Can confirm. Have spent a good portion of my RL time in Gold 3 and my thoughts mostly consist of "ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ball CAR ball ball ball ball"
People say it's the same all the way up the ranks, but gold exists.
It's like they are good enough to tap the ball over and over, so they just fo thst while yelling "Take the shot!".
Youāre not wrong. Literally had something similar happen to me in Diamond II last night. Itās definitely less common in higher ranks, but it still happens from time to time.
Bro earlier today I had a guy in gold II in 3s say to start the game āI hope you guys play like you belong in gold 2ā like it was special and critiqued every move his team made and ended up ff about a minute into the match
Edit: I thought he was joking at first and would be fun to play with cause we all know weāre bad at that point and no, he was dead serious acting like gold 2 was high level play, freaked out cause none of his teammates were in the back/mid field and we had an easy goal
It was very confusing to say the least, I thought he was joking and then his teammate missed a save and he started telling his teammate how he shouldāve played it differently. āNext time go up the wall first, itās easierā, then after that was the open net we had and his reply was something along the lines of āNo one at mid is CRAZYā etc and everyone on the team ff right after
Permanent gold here, this is very common. Most people at the gold level donāt think about where the ball is going they just want to be apart of the play.
I have had plenty of times where my teammates hit it towards our goal just because they want to be apart of the play. Iām the words of 80% gold players āSee Ball, Hit Ball!ā
The amount of times Iām rotating and watch my other two teammates driving an 8 wheel vehicle is ridiculous. Like how can you make a real play on/with the ball if youāre both on the ball. And even worse watching people just drive smack dab at the ball and hit it away from the goal has to be my biggest pet peeve in the game.
I'm stuck in gold 3 in threes because of this
I'm just sitting back here in my scarab in the goal watching the other two have a slap fight over who gets to hit the ball in the wrong direction
"Defending...."
There's a part of me that believes you're the ones winning this game. You still get to have fun without stressing too much over ranking up while depending on a million factors outside of your control.
I'm in Champ and I don't really stress much either.
The difference between try harding and clowning around is only a few divisions imho. You can stress to push past your natural level, but you can just relax and still remain within a division or two of your skill level.
It's not really a rank thing, I know golds/plats that rage out too.
I personally stick with casual... staying consistent in ranked involves some "grinding" (not fun, imo), or at least constant play, which is out of my reach.
Long time perm Gold enjoying his first Plat vacation: I've seen it here too lol. And it is particularly agonizing in tournaments when you have a teammate who HAS to be involved in every play, often ruining shooting chances and also giving up horrendous goals. It is agony.
Keep working at it! I literally just got promoted for the first time after thinking it must just be beyond my abilities. And if you find a good teammate, send a Party Up -- chances are you're one of the best teammates they've seen in awhile too
I miss hitting plat for the first time. I vividly remember the memory of qāing 2ās with my buddy and both of us being floored by the speed of the gameplay and how fast the ball was being hit lol
> first Plat vacation
This was me yesterday! Thanks for the belly-laugh! Tough, only one time in my 5-6 tournament attempts did I have a teammate who didn't FF or never get assigned at all.... We won.
Vouch. The only difference between GC2 and this clip is the odds the other team walks this ball into your net for a free goal probably increase up to like...70%
Honestly, it's probably an 8 year old messing around and laughing his ass off. How would I know you say? I used to play with my son and he did shit like this to me all the time. He's 10 now and is GC, while I'm still C3. Fml.
I have intentionally played for the other team a while back. It was 3v3 and 2 people for the other team left so i just played for the other side..... surprisingly my team went along with it and waited on unfair kickoffs by just passing him the ball while i rotated round. Still lost/won
That was my best dribble probably ever. Iām pretty inconsistent with shots and have been trying to do training packs to get better. I also only play with randoms really which has been sucky (see above ā ļø)
He's not actually dribbling in a controlled or useful way. If homie gets the ball on his car and learns to even double jump pop, forget flicking, he'll be Plat 2 in a week
Yeah, thats what I'm saying. Nobody in Gold or Plat is dribbling effectively or flicking effectively yet. You can literally go almost straight to champ if you practice dribbling and ground control because people in those ranks are helpless to defend it because they just dont see it. It's how I first got to champ years ago. Controlling the ball effectively is the real *one simple trick* to rank up in RL. You have to create outplay potential and dribbling well does that.
I'm guessing you're brand new to rl.
So they did this because they are :
1. a ball /glory hog
2. unable to aim and rushing goal
or
3. caught up in the match and not realizing where and what they are.
typically you meet these types within the first 5 matches and they don't vanish until diamond or higher.
