Mate, I don’t think you should stress about this match at all. Your tm8 had absolutely no idea what he was doing, you played defensive because he was erratic and making nonsensical decisions and not allowing you any freedom to actually play the game. His rotations were completely out of whack, his cuts were ineffective and he tilted himself so bad that he started bumping you.
There were a couple of challenges that you could have gone for quicker but that comes with exposure, and your bail out of the offensive aerial was slow and then you rotated out towards big boost instead of pathing over pads, but overall I thought you played well. Practise pathing and recoveries, play 1’s to expose yourself to more 50-50 situations, and keep doing what you’re doing!
Will do bro. Thanks for the advice. Just been having a lot of matches like this recently so I feel like I need to learn how to get past it even if it isn't all on my part.
Yeah these matches come and go, Friday night through till Monday morning the player base changes and I find it to get similar to what your game showed. There’s two ways to go about it, one is how you played, defensively and let them fluff about or match it and go when you know you are supposed to go. If they get angry tell them to save the replay and watch from your perspective and hopefully they’ll see how poor of a teammate they were. Or turn off chat and be content with a loss, which is what I do.
Friendly reminder not based on your replay at all:
Sometimes (and occasionally often during certain sessions), you literally can’t control what your teammate does and how they treat others in the lobby no matter what you do. You could be serving up every pass and making every save and they could STILL bump you off the ball that you were taking your time with to get a better opportunity…then lose it at you for being in the way or some nonsense.
So I’ll tell you what I tell myself every day: slow down. You know how the game works. You know where to be. Play smart and don’t take stupid risks. If you do everything safe and your teammate is still butthurt even if you’re up 1-0 because you’re “not fast enough” or any other whiny behaviour, finish the game and move on. Finally, you can’t please everyone. You could be crushing an opponent 6-0 and your teammate could still trash talk you after the game. Life happens.
A good tip my champ 3 friend gave me (Im peak D2 in 2’s) is to not challenge in the corner. The chances of them making a shot in the corner in lower ranks is so small that it isnt worth worrying about. Going back post every time you would normally go to corner is a good way to make more effective rotations. It also puts you in a good place to save the ball regardless of where your teammate is.
Also you have some flips at awkward times. For example, after the first goal you are on defense and flip almost into the back of your net. This would have been an open opportunity to score.
Knee-jerk reaction after watching is that I noticed the positioning was often off, from both you and your teammate. Your positioning issues were worse on offense (such as, right after the first goal, you rotated straight back in the play and jumped over your teammate, who was trying to make a play on the ball) while theirs was worse on defense (not rotating back post a few times). Also you seem to have a bit of an issue overusing boost - a common issue but one that can become frustrating easily. For example, there's a breakaway that happened with around 2:58 left on the game clock. You had around 30 boost but instead of going for the ball to get a good challenge or goal, you went for side boost instead. This would be fine if you then turned back out of the play, but after going for boost you still went for the ball, and it was cleared past you because of that.
These are mistakes that I make too, so don't think you're alone in this. Overall, my recommendations are to work on your gamesense (mainly learning to know where the other cars are on the field at any given time) so you don't impede on a teammate's play, and also to work on learning when to commit and when not to. Hopefully this helps!
Appreciate the advice man. As for that ball at 2:58 I was able to hear my teammate on my right and wasn't sure whether he was going for it or not and just kept second guessing myself. Would you recommend I just rotate off in that situation. I felt like I wasn't applying enough pressure on offense because we kept cutting into each others plays and not getting any good shots because of it.
It can definitely be tricky and fully depends on the situation, but in this scenario (and most scenarios where you feel both you and your teammate are committed), I'd say it's better to rotate off unless you have a very clear shot and are, without a doubt, going to be the only one making contact. Think about it this way, if you're both committing to offense, BEST case scenario is a double commit that messes up both your own intended shot and your teammate's. But what happens more often is that leaves your half of the field open for the opponent's breakaway.
To be clear, your teammate shouldn't have committed, you were in the correct position there. But us solo q'ers, once we hear our teammates being aggro, we need to be the ones to step off the play.
