Mystic is the perfect example of what Champ in current-day Rocket League consists of. If you're a solo Q player, you know people like Mystic make up at bare minimum 1/3 games you play. It really does take a toll on the mental when trying to climb rank. I will get on, win 2 or 3 in a row 500+ score, and then someone joins who is just completely unaware of their surroundings and puts everyone else in such awkward positions, and then projects their inability to play well on you because YOU were in THEIR way. It's mind blowing. Thanks for shedding some light on this Leth. True legend \m/
I just had a game today where my teammate got toxic with me because I had the AUDACITY to take the ball away from the center of our own goal and bring it towards our corner and boost. He started spamming Okay, What a save, Nice Shot, etc. on everything. This was like you said, before and after I had multiple games of 500+ score wins.
Honestly I think the reason it happens so much is because people play too many games and get tired and start throwing I bet you he doesn't always play like that
@@Kai_Laddekricht I am GC and have a couple diamond 1 friends I like to play with. Everyone says smurfing is wrong but it is unavoidable for me. When I play on my main with my diamond friend I de-rank down to c1-c2 ish and everyone just calls me a shit gc. Then when I solo q and go back up to GC everyone calls me an ego stroking smurf. Like the only option for me to avoid smurfing is to not play with my friends. All of us higher ranked players are not going to stop queueing with friends just because people have a problem with it. If I want to play with my friend I will play with my friend
Dude I saved a replay the other day of a 2v2 game where, 3 minutes into OT, I had space and was dribbling the ball and my tm8 came and slammed me out of the way. I was like “ight🤷🏻♂️” and drove away, and then watched as he immediately whiffed the ball as it was rolling with nobody challenging it. Opponent drove up uncontested and scored an open net and I got spammed with “What a Save!” To be fair I left for boost after he bumped me instead of staying close so definitely a mistake on my part, but like.. if he made the touch I would’ve had plenty of time. It was a total face palm, last game of the day kinda moment.
@@kpDiDDy Problem is that, it's not really a mistake, if you were higher ranked, it's just a mistake since your teammate is a buffoon. Not going for the boost could just as well be a mistake if you are stuck on the ground while the enemy is air dribbling and you can't contest the ball since you stayed and didn't go for the boost when your teammate obviously had the ball. It's only a mistake in hindsight, which is no mistake really since it really is all on your teammate. But obviously to rank up you have to know how to beat the enemies at the rank you are at and you have to work around the flaws of your teammates. I'm only d2 rn just so you know, so perhaps I'm wrong but as of now I don't think I am :D Lately though when I have tried just playing faster and ball hogging more (technically a mistake) and just being more selfish overall, and it has actually gone better for me since I'm winning more often. I just figured that there is no point in trying to make complicated passes or plays, or waiting for a pass from your teammate that will eventually just pass the ball perfectly to the opponent instead. A lot of teammates in diamond just doesn't seem to want to, or know how to pass well or position in a way were it is possible. Even in diamond 1 (mostly plat though) people just double commit in the opponents corner, especially if the play slows down were lets say I'm patiently trying to get the ball around the opponent or make it awkward for them, suddenly my teammate rams into the ball with supersonic speed straight into the corner making it bounce to midfield where the opponent can slowly drive forward with the ball and score an open net... AND to add onto that, imagine being up like 2 goals, wasting time is a great idea in that case since there is no need to risk going for goals, but people just don't think that deep and they will panic and get mad at you for taking your time with the ball and just steal it from you (probably just launch the ball to the opponents side, giving away possession (instead of a controlled dribble or whatever). Which reminds me of yesterday, a dude kept just shooting the ball away from both of us towards the opponent, so I started playing more selfishly and hogging the ball more since he just kept giving up possession, and the guy said "we need to pass" like I haven't been waiting the whole game for the dude to pass me and not just launch the ball away because he doesn't know what to do. We were losing 0-2 or something at the time with like 1 minute left.
@@JDMricist i actually find it harder to derank then to rank to where i am, i find it surprising they can not end up playing at some point they are afk watching something or are a bot for sure.
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Seeing a pro not understand or have seen a de-ranker smurf is like watching a royal come into the slums and not understand the starvation and theft going on.
@@Phraxas52 it would be baseless assumption if there wasn’t 5 minutes of evidence that he was trying. Hilarious that you think you had the gotcha card, when really you’re just a pseudo intellectual halfwit 😂
@@Phraxas52 it would be baseless assumption if there wasn't 5 minutes of evidence supporting otherwise. Hilarious, you thought you had the gotcha card😂 Stay stupid, internet
@@Phraxas52 It would be baseless assumption IF there wasn't 5 minutes of gameplay to support otherwise lmao. Hilarious, you actually thought you had the gotcha card XD
Intentional Idle isn't super common from my experience (maybe 1/50-1/100 games). Also, if one of your enemies goes afk or leaves, don't turn it into a 2v2 or 1v1, they came to play as a team of 3's. If that goes against your conscience so much, at the very least don't be like, oh I'm going to turn this into a 2v2 by sitting in my own goal, your team will think they have a goalie and won't try as hard to prevent shots. I can handle my teammates rage quitting on me when we're losing by like 3 because, hey, we'd probs have lost anyway, when my teammate goes idle in a game when we're barely losing, or God forbid, we're winning, I might hop off Rocket League for the night after that game.
Pin this. I preach no mercy rules all the time. But Leth is Canadian. AFK is unacceptable behavior and shows disrespect to the very concept of time and competition.
Being the arbiter of whether it's a 2v2 or if an own goal should happen is bad manners, imo. It's not common in your experience? Are we playing the same game? US-E is full of intentional idlers. I nearly can't play a single session without finding one on one of the teams - or people surrendering while winning at the very least.