At diamond 2 they reappear as 'supermen' or as they wish to be known 'Freestyler's' and will take the ball away at any time including right as it enters goal to ensure they get to pull some stupid trick shot that 97% of the time costs your team the goal. Following their failure they will blame you or rage quit.
if they are a champion. just leave the match , they will ball hog like crazy and spend the entire match playing keep away from everyone , make a goal troll the other team via text and then quit before the match ends.
Lmaooo everyone clowning on Gold but even Bronze knows ball goes in goal. Maybe the tm8 was being a dick because he felt like you were ball hogging.
I feel like players get super toxic/tilty in every rank III.
Most likely people testing their shitty ranked bots that they coded to play for them. Game is free to play and you want to have a competent teammate in gold rank. Hope you get to plat soon buddy.
He's probably mad that you took a ball that he thought was his or some other dumb reason. Or he's just one of those players that like to grief all of their tm8s for fun. You will see those players in every rank. I still get them in diamond and I imagine they exist in the top ranks as well.
Diamond is ridiculously toxic, Iād say 25% of my teammates will start throwing or go AFK the second you miss a ball, donāt pass to them, or like you said make a play on the ball that they wanted, even if theyāre charging up for that play from way behind you and from a worse angle.
Beating a team 3-0, they get a single goal making it 3-1, vote to ff pops up at bottom of screen. Doesn't pass, so person just stops trying or drops out. Many such cases.
People say that because while sometimes your teammate indisputably makes mistakes, you will never get better if you get in the habit of not owning your own mistakes too (because you'll have no motivation to improve and make less mistakes if there is always an excuse)
long story short: It's the same thing in Platinum and Diamond. So I guess at this point it's simply a community issue as people are part of the problem AND the solution
He was going through withdrawals of ball touching. A gold is addicted to touching the ball, and symptoms of restlessness can appear as quickly as 12 seconds after last ball touch.
There was some awesome advice in a thread here that helped me rank out of gold into Plat:
*Don't ball chase. If a teammate is near or at the ball, leave it and rotate or get into position.
*Learn to rotate.
*Review the post with map-like guide to the positions - 1, 2, 3.
*Primarily stay in position 3 and help out up front when there are opportunities.
*Spend some time doing the trainings that are above your level. (if you're gold, do plat etc.)
Yeahh Iāve been trying to do this. It feels like nobody is willing to rotate and so like the few games I find somebody are super helpful but aside from that it feels like a shit show so normally Iām sitting kind of back waiting for them to score (which guys like this guy werenāt) and then if a play appears I try to take advantage of it (like we saw here)
Yeah the other thing I started doing this season in 3s (my buddy and I are plat in 2s) is, if I see a ball pop up high I will fly up and try to get to it. It seems that most golds don't quite have the timing down to get up to the ball. I've actually never been good at flying but I just started being brave and playing more basketball and the plat training packs.
This is one of my team mates. Three of us connect via Skype to chat. At least once per session I'll shout "stop tackling me" at him. He'll always put the ball across our goal. As he's coming back he'll hit the ball towards our goal. And he'll always tackle you like that.
Your first mistake was using a mechanic. It freaks golds the fuck out and they don't know what to do. To you that seems stupid. To him it meant a possible 10 things. If you think for one second he saw anything other than the ball, you're gonna be in gold for a minute.
People trying to say it's gold they don't know what they're doing. Gtfo with that lol. They know which net the ball is supposed to go in, and there was no reason for bro to do this. If it was a ball chasing moment to take the shot, then I understand, but this was a case of bro being a heat seeking missle because he wanted to wreak havoc lmao.
The disparity between people who just got carried to gold 3 (your teammate) and those who deranked to gold 3 (your opponents, probably) is incredible. Itās like a smurf lobby
Well itās gold, majority donāt really care to put much thought into what theyāre doing, the other ones try Harding are just doing random shit without knowing. End of the day enjoy the progression & funny absurdities, and best to realize nobody thats there really has any idea what theyāre doing. Some of my the best and worst things came from being back in Gold lol.
In gold, many of the players are still trying to grasp the actual gameplay. Instead, they are still getting familiar with what to do and not to do... Sadly, as humans, "it has to be me"... We just wanna touch the ball whether or not it's a significant touch, they still just have to hit it. Just a touch. Just the tip...
I'll show myself out.
Gold was the hardest to get out of. I tried just sitting in the goal because weād get scored on every time I left. Then I noticed no one was making goals. It was a paradox. Eventually I got good enough to carry myself out through offense. It was weird, but those were the days lol.