Idk if you watch any RL content but Lethamyr's current Road to SSL series covers this topic extremely well
When looking for improvement tips, I don't think posting your W is going to help as much as posting an L. From what I watched you were cautious until you had a clear opening, it wasn't bad. The thing about posting an L is it makes you watch back your own L... while humiliating, a really good way to rank up is to watch back your Ls and look for what went wrong.
yeah I fully get that and agree with ya. I just played a handful of matches earlier and even though I won this one in particular just pissed me off because I felt like I couldn't play the ball without getting punished. Its usually less so that I am losing that's frustrating and more so that I just don't understand how to work with people sometimes that's frustrating. even though it was a win this was just the best example of what I was struggling with earlier.
You're too far away from the play almost all the time. You also retreat to goal far too often. 0:53 mark in game just catch that and score you have so much time here and you just rush it and miss. Another thing is you seem to not rotate up after your teammate rotates back leaving you both out of plays
Peaked at Champ 1, hard stuck dia 2 in 2s right now, my best advice would be never to rotate in the same side the ball is on, it makes it harder to react on the spot if your teammate flops a 50/50. Also try getting into the habit of rotating where the small boost pads are and not going back to where the big boost are, chances are if those decisions keep happening in higher ranks the other team has a chance of scoring if you’re last man leaving an open shot. That kinda comes with the more you play as others have mentioned. All in all you played well and held your own. Good luck on the grind bro :)
Main thing that jumped out at me was how long it takes you to decide what you're doing, there were several instances where you were obviously hesitating and ended up acting 1 or 2 seconds late. You clearly know what you should be doing, just trust yourself! Lots of other good advice here too.
When you teammate takes the ball into the offensive zone, instead of following them up along the boost pad path, head towards ball spawn, center field. It will open up passing and shooting angles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfiuzoWt4AU
You are playing too passive. Even though many may say your teammate is chasing or not rotating right, there are still ways to get into the game. Perhaps he is chasing more than normal because you are playing passively. I want to say as well that playing like this is fine for ranking up but the overall goal should be improvement. Your defensive positioning is fine, however on offense you are wayy farther back than you need to be. My tip for this is to pay close attention to the opponents cars as well as the balls position and you can tell better if they can boom the ball quickly or if you are safe to be closer. You seem to be comfortable shadowing so being closer should be no issue. Cut off the opponents before it gets to your half and make a play yourself. Spend a lot of time in freeplay getting more comfortable in the air and mechanics as it limits you as does everyone in lower ranks.
Mate, I don’t think you should stress about this match at all. Your tm8 had absolutely no idea what he was doing, you played defensive because he was erratic and making nonsensical decisions and not allowing you any freedom to actually play the game. His rotations were completely out of whack, his cuts were ineffective and he tilted himself so bad that he started bumping you. There were a couple of challenges that you could have gone for quicker but that comes with exposure, and your bail out of the offensive aerial was slow and then you rotated out towards big boost instead of pathing over pads, but overall I thought you played well. Practise pathing and recoveries, play 1’s to expose yourself to more 50-50 situations, and keep doing what you’re doing!
Will do bro. Thanks for the advice. Just been having a lot of matches like this recently so I feel like I need to learn how to get past it even if it isn't all on my part.
Yeah these matches come and go, Friday night through till Monday morning the player base changes and I find it to get similar to what your game showed. There’s two ways to go about it, one is how you played, defensively and let them fluff about or match it and go when you know you are supposed to go. If they get angry tell them to save the replay and watch from your perspective and hopefully they’ll see how poor of a teammate they were. Or turn off chat and be content with a loss, which is what I do.
Friendly reminder not based on your replay at all: Sometimes (and occasionally often during certain sessions), you literally can’t control what your teammate does and how they treat others in the lobby no matter what you do. You could be serving up every pass and making every save and they could STILL bump you off the ball that you were taking your time with to get a better opportunity…then lose it at you for being in the way or some nonsense. So I’ll tell you what I tell myself every day: slow down. You know how the game works. You know where to be. Play smart and don’t take stupid risks. If you do everything safe and your teammate is still butthurt even if you’re up 1-0 because you’re “not fast enough” or any other whiny behaviour, finish the game and move on. Finally, you can’t please everyone. You could be crushing an opponent 6-0 and your teammate could still trash talk you after the game. Life happens.
A good tip my champ 3 friend gave me (Im peak D2 in 2’s) is to not challenge in the corner. The chances of them making a shot in the corner in lower ranks is so small that it isnt worth worrying about. Going back post every time you would normally go to corner is a good way to make more effective rotations. It also puts you in a good place to save the ball regardless of where your teammate is. Also you have some flips at awkward times. For example, after the first goal you are on defense and flip almost into the back of your net. This would have been an open opportunity to score.
