Practice and play is the best advice.

Everyone starts out sucking. But if you just enjoy yourself the time will fly and you'll be in gold in no time.

There's some good YouTube videos that cover training for every level, and those bronze sections are a great place to start.

I'd also change your controls and camera settings early on so you don't have to break the bad habits later. The more you wait the harder it is to do. I personally use left bumper for air roll and power slide over x or whatever button it is, because this let's me boost and powerslide at the same time which isn't important now but will be later.

Okay I'd actually write a book if I kept going. But TLDR just play and do those training drills the game provides.. but mostly play. If you have any questions you can message me as well.

61 CRITICAL Rocket League Tips For New Players (Wayton)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHAvy2ldfAA

People, relax, OP is literally 1 hour in!

I would suggest going into freeplay practicing on hitting the ball and then playing some games against built-in bots. When you are good with beating them consistently - come back for next tips.

Regarding the controls, most pro players use controller but the best competitive freestyler in world (Evample) uses keyboard so it doesn't really matter. You have to find out which one is more comfortable for you.

If you want a quick tip: keep ball cam on.

Later you’ll learn to switch it on and off, but for a complete beginner you really just want to play with it on. Learned this from teaching all my friends how to play Rocket League.

Have fun! Thats the most important thing. Other than that spend some in training, but more importantly change the camera settings to what some pro uses or try different pro settings. Also if on controller try changing deadzone to 0.05 and sensitivity to 1.4-1.6. After that get used to ball cam. Its really important to use it as much as possible since it gives you a better view of what is going on.

Shot ball in net. win.

I personally like the vibration

I usually recommend newer players who are looking to get better check out Gibbs’ YouTube videos. Start with a series he has called “playing with potatoes”.

Don't hit the ball just for the sake of hitting the ball... if your team is in a better spot, let them take it.

Check out YouTube for settings, there's plenty of them but keep in mind it's personal preference.

Get in to freeplay and just hit the ball. Make sure you're in ball cam most of the time.

Sunless khan has a series on YouTube called why you suck at rocket league. Watch it. It will help you alot

Focus on the fundimentals. Don't skip out on them rushing into flashy mechanics, it will come back to bite you long term when it comes to car/ball control.

Everything that can be said has already been said in a bunch of videos on youtube, go watch some of those. This video from Thanovic and this video from Wayton are a good place to start. (stay away from "Spookluke" and dont buy any coaching until you have 1000+ hours atleast**)**

Find yourself some decent camera settings and just get comfortable controlling the car. Once u get the basics down I suggest grinding 1s

Learn how to enjoy the game, it is difficult but very rewarding.

Learning to Half flip earlier on will help a lot

Turn off chat or ignore chat when it gets toxic🌚 you'll have more fun

Just try everything out and get a good feeling for the ball and car physics. Most importantly have fun exploring :)

Welcome!

First off, bind air roll and power slide to the same button, you will thank me later.

I know someone else said steer clear from competitive, but I would suggest doing the opposite and playing competitive 1v1. You will lose, and you will be frustrated, but when you play 1v1 for a while (every touch from your team is your touch), once you move into 2v2 or 3v3 you will be able to advance quickly.

If you stick to 1v1, I would suggest turning off all chat, especially if you get tilted. When you first start out, you will find everyone isn't friendly.

Go into your first 20 hours with an open mind, and learn the basics. No need to fly, try to do the things in the gif's that are posted here daily like ceiling shots or flip resets, and once you have the basics down, you can move into doing some training packs.

Next off, turn off camera shake. Start with these camera settings: FOV: 110 Distance: 270 Height - 110 Angle -3 Stiffness .4 Swivel - 4

Learn how to defend because your teammates won't know how to.

“git gud”-Season 9 GC

Here are some tips I've shared before. Hope they're helpful:

