Until the nets wide open, then they miss
The best defender is the cross bar fr
Just had to flick it. Hey not just stop touching it? It's a huge problem in every rank. Showboating loses more matches than it wins.
Haha I think to be happy in rocket league you need a blend. I showboat every once in a while even if it cost us the win because it’s fun. I like winning too though so I try to not do it too much, but when you’re feeling it go for it.
I felt that
This touched my soul :(
Real as shit
Post isn't good goaltending
-Leon Draisaitl
Am I a GC?
Gold flair🗿
open net = hardest net
BDS moment
Someone had to say it
I head a good English teacher said that italics or "air quotes" or parenthesis were lazy writing, until you are an experienced author, then you can pepper those in with style (you're not good enough to use them yet).
A proper work can convey the message or argument purely on prose, not embellishment.
I appreciate that you used all three in the comment.
What an amazing saying
Yep all the rules u learn are a guide for when u dont know what ur doing and to lean on in those moments when u forget.
At high ranks some rules dont matter as much. Often. Dont have to rotate backpost always. U can cut in some times, taking the ball from a teammate is ok when u got mechs and wont just lose it instantly if he is uncomfortable or low boost, but sadly these arent always the case and even starting in gc many still mess up
Bold move to put gold and technical player in the same phrase. I am diamond and we are all kinda shit, sure they hit aerials, but it is mostly in a straight line, not spining and have yet to see any kind of reset that is not from a smurf
Fair tbh, hell I fuck up fast aerials more than I'd care to admit
There's one rule you shouldn't break: the rule 1
that's true
We dont miss we are faking 🗣🙅🏽❌
Some 10 y/o called me out for not joining him on his ball chasing strategy.... must not have been the first, cuz he complained about not being able to find a good tm8 all day....
Sounds like my kiddo. It's all good as long as he's winning, then it's "ball chasers" and "OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!" and "Cmon Teammate!"
I also suck as his teammate so he gets to learn a little control although I KNOW when I mess up.
You could also show him some of the whiffs, misreads, own goals and mispositioning from pros. Everyone makes mistakes... Just help and keep playing
This. So much this.
The rules change according to success.
If winning, anything goes. Voice chat laughing, quick chats “Nice one!” But even if you play the same, but start losing it suddenly switches “you’re bad!” “Stop ball chasing!”
Bruh. You’re just unhappy you’re losing. It’s not about ball chasing at all. They just haven’t developed the cope to deal with loss yet.
We got outplayed by a better team. That happens to anybody eventually you’ll be matched against higher MMR players and you will lose… the problem is that children haven’t developed the ability to accept loss without blaming somebody else.
That comes with experience and introspection. Unfortunately there are many 9 year olds in my lobbies who haven’t learned this skill yet.
Oh and another example are demos. If you bump or demo them “OMG!” It’s the end of the world. But when they do it to you… they’re angels.
Rules for thee but not for me, ey?
Have my upvote - this is so well-articulated and I personally appreciate the fact-based analysis. Indeed, 9yos have not experienced much and I’d guess that many are flat out incapable of introspection, lol… Must be taken with grains of salt.
Btw - you bring up another interesting one here. “You’re bad”… Maybe I’ve just gotten old, but when I was a kid playing on sports teams, academic teams, etc. I would have never dreamed of insulting a teammate like that — even if they were total ass. You didn’t have to like it, but you’d do your best to encourage them at the minimum.
RL is one thing with this behavior, but I coach AAU basketball and holy shit - this is everywhere in that sport and elsewhere. Toxic teams abound because of it. And I doubt that anyone would be surprised to know that the best teams are the few who play for each other, lift each other up, etc.
What have we done to our kids, lol?
I'm sorry I probably made your son yell at some point.
Ahhh, so glad I’m not the only one. This is Gen-Alpha:
This is also my 11yo - hanging on for dear life to Plat 2 - but can air dribble and flip reset from any angle and on either side of the field, can also Kuxir pinch, pogo, etc.
