Very interesting video. Sometimes when I take a break for a month or two, I come back and feel like I play a bit better than before. I float between champ 2-3
Bruh so relatable and I’m even the same rank. When I be grinding every day for a while sometimes I get stuck going through the motions or overthinking stuff. But if I take a few days to a week off, my first day back the game just seems so easy and I go on a big win streak
I quit the game about 2-3 years ago, being rising star at the time I quit. I came back, did placements, somehow got diamond 1. THEN I proceeded to lose the next 10 games in a row after placements xP
@@brianedger6360 It had been so long since I played that I mixed up the ranks probably :p I had been a rising star at some point in the game, played a bit with the next ranking system, then quit.
For everyone trashing the diamonds, what you should do is save the replays of your next 5 games, then go back and count the number of times you outright miss the ball. Whether a hard whiff, accidental backflip, misread or bad prediction, accidental back flip, bad aerial, etc. You'll probably be surprised by the results. Hell if you really want to humble yourself count the number of bad touches you make (sending away possession, centers to no one, weak touches one powershot attempts, strong touch on soft touch attempts, shitty clears, lost ball control, etc.) This looked like a not atypical diamond game. It might be lower end of quality for a diamond game, didn't look like they were playing their best, but not that uncommon to see games that look like that in diamond. People tend to forgot their worse games and remember their better ones. We have a distorted view of our own play and we selectively dismiss our bad play as "outliers" and think of our best play as "our real skill level". Anyone who thinks "there is no way those guys are diamond" is being delusional.
Agreed, I'm Champ 2 and when I play I feel like a pro lol, but then I see my replay and I humble myself lol I look so slow compared to the better ranks
I did and the answer was zero. (Jk :p). Perhaps the follow up video is like sunless. They put their money where their mouth is and prove they’re better than the plays, diamonds, champs etc
Loved that the randomness had genuine laughter and good times. Those retired GCs seemed like they were real life teammates having too much fun. Enjoyed 👍🏽
as a retired champion 3 from having to quit due to school and sports it's really cool to see how muscle memory and everything stays from not playing it makes me feel like I should play again as I have more time
I stopped playing for maybe like a year or so, I peaked at plat 1, I came back this time and got to diamond 1. I'm pretty good at knowing where to be and when to go up/down field and teamwork, but mechanics are bad.
@@SilentHotdog28 Yes but anyway whatever you say the most you grow if you play a lot. For example Year one year and 3 months I was flat 2 and I have played constantly so far and now I am champ 3 div 2 , my peek was gc 1 div 2
I was shaking so hard lol I completely forgot I even applied for the video lmao. I dont really care about getting roasted bc they obviously dont know how scary it is knowing thousands of people will be watching you......... I also cant do anything under pressure..........
The only people roasting you are those in the same rank as you with a bloated ego who cant accept that they make the same exact mistakes that you do. Don't worry about it, you did good.
Honestly, the Diamond guys make a really fair point, if the ones who haven't played in a year were D3, and the ones who still play are D1, then it's a no-brainer that the retired D3 guys win.
Not really, just like CBell said in the video, gameplay that would've been considered GC a year ago would just be champ now, so it only makes sense that D3 gameplay a year ago would just be D1 now.
I quit for about 8-9 months, but I started watching TH-cam videos. When I quit I was gold and hated the game. After watching a bunch of videos gave it a second try, now i enjoy playing. Got up to diamond for the end of last season. I feel like the time off gave me time to forget bad habits that were holding me back.
I remember I quit in late 2021 when I was plat, so I played again in mid 2022 and I was plat again, and I give the game one last try in 2023 and got diamond
I’m a retired player of probably 6 months and watching the retired diamonds and champs play brought back memories, both good and bad. My peak was about 5 games as a champ 1 before deranking to D3 again and quitting the game.
i peaked C2 a couple seasons ago then lost all my placements and get sent back all the way to D1 div 1. I ended up peaking C3 Div 1 that same season. Sometimes you gotta see it through.
I feel that. I quit for over a year and a half and I was at champ 2 and I just started playing again and weirdly I’m doing better than ever and I’m higher ranked now which is odd.
This went exactly how I expected. Diamond is the most unpredictable rank so game sense retired could beat poor game sense currents. The rest were ez wins for current players because muscle memory alone would be good enough and they likely had some game sense at least. There are no game sense plats so they never stood a chance as retired plat vs current
You don't count up for rank inflation. When there are more people, the bell curve of playerbase gets wider. So with one year retirement their previous rank could be already some other. But low ranks could shift in other direction.
