Dear Platinums, I was wrong... (im sorry)
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- Dear Rocket League platinum players, I am so sorry. I was completely wrong. I used to always call platinum the worst rank in Rocket League. From now on, I promise to no longer do that. I had an experience that made me rethink everything I know about platinum as a rank. Today, I share my story of that experience that changed my perspective completely.
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For the longest time, I have always called platinum the worst rank in Rocket League. Today, that changes. This is the story of the single game that changed my perspective on platinum as a rank entirely. I am truly sorry for everything negative I have said about platinum as a rank in the past. I thought I knew what you all were going through and that all of your claims for false, but I was wrong. I hope you will forgive me.
Even though it's already blatantly obvious, I would like to clarify that this entire video is satire. Please don't take anything too seriously. Thanks for watching!
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Okay.
I’m plat Wayton, and I accept your apology
But do I?
Tes analyses sont uniques, je regrette de ne pas en saisir tout le sens du a mon niveau d anglais mais je dévore tes video avec grand enthousiasme a chaque fois !
Ok g
Yo 1v1 me if I win than you get to be nice to plats if you win than I will never flip reset again till I hit c3 🥺🥺
Wayton: Makes video about how plat is the worst rank
Also Wayton: Debunks himself and shows why he's wrong
Also Also Wayton: Debunks the debunk and shows how he was right the first time
Yes
yes we saw the video ur not funny
@@Mustang_99 your comment was so much better, I love it so much
@@Mustang_99 I had a laugh , the comment is funny
@@Mustang_99 Funnier than you at least
Just got out of Plat in 2s. And was soloqueing 3s in Plat yesterday. The amount of times I looked up and saw both of my teammates aerialing for a ball that wasn't event scoreable is beyond me. I know for a fact that if I hadn't developed a brain in 2s, there would've been 3 of us up for it.
Not every aerial needs to be scorable but both of them didn’t need to go up that’s for sure
@@thund3r94 and they probably tried to score with those aerials
I would've been one of those plats...
@@thund3r94 They probably weren't even facing the enemy goal, they probably started the "aerial" at the enemy goal aiming it at their goal and missed it
I agree with @thunderstorm that not all aerials need to be shots. People need to open their mind up more to the idea of passing plays, it is a team game after all. Does that mean that the aerials that the original comment was referring to are passes? No. They probably weren’t. But there is obviously a barrier in communication and it is difficult to tell the intentions of your teammates, so just stop finding faults and start finding opportunities. Some of my favorite games are the ones where I don’t constantly second guess my teammates and instead just go for what is available, and usually that is a better way of adapting to a new kind of playstyle than to insist that everyone plays in a way that makes sense to you.
This is a perfect demonstration of why I only play ranked with my buddies. I'm stuck in plat cuz I'm not that great, I admit it, there's nothing more frustrating than getting stuck in a game with players who's only strategy is to hit the ball as hard as they can.
did u watch the end of the video?
@@thomaspelling1741 probably, this comment is over 3 months old so who knows.
@@anthonymorris8891 lol true didnt look at that
I mean why do care so much that you cant play alone.
This comment and then his response to this comment is the most platinum thing ever.
I'm diamond in 2v2s and plat in 3v3, I can say, this is accurate. I had a game a while back where we were 1-4. We had one lucky goal at a kickoff but all goals against us were mistakes from all of us. Suddenly one teammate leaves and me and my other teammate completely turn it around to 4-4 and won in overtime. Sometimes 2 bad players is better than 3 bad players.
I love that conclusion
Bruh that teammate was like -12 stats
I always get so excited when the complainer leaves, because we usually score within 30 seconds.
at the start of the season with the mmr dip i got put into plat tourneys. teammate left before final but we won a 2v3. i suppose that situation makes you focus much more on positioning in a rank where not many others do 🤷♂️
I know this is late but I'm in the exact position (d1 2v2 p3 3v3). I hate playing 3v3 because it's a bunch of headless chickens running all over the place
I’ve always tried really hard to not blame my teammates, but sometimes it’s very hard not too
In plat I learned to not be the hero but the side character and you may win more often
We learn to discern when to blame and when to understand, as we have all been there.. yet its an individual choice to remember one's training, to role play/rotate and to be wholesome. Oh.. It's also important for everyone to know how soccer works.. In my experience I've realised that most RL players are not into soccer/football at all and dont understand that you need a goalie as much as a striker... and that you cant have 2 men on the ball.. and so on.. Teamwork makes the dream work.
true
@@TheGuyWhoCantPickAName bro thats so funny and true
Im champ 3 in 3s and even i struggled to get out of plat in 2s and other modes untill i learned the ultimate trick to win against plats.
Play goalkeeper and and learn to revert the ball in a way it directly aims towards enemy goal. Plats are allways out of position, they dont rotate, allways a free goal.
Even through I am a plat, I really liked the ending. Lmao
Kind of mad I’m a plat, I watched this whole video thinking it was legit, then the ending pissed me off.
Edit: I’m diamond now, you can stop giving me tips, though I broke my wrist, so I can’t sustain diamond.
Another Edit: Now i’m champ, and people are still seeing this.