@@steelerfaninperu I do it if a guy loses connection cause that's not on them and usually do it until another person comes. If its a rage quit or afk and we're up I still do it to a degree cause running up the score just makes it take longer since it stops the clock. Do it enough to make sure we're up a goal and then just mess around.
@@ImThe5thKing bro, actually the first season 3 with the golden letters was ACTUALLY the scuffed season where many people managed to get the gc title, get your facts straight
I've learned that trying to control the ball below gc is almost impossible. Start a dribble and your teammate comes flying in like an ICBM to hit the ball off your car. Bounce dribble to start an air dribble and your teammate will bang it into the sidewall. I don't get mad when people try and make a play and fail, I get mad when people hit the ball just to hit it, with no real plan other than making contact. It annoys the fuck out of me.
@@demiseduke8000 In diamond it's so rare to get both teammates that understand what possession and control is. But when I do get paired with two players that respect each other's play style and pacing, we almost always win via a FF from the other team because we're just blowing them out of the water. It's so easy to tell when a game is flowing vs. when you get a chaser that's just causing confusion and chaos for everybody on the field.
@@demiseduke8000 I've noticed that if a ballchaser teammate rage quits, often the game becomes easier to play as a 2v3 because the bad teammate doesn't make terrible touches, like bang the ball to bad positions so the opponent can score. Also, taking control and possession of the ball often becomes easier. And maybe the enemy team relaxes thinking it should be an easy win and they're not used to playing against controlled plays. Talking about C1 though
I saw that many times, from people taping down accel and turn, to software/automated methods to farm event crates or rank rewards... For that type of behaviour mark the "Intentionally idle" and the "XP farming". Maybe even the "Cheating" since it may involve anti-afk software?
The guy afk at 13:20 would’ve been deliberately deranking, I’ve had games where I’ve had ssl players on my team or opponents and they stay still and just type in chat or just move slightly when idle comes
i’m pumped for next episode. despite hitting gc 2 in previous seasons, ive found my washed self back in mid c3 fighting for gc back. im hoping to see what mistakes ive been making without even realizing. Keep up the fire content mate!
The dude idling in that 3s game was probably smurfing his rank down. You don't get experience or level ups when you get less than 20~ points, so hes def not going for rewards.
The ranks are messy because people always want to learn new mechanics before getting their fundamentals down. I've seen golds and platinums who position way better but fall short cause they're inconsistent in being able to hit the ball. In champ, it's the complete opposite, they have better mechanics but don't position at all, Instead relying on recovering in time to boost back for a save
See, that’s what I focus on more than mechs. The MAIN fundamentals REQUIRED for you to rank up. If my team8 pushes with me I back off. I’d rather be back for a save than get scored on with an open net. I’d rather rotate and be consistent in my shot taking than be able to hit a double flip reset.
@@SxvxgeDxddy Lethamyr showcases this perfectly. Not to say he isn't mechanical but in majority of his videos, he's playing off his teammate and just making smart touches, putting the ball in places where he or his teammate can follow. He isn't constantly trying to ceiling shot or musty every single shot attempt. and then you see champs and diamonds who constantly trying to play faster than is even needed for the rank and when they miss or fall short, they get scored on by someone who just sat back and waited. It's the reason that it's a lot harder to play in lower ranks these days because you constantly get teammates who are holding boost 24/7 and cutting you off for awkward touches just because they think you're too slow, and it usually concedes a goal.
@@TheVibe671 and that’s the main issue I have with most of the playerbase. If you can’t trust me to make a play, then don’t play with randoms. My friends and I all trust each other. Not saying I don’t solo q nor am I not to blame for half of my losses, but still. Patience is a virtue. 72% of my goals, come from my team8 taking the ball and me following up with their bad touch and bad play
@@SxvxgeDxddy Based off this I can already tell you cut your teammate off a lot Lol. It's not about trusting your teammate to make a play. People constantly think that just because they CAN touch the ball then they SHOULD, and thats not how it works. Sure you can get to the ball faster than your teammate can but you're not gonna be able to touch the ball into a place that is advantageous to you or your teamate in any way and will mostly likely just spill back to the enemy team. So many people will make a bad touch and blame their teammate for not following up when they literally can't, and they think that they were making a play when they were really just putting their teammate in a "Save it or get scored on" situation. Even in champ, people still don't think about making good touches and only about making fast touches. Almost everyone in these ranks thinks that getting somewhere fast by using all their boost and winning a 50 that they're the better player, and that is defnintely not the case. It's the same reason using the scoreboard as a way to measure skill should not be a thing. Someone who is constantly on the ball will obviously have more poins than their teammate but that same person is also making multiple bad touches that slowly put your team in more and more awkward situations only to inevitably lead to a goal for the opponent. That same person is then gonna call his teammate bad for having less points and not being able to save an incredibly awkward shot that was probably given to them by the person who is constantly chasing the ball instead of playing patient. Lethamyr also demonstrates this perfectly at 19:19 . He is in a better position to put the ball in a good place for a follow up, but instead his teeammates cuts it into the side wall even though there is so much space downfield that he can use to control the ball.
Theres a common misunderstanding in these ranks that patience = Slow. Speed = Skill level and a fear that if 1 mistake = cant trust. I get all of them, but champ players fail to work with there teammates playstyle. This applies heavily for previous higher ranked players where they end up trying to do way to much. They have to take the game into their own hands, etc. Mindset is what beats alot of people in this game
Exactly, the egotrip of some people is actually insane. Once you start using your brain and wait for the weak spot in the opponents play its the moment it clicks in your teammates brain to have to backpack you unnecessarily making the game hard for no reason. Then blaming it obviously on you.