I quit years ago due to one of my normal players I teamed with turning outright toxic. Day after day he would just get angry and start Driving around flipping himself over bashing me out of the goal In competitive matches So I quit playing with him But the entire experience Kind of soured me on rocket league as a whole Going from right below grand champ and getting drug back down towards star over and over again. Got to me. I finally started playing again a few days ago and real talk rocket league muscle memory is a crazy thing. I'm still doing aerials, getting saves. Even got placed div 1 of diamond 3. Damn near champ. After years of not playing. It felt good but if I can manage to get to champ after less than 20 hours of being back and barely 400 hours while the other guy is to this day hardstuck in champ after damn near 7500 to 8000 hours it is going to feel amazing. I might even send him a picture saying something about only took 20 hours.
Finally a video about this. Last time i was Gc in S14 and when I came back in S6, I still managed to get Gc1 somehow. Excited to see how others have done.
Me too, i was at 1750 in season 14 and then barely played since ftp. I am easily gc bc to be honest gc nowadays have no gamesense. So i can win off my gamesense but my mechanics are shit.
It’s funny, I quit RL for like 3 seasons or so and I was hard stuck in plat 3, me and a friend got bored of 2k and hopped on. We played our placements and I was D2 Div 5
This has given me an idea of getting my season 5 GC friend (before SSL existed / not free to play) to get back into rl. I kinda wanna see how they would stack up against current gcs. It would be funny to watch him get clapped xD Edit : he claims to have not played in 2+ years
Makes sense diamonds could keep up because all the lower ranks have slowly been getting pushed up for some reason. Diamond 1 is now the most common rank where it used to be like gold1. It's not that everyone has gotten better, it's just become easier to get to diamond now.
@Tomer Horowitz No. It used to be a little harder to get diamond. So the old diamonds are going to be a little better than the new diamonds. In theory.
I havent played since they got rid of the knockout gamemode, that was so fun and the fact they havent brought it back yet makes me doubt they will again, which is a shame cuz that game was so unique and fun
Vid idea: all of your controls on 1 button. (u might need to bind some to a different button if u can’t move) I know other people have done it, but it’s just really funny to see them do it.
1:17 man ive had a white basic xbox controller for nearly three years now and ive dropped it multiple times and down the steps. Still works like a charm no problems
You have to take into consideration that free to play made it easier for people to climb ranks with the new rank and the abundance of new players so really new plats should be like gold and new diamonds should be plat
I don’t think that’s true at all, if anything it just upped the competition between the players to achieve higher ranks more players = more competition
Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
Honestly, after being a GC in season 13 and quitting for 3 years, this makes me feel good. I feel like I've retained about as much of my skill as these GCs have, even though I was gone for way longer, even if my MMR was higher than theirs when they quit. I was feeling discouraged not being able to keep up and thinking I was just never gonna get back up to my level, but knowing that other people have the same experience really makes everything better :)
Promise you that a long break won't set you back. The vast majority of the playerbase has not changed in skill, and you just have to shake off the rust and you're good to go.
Quitting a game and being better upon return is not an unheard of phenomenon. It happens to me with Tetris all the time. It has to do with setting bad habits and mental fatigue. If you play constantly, you get tired of playing the game and can also set bad habits. Taking a break (Though usually it's around a month instead of a year) can reset your mental state which makes it a lot easier to improve very quickly. Muscle memory is VERY persistent, especially if it's something you do all the time. I'm not surprised that it stayed after a year for the champs.
I'd love to be featured in one of these types of videos. These are fun! Also those retired GCs getting waxed and laughing about it the entire time was gold lol
i was rising star when I quit, came back did the placement and got Plat 2 ish and now c1, I feel like people just got better at mechanical stuff instead of game sense, because I have no mechanical skill and some how I hit c1 with pure simple play and game sense.....
i had quit rocket laegue too for 2 months, 2 weeks ago i came back and im better than before I think i might be able to get champ now, unfortunatly lost most of my freestyle skills too componsate for that i started to watch Thanovics tutorials
I stopped playing rockero league for 9 months, I was C2 and when I came back and did placements I was D3 and quickly got back to C1. Crazy that basically all my mechanics stayed, just my positioning is lacking
0:33 pov you play kbm and don’t know the struggle of controllers disconnecting. (My controller sucks and the cables just kinda fall out sometimes and it sucks)
Agreed. Once you get thrown to lower ranks and it's genuinely not your fault and you don't feel like carrying all 100% of matches, especially given that you have such horrible players around you that don't care to win at all and blame and throw on a whim the game just gets annoying, frustrating, and almost depressing. They need to have more ways to catch up on MMR or to balance out your MMR over the different modes maybe. At least throw in some different things and maps occasionally. It's like one of the most played games out there has just been given up on.
@@anonihme5142 Do you really think it's that simple? Might be so on a 1v1 but in a 3v3 then do you not think that good teamwork is required and more importantly, expected? So let's say you clear and centre for the team every time you touch the ball, but your teammates both double commit and miss over and over again then does this make you a worse player than average? How about if every other game you have throwers that get annoyed with what you're doing because they assume it's your fault when in fact it's theirs and so they throw?
