crazy how Garrettg is on every page since start

The nostalgia is almost too much to take. Where have the years gone smh…

~10:50 johnny completely contradicts himself when viewing squishy vs jknaps and turbo vs kaydop. For squishy vs jknaps he said worlds is more important and eleague is on the level of worlds so he has jknaps ahead. Then for turbo vs kaydop he does the complete opposite almost and said that getting 2nd place and winning a much smaller event is more important than winning LITERAL worlds. squishy won 1 more LAN over jknaps and placed higher at worlds. But bcz eleague has more prize money it's more important than the other 2 lans even tho all of the top teams competed in all 3 events. Plus C9 won RLCS NA which he also used in his argument to add to kaydop's resume but didn't add it to squishy's.

Shout out to how much effort John puts into his work.

The Squishy beef is eternal with JB, Gimmick was consistently 3rd best on C9 for it's entire run Also, Vitality were much close to BDS after the Fall Major (1604 -> 1251) than G2 were to SSG (1403 -> 900)

I absolutely love these nerdy, in depth statistical videos that you do on occasion. Keep them coming!

gimmick over squishy is crazy

I’ll always remember how fast Lachinio was🔥

Wow the nostalgia. Watching kux/marky/greazy was so much fun even as a primarily NA fan. Also I'd forgotten how stacked 2017 was for events.

Sorry but this agenda against Squishy is crazy. Whatever his faults or drop off now, he was absolutely clear in s6. You can’t just credit Gimmick and Tor for just starting to catch up to him.

Thinking squishy was never the best player at any time is kinda crazy.

Seeing this list just makes me remember how insane Kaydop, Turbo and Panda were in the old meta. Just look at the season 8 world finals, all 3 in the (semi)finals. And to think the first time they appeared with high results was in season 2/3 of RLCS. I dont think we will see players as dominant as them ever again with how much the game is changing nowadays. Sad to not see them in RLCS, personally I enjoyed watching that time/playstyle of RL way more.

no way "i think if you ran that quarterfinal 100 times karmine wins more" is actual logic johnny is using when he's normally the results guy. that type of logic is what he flames other people for.

the Rocket d'Or

I love your videos like these

I started watching in winter of Season X, so it's great to learn more about the earlier seasons

I feel like individually M0nkeyM00n just was too far ahead for the whole year 2021

I'm sorry but Squishy 100% was the best new player of 2017, not JKnaps. Not only do I think this, but Johnny does too, based on the logic he used to justify Scrub's placement and later when discussing e league 2 in which he rates it lower than worlds. He just has this bias against Squishy that he's had since they had whatever beef a few years ago. I mean, that C9 roster was the second best of ALL TIME, yet they only get ONE accolade according to Johnny, a Gimmick "best second half"?

it's so great to think back to all these years. For example chausette, it's Crazy to think that in 2019 we were calling him the best in the world. So much history to the game that is easy to forget about now that we've come so far.

Worth noting that Knaps (and Chicago) in RLCSX were carrying Rizzo who was losing all motivation to play the game, which makes their pretty average (consistent top 4) results all the more impressive

The mental gymnastics to deny squishy a spot anywhere is something else. Actually get a grip and give the man his credit even if he’s a shell of himself now

Should have a best individual performance at a LAN category, some players may not have been the best consistently over a year but had insane tournaments

Ahh the classics... RIP Darkfire 🙏 🪦

what ever happened to eyeignite? came in not too long ago and was great and i forgot all about him

Has he done this with ones players before? I would love to see that

Can you do this with the 1v1 scene, so much fun to see it go from dappur all the way to zen then players like scrub killa first killer and Ohkhalid

Ngl I forgot about chaussette bro was so nasty

How was Chronic not best new player/ best 2nd half of 2022? That man is unstoppable!

Agree with most of it, but Atomic to me was so strong in first half of 2022 that I think he was underrated in Johnnys perception. Im from EU btw.

Ferra ended Kaydop’s 5 regional win streak. Ferra has now won 5 regionals in a row, Kaydop has now made his first regional in a while. Will it happen?

And here’s me (a newish RL fan) who thought Kronovi dominated early Rlcs

Nothing against sunless khan or anybody but I can’t believe you aren’t the number one RL KZfaqr. I subbed

RLCS S5 best player first half HAS to either be Turbo or JSTN. To not say either of them two is ludicrous. JSTN literally came into the scene and single handedly 1v3’d every team. And Turbo was THE player on Dignitas that just DIDNT let anyone score a goal on his team with his immaculate positioning. Panda was a good assist player but so was everyone else on that team. That’s literally where their success came from. Every one of those players passed infield every play and no other team was doing that. Panda really didn’t do anything stand out that any of the other players on that team weren’t doing

Very cool idea, great trip back memory! First half of 2018 was pretty interesting, i actually think Turbo and Kaydop were better, Panda was nuts but i didn't remember him as THAT player. I also disagree on S7, the whole conversation was if either Kaydop, jstn or Scrub was the best player in the world before the LAN, and Scrub won the S7 MVP, i think he also was the best before that, he was unveliabable all Season. I actually believe Fairy was the S9 EU MVP bit of a hot take, though Aztral peaked in playoffs. 100% agree on Gimmick, S6 NA MVP, equally as good as Squishy in S6 LAN, also with Kaydop being the best in 2017 and 2018, Turbo may have more LAN victories, but Kaydop was the better player imo, even when they played together

FairyPeak, Kronovi, JSTN, Kaydop, Turbopolsa, ViolentPanda, MonkeyMoon, Zen, Greazy, Squishy, JKnaps, Vatira

Johnny, the greatest rocket league historian

Worlds 2022 was in the second half of 2022

I tell people about prime deevo like old people tell people about brazillian ronaldo

johnny u may have some explaining to do about squishy brother

52 minutes of Johnny trying not to look biased towards EU and ME, can’t wait!