Stuff like that guy sitting idle for an entire match is extremely common in the lower ranks. Not for nothing but I'm glad you're seeing it at your rank because somebody might actually do something about it if you're the one that points it out. Then again, we're talking about Psyonix, and they aren't motivated to do anything about anything unless it affects the Pro tournaments
I think that's how and why my teammate and me end up playing against champs in plat every 3rd game or so. Not even kidding, I'm always looking up their profiles with RLTracker when I get the feeling they're sus. I should screenshot them all and compile them lmao
Maybe, but I think it’s more that ranked is broken. A lot of players are well under their normal ranks from previous seasons. So many GCs are in champ right now still.
You get the ones that paid for the boost and went back down and you get the ones boosting someone (probably what that guy is preparing that account for).
@@jbone6979 I also think a lot of people got carried to champ and start solo-qing and go down. and then the season reset puts them down into P3/D1. Even with the big rank resets, i've still maintained D3 in 2s through the last few seasons without any trouble.
@@Kaaarrrrlllll they for sure have. I play late at night and it’s nothing but GC1+ and diamond 1-. I’m talking like 95% of the games, every single night. It’s so infuriating having to find something that works against both at the same time. I’d rather play against two higher ranks than this crap.
Unfortunately the layoffs at epic mean they probably won't be banned. I've tried to be an evangelist of keeping this community 'clean' reporting bad actors whenever i see them. Most days I used to get the message " thanking me for my report and saying "action has been taken". I've not seen that message siince the layoffs, I think the support staff that would handle that were the first to go.
Dude, I was telling myself that first game was a gold game then it’s ssl. Your patience is amazing and I feel like a clown for thinking this game changes for ranks.
Oh, Leth, I run into at least one AFK farmer/smurf a week, sometimes more. Some more fun statistics: During some play sessions, 50%-80% of the games include players being toxic, I have to report at least one player every hour or so of play, I filled my blocked players list in a few short months, and this past Tuesday was so bad that in three out of a stretch of five games, a toxic player started playing for the other team. It's a shame I love this game so much because the people who play it are the cruelest, pettiest bunch of people I've ever met.
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Leth the knight in shinning armor trying to do the right thing but no mercy in comp. Always go for the throat. Then the kick between the legs for good measure.
Oh wow... I'm today years old when I realized those two center white lines are the exact inside width of the goal... I'm like.. how do you know that ball is about to go in your net... And then I seen those white lines are perfectly lined up with the corners
In Ranked 3s around the Champ 2 & 3 rank, I've seen a LOT of bots. It's so obvious they're bots too. If you watch a replay, they rotate their camera to show they're 'human'. They play for about 20 seconds then realize they're in way over there head at this rank and enable the bot. They go from looking like a Diamond player who can barely read the ball to perfect flicks and flip reset aerial goals. Their car is twitchy, like it's calculating angles and constantly moving/breaking... perfect kickoffs that snap their car's angle to the boost, then ball within a few milliseconds lol. It's a good challenge to compete with nearly perfect bots, but dude...it's getting old.
Mystic reminded me of a guy I played this morning in a 3s game. Before kickoff, he types "1v1?" After a goal I ask him why he isn't playing 1s then, and he says, "1s players are boring, I want to shit on 3s mains." Long story short, he wanted FOUR PLAYERS to just sit around for 7 minutes so him and one other person could 1v1 and cost them rank if they lost. Just a selfish player. Like Mystic was in that game.
Just wondering if having air roll left as the same button as reverse is good or bad, because im sure if it influences the way your car would move through the air, so should I keep or change it? I have it set as l2
Champ is a wide variety of skill. I’m C2 and not super mechy, sometimes play with teammates who are even worse, and today had a teammate who double flip reset musty 🤣
lots of idle people in the diamond-champ ranks. Most people that need a smurf to rank them up are plat-champ from what ive seen so it's very common in those ranks to see someone losing on purpose.
Yes he was farming. It's very common when I play in cas and just like you witnessed they never get kicked due to that slight movement so they can stay in the full game!!!! Of course epic games never dish out disaplanary actions cause you would get a notification if your report got them a ban.........
That dude idle is pretty common for me when I’m like playing and getting the same guy each time or something like that…he’s probably just tanking to clip on some plats tho based on the opponents reaction to it
I’m sorry, but there’s no way that Mystic guy is gc. I’m a diamond 2 and I think I could do a better job in that lobby. I’m not a cocky player and wouldn’t normally make statements like that, but half the touches he made were touches that negatively affected his team.
people say overestimating and under, but in reality, each rank is filled with people that are good in that rank, and people that arnt as good at the others, like if you look at plat, is a really good exsaple
Ppl be like "I report players at least once per day" and try not to sound like apslayz while explaining themselves. We all suck, no way yall got the worst teammates of all time every time.
i hate to say it leth, but you scored a purpose own goal in the same game, another thing thats reportable. i get you want to make the game fair by offering a 2v2 instead, but thats just not how the lobbies go and you'll justa nnoy your teammates even further.
im D3/C1, peaked C2 in 2s. intentionally idle or early quits happen a few times per session for me. i trolled my placement matches for 3s this season and dropped to D2, and it felt every other game there was a smurf. (I'm not saying that bc I lost games, I'm saying that bc half the time I play I'm teaming with my GC friend in hoops, so I know what high champ/GC looks like when they're trying to be lowkey about it- certain controlled touches that low champs/diamonds just can't get)
The smurf issue goes away as you climb into D3 and champ; toxicity peaks in low champ 2; and tbh the most fun i have playing is in champ 1. it feels like enough C1s know they suck compared to higher ranks that people get a little less toxic when you troll lol
you didn't troll, the MMR system is absolutely broken and busted. i dropped 6 ranks from my usual placement this season because i lost 2 games. that is not normal. it feels like there's smurfs in the lower rank lobbies because all of the SSLs are in GC, which makes the hardstuck GCs in champ, which makes the hardstuck champs in diamond, etc. currently in the plat trenches trying to get back to where i was last season in diamond and it's so hard trying to pick up the slack in my 2v2 matches, plat games are so much harder this season and it's blatantly obvious why.