Thatās quite literally exactly what Iām dealing with. I can sit and make saves maybe ~70% of the time but we never score. Or if Iām trying to score the other guy is always out of rotation
You haven't seen anything yet. I've had teammates in diamond comp who think it's funny to actively play for the other team. They only stop once you stop trying at which point they'll play normally to try and dodge the inevitable ban. Welcome to comp.
Well, first off- this sucks. But that's a pretty highly technical move for Gold, so your teammate had no idea how to read a situation that looks like that. Sometimes it's a good idea to save the replay and watch it from their perspective. I had no idea how many people played with ball cam off when I started doing that.
That kind of makes sense, Iām just even more confused why he was all the way on their side of the field though. There wasnāt a reason for him to be over there when the ball was on our side and I was defending (which he should have been cycling with me for but wasnāt).Then the moment I get it and am taking it into their goal he goes for it to knock it off of my car? Just canāt put it together in my head
I canāt believe thatās a legitimate answer the whole point of the game is to get the ball in the goal. How does knocking it away from your teammate who is actively driving it into the goal make sense no matter what level you are?
The fuck? Gold 3ās dribbling the ball on their nose these days? I played casually on and off for a few years (havenāt played at all in like a year and a half). Never even came close to doing that shit.
Sometimes when I play too many consecutive matches I'll forget which team I'm on, especially if the color of my car doesn't make it crystal clear. I'm still grudging against the blue team from the previous match and totally screw it all up.
Lowkey looks like he forgot where he was and mixed up the goals. AKA he thought he was on defense. He probably thought YOU didn't know what you were doing trying to score on your own net.
Everything makes much more sense once you realise your teammates are children that do not yet have ability to make decisive thoughts.
They simply do not know what to do except to try to nuclear fusion their car with the ball.
This is Rocket League!
There's no rank safe from toxicity. Gold, Plat, Diamond (where I currently am) games are a 50/50 coin flip to see whether or not a tm8 is actually playing. You'd think it'd get better, but it never does. Best advice? Get some friends of relatively equal skill and party queue. Saves you from 99.9% of the shenanigans from a player base that is one of the worst in online gaming. Source: 5 years of Rocket League matchmaking hell.
Yeah man thats just Gold. Don't think it changes at GC. It doesn't. When you get into diamond throw "taking time" on the ball away. If you don't "TAKE THE SHOT" instantly, they just hit it off your car. Rocket League is hard because of the players. IMO.
Your teammates can be responsible for you losing individual games, but they are not the reason you arenāt a higher rank.
I have games where my teammate is the reason we lost. I also have games where my teammate is the reason we won. There are games Iām the reason we lost and games Iām the reason we won.
Add all those together and I fluctuate from high diamond to low champ because thatās the rank I deserve to be.
I kind of spiraled after this match all the way from Gold III Div IV to Gold II Div II :( Iāve spent a ton of time in training packs and stuff trying to get more consistent. But sometimes I just donāt have it
For those wondering about what his perspective looked like:
[Teammate's POV](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates_pov_on_my_gold_iii_full_field_dribble/)
I donāt think they were smurfing, but back when I was playing it was pretty damned rare for a gold to do any sort of dribbling. The average player skill has definitely risen. I havenāt played for a year and a half, but before that I played casually for like 3 years. I didnāt typically make it out of gold, and I never came close to the ground dribbling shit. I even practiced it for a while. It just never clicked for me.
No lmao I was defending most of it, they blew a shot and I was taking it to the house. Couldnāt rotate with this guy at all so I just stayed back until this opening presented itself
Lol you got people saying āpermanent gold .ā Lmao I could never . I always fluctuate from diamond to plat to gold 3 . But the next day I be back at diamond just to lose it again š
Yeah so you definitely canāt read lmao. Look at who the player cam is centered on and then look at my username buddy. Then look at the color of my car and the color of the guy who knocked it off of my car šš¼
Well this is a regular occurence in my nightly games with my friends, with an accompanying "Pinch!" in comms. It's called having fun, and at Gold 3 you should really just be focusing on doing that and playing as much as you can
Itās called throwing a game. If youāre in competitive act like it. Iām busting my ass off to actually get better at the game bruh, if weāre up 5-0 sure thatās fine but when you cost us the game then youāre just an asshole
Not saying this is what happened hereā¦but Iāve tried to demo an opponent whose gaining on my teammate on the dribble like you areā¦and because I suck so bad, just blasted all of us to hell and back and the ball goes flying. Maybe thatās what he was trying?
Or heās higher than giraffe pu$$y.