@@mythicvibes5871 spend more time in freeplay then and be the change you want.
@@mythicvibes5871 it's the truth, alot of people have hit plat before it's not hard to spend some time in Freeplay and learn rotations, you just gotta have that last braincell to get out, I hope you find it!
Yes its like he anyway got to champion in the long term. Its just that in some games your teamates can be so unbelivebly terrible, that you have no chance to win matter how good you are and then after regonizing your teamates are terrible. You start playing the passive gameplay tactic of defending goal all time, until you get counter attack and so you can push to try score, but them your teamates are even more annoying, when they as terrible players copy the same tactic, when they should be better and not copy you, if you are better, than them, when it just increase your loosing chance, so its sad how terrible mechanics and terrible brains they literally got. Its that maybe some players never improve in mechanics, when their brains are just so terrible, while some players got very good rotation, but bad mechanics, when got big brains, but still not put enough hours into the game to become better with mechanics, but thats why they so high rank early, because simpy their brain rotation, while lack the mechanics that they will get over time, but these certain players got way too small iq and so I dont think theit mechanics ever improve, when its just so stupid and mindless rotation from them. If you better, than the average player in the lobby. Overall in the long term of playing you should improve your rank, while some games your teamates can be so terrible and opponents so good that you got no chance to win the game, but its okay, when you still get mechanical experience anyway from the game, so to next games you have better mechanics and larger chance to rise up rank, but Rocket League is just playing a lot games and, if you better, than average you should rank up, but you will not always, when sometimes its simply being unlucky, but the game has the same chances for making you great teamates and make the opponets have terrible mindless players, that got terrible mechanics and terrible brains to play the game.
Get clickbaited
3:54 is so relatable! The amount of time I’ve set up a good shot for my teammates, only for no one to be in position is so frustrating! Most of the time, in my experience, they would either just be chilling near our goal, or driving all the way back to our side to grab a big boost…
Wayton: “you should learn mechanics way later”
Also wayton:”flip reset is a silver level mechanic”
Wayton when I’m plat: plats are the worst Rank
Wayton when I’m Diamond: I was wrong
Same here
Same here
Nah, diamond is one of the best ranks.
Sammmeeee
Same here
Imagine getting called the worst rank and then getting jebaited after a small hope that Wayton changed his mind. Wayton is now officially in platinums heads rent free.
Gil - as a true plat (3s and 2s, Gold 1s) myself and a realist, you gotta be braindead to disregard the truth about platinum rank; platinum rank is the bronze of seasoned players. If you play Rocket League for 3 months or more, platinum is guaranteed as a minimum rank. No way around it.
I myself will curse my teammates, of course, but I also realise, there is a reason why I am there teammate, I am platinum also and therefore just as bad as they are. I think most plats know they are bad.
@@danielhobgen6146 Carry Me!?
@@tokyosmisfit2021 I don't have the skill to, sorry.
@@danielhobgen6146 It’s Fine Help Me Help You.!!
@@tokyosmisfit2021 ill carry u
(am champ 2)
The thing is, if I got 2 games like that in a row I would just log off and never get that positive outcome and I feel that’s what happens to a lot of people.
It used to be a fairly common thought that to get out of gold you needed to carry your team. so you had to be better than your team and your opponents team by youself. I'm betting that concept has just moved up to plat with the skill increase over the years.
No
Ive been stuck in platinum for 23 years. Thanks for bringing my story to light.
How old are you ?
@@Mohammed-dl3sg 23
did you meet every single plat yet?
Funny how rocket league was only made 7 years ago
@@gwoahw r/woooosh
I remember feeling the exact same way. Originally, I blamed my teammates because I would constantly get bad teammates while the other team passes as if there in champion. However, once I actually trained my mechanics and positioning I went on a 12 game win streak from plat 2 to d1. The sad truth that I learned back then is that if you wanna get out of a rank you gotta be better than everyone there. I'm c1 now.
i literally skipped from Plat to C2 just because i went on a massive mechanics and positioning grind. i think alot of people dont realise how much positioning really matters when you want to win. of course having fun also helps too.
I made a new account after being hard stuck gold and have been winning every game. I hit diamond in 3s. like what.
@@reneticsk You got carried to diamond then. 3s sucks ass and doesn't take nearly as much thinking as 2s and especially 1s. If you want to seriously play 3s with no bullshit you can't solo queue.
Or you just improved massively in that short amount of time and would rank in diamond in 1s as well
all of champ is a shitter rank, its gotta be the most inconsistent rank right after plat, although i had a gc teamate that missed the same last shot that waytons teamate missed so idk ig everything before ssl is bad
Same problem just with 100% bot teammate streak with my friends, I am all about the mentality but if I can mint up my skills, then I can hopefully get my Silver 1 friend and freestyling Plat 2 friend up off P1
ive been stuck in gold for 2 years and seeing these teammates im like "how am i still not it plat" 😭
Im D2, but I remember the days in platinum. I got so frustrated bc I would do everything in my power only for my tm8 to ball chase, take the first man position, then blame me for being "passive" when he gives a rubbish pass that goes straight to the other team. Stay strong platinums, you'll make it to diamond one day.