@@analogdistortion it is that simple. you won't win every game but you'll win more then you lose, so you'll climb. if your team mates double commit and miss everything you'll have another game where the opposing team is missing everything and double commiting. If you are doing thing's right compared to your elo, you'll nudge the winrate in the right direction. No one is saying every loss is your fault, but if you are at a rank for a while, then it's your rank, and you'll climb when you get better. I reach my rank really quickly every season, then i'm stuck for a while, and when i finally get a little higher i know what i've improved to get there. If someone tilts on their team mates and forfaits, or insults them, then their mental (and education...) is poor, and mental is also a skill in this game. I don't care how "well" they play if they can't do it for 5 minutes straight without being a hindrance or lose it coz they start trolling instead of trying to comeback This is probably the fairest game with the highest skillcap i've ever played. I'm champ 2, i destroy diamonds and low champ 1s, I get destroyed by champ 3s and gcs, system is working. (of course, there's the incredible number of smurffs issue, but that is the same problem for everyone)
I used to be plat 1, quit the game for like 4 months or so and while not playing the game I watched a lot of pros and content creators, when I picked the game back up again I was plat 3, then I grinded and hit diamond 1, now i’m hard stuck haha, love this game tho:)
I've taken years long breaks. Longest was 2017 until 2021. You don't lose your rank, and the players don't get much better. For context I was champ 1 peak in 2017 (top 1% back then), and when I came back in 2021 I was able to get up to GC1 (top 0.4%) in just a couple months. And during that time the meta saw the introduction of flip resets, ceiling shots, better flicks (that champs cant do), faster rotations, air roll left and right, etc. Pro 1v1s went from fairy peak ground play to daniel going for double resets every play. My mind was blown at that. But champ stayed the same. The fundamentals had not changed. (I took another break from 2021 to 2023, and I'm still at the same rank.) I see all over the place including in this video people claiming that players at x rank are much better than they were a year, two years, three years ago and that's just not true. The players who get better go up and the overall skill at a given rank stays the same. It's only at the highest percentiles that the meta is being pushed forward and players are actually better than they used to be. The vast majority of players don't know how to improve, don't have the discipline or run into roadblocks. Champ has always been where most players plateau. It's where players are good at the basics but fail to do more difficult things / fail to hone what they already have, and it has been that way for a long time. I can say that you at least start to see a significant difference in GC2, because there are a handful of retired pro players starting around there, so clearly those players have caught up a little bit since a few years ago. That's still on the order of three or four years (plus those pros not taking the game seriously anymore, and could rank up if they tried), not "champs last year look like diamonds now" like so many people say. The reason why the retired players struggled in this is just because they were wildly out of practice. A few sessions and they'd be back to where they were.
every time i take breaks and come back i dont really lose mechs, because you dont really lose muscle memory, what i lose is speed and decision making, which is 2 of the main things of rocket league
Ngl at least for me. Stepping away helps me because when I come back I’m not thinking about all the things I need to improve on and where I messed up, I’m just trying to do my best yk, muscle memory comes back within a game or two even after years of not playing tbh
I've started playing again at the start of the week, after not playing since season 4 or 5, i used to be be Diamond 2-3 and I've just hit Champion 1 last night
4:08 I laughed so hard at that statement. I am diamond 3 in 2s and my arials look like a bronze player, I barely know how to fast arial, and scoring a flick in game is considered a really good play from me. the funny part is that I have reached diamond multiple times with different teammates and I get MVP a lot so its not like I am being hard carried.
4:18 Actually no I have Mechanics of a silver ( I'm just exaggerating a little fr ) yet I got to diamond 1 and I'm staying there for a while. You just have to be patient and punish dumb mistakes of your opponents, like trying absurd skills that they haven't mastered in ranked, leaving an open net. I agree that I won't go farther than that without mechanics tho
I stopped playing for about 1.5 years after F2P had happened. I was BARELY Plat 1. When I returned earlier this month, I was surprised how I got to Diamond 1 pretty easily. Now I gotta grind hard though lmao
I randomly stopped playing for a long time because I was just focused on other things, decided to come back because rl is imo the most entertaining game ever, and I came back way better than I was before for some reason
honestly for me if i play a game for a while then stop for a year or so and come back, it’s still just muscle memory. obviously takes a game or two to get it back but i never forget
" a lot more muscle memory than i thought" bro that why rocket league is goated. ive been saying for years its my favorite game because of how close to skating it is you stop for 9 months, come back, and somehow can still throw down a line of a kickflip on flat, board to fakie and then a switch rock very cool and wholesome video
I had a break from rocket league for about five months cuz my pc stopped running it properly (lag spikes, high ping, low fps and fps drops) I got a completely new pc a few months ago and i've been playing again since then and now im close to gc2
i stopped playing for a few months after the lamborghini update because my controllers cable port became lose which would make me dc all the time. when my new controller arrived it took me a about a month to get back to my old strength.