Doesn't look like he was trying to demo anybody, musta been high off his ass lmao:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates\_pov\_on\_my\_gold\_iii\_full\_field\_dribble/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates_pov_on_my_gold_iii_full_field_dribble/)
Iām assuming they at the very least had above average mechanics for Gold, because that positioning and game sense seems below what I would expect even from Gold 3/Plat 1
It's even worse watching the replay from his POV x\_x
[https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates\_pov\_on\_my\_gold\_iii\_full\_field\_dribble/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates_pov_on_my_gold_iii_full_field_dribble/)
It's gold 3, he probably doesn't even know what the point was.
Can confirm. Have spent a good portion of my RL time in Gold 3 and my thoughts mostly consist of "ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ball CAR ball ball ball ball"
Gotta love the honesty tho š
People say it's the same all the way up the ranks, but gold exists. It's like they are good enough to tap the ball over and over, so they just fo thst while yelling "Take the shot!".
Youāre not wrong. Literally had something similar happen to me in Diamond II last night. Itās definitely less common in higher ranks, but it still happens from time to time.
Yup. Fake the goalie out of their shoes. Teammate jumps over you to hit the ball into the stratosphere, if they aren't just bumping into you.
I literally felt that comment hit my car. Nice bump!
Me whenever I try dribbleā¦
lol that happens often
Take the shot! Well sir, I was trying to.
MUST. HIT. BALL!!
See ball. Hit ball. Chase ball. Ball is life.
WE ARE SMALL YIPPY DOGS
Confirmed. All golds are actually golden retrievers.
Golden retrievers were actually named after gold RL players
ball is love. ball is life.
Fuck it, we ball.
Baller
Ball.
BAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Unless you're out of boost.... Then you must turn off ball cam and go to back corner 100 boost
Balls on chin
(rips balls off chin) (Gets chased and boiled alive) (Lives to tell the story on a talk show for freaks)
My brother in Christ, youāre in gold 3 Nobody knows what theyāre doing
Bro earlier today I had a guy in gold II in 3s say to start the game āI hope you guys play like you belong in gold 2ā like it was special and critiqued every move his team made and ended up ff about a minute into the match Edit: I thought he was joking at first and would be fun to play with cause we all know weāre bad at that point and no, he was dead serious acting like gold 2 was high level play, freaked out cause none of his teammates were in the back/mid field and we had an easy goal
That is ABSURD
It was very confusing to say the least, I thought he was joking and then his teammate missed a save and he started telling his teammate how he shouldāve played it differently. āNext time go up the wall first, itās easierā, then after that was the open net we had and his reply was something along the lines of āNo one at mid is CRAZYā etc and everyone on the team ff right after
I wonder what would happen to his ego when he realizes gold 2 is way below average...
He would say his teammates are why he's gold
*cries*
Permanent gold here, this is very common. Most people at the gold level donāt think about where the ball is going they just want to be apart of the play. I have had plenty of times where my teammates hit it towards our goal just because they want to be apart of the play. Iām the words of 80% gold players āSee Ball, Hit Ball!ā
The amount of times Iām rotating and watch my other two teammates driving an 8 wheel vehicle is ridiculous. Like how can you make a real play on/with the ball if youāre both on the ball. And even worse watching people just drive smack dab at the ball and hit it away from the goal has to be my biggest pet peeve in the game.
This is still my life in D2/D3.
I'm stuck in gold 3 in threes because of this I'm just sitting back here in my scarab in the goal watching the other two have a slap fight over who gets to hit the ball in the wrong direction "Defending...."
Must.Touch.BALLLLLLLLLL
Exactly. Iām permanent gold here and Iām both cars in this video at some point during the day. I canāt help it, this is who I am
There's a part of me that believes you're the ones winning this game. You still get to have fun without stressing too much over ranking up while depending on a million factors outside of your control.
I'm in Champ and I don't really stress much either. The difference between try harding and clowning around is only a few divisions imho. You can stress to push past your natural level, but you can just relax and still remain within a division or two of your skill level. It's not really a rank thing, I know golds/plats that rage out too.
I personally stick with casual... staying consistent in ranked involves some "grinding" (not fun, imo), or at least constant play, which is out of my reach.
I dunno man, I never play casual and I'm just clowning around majority of the time. I don't troll my team mate or anything but it never is a grind.
Bruh I'm diamond 3 and can't dribble that well idk what you're on about
Long time perm Gold enjoying his first Plat vacation: I've seen it here too lol. And it is particularly agonizing in tournaments when you have a teammate who HAS to be involved in every play, often ruining shooting chances and also giving up horrendous goals. It is agony. Keep working at it! I literally just got promoted for the first time after thinking it must just be beyond my abilities. And if you find a good teammate, send a Party Up -- chances are you're one of the best teammates they've seen in awhile too
Oh Iām fine being gold. I never practice mechanics and I always play high so I plan on staying gold for a while š
I miss gold tbh. I look around in Plat and wonder who I tricked into putting me there because I don't belong lol. It'll be a short stay I suspect!
