How long does it take to reach every rank in Rocket League? 

For the win percentage, it needs to be above 50% in order to rank up. People actively grinding the game would most likely have a win percentage larger than 50% since they are improving consistently. It's most likely these same people that take an interest in RL content and replied on your survey. The people who don't take the game too seriously or have dropped it, probably won't bother replying on your survey. It's interesting though, but this is my best guess

Salutations Wayton. On behalf of the Plat Union we are sorry for our misleading and false responses. We promise to continue blaming our teammates for our lack of success and we will continue flip resetting. Thank you and again we are truly sorry. -The Platinum Union

started RL a couple months ago. Mainly played training packs for fun. Finally played comp today and placed Plat 1. Love this game so far, and I have been enjoying your vids!

Another reason for the drop in training for gc3 & ssl players is the fact that a lot play in draft leagues and are on teams so most of their time is spent playing in scrimmages, grinding ranked, and playing 6mans

That decrease in team play seems like it happens when players start to feel confident with some of their mechanics and gameplay, thus feeling like they are better than their team or not trusting their team

Never before have I felt better about spending 10 years in champ 3

Very nice content wayton

I think your 55% win percentage would be due to the self selection of the data points. If you could somehow query the "master database" for 100 (or 10000) from each rank/division, you would most likely get a better data sample. Thank you for your great videos.

I liked how you showed all of the different metrics like demoes and goals per game but i personally wouldve been interested in seeing how many players are playing 2v2 / 3v3 as a premade and whether or not it makes a difference in hours / matches played compared to rank.

I love how Wayton always finds a way to roast plats in his videos 😂

As a newer player on the verge of diamond in 2s, Plat is the rank I started being able to control the ball a lot. I think the lower assists but higher goals and other inconsistencies is that everyone is fighting eachother to make solo plays because either we are doing it to try and improve, we think we are the best, or our teammates seem to be letting us down so we feel like we have to do it all ourselves. As someone who is genuinely trying to improve, Plat has been a very frustrating rank but as long as you keep a more calm and mature mental, you can litterly watch the game unfold and start reading plays. I've found in upper Plat I can 'train' about half of my teamates in the first couple minutes by making a good center and then immediately beeliningback for rotation until they get the idea.

The Plats results are totally accurate ..... It's difficult to rank past it for the reason being that Plats are so full of themselves discouraging and ripping on other Plats mishaps and mistakes. I have found that ripping on your teammate for whatever reason is a terrible way to have your teammate(s)play better. It only causes a ridiculously unnecessary amount of pressure applied by your own teammate(s) rather than the opponents.

Would be interesting to see how the stats differ by region. I imagine in smaller regions especially that ranking up takes way more hours

Hey Wayton, I think that those win% are measured from gameplay hour 0 onwards. Everyone who made it out of bronze will not fall back to bronze 1, hence they have a positive winrate, which is more than 50%.

I think the avg win % in your survey is above 50% because respondents to a rocket league survey will be inherently keen on the game and actively learning things, so as a group, they are climbing.

What are the confidence intervals on these various figures? I'd love to see some error bars! There certainly weren't an even number of respondents from every category/rank, so you'll have much higher confidence in the averages for some ranks than others. I'm also curious about the variance within each rank. Would be great to see some robust statistical analysis of an even larger player set! Also, I have a feeling that the reason Psyonix doesn't release their official data is so that new players don't realize they'll need to put in >300 hours to get out of the trash tiers. And those of us in Plat 2 with 1300+ hours don't completely lose hope.

Bro I love watching Wayton apply real world stuff in his graphs. The whole last bar graph reminded me of my dad’s work he showed me once. Where he took a graph of oil production in one well over time, and found the average amount you should find in similar wells.

Thanks for letting us be apart of your video Wayton! Glad I could help as a champ 3 (virge of gc1)! I like to compare my current stats to my later stats!

These kinds of patterns on gaming data are so fascinating to explore.

I’ve spent about 560 hours based on the game time in my PS5 and currently on champ in 3s and 2s. Absolutely unable to do flip resets and struggling with wall dash things, however understanding of positioning, good defensive and pressing skills is the key for this level as I think.

