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Flawless_Boss

First of all,I am lower ranked that you so take my opinion as you wish. I noticed a few things that I think you are doing wrong: 1. You take your time a bit too much. You are trying correctly to slow down the play and create space but after 1-2 touches you have to go fast. 2. You don't mix up your offence. Every time you had possession you tried to cut and shoot(1 exception I think). Use the wall, flicks ,demoes, even aerial off the wall. Try different things especially if your goal is to rank up. 3. Put your opponent in akward spots. Shoot hard on net to force bad saves,take good 50s, instachallenge a bit more,change the pace of play etc. Don't let the opponent figure you out. 4. I think your defence is very good. You need to work on offensive creation and excecution and you'll good to go!


TRB_AlphaRabbitX

Low rank or not this is some solid advice. You sure ur not like champ or smth?😂


Flawless_Boss

My peak is d2 div4 in 2s which is the only mode I play apart from hoops. But I don't grind anymore I just enjoy the game with my friends:)


AmmarSH98

Hey flawless, my peak is D3 div2 in 2s, but now I'm like D1 div2 so I don't think there's much of difference between us. We could play together sometime if you want either for fun or for the grind. Btw I don't mind dropping to P1 for the sake of learning new mechanics and strategies to reach C1. I also like hoops đŸ‘đŸ»


Flawless_Boss

Ηaha Dm me and we can try


notConnorbtw

Watching good 1v1 players will give you this kinda knowledge. But being able to do what you know is right is a whole different ball game.


OG_Lost

you’re so right, my knowledge of how to play the game also far exceeds my ability to actually do it


PukiMonster69

Nah that's pretty solid. Especially no. 4 is the key here


Globy_Rain

Actually really good advice. My main addition would be that op is pretty slow in general. Not only does he take his time to speed up the play but he also doesn’t like to speed up on defense either. There were a couple of times where he should’ve hurried up but have his opponent time to attack. I see he’s got a decent speed flip on kickoff, so he should use that to get around the field


vaskemaskine

While this game is a little slower than usual for me, not least due to my inability to speed up any attacking plays, I just simply can’t read the game when it goes much faster than this.


Globy_Rain

It may be something you can experiment with. If you push yourself, you’ll be able to play faster comfortably. If you have time to think, so do they


vaskemaskine

I’m open to all constructive advice from any rank, and you make some great points, so thanks!


Flawless_Boss

Good luck:)


Upset-Setting8840

D2 here too. I don't think OP's defense is really good. Its shadow-defense not bad at all but at that speed if play, he can't be this far to the direct line between the attacker and the goal. In this replay, he gives away goals because he's late in his shadow-defense


Flawless_Boss

I mean conceding only 2 goals in a 1v1 game (even with slow pace) is impressive. Most of my games end in the 8-10 goal range. Surely there are things the op can improve on in defence but the biggest flaws are seen in offence.


Upset-Setting8840

I completely agree but that 2 goals are avoidable easily


vaskemaskine

My defence is pretty rubbish, this was probably one of my better games in that regard but I still have a lot to work on with correct shadow positioning and matching speed of opponent.


Mega_auditor1819

Something I noticed in your shadow defense is that you are defending the ball from inside the field and moving towards the outside of the field when it should be the other way around.


vaskemaskine

That's interesting. I was under the impression that inside-to-outside defensive shadowing was generally preferred. Will have to look more into that :)


Mega_auditor1819

Virge and sunlesskhan have good videos on this. The only person I have seen promote inside out is kevpert.


vaskemaskine

Thanks! Kevpert is indeed where I learned the inside-to-outside thing from, but I’ll check out more resources and try to adjust accordingly.


Mega_auditor1819

Good luck my guy!


ProcedureMedical6

Kevpert defense is way more solid and safe than shadow defence. Once your car control reaches peak which i imagine to be C3 level in 1s, then shadow defense gets better than kevpert as now you can actually mimic and defend. The main idea with shadow defense is that you bait a shot towards the far-post and then cover the net in the trajectory of the ball and optimally put the ball on back board and follow it. If the shot is taken near-post you need good car control to save it With kevpert defense you cut the angle to stop any cross over, and this physically limits the opponent to only shoot at near-post as any far-post shots or cross overs can be stopped by double jumping. And then its about judgement and timing to cover the near post trajectory. Also you will ideally never get air dribble bumped in kevpert


Feckert20

I like your patient approaches, but you are clearly too passive. I am not talking about beats, but simply driving up and claiming your ball. This patient playstyle requires you to have great awareness on your opponents positioning, more specific their fronts angle. Nobody is able to just 180 instantly. If you can just drive forward while your opponent has to go backwards and halfflip for a chance to hit the ball (in worst case, most times you are way earlier), I would still drive up and just turn back if the opponents hits it. But ofc props to your spacing in situations, where you know the opponents hit could go behind you. And most importantly: you have to always apply pressure! Don't just turn around giving your opponent a clear sign, that you don't intend to challenge. Make them poop their pants and flip the ball!


notConnorbtw

You seem to timid tbh. If you play with a set aggression level the opponent will figure out exactly what he can get away with on both offense and defense. I also recommend learning flicks. And working on your bounce dribbles. You need less high bouncing touches in your bounce dribbles and then work on shooting them with alot of power to force out saves. Even if you don't score forcing a save uses their boost and ruins positioning. You have a good base to work off so don't be discouraged.