It’s really rather unfortunate that he expects his 2s teammate to play keeper (read: doesn’t rotate) and clings to the belief that his car will simply not move without 100 boost.
Recently, when I scored the 0:00 remaining, game-winning goal in comp 2s, he was really hyped because he “threw me a dot off the ceiling” (I pulled some magical air roll that I didn’t know existed out of my ass to get that ball).
And then upon losing a recent comp 2s game, I was called a “rank seller” despite having a higher score than him by a factor of two (oh and I’m D1 btw - he doesn’t like the harder comp when he plays with me).
(Btw, he’s an unbelievable kid, 99th percentile smart, good manners, well-behaved etc. and I love him dearly - he’s just not the best RL teammate, haha)
You age checking? lmao.
If a tm8 is complaining that I’m bad because I’m not ballchasing with them I’d ask how old they are too tbh💀
Honestly some of the best tm8s I’ve had are ones that will base chase a lot but know when to let you have it or rotate back so you can ball chase
That's just 2s.
Yup
2s is the only playable game mode, so that makes sense. In 3s, you can't even get someone to challenge off the back wall or cut the pass off. Just double commit to corner and cry
That's not ball chasing...
Yes it is
No it's not. Ball chasing is keep going at the ball even when you can't be useful, rotating too soon is leaving the play when you could still be useful. Keeping yourself in the play and knowing when to get out because it's better that it's your teammate's ball is not ball chasing.
That is ball hogging, ball chasing is different
Na uh
Ball chasing turns into “pressure” in higher ranks
What’s crazy is when my 1s opponent calls me out for ball chasing. Like fuck am I supposed to do just forfeit the ball because you want it????
Whiny 1s players are probably the funniest people in RL. They are inevitably going to be stuck where they are for far longer than they should be if they just looked at themselves.
Had s guy the other day in c1 2s get really toxic at his tm8 cause my team was winning by quite alot (complainer was clearly the worse of the 2) i simply said “you are here you suck too” dude challenged me to 1v1 so i graciously accepted and proceeded to destroy him in the 1v1 he said “you only score same type of goals” because he kept overcommitting to failed attacks and i just waited for him to miss and scored the open nets 😂
Just thought to myself Obviously if you make the same mistake over and over im gonna punish it over and over it was hilarious dude ragequit before the game even ended think it was 8-2 with 30secs left or something.
Lesson here is “if you are gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk”😂
YES! let me score damn you
I'll be shitty to someone for insano challenging me because it's just an annoying playstyle where they get one or two on you that work and then you have to catch up because you lost a kickoff, got weirdo challenged and counter attacked, then wow you're getting trash talked for being down 6 but if you replayed them and knew how they played, you'd either easily win or the game would be very close. Then you have to play to score goals while they can basically camp net for half of a game
"Ball chasing" is pressure at higher ranks, because leaving them to set a play will be punished.
How do I tell that to both my teammates sitting in net with 100 boost? :/
The worst is when those teammates think of you as a ball chaser and that they're playing so much smarter and their way is the right way to play. Like no I'm not a ball chaser you're just a net sitter
Oh for sure. they're that eel from super mario 64
and we get scored on by a weak air dribble because they let them have the whole ass field to get boost and setup whatever they wanted. "ball chasing" stops them from being in free play.
solo que is damaging my faith in humanity lol
From my experience you just can't, they either learn on their own or you move on to the next game.
If no one is challenging the ball, you about to get clipped on...
I suck at the game, but imo ball chasing is more viable for high ranked players because:
A. They have the experience to do it selectively and know when it will be effective or not.
B. Their mech and recovery are good enough that even when they make a mistake they aren't taking themselves out of the play for too long.
C. Some players are so threatening on offense that the best option to defend against them is to throw as many challenges as possible at them in quick succession.
