What rank would past RLCS Pros be today? 

Don't forget that in those early seasons they reached that level without any tutorials or guidance from higher level players. I wouldn't be near my current rank without the abundance of help on RU-vid and Twitch. Respect 🤝

mans just stopped 1000 plats from saying there as good as squishy was back in the day🤣🤣

As an ssl being held in d3 by my teammates, I could obviously compete in any RLCS season.

He got me good, ranking season one through me for a loop because there was really good rotation but no mechanics and hardly any air play. Thanks Wayton for letting me be a part of this!

I've been playing rocket league and watching RLCS since day 1. I'm C2-GC1 now depending on the day and the teammates. The thing is, a lot of people who were casually playing in the beginning had no competition to push the advanced crazy mechanics. Imagine starting the game now and being inspired by the crazy stuff you can witness, as opposed to queuing in lobbies for entire months without seeing a single aerial.

Such an interesting thought. Appreciate you including me in the research Wayton. Awesome video as always.

Really liked that notation about how season 2's rating got where it was. I can only imagine how confusing the vod reviews would have been for the coaches. It's cool to see the effects/struggle they had with that!

This was one of the most interesting vids you've done so far, keep it up wayton!

Omg. I remember the rise and fall of kuxir97. I remember discovering him on twitch in xmas 2015 and being absolutely fucking amazed at the skill of this person, my jaw literally dropped. He never really spoke on stream so he just let his gameplay do the talking, he became this mysterious deity kind of figure within his small community lol. His mechanics in those early days were on another level to everybody! He was the first pro to legit include double touches in his play by about 6 months, long before Deevo went op with them in season 3. The community was raving about Kronovi back then but kuxir97 was quietly dominating in the background with his unique mechanics and his team... Then his success with F3 in MLG and all the the weekly tournaments they were in 215 and 2016. F3 were the best team in the world winning virtualy everything for like 18 months. Rlcs season 1 was the only upset i can recall where they lost to ibp, even someone like Kronovi went into that final being the underdog against them. Then kuxir went from being the best mechanical player in the world to being the best all around competitive player. He was really a big innovator in the mechanics department, the kuxir twist, kuxir pinch, defensive shadowing. He used a ds3 back then because you couldn't adjust the deadzone sensitivity in game and a ds3 would give you a lower more responsive input. Then he was the best 3's player in the world in season 2016. Then in season 2 to about 4 he became the best 1's player in the world for around a year or so along with scrub and he used to dominate 2's with marky. Kuxir was everything at one point within different times. Best mechanical player, best 3's player, best 2's player with marky, best 1's player, an innovator. Back then there was quite a big jump from the best players in the world to all the other pros. Unlike today were a lot of pros are just so good.

I'd just like to point out that Squishy, GarrettG, and Justin are all over this video. Shows how long and how consistent they've been throughout the years. Crazy to see the goats all on 1 team and making a comeback!

Love the video, but from personal experience I can say 100% with full confidence, last season (Season X) was not 2k mmr gameplay... I was 2037 last season and although it was a very high level, against a full pro team we just had no chance. It's difficult vs them in ranked alone, so when they're in a team with people who they mesh well with and have a lot of chemistry, it's game over. I can also say that their consistency compared to anyone that isn't pro is astounding and completely unmatched.

When you've been playing for 14 seasons and still aren't as good as a pro in season 1 LMAO

This was so good! I was literally talking to a friend about this the other day, better answers than I could have asked for

This is the most unique rocket league video I’ve seen in months, and it was executed perfectly! Anyways I’ve been looking forward to rocket league side swipe for a long time now, but I can’t seem to find any release date, or game details since it was announced in march. If you have any information about sideswipe, please make a short video about it! (if anyone else wants to see a video on this, like this comment)

Thank you for letting me be part of this project Wayton! You really got me thinking on these replays and I enjoyed it, keep it up!

