5 Tips I WISH I Knew For Ranking Up in Rocket League 

Just waiting for all the comments saying “ let’s just appreciate the work he puts into his videos

My favourite thing to tell people when they're ranking up is, "Just because you can touch the ball doesn't mean you should".

When I was like 12 years old, my football(murrican football) coach made me do 10 push-ups after I CAUGHT the ball. And it was because as soon as I caught it, I just went to the back of the line instead of running down field. Changed my life. When doing training packs in rocket league, you should be just as focused on landing and continuing the play as you are trying to take the shot or defend the net or whatever. I believe this is why so many people suck at recoveries. Because they aren't doing it in their training packs. They never had to do the pushups and learn the lesson lol.

One thing I’ve been trying to work on is Explosiveness. Being able to take the ball from a slow roll to supersonic, while keeping it close, has help me in so many ways. Great for counter attacks and your first touch👍🏼

I don't feel like this game can "get stale", in the same way that basketball, hockey, etc won't get stale as long as you're being challenged and working on yourself to improve and compete. As someone who's aged out of physical sports, the presence of a true e-sport like this is a welcome outlet

The emphasis on 1s cannot be understated. I went from G3/P1 to D1 in 2s by focusing on 1s and finished S7 at D1 (848). 1s is endlessly frustrating, since your win or loss is entirely of your own doing, but with 2s it's well worth it.

One thing I learned when trying to rank up: Take care of the other stuff first. This game is a mirror to how you are performing in the other aspects of your life. If you are putting something off, ignoring something, not eating well, exercising, or sleeping well it will all reflect in your gameplay. I've personally lost 10 games in a row, dropped an entire rank and swore I was done with the game. I have been putting off something for a long time and when I finally finished it and went back to the game, I won it all back and then some. Find the balance.

I'm playing with my 2 irl friends most times. Usually it feels like solo q since one is chasing ball and cutting rotations and second is hunting for clips. I am the sane one that learned how to def and pass so those two chimps can try and shoot from weird angles and also I am quite good (for my rank) with long shots. We are low champs after 2 years of playing but we usually point out our mistakes to each other

Id say my biggest tip is messing around with deadzones and sensitivities. Took me way too long and it felt amazing when i found my optimal settings.

Thanks man! As a 56 year old Diamond this will help. I stink at 1s and I have turned my attention to them. Good content as always!

for tip 2 it is a slippery slope of having an okay amount of mechanics for the rank you are in since I am in a spot where I do not have a lot of options for things to do when attacking simply because I have no mechanics but having even some would make the rank I'm in far easier since my attacks would have far more pressure( I am c3 currently). Partly the reason for my no mechanics is lack of play time and the other part is I never train them which is a bad habit since improving is difficult

great video, thanks for the great tips!

I wanna just give this man credit for the motion tracking for the 3d text in the beginning. That stuff takes hours per second. Respect.

I love your tutorial vids! Always very motivating

Great Video, really helps put certain parts of the game into prospective, Keep up the good content Thano 👍 👌

Awesome man, never gets repetitive

love this editing style thanks for the vid :)

Luv your videos man keep up the good work 😁

The day before you posted this I said I’m quitting rocket league haven been at c2d4 for the past 2 seasons and can’t get any higher. After listening to you at 6:13 I’ve started to do that now and found joy in the game again. Thank you!

Would love to see some pro tips on recoveries - I've adopted some stuff like boosting back down to the ground and always landing on wheels and drifting, but I'm sure there a ton of neat things to talk about!

I love this hardworking thano and I watch all your streams good luck my man hope u hit ssl soon ❤️❤️

Nice video Thanovic

Pog vid bro! Can u pls do a vid on ceiling shots?

I completely agree with the tips on the video. I just hit champ for first time I play only solo q. It took me 131h in game.

Just hit d1 in 2s this is going to help a bunch thanks man appreciate the content

I'm so glad I switched the air roll in time these days. But it was tedious to get used to it!

thats what i saw after my 300 hours of game time, I try to learn air dribbling (more flying behind the ball without airroll) but maybe i am able to use it once in a match and 80% it doesn't help us getting a goal, maybe a pass. so i focus myself on things that i use more often during a match like half flips, better and accurate shots, going for a ball I can handle and a good defense cause the most of my tm8 are goallovers, never came back to defend so I have to do it for them. it's very stressful sometimes and on top I have to take their toxicity if I can't repair their mistakes.

Hey Thanovic, is being hard to rank up from champ 1 to Gchamp, can you make some videos on this ? Would love to see, love the content to rank up!

I never have been this early in one of you're videos you helped me a lot thx mate

Editing was great 🤝

I'm glad I learned directional air roll right away. I don't even have the square button air roll mapped anymore.