I’m right there with you man. Played the game long enough to know what the ranks should be and none of what’s going on is it lately. It’s like almost every game im not actually playing the rank we’re in +/-
@@ultimus_ no, it absolutely does not. It’s never been this bad in terms of smurfs from D2-C2. This is why ranked is broken. We should be experiencing something similar, not completely opposite.
so probably 20-30 % of my games end up being 5 person games because people suck. on teh odd occasion that its someone on the other team(maybe 2% of the time) Ill take that win because the other 28% of the time I get smashed, I would absolutly report you for that clearly intentional own goal. and I like you. and yes that is a farming program that just boost a touch of "go" every 11 seconds or so.
I know it isn't related, but I think more RL content creators should outline what it looks like when someone is smurfing. Some players are lost in the sauce and just can't recognize when it's happening to them causing them to lose the drive to try and progress in the game. It's getting out of control and I think people should be informed about what to look for in the other player's gameplay. Accept the L and just re-queue instead of wasting time against a 5 pass play past you and your gold teammate can't defend against. It's so obnoxious having to flip the mental switch between "Here I am expecting to competitively play against another team near my rank." and "Oh, suddenly I need to be looking out for aerial set ups/wall plays/shots to attempt to interrupt/read/save because someone needs 2 extra accounts to keep playing forever instead of just logging off and doing something else if they can't get a game in their region/rank". Variety, guys.
Farming rewards? Sorry, Epic took out drops after games. Can only get drops from challenges and rocket pass now I think that player was just trying to drop rank for smurfing purposes 🤷♂️
I think why people are confused is because while you position better than most people in the lower ranks, you play slower than people in those ranks and still contribute. I myself am sometimes annoyed by you not taking shots i would consider free
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Mystic is the perfect example of what Champ in current-day Rocket League consists of. If you're a solo Q player, you know people like Mystic make up at bare minimum 1/3 games you play. It really does take a toll on the mental when trying to climb rank. I will get on, win 2 or 3 in a row 500+ score, and then someone joins who is just completely unaware of their surroundings and puts everyone else in such awkward positions, and then projects their inability to play well on you because YOU were in THEIR way. It's mind blowing. Thanks for shedding some light on this Leth. True legend \m/
I just had a game today where my teammate got toxic with me because I had the AUDACITY to take the ball away from the center of our own goal and bring it towards our corner and boost. He started spamming Okay, What a save, Nice Shot, etc. on everything. This was like you said, before and after I had multiple games of 500+ score wins.
Mystic is the kind of guy that has "good" control and speed but refuses to look at positioning. It worked until Champ and now they're stuck there.
Honestly I think the reason it happens so much is because people play too many games and get tired and start throwing I bet you he doesn't always play like that
best part about all the pros/ex-pros doing road to SSL series is just exposing all the players we deal with on a daily basis
Whats the reason why they do that though? On a high ranked game, they just get deranked just to farm items they already have?? Whats the purpose?
@@JDMricistassuming you're talking about smurfs, it's all about trolling and boosting their egos by humiliating lower ranked opponents
Hes doing the same thing and so are others. Although not as harsh, leths game sense is so much better than these guys that they dont stand a chance
@@Kai_Laddekricht I am GC and have a couple diamond 1 friends I like to play with. Everyone says smurfing is wrong but it is unavoidable for me. When I play on my main with my diamond friend I de-rank down to c1-c2 ish and everyone just calls me a shit gc. Then when I solo q and go back up to GC everyone calls me an ego stroking smurf. Like the only option for me to avoid smurfing is to not play with my friends. All of us higher ranked players are not going to stop queueing with friends just because people have a problem with it. If I want to play with my friend I will play with my friend
@enigma5195 There's a gamemode for that ya know? (Casual)
Mystic goes for every ball he shouldn’t. Throws off his team, then blames his teammates for him throwing the game.
fr lol
SO MANY people like this. it makes the game not so fun.
@@Tenacious_Legend This is why I play with QC only and immediately mute anyone who What a save! 's me toxically. Keeps my mental up lol.
Dude I saved a replay the other day of a 2v2 game where, 3 minutes into OT, I had space and was dribbling the ball and my tm8 came and slammed me out of the way. I was like “ight🤷🏻♂️” and drove away, and then watched as he immediately whiffed the ball as it was rolling with nobody challenging it. Opponent drove up uncontested and scored an open net and I got spammed with “What a Save!” To be fair I left for boost after he bumped me instead of staying close so definitely a mistake on my part, but like.. if he made the touch I would’ve had plenty of time. It was a total face palm, last game of the day kinda moment.
@@kpDiDDy Problem is that, it's not really a mistake, if you were higher ranked, it's just a mistake since your teammate is a buffoon. Not going for the boost could just as well be a mistake if you are stuck on the ground while the enemy is air dribbling and you can't contest the ball since you stayed and didn't go for the boost when your teammate obviously had the ball. It's only a mistake in hindsight, which is no mistake really since it really is all on your teammate. But obviously to rank up you have to know how to beat the enemies at the rank you are at and you have to work around the flaws of your teammates.
I'm only d2 rn just so you know, so perhaps I'm wrong but as of now I don't think I am :D
Lately though when I have tried just playing faster and ball hogging more (technically a mistake) and just being more selfish overall, and it has actually gone better for me since I'm winning more often. I just figured that there is no point in trying to make complicated passes or plays, or waiting for a pass from your teammate that will eventually just pass the ball perfectly to the opponent instead. A lot of teammates in diamond just doesn't seem to want to, or know how to pass well or position in a way were it is possible. Even in diamond 1 (mostly plat though) people just double commit in the opponents corner, especially if the play slows down were lets say I'm patiently trying to get the ball around the opponent or make it awkward for them, suddenly my teammate rams into the ball with supersonic speed straight into the corner making it bounce to midfield where the opponent can slowly drive forward with the ball and score an open net... AND to add onto that, imagine being up like 2 goals, wasting time is a great idea in that case since there is no need to risk going for goals, but people just don't think that deep and they will panic and get mad at you for taking your time with the ball and just steal it from you (probably just launch the ball to the opponents side, giving away possession (instead of a controlled dribble or whatever).