2 Notes from me: 1) I didn't participate in the survey but I am curious if players may have entered their extra modes rank as their highest rank and skewed the data. For example I have 2400 hours and am GC1 in 2s and 3s but I was GC1 in rumble back at 1500 hours and am now GC3 in it so possible data skews there. 2) The win percentage could be 1 of 2 things. The first is just how RL calculates stats and I don't know how it counts stats when people abandon or forfeit and leave before the scoreboard, very possible Psyonix just didn't do this correctly. The other thing is your survey is skewed towards people who are active enough in the community and care enough to take a survey about Rocket League and players like that tend to put more time and effort into the game and thus have higher win percentages than the players who don't watch youtube and just sometimes play cuz they're bored. I would wager that has at least a 2% swing in your data.

About the win percentage => Afaik the game only adds up stats if you completely finish the game and stay until the end (Which is basically once the Winner message shows up, same goes for earining experience btw.) So if you leave early, stats won't add up. This includes leaves in Ranked 1s or casual => Players that are about to lose are far more likely to leave early (Especially for example before the casual leaver punishment was added) => Due to all that missing loss stats, pretty much all players have a Winrate higher than 50%

Great video!:)

I should also point out I've watched a lot of videos of yours and others who've helped me get better quicker

Really nicely illustrated! Love the graphs ❤

Thanks man ! Today I was actually thinking about that after watching some off your videos, like what is the average learning curve in Rocket League Ranks, super interesting, I've got the game since 2015 but never played seriously, this year because im getting older (29 this year) video games bore me a bit, but my friends play rocket league often, so I gave myself the challenge to at least have a basic control of each game mechanics and achieve Champion. I've got 250 hours on RL since 2015, 1500 matches, 54% win and Im currently Diamond 1. Today i just learned to dribble thanks to your video about it and became confortable doing so after an hour. I guess im part of the ones who get the game quite quickly according to your average rank curve, Im doing lots of drifts and air combat in simulation games (Assetto Corsa, DCS World) so serious mechanics learning is something I like doing. And actually after watching your videos and playing more seriously, It made me realise how complex of a game RL is and I start to enjoy it in a whole new way, I didnt felt that passion for a game since Skyrim, so thank you ! 😉

Hi wayton! Big fan, I’m bottom plat 3 so like div 1 or 2 and have 404 hours so I do think that the graph you made was quite accurately made. Good job

I got to GC ~June 2021 after having started in Sep 2018. Think I had about 1300 hours or so. However I’ve been stuck in GC1 since June 2021 lol probs about 1600-1800 hours in. I’ve peaked at GC2 a couple of times in both 3s and 2s, including GC2 Div2, but the push from GC1 to GC2 is really an absolute grind to do. Not sure I’ll ever consistently remain in GC2, so recently started to try and power through the torture of 1v1. I’m Champ 1 Div 2 in 1s atm, hopefully if I can get high champ I’ll see some results in 2s/3s for that push to GC2

Hey Wayton! Just wanted to let you know that you are my favorite content creator. You beat everybody out there in my opinion. Your style of editing, the clear time put into videos, and the quality of content is outstanding. I love watching every single one of your videos. The content is so much better then other rocket league RU-vidrs. You are seriously underrated. So, keep up the great work man. Looking forward to future uploads!

Thanks for making this video Wayton! It’s good to see what the average stats would be and I’m happy to say I’m ahead of the normal hours for C1! Keep it up!

I've always been a 3s main, simply because I like the teamplays and I like having someone behind me to support me. I have reached above 10k matches though and I'm C2, so the 2s vs 3s argument sounds accurate. I've decided though that I'm gonna focus a lot on 1s now. It makes me play more confident and I just need to improve my consistency, so 1s will be great for that.

I used to be so worried about ranking up as fast as possible. But that's just not me. I like to take my time in each rank so that I get comfortable with taking a leading role in each rank instead of relying on others to carry me. I also hate pushing and trying to win so bad. My win rate is 51.8%. It feels so good to just let wins happen, instead of forcing them. I have around 1,200 hours and I am diamond I. But I focus on getting better each game. I used to train quite a bit more than other people according to this video, but lately I've been in a mode where I am playing almost only matches.