I quit about 2 years ago, just after the dropshot update. Picked it up a few days ago. I was bronze when I quit, just placed gold and I feel I play WAY better than I used to, still have to get my old mechanics down (air control, wavedash, dribbling)
I wasn't playing for more than 2 years(before the game became f2p), was stuck at plat 3 for months and never got diamond(in standard mode), when I came back to play in January, I got D3 in about 2 weeks, and in February I got champ(everything in one season). I thought that the level was lowered(by a lot, I was crushing plats when I came back). Cool video.
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That was hilarious, those GC guys seem hella chill. Seems like the break helped their humor and positivity LMAO
You know they didn't act like that b4 they quit
That shit was funny asf especially high asf watching this 🤣💀
Glad you enjoyed it! It was definitely easier to be chill without the weight of defending your rank.
we were all happy once when we werent playing RL
They were good for not playing THAT LONG
Very interesting video. Sometimes when I take a break for a month or two, I come back and feel like I play a bit better than before. I float between champ 2-3
When
Yeah me too I want gc tho
Bruh so relatable and I’m even the same rank. When I be grinding every day for a while sometimes I get stuck going through the motions or overthinking stuff. But if I take a few days to a week off, my first day back the game just seems so easy and I go on a big win streak
@@jake5403 dude it's same for me as well and I'm c3
Same, except my breaks are like a year
I quit the game about 2-3 years ago, being rising star at the time I quit. I came back, did placements, somehow got diamond 1. THEN I proceeded to lose the next 10 games in a row after placements xP
I think you mean 5-6 years ago if you were rising star
2-3 years ago rising star was not a thing loll
@@brianedger6360 It had been so long since I played that I mixed up the ranks probably :p I had been a rising star at some point in the game, played a bit with the next ranking system, then quit.
Same
Not a rising star but I feel like I’m worst now cause players gotten better
It was an honor to be in the video thank you Cbell!
Your welcome
@@GTLGoat you’re*
@@M13-Zillaa Stop please, nobody likes that.
Who were you
@@memegamer8231 bignoah10925048
“I suck in the air” I thought the same thing you did. That edit actually made me laugh.
Geuuuahhhhhhhh haaaaaaa
Yooo! Guy here! CBell thanks a million again man, this was an unforgettable experience. Xeyxra was the best teammate I ever had.
LIES GUY LIES. LIES LIES LIES. I AM THE BEST TM8 UVE EVER HAD UR FKN DOGWATER 1V1 ME ON RUST MICHAEL G SCOTT.
U relapse yet or nah?
You guys had chemistry! Are you mates now?
@@I_Mark_MillsAbsolutely
@@austinbrown8560 Fantastic!
For everyone trashing the diamonds, what you should do is save the replays of your next 5 games, then go back and count the number of times you outright miss the ball. Whether a hard whiff, accidental backflip, misread or bad prediction, accidental back flip, bad aerial, etc. You'll probably be surprised by the results. Hell if you really want to humble yourself count the number of bad touches you make (sending away possession, centers to no one, weak touches one powershot attempts, strong touch on soft touch attempts, shitty clears, lost ball control, etc.) This looked like a not atypical diamond game. It might be lower end of quality for a diamond game, didn't look like they were playing their best, but not that uncommon to see games that look like that in diamond.
People tend to forgot their worse games and remember their better ones. We have a distorted view of our own play and we selectively dismiss our bad play as "outliers" and think of our best play as "our real skill level". Anyone who thinks "there is no way those guys are diamond" is being delusional.
they also dont know the pressure of knowing that thousands of people will watch you playing...
Agreed, I'm Champ 2 and when I play I feel like a pro lol, but then I see my replay and I humble myself lol I look so slow compared to the better ranks
as a champ 3 i will admit i missed less than the diamonds
I did and the answer was zero. (Jk :p). Perhaps the follow up video is like sunless.
They put their money where their mouth is and prove they’re better than the plays, diamonds, champs etc
True, I’d lose count after one game
Heyyy that’s me! Thanks for letting me be a part of this video! I had a lot of fun!
Ay yo that’s me as well🤣🫡
nice, i hate to be that guy and I know you probably won't touch this game again for a while, but try being in ball cam more often
yoooo stamper you still play?
@@lemon66111 💀💀💀💀
was so much fun participating, thanks for getting me back into the game !!
skye, retired champ!
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@@skyettv u relapsed? Lol hell yeah
little update on this, just broke back into c2 after only a month and feeling better than ever before!