Which reminds me of yesterday, a dude kept just shooting the ball away from both of us towards the opponent, so I started playing more selfishly and hogging the ball more since he just kept giving up possession, and the guy said "we need to pass" like I haven't been waiting the whole game for the dude to pass me and not just launch the ball away because he doesn't know what to do. We were losing 0-2 or something at the time with like 1 minute left.
yup thats a deranker.
Or a bot user and it malfunctioned.
(bots are back btw)
Whats the purpose to derank? Just make a new account right?
@@JDMricist i actually find it harder to derank then to rank to where i am, i find it surprising they can not end up playing at some point they are afk watching something or are a bot for sure.
Bots have feelings now. Disney is gonna make a movie about it with wokeness
@@luismora9121 ROFL!!! So true.
@@luismora9121ok boomer
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22:32 - I love the occasional reminder that Leth is in fact a human just like us 🥲
Thats me!! Ep1csm1th 17:37
Me too dude, I miss cookies
@@quoththekraven5911 I've fallen for the 'FF for cookie' scam hundreds of times. Trust me... you'll never see that cookie.
When did you play with carballtubeman?
You played so ep1c bro!
damn, i'd kill for a free replay analysis like this
Seeing a pro not understand or have seen a de-ranker smurf is like watching a royal come into the slums and not understand the starvation and theft going on.
“De-ranked Smurf” ? That’s a lot of baseless assumption lmao. Seems to me like he’s your every day cocky C2 who touched GC and now thinks he’s him.
>> "That's a lot of baseless assumption!"
>> Makes baseless assumption
Stay classy, internet.
@@Phraxas52 it would be baseless assumption if there wasn’t 5 minutes of evidence that he was trying. Hilarious that you think you had the gotcha card, when really you’re just a pseudo intellectual halfwit 😂
@@Phraxas52 it would be baseless assumption if there wasn't 5 minutes of evidence supporting otherwise. Hilarious, you thought you had the gotcha card😂
Stay stupid, internet
@@Phraxas52 It would be baseless assumption IF there wasn't 5 minutes of gameplay to support otherwise lmao. Hilarious, you actually thought you had the gotcha card XD
"I already know the read" "oh, i missed" @22:32
Every RLeaguer experiences this every time they play.
19:18 - The perfect duo speedflip sync doesn’t exi-
AYOO WHAT actually insane
Intentional Idle isn't super common from my experience (maybe 1/50-1/100 games). Also, if one of your enemies goes afk or leaves, don't turn it into a 2v2 or 1v1, they came to play as a team of 3's. If that goes against your conscience so much, at the very least don't be like, oh I'm going to turn this into a 2v2 by sitting in my own goal, your team will think they have a goalie and won't try as hard to prevent shots. I can handle my teammates rage quitting on me when we're losing by like 3 because, hey, we'd probs have lost anyway, when my teammate goes idle in a game when we're barely losing, or God forbid, we're winning, I might hop off Rocket League for the night after that game.
Pin this. I preach no mercy rules all the time. But Leth is Canadian. AFK is unacceptable behavior and shows disrespect to the very concept of time and competition.
Being the arbiter of whether it's a 2v2 or if an own goal should happen is bad manners, imo.
It's not common in your experience? Are we playing the same game? US-E is full of intentional idlers. I nearly can't play a single session without finding one on one of the teams - or people surrendering while winning at the very least.
@@Phraxas52also in USE servers, and it sounds like you are being incredibly dramatic. Every game? Lol what rank?
@@steelerfaninperusometimes maybe just something urgent came up IRL that you need to handle.
@@steelerfaninperu I do it if a guy loses connection cause that's not on them and usually do it until another person comes. If its a rage quit or afk and we're up I still do it to a degree cause running up the score just makes it take longer since it stops the clock. Do it enough to make sure we're up a goal and then just mess around.
3 minutes in the video and my question is, How in the hell did Mystic got the GC title
S3 GC was notorious for smurfs and people buying accounts at that rank
@@MikeBeardythat was the first season 3.
thats clearly red not yellow/orange
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@@alexdavis9324 Nope, pre-Epic GC tags are gold, after Epic bought Psyonics they made GC tags red. So it's the second season 3
@@ImThe5thKing bro, actually the first season 3 with the golden letters was ACTUALLY the scuffed season where many people managed to get the gc title, get your facts straight
the cutting is so annoying. Everyone at this rank sees you take a touch and take some time, and they assume you don't want the ball for some reason
I've learned that trying to control the ball below gc is almost impossible. Start a dribble and your teammate comes flying in like an ICBM to hit the ball off your car. Bounce dribble to start an air dribble and your teammate will bang it into the sidewall. I don't get mad when people try and make a play and fail, I get mad when people hit the ball just to hit it, with no real plan other than making contact. It annoys the fuck out of me.
@@demiseduke8000 exactly. You'd think by this rank they'd be over just chasing the shiney shiney.
@@demiseduke8000 In diamond it's so rare to get both teammates that understand what possession and control is. But when I do get paired with two players that respect each other's play style and pacing, we almost always win via a FF from the other team because we're just blowing them out of the water. It's so easy to tell when a game is flowing vs. when you get a chaser that's just causing confusion and chaos for everybody on the field.
How DARE you try to play intelligently while on my team! Surrender vote. Noob can't even boom the ball to the opponent.
