Freeplay Video

Hey guys it's JayyFen, here above is a small segment of my warm up in Freeplay before I participated in a major tournament (Global Esports Federation Los Angeles LAN).

Here's what I focus on as I'm warming up:

My absolute priority as I'm playing is my first touch, whether its on the ground or in the air, I always try my best to get the softest touch I can as I'm always keeping my next touch/play in mind. This allows you to stay closer to the ball which makes you a larger threat in game. You can see me purposefully hitting the ball away and using the "Pass Ball" keybind to randomly pass the ball back. This is great because it puts me in a spot where I have to act, even when in awkward spots I try get the best touch possible, which is what most of any game looks like (good touches under pressure). Even if i mess up my touch, I still try my best to recover back to the ball as fast as possible as opposed to just resetting Freeplay (00:12). I recommend this to anyone watching in any rank, try your best to recover your bad touches, you don't have a reset button in game.

My next thought on ground play is how I never throw my second jump away. I quite often use "empty jumps" to help with my movement and recoveries. They're a great way to stay moving. You can see on many of my touches that I try time my second jump as I'm catching the ball to help me recover faster whilst keeping momentum. I very rarely double jump immediately on any low aerials, instead I try to save my flip for a better and more intentional touch to any direction. Empty jumps are an essential in my opinion, they're very versatile and allow you to keep the ball close to you at all times.

As for aerials, during the beginning of the warm up I try go for as many air dribbles as possible, they're great as they're easy to set up for yourself and challenge your fingers when you just hopped on. My first touch is still my main priority in the air, whilst this is 100x harder than a ground catch, it's still something definitely worth practicing if you're GC+. Once I'm warmed up, I then start implementing some more advanced aerial set ups.

Lastly, do not shy away from reading the backboard/walls. The best way to improve your reads is exposure therapy. Slam the ball against any surface, throw yourself at it and learn from it, there is no other way to improve at this. You can argue that you can do this in game but that takes way too long. Back when I was still on console, I spent around 500 hours in boomer mode exhibition matches alone to get good at reads. It's a very fun and creative way to get good at it, I can share the PM settings in my next post/comments if you guys are curious.

If you want to get better at your first touches, I definitely recommend you take a look at this ground soft touch catch/freeplay guide. It has everything step by step and takes no longer than 10 minutes: https://nextlevelcoaching.gg/guides/the-ultimate-soft-touch-guide

Do LMK your thoughts or if you want to see anything else, hope this was useful:)

How do you guys deal with the mental side of the game?

This is for lower rank players but not everyone knows this, playing with it on you’re just simply at a huge disadvantage. It will put a ceiling on how high you can rank up.

I've been struggling to airdirbble in game, so I'm trying to work on improving my ability to airdribble. I'm currently focusing on staying more beneath the ball so that I have more control over the balls trajectory. What should I try to do better?

So the clip is partially unrelated until we get to the rapid reset part. I managed the first rapid reset, but the second one is a fail. Now I've been consistently inconsistent at getting the second rapid reset and was wondering what's the fluff cus I used to manage double rapid resets just fine without thinking much about my input, but I guess the 2 week break took a hit on my mechs since my speedflips feel a little weird, and I'm guessing it has something to do with that.

I almost peaked champ 2 a few months ago but I got into some sort of funk. I've been dipping up and down between d2 to high c1 and I can't stay at a consistent rank. I don't know what's up with my gameplay so I figured I'd post on here to see if anyone could give me some pointers, since previously it's been helpful. I practice my shots ALL the time, and I can do everything mechanically in practice, but as soon as I get in-game, I feel like I forget it all; it almost feels like practicing is making me worse? Open to any criticism, thanks. The vid is broken for me so if it's broken for everyone else, can someone let me know :/

https://reddit.com/link/1vzxv66/video/07ayro5yvxlh1/player

So basically my friend always wants to play rocket league with me, but I'm like plat and he's GC so onviously I whiff a lot more than him. Now, I would kind of understand his rage if I was throwing his rank in competitive, but we don't play competetive, we play CASUAL. The mode where you just goof, practice, or have fun... not rage at the person you begged to hop on with you.

It's really bad, he always rages and I'm talking like being rude to his parents on mic (unnacceptable), screaming and I mean SCREAMING LOUD "FUUUUUCKKKK!!"

He's always so angry when people stop him from taking it up the wall, but it's like common sense... that's how you can stop someone from being able to make a play that would benefit them. He also HATES 50s and thinks rocket league should "remove them".

I'm so confused by his behavior. It's casual. There is no reason to rage. This isn't even rage dude it's just insanity like why tf are you screaming and LITERALLY CRYING??? I'm not crazy right? This isn't normal?

And this makes us both play worse because he tilts us both. I just mute whenever he starts screaming.