Gonna pick at you for doing it by year instead of just splitting it by each RLCS season, but I’m not the pro content creator so I’ll hush now :)

could not watch past him giving best second half to gim over squishy that is so unjustifiable its crazy

Overall great list, but there are my problems / nitpicks: 2017 best first half could go to either Deevo or Kaydop since Deevo didn’t have the best regionals while Kaydop was the mvp 2017 best player is Kaydop by a long shot. Purely basing it on results is stupid, Kaydop was individually waaay better than Turbo that year (best player of S3 regional S4 wc). 2018 best first half is between GarrettG and Kaydop since they were the best players for s5 regionals and it was super close between them and VP at worlds. I go with GarrettG because he was carrying NRG in the first series of the wc final. 2019 best first half is between all vitality players. Fairy wasn’t that great before the wc but probably the best at worlds day 3, while Scrub and Kaydop were consistent throughout the entire season. That’s why I would give it to Kaydop or Scrub. 2021 best first half should be Firstkiller or M0nkey M00n. Again, you should rate the player’s performance, not the team’s performance. 2022 best first half should be Vatira, he was better in the entire spring split, especially the major. I don’t know how you can even dispute that.

He hates squishy so much. But when we mention that were just squishy fan boys lol

Great until the end, Vatira?

The memories 😭

Guessed almost all of them but gimmick over squishy was a curveball I did not expect.

Squishy & Garret need a little more love

Disrespect to Squishy!

new players of 2022 is like the most stacked category ever. Of course there's Vatira, Rise, Joyo. Chronic too because he won his first ever major, Then there's all the new guys that dominated throughout the year but just didn't win like vati/chronic did: Beastmode, Daniel, trk, Yan, Ahmad,

The reason that there is no ksa player on this list because they didn't play enough tournament?

Dude doesnt know the difference between player and team of the year and his takes are so not in line with what actually happened in early seasons mans memory is going with age

appjack > rise any day of the week baby

Season 7 best player I would have given to kaydop instead of FairyPeak tbh. Yeah i can definetely see the point but i still think Kaydop would have a been the right pick in my eyes.

I miss turtle, why did he rebrand 😔

Prime deevo was my hero

New Player OTY for 2022-23 was def Yanxnz. Everyone was hyping him up as the best player in the world.

Very biased ranking on a controversial topic.

Thinking Kaydop better than squishy in 2018 is actually crazy

So in conclusion the 3 GOATS are Garretg, Kaydop and Turbo

Squishy disregard is a bit silly.

Biased.

People in the comments are really forgetting how damn good Gimmick used to be. I think Johnny still will always have beef with Squishy though

I haven't watched the video yet but I'm 100% sure squishy will not be on this list 😂

Where's squishy

Damn Johnny what did squishy do to you

Ive always rated Gimmick extremely highly, Squishy was great in clutch moments and got the clips, but Gim was just the difference maker on that team

Does anyone think GenG could become the most dominant team in history?

whare is OkhaliD

beastmode has to be somewhere

No Daniel???

This was a very well done unbiased list

The fall major grands should’ve been faze dig

Most of the communiy agrees that Squishy was best player in the world in 2018... He is so biased towards squishy due to his personal beef

Johnny I 100% agree with picking Rise as number 1 for the first half of 22

I used to like jonnyboi because he seemed like a fairly objective commentator, but the more I’ve come to know him, he constantly comes across as one of the pettiest humans.

nice vid

Enter zen

Gotta love NA chatters malding at the fact that G2 getting to worlds finals in the weakest bracket ever lmao. Putting G2 as the fourth best team at worlds is generous and all of BDS, Furia and Moist would have destroyed them in the finals

french supremacy

Kuxir Italian's Pride 🫶

nice

Another video showing JB's biased EU opinion & salty attitude towards certain players. 🤡🤡

w idea

SOooo biased, everone knows Squishy was the best player in the world in 2018 and almost half of 2017 but still you didnt even put him up.

Third -_-

2017: Turbo is literally the only person in the world to win both lans Johnny: Kaydop

Why is JSTN the best player in 2018? I feel like because finally an NA player got a player of the year Johnny decided not to spend too much time elaborating, but Vitality won S7 worlds and came second (in a super close series) in S8 worlds, while NRG were nowhere to be seen at S7 worlds..

The bias against Squishy is astonishingly blatant as can be

Johnny gave Scrub Killa the new RLCS player OTY award in 2018 after he was 3rd in a 2017 Dreamhack. I don't know why he would so specifically define his category and then break his own rule.

Daniel robbed

Aztral miles clear of jknaps for 2020

Completely contradicts himself with picking jknaps as new player of the year due to one big win that John values more than the smaller wins. Then picks kaydop over turbo right after based on 3 smaller wins (one of which is a 2v2 tournament) as compared to turbos one bigger win.

I’m sorry but squishy was the best in 2017

so biased

Already know there isn't gonna be a dingle na player as best rlcs player 😂 dude despises NA for absolutely no reason. Respect it tho

Mannnn the disrespect towards squishy in this video is crazy. Both gim and tor would have never seen the light of day without squish carrying. He saw their potentials and carried them both to opportunity. Then, they shined.

Turbo not being player of the year after back to back worlds is a miss

I usually like your content a lot and you’re my favourite caster in rlcs, but you need to burry the hatchet with the squishy beef… you don’t have to like the guy but you need to at least put your personal feelings aside for this kind of content imo.

Atomic not getting best first half in 2022 is just wrong.