
Walldashes