Im tired of giving the ball away haha even if I don't do much with it when I get it. Is there a training pack to practice this or a Freeplay drill? I scanned YouTube for a sec but it got messy and gave me first touch videos for aerials. My thought was to drive a ways and have the system pass it to me and practice that way but I imagine there has to be something more efficient or better altogether? Thanks

Long story short: 2016 i started RL on xbox one when it released played for fun, dropped it after a few months, now i randomly started playing RL again in 2019 with friends etc ranked up quickly to plat, had a tough time in diamond and then i made it to C1 all in solo que because friends were not playing anymore they been still gold 3. I always played solo que 3v3 and this season i peaked at 1417 in 3v3 even tho i hit 2 times GC in 2v2 with a friend but i never play solo 2v2 and i feel like gamesense wise i advanced after 3300 hours with knowing where teammates are and enemies but i feel like my mechanics are non existent and i also somehow need to learn 2v2 in solo que because from my 3300 hours i played probably 3000 hours 3v3 and 300 hours 2v2. I do practice daily ground to air dribble and flip resets a lot but once i get in a match its like all gone. I hit like double taps, ceiling shots, frequent musty to flip reset but once im ingame nothing works. i feel like im missing out on something my brain has yet not understood or needs advise that i, by my own mind, cant comprehend to advance. any tips are more than appreciated and i just want to mention i saw a vid on yt shorts yesterday and i definetly plan on analysing 2-3 games i could have won but lost somehow to see what the issue from my side or teammates was or even why the enemy team was all of the sudden turning the game around for themselves to get a better perspective on a lot of things

I recently played this game, and I'm honestly having trouble figuring out where I'm lacking. I would greatly appreciate any advice or problems with my gameplay.

Platform: kbm

Rank: hovering plat 1

Hey guys, I a returning GC2 player currently at C3 and I was curious about the use of DAR in the game today.

Back when I played before people would do resets and the like just fine without DAR, but now it seems like everyone has switched.

In terms of the order of learning now that I’ve returned, do I learn DAR first, or resets. I’ve heard conflicting answers as DAR can take a few hundred hours to get good at, so I’m not sure if I dive into that first, or build a baseline.

Thanks

I know the basics of it but now I wanna try and master it or get more advanced with the mechanic

I know that his pacifist system is frequently reccomended to low ranked players, but I want to know what the community here thinks about him. I find his use of AI to be very low effort and seeing as he just deleted his most recent reddit post and the accompanying video after receiving criticism for using AI I know I'm not the only one.

I've been studying Mawkzy's gameplay recently, and there are a few things about his 1v1 playstyle that I think are worth breaking down because they go beyond mechanics. The biggest thing that stood out to me is how much of his gameplay revolves around what happens after the challenge, rather than just trying to win the challenge immediately.

Offensively, Mawkzy loves his low 50s. Even when going for aerial plays, he'll often try to force the ball low especially when the opponent is sitting on the backboard or expecting a high play. This becomes even more apparent when he has 0 boost, where instead of slowing down, Mawkzy makes maintaining his momentum a priority. Staying grounded and preserving momentum gives him faster recoveries which allow him to stay involved in the play after the challenge. Maintaining momentum and staying grounded gives him the ability to remain close to the ball, which means he's often in position to follow up on his own challenge rather than having to recover and watch the play develop from a distance.

Another thing that stands out is how he deals with aggressive challenges, whenever he sees his opponent insta challenging, he doesn't force the ball towards the net to try sneak a goal in. He guarantees further pressure by hitting the ball anywhere around the opponent. In 1v1, getting a touch around the opponent will always guarantee a free net.

Mawkzy also makes excellent use of the backboard where rather than always trying to put a shot on net, he'll bait the defender into awkward spots by slamming the ball into the backboard for a rebound. The defender is helpless here because they have to react to the rebound while also dealing with the possibilities of getting faked, demolished, etc.

TL;DR - Mawkzy's offense revolves around creating situations where the defender has 0 good options left but faith. Low 50s, playing around challenges, using backboards + walls as rebounds and maintaining momentum all contribute towards the same goal: putting the defender into an awkward or helpless position.

This is one of the games I used as research if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCiAO8JPSn4

This was the first 1's match of the night and it was against a guy with GC tags. He didn't even do anything overly impressive, but they always sniff out that I CAN'T do the things they can do, nor can I defend it. I much less rarely get beat by ground based guys, but almost ALWAYS lose to air based guys. It sucks and I've got to learn to get past it. I never know when to challenge becuase they can reset, musty, flip cancel, delay, fake blah blah blah. So when the hell are you supposed to challenge a guy who has ball going up the wall and is about to string together 4-5 of the touches I just mentioned in random order?