Seeing a GC say they suck reminds me just how much of a noob I am lmaoo
Lol sometimes I feel like I'm good at the game, then I always get humbled by someone who is a little better.
I feel the same way lol. Top 0.whatever % and I still think I suck sometimes.
Im surprised how high i am compared to the entire player base and how far i feel i am from actually being good.
I still remember playing in my first CRL tourney. And playing one of the higher ranked teams. Thought we were good (all high gc players) VS maybe future pro players. Not even close to the same level.
Hell, C1s will lose their minds and FF at the first 1-2 whiffs, then you watch RLCS and see the same types of whiffs during a single game.
It happens to everyone, the majority of nerds who play video games have zero concept of how team sports work, and that everyone makes mistakes.
Also, people have good and bad games. It's insanely hard to play competitive anything at the same level all the time.
It's not even hard, it's literally impossible to play 100% consistent. Every speed flip is going to be a few pixels different from the last because we're humans playing a game. There's not a single superhuman brain on this planet that can prevent miscalculations like that.
yup and that’s not accounting for hardware issues which can happen to anyone
Oh man don't remind me. I have an official xbox series s controller from xbox themselves (3 of them to be exact) and they ALL have the same bug where if I press jump (A) and air roll left (X) at the same time, occasionally it will make me double jump and I fail flip when trying to aerial. I have to play around this issue and it's soooo annoying!
Except our brainy teammates obviously.
Best comment on the topic that I read, 100% agree
Not enough people understand C and its so frustrating.
I agree, yeah. In my lobbies (1800/1900) if someone is playing really passive, that just shows me that they're not confident in their abilities and I can win by just challenging them constantly and being annoying
This. the amount of times I've played 3s against a good team, scrabbled to keep the ball away from 3 defenders all flying at me one after another; only to line up the shot, and see one of them is back waiting in net while the other is trying to demo me.
Definitely gc and up is a lot of ball chasing but at a higher level and not as risky as when diamonds do it because you do have to know when to stop and when not to
Ball chasing at higher levels makes sense because your boost management is much better and you're focused way more on a first/second/third-plus touch. They aren't constantly cutting off teammates to try and touch the ball, nor are they flailing with zero boost to simply make contact for no good reason.
At lower ranks, people just boom the ball away, use all their boost to get to the opponent's side, then full commit to an attack in their corner. Or they see their teammate controlling the ball and go "can't have any of that. Playing too slow. Let me use your car as a batting tee."
High level ball chasing is about possession and control. Low level ball chasing is literally just "me hit ball, neuron activated."
You’d be surprised. I’m a 2s main. Idk when 2s became about taking turns doing solo plays but it’s annoying. Pass plays are more fun and usually work out better then when your tm goes for a flick and just gives the ball away or chases the whole game then is mad at you when you are not right behind them to make up for their mistakes
I know personally I lean more towards solo plays in 2s because I've gotten burned too many times going for a touch that COULD be a pass, but the opponent that may be out of my vision is potentially covering it.
Normally, my teammate as 2nd man SHOULD be able to see that it's not a safe ball to go for. However what happens 99% of the time is they just brainlessly dive and then we give up an open net.
A lot of what "safe passing' in 2s actually seems to consists of is playing 50s back to teammates or at least getting 1 outplay before going for the pass. But people in c3/gc1 don't seem to read the plays properly to be positioned for that. I know I'm guilty of it too, something im working on.
I'm a 2s main as well. I kind of feel what you're saying, however, I've scored numerous goals off of cherry picking solo plays.
I've played soccer my entire life up to the college level (as a striker) and have even turned down a semi-pro team. If people can understand creating angles on the field relative to their teammate(s) position, they could easliy climb higher rank than their skill level.
In 3s make a triangle. In 2s stay diagonal to your team mate and anticipate ball movement, capitalize on taking empty space and knocking the ball to those empty spaces when clearing. If you notice your teammate attacking with the ball from the right on a solo drive, anticipate the ball will most likely be cleared or placed opposite of the attack. If you stay diagonal about midfield, it will give you time to attack and defend if cleared, to the right or to the left.