As a person who's played in GC2 i'd have a hard time seeing being able to compete with the pro's from season 7. I feel the ranks are shot under a bit.

that actually makes me feel much better about my ranking progression, not like I'm actually comparable to actual pros or anything but seeing them have such a slow timeline of improvement feels nice

These videos are so good ! Thank you Wayton for these videos

Interesting video! I think everyone wondered about this at some point. I've asked myself so many times, what if I could travel back in time with my current skills, would I be able to compete? This more or less answers the questions, thanks :D

I have been watching so many old rlcs replays lately. Watching the progression is fascinating. Keep making content on old RLCS!

Love this. You could mix in some actual current replays of each rank as controls too which could be helpful

Great video, it's a funny thought that me being in C2 was potentially good enough for RLCS season 1. However, imagine being the first to push the limits of rocket league, and getting to a level that is still considered fairly good today. They're still legends

Really good idea, only missing a control from maybe a league game in a similar rank as what the couches where saying the RLCS games where.

Ayyy great job on the video man. I had a lot of fun helping out with the project! I'm cheering for ya in the race to 500k!

This was a great concept for a video and the execution was great (I also loved the little Wayton interruption in there)

The dedication of this video speaks volumes and is a true testament to your passion for content, keep it up Wayton

This is great, thank you!

Wayton’s videos always make my day better

These videos are so interesting! Damn! I think you may have forgotten to mention some of squishys flip resets from season 6 tho

Great vid Wayton!

Waytoney is just so good man keep up the hard work

This really brings into perspective why players like Squishy and Jstn were so incredibly ahead in earlier seasons. I couldnt imagine a gc1 pulling off consistently the things that they did.

I love you rlcs videos,I hope you can do more and I wonder if you could make a video about Kaydop?

i was literally thinking about this yesterday, good video i always wondered how s9 pros would do today

I always wanted to do a video like this but could never make it work, insanely high quality video man well done

Great vid. I wish you also showed them gameplay from each rank today as a control variable to see if their judgement was accurate in the first place but hey that's a lot more work so, oh well. Still interesting as hell.

Such good content. Well done!

Thanks for the video 👍

very interesting video idea and great execution with the coaches

tysm for this vid I always asked myself that question

Good video Wayton, keep up the great work!

This video was super well done

Wayton coming in clutch with the study hall uploads

This Is an Amazing video!

Great video, you got a sub too. Soo much time goes into these!! It shows

love the editing!

Love the BTD battles song in the background

dope idea love the vid bro

Love the vids

Quality content! Would also be great to see vid on season 9 vs season X difference, e.g. get coaches to guess which replay is from which season and explain why.

Wow interesting video! Nice idea wayton

This is so cool!

loved this video

Love the vid

Great video

interesting vid bro. good job

Wayton, you are a real one

Awesome video ! I always wonder why RL's pro players are so much younger in average compared to other tier 1 and 2 esports. Your video clearly shows how much the game has evolved, and how difficult it must have been to stay at the top for long. I wonder if the current generation of pro players will push upwards the average age of retirement since they already master so many mechanics. One could argue that new mechanics will be found, but I don't see the game becoming that much different. Any opinions on that ?

This is such a good video

I matched up against Vogan (RLCS season 1 player for the Flying Dutchmen, who got 4th place i believe) about half a year ago. I was floating between diamond 3 and champion 1 at that time. Really interesting to see how the skill ceiling has increased so much!

Once again, a perfect experiment with very surprising results.

this is an awesome video

Subbed, hope you win the race

I felt as though i'm a gc2 and have been near 1700, theres absolutely no way I can compete with rlcs s5 or more recent, who knows maybe I'm just bad. Great video though

Congrats on 400K!

this is such a good video idea

Cool vid !

Kind of weird, as a current champ 2. For instance the highlight from Quinn held some indecisiveness and positioning errors which I would be hitting myself for, but then the highlight from Overzero with a clean air dribble and decisive play. Interesting though, it's really good to play a game like rocket league where the skill ceiling is constantly being pushed higher.

Please upload more your my favourite rl RU-vidr

Lesss goo just hit c2 a few weeks ago nice to know I might have been able to compete in RLCS at some point

Awesome video, I've always wondered. I'm c3 nowadays :)

1:57 Why is no one talking about this absolute banger of a clip? Pulse Wayton when?