@@skyettv hows it going now?
Loved that the randomness had genuine laughter and good times. Those retired GCs seemed like they were real life teammates having too much fun. Enjoyed 👍🏽
yeah they were awesome. so wholesome.
as a retired champion 3 from having to quit due to school and sports it's really cool to see how muscle memory and everything stays from not playing it makes me feel like I should play again as I have more time
I stopped playing for maybe like a year or so, I peaked at plat 1, I came back this time and got to diamond 1. I'm pretty good at knowing where to be and when to go up/down field and teamwork, but mechanics are bad.
@@SilentHotdog28 Yes but anyway whatever you say the most you grow if you play a lot. For example Year one year and 3 months I was flat 2 and I have played constantly so far and now I am champ 3 div 2 , my peek was gc 1 div 2
I was shaking so hard lol I completely forgot I even applied for the video lmao. I dont really care about getting roasted bc they obviously dont know how scary it is knowing thousands of people will be watching you......... I also cant do anything under pressure..........
Lol
dude well played still
ty man:)
@@fynn1747 Fr nah u should be higher than ur rank
The only people roasting you are those in the same rank as you with a bloated ego who cant accept that they make the same exact mistakes that you do. Don't worry about it, you did good.
Bro the gc game helped my day thanks cbell and the gcs for bringing a great ending to the video
Of course!
Honestly, the Diamond guys make a really fair point, if the ones who haven't played in a year were D3, and the ones who still play are D1, then it's a no-brainer that the retired D3 guys win.
Not really, just like CBell said in the video, gameplay that would've been considered GC a year ago would just be champ now, so it only makes sense that D3 gameplay a year ago would just be D1 now.
@@mortem4342 na gc a year ago is basically gc now maybe low gc1 a year ago is the skill level of high c3 now
Ja th-cam.com/video/QT5IOkgzWbQ/w-d-xo.html
I feel like that would be a way closer match, not sure if it'd be a guaranteed win for the retired team. Could go either way
Hey, I was the TTV xeyxra in the GCs and just want to say thank you for the opportunity it was very fun.
ggs!
I want to see a rematch between the guys in this video in like a day or two, when their mechanics are back
I wanted to rematch those champs with skye too bc I’ve been playing a bit
i want a chance to redeem myself I really let down all diamonds
@@ShxydeRLYT ya same'
@@oblivionrl yooo whats up bro
@@ShxydeRLYT im on rl wanna play
I quit for about 8-9 months, but I started watching TH-cam videos. When I quit I was gold and hated the game. After watching a bunch of videos gave it a second try, now i enjoy playing. Got up to diamond for the end of last season. I feel like the time off gave me time to forget bad habits that were holding me back.
I remember I quit in late 2021 when I was plat, so I played again in mid 2022 and I was plat again, and I give the game one last try in 2023 and got diamond
I was pushing C3 when I took a break for a year. Came back to find myself in high D3 and low C1, but I'm really enjoying the game again
I’m a retired player of probably 6 months and watching the retired diamonds and champs play brought back memories, both good and bad. My peak was about 5 games as a champ 1 before deranking to D3 again and quitting the game.
i peaked C2 a couple seasons ago then lost all my placements and get sent back all the way to D1 div 1. I ended up peaking C3 Div 1 that same season. Sometimes you gotta see it through.
I feel that. I quit for over a year and a half and I was at champ 2 and I just started playing again and weirdly I’m doing better than ever and I’m higher ranked now which is odd.
Those GC guys seem like they've played with each other their entire lives lol love the vibes
This went exactly how I expected. Diamond is the most unpredictable rank so game sense retired could beat poor game sense currents. The rest were ez wins for current players because muscle memory alone would be good enough and they likely had some game sense at least. There are no game sense plats so they never stood a chance as retired plat vs current
IDK who CBell is but it was nice of him to make an appearance in a Rua video
Thanks CBell for having me in the video!
Liking your own comment🤣🤣🤣💯🔥🔥
Thanks for having me! Was a ton of fun :)
You don't count up for rank inflation. When there are more people, the bell curve of playerbase gets wider. So with one year retirement their previous rank could be already some other. But low ranks could shift in other direction.
Nah diamond a year ago is like champ today
Ranks have gotten worse
wish i saw you doing this, used to be c3 havent played in a year, would hvea been interesting to see if i could smash some champs
I quit years ago due to one of my normal players I teamed with turning outright toxic. Day after day he would just get angry and start Driving around flipping himself over bashing me out of the goal In competitive matches So I quit playing with him But the entire experience Kind of soured me on rocket league as a whole Going from right below grand champ and getting drug back down towards star over and over again. Got to me.
I finally started playing again a few days ago and real talk rocket league muscle memory is a crazy thing. I'm still doing aerials, getting saves. Even got placed div 1 of diamond 3. Damn near champ. After years of not playing.