As I indulge in this content, I also ask myself, “Doesn’t it sometimes feel strange how many rocket league content creators talk trash about all the low ranks and yet smurf down in the slums and kick the crap out of us to make content approximately 10 times a year?”
Man said slums lmao
It is technically not smudging if ur learning something new. I mean if your a controller player and never played kbm, and then make a new account just for kbm, your not smurfing. Your doing something what is completely new for you so that doesn’t count as smurfing.
There are more potential viewers as there are more plat than champ players, that's all.
trash but easy content
I'm GC1 and I've been smurfing in plat since I was probably C1-C2 because that's where I practice my mechanics. Me and my doubles partner ff and give wins to everyone who stays to play against us. I'm much more of a mental/rotation-minded player and not mechanical whatsoever for my rank, so it helps me to put mechanics to the test that I practice in training because if I can land it on plats, then I'm ready to try it against GCs. I personally don't think there's anything wrong with it. I can practice against real people and get better in the process, and they get a free win. And if someone goes afk or leaves the match, we instantly ff to give the other person the dub. Plat has got to be the most toxic rank there is (champ 2 is a *close* 2nd) and I honestly just don't feel bad for them because it's so easy to get out of it once you learn to pass the ball and watch enemy cars. If you disagree or hate me, please respond telling me why.
Dear Wayton,
Hearing what you thought of me and my fellow Platinums truly hurt something deep inside my heart. It left an aching feeling inside my stomach, like you took a piece out of me and set it to fire. For a few days I felt empty, betrayed, and longing for your acceptance of my rank. However, after some deep thought, I've managed to accept what you have said and have started to focus on the better parts of myself. What you said has started a journey of personal growth, and I have learned a lot about life and how to make things better for myself and others around me. For this, I do not accept your apology. I am glad that you gave me the encouragement I needed to get my life together. Thank you, Wayton.
Sincerely,
A Platinum
@@MalakaiVSGaming lmaoo
plats still butt
@@Voizyn2k you are definitely diamond 1
@@Voizyn2k okay you probably got carried to diamond 1 and now are trying to flex over the rank you should be in
Have u watched the whole vid? xD
Honestly man, you weren't wrong. I have been plagued with tough teammates but it was watching ur videos that inspired me to start focusing on my fundamentals and basics more and has lead to me being a more consistent and well rounded player. This is Rocket League!
Yo honestly some seriously epic editing, the drama was real. Love the vid, rocket league is life!
This would be a great video if Platinums knew the words "I'm sorry" and not "WHAT A SAVE!"
@Family van Rensburg Ha.. somebody isn't ready for cross platform coms.
or fucking rotation
As a current plat. I have one mindset. If toxicity is applied to me then I apply back. Otherwise it’s a nice game
69 likes yo wtf
@Family van Rensburg well say bye to half the community
In my experience as a plat. The games are interesting as you get games where your teammates are not bad and games where you get teammates like wayton's. Also you do end up with a lot of high ranked smurfs in plat making it also harder. Half my games I wonder how my teammates can't even hit the ball while the other half I can't get my teammates to stop hitting the ball. I do however think I am not stuck in plat. Wayton is right mechanics don't matter to an extent. I watched wayton's stream of him playing with the piano, and I will say his mechanics even with piano were better than plat players just saying...
i got out of plat by hitting nutty stuff and going backpost
because i like to hit clips
I was stuck in platinum for like a year. Would consistently get to plat 3 and get stuck. The way I got out of it was (1) training enough to be consistent with open shots from different angles and (2) learning to hit or clear the ball off the wall. I don’t mean shooting the wall hits into the net either; I mean hitting them just enough to either stop/slow a drive from the opponent, or to help push a clear from a tm8 further out. Good luck!
mrknapkin says mechanics do matter in plat and he said it should be the priority
@@christiantaylor1495 Yeah, basic mechanics. As in, learn how to control the ball, and hit the ball *how* you want and *where* you want. Basic aerials involving getting to the ball fast and putting it where you want it. Plus learning how to move aorund the field effeiciently (recovers, wave dash, etc.) NOT mechanics in the sense most people mean, i.e. double taps, resets, ceiling shots, flicks, air roll, etc.
Mechanics are absolutely a priority, but once you feel confident in your basic control of the ball, it's 90% game sense and decision making that will get you up to champ.
I get this in gold all the time, as well as plat, I go to plat, get 5 of these in a row and back to gold, then constantly in gold too.
Congratulations! I played myself. I honestly thought a pro was going to hold my hand and tell me I'm okay
I feel you man. I'm in platinum and it is just so painful having bad teammates and constantly losing
i have an idea, if u get a lucky game with a good teammate, partY up with them! or if u have cracked freinds, and cuz of that plat 3 was too ez, just breezed through it
For the first 10 minutes of this video Wayton was like "My bad..."
For the final 15 seconds of the video Wayton was like "WHAT A SAVE!"
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LMAO LOLOLOLOL SO HILAROIUS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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reply section cringe.
There’s one thing missing in these plat vids: The fact that you’re always being challenged at this level. Even if it’s not a smart time for your opponent to challenge, they do anyway, which results in a 50/50 or them hitting your car. Makes it very difficult to get good, intentional touches. This constant pressure makes it really tough to pass or control the ball, so basically everyone booms the ball away when they get the chance. Often goals are a result of the ball ping-ponging around the net until someone knocks it in.
