That moment when your toxic teammate flames you for having a low scoreboard but it's cause they won't rotate and keep going for every ball in the opponents corner and you are just waiting for them to get dunked on so you can shadow.

It’s not my teammates fault when he’s literally playing against me own goaling on purpose and saving my shots cause I missed one ball 😂

Great tips! Here are the 4 B's that I use: Ball -> Bump -> Boost -> Back-post Repeat those, usually in order, and never spend too much time on any one of them before moving to the next.

As a hardstuck diamond, I would also like to say not many players drastically adapt their playstyle. Don't keep centering the ball for them if they weren't there for the last three passes. They want the back boost, they can have the back boost lol

To the end of the video. My Favorite RL 2s situation. Teammate hits ball center where opponents are. I rotate back to protect goal cause he hit it to them. Teammate spams “Take the shot!” As they are bouncing around in the opponents corner or goal and left me in a 2v1. Then spam “What A Save!” Gotta love solo queue 2s.

The best tip is understanding that lower ranked players do not expect you to have a second or third touch on a ball so they will go next (which is bad by itself) thinking that you’ve finished your turn and then it results in a huge whiff by them bc you’ve hit the ball again. I notice this a lot when I was solo qing through C1 and C2

Spend the beginning of the game working out the other players play styles and adapt. This is your team mates AND your opponents. Everyone plays differently around the field so it's important to gauge what they like to do as soon as you can so you can make informed decisions.

the bonus tip is really helpful its better to not take a shot then to get beat and give up a goal

Hey Luke big fan and wanted to let you know your vids helped me rank up

Such a high quality channel glad I stumbled across you SpookLuke!

Hey Spookluke I love the videos! Been Subscribed since 30k and it's been amazing watching you grow! Thanks to you I've hit grand champ for multiple seasons now and I would love to see a video about how to continue ranking up once you get to grand champ. Thank you so much and continue the great work!

You're wrong Luke, I do everything you say, and still stuck, these idiots will literally bump me out of the way on defense, and then get scored on, you take a slow touch they cut you off and go for ball, you pass them the ball they're nowhere to be found...I can keep going.

Trust me Luke they do hold me back they aren't even on my team I can't solo with them saving the ball from the other net or missing a ball roll save 😭

No you are wrong. What can a player do if the mates always leaves? Or doesnt play at all? Or a player who is completely boosted? Yeah this is not my fault if i lose in ranked.

I like these, this is stuff I'm usually doing when I rank up. The one or two touch idea I think moved me from d2 to c1 singlehandedly. I always called it the "just because you can hit the ball doesn't mean you should" rule though

Just like to say that I just started playing this game, finding it incredibly difficult to climb in 2v2 and 3v3 because MY TEAMMATES ARE IN DEED HOLDING ME BACK! When its a 1v3 or 2v3 cause you teammate quits or has 700 ping and lags out its safe to say they are holding you back.

Hey Luke, just want to say thanks for this and all the other vids. I started implementing these tips in some 2s today and saw a massive change in my playstyle and started winning more. Thanks for putting in all this effort to make us all better!

I'm around low gc1 and I just got this season's gc rewards easily, pretty much thanks to putting those tips/reminders into play. especially to always stay prepared for the worst outcome and not go for any risky challenges before my teammate is back makes a world of a difference

Well done yet again Luke! Keep it up man, you've helped me tremendously🤘🏼

Beautifully made video, great points. This was long needed.

I hope my SoloQ teammates spamming "Go for it!" every time i don't go for their center will see the bonus tip

Yea already do these but my team just usually aren’t as good as they supposed to be in as the their rank😑 And usually end up having to wait till I get the opportunity to score

you are awesome luke

I tell every bad team mate o get to watch your KZfaq videos, everyone needs to watch your content honestly

Some really good tips. I can relate to all of them. And most of them are so obvious but I find myself making these mistakes at times. Just need to break the bad habits. Nice one!

I tested the theory that most times you pass off the corner to center the ball results in the other team scoring. That's not true in my experience. I believe you can and should make those passes in the lower ranks, provided you hustle back on defense after the pass.

I love these vids, keep up the good work!

The Best RL Tips I have heard and seen so far. Nice work!!

Been watching your videos a lot lately, and finally got out of diamond yesterday!I never thought I'd see the day. Thank you.