Thank you

Since day 1 ive used air roll right. Ring training maps and everything. I have air roll binded also but i use it mostly for recoveries and when i need to take a awkward angle shot. But i do wish i would have learned left instead of regular becuase then i would have total control both directions

very helpful thank u W video

Good stuff

Ty for a Nice vid

The videos are really good

I went the mech route now gc1-2 and i have so much fun i would recommend it also helps you get to gc fast

Great video but how do you think a champ 1 or champ 2 should practice these things

Just hit gc1 so stoked! But yeah I’d agree with the majority of all of this lol

i love the Pokemon boutique music in the intro😂👌🏼👌🏼

Im currently c2 im grinding to gc thanks for the amazing help!!

I realized my notifications got cancelled, I was worried you stopped making content 😭😱 Glad you are still around, keep it up👍🏻

Do u think free airroll is necessary? I wanna take it off and start learning both directionals instead?

It's good to have some friends that are better than you so you can learn from them/play against people who are better than you. But when there's nothing more to learn from them(usually because you lack basic skills), they become a limiting factor. Also you may get bad habits for relying too much on their playstyle. So, only play with friends to have fun with them, but play alone to improve.

Personally this advice is actually probably good for me, I normally do duos with my friend who has always been around 1 or 2 divisions above me, meaning I would rely on him a lot if I mess up, so I will take this advice.

When I started I instantly tried to start learning to air dribble luckily I never got it down and just moved to shooting and recovering

If you didn’t work on shooting and recovery early on then what did you work on? Aren’t those 2 of the main, most common things to practice early? There’s not much else you could practice

it's also a little inefficient in a way if you want to just draw a 4 on the softoor kick soft and theres all those empty sequencers on the

how do you train to recover? just freeplay or casual matches?

As someone who has put most of my time into training highlevel mechanics (probably 70 to 80% of my 1.5ish k hours into freeplay/workshops and the rest in ones) I can honestly say this game seems to never get stale. For me to rank up its all about playing smarter and working on shooting, but every game even when i am getting mopped is still very fun. It is hard to get tilted when you are able to clip at any moment, although when you miss simple powershots because youve got 5 hours into aimtrainer vs 300 into dribble challenge it can sting a little lol. Or when you go to watch a replay and realize the guy who just beat you has terrible camera settings and rarely takes ballcam off it can be a little frustrating. But in my opinion mech takes much more time to learn so id rather have tons of hours into that so while ranking up i only really need to work on simple less demanding things like positioning and shooting (even if I dont lol) I will also say idk why but my recoveries have always been very good even tho i dont intentionally train them very often, I think I just watch too much forky and it rubbed off on me

been a 1s main since i was gold learned ARR in diamond solo qd since i was plat and spent most time learning useful mechanics and sitting now in gc2 with about 1k hours (started january 2021)

hey! i want to know if my settings are good boost: Rb air roll: lb power slide: lb Air roll right: b Air roll left: x Please let me know if theese settings are good

Can you do a video a vid on gc1-gc3 that push is hella difficult

what’s the difference between air roll left nd right, compared to normal air rolls?? i don’t really notice a difference

WNice tutorialch version do you use to get all the setup and polyphonic softs?

Hi Thanovic, I'm C2, and I originally got here with both DAR's and no NAR. The huge disadvantage was I didn't have a convenient powerslide button, and my recoveries sucked. I spent the last 100 hours learning NAR, and got rid of DAR-L and improved DAR-R. The only thing I really miss from not having DAR-L now is jumping off walls in certain positions.. Anyways, I agree having all options available would be ideal, but do you think trying to rebind controls after so many hours (1.4k) is worth it? Getting back to the same mech skill would take a long time. For context I have NAR + slide on LB, DAR-R on RB, jump on A, boost on X. If I were to switch, I'd use appjack's settings.. I think he has the perfect controller settings but switching to them.. man it sounds so painful haha

Great video. I hope you have a great day my friend.

His editing on his videos is amazing

I think rocket league should add some permanent challenges for people to grind out. Sorta like how cod has camos rocket league could have challenges for certain decals or wheels so there is some status in what ur car is or goal explosion rather than who’s spent the most money. But theyll obviously never do that because they’d lose money…

I play with normal air roll on l1 and air roll right r1 but i only use that to make a half flip. Is it True you have such more control of you use both air rolls? Like left and right? So yes? When do you use air roll left or right and When normal? I hope someone can help me

hello thanovic i have come across a teaching method for air roll i have notice that no one is showing that method in their videos teaching how to air roll. last night i teached my d1 friend how to air roll and how to go towards de direction wanted. he didnt have any experience before and he learned to go where ever he wants with air roll i would really like to come in touch with you to show you this awesome method cause like i said its not shown anywhere.

What button do you have the air roll sets at?