Not to mention your own teammates dunking on you.
Yep, those matches are really frustrating, just ping pong the ball until someone opens the net and the game ends in 1-0.
As a platinum myself i appreciate the apology lol, np tho, all good, i understand the thought process. Unfortunatley i can relate to playing smurfs, i rarely play platinums at this point... :(
this has to be one of my favorite rocket league videos of all time espiecally at the last few minuites with cool cinematics intense music with great sync, and then the insane plot twist its just soooooo good
This was by far the most intense Platinum Game I've ever seen. The one question im asking myself is: How did your m8s only get 50points in 5 minutes. Did they really missed every ball they commited for?! Im so glad im a GC3 player. Platinum seems to be so dissapointing. Imagine you are so much better then the opponents, but can't win, caused to your m8s who play like silver
i was platinum. that is true but one of my diamond friends (who i actually got coached by) got me to d1 div 2
You get bad teammates who play like silver and you get mechanical gods sometimes, and then you get some actually good teammates. Platinum is truly the worst rank and I just want to get out of plat as fast as possible so I can actually get smarter players consistently lol
@@C1el-_-.1 I'm d1 now but i cant describe how often i ranked up in platinum, won games in a row and then lost games in a row because of my teammates. I mean i had a lot of good teammates but many mates are not good.
Yeah I’m a plat, but I can’t tell you how many times I will have teammates that seem more like a silver than a plat.
I played my last 3 duo placements and 2 out of the 3 games my teammates didn’t do anything. I would pass back to my teammate for an open net shot and they would be in my goal “defending” and then miss the ball when they went to hit it, if you truly want to get out of plat I feel like you have to play with someone who you have great chemistry with and is around your skill level. Also learning new mechanics helps too Note: I’m still about Plat 2 Div 3
I like how the hopes of us plats got jebaited after that 10 min apology :(
That wouldn’t of happened if you used “half a brain”.
I just got of plat it’s not us if you actually play good it your teammates play style I like staying in the back not being aggressive so if I had a teammate that dose do the same thing it’s difficult to rank try to play with the aggressive if your not aggressive also we solo cue a lot don’t do that
this situation happens so much in plat, especially in 3v3. I always play with my brother and we're both diamond in 2v2 but we're gold in 3v3 because we always get a bad teammate and we literally can't trust him with anything.
Love the ending, keep it up!
Its easy to forget what it is like to be a plat for the first time as a new player. They likely don't have many hrs played and even less knowledge about the game sense itself. There are exceptions of course with those that just choose not to learn and therefore not progress. But in general, I believe they have just not played enough to know better. Love the video. Soo well done as expected. Your edits are always sooo freaking good. And commentary. And execution. Best by far imho for RL content. The very end had me ded. lol Great stuff.
This is why I think new players should mess around in casual a ton before going into ranked. I personally never landed anywhere below diamond because I spent a lot of time in casual when I first got the game.
GrandpahGamer back with more quotes
"new player" lol
I've spent many a toddler naps getting up to plat 3 :p
Grandpah - I think plat is the casual of competitive ranking. What you said is true, I am plat because I am bad and I am bad because I refuse to learn the game. I ain't got time for that, I just want to play competitively and see where I rank.
@@danielhobgen6146 that's actually a spot on way to put it.
Im diamond 3 in rank, but a plat at heart. My dear plat friends, hope to see you all soon in my lobbies.
hit plat division 4 today had a 5 game win streak then the curse of retarded teams dragged me down to the pits of hell with them
You should hope to see mee, a plat who should be dia 1 or 2
@@madhatterentmt6146 happens.
I literally play with diamond 1 and 2 homies and out perform them every game and they always tell me I should be diamond lmao
@@sean_h1165 smh
Lmao well edited. This was hilarious
I've ended up ranking on D just by learning the game concepts instead of mechanics.
it's all about learning how to position, and how to rotate with your team (and shadow defense is really handy).
although on D those mechanics will make a difference.
I thought as soon as I saw the title it was gonna be a prank and wayton would just be insulting plats even more lol
@@BroletariatRL we need more people like you that are honest, not the "im plat and i can double flip reset"
@@BroletariatRL I man how are u haha
Yep me too
I was thinking at the end that the screen would just go black and he would burst out laughing saying we all got pranked lmao
lmao I can't tell if whooshed or adding to the joke
I still remember those times... I had gotten plat, 3 seasons ago, and kept getting pissed at teammates. The way I ranked up (after trying all strats), was to wait for the next season's placements 🤣
Thank you. I'm one of many plats that are stuck because of bad teammates. It is finally revealed to everyone that plats games can be very... strange.
As a low GC who used to boost a lot from from bronze/gold - champ I found mechanics are the single most important thing to carry. If I'm way faster than all the plat 2's I just ball chase and I found it far more effective than rotating and focusing on positioning like I would on my main.
wayton u sure know how to make a plat game look interesting. i nearly cried when u lost.
