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.
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 👍🏽
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
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.
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
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’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.
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.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
hey Cbell i think u forgot to calculate that the people who quit cuz bad controller prolly dont have the money to get a pro controller cuz i quit cuz bad controller and i dont got that kind of money
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
i quit the game a 1 year ago, i was p1 in 1s d3 in 2s and d1 in 3s, i started playing the game again, 3 weeks ago in fact, and im now d2 in 1 c2 2s and c1 in 3s, i think thats very good do to the fact that i quit the game. WHAT DO YALL THINK????
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
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
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
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.
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'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
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
Same, saw the video and thought those diamonds were so bad. Maybe the pressure got to the new diamonds because the retired diamonds looked like they couldn't even aerial
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
Nice Video! Very entertaining! Im struggle with quitting, cause there are so much smurfs nowadays - ranked isnt fair anymore... from 10 Games, there are 8 with one, sometimes with two smurfs in the opponent team - Accounts with 50 wins in total at c3.. its so sad. I love this game since 2015, but it makes no fun at all to get beaten by players who playing like gods from your own view and after getting beaten so hard, they making fun out of you and insult you too. Since season 14 i was grand champ - this season barely make it to C3 ... Im frustrated :(
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.
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)
Fr I broke my controller learning how to stall Bcs I pressed to hard on the thumb stick but in the end I got it down.But since then I have controller drift and I also haven’t play rl for like 3 to 4 months
My ps4 died and i was diamond 1 i waited about 2 years then fixed it and i played rocket league for about a month then became diamond 1 again this time even better division
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 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
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
Wow... My friend and I haven't played the game in 5 YEARS and just recently we got back into it playing for fun so seeing this video I could relate to it a lot. I used to play so competitively back then but now I just like playing the game for fun.
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
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.
i dont play rocket league for 2 years now and i think that the rank is easier now i dont know if its just me but some freestyles i see in diamond or champ did i when i was in gold or silver i would find it better when the player dont played it for 2 or 3 years to see the difference great video♥
Champ 2 from S6 stuck in D2/D3. Diamond 2 is definitely harder than it was a couple years ago. Part of it is due to so many premades and smurfs though. Screw free to play, honestly. It’s fine though, I’m maining Snow Day now lol. In the top 3000 players :D
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:)
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 cant wait for knock out to become a permanent Playlist. I think it could have its own larger community inside the scene and competitive and psyonix tournaments for it would help blow it up
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’m a champ who has played a few times in the past year. After a few days of playing I’m able to get back to champ level, however, my mechanics have massively deteriorated
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 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
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
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
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
@@white_brownie96 Fantastic!
“I suck in the air” I thought the same thing you did. That edit actually made me laugh.
Geuuuahhhhhhhh haaaaaaa
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.
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
Bro the gc game helped my day thanks cbell and the gcs for bringing a great ending to the video
Of course!
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
Hey, I was the TTV xeyxra in the GCs and just want to say thank you for the opportunity it was very fun.
ggs!
Thanks for having me! Was a ton of fun :)
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 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 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.
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
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
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.
IDK who CBell is but it was nice of him to make an appearance in a Rua video
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.....
Hey I was the new Plat thanks for having me!
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 took a break for like 6 months. When I came back I played better than before. I went from d1 to c1
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
Those GC guys seem like they've played with each other their entire lives lol love the vibes
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.
@@J4nnikm true bro, all just focus on mechanics nowadays, now im focusing on m mechanics and i rank up really fast now.
@@J4nnikm 1750 would be like gc3-ssl then... so gc1 is big loss
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.
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.
I love watching the last ones play. It pleases me to see them having fun.
Did CBell accidentally find the new Rizz and sizz combo, that was great lol
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
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.
This video was so good, especially that last match, so funny and wholesome.
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
I was in champion then quit for 2 years and wow did people get better
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 Cbell i think u forgot to calculate that the people who quit cuz bad controller prolly dont have the money to get a pro controller
cuz i quit cuz bad controller and i dont got that kind of money
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
i quit the game a 1 year ago, i was p1 in 1s d3 in 2s and d1 in 3s, i started playing the game again, 3 weeks ago in fact, and im now d2 in 1 c2 2s and c1 in 3s, i think thats very good do to the fact that i quit the game. WHAT DO YALL THINK????