I'm for sure one of the worst mechanical players at Rocket League in my rank. But I shine in rotation, predicting the ball, and cherry picking missed solo shots. Shadow defense is a must.
Sorry for the spew of text. You may know all of these tips already.
I agree 100%. I used to focus so much on mechanics but recently it’s been all positioning that’s helped the most, and anticipating where the clear will be is so important. It feels like not a lot of people position how you said anymore, but that’s how I learned and seems to still be the best but whatever
Solo plays are probably more successful in the long run as opposed to having to trust your random teammate is on the same page as you.
The lowest risk/highest reward plays are almost never solo plays. you can score from a team play without putting yourselves in bad positions if you misread each other.
It all depends on if your clicking cause yeah sometimes you and your tm are not on the same page and everything is solo, but I also get tons of tms that are right there ready for a pass
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I mean you can check my tracker lmao
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Also you seem like a prick maybe try to be more positive?
It’s ASH334, which the numbers are in my name lmao
This response is my spirit animal.
Ball chasing at higher levels isn’t ball chasing it’s maintaining possession and there is a difference.
Not to mention you're in a higher ranking therefore your teammate is a better player and should be able to cover 1v1/1v2 for a second while you get back to make a defensive play after your pressure.
The higher ranks you go, the less space you can give your opponents because they are more threatening on the ball. Giving a champion 2 space on the ball is rarely threatening and will lead you to an offensive opportunity more times than not. If a gc3 or ssl had the ball and space, 9/10 times whoever is closer will instantly jump for it to force a play with the ball so the person who is back (hopefully) will actually have a chance to defend.
This sums it up right here. If i watch my teammate constantly give the ball to the opponents or lets them take shots i can cut them off from, then I just do and force the game into the next level. I dont get many complaints lately as It seems most people understand what Im doing and why im doing it
So many people in this community have no idea what ballchasing even means lmao
Don't suppose you fancy elaborating do you? Just curious, no shade. I agree with you I think...
Ballchasing = good
Being out of position= bad
Applying the maximum amount of pressure on the ball is not “ballchasing.” Ballchasing is when you refuse to rotate so that anyone else can touch the ball to the detriment of your team. If you are able to manage your boost and your positioning to the point that you are challenging the ball in rapid succession, successfully…you are not ballchasing, you are playing great rocket league.
Thanks! Couldn't agree more. I think people confuse 2s rotations with standard rotation so accuse people of ballchasing in 2s.
They don't recognise that if you pull off and rotate in 2s when the opponent is countering then you're probably conceding far too much space instead of pressuring on the way back (or going for a demo).
The second half of your statement is every player from 1400-1800 in 2s lmao. So many players run to the goal line to play defense and just concede the entire field.
When you call them out they cry about “leaving them in a 2v1” lmao if you run back to net every play of course you’re gonna be in a 2v1
I think i remember hearing a pro said that the meta especially in 2s is you ballchase, until you dont, but in lower rank, they probably just ballchase, and ballchase, and ballchase, until they feel the need to get a big boost
I mean, if you dont ballchase, you gonna give space for you opponent
There is a difference between ball chasing and applying pressure. Like, If I'm clearly about to make a play and take a shot, but you are up my ass trying to get in on the play, you are ball chasing. If you cut rotation because you can clearly have a chance to make a good challenge and you can see that I'm in position to help out if you don't succeed, that is fine, especially if you know that I'm the type of player to read my tm8.
Things like double committing, rotating ball side and chasing it towards the goal, etc, those are ball chasing. Playing the game like it's 1 v 2, that's ball chasing.
ballchasing becomes not ballchasing when you factor in awareness of your teammates and know when to let them take it and rotate. it's when your tenants is constantly going for a ball that he should let you take that it becomes ballchasing.