You mean tears of joy
bruh you sensitive as hell
I'm quite happy that you made this video wayton! I was stuck in plat for over a year, and I feel great that so many higher rank people are now going to understand the struggle that they may have not had to go through. I'm now a happy diamond.
Did you see the ending?
@@TheRaelliot yes lmao i was being sarcastic
Plat=L
This is very true when I was play with 60 hours I lacked a lot of game sense but I started learning rotations and was saving most of the shots and my tm8 would attak without overcommitting this made me speedrun through play with a win streak of 8 to daimond 1 :)
Maaaaan and here i was thinking you understood the pain of being plat! Lol good video
I've always said it's possible to lose games because of your teammates, but it will balance out over time. Your video shows this.
for sure. ive had games where i cant do anything right, had games where i do everything perfect and games with a smurf clipping people. it all works out in the end.
no it doesnt. im champ now but when i was plat i was Diamond 3 in 1v1, so obviously it was my teammates. solo q i probably still couldnt get out of plat. i needed champ tm8s to party with me on alt accounts
@@christiantaylor1495 mines the opposite almost. Im plat 1 in 1's. I hit Diamond 1 in 2s yesterday. In 2s and 3s the other guys push upfield more so feel like i have to cover mid and net. In 1s i get impatient and dive on shots in my own half, or overcommit up the other end and give away easy goals.
The comedy in this video had me dying. Literally had teammates the were so passive and missed so many shots the I ended up getting really upset. I definitely can relate.Im D1 and had Plat 3 teammates. they sat in goal together while I pushed solo. Its hard to find teammates
It still happens in champ 2 😭😭😭
Bro when he said having half a Brian could breeze through platinum I was insulted as a non mechanical diamond
Solo queuing comp 3s is a nightmare for me. The game with teammates that did nothing is literally my life. Or the scenario where 1 or both teammates decide to quit within the first minute
My brother and I got platinum as our first ever ranks and we were so proud at first, only to then find out that literally no one likes plat players for some reason, the pain we felt was immeasurable
These bad teammates, just minding their own business playing a game, actually gave me a deep seething hatred I haven’t felt since I was in play so many years ago.
As a platnium i can say, the tm8s you had were below averge plats (in my games the tm8s sucks too but not as bad) and you were playing way faster than them and they couldnot keep up
Below average? The worst you mean 😂
You know he’s a true Rocket League player when he types ‘tm8s’ 😂😂
Those were guys were probably better than my average team8
Nah dude did you see how they hit the ball? Literal silver, they cant even control their cars when they hit the ball, they ball chase, yeah sounds like silver to me, they probably got carried into plat bc they dont deserve to be there
bro im bronze and theyre playing exacly like me loool
Please make more of these ♥️
Pure Content ngl
I feel hyped to rank up now. Thanks! Wish us, NotBots to get into RLCS!
This is platinum welcome Wayton. Oh yes, and these are normal teammates
Even in d3 :(
@@DefinitelyJayJay07 can confirm
not all their some good ones but it rare
@@billiardsfun7862 yeah my last one was a smurf he was actually a champ trash talking me in 3v3 we won at the end and now we did a 1v1 he beat me 5-2 but he’s a lot higher ranked than me
2/6 guys in my platinum lobby can air dribble
Even though I got some games with team8s like that, majority of time I had team8s that were decent, which meant that the games with bad team8s didn’t matter and could push up to champ which proves that while games with bad team8s suck, they don’t matter too much
It just hurts your bottom line percentage wise and makes youre room for error incredibly low
The part where you said that its me against my tm, thats exactly how i feel.
I am currently a platinum and i keep deranking to gold and than to almost diamond again, ranking up is pretty hard when ur in plat.
Im trying to hit diamond, and i would be incredibly happy if i made it
I love the video it makes it clearer
I used to be a d3 in 3s, but now after I finished my placements, I placed in plat for some reason and now I am stuck in plat 3, I was so happy when I saw this video, but then the ending crushed me
queue together?
@@starscreen.202 ok
It's fine bro I am C3 in 3s and when I play on my smurf I lose some games in platinum lobbies, that shows how bad teammates could be. 3v3 matches just turn into 1v5 sometimes.
@@abdulazizalsubaai9030 imagine smurfing
@@abdulazizalsubaai9030 Youre part of the problem tbh, I get to plat one or two and get braziled by a Smurf like u, stopping me from ranking up
The "teammate theory" is spot on... However, it's not just Plat. It's in Gold as well. I am a solo queue, regularly. I am an older guy who started playing for my son (he no longer plays, but I am addicted). Therefore (being older) I have no friends who play regularly and have to depend on random teammates. If I push up, they let the other team score. If I hang back, they ball chase in random corners (with no scoring). Super frustrating. I want to get better and rank up. But there is no help being a solo player.
We could play together I'm in a similar situation 😋
I just got to c1, but if you need someone to queue up with hit me up on here
Thank you. It's greatly appreciated. I am on Epic as "0_Fks_Givn". The name was born from finally not caring about ball hogs, ball chasers, basic toxic players.