This was a really cool video ! Makes me wonder how good player will be in another 6 or 7 years.

I literally don't understand why you have only 365k subs, you deserve 1M sooo muchhh!

the level of play has improved a ton ive played since 2018 and freestyle for fun not really moved rank much but the average skillof players has gone up a lot, but i've equally gone up so the lobbies feel just as difficult but of a higher quality interesting

So season 1-6 i could have been in RLCS, nice, but ofc not without help from pros and content creators for videoes on mechanics and stuff on yt tho, that is so much help.

Wayton!!! Love your vids man. Always being the best rl content creator in my opinion hope you get that Alpha Boost.

This is my take on how the seasons go and I was gonna make a video on this maybe, seasons 1-5 pros had specific skill sets like fireburnner being known for 50/50s and deevo being deevo and the seasons after all players began to merge skill until most people can do everything better then a normal ranked player

Well i have found one of those past rocket leauge pro's yesterday from early rocket leauge "Veeds" GC1 in 3s and not even a good GC1 im pretty suprised how things end up.

5:44 im gonna say that squishy's goal against wedemgirlz with the flip reset dunk was better

Mhm, im champ 3 and while i see ppl doing more mechanical stuff, they also do so much more mistakes and are so inconsistent in their shots. Id rank season 1 in gc and every other season even higher.

it would be cool to hear the some of the coaches thoughts on tthese

I think it is incredible how much development there is in rocket league. I started playing first about a year ago and am now familiar with most of the mechanics (obviously not able to pull them off). But I thought that things like Musty flick, speed flip, or flip resets would have been around for a much longer time, but actually, they were invented just in recent years.

A good one also its the jstn 1v3 in finals vs ssg

you should do a video to compare ranks between different regions. NA, EU, OCE, SAM, ME, AS

Crazy how much better pros are that even 5 years ago they would still be better than 90% of the players are now, after all these mechanics were invented

we cant forget the rank squishes they keep doing as well I hit Champ this season at 1075 mmr I saw in one of thanovics videos even back in January champ 1 was 1247 mmr so I think that could be interesting to see how that all changes it too

for me the best goal of season 4 has got to be al0t's ceiling drop no question

I played against M1k3Rules recently and he has not changed since RLCS, I'm guessing he might not play it anymore, but still occasionally streams and plays ranked so it was cool to meet him

If the season 5 shot was an iconic one that people who don't even play rocket league know. Wouldn't coaches who spent thousands of hours analyzing games recognize it

I think it would be an idea to show us what is the current rank of the former pro players. For example, Kronovi's current rank today , OverZero's current rank today, Gibbs current rank and so many other pro players that competed in rlcs back in the first seasons, players that no longer are to be considered today as a PRO

Good content

I have a bunch of old clips on my PS4 from 2015 and it's so funny watching my highlights that I thought were bad ass back then lol. I was literally just chasing the ball double jumping into it any chance I got hoping it would fly in haha

I gotta say seeing this now with players like Zen, Dark(?), and Rw9 makes me appreciate how far the game has come

As a relatively new RL player I’m always fascinated by how people picked the game up so quick and became pros so fast. I always wonder how they found pros so early on or how new players even realized they were “pro” level.

Personally I think most of these ranks are supposed to be a tad higher than they ended up being. I'm GC1 and if I played some of these games rated as such on ladder, I'd be convinced they're smurfing. Then again, I can't really blame anyone, as the gameplay just looks so different from usual ranked.

As a Plat I approve your disclaimer. To my fellow plats who think they're hot shit. Watch one of your replays days after playing and just see how bad we really are.

So after like 1500 hours, I’d only be in RLCS 2... the skill gap in this game is just incredible!

10:28 "What is that touch, upside down?" 😂

i could compete in s4 im gc1 c3 area kinda cool so i can be one of the top 3 best players in rlcs season 1 probally pretty cool this was a great vid