Difference is at lower ranks, ball chasing is, "I'm going to go for the ball without any regard to my teammates positioning or even my opponents positioning at all".
Ball-chasing at high rank is, "There has not been a chance for my teammate to take over without risking giving up possession to the other team so I'll just keep up pressure."
I have a plat friend who is the worst ball chaser Ive ever seen. His ball-chasing is, he is rotating back, I am about to have full field control of the ball, he just stops rotating back and hits the ball into the sidewall. He ball-chases for no reason, there is literally no benefit to go for the ball, only down-side, and yet he does it. He "chases the ball" without thinking.
Ball-chasing at high ranks is - my teammate will get beat to this 100%, so they will not go, so I have to go. It may look like ball-chasing, but its understanding that you need to keep pressure up because of the situation, not because you want to just keep touching the ball. There is still bad ball chasing at high ranks, but there is also good ball chasing.
The difference is also on the teammate. At mid ranks, you guys are so locked into this idea of a pure one size fits all rotation. So if the ball is in the corner for example, you think teammate should leave and so you just go in. But teammate isnt leaving and doesnt even look like theyre leaving, but you dive in the corner too because its "your turn", then complain your teammate was ballchasing. Yeah, they were ball-chasing, but you shouldve just let them ball chase. Whereas at high ranks, your teammate will make it clear just by their "body/car language" that they are staying or leaving. If they are staying, you position around it.
tl;dr rotation at high rank is very fluid and situational. Lower ranks dont put enough thought into where everyone is positioned to be able to ball-chase effectively.
I don't understand any of this because I've never had to rationalize anyones actions during a match.
If you suck, you suck. If you're good, you're good.
Your feelings can go to hell.
I actually have found that ball chasing is useful and a necessity to stop the opposition from dominating possession, and to push them into making mistakes.
Otherwise you're just three players ball watching.
Outside of the top few % of the playerbase, you don't need to force mistakes. Watch Flakes' or Squishy's road to SSL and even up to Champ they can just play passively and wait for a mistake to capitalise on.
High rank "ball chasing" only looks like that to bad players. It's what actual pressure on the ball looks like when you don't think you need to slow the ball down every time you touch it.
Watch danmode in 2v2 and you can see they don’t rotate unless they have to. Good defense is under rated imo when it comes to winning games
I just wish some people wouldn't chase after the ball with no boost and rotate back so I can push up.
Bronze and Silver players know a lot more than people on top of the Bell curve.
Something about 'having fun' or something...
It can certainly seem this way. High rank ballchasing is ANNOYING AF to play against. Thats why it seems to work I guess.
When you don't "chase" on the right side your ball possesion is gone.
Ballchasing is the ultimate strat, the downside is that this is only true when you're better at it than your opponent.
I played a diamond level tournament last night with one of the worst ball chasers I’ve ever played with. I never forfeit but I was on the verge of forfeiting the first game it was so frustrating playing with him.
Like just about every time I went for the ball, he went for it as well. We fell behind early because of this, but I adjusted and forced a few turnovers which he was able to score and somehow we won.
But I just couldn’t even play for over half the game it felt like, I never knew where he was going to be on the field so I had to play super passive and there were times we were stuck defending for way longer than we should have because I’d have a clear path to clear the ball but he’d rush in and hit it into our other back corner right before I could get to it, and then we’d both be scrambling to recover instead of him just letting me deal with it. It also felt like he was stealing my boost a bunch and there were several goals over the space of the tournament that I either failed to score or failed to stop because I was low on boost because he had taken like 3 of the big boosts in one go around for some reason…
But despite this we kept playing and managed to win the next round like 3-1 after falling behind 0-1. Then in the quarterfinals we were down like 1-3 and managed to win 4-3. Semifinals, we go down 0-3 I think but managed to claw back and win game 1, 5-4 I think? Then next semifinal game we give up 3 goals in first 30 seconds, were down 1-5 at one point and wind up going to OT at like 6-6 I think, and won 7-6.