This does not go away aftee you leave plat. Ever rank has people who dont belong in it be they smurfs or people who (paid to) get carried there. Just gotta realize cant win em all
I was in the same situation, trust me in the lower ranks u want to focus on game sense that’s how I soloed to diamond
As someone who has been stuck in plat 3 for a long time seeing this video really helped me understand why I’m not diamond. Thank you and I forgive you, Wayton
Just hit champ with 100 hours on the game
@Alexanderthegreat 🤓
Knowing the wide range of skill in plat, im just glad i got out of plat so quickly when i started playing 💀
You have no idea how hard it was for me to go from plat 3 to diamond 1.
You know he also went from plat 3 to diamond at one point
@@SooClassy no duh genius
@@SooClassy and look now, he has much better game sense and he still apologized. He’s been playing since the game first released, before even I started 4th grade. So look now, he sees the truth
Lmao took me 7 month from literal first time playing till im C1
@@ousmanebagayoko5896 guess you didn’t see the whole video kekw
I can honestly say, the moment I stopped blaming my team mates and fully started focusing on rotations, positioning, watching replays to seek out my bad habits/common mistakes and basic mechanics is the moments I started leveling up super fast. And you’ll notice how focusing on the basics makes you better at the more advanced things in the future. Now I’m way faster, have way better mechanics and I’m much better at rotations and positioning which lead me to champ 2. I highly recommend if anyone has read this far to just copy what I did and ask that you come back to my comment after a few days or so and tell me if you’ve ranked up or at least got better in some way (:
Thanks, I’ll give it a go! I’m stuck in plat 2 :(
There was one game, where I lost 2:3 and thought I couldn't do nothing in those 3 lost goals.. I thought this game was impossibru to win. But I decided to save a replay and watch it... And I saw that in every lost goal I could play little better and probably saved a goal, so watching replays is very useful thing.
I've watched a few tutorials on rotations and positioning but I find them hard to apply in my rank (usually plat 3) since my teammates are unpredictable and I'm not good enough to adapt to them.
@@mailletf just sit behind at backpost and dont jump - opportunities will come by themselves in that level :)
@@IvarsKublins also don't forget having correct rotations, and not rotating ball side. Very important as well :)
Ouch my heart felt on that last shot my guy. It’s a plat story for sure
6:34 this is very true as a plat myself I always find myself caring my teammates and sometimes they even forfeit and leave when the opponent scores one goal
Bro im feeling this in gold 2
imagine the teammates that he just got and imagine that you got them every other game. That is the platinum experience.
If you are in plat and you're blaming your teammates - You are wrong and dumb and bad
@@thebeast6494 the thing is, you won't win every game. I agree there are times when you just can't win a game because your teammates are bad, but that still doesn't mean you're stuck in a rank because of it.
Think of it like this, even if there's one or two bad players every 3v3 game, you only have 2 teammates and 3 enemies. That means there's a higher chance those "bad plats" are on the enemy team. If you truly are better, you eventually rank up.
@@ric6611 This is something 90% of bad players can't understand. They refuse to believe they are the reason they are stuck so they blame things which are out of their control. If you can't escape plat you are just straight up bad at the game.
Two or three seasons ago I decided to take Ranked a little more seriously and started a bit of a grind to move beyond plat. I had been watching Lethamyr, CBell, and Sunless a lot and had picked up on many things concerning smart Rocket League as opposed to mechanical RL.
Spent a whole evening queuing twos, just to end up only a division above where I started, practically in tears, saying "God almighty, you know I don't belong with these people, this is terrible".
Ended up getting to champ a week later. Many streamers and CZcamsrs love to say it's not about teammates, but it really can be, plus having a bad day is killer.
A good 75-80% of my games are a fight over my teammates recklessly ball-chasing and fighting each other for control of the ball while I sit in the net waiting for someone to royally f*k up so I can clean up their mess.
The ending was really cinematic and awesome lol
Amazing video as usual Wayton, editing and narration is perfect. Also, that last game is why I keep myself in gold and if I reach plat, I just sell those games until I reach gold again. Platinum is a living hell
There was this one time i got a good tm8 after a few bad tm8s and he was good at passing, rotations, and playing as a team and me and him ended up ranking up from plat 3 to diamond 2 without a loss.
I had been stuck in plat 2 and 3 for about 3 weeks
Thanks for doing this because I felt like I sucked at rocket
the problem of plats is that 1 of 3 rounds you got an good teammate 2 of 3 rounds you get bad teammates and every second game you got a smurf as enemy
i accept your sincere apology.
watch the whole video
That was one hell of a game, too bad you lost though because of the mandatory bad teammates that happens in plat atleast once.
im diomand now i cried of happiness when i got out of plat
No it happens at least 50 times. Lol the enemies are speedflipping sweats while my teammates cant hit the ball. (Im not being toxic im being 100% serious lol)
Also anyone who sees THOSE comments on CZcams just report them and ignore it
Funny how so many people blame bad teammates as the reason for losing. if you really think most teammates when solo queuing are bad, you should realize that the other team is also most likely dealing with teammates that are "bad". 😂stop making excuses and just learn to adapt to your ball-chasing teammate and win. Play smarter
@@larvitar2065 No, my teammates never go back post and they ballchase and miss open nets and miss balls that are going slower than 10kph
Is that my fault?
thank you.... for this video the teammates i get paired with made me go back to FREAKIN GOLD
That was the most dramatic match I've ever seen.