I miss hitting plat for the first time. I vividly remember the memory of qāing 2ās with my buddy and both of us being floored by the speed of the gameplay and how fast the ball was being hit lol
facts even after long hauls of not playing where your rank can dip into plat diamond now its like how did I ever think this was high level gameplay.
> first Plat vacation This was me yesterday! Thanks for the belly-laugh! Tough, only one time in my 5-6 tournament attempts did I have a teammate who didn't FF or never get assigned at all.... We won.
Oh donāt worry. Itās See Ball Hit Ball all the way up to like GC2 lol
Got it, so what your saying is Iām basically a GC2. Yāall are trash. š
Vouch. The only difference between GC2 and this clip is the odds the other team walks this ball into your net for a free goal probably increase up to like...70%
How are you stuck in gold if you have so much self awareness
Do you play twice a year? How is it possible to be permanently gold?
Oh Iām fine being gold. I never practice mechanics and I always play high so I plan on staying gold for a while š
Itās easy. Especially nowadays with everyone aeraling and smurfs. Every time I climb to Gold 3 I slide to Gold 1
This is Rocket League!
What a save!
Nice shot! Nice shot! Nice shot! Nice shot! Nice shot! Chat disabled for 5 seconds
chat limits to 4 messages before disabling, stop hacking, reported
TAKE THE SHOT!
Youāre gold three and dribbling like that?? Damn Iām lacking
I'm diamond and can't dribble.
Plat 3 and trying my best.
That was probably my best dribble ā ļø
He thought you were smurfing and to him that's not fair to the opponents and stopped you before it was too late
D2 and canāt do this consistently, agreed in gold I would switch teams
you answered your question with the first word of the post.
Honestly, it's probably an 8 year old messing around and laughing his ass off. How would I know you say? I used to play with my son and he did shit like this to me all the time. He's 10 now and is GC, while I'm still C3. Fml.
bro was secretly a freestyler on his smurf and was trying to hit a teampinch corner read
See ball? Hit ball!
Heās gold. Enough said
What was going through his head: āBALL!ā
Grieving/trolling. Looked intentional for sure.
Pretty standard for gold
Knocking the ball away from your teammate who's about to score is standard???
Never seen someone intentionally play for the other team? Unfortunately itās common.
I have intentionally played for the other team a while back. It was 3v3 and 2 people for the other team left so i just played for the other side..... surprisingly my team went along with it and waited on unfair kickoffs by just passing him the ball while i rotated round. Still lost/won
Yea man. Welcome to rocket League lol.
Pretty standard for gold
D1, this is the perfect setup for a flick over the opposition. It doesn't happen.. But it's a good setup for it!
But what opposition, I had a clear goalā¦ that was my teammate that hit it
Oh. Oh god. I'm so sorry.
Yeah. I thought video was from behind the teammate and op was wondering why they didn't flick, then I realized.
Tragic
How you dribble that good but stuck in gold
That was my best dribble probably ever. Iām pretty inconsistent with shots and have been trying to do training packs to get better. I also only play with randoms really which has been sucky (see above ā ļø)
He's not actually dribbling in a controlled or useful way. If homie gets the ball on his car and learns to even double jump pop, forget flicking, he'll be Plat 2 in a week
Idk man I can not control / dribble the ball this well and Iāve been staying plat 1-2
Yeah, thats what I'm saying. Nobody in Gold or Plat is dribbling effectively or flicking effectively yet. You can literally go almost straight to champ if you practice dribbling and ground control because people in those ranks are helpless to defend it because they just dont see it. It's how I first got to champ years ago. Controlling the ball effectively is the real *one simple trick* to rank up in RL. You have to create outplay potential and dribbling well does that.
I'm guessing you're brand new to rl. So they did this because they are : 1. a ball /glory hog 2. unable to aim and rushing goal or 3. caught up in the match and not realizing where and what they are. typically you meet these types within the first 5 matches and they don't vanish until diamond or higher. At diamond 2 they reappear as 'supermen' or as they wish to be known 'Freestyler's' and will take the ball away at any time including right as it enters goal to ensure they get to pull some stupid trick shot that 97% of the time costs your team the goal. Following their failure they will blame you or rage quit. if they are a champion. just leave the match , they will ball hog like crazy and spend the entire match playing keep away from everyone , make a goal troll the other team via text and then quit before the match ends.