Same bullshit in championship, were down every single game. First game went to OT, we missed a great chance to score and they scored on counterattack. Second game I think we only went down 0-1 and then pulled ahead and held on for once. But last game, we fell behind 0-3 again and only managed to get back to 2-3 before time ran out.
Most stressful and frustrating tournament I’ve ever played. We scored like 30 goals over the 8 games but probably also gave up at least 25. And 85% of the goals we gave up were completely avoidable and solely because this dude had seemingly no clue about how to rotate or play with a teammate. He had champ+ level skills on offense and honestly silver level decision making and rotation on defense.
But this is also why you don’t forfeit or be toxic to your teammate. I’m sure if he had “What a Save!”ed me after I missed a save because he stole my boost and was the one out of position I probably would have just given up, or if I had “In Position”ed him, maybe we lose 0-8 instead of coming back to win 5-4 or whatever. But neither of us said a word in quick chat the whole tournament and neither of us ever voted to forfeit and neither of us ever stopped trying to win and we almost won the whole thing even though I hated playing with him the whole time.
When the other two attack the goal all the time, i hang back because triple commit losses games. When they rotate, i rotate. Different each game. The worst is when i center a perfect goal and the other two are hanging in the backfield....
I find proper rotation incredibly rare these days. The game is full of offensive superstars at all levels.
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I mean I’m not Grand Champ, I’m more often high Plat, low diamond, but the only thing that exhausts me in this game is in 3s when it’s like a 2-3 match and every goal my team gives up is an empty net. It’s like the second i go on offense my teammates ignore the goal and stay on offense and start shadowing my movements and we are cooked. It’s a game of offense and defense and I find plat players love camping on offense.
Yeah I'm champ in 2s and had to play permanent last man to carry out of plat in 3s lmfao. It is very sad.
I’m a filthy casual. But this game is great.
In champ the only people who rotate do so directly through the play and then complain
Just one example of ball chaser is the guy who'll score own goals redirecting the ball into their own net, when one teammate is already ready to make an easy save. This guy will come flying in supersonic & redirect it top bins in own net.
People who whine all day about rotations are the ones that do not understand it. Most players learn the theory behind a strategy/move but have no idea how to implement it. Then come to reddit to cry ahahahhahaahhaha
used to ball chase when i saw it necessary in high c2
Ball chase until you get some space and time with ball. Now do whatever the fuck you want with it to score.
I am at the 0,1%
I am at the 0,1% of the played base idk which side tho
So true
I’ve never thought of this before but makes so much sense after watching streamers in GC that chase like crazy
The best is when they tell you not to ball chase when they’ve been doing it all game and they want to be the only ball chaser (usually the case).
I'm certain my teammates look like the silver/gold character.
If im playing with a diamond tm8 what i do can be perceived as ballchasing but the truth is that he is just not making decisions fast enough and if i was to not challenge the opponent would have far too much time to just pop it over him 9/10
Ballchase so good you can’t get punished for it or ballchase so bad they can’t read you. Regardless, ballchase.
Pretty much
All about speed and prediction. If you can predict whats going to happen next, and you’re fast enough, you should absolutely chase that ball down and set your teammate up for a counter attack.
Whiffing Go Brrr.....Brrr.B..Brrr
You ball chase, I apply pressure and early chall to force dispossession, we are not the same.
What’s ball chasing? Why don’t people like it?
Everyone is chasing a ball that's the game woof woof
Truth of the matter, most players think they’re better than they are so they ball chase… immature and over confident
I think I've met like 6 people in plat that rotate correctly.
Ball chaser only valid title
I have a trios I consistently play with and it’s really fun because if we’re sucking it’s usually a case of not letting one of us have the chance to do really good for the ball and making a play
I think it can be ok to have 1 ballchaser on the team who is good at scoring but also balance with somewhat good rotation and someone usually closer to the team goal for defense...