It felt good but if I can manage to get to champ after less than 20 hours of being back and barely 400 hours while the other guy is to this day hardstuck in champ after damn near 7500 to 8000 hours it is going to feel amazing. I might even send him a picture saying something about only took 20 hours.
You sound like a little child
That would be funny
Hey I was the new Plat thanks for having me!
Did CBell accidentally find the new Rizz and sizz combo, that was great lol
Finally a video about this. Last time i was Gc in S14 and when I came back in S6, I still managed to get Gc1 somehow. Excited to see how others have done.
I bet you lost it soon after placements though
@@CbrF4i600cc got c2 after placements and climbed solo queue to gc
Me too, i was at 1750 in season 14 and then barely played since ftp. I am easily gc bc to be honest gc nowadays have no gamesense. So i can win off my gamesense but my mechanics are shit.
@@jako3802 true bro, all just focus on mechanics nowadays, now im focusing on m mechanics and i rank up really fast now.
@@jako3802 1750 would be like gc3-ssl then... so gc1 is big loss
It’s funny, I quit RL for like 3 seasons or so and I was hard stuck in plat 3, me and a friend got bored of 2k and hopped on. We played our placements and I was D2 Div 5
shouldve put the retired GCs against the champ players
This has given me an idea of getting my season 5 GC friend (before SSL existed / not free to play) to get back into rl. I kinda wanna see how they would stack up against current gcs. It would be funny to watch him get clapped xD
Edit : he claims to have not played in 2+ years
GC before SSL? He would probably smash them.
Those retired GC’s just carried the video
Makes sense diamonds could keep up because all the lower ranks have slowly been getting pushed up for some reason. Diamond 1 is now the most common rank where it used to be like gold1. It's not that everyone has gotten better, it's just become easier to get to diamond now.
@Tomer Horowitz No. It used to be a little harder to get diamond. So the old diamonds are going to be a little better than the new diamonds. In theory.
I havent played since they got rid of the knockout gamemode, that was so fun and the fact they havent brought it back yet makes me doubt they will again, which is a shame cuz that game was so unique and fun
Vid idea: all of your controls on 1 button. (u might need to bind some to a different button if u can’t move) I know other people have done it, but it’s just really funny to see them do it.
1:17 man ive had a white basic xbox controller for nearly three years now and ive dropped it multiple times and down the steps. Still works like a charm no problems
Those GC seem like such chill and kind ppl
You have to take into consideration that free to play made it easier for people to climb ranks with the new rank and the abundance of new players so really new plats should be like gold and new diamonds should be plat
Have you seen the "f2p vs real plats" video? Its pretty interesting
I don’t think that’s true at all, if anything it just upped the competition between the players to achieve higher ranks
more players = more competition
@@user-rk7rl7tm5w when f2p came out i went from silver to plat in 10 days
@@squrla3242 I call cap
Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
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The GC game lol I kept laughing all game. These guys are hilarious!
as someone who quit after deranking to c3 from gc1 nearly a year ago, i wanna play again after this😂
Honestly, after being a GC in season 13 and quitting for 3 years, this makes me feel good.
I feel like I've retained about as much of my skill as these GCs have, even though I was gone for way longer, even if my MMR was higher than theirs when they quit.
I was feeling discouraged not being able to keep up and thinking I was just never gonna get back up to my level, but knowing that other people have the same experience really makes everything better :)
Promise you that a long break won't set you back. The vast majority of the playerbase has not changed in skill, and you just have to shake off the rust and you're good to go.
Those guys had me dying. I need to have the spirit these guys do lol.
"Yes i know the thumbnail is sus" Dude without you saying i wouldn't have realised XDDD
Bruh the editing is 👍👍👍👍👍
2:30 Lmao "*laughs in retirement*"
I stopped playing at GC1 about 9 months ago, started again a couple of days ago and have not regretted it at all
Gc guys are the most chill at of all of them to seems like the break might’ve helped mentally lmao
Quitting a game and being better upon return is not an unheard of phenomenon. It happens to me with Tetris all the time. It has to do with setting bad habits and mental fatigue. If you play constantly, you get tired of playing the game and can also set bad habits. Taking a break (Though usually it's around a month instead of a year) can reset your mental state which makes it a lot easier to improve very quickly. Muscle memory is VERY persistent, especially if it's something you do all the time. I'm not surprised that it stayed after a year for the champs.