1. Play RL on a TV or monitor that has low lag. If on TV, make sure you use the TV's Game Mode.
2. Turn off v-sync in the game's video options. It will result in some screen tearing (unless you use adaptive sync on PC), but you'll get used to it. V-sync gives you more input delay/lag.
3. Turn off camera shake in the options.
4. Try out the Wide Angle camera preset. Tweak from there. It's close to what most pro players use.
5. Turn off controller vibration in the options (if you like; it can be distracting and you won't miss it).
6. Change the controller deadzone to 0.10 or less.
7. Change the steering and aerial sensitivity to 1.2 if you feel the cars turn a bit slow. However, keep in mind the higher you set that, the smaller margin of error you have in getting a solid touch. May be best to leave it at 1.0 for now. (Tip: you can use power slide to help turn faster. But tap it, don't hold it too long.)
8. Change your button mapping: move both air roll and power slide to L1; move scoreboard to R1 or square (you could move boost to R1, but it's up to you); add air roll left to L3 (will be useful for half-flips--don't worry about it now but good to have when you learn them); (Tip: use the L1 air roll before you land to land on your wheels)
9. Do the basic training provided in-game. (Tip: you can jump a little higher by holding the jump button.)
10. Use freeplay to just knock the ball around and get used to how the ball reacts to your car and the arena. Practice controlling the ball slowly (remember to tap power slide for quicker turns). Once you feel more comfortable, try hitting the ball around faster and predicting where it will go. Follow it and work on your reads.
11. Try out custom training. Look for packs by Poquito. You can enter the codes from here to add them to your game (start with Ground Shots): https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/5siigt/pctrainer_the_ultimate_training_set_8_packs/. Don't worry about high scores, just work on getting solid hits on the ball before moving to the next shot.
12. Play against AI bots first, either in exhibition or season mode before going online.
13. When you go online, play casual games first before heading into competitive.
14. If people are being toxic, you can mute them during the game by going to options. You can also report them. If needed, you can change your chat options as well.
15. Watch youtube videos from SunlessKhan and Gregan about rotations and positioning, Gibbs about succeeding in the lower ranks, and Sir Timbers about the mechanics of the game like power shots and fast aerials.
16. Don't worry too much about rank. Just enjoy learning the game and improving!

You just need to play for fun for now because the early ranks are the best.

Only advice I’d give is to turn camera shake off, put your camera settings on something like 110 fov, 270 distance, 110 height. Also if you play on controller bind boost to LB or RB you’ll thank yourself down the line.

You just have to play it a lot

Go sit in freeplay and practice hitting the ball around. There isn’t really a guide to improve, more or less just some things most players learn at certain ranks.

Play 1v1 or play free play so you can hit the ball more. Do beginner training, watch YouTube videos for beginners.

Did you look at your controls already? The standard controls are fine for the beginning, but it can help getting used to an easier control set up better sooner than later. Same for camera settings and deadzone. I’d recommend searching a video about these topics on YouTube.

Other then that, powerslide and ball cam is I think what helped me the most when starting out( don’t know how much exactly you know already of course). Using these functions helped me a lot with hitting the ball. If you don’t know, because it took me a month to figure that out at the start, you can double jump in the air to get height faster when your left analog stick is in the starting position. You can also hold the jump button to do a higher first jump. You can also ‘feather’ your boost (quickly tapping boost) to maintain your height easier in the air thus flying more controllably. Don’t know where exactly you stand on your current knowledge though.

1.) remove camera shake 2.) check out a pros button layout and camera settings (squishy, first killer, apparentlyjack, anyone. Just get an idea of what they do and pick something that you think may work) 3.) try some basic training packs and check out YouTube for basic shooting/aerial play 4.) enjoy!

Save some random replays to have some fun in a couple of years

Don't go past gold 3

The first few months are the golden ones, make your car as stupid as possible and just try hit the ball and have fun.

Nothing about flip resets or air dribbles. Post disregarded.

Chatgpt?

Don't watch too many YouTube videos, you will only ruin your game because you will overthink in game. Just watch one or two and make sure to incorporate what you learn into your game and when you feel you improved (at least take a week) watch more.

Many newbies will try to train complex mechanics (flicks, dribbles, resets, air control, ...) first before learning positioning, rotations, ground car control (trajectories and flips) and boost management. Try to learn to be efficient when you move around the field. Being able to be here at the right time with 100 boost instead of having to waste boost just to get to the ball will help having easier balls to hit.

Oh! And try to learn to attack the ball with a jump followed by a flip when you make contact, not just a flip into the ball. It's more difficult obviously, but it's a requirement to be able to do aerial shots, good 50/50, air roll shots, ... and the sooner you learn it the better.

It was too long ago that I was a new player, so I don't know what resources I used, sorry. But you can watch everything that was made since the release of the game. Old videos are even better because the overall level was lower back then and so it's easier to find content that fit your level of play.

JohnnyBoi and ApparentlyJack have a YouTube channel called The Next Rank that is good for tips on rotations, mechanics, etc. The channel is a good resource for learning. Getting into free play to practice (in addition to training packs) has also helped me quite a bit with ball control.

When I started playing I played solely because 2 friends (who was champ at the time) constantly wanted me to join for 3s. Playing with people who are better will make you better quickly, so if you feel like you enjoy it, then just play with them a lot :)

Rule 1: never break it...

Rule 2: no antennas or toppers

Rule 3: Rule 2 is void if you have a really cool painted topper like a halo...

Rule 4: always use the motor mouth engine sound.

Rule 5: keep the ball up at 0 seconds.

Rule 6: turn off quick chat...

In all seriousness just have fun and all jokes aside Rule 1 is serious and Rule 6 is a best practice... Learn to demo, you can really help depending on the skill difference. Go into freeplay and just practice hitting the ball. Try to make it go the way you want it consistently and while boosting.

Rocket league imo has some of the best training and practice options. Try using training packs for bronze and silver until you figure out what you dont know.