Literally im aware of all these mistakes and ik when i make a mistake but most of the time its my teamates fault we lose the game …been stuck on C2

i recently was finally able to hit my original goal in RL of hitting gc after 2ish years of playing. i have worse mechanics than most people in champ, cant half flip, cant consistently dribble or hit amazing shots, or have any crazy aerial game. clean rotations, passing plays, looking for bumping opportunities, not overcommitting, applying pressure, and most importantly, ADAPTING TO YOUR TEAMMATES. you cant play the same way if you have an extremely aggressive teammate always looking to be on the ball vs a more passive player, someone who is always looking to pass, or looking to shoot, etc. your teammates are not horrible, you just arent enabling their skillset because you are not a flexible player. people who solo q are at the same rank as you for a reason, feel them out and look to play around them. the game gets EASIER as you rank up if you play this way, because it becomes more likely your teammate has a skillset you can work around that will secure you the win. if you just stop blaming everyone else for your own shortcomings.

delay time sounds like a weird word, i know it might be legit, but in my head, the terms you might need is "buying time" for your teammate, so that your teammate have time to come back

Our teammates are definitely holding us back Always getting matched up against two of same level or higher with a teammate that seems like they started Rocket league yesterday Worse when you are about to rank up. They throw intentionally In ones we play against SSLs

I told myself earlier today that if I truly deserved A higher rank, I should be able to work with teammates who don't have those skills. This is why I only got better when I started playing 1v1

Okay but that Segway into the GC Roadmap was clean af😭😂

Very good tips I have been watching your video's for a while now and I can see the difference in made choices between me and my friends who started around the same time as me

man these videos are so helpful and well edited. keep it up!

This is the best video so far! Appreciate it!

Here's the thing. I can't play how I need to with some of the teammates I get. If I leave them back on defense we get scored on guaranteed

thx luke really helpful :)

Actual good tips, not necessarily obvious ones. GREAT

Mistakes listed 1 - Side Positioning 2 - Straight Line Rotations 3 - Not Delaying Time 4 - Too Much Time On The Ball 5 - Going All In Inside The Opposing Corner Bonus - Not Playing Cautious With Centers Idk why you need this

I see this, then I raise you "teammate blasting the ball off your car when youre dribbling"

Really good tips, editing was fantastic, overall just a great video. Keep it up man

0:00 I assure you my mechanics are holding me back as well😂 but if I learn strategy and positioning I’m sure I’ll be alright

They actually are. Just won a Plat tournament with a couple randoms that were mad decent. Took a couple games for them to put faith in me as a heavily defensive player but we worked it out. They never made any major moves but they moved out the way and let me hit a few clutch arieals that made the difference, and that's not credit to me man that's to them for the good passing and rotations. Thank you random dudes

Committing these mistakes is a staple of my permanently gold game.

Hate when people tell me it’s not my teammates when they haven’t seen my teamates

The thing is, is that I follow most of these rules, but my teammates don’t follow any of them.

Delaying time has single handedly got me from plat3 to D2

I needed this

Solid stuff man

Yeah it’s my fault if I lose in rumble when both my teammates leave 😂

limit time on ball works amazing when your team mates sit back at goal or are rotating back with ball cam off

“Ur stuck cuz of ur play style” Yeah I thought so… just needed to hear it

Nah I’m definitely stuck because of my mechanics but I definitely have room to improve my game sense aswell. Solid video tho

Hey spook, do you think it would be good to try to implement mechanics from your previous tip videos and practice them in casual, because you don’t want to immediately implement, and you want to practice them, so would this be a good way to practice and implement them into our gameplay

Looking for the gigachad that summarises the videos...

Now just hope one of my teammates watch this 🤪

this vieo helped me out much w8inning most games rn

they really are my team mates ball chase, can't arial, try to do to many fancy shit they can't do like air rolling, wall shots and they never do rotations and they follow right behind me when i got the ball gving the enemy easy chance to score everytime and also last but not least they jump for balls im already there jumping for the ball

No exaggeration. I'm hard stuck d3 and I started following these tips closely today and had WAYYYY better games and teammates today

there is just one thing in the video i think is pictured wrong: when rotating back, u should not take a detour to grab opponents corner boost. most of the times it is better to go back an gather pads. advantages: u r back earlier, ur mates can commit earlier bc u give him backup. there are moments u can grab it, but u need a lot of awareness and mates who are rotating well

Yes our tm8s are holding us back. Not my fault if they dc or are just playing like a potato it's a team based game not a who can 1v3 and rank up game. The ranked system is flawed anyway because it doesn't go for your individual skill in any mode other than 1s. And you can't be everywhere at once and for whatever reason tm8s love to throw the ball away constantly and then when they do control it they just pinch it over back to our side like bruh does noone know how to just chill and play smart and not play when they're tilted af?