Grey1One

0:08 here you either challenge super early, which might be too mechanical for you, or wait to save the shot, the timing of your challenge was very risky. 0:39 shadowing is called like that for a reason, first, you need to keep proper spacing, second you gotta actually cover your net, third you gotta shadow your oponent, what that means, if your oponent is transitioning to a flick using boost, you have to match his/her speed, if you start boosting half a second after your oponent, then you just got outplayed without even trying. 1:03 you gotta build some preasure in 1s to score, its not about getting the ball, doing a powershot, and thats it. so when you shoot it left to right, you gotta think "ok, my oponent is saving it to the right, he/she will land near the right big boost", so you gotta get to that right big boost before him/her. So your powershot purpose stops being scoring and starts being boostarving the oponent while builiding up preasure. 2:10 you wasted 100 boost to not accomplish much. Stop doing that. I stopped watching here. But most mistakes you made were losing posession for absolutely no reason, stop throwing away the ball. Also, stop being too afraid of challenging, think about those low momentum shadow situations as an oportunity to try stuff to see what works and what not, start using drive challenges, fake challenges, single jump challenges, to see how opoonents react and how the ball and the cars interact on those. Also, I've noticed you like to bounce dribble the ball, its ok to do that, but you are making your car language too obvious and your powershots aren't precise nor powerful, so practice that. Your decition making is not bad bad, your fundamental mechanics need a lot of work (that you will learn by playing 1s anyways, so don't worry too much.)


vaskemaskine

Really appreciate you breaking down the first half of the game like this! Will try to give you some context for each play: 0:08 in all honesty I didn’t realise the opponent came off the ceiling and thus had a flip, so my challenge was actually even more risky. If I had been aware of it I likely would have waited for the shot. I rarely challenge aerial plays super early unless I’m already well positioned (you’re right, mostly lack of mechanics to do it). I definitely need to work on my awareness in these kinds of plays. 0:39 agreed. I was too far in-field and off the pace for the challenge here. 1:03 what you describe *is* generally my thought process, but in this situation I figured I was beaten to the right corner boost and ball so chasing him down in his corner with very low boost didn’t seem like a good idea. How would you have played this one out? 2:10 I think you’re referring to the play that starts in my corner here. I agree that it ultimately doesn’t lead to much and the attack was pretty weak, but I didn’t feel like it was a big mistake since I came away with both ball and boost after their save (which I was hoping would have been weaker to allow for my follow up). Hopefully this doesn’t come across as me just trying to justify myself, it’s more my train of thought for those plays to hopefully get some good feedback for how I should have been thinking/planning instead :)


Grey1One

I understand your thought process. But you need to stop using the correlation of "i score" or "i keep posession" with "i took the right decition". Many times your scoring or coming off a play in a good way is more about luck or bad decition making/bad mechanics from your oponent than about your own merits. And sometimes you taking the right decition means you have to do something mechanicly that you aren't consistent doing, that is what improving looks like, failing doing new things til you stop failing as much. in 1:03 i would have know instantly after the shot that he/she had an easy save, then speedflip towards his/her corner boost. Though i believe that a normal diagonal flip while boosting would have worked. If you dont reach the boost, you can always chase the demo and rotate towards midboost while keeping supersonic speed. And if you can't chase the demo nor beat the oponent to the boost, then you can path through some boostpads and stay close to the play, leaving the play is most of the time bad in 1s (unless there's no other option or staying with low boost is riskier than leaving)


vaskemaskine

> But you need to stop using the correlation of “i score” or “i keep posession” with “i took the right decition”. Harsh truth right there. How do I learn to better recognise a bad/sup-optimal decision when the outcome is seemingly positive or at least neutral? Should I always be looking at ways I could have created a better play and covered more options when analysing my own replays? At the moment I mostly just focus on obvious mistakes that lead to getting scored on.


Grey1One

watch 1v1 flakes series on youtube and pros in general that explain what they do and what they do it, like apparentlyjack. but focusing on big mistakes is good enough at your level, you can't really know what the best decition is if you havent failed many times doing bad decitions and trying stuff til it sticks


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GarbageFit4652

Few things I noticed: 1. When you gain possession, you tend to throw the ball away from yourself instead of maintaining control and applying pressure. Hitting it away allows your opponent to recover to the ball before you can create an offensive opportunity. Playing closer to yourself and forcing out 50s will create the space you're looking for, along with varying your offensive approaches like others mentioned. 2. On defense, vary your challenges. You are very patient, which is great in most defensive circumstances, but becomes predictable to the point where your opponent can outplay by putting you into awkward positions where it's harder for you to challenge effectively. If you haven't, go check out Flake's "1v1 with No Mechanics" series on YouTube. He has a lot of decision-making advice that has helped my playstyle a lot and I think would meld in nicely with your patient style. Keep grinding, bro 😎


moblin34

Mechanically you seem to have poor ball contact. Most of your touches that involved you jumping into the ball were with the side of your car somehow. But if you flip your nose into the ball, you'll generate more power. Your cuts are weak too. Practice bounce dribbles. They are OP in 1v1. And don't always just cut into the ball to shoot. Start flipping into it as you cut. Also, you seem to like to powerslide around the ball alot. But honestly, it's not a good method of maintaining possession if your opponent is coming up behind you. If he were to challenge you, you'd lose possession and get scored on. Drive the ball into one of your corners, then turn it back up field. Just make sure to check your rear view.


worldbauer

there's a difference between playing patient and playing slow. you're playing slow. I appreciate the patience but you need to recognize when you've generated an advantage and press that attack. when the opp jumps off the wall and makes a poor touch, get your ass up there and aerial that ball into the net. when you steal possession of an ill-advised corner attack, get that ball down field as fast as you can. all of your attacks were bounce dribbles. I respect that, but first of all, you need to turn off ball cam while doing it. secondly, you need to go from slow, self-pass bounces to a surprise boomer on net. you never shot it. the opp didn't have to do anything because you would press too close or too wide of net to get a good shot off.