I took a break for like 6 months. When I came back I played better than before. I went from d1 to c1
I'd love to be featured in one of these types of videos. These are fun! Also those retired GCs getting waxed and laughing about it the entire time was gold lol
some of them had cosmetics that were from like last season but they say they havent played for a year. seems pretty sus to me
i was rising star when I quit, came back did the placement and got Plat 2 ish and now c1, I feel like people just got better at mechanical stuff instead of game sense, because I have no mechanical skill and some how I hit c1 with pure simple play and game sense.....
i had quit rocket laegue too for 2 months, 2 weeks ago i came back and im better than before I think i might be able to get champ now, unfortunatly lost most of my freestyle skills
too componsate for that i started to watch Thanovics tutorials
Stamper: I haven’t played in a minute
Me: I literally haven’t played in a minute
The current diamonds were blown away by the retired diamonds, even though they were missing the ball left and right :D put me up against any of them
same also those daimonds i played where next level they probably peaked ad daimond 3 or champ 1
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Great video, if you do this now it would be crazy with how much the skill level has improved overall
One of those diamonds have played recently because they had the bronze ranked goal explosion from like last season
the rocket league accent comes in at champ. got it
9:33 brooo they did the rare thing where u high five after a goal on accident
I stopped playing rockero league for 9 months, I was C2 and when I came back and did placements I was D3 and quickly got back to C1. Crazy that basically all my mechanics stayed, just my positioning is lacking
The GCs seem so chill lol
I came back to rocket league after forever, I not only have the veteran tag, I was around when the tag semi pro was a thing(which I had btw)
Did we just become best friends!?
That seriously was one of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever watched.
0:33 pov you play kbm and don’t know the struggle of controllers disconnecting. (My controller sucks and the cables just kinda fall out sometimes and it sucks)
I love watching the last ones play. It pleases me to see them having fun.
Agreed. Once you get thrown to lower ranks and it's genuinely not your fault and you don't feel like carrying all 100% of matches, especially given that you have such horrible players around you that don't care to win at all and blame and throw on a whim the game just gets annoying, frustrating, and almost depressing. They need to have more ways to catch up on MMR or to balance out your MMR over the different modes maybe. At least throw in some different things and maps occasionally. It's like one of the most played games out there has just been given up on.
lol. in rocket league if you’re better you win. if you’re not climbing its because you’re where you should be
@@anonihme5142 Do you really think it's that simple? Might be so on a 1v1 but in a 3v3 then do you not think that good teamwork is required and more importantly, expected? So let's say you clear and centre for the team every time you touch the ball, but your teammates both double commit and miss over and over again then does this make you a worse player than average? How about if every other game you have throwers that get annoyed with what you're doing because they assume it's your fault when in fact it's theirs and so they throw?
@@analogdistortion it is that simple. you won't win every game but you'll win more then you lose, so you'll climb. if your team mates double commit and miss everything you'll have another game where the opposing team is missing everything and double commiting. If you are doing thing's right compared to your elo, you'll nudge the winrate in the right direction. No one is saying every loss is your fault, but if you are at a rank for a while, then it's your rank, and you'll climb when you get better. I reach my rank really quickly every season, then i'm stuck for a while, and when i finally get a little higher i know what i've improved to get there.
If someone tilts on their team mates and forfaits, or insults them, then their mental (and education...) is poor, and mental is also a skill in this game. I don't care how "well" they play if they can't do it for 5 minutes straight without being a hindrance or lose it coz they start trolling instead of trying to comeback
This is probably the fairest game with the highest skillcap i've ever played. I'm champ 2, i destroy diamonds and low champ 1s, I get destroyed by champ 3s and gcs, system is working. (of course, there's the incredible number of smurffs issue, but that is the same problem for everyone)
@@anonihme5142 you said it really well. so many players don't understand this even though it should be obvious.
I quit for 2 years as a Diamond 1.. been playing again and Silvers give me trouble lol
I was plat 4 last season and now silvers are air dribbling on me
I didn’t play for 3 years and when i came back i still somewhat remembered what buttons to press
I used to be plat 1, quit the game for like 4 months or so and while not playing the game I watched a lot of pros and content creators, when I picked the game back up again I was plat 3, then I grinded and hit diamond 1, now i’m hard stuck haha, love this game tho:)
I've taken years long breaks. Longest was 2017 until 2021. You don't lose your rank, and the players don't get much better. For context I was champ 1 peak in 2017 (top 1% back then), and when I came back in 2021 I was able to get up to GC1 (top 0.4%) in just a couple months. And during that time the meta saw the introduction of flip resets, ceiling shots, better flicks (that champs cant do), faster rotations, air roll left and right, etc. Pro 1v1s went from fairy peak ground play to daniel going for double resets every play. My mind was blown at that. But champ stayed the same. The fundamentals had not changed. (I took another break from 2021 to 2023, and I'm still at the same rank.)