@@demiseduke8000 I've noticed that if a ballchaser teammate rage quits, often the game becomes easier to play as a 2v3 because the bad teammate doesn't make terrible touches, like bang the ball to bad positions so the opponent can score. Also, taking control and possession of the ball often becomes easier. And maybe the enemy team relaxes thinking it should be an easy win and they're not used to playing against controlled plays. Talking about C1 though
I was sad at the start that I didn't get to see you make the meme of the day, then it made it to the end and my day was made better xD
We're doing them at the end now!
The “uh-oh!” at 21:26 is amazing.
I get aggravated when leth plays passively knowing he could dust them 🤣
Right I’m like why didn’t he go for that, playing passive asf😂
I saw that many times, from people taping down accel and turn, to software/automated methods to farm event crates or rank rewards...
For that type of behaviour mark the "Intentionally idle" and the "XP farming". Maybe even the "Cheating" since it may involve anti-afk software?
The guy afk at 13:20 would’ve been deliberately deranking, I’ve had games where I’ve had ssl players on my team or opponents and they stay still and just type in chat or just move slightly when idle comes
it's so funny to see leth try to make a match fair when an opponent idles when I just say "it's free real estate"
Thanks for reminding me. I bought a giant chocolate chip from a coffee shop earlier today and I completely forgot all about it.
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i’m pumped for next episode. despite hitting gc 2 in previous seasons, ive found my washed self back in mid c3 fighting for gc back. im hoping to see what mistakes ive been making without even realizing. Keep up the fire content mate!
The dude idling in that 3s game was probably smurfing his rank down. You don't get experience or level ups when you get less than 20~ points, so hes def not going for rewards.
Why go through the trouble deranking so many games from GC than just making a new account and playing a few?
The ranks are messy because people always want to learn new mechanics before getting their fundamentals down. I've seen golds and platinums who position way better but fall short cause they're inconsistent in being able to hit the ball. In champ, it's the complete opposite, they have better mechanics but don't position at all, Instead relying on recovering in time to boost back for a save
See, that’s what I focus on more than mechs. The MAIN fundamentals REQUIRED for you to rank up. If my team8 pushes with me I back off. I’d rather be back for a save than get scored on with an open net. I’d rather rotate and be consistent in my shot taking than be able to hit a double flip reset.
im a diamond 2v2 player and i cant do anything in the air but i always try and have my fundamentals down first in every game
@@SxvxgeDxddy Lethamyr showcases this perfectly. Not to say he isn't mechanical but in majority of his videos, he's playing off his teammate and just making smart touches, putting the ball in places where he or his teammate can follow. He isn't constantly trying to ceiling shot or musty every single shot attempt. and then you see champs and diamonds who constantly trying to play faster than is even needed for the rank and when they miss or fall short, they get scored on by someone who just sat back and waited. It's the reason that it's a lot harder to play in lower ranks these days because you constantly get teammates who are holding boost 24/7 and cutting you off for awkward touches just because they think you're too slow, and it usually concedes a goal.
@@TheVibe671 and that’s the main issue I have with most of the playerbase. If you can’t trust me to make a play, then don’t play with randoms. My friends and I all trust each other. Not saying I don’t solo q nor am I not to blame for half of my losses, but still. Patience is a virtue. 72% of my goals, come from my team8 taking the ball and me following up with their bad touch and bad play
@@SxvxgeDxddy Based off this I can already tell you cut your teammate off a lot Lol. It's not about trusting your teammate to make a play. People constantly think that just because they CAN touch the ball then they SHOULD, and thats not how it works. Sure you can get to the ball faster than your teammate can but you're not gonna be able to touch the ball into a place that is advantageous to you or your teamate in any way and will mostly likely just spill back to the enemy team. So many people will make a bad touch and blame their teammate for not following up when they literally can't, and they think that they were making a play when they were really just putting their teammate in a "Save it or get scored on" situation. Even in champ, people still don't think about making good touches and only about making fast touches. Almost everyone in these ranks thinks that getting somewhere fast by using all their boost and winning a 50 that they're the better player, and that is defnintely not the case. It's the same reason using the scoreboard as a way to measure skill should not be a thing. Someone who is constantly on the ball will obviously have more poins than their teammate but that same person is also making multiple bad touches that slowly put your team in more and more awkward situations only to inevitably lead to a goal for the opponent. That same person is then gonna call his teammate bad for having less points and not being able to save an incredibly awkward shot that was probably given to them by the person who is constantly chasing the ball instead of playing patient. Lethamyr also demonstrates this perfectly at 19:19 . He is in a better position to put the ball in a good place for a follow up, but instead his teeammates cuts it into the side wall even though there is so much space downfield that he can use to control the ball.
*leth gets 114 ball touches in a match* says, "i didnt feel very involved." certified chaser lol
People intentionally afk a lot in lower ranks. Probably for XP? DeRank? 🤷♂️
They also like to grief people.
Theres a common misunderstanding in these ranks that patience = Slow. Speed = Skill level and a fear that if 1 mistake = cant trust. I get all of them, but champ players fail to work with there teammates playstyle.
This applies heavily for previous higher ranked players where they end up trying to do way to much. They have to take the game into their own hands, etc. Mindset is what beats alot of people in this game
Exactly, the egotrip of some people is actually insane. Once you start using your brain and wait for the weak spot in the opponents play its the moment it clicks in your teammates brain to have to backpack you unnecessarily making the game hard for no reason. Then blaming it obviously on you.
Leth is such a teacher at heart. very much appreciate this.
Mystic is the perfect example of what Platinum in current-day Rocket League consists of.
Sometimes, internet problems I have had in the past caused me to not move in the game
You should do Lethamare, with your head on a horse body 😂
with the nightmare goal explosion
Stuff like that guy sitting idle for an entire match is extremely common in the lower ranks. Not for nothing but I'm glad you're seeing it at your rank because somebody might actually do something about it if you're the one that points it out. Then again, we're talking about Psyonix, and they aren't motivated to do anything about anything unless it affects the Pro tournaments
You should do “juisiuuu”
Juicy’s face on Ronaldo’s siu celebration.