This isn't a plat curse. This is a placement match curse.
Bot teammates, toxic teammates, afk teammates, smurf opponents...
This also applies to matches where a win would mean a rank up.
I have made an experiment where I played on a brand new account 10 placements and in 4 of the games I was against a party/team of smurfs, or my team mates did not simply "have a brain" quoting Wayton. They go for challenges, aerials, boost!! without thinking of the consequences, tunnel visioning on showing off their mechanics or just ballchasing like its freeplay. It is very rare to find a team mate who actually understands the basics of the game! Once you get them on the team though, it is instantly noticable and even lost games but with a good team feel good, as we feel like we performed well but still can look at what to improve on. Whereas in an unfair matchup that is impossible due to the variables.
I feel like RL don’t want you winnin all 10 placements lmao happened to me was gonna be champ 1 in 3s but last placement team8s had no brain
Lol the ending was perfect, plat is the worst rank. Also I wanna say thanks for all your videos they have made me and way better player
I have been stuck in plat for two years thank you for now noticing what it is like
I can’t get over WaytonOnDaKeys😂
A couple of things:
1) Your opinion about ranking up is a bit distorted because you're on a new account with a high sigma value, which means you will rank up very quickly when winstreaking. For 'normal' plats, it takes a lot more wins because their sigma value is already settled.
2) Yes, if you are patient and position well, you will eventually get out of plat.
3) However, you must be willing to play passively and defensively. Most of the time this is pretty boring and not very fun. You're sacrificing fun gameplay for purely winning. Not to mention you need a high tolerance level for dumb teammates. When solo queing, you need to be quite a bit better than the rank you are currently at (either mechanically or positionally) to actually grind out of it, just because of teammates who are actually stuck at that rank.
I relate to 3 on a spiritual level
When your rank is settled you still get ~ +10 MMR per win.
His point is not that it’s not okay to be in plat. It’s just that it’s the worst rank. “Anyone with half a brain would get out of it.”
If you really think it’s such a sacrifice of “fun” to position well and play defense then that’s why you’re stuck in diamond/plat.
I don’t find playing defensive boring at all lol idk why so many thinks it sucks
Just play 1s. No teammates and u improve a lot. Then u queue 3s and shit on opponents easily even by playing offensive
As a plat 1 I accept your apology thank you for it
hm....
watch the whole video
We have all been there. the most annoying thing for me though in the rank system is that when you win a game sometimes your div doesn’t go up and it’s frustrating like I won 4 games in a row and didn’t go up a single div lmao
Platinum 3v3 gets me so angry I straight up stopped playing it until I figure it out the only way to get out of Platinum by your self is to play Defense and only go on offense on break aways
yo dude, I just got out of plat lol I’m champ now :) I got a coach.
Edit1: yo this comment is poppin off
I m champ 1 too but I m not mechanical
I’m plat in 3s but c1 in 2s. In the 3s I’m legit trying and clearly have way better mechanics then everyone else. At this point I haven’t played 3s in months ffs
@@Lukasksw. what is 3s and 2s?
@@Lukasksw. ahhh it's the mode trios duos and 1 vs 1
@@Lukasksw. me too i am plat 3 in trios, champ 1 in duo and no classification in 1vs1
Man I appreciate the small amount of praise given to plats, although it was disregarded at the end.I'm not even in plat anymore, I'm mid diamond right now, but it wasn't really that long ago I was struggling to climb through platinum. So thank you Wayton, it makes me feel slightly better knowing that my achievement of reaching diamond actually means something. To be honest tho the plats playing 1's can be pretty fuckin cracked so I've just given up on that lmao.
1s plats are a different breed. They can either be complete ass or really good. Took me a bit to get out of there
@@nkk334 Yeah man, same boat. I've gotten to plat 3 a few times but never made it out. Not trying to make excuses but there's a lot of smurfs as well, got put up against a GC once. Like what the hell do I do against that?? Lmao
1s are a lot less inflated rank-wise. I am plat 2 in 1s, which places me in the top 30% of all players. In 2s I am diamond 3, but there I'm top 31%. Don't feel too bad about having a lower rank in 1s, it's normal.
@@eggsforpedro Yeah I'm D3 in 2's and D2 in 3's right now. I used to only play ones so I thought I just sucked at the game and wasn't improving at all. But then I started getting decent at 2's and 3's and realized 1's is just a pain in the ass lmao
As I’m a plat, I have the same problems. I lose a few games and then go on a huge winning streak but then my D2 teammates play like gold and put me back in plat
This is one of the best videos I've seen! So funny...
As a plat 3, I accept your apology
THAT IDIOT TOOK IT BACK NO
LOL how are u plat hahahahahahahahahah
Hope you reach diamond
watch the whole video
hm
6:31 yes, you can. I was stuck in plat 3 for forever then when i finally got out of plat I immediately got up to diamond 2. I would get like 4 saves and 2 goals etc. and we'd find ways to lose as many matches as wins because of random teammates just not rotating (especially since i am a rotational player) And i also knew i did not belong there because i was in diamond 2 tournaments (and playing well) and no one in plat was anywhere near the level of the tournament diamonds.