I see all over the place including in this video people claiming that players at x rank are much better than they were a year, two years, three years ago and that's just not true. The players who get better go up and the overall skill at a given rank stays the same. It's only at the highest percentiles that the meta is being pushed forward and players are actually better than they used to be. The vast majority of players don't know how to improve, don't have the discipline or run into roadblocks. Champ has always been where most players plateau. It's where players are good at the basics but fail to do more difficult things / fail to hone what they already have, and it has been that way for a long time.
I can say that you at least start to see a significant difference in GC2, because there are a handful of retired pro players starting around there, so clearly those players have caught up a little bit since a few years ago. That's still on the order of three or four years (plus those pros not taking the game seriously anymore, and could rank up if they tried), not "champs last year look like diamonds now" like so many people say.
The reason why the retired players struggled in this is just because they were wildly out of practice. A few sessions and they'd be back to where they were.
every time i take breaks and come back i dont really lose mechs, because you dont really lose muscle memory, what i lose is speed and decision making, which is 2 of the main things of rocket league
I was stuck at Gold 3/Plat 1 for the longest time. Took a year break, now I feel better than before. Around Diamond 1 now.
Ngl at least for me. Stepping away helps me because when I come back I’m not thinking about all the things I need to improve on and where I messed up, I’m just trying to do my best yk, muscle memory comes back within a game or two even after years of not playing tbh
Same went from gold 2 to champ 1 in 6 months just by quitting twice
I was in champion then quit for 2 years and wow did people get better
Anyone: Controller breaks -> Buys a new one.
Me an Intellectual: Controller breaks -> plays on keyboard
I've started playing again at the start of the week, after not playing since season 4 or 5, i used to be be Diamond 2-3 and I've just hit Champion 1 last night
4:08 I laughed so hard at that statement. I am diamond 3 in 2s and my arials look like a bronze player, I barely know how to fast arial, and scoring a flick in game is considered a really good play from me. the funny part is that I have reached diamond multiple times with different teammates and I get MVP a lot so its not like I am being hard carried.
4:18
Actually no
I have Mechanics of a silver ( I'm just exaggerating a little fr ) yet I got to diamond 1 and I'm staying there for a while. You just have to be patient and punish dumb mistakes of your opponents, like trying absurd skills that they haven't mastered in ranked, leaving an open net.
I agree that I won't go farther than that without mechanics tho
I stopped playing for about 1.5 years after F2P had happened. I was BARELY Plat 1. When I returned earlier this month, I was surprised how I got to Diamond 1 pretty easily. Now I gotta grind hard though lmao
I randomly stopped playing for a long time because I was just focused on other things, decided to come back because rl is imo the most entertaining game ever, and I came back way better than I was before for some reason
ARE THESE GUYS THE RETIRED DIAMONDS!!??
Cbell: Write that DOWN! haha
When the video itself gives you your next one
“He Tried to Bump Me He’s Cringe” 💀
honestly for me if i play a game for a while then stop for a year or so and come back, it’s still just muscle memory. obviously takes a game or two to get it back but i never forget
" a lot more muscle memory than i thought" bro that why rocket league is goated. ive been saying for years its my favorite game because of how close to skating it is
you stop for 9 months, come back, and somehow can still throw down a line of a kickflip on flat, board to fakie and then a switch rock
very cool and wholesome video
I was a Rising Star, but I don't know what that would be today lol
I quit the game for two and a half years. I was C3 when I quit, I just picked it back up and im a D1/D2 now
6:13 he said that he didnt play rocket league for 7 months
The season 6 goal explosion : how am i here
“Laughs in retirement”😂
I had a break from rocket league for about five months cuz my pc stopped running it properly (lag spikes, high ping, low fps and fps drops)
I got a completely new pc a few months ago and i've been playing again since then and now im close to gc2
That Plat made a clean half flip, wow.
I didn't know how to do that til I was GC.
i stopped playing for a few months after the lamborghini update because my controllers cable port became lose which would make me dc all the time. when my new controller arrived it took me a about a month to get back to my old strength.
I was a diamond switch player then quit cause friends moved to different games and so did I trying to get back into it a bit
Wrong replay on champs' second goal lmao, btw very nice vid
I quit about 2 years ago, just after the dropshot update. Picked it up a few days ago. I was bronze when I quit, just placed gold and I feel I play WAY better than I used to, still have to get my old mechanics down (air control, wavedash, dribbling)
you knew how to wavedash as bronze??
I wasn't playing for more than 2 years(before the game became f2p), was stuck at plat 3 for months and never got diamond(in standard mode), when I came back to play in January, I got D3 in about 2 weeks, and in February I got champ(everything in one season). I thought that the level was lowered(by a lot, I was crushing plats when I came back). Cool video.
Lol I didn’t know Rizzo was gc, I have no heard someone else call cringe so many times 😂😂
Guy here. I watch Rizzo’s stream and videos a lot so it’s rubbed off on me a bit 😂
@@austinbrown8560 That’s funny lmao