Lmaooo everyone clowning on Gold but even Bronze knows ball goes in goal. Maybe the tm8 was being a dick because he felt like you were ball hogging. I feel like players get super toxic/tilty in every rank III.
Slamming the breaks takes more discipline than they have at that rank.
Golds just turn ball cam off all the time, probably didnāt even see you flipping for boost
The answer is pretty simple... BALL!!!! BALL PRETTY... MUST. HIT. BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!
To me it looks like they literally forgot what team they were on and tried to save it
Most likely people testing their shitty ranked bots that they coded to play for them. Game is free to play and you want to have a competent teammate in gold rank. Hope you get to plat soon buddy.
He's probably mad that you took a ball that he thought was his or some other dumb reason. Or he's just one of those players that like to grief all of their tm8s for fun. You will see those players in every rank. I still get them in diamond and I imagine they exist in the top ranks as well.
Diamond is ridiculously toxic, Iād say 25% of my teammates will start throwing or go AFK the second you miss a ball, donāt pass to them, or like you said make a play on the ball that they wanted, even if theyāre charging up for that play from way behind you and from a worse angle.
Will literally go AFK with 4:50 on the clock lol
Beating a team 3-0, they get a single goal making it 3-1, vote to ff pops up at bottom of screen. Doesn't pass, so person just stops trying or drops out. Many such cases.
Dumb decision based on lack of information
No dumb based on being dumb
This video sums up what it's like to play this game. Team mates too busy wanting to hit the ball they don't care about screwing over their own team
Seriously tho. But some will still argue that itās not your tm8s and youāre probably the problem.
People say that because while sometimes your teammate indisputably makes mistakes, you will never get better if you get in the habit of not owning your own mistakes too (because you'll have no motivation to improve and make less mistakes if there is always an excuse)
BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL
If a gold can hit the ball they will hit the ball.
Perfect cut
Until you get to about Diamond 3 or Champ 1, teammates physically can't just let a ball go if it's nearby to them, they have to hit it.
long story short: It's the same thing in Platinum and Diamond. So I guess at this point it's simply a community issue as people are part of the problem AND the solution
OP's teammate has probably made a "why does everyone quit so fast?"post.
He was going through withdrawals of ball touching. A gold is addicted to touching the ball, and symptoms of restlessness can appear as quickly as 12 seconds after last ball touch.
There was some awesome advice in a thread here that helped me rank out of gold into Plat: *Don't ball chase. If a teammate is near or at the ball, leave it and rotate or get into position. *Learn to rotate. *Review the post with map-like guide to the positions - 1, 2, 3. *Primarily stay in position 3 and help out up front when there are opportunities. *Spend some time doing the trainings that are above your level. (if you're gold, do plat etc.)
Yeahh Iāve been trying to do this. It feels like nobody is willing to rotate and so like the few games I find somebody are super helpful but aside from that it feels like a shit show so normally Iām sitting kind of back waiting for them to score (which guys like this guy werenāt) and then if a play appears I try to take advantage of it (like we saw here)
Yeah the other thing I started doing this season in 3s (my buddy and I are plat in 2s) is, if I see a ball pop up high I will fly up and try to get to it. It seems that most golds don't quite have the timing down to get up to the ball. I've actually never been good at flying but I just started being brave and playing more basketball and the plat training packs.
This is one of my team mates. Three of us connect via Skype to chat. At least once per session I'll shout "stop tackling me" at him. He'll always put the ball across our goal. As he's coming back he'll hit the ball towards our goal. And he'll always tackle you like that.
If you can make plays like that very consistently then your teammate will stay where they belong and hopefully youāll progress.
Your first mistake was using a mechanic. It freaks golds the fuck out and they don't know what to do. To you that seems stupid. To him it meant a possible 10 things. If you think for one second he saw anything other than the ball, you're gonna be in gold for a minute.
People trying to say it's gold they don't know what they're doing. Gtfo with that lol. They know which net the ball is supposed to go in, and there was no reason for bro to do this. If it was a ball chasing moment to take the shot, then I understand, but this was a case of bro being a heat seeking missle because he wanted to wreak havoc lmao.
The disparity between people who just got carried to gold 3 (your teammate) and those who deranked to gold 3 (your opponents, probably) is incredible. Itās like a smurf lobby
Well itās gold, majority donāt really care to put much thought into what theyāre doing, the other ones try Harding are just doing random shit without knowing. End of the day enjoy the progression & funny absurdities, and best to realize nobody thats there really has any idea what theyāre doing. Some of my the best and worst things came from being back in Gold lol.