I think it's interesting that pc players only rank up 6 percent faster, I thought it would be a larger difference

I think the reason that the win% is more than 50 on the survey,because Wayton puts out tutorials helpful learning and good content,so the people who did the survey had a better win rate than people who don’t.Keep up the good work Wayton🙂

Would there be a rough way to calculate your "most likely amount of hours played" using both your "matches played hours" with your total "in game hours"?

I actually think the 2v2 and 3v3 mains point is a mix of both. 2v2 makes your mechanics increase way way faster while 3v3 forces you to increase your game sense more since there is more going on i also think basics are much more needed in 3v3 than 2v2 sice fance stuff is less limely to work out there

Hey Wayton! Just putting this out there. At 6:00 you mention the win rate percentage and how it has a similar rate across the board. When you think about it, you see a fairly consistent line going up in most of your stats in terms of goals per game, assists, etc. So is it possible that the average rate that people rank up is roughly 5 or 6%? Just a thought

Personally I think 2v2 is easier to rank up in. I main 3v3 only occasionally playing 2v2, yet 2v2 a lot of the times is my highest ranked queue.

I have about 5500 games now at C3D4 but i dont have much in the mechanical aspect, i think since i didnt focus on mechanics and played to help the team to win i ranked up faster than average

Wayton, then there’s the few like me, when I started playing Rocket all my friends were diamond and above, so for 2020-22 I was somehow initially ranked as plat even though I had absolutely no business being up that high, and eventually it showed, I made my way from plat all the way back down to bronze (way way way too many smurfs in bronze) silver was pretty easy to breeze through now in 2024 in steady at gold. Granted I was only ranked upwards of plat in (drop shot/rumble/2’s and 3’s) and as soon as I stopped only playing with my friends and started playing by my self I dropped like someone had dropped an anvil in the ocean, dropping me to a more correct rank rather than the “carried” rank, I personally feel grateful I was able to learn from better players rather than trouble shoot against people that are as bad or worse than me. But overall I guess I’m saying the time needed to hit each rank all depends on 2 main things 1) how much time and effort the player puts into rocket 2) how many smurfs are at each rank. If Psyonics could develop a means of weeding out the smurfs or have the Smurfs of each rank only play other Smurfs it would drastically change the learning/growth curve.

I'm a Plat IX and I find that your assessment of plat play is correct. It is extremely difficult to break out of platinum without a team or without being good enough to carry two others. I've been diamond before and I will be again, but in the mean time my teammates amount to more RNG than rumble. Also, my rank-up to Diamond game is ALWAYS against a team with coms while my team hits multiple own goals. I've only been able to break through twice in 3s.

The only problem I have with the hours spent is that it counts the hours idle. I've personally gained most of my hours on the game just bc I was afk. Other than that great video

I'm technically new to the game as i started last December 2022. with a total of 280 Hours played im happy that i am already a Diamond rank in 2v2s while having still Plat in 1s and 3s. im very thankful to the amount of videos and trainings online it sure did help me A LOT! my next challenge would be to reach Champ before 400 hours :) Thanks for the video!

With win percentage, some people leave the game before it starts bc they have a bot for a tm8 instead of a person

Since us console players can’t see hours played, can you post the average matches for every rank for us to compare? There were only a few ranks mentioned in the video as far as I could see.

6:05 My best guess would be the effect of soft resets in new seasons. The first quarter of every season, players are winning matches in ranks they're usually higher than. By the time they get back to their normal rank, their win percentage is padded.

6:20 maybe all Wayton Pilkin viewers are pros

The funny thing is that 300 hours in rank should mean that I would be in between plat 1 and 2 when this video was made but, I'm a champ player with around 300 hours. How does that make sense?

It would be interesting to see what ranks people have in different gamemodes. For example plat 2 1v1 has a lot of c1-2 2s players (at least in my experience).

Im peak d3 with 420h and i always thought I was way behind the others, thanks for the motivation

I cant thank you enough for this video, i felt super insecure about my progress because im diamond 1 with a thousand hours, but my in game hours is only 132, less thana quarter of average. Thank you so much

My acceptance into a new rank doesn’t come till i’ve done it in both 3’s & 2’s. 2’s always becoming first lol

1:56 Dear wayton, Considering our behaviour during the survey, we would like to apologise for the insincerity of our actions. We have continuously Lied to you and made life harder for your RU-vid videos. We promise to never lie to you again. Yours truly, youraudience.