What irks me is the guy who thinks he’s good enough to ball chase and gets a lot of points doing so(but not goals), then blames you when you have very few points as if covering behind for when he misses the goal or gets stuck in the corner means nothing.
It’s just learning when you should go and when not to. Lower level, it’s better to play safe and rotate. But when you know you can beat the opponent to the ball and your teammates can’t, it’s a no brainer to cut. You do just have to play enough to know when to do stuff like this.
For example if your teammates a bit too close and they clearly can’t see you don’t go (don’t cut across the pitch or perpendicular) because they’ll still go and maybe mess you up, again you’ve just gotta learn if you should or not.
Back when I was in gold and mid plat everyone still ball chased. It was when I finally hit diamond people actually started to rotate.
Simple you ball chase then get the demo: good, you dont get it : you suck. You ball chase but then know how to shadow defend backboard: good, you don t know and sit in front of your teamate: you re a game destroyer. Simple.
real tbh.
Every rlcs match and plat 2 loobies look the same but the speed is different: everybody going for the ball or boost.
Sidenote: the graph is kinda gaming dysmorphia... being Platinum 1 does not put you in the bottom 25% of players... or at least I hope not...
Mathematically this cannot work, surely. There are as many winners as there are losers in rocket league - at gold 3, you need a positive ratio to progress... you see what I'm getting at... as many people go down as go up, so if the 50:50 W/L promotion ratio begins at Gold 2, that MUST mean you have surpassed 50% of players at that point.
Nope you gain more elo then you lose in lower ranks
bro I'm so confused - does being a diamond tournament winner and platinum in every league actually make me in the lower 50%?
Yep it does. But dont worry too much about it you'll get out of plat pretty quickly if you just keep playing 💪
I had a supposed "GC" trying to tell me that he was passing it to his tm8s after he centered the ball in front of his own net ( for the second time!) in under the first minute of the game and he tried to make it sound like it was our fault for not being there 😅😂🤣 we partied up and he was a Dia 2 🤦🏼♂️
The ball chasing that an SSL does is VERY different than the ball chasing that a Plat does. A Plat will cut their teammate off to hit the ball to the other team when their teammate had a free touch forward, while an SSL will cut their teammate because they have a better touch and can actually do something with the ball. There's good ball chasing and bad ball chasing.
Ranked is stupid
Pretty much. Coming from a diamond that is
Uhhh damn...I was right lmao soz
Accurate
c2-gc1 is the worst rank in the game
Admittedly, I tend to be aggressive on offense, but I always rotate back and cover defense. I think I'm effective because I create good scoring opportunities and avoid pointless chases.
What frustrates me is when I score several goals and make saves, yet my teammate with barely 50 points complains. They're often hesitant and overthink every move instead of committing.
Once, I scored 6 goals, mostly from my own setups, because my teammate was too hesitant. Despite our big win, they criticized me for ball chasing and left. Like, we won by a lot, and you're still mad? They said "I hate how you ballchase and still score" and just left.
Honestly, if I couldn't ball chase, I wouldn't play. I love the chaos and creating plays with my teammate. It's the highest compliment when a random teammate praises my playmaking skills. Favourite one by far is "assist king."
I've realized there are two types of players: those who go with the flow and understand its just a game, and those who are uptight and just love to complain about ball chasing They'll throw the game and may even start a fight on chat. After I realized these people are not normal is when I realized they're not worth listening to as they would rather not chase the ball and lose rather than win through ball chasing.
For me there's only one important factor and that's being able to control the ball. when you can control the ball expertly then you can give me directions on how to play the game. Most of these people can never do even that.
There's a phrase from Pablo Picasso that goes, 'You have to learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist'
Think that applies to this idea a decent amount. Gold haven't learned the rules yet, or they're great technical players who lack team skills, or vice versa.. GC's have answers for everything and never 'miss'