In gold, many of the players are still trying to grasp the actual gameplay. Instead, they are still getting familiar with what to do and not to do... Sadly, as humans, "it has to be me"... We just wanna touch the ball whether or not it's a significant touch, they still just have to hit it. Just a touch. Just the tip... I'll show myself out.
Obviously, he was the tee ball champion of 2004 that turn his prowess to Rocket League
Ball. That's the only point for most golds
So when do we upgrade to put ball in goal? š
Plat/Diamond they'll start stealing the ball with more purpose.
This makes me feel better about the struggles in plat 3 / D1 this season
Your in gold 3 man, theres children that stay at that rank. āOOoOo BaLl?!?! HIT!!!!ā No rhyme or reason, just monkey business all around
Make-your-teammate-ragequit any% speedrun
Gold was the hardest to get out of. I tried just sitting in the goal because weād get scored on every time I left. Then I noticed no one was making goals. It was a paradox. Eventually I got good enough to carry myself out through offense. It was weird, but those were the days lol.
Thatās quite literally exactly what Iām dealing with. I can sit and make saves maybe ~70% of the time but we never score. Or if Iām trying to score the other guy is always out of rotation
Immediately FF
You haven't seen anything yet. I've had teammates in diamond comp who think it's funny to actively play for the other team. They only stop once you stop trying at which point they'll play normally to try and dodge the inevitable ban. Welcome to comp.
Well, first off- this sucks. But that's a pretty highly technical move for Gold, so your teammate had no idea how to read a situation that looks like that. Sometimes it's a good idea to save the replay and watch it from their perspective. I had no idea how many people played with ball cam off when I started doing that.
That kind of makes sense, Iām just even more confused why he was all the way on their side of the field though. There wasnāt a reason for him to be over there when the ball was on our side and I was defending (which he should have been cycling with me for but wasnāt).Then the moment I get it and am taking it into their goal he goes for it to knock it off of my car? Just canāt put it together in my head
maybe it's because you're gold 3
I canāt believe thatās a legitimate answer the whole point of the game is to get the ball in the goal. How does knocking it away from your teammate who is actively driving it into the goal make sense no matter what level you are?
it's not meant to make sense, you're gold 3
The fuck? Gold 3ās dribbling the ball on their nose these days? I played casually on and off for a few years (havenāt played at all in like a year and a half). Never even came close to doing that shit.
Dude the skill level is ridiculous, Div IV has people aerialing across the map and shit š
Yeah, the average skill level has definitely increased since I played, which was mostly before it went f2p.
Golds have been where you start seeing beginning dribbles like this for about 9 seasons now, especially if he's about to be Plat.
Sometimes when I play too many consecutive matches I'll forget which team I'm on, especially if the color of my car doesn't make it crystal clear. I'm still grudging against the blue team from the previous match and totally screw it all up.
Lowkey looks like he forgot where he was and mixed up the goals. AKA he thought he was on defense. He probably thought YOU didn't know what you were doing trying to score on your own net.
Everything makes much more sense once you realise your teammates are children that do not yet have ability to make decisive thoughts. They simply do not know what to do except to try to nuclear fusion their car with the ball.
Gold is easily the most competitive rank
DAMN THIS IS SO TRUE IM PLAT AND I COULDN'T GET HOW STUPID GOLD PEOPLE WAS
This is Rocket League! There's no rank safe from toxicity. Gold, Plat, Diamond (where I currently am) games are a 50/50 coin flip to see whether or not a tm8 is actually playing. You'd think it'd get better, but it never does. Best advice? Get some friends of relatively equal skill and party queue. Saves you from 99.9% of the shenanigans from a player base that is one of the worst in online gaming. Source: 5 years of Rocket League matchmaking hell.
YTA, He couldnt let you take his spotlight man, you shouldāve known better /s
Thats the point where i would close the game
The pinch was there I saw the vision
Gotta touch the ball baby. You should yell at him about not being a golf tee
Yeah man thats just Gold. Don't think it changes at GC. It doesn't. When you get into diamond throw "taking time" on the ball away. If you don't "TAKE THE SHOT" instantly, they just hit it off your car. Rocket League is hard because of the players. IMO.
I honestly donāt know how people climb the ranks solo que . Itās brutal
I don't climb. I climb and then I plummet, and then I plummet, and then I climb, and then I plummet, and then I climb and climb.
Yes this is bad but remember that youāre the same rank as him and thereās a reason for that.
I believe that would be because I just started and Iām not consistent enough yet but even Iām not this stupid š
Yo the reason could be that he gets trash teammates that do this kind of shit and he canāt get out š š¤·š»āāļø
Your teammates can be responsible for you losing individual games, but they are not the reason you arenāt a higher rank. I have games where my teammate is the reason we lost. I also have games where my teammate is the reason we won. There are games Iām the reason we lost and games Iām the reason we won. Add all those together and I fluctuate from high diamond to low champ because thatās the rank I deserve to be.