It's interesting how I reached GC1 in 1200 hours by myself while being strictly a 3s main. Which means I'm progressing incredibly fast, I suppose. I've just started maining 2s, which is also interesting considering people start playing more 3s around where I currently sit, and I feel the need to play 2s to get that car control I've been missing due to playing nothing but 3s. Hearing that most SSLs have at least 4k+ is scary cause that means I have 2600 more hours to clock in, even though I've always been the one to reach a rank with fewer hours than average. But SSL is so joke, so I'm ready for the journey.

I'm actually surprised to see that the average champ 2 should have 1590 hours, i just hit champ 2 and I've played about 900 hours. I did know that i progressed pretty fast, but not by THAT much.

I peaked at Champ 1 when I had just a tad less than 1400 hours. I stopped playing and now I am back again and I am D2 once again. Hate that I stopped and let my rank fall. I see people mention that last season's rank reset pushed many GCs down to high diamond/low champ. Not sure how true that is tbh.

I have 168 hours and I’m diamond 1

I got plat 2 straight out of placement matches for 2v2s. I got it in just under 300 matches total, mostly ofc being casual as I only did placement

It’s also hard without the metric of how constant people play. I played consistently like and hour a day-w hours a day until I hit c3, then kinda quit and would do anything from 1 hour a day to 5 month breaks into other games. Stopped progressing as fast and capped out around gc1, but still have a good amount of games being played, just no longer interested in grinding new skills. Rotations and situational awareness improves but I’m not trying double resets or anything.

im 30 hours gold 1 which fine bully me but i only got into rocket league really like 2 weeks ago because before that i was playing casual with my friends when i was like 10 and didnt understand the game but now that ive spent like 5 or so hours in game dedicated to being better ive seen major improvemnt

Assists per match dipping at platinum is poetic honesty

When you hit d1 in 1v1s that’s when I think most people stop to play because you go up against people who are gc in 2s or 3s which makes 1s really hard to rank up so that’s why no one plays it that much.

Its so funny how much harder ranking up gets. I got to c1 in under 200 hours. And now im over 1k hours at c3.

The across the board positive win% on this is pretty self explanatory. Wayton viewers don’t lose

By the way what I do is when I get on rocket league I do some free play then I find a match whilst searching for a game I go in free play and when I have done like 5 games I do some custom training

I’m just sharing my stats for the fun of it cause why not. Rocket league stat Time Played: 1803 hours Actual Time Played: 5095 hours Peak Rank: GC 1 Div 1 Favorite Game Mode: 3s If you want anymore info just reply and I’ll try to respond if I can anyways yeah if you read this far much love

you should do a statistic on kbm mains and controller mains and check that

The Graph at 7:22 feels quiet accurate. I just hit 1000 hours today and i hit Diamond 3 at about 960 hours. Also the other ranks below align with what I expirienced over the past 7 Years of playing

i like how teamwork goes down in platinum

This makes me pretty happy. I peaked at 1054 MMR with 524 hours played. With that being said, it’s all rotation and game sense. I have zero mechs.

I have 500 hours and I'm close to champ 1. I've been playing RL since the end of August 2022, but I don't play very competitively, I'm more in freeplay.

kinda surprised that i just now entered champ 1 and i only have 180 hours in playtime. im really proud of that bc it shows i learned and got better quick

started to play bout 2-3 weeks and i have 60 hours. Today I got platinum on 2s with my friend so its kinda reliefing to be actually improving kinda faster cause i was really upset to be stuck on gold forever (although even being plat im still really bad at the game anyways)

How do you convert the in-game stat to the hours you showed in your graph? (Obviously converting units but he said its different than steam hours so which did he use?

Im diamond 1 in 2v2s with about 80 hours... I do feel ive kinda hit a wall tho. Ive been.bouncing between plat and diamond 2 but seeming to stay at diamond1. I really need to practice longer aerials and dribbling. So far i feel ive just benefitted off taking rotations/backpost defense seriously and hitting the ball hard.