Danny locust XD
I think that's how and why my teammate and me end up playing against champs in plat every 3rd game or so. Not even kidding, I'm always looking up their profiles with RLTracker when I get the feeling they're sus. I should screenshot them all and compile them lmao
Maybe, but I think it’s more that ranked is broken. A lot of players are well under their normal ranks from previous seasons. So many GCs are in champ right now still.
You get the ones that paid for the boost and went back down and you get the ones boosting someone (probably what that guy is preparing that account for).
@@jbone6979 I also think a lot of people got carried to champ and start solo-qing and go down. and then the season reset puts them down into P3/D1. Even with the big rank resets, i've still maintained D3 in 2s through the last few seasons without any trouble.
@@Kaaarrrrlllll they for sure have. I play late at night and it’s nothing but GC1+ and diamond 1-. I’m talking like 95% of the games, every single night. It’s so infuriating having to find something that works against both at the same time. I’d rather play against two higher ranks than this crap.
as a champ 3 player, I can confirm that this type of nefarious afk activity is normal
23:56 this kind of lobbies that I want to be in 😂 no toxicity..
Unfortunately the layoffs at epic mean they probably won't be banned. I've tried to be an evangelist of keeping this community 'clean' reporting bad actors whenever i see them. Most days I used to get the message " thanking me for my report and saying "action has been taken". I've not seen that message siince the layoffs, I think the support staff that would handle that were the first to go.
Its amazing that you have never come across people farming and throwing. Welcome to Diamond/Champ.
Hey leth thankyou so much for your videos they've helped me improve so much I have 120 hours and I'm now diamond 2 div 3
16:34 Lol that noise..! 🤣🤣
16:00 leth just can’t escape twos
Dude, I was telling myself that first game was a gold game then it’s ssl. Your patience is amazing and I feel like a clown for thinking this game changes for ranks.
19:10 he’s just an epic games employee just playing some competitive rocket league
Yes it’s common, yes it’s super annoying, yes people like that are the reason the game is dying, not just epic games
Oh, Leth, I run into at least one AFK farmer/smurf a week, sometimes more. Some more fun statistics: During some play sessions, 50%-80% of the games include players being toxic, I have to report at least one player every hour or so of play, I filled my blocked players list in a few short months, and this past Tuesday was so bad that in three out of a stretch of five games, a toxic player started playing for the other team. It's a shame I love this game so much because the people who play it are the cruelest, pettiest bunch of people I've ever met.
LETH ARE YOU PROUD OF ME?
This week, I [got carried to -.-] my first ever CHAMP RL tourney win, and after saying I would stop at Elite rank in RR, I made CHAMP THERE TOO! :D
I'm still Diamond [forever] in normal ranked 3v3 RL though 😂
love these vids keep up the good work ❤
Leth the knight in shinning armor trying to do the right thing but no mercy in comp. Always go for the throat. Then the kick between the legs for good measure.
the way leth calls his team mates bad in the nicest way possible
idk how i did it but i refreshed my youtube and this video was 12 seconds old... never seen that before but another banger by Leth
I got 8 seconds old👍
How do you know it’s a banger when you haven’t watched it yet
I’ve never seen a leth vid that ain’t a banger
15:37 is where he reports…
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you!
Oh wow... I'm today years old when I realized those two center white lines are the exact inside width of the goal... I'm like.. how do you know that ball is about to go in your net... And then I seen those white lines are perfectly lined up with the corners
LETS ALL TAKE A BLINKER WITH LETH AT 8:35
In Ranked 3s around the Champ 2 & 3 rank, I've seen a LOT of bots. It's so obvious they're bots too. If you watch a replay, they rotate their camera to show they're 'human'. They play for about 20 seconds then realize they're in way over there head at this rank and enable the bot. They go from looking like a Diamond player who can barely read the ball to perfect flicks and flip reset aerial goals. Their car is twitchy, like it's calculating angles and constantly moving/breaking... perfect kickoffs that snap their car's angle to the boost, then ball within a few milliseconds lol.
It's a good challenge to compete with nearly perfect bots, but dude...it's getting old.
Mystic one of those ballchasers that only leaves the ball to get boost, I know those players well.
i love how this is the first time leth has seen afk players, I see it almost twice a day
those players intentionally idling happens several times a session for me. i probably have thousands of those reports. its ridiculous
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@@imnotareptilian6489 if you're gonna queue ranked, play the game instead of sitting there doing nothing.
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Name idea: Petals intead of retals :) i can imagine his face on all the petals lol
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Mystic reminded me of a guy I played this morning in a 3s game. Before kickoff, he types "1v1?" After a goal I ask him why he isn't playing 1s then, and he says, "1s players are boring, I want to shit on 3s mains."
Long story short, he wanted FOUR PLAYERS to just sit around for 7 minutes so him and one other person could 1v1 and cost them rank if they lost.
Just a selfish player. Like Mystic was in that game.
Just wondering if having air roll left as the same button as reverse is good or bad, because im sure if it influences the way your car would move through the air, so should I keep or change it? I have it set as l2
Champ is a wide variety of skill. I’m C2 and not super mechy, sometimes play with teammates who are even worse, and today had a teammate who double flip reset musty 🤣
Honestly next season or something I'd love to see RTSSL for extra modes like dropshot or hoops lol
I love this series
lots of idle people in the diamond-champ ranks. Most people that need a smurf to rank them up are plat-champ from what ive seen so it's very common in those ranks to see someone losing on purpose.
Reporting people in RL don't do shit. Even they are own goaling, purposely losing multiple games in a row.
bro coughs like how a cartoon bully laughs ( 9:07 )
ive seen this happen a couple times before in diamond poeple just afk but not getting kicked just moving a tiny bit eather a bot or someone deranking
Yes he was farming. It's very common when I play in cas and just like you witnessed they never get kicked due to that slight movement so they can stay in the full game!!!! Of course epic games never dish out disaplanary actions cause you would get a notification if your report got them a ban.........