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
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
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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Those GC seem like such chill and kind ppl
Bruh the editing is 👍👍👍👍👍
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.
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 threw my controller against a wall and it broke, and it broke, it lasted 2 hours
Great video, if you do this now it would be crazy with how much the skill level has improved overall
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
The GC game lol I kept laughing all game. These guys are hilarious!
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
Did we just become best friends!?
That seriously was one of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever watched.
Those retired GC’s just carried the video
shouldve put the retired GCs against the champ players
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
I am diamond two and so confused, am I really this bad? those diamonds were so bad...
Same, saw the video and thought those diamonds were so bad. Maybe the pressure got to the new diamonds because the retired diamonds looked like they couldn't even aerial
@@bufferingmp.018 yea its kinda hard to play well when you know thousands o people will be watching you
those GC have definitely quit, they still think bumps are cringe, good old days.
Yeah that confirmed it for me when I heard it back 😂
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
Nice Video! Very entertaining! Im struggle with quitting, cause there are so much smurfs nowadays - ranked isnt fair anymore... from 10 Games, there are 8 with one, sometimes with two smurfs in the opponent team - Accounts with 50 wins in total at c3.. its so sad. I love this game since 2015, but it makes no fun at all to get beaten by players who playing like gods from your own view and after getting beaten so hard, they making fun out of you and insult you too. Since season 14 i was grand champ - this season barely make it to C3 ... Im frustrated :(
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.
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.
Those guys had me dying. I need to have the spirit these guys do lol.
Gc guys are the most chill at of all of them to seems like the break might’ve helped mentally lmao
Dude the retired gc kinda look like diamond ngl
the rocket league accent comes in at champ. got it
I was diamond and i quit from six to seven months but when I came back i was better
I quit the game since 2020 but still watch the creators cuz they are amazing ^^
Anyway this was great fun to watch as always, how you always find the funniest players I don't know
Fr I broke my controller learning how to stall Bcs I pressed to hard on the thumb stick but in the end I got it down.But since then I have controller drift and I also haven’t play rl for like 3 to 4 months
“He Tried to Bump Me He’s Cringe” 💀
My ps4 died and i was diamond 1 i waited about 2 years then fixed it and i played rocket league for about a month then became diamond 1 again this time even better division
I stopped playing at GC1 about 9 months ago, started again a couple of days ago and have not regretted it at all
Retired player vs people who think they deserve the retired players rank
Ex: retired was champ and a diamond thinks he deserves champ
I love this Idea!!!!!! I love players vs the rank they think they deserve, but this video is similar but different and is really good:)
One of those diamonds have played recently because they had the bronze ranked goal explosion from like last season
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 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 problem is everyone expects diamonds to be cracked but we’re not
speak for urself bozo
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
Wow... My friend and I haven't played the game in 5 YEARS and just recently we got back into it playing for fun so seeing this video I could relate to it a lot. I used to play so competitively back then but now I just like playing the game for fun.
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
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.
2:30 Lmao "*laughs in retirement*"
And xexyra and guy became best friends and lived happily ever after
I didn’t play for 3 years and when i came back i still somewhat remembered what buttons to press
i dont play rocket league for 2 years now and i think that the rank is easier now i dont know if its just me but some freestyles i see in diamond or champ did i when i was in gold or silver
i would find it better when the player dont played it for 2 or 3 years to see the difference
great video♥
Champ 2 from S6 stuck in D2/D3. Diamond 2 is definitely harder than it was a couple years ago. Part of it is due to so many premades and smurfs though. Screw free to play, honestly. It’s fine though, I’m maining Snow Day now lol. In the top 3000 players :D
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:)
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)
That was great! I was diamond 3 div 2 and got back into it after a year last week it’s rough but I placed diamond 2 in rank.
I cant wait for knock out to become a permanent Playlist. I think it could have its own larger community inside the scene and competitive and psyonix tournaments for it would help blow it up
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’m a champ who has played a few times in the past year. After a few days of playing I’m able to get back to champ level, however, my mechanics have massively deteriorated
Wrong replay on champs' second goal lmao, btw very nice vid
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.
the fact the retired diamonds were having that much fun made the video way better to watch
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)
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