The annoying thing to me is that because I played on switch, I don’t know my exact hours. It just says a general estimate and I believe it was somewhere around 450, epic games at least tells me the exact hour count that’s only the time I’ve spent while on pc, not switch and pc combined

Woah! i am diamond 3 with 100Hours,Thank you man,i us thinking if im getting worse,now you saved my life

When asking the question "how many games to achieve x rank?" do you mean specifically in 3v3 or your highest rank of any game mode?

I got my placement asap getting to level 20. I got gold mostly by myself as my games ended up being myself v2 cause my mates ragequit after one goal gets scored on us or they miss a very easy shot. I have less then 130 matches. My positioning needs work. My air shots are getting more consistent and my communication is on point. Without a stack to rely on I have to play defensive constantly because that concept is unheard of by my teammates. My matches consist of wondering why my mates are chasing so hard with no real goal while not communicating any information. My favourite complaint is kickoffs when I spawn clearly in the back and state I’m going to defend as my m8 is closer to the ball. while the opponent has both charging blindly at the ball leaving a wide open net. My random will flame me that I didn’t charge into an unpredictable outcome and leave our net wide open to the possibility of a kick off goal. I’m confused by this one as it usually ends with them failing the kick off and the ball goes smoothly to me and I just easily bonk it into their net. Other favourite is when I have to go for the kick off and at this rank it seems like a fake is unheard of so I just stop before the ball and watch where they will make contact then make a small adjustment to bonk it where I want it to go. Apparently no going full force with unpredictable results is frowned upon. Over using the opponents unga bunga lack of strategy to my/our advantage.

That chart is really accurate, I have about 1000 hours and am Diamond 3

my training tools: play with my brother in higher ranks than i actually am.

I played RL for the first time 5 months ago, and have roughly around 6 days played ingame (idk where to look up the total hours in epic) I am 2 matches away from champ

I only have 1800 games at c3 but makes sense as Instead of spending 40 percent of my time in free play I spend closer to 80 percent

man, i’ve played since the start of rocket league lost accounts due to being hacked and my pc being bricked and shit so i don’t know the exact amount of hours i’ve played but last season i got d2 now i’m back to being hardstuck plat

How can I check my hours when I used to be a ps4 player since 2015 and changed to pc after it was f2p?

Plat 2 with 1844 games played I've also been stuck in Plat for a like a month or so, so I couldn't say exactly how many matches it took but it was definitely less than that, wow

ive played 196 hours and have finally hit chapion rewards but i hit a plateau and havent been able to rank up anymore even when im peaking

6:08 that s because the game queque you to have about 55% of win rate, infact you will have almost a positive expirience and same for every player. generally you won t be able to get a consistent 5+ streak win cause the game will make a vs with way higher rank and mate will be lower rank, so you will lose 100% and so it will adjust your win/lose to 55%, then of course we will have some with 30-40% and some with 60% but usually will be 50%

This makes me feel a lot better about being in Plat III with like 40 hours and 450 matches.

Wayton its based on the player, i played less than 1000 matches when i hit champ for the first time

I guess I was lucky or got on a great start. My first ever ranking after playing for maybe 3 days was plat 1 in 3's and all my placement matches were solo queue

Done a little over 10k games hit Champo for the first time few months ago end of season 9

I’m gold 1, only had rocket league installed for 1 month and I’ve played a total of 26 hours overall. Is that good? (I’m completely new to the game).

I just started the game about a month ago. I have around 42 hours in the game. Im gold 3 div 3 in standard, d1 div 4 in duos, and plat1 div2 in ones.

as a plat i can in fact confirm that the majority of plats (sometimes including me) think they are 12 times better than they are or try something stupid. they never make passing plays, and more often than not just take the ball from you

Hey payton! I love you brother and I just wanna do the normal thing you guys get. I'm diamond 1 div 4 and haven't gained a rank in about a year. I have watched yt videos and everything but whenever i'm about to rank up I get crazy teammates and I think that's the problem. Any tips on how to overcome throwers?

I have about 2000 hours and I'm gc2. Kinda nice to see that I am improving faster then most people

I started like a week or 2 ago (i play on keyboard on mouse i dont have a controller) and Im only silver, can you give me some tips to rank up to gold or even plat or diamond?

its the play time of steam or the statistics that matter? im not so good at english and i think im misunderstanding

sorry i dont wanna be rude but is it good to play 275 games and be in diamond? (my friend tought me alot and helped alot )