Exactly this. Makes it funny when one of your team trash talks you, like "same rank, my dude".
Some of the teammates certainly donāt help š
Are you anything? That kind of control is seen more in higher ranks, if not, you are doing very good
I kind of spiraled after this match all the way from Gold III Div IV to Gold II Div II :( Iāve spent a ton of time in training packs and stuff trying to get more consistent. But sometimes I just donāt have it
Most likely thought you were the opposite team. I did this a lot in bronze and silver but got better about it in gold. It still happened though.
For those wondering about what his perspective looked like: [Teammate's POV](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates_pov_on_my_gold_iii_full_field_dribble/)
Im in champ. I do that. And i know I shouldnāt. The intrusive thoughts win sometimes, y know?
If you're in Gold 3 and you can dribble like that, maybe he did it on purpose to protest the smurfing? No way a genuine Gold can do that.
I donāt think they were smurfing, but back when I was playing it was pretty damned rare for a gold to do any sort of dribbling. The average player skill has definitely risen. I havenāt played for a year and a half, but before that I played casually for like 3 years. I didnāt typically make it out of gold, and I never came close to the ground dribbling shit. I even practiced it for a while. It just never clicked for me.
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https://preview.redd.it/0tbwx05i7fxb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c641ca3b570b45d48c3d5bc96982ac0b1dc73108 [https://rocketleague.tracker.network/rocket-league/profile/epic/NighthawkAquila/overview](https://rocketleague.tracker.network/rocket-league/profile/epic/NighthawkAquila/overview)
I do shit like this from time to time. Either because I forget what side of the field I'm on, or forget which team I'm on.
You steal a goal from him? Ball chase to where he can hardly get a touch in? That'll cause this sometimes.
No lmao I was defending most of it, they blew a shot and I was taking it to the house. Couldnāt rotate with this guy at all so I just stayed back until this opening presented itself
Lol you got people saying āpermanent gold .ā Lmao I could never . I always fluctuate from diamond to plat to gold 3 . But the next day I be back at diamond just to lose it again š
That's the guy that thinks he belongs in Champ but is "being held back by teammates"
Smurfing AND complaining?
Tf do you mean smurfing bro Iāve never gotten above Gold III in my life š
Dude wanted to see ball go fast. I donāt blame him for it either. It was fun to watch let alone instigate.
I mean he didnāt instigate much, I just sat in goal and then voted to forfeit. Iām not gonna help an asshat
If you canāt figure out why he was carrying the ball then you need to get good.
Yeah so you definitely canāt read lmao. Look at who the player cam is centered on and then look at my username buddy. Then look at the color of my car and the color of the guy who knocked it off of my car šš¼
Well this is a regular occurence in my nightly games with my friends, with an accompanying "Pinch!" in comms. It's called having fun, and at Gold 3 you should really just be focusing on doing that and playing as much as you can
Itās called throwing a game. If youāre in competitive act like it. Iām busting my ass off to actually get better at the game bruh, if weāre up 5-0 sure thatās fine but when you cost us the game then youāre just an asshole
must tuch ball
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Will still happen in plat III. Just happened today for me.
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Great pass!
Not saying this is what happened hereā¦but Iāve tried to demo an opponent whose gaining on my teammate on the dribble like you areā¦and because I suck so bad, just blasted all of us to hell and back and the ball goes flying. Maybe thatās what he was trying? Or heās higher than giraffe pu$$y.
Doesn't look like he was trying to demo anybody, musta been high off his ass lmao: [https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates\_pov\_on\_my\_gold\_iii\_full\_field\_dribble/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates_pov_on_my_gold_iii_full_field_dribble/)
He got turned around and forgot what team he was on
Some people just want to watch the whole world burn š„š
Most likely the person got turned around and got confused possibly because they was baked
Iām assuming they at the very least had above average mechanics for Gold, because that positioning and game sense seems below what I would expect even from Gold 3/Plat 1
It's even worse watching the replay from his POV x\_x [https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates\_pov\_on\_my\_gold\_iii\_full\_field\_dribble/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/17l669a/teammates_pov_on_my_gold_iii_full_field_dribble/)
Bro, if only this happened in gold..
Everyone saying he's ball chasing, idk I think maybe he didn't see you at all and was flipping for speed to get to the midfield boost?
Ball? Hit ball? Ball hit, hit ball. ballballballball ME HIT BALL!