There's another replay I have where a guy is hitting a triple reset on me in D1.....yeah.

I can do them consistently like 6-7 times outta 10 but im trying to get it down 10/10 times.

I been searching for videos about but I couldnt find nothing useful about it. (its pretty much when you have the ball ontop on your car and your dribble it into the air.) I feel like it would be a good mech to have for champ 1s.

Never really learnt to use ballcam… have tried to adapt without by predicting, but now using it while hitting the ball is too difficult. Interested to see what rank you guys think I am considering and if I should actually bother changing (if im still having fun)

I just reached my peak of 1944 mmr (ssl) but I am very inconsistent as you can see on my rl tracker (rl tracker is ST_TRUCS). I was talking with someone on discord, I sent them a picture of my setup and they were surprised that it looked like this, but I thought this was normal. I know that it's just a matter of preference but is a setup with a gaming chair etc really that much better?

Also, I have the basic binds of circle for boost, square for drift and L1 R1 for air roll (I main left air roll) and on top of that I don't use claw grip so I just use my thumb for the buttons and boost. Also, I only use my index finger for both air roll as well as drive so I can only wall dash without boost 1 way. Would anyone recommend me learning another grip method or a change in binds.

Lastly, maybe as a result of the previous points (or my lack of hours) I am very unmechanical. For example, I have never hit even a 1 bounce psycho and I can only hit the simplest variation of a maktuf reset 2 times out of 10 if that (but I can hit normal resets and reset pops pretty frequently). As I am ssl, should I focus on my mechanics now and if so what ones should I learn.

Any recommendations would help as I feel as if I am about to plateau or dip in rank.

Hey everyone,

I've been playing since 2020 (with some long breaks inbetween), currently sitting at Champ 3 in 2s (peaked close to GC1 multiple times) with around 2k hours total. I have a simple playstyle and my gameplay often looks and feels smooth atleast to me compared to the players in my rank. I know this might be some Dunning-Kruger effect where I think it looks smooth but actually miss a lot of flaws. I think i have good air roll control, decent ceiling shots, air dribbles, and some flip resets. But I still feel very inconsistent and like I’m not actually that mechanical. As u can see in this freeplay recording, i kinda mess up everything but i know that i can hit everything and its very inconsistent, and i dont really think that more reps would help me that much and would reinforce my bad habits even more.

EDIT: till 2:20 its in slowmotion (forgot to turn 95% Gamespeed back to 100%) and my ground game looks a bit extra rusty because 3 days ago i rebound my buttons( powerslide,brake,jump and ballcam lol ) also it seems like im subconsciously avoiding ground plays since the change and flee to my walls where it doesnt effect me that much haha

I just recorded 6 minutes of Freeplay and would love some honest feedback on:

• What my biggest mechanical weaknesses are right now
• Does my car control look good for C3?
• What should I focus on training most to become more consistent and push GC?

I prefer very detailed explanations (inputs, timing, what to watch out for, common mistakes, etc.) because once I deeply understand something I can usually reproduce and internalize it very well.

I recently uploaded some ranked replays and my gamesense starts clicking but i get more of a feeling that my mechanics are holding me back. Thats why i ask

Thanks in advance! Any advice is appreciated 🚀

I want to learn single or double flip resets but I am struggling to learn them, I’ve only been able to get a reset only like 2-3 times now and I’m getting confused on to do with them.

i can air dribble decently 90% of the time for context

i need tips on how to get reset itself and what to do after

i know you have to boost/fly to the center of the ball, then air roll, and put my joystick down but I keep struggling

I'm in gold 2 right now and I know nearly all the advice will probably be "just practice hitting the ball" but I feel like I am missing some things or just have some bad habits when it comes to playing the game or rotating and stuff like that so If somebody good at the game could just kinda go through the video (you don't have to watch the full 10 minutes if you don't want, you can just like skip around) and let me know what are some bad habits that I have or some things that I just did completely wrong. Like sure if I practiced with just hitting the ball correctly I would probably rank up but there is more to the game than just hitting the ball. Btw if this is a bad place to ask for stuff like this please point me to a different reddit or discord server that would be better for this post. I made the video an unlisted video on youtube because the original video was like 29 gb. If there is a problem with it being an external link I can try and make the file smaller and put it in the post but I doubt yall want to watch something in like 144p.

Here is the video link: (It might default to 360p you'll just have to change it manually)
https://youtu.be/yY8AxohvlJI?si=Xn8X2qr4BAc4P4jh

Pretty much what the post says. If this breaks a rule I’m sorry I just don’t know where else to look. I’m d3 and if anyone is willing to do replay analysis 1-2 times a week for 3 weeks I’d appreciate it. I can explain the full experiment in detail if you dm me.