Trust me, I play like a gc, the only reason I’m still champ is because I backflip on easy saves and shots

Trust me I do all of this and still dia3-C2 hardstuck.

Bro I've been doing all of these for the last year and can't get out of champ lmao, also idk if i's just cus of the recent rank reset, but I swear the teammates are worse than ever since the new season. Bonus tip = "Take the shot!" x 3

bro i am doing all of these fr and my teammates whiff every shot and especially every save... i cant show trust in their plays and id say that i play TOO passively

I didn't lose a game yesterday when actively trying to follow these tips

Another set of great tips!

Some of them do but thats how you learn to get a good mindset to not let the bad games affect how you play the rest

This was really helpful thanks I think I will be in diamond now

The more I learn in this game, the more I find out about how much I suck

I miss one shot , my teammates plays for the other team my bad shouldve just used telekeneisis to play for him.

Thank you so much bro❤

This works if Ur team8 knows how to hit the ball and save

My teammate: misses easy aerials, open nets, easy saves. Yea, my bad

Most usefull rl tip video ever.Thx a lot

Recently broke into d2 and every time I rank up I keep hoping that there'd be less ball chasers.... nope

today I had a teammate that sat in the opponents goal when they were about to score in our net. He ball chased and double committed.

It's mind boggling how many players in upper diamond and champ still don't know how to rotate or don't care to do so. If I had a dollar for every time I get blamed for their fck ups... "Go for it, go for it!" "I would, if you weren't glued to the fckn ball and rotated back before you lost your third challenge in a row..."

Youve just described every single Plat player

on the first tip you have to come upp closer because they always go in th croner ant pass it in lower lobbys ofc

This should be my mantra, my bad sry teammates

You would be flabbergasted if you see my tm8s. You could handle them an open net that they will miss and owngoal just the very next play

Considering I play with my friend who I have to carry, and that's the only person I play with, yes they are.

One of the biggest problems is you might watch these videos to help but if your tm8s don’t, it’s still a struggle. Also, the people making the videos haven’t had a plat tm8 in a looooong time. 😂 They make suggestions like our tm8s are champ or above and understand rotations etc. it’s just doesn’t work very well.

When I play I normally go on the walls and centre the ball then rotate back and hope my team mate scores or the other way round. Thanks

When he says here's coaching but won't tell you a price its either hundreds (out of most price ranges) or filled already.

Ur stuck bcuz u ply solo queue

Ranked is broken. It is super easy to go down and impossible to rank up, at least in EU. I can't even remember the last time I won a ranked game and I am losing ranks like there's no tomorrow.

For 0/6 ppl -> training and 1s to build mechanical consistency.

The intentional trolling / teammates just disconnecting cause they’re raging…. Literally every other game. Then there’s Smurfs….

I have no idea if people will see this comment and respond, but what do you do with teammates who have literally no idea of rotation and just ball chase the entire game hoping to either get lucky or out mechanics the enemy. Like I'll see both teammates go in, and I'll go back to play 3rd man, and then they just never leave the ball and I'm just stuck waiting and waiting for a time to push up and take over, but it never comes, until I subconsciously creep up and the ball goes over my head and we get scored on. Or when theres a cluster fuck happening in your corner and your just waiting at your back post or front post to try to save a ball if it comes your way without getting caught up in it Like it feels so helpless when those things happen, and I have no idea what to do

My biggest difficulty when I'm solo queuing is kickoffs. I'm forever confused by what tm8s are doing..and the lack of k/o wins is astounding. It costs me. The players are not always bad, just odd strategy on kickoffs.

I might be losing because I decided to go from a hard hitter to a slow player. But every time I throw a lob my teammates are across the court. I have to hit my own passes

Im playing with my GC friend and i was keeping my own in-game and sometimes even carrying him

c3 tm8s whiffing open nets and saves really does mean it's my fault. The grind to GC once again is tough

What does solo que mean? I hear it a lot but don't know what it means... Is it searching and joining a game when you are not in a party?

I'm d2 and I reckon I get get c1 if I have better rotations even my friend says I am better than most of his tm8s and he is a c2