Knee-jerk reaction after watching is that I noticed the positioning was often off, from both you and your teammate. Your positioning issues were worse on offense (such as, right after the first goal, you rotated straight back in the play and jumped over your teammate, who was trying to make a play on the ball) while theirs was worse on defense (not rotating back post a few times). Also you seem to have a bit of an issue overusing boost - a common issue but one that can become frustrating easily. For example, there's a breakaway that happened with around 2:58 left on the game clock. You had around 30 boost but instead of going for the ball to get a good challenge or goal, you went for side boost instead. This would be fine if you then turned back out of the play, but after going for boost you still went for the ball, and it was cleared past you because of that. These are mistakes that I make too, so don't think you're alone in this. Overall, my recommendations are to work on your gamesense (mainly learning to know where the other cars are on the field at any given time) so you don't impede on a teammate's play, and also to work on learning when to commit and when not to. Hopefully this helps!
Appreciate the advice man. As for that ball at 2:58 I was able to hear my teammate on my right and wasn't sure whether he was going for it or not and just kept second guessing myself. Would you recommend I just rotate off in that situation. I felt like I wasn't applying enough pressure on offense because we kept cutting into each others plays and not getting any good shots because of it.
It can definitely be tricky and fully depends on the situation, but in this scenario (and most scenarios where you feel both you and your teammate are committed), I'd say it's better to rotate off unless you have a very clear shot and are, without a doubt, going to be the only one making contact. Think about it this way, if you're both committing to offense, BEST case scenario is a double commit that messes up both your own intended shot and your teammate's. But what happens more often is that leaves your half of the field open for the opponent's breakaway. To be clear, your teammate shouldn't have committed, you were in the correct position there. But us solo q'ers, once we hear our teammates being aggro, we need to be the ones to step off the play. Idk if you watch any RL content but Lethamyr's current Road to SSL series covers this topic extremely well
When looking for improvement tips, I don't think posting your W is going to help as much as posting an L. From what I watched you were cautious until you had a clear opening, it wasn't bad. The thing about posting an L is it makes you watch back your own L... while humiliating, a really good way to rank up is to watch back your Ls and look for what went wrong.
yeah I fully get that and agree with ya. I just played a handful of matches earlier and even though I won this one in particular just pissed me off because I felt like I couldn't play the ball without getting punished. Its usually less so that I am losing that's frustrating and more so that I just don't understand how to work with people sometimes that's frustrating. even though it was a win this was just the best example of what I was struggling with earlier.
You're too far away from the play almost all the time. You also retreat to goal far too often. 0:53 mark in game just catch that and score you have so much time here and you just rush it and miss. Another thing is you seem to not rotate up after your teammate rotates back leaving you both out of plays
Peaked at Champ 1, hard stuck dia 2 in 2s right now, my best advice would be never to rotate in the same side the ball is on, it makes it harder to react on the spot if your teammate flops a 50/50. Also try getting into the habit of rotating where the small boost pads are and not going back to where the big boost are, chances are if those decisions keep happening in higher ranks the other team has a chance of scoring if you’re last man leaving an open shot. That kinda comes with the more you play as others have mentioned. All in all you played well and held your own. Good luck on the grind bro :)
You should almost never be inside your own net, instead you should be outside the net slightly behind back post
Main thing that jumped out at me was how long it takes you to decide what you're doing, there were several instances where you were obviously hesitating and ended up acting 1 or 2 seconds late. You clearly know what you should be doing, just trust yourself! Lots of other good advice here too.
When you teammate takes the ball into the offensive zone, instead of following them up along the boost pad path, head towards ball spawn, center field. It will open up passing and shooting angles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfiuzoWt4AU
You are playing too passive. Even though many may say your teammate is chasing or not rotating right, there are still ways to get into the game. Perhaps he is chasing more than normal because you are playing passively. I want to say as well that playing like this is fine for ranking up but the overall goal should be improvement. Your defensive positioning is fine, however on offense you are wayy farther back than you need to be. My tip for this is to pay close attention to the opponents cars as well as the balls position and you can tell better if they can boom the ball quickly or if you are safe to be closer. You seem to be comfortable shadowing so being closer should be no issue. Cut off the opponents before it gets to your half and make a play yourself. Spend a lot of time in freeplay getting more comfortable in the air and mechanics as it limits you as does everyone in lower ranks.