It's better to underestimate than overestimate = playing simple is better!
That dude idle is pretty common for me when I’m like playing and getting the same guy each time or something like that…he’s probably just tanking to clip on some plats tho based on the opponents reaction to it
14:18 I always go rule 1 the afk person. I feel like it’s the best way to handle it.
Name : Ahh finally a worthy opponent Picture : Chronic vs AkroniK - 2 tai lungs(from kung fu panda) facing each other
Its funny because mystic wouldnt say a word if he knew it was YOU.
I like how Leth calls out other people for their gammertags when his is CarBallTubeMan...
I’m sorry, but there’s no way that Mystic guy is gc. I’m a diamond 2 and I think I could do a better job in that lobby. I’m not a cocky player and wouldn’t normally make statements like that, but half the touches he made were touches that negatively affected his team.
people say overestimating and under, but in reality, each rank is filled with people that are good in that rank, and people that arnt as good at the others, like if you look at plat, is a really good exsaple
Solo queuing 2s so I can hopefully get in a video so he can roast me and I can get some coaching out of it lol
would do that if i didn’t have to deal with tragic ping as i’m an oce player
Ppl be like "I report players at least once per day" and try not to sound like apslayz while explaining themselves. We all suck, no way yall got the worst teammates of all time every time.
i hate to say it leth, but you scored a purpose own goal in the same game, another thing thats reportable.
i get you want to make the game fair by offering a 2v2 instead, but thats just not how the lobbies go and you'll justa nnoy your teammates even further.
My picture recommendation is Methed Leth. Plz make it happen 😂
Retals as flower petals please :) Also immunetoxic and cell_washed were both smurfs
I’m stuck in diamond and it’s insanely common. The amount of Smurfing in diamond and champ 1 is crazy lol.
when people sit still like that its because yes they are being idle on purpose but its also xp farming cause hes just letting his team do everything
that afk game was hilarious
im D3/C1, peaked C2 in 2s. intentionally idle or early quits happen a few times per session for me. i trolled my placement matches for 3s this season and dropped to D2, and it felt every other game there was a smurf. (I'm not saying that bc I lost games, I'm saying that bc half the time I play I'm teaming with my GC friend in hoops, so I know what high champ/GC looks like when they're trying to be lowkey about it- certain controlled touches that low champs/diamonds just can't get)
The smurf issue goes away as you climb into D3 and champ; toxicity peaks in low champ 2; and tbh the most fun i have playing is in champ 1. it feels like enough C1s know they suck compared to higher ranks that people get a little less toxic when you troll lol
you didn't troll, the MMR system is absolutely broken and busted. i dropped 6 ranks from my usual placement this season because i lost 2 games. that is not normal. it feels like there's smurfs in the lower rank lobbies because all of the SSLs are in GC, which makes the hardstuck GCs in champ, which makes the hardstuck champs in diamond, etc. currently in the plat trenches trying to get back to where i was last season in diamond and it's so hard trying to pick up the slack in my 2v2 matches, plat games are so much harder this season and it's blatantly obvious why.
I’m right there with you man. Played the game long enough to know what the ranks should be and none of what’s going on is it lately. It’s like almost every game im not actually playing the rank we’re in +/-
@@ultimus_ no, it absolutely does not. It’s never been this bad in terms of smurfs from D2-C2. This is why ranked is broken. We should be experiencing something similar, not completely opposite.
It's ok, I'm a deranker too. I don't sit idle like that, but I do lose all the time... and I don't do it purposely, but I do lose all the time.
😂
21:47 Leth went from 48 boost to 59 then picked up another pad and got to 72 😭 why can’t epic just make it exactly 12
Welcome to the Champ experience lmao. Idle players and kids who go afk after one goal against.
Leth is way too nice. My teammate is afk, no mercy from the other team. Vice versa, no mercy from me
I report at least 2 people Intentionally idle per session. quite common in my experience. (plat III, Diamond I)
I run into farming players about 1 out of 7 games. Just another reason why ranking can be a pain in the ass.
so probably 20-30 % of my games end up being 5 person games because people suck. on teh odd occasion that its someone on the other team(maybe 2% of the time) Ill take that win because the other 28% of the time I get smashed, I would absolutly report you for that clearly intentional own goal. and I like you. and yes that is a farming program that just boost a touch of "go" every 11 seconds or so.
I know it isn't related, but I think more RL content creators should outline what it looks like when someone is smurfing. Some players are lost in the sauce and just can't recognize when it's happening to them causing them to lose the drive to try and progress in the game. It's getting out of control and I think people should be informed about what to look for in the other player's gameplay.
Accept the L and just re-queue instead of wasting time against a 5 pass play past you and your gold teammate can't defend against. It's so obnoxious having to flip the mental switch between "Here I am expecting to competitively play against another team near my rank." and "Oh, suddenly I need to be looking out for aerial set ups/wall plays/shots to attempt to interrupt/read/save because someone needs 2 extra accounts to keep playing forever instead of just logging off and doing something else if they can't get a game in their region/rank". Variety, guys.
Farming rewards? Sorry, Epic took out drops after games. Can only get drops from challenges and rocket pass now
I think that player was just trying to drop rank for smurfing purposes 🤷♂️
When people are "AFK" PLAY ON leth... Holy cow.
Yeah, Leth also intentionally own-goaled during that match which is griefing/match-throwing. Unacceptable during competitive play.
I think why people are confused is because while you position better than most people in the lower ranks, you play slower than people in those ranks and still contribute.
I myself am sometimes annoyed by you not taking shots i would consider free
Leth now has the jstn cough!
That’s kinda insane to report someone for deranking to Smurf while you’re in essence smurfing.