Do you have merch? I love you

i honestly did tip 6 just by my own from watching evample and seeing everything hes able to do and actually works in ranked as makes the game more fun as well.

W vid my boy

After 4 years of playing only air roll, now having learnt directional air roll I can’t stop air rolling all the time x)

Is it good that I already do these?

Nice i have a similar history but im still in champ. Id just say that is for rank8ng up but i would kinda reather be champ with cracked mechanics freestyiling and having fun than just tryharding and getting gc. Altho teamplay is better there... imma just keep doing and after some hour it will happen probably😂 im not in a rush

I'd like to use air roll left and right but I use normal I am c3 and have to many hours to learn new air roll

I wanted to ask that long ago. I loved your x hours on mechanics Maybe 100 hours on soothing than recovering can be great If u can bring a guest here and there to explain what to do and why even better😊

What’s the blue and black decal?

editing is crazy

I started to play RL 2-3 months ago with my nephew. He’s D1-D2 so I play against a lot of plats and diamonds in duos. I’m starting to hold my own with those guys. Been practicing shooting, goal tending, and aerials which helps big time. I still have no idea on how to dribble on the ground so aerial dribbling isn’t a thought right now. That’s been pretty frustrating 😂

5:56 JESUS CHWISTH WHAT THAT NOISE IS

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only recently started watching where on the ball other players are touching. My habit is to just glaze over and see where the ball is going after the touch. But as games start to get faster at higher ranks you really have to see where they are touching the ball to get there before someone else touches. It isn't hard to do, just tiring.

"but thanovic us epic games players cant play workshop maps" so with that being said what do you recommend as a custom training map?

So I want you to see this... I'm using air roll left a long time, but now when im around c3-gc1 and i'm kinda mechanical player, I want to learn using air roll right too, because I get in situations where I need to use both air rolls, but when I was trying to learn air roll right it felt very weird so maybe you know how to fix this problem and give tips on how to learn the air roll right or air roll left (to others) and get more comfortable with it.

Im d1 and 3 things im practicing are flip resets, fast aerials and defense and though idc what people say stop learning cool things they are actually helping lot

I have only solo queued to c2/3. Never reaching GC. Kinda burned out as I have been here for 3 seasons now .

Went from gold to high plat in a few months, took a long break and then came back, grinded some and got to diamond 3. Hoping to hit champ soon but some of my opponents are crazy lol Edit: Really happy to hear about the air roll tip. I was a little annoyed with myself cuz I never could learn how to properly air roll constantly while doing aerials, but with that tip that they aren't always necessary and only really necessary for adjusting your angle, it makes me realize I'm actually sort of ahead of the game because I've only been air rolling when I need to. Interesting !!

HELP PLEASE IDK WHAT TO DO ANYMORE: I CAN'T bind normal air roll i've been playing for 3 years now and i was never able to bind it...not even on the keyboard, i mean i bind but it doens't work! I use left/right air roll since i started playing. Even if i "unbind" everything and try to bind air roll in any button, IT DOES NOT WORK...i've been trying to find a solution but i never could :(

Please do the 100 hours of recoveries video

I mean not focusing a lot more on mechanics still works out for you as a content creator with the 100 hours series :)

Thanovic, what do you think is holding you back from making it to SSL in 1's , 2s, or 3s? If you have the right mechanical ability for it, what part of your game would you say is lacking?

im d3 and i play better solo queing but when i play with my champ irl friend we play well, but still lose most games, what do i do??

I need more thanovic clips😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Idk why but when I started playing the game I just went straight through to gold silver was nothing and plat was a little bump in the road but now I'm really hard hard stuck diamond 3 I cannot get out of it I've been here for the past 4 seasons haha nothing works I feel like I need a solid tm8 or 2 cuz solo q is a nightmare you cannot go on a win streak unless you're in a tank you shlouldnt be at it's impossible

Scrimming with better players (but not so much better that it's impossible) was really valuable for me.

any tips while ranking down? :(

i have air roll right and air roll left since day 1 (f2p), i use like 70% left, 30% right and on the moments i use right, i do it without even thinking, it feels natural, feels like air roll left would be bad at that situation so i can see why you say one should master both, they are both useful at different situations for reference, champ 2 in 3v3 and 2v2, D1 in 1v1

I have solo queued mostly my whole time playing rocket league all the way from bronze to champ

man the memories when you said prospect, good times.

Epic

great video!❤️ I’m already gc2 but thank you very much for all the tips🫠

Whats the decal called at 1:59

I dream of someday being competent enough at this game to make it stale and repetitive 😂 it’s very exciting being a week in and feeling things slowly begin to click…enough to occasionally make the car and ball do what I am screaming at it to do in my mind 😂

Idk if anyone needs to hear this, but you CAN do it. I went from gold 2 to champ 1 in about a season and a half, because i really wanted it. So you can too

just have fun