Im like this with gold / plat, I get stuck / beat back down between them.....
I get team mates that I've had better games with literal new players than them, and I'm like, how the heck are you this rank? and unless you can 1v3 you lose. or, well, I do... it's really bad too, cause it's made me have a ball -chase habit that I know is bad, and mostly to completely disregard my team mates because I 9/10 games can't rely on them at all. I'm better at the game, but those habits make me lose just as much as the team mate thing.
@@merakfirgun1071 yeah it's frustrating, you just have to kee fighting through it until you get that one day like i did where i went absolutely insane and put up like 600+ points every game and just carried my way to diamond 2. Even then I did have some OT losses where I had like 5 saves which was super frustrating, but I got out of plat so that was good.
I was plat 3, three months ago, once i finally got out, well I just hit champ 1. plat tm8s suck.
What's your Epic? I'm d2 but I'll go d3 to 1 in a day because I can't find anyone to play with in solo queues
Everyone has developed this weird "I can do it all and if you get in my way I ff" mindset so let's run it
I just love how it felt like I was watching a movie this entire video
Thanks I've been stuck this whole year
awww,,,
"Clearly unfair..."
"I have a brain..."
"I must ballchase..."
"My teammates, my teammates, my teammates..."
Lil Way way is really becoming a platinum. Welcome to the club.
up until the last couple seconds of the video where reality hits all the smiling plat players in the face like cold water
One of us!
One of us!
One of us!
ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
Have about 300 hours on the game. Started in 3's and got stuck in low plat, that's when I migrated to 2s and found that mitigating 1 bad team mates mistakes was much easier than 2. I found myself then rotating much better around the play because I was mega aware of my team mate and their positioning.
After struggling for about a week getting used to 2s play style I started blasting through plat and made it to Diamond where the speed killed me a little. Rotations weren't enough, my decision making needed to be faster. This only comes with time. So I Played for a few more weeks climbing through Diamond and eventually to C2. My decision making now is no longer the issue, my mechanics and my ability to be consistent is. Each rank comes with a new challenge.
To rank up you need to identify the challenge and work on it in your games all the time.
I've now returned to 3s and found myself ranking up easily through Diamond and just popped through the C1.
For someone who never plays games on controller and is usually KBM I've gotta say I'm surprised at my own progress and if I can do it y'all can too.
Been a pro coach for 5 years and this is spot on. It's not plat it's people playing 3v3s like it's 1v1s. It happens in other ranks too.
The algorithm also feeds into getting you where it thinks you are. Hence huge point shifts etc. So once it thought you were better, it matches you with more "winning" teams, creating huge jumps until you plateau.
@@mitsako1 managed to teach 3s positioning to someone yesterday. It was satisfying to see them come to the realization that they were playing 3s like it's a 1v3.
I'm high diamond now, this is where I've been stuck the longest. Anyways I remember taking so long (not really) to get through gold and then plats were just a force beyond. One day we made Plat and couldn't get out of Plat 1 and then one day we woke up and went straight to the end of Plat 3 and got stuck for awhile until we cracked through diamond.
Plat and Diamond 3 have similar experiences. Diamond 3 tends to get a lot of traffic with people wanting to freestyle in a competitive match.
Like it’s crazy how much the game changed once you break out of D3 to Champ 1. Once you get into that Divison 2-4 area in Champ you see way less free styling than what you see in Diamond 3.
Remember someone who said Champ lobbies are just plats who know how to play the game and I couldn’t agree more. I’d say 80% of my champ games don’t have any free styling in it at all unless it’s a 3 man party on the other side.
One of the hardest parts about getting out of Plat is that no one wants to play as a team. Everyone wants to hit the ball, sometimes even when it will result in a bad play. How many times you can center and no one is there to take a shot.
I think you're right with your assessment that Plat is the worst rank, and the fact that these sorts of games are possible just proves it.
In Plat you get a wide disparity of players, from Champ smurfs to Golds who happened to get carried for a bit, so sometimes I'm in a match and I can't help but think I'd have an easier time if my teammates just went AFK, because then at least they wouldn't bump me in goal.
THIS VIDEO EXACTLY,
Plat 1 here struggling to get out and this video summarizes it perfectly. You can play everything seemingly perfectly (positioning wise not mechanic wise i'm not gonna pretend I can triple reset) and STILL lose because of bad teammates. As a soloq'er, It really feels like a roll of the dice for teammates whether you win or not.
My hypothesis is that it's this way because Plat is the "base" rank everyone starts in, at 600mmr. After my first 10 placement games I calibrated as a Plat 1 and then lost games all the way down to gold 2. I lost these games because I was simply new, bad and threw. Afterwards I got better, learning about positioning and improving my mechanics. I developed a brain to claw my way back to platinum. Herein lies the problem as your teammates could either be learned players who climbed their way out of lower ranks or complete newbies who're actually worse than bots (yea Smurfs exist too but they won't be as common as the prior 2 groups). Because of this, it honestly feels like you need to either be extremely lucky to get out of plat or ascended enough to 1v5 the lobby and win.
I’m platinum, and this just makