Poquito's packs are great. Start with Ground Shots and Clears. For Ground Shots, practice dodging (flipping) into the ball so that the nose of your car is roughly level with the ball (depending on whether you want it to go more up or down) when you hit it. Work on different angles on how you approach and hit the ball. Once you get better at that, try hitting the ball without dodging into it. Instead, adjust the angle of your car with air roll before you hit it, and then keep air rolling as you hit the ball. That will produce a cleaner hit and reduce the recoil on your car. You don't have to air roll for very long. Just for the initial adjustment, and then as you hit it.

For Clears, practice power clears first. They're basically power shots (as I described above, especially soon after the ball bounces on the ground), but you're hitting the ball slightly under it to give it more loft. Once you get better at that, practice keeping your car grounded and driving into the ball right as it bounces. Work on that timing to be able to pop the ball up or down the field. Once you have that down, practice catching the ball on the top or side of your car so that you can control it.

Just remember, don't use training packs to just try and score/save each shot. Use them for focused practice on specific mechanics. First just work on getting good touches. Then work on your accuracy. And then vary up your approach to the ball to simulate different circumstances in a game. Repeat the shots often and don't worry about whether you actually score or not. Good luck and enjoy improving!

"Power Shots" was one I used aLOT, anything by Thanovic, he has training packs for every level of player, and the aerial training in-game are all really good. "Diamond defense" when you want to learn how to half flip :)

Any of the warm up packs are great, but honestly going into freeplay and just hitting the ball as hard as possible into the net from any spot was the key for me

“The ultimate warmup” I’ve been doing it for 3 years. It will make u good at aerials

Im no god at rocket league but I have personally found that the most beneficial training packs are ones for dribbling and ball control because thats one of the best things to practice early. I also stopped using training packs and started making my own ones based on things I know I need a lot of practice on. Mainly bounce touches into air dribbles and double taps or control touches and catches. Overall however I spend most of time in free play. Its the closest thing to a real game you can get. Great for speed training, practicing keeping the ball close and training yourself to hit the ball in such a way that allows quick follow up touches which most lower rank people don't practise and never see coming. Most people just hit the ball as hard as they can with no plan. Always think about what you're gonna do with the ball when its coming to you. Hit the ball with intention and not out sheer panic. Big mistake most people newer players make is playing too fast for their own good. Being a fast player means making quick decisions not who can drive the fastest. You should watch youtube videos if you're looking for specific things.

I stand strong by power shots by yeeza as a great first training pack

All the Standard Default Beginner Tutorials, also there are definitly dozens od videos with training for newbies

There’s this I haven’t tried it yet though so I’m not sure about the difficulty

Wayprotein put together a great list of trainings for all ranks. Here's a link to a page that makes it easier to access the sheet: https://sites.google.com/view/customtrainingrl. Once you're on that page, click the Sort By Rank Spreadsheet button.

I also suggest Poquito's trainings: https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/5siigt/pctrainer\_the\_ultimate\_training\_set\_8\_packs/. Start with Ground Shots: 6EB1-79B2-33B8-681C.

If you want to find other training packs, go to https://www.reddit.com/r/RLCustomTraining/. Good luck!

How many hours are you at in 5 years? Maybe you only play 50 hours a year?

First off, 5 years and still in gold/plat.. I'm sorry

But anyways, here's my tips:

First, settings. These honestly don't help too much in the short run since there's not really anything too insane, but there's definitely some things you could change if you haven't.

Keybinds: Idk what you play on, but your keybinds, if you want the most common champ+ ones, jump should be A/X, boost should be RB/R1, powerslide and free air roll should be LB/L1, drive and reverse should stay at RT/R2 and LT/L2, ball cam should be on Y/Triangle, and your left/right air rolls should be on X/Square and B/Circle. Personally, I've played with the default keybinds where everything on LB/L1 is on X/Square and boost is on B/Circle because I've been too stubborn to drop rank for a month getting used to new keybinds. You, however, basically have nothing to lose, so if you aren't using the ones listed above already, I'd make the switch.

Camera and Sensitivity: Camera is actually decently important, especially in the lower ranks where you always try something crazy. Here are some recommendations for those: FOV should be maxed, height should be 100, 110, or 120, pitch should be -3, distance at 270, stiffness from 0.3-0.7, swivel speed somewhere at or above 5, and transition speed should be at or above 1.3 (if you don't use the ball cam swivel time to see what is around you, use 1.6-1.9). Meanwhile, sensitivities are also commonly asked for. Your steering should be below 1.5, while your aerial really depends. Are you decent at getting to a ball in the air without whiffing? Do 1.3-1.5 for now, and slowly increase as you get even better. Do you think you whiff quite a bit? Try 1-1.2 until you get consistent.

Training Packs: Honestly, these aren't used too much. I personally like them but not many people that I play with ever touch them. Here are my few tips with those though: look in the browse tab for a striker pack and a defense pack (Personally I think the #1 Shadow Defense pack by Nimbus is great for low level defense, and there's another harder version of that if you feel like you want a little challenge). Then, once you found those, try to complete each shot 3 times in a row while shuffling your shots for both packs (or for like 10 minutes each if it's a long pack) before you queue every day. Once you get so used to those shots that you can complete the whole pack x3 while failing less than 5 times, choose a new pack. Also, DO NOT CHOOSE AN AIR DRIBBLE PACK YET, YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW THEM TO GET PAST PLAT!!! I got to C2 before I learned how to air dribble. You don't need them.

Final notes: It's really confusing to see you in gold/plat after 5 years. Something must be wrong. Do you think it's your defense, accuracy, mechanics, team play, or general rotation? Here are some quick tips for each one, starting with defense: Do heatseeker. Just spend a week on only heatseeker. It's a very incredibly underrated way of getting better at defense. Once you can go an entire game without getting scored on, outside of the other team bumping you or hitting a redirect, you will be much much better at reading the ball and getting a hard save in a real game. Also, this applies somewhat to mechanics too. AFTER doing the defense thing, try to find a teammate that will stick in net while you attempt to redirect. If that's too hard for you or you get sick of heatseeker, there are plenty of basic mechanics training packs that will assist you until then. For the other 3, accuracy, team play, and rotations, those are much harder to practice outside of real games. Accuracy can be practiced in workshop maps if you play on PC or in some open net training packs, but not many people actually do that. I'd focus on other things than that and let your accuracy naturally develop. For rotations, a good strategy I came up with is (only in 2s) to try to divide the field into four equal quadrants, and you should almost always be in the one diagonal to your teammate. Obviously, if there's a ball that you can get to while your teammate is running away, go for it. But in general, it tends to always work out. Other random things you may have heard before are back post rotation, not rotation through the play, and only hitting when it's necessary. If you haven't heard much about those, reply to this and I'll reply back. Finally, team play. If you don't have a dedicated teammate and you're just solo queuing, your teammates may be worse than you'd like. If you think they're a ball chaser, let them. Play more passive. You're low rank. It'll work eventually. If they aren't, play with normal rotations and try your best.

Also, use the octane/fennec/dominus if you aren't and take off any crazy toppers or antennas. Just trust me

I have a list of 4 that I like.

free-play-trai-ning

free-play-trai-ning

free-play-trai-ning

free-play-trai-ning

Turn off unlimited boost and hit the ball around and chase it, control it, push it slowly, make a wide turn to hit it hard. Thats all. Training packs are where the bad habits are formed, not free play.

You just have to play it a lot

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.

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.

Stick to competitive as it will give you a good marker to track your progress. As you get better you will face better players, and ideally rise to the occasion. For gaining skill there are a TON of training packs under the training mode you can screw around with. Start with the easy ones and work your way up and you'll have not option but to get better.

Hit the ball. Every time you go for it, just hit it. This will cement you into at least low Plat. After you can make 95%+ contact on simple balls, start broadening your range of touches to more complexity, but remember:

Hit the ball!!

Mess around in free play and get used to hitting the ball consistently (with ball cam on), pick a pro player or content creator’s display settings and key-binds you like and copy them, and just play and enjoy the game.

Keep playing

Just play the game and watch some YT videos, Sunless's "Why you suck at Rocket League" series is pretty informative.

do you play fps on keyboard? if so, maybe try it for rocket league. can't hurt to try it for a little bit. maybe you'll discover something more

Training packs and drills. YouTube is the place for videos. Don't sleep on the drills that people recommend, either. Even the simple ones helped me learn

Look at the kevpert YouTube videos. Those are good. Get some coaching if you need to or want to.

Maybe check some youtube videos and play the training maps over and over again. This could help. I only play casual and it's mostly fun.

Just peaked in diamond, coaching videos helped me a lot to understand rotation( Razmeltor helped me a lot but it is in french), also installing bakkesmod was a big step for me in training

One thing i do now, and for me this is the most important when i want to play on ranked, i go for a training with training packs on saves, redirect and shots,i train for maybe 15 min and it helps to connect my old head with my old hands lol

Also,in 3vs3 at you level, doing nothing and letting your teammates go full berserk in attack will often lead to a win, this is really boring but i got to plat 1 to plat 3 and D1 in a few weeks with this

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.

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.

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.

'Backboard Therapy' is a favourite of mine. As the name suggests it's a training pack with various hits to the backboard you have to read and score without letting the ball hit the ground.

Very useful throughout all ranks as the better you can read the backboard the more accurate and successful you'll be at scoring the in ranked.

I like hinatas ultimate warmup and the biddles progression. Uncomfortable saves is also very good. Then if you can do workshop maps there's one for shooting and one for dribbling that I find very useful, but I can't remember the names of those off the top of my head.

Biddles progression. Starts slow but grows into some very difficult shots. Perfect for offensive warmup.

Simple, but HIGHLY effective... Ground Shots (no code atm but that's the name of it) shooting pack.. It covers basics, soft shots, power shots, dribbles and everything to do with "ground play" (some jumping needed, but no high aerials). You'll notice immediately after running thru it, your shooting feels crispy.. 50+ shots so you don't have to worry if you screw up, just blast thru it. Really gets the fingers warmed up, so it's a good starter pack when u first hop on.

Air Driibble Mastery by cbell is my all time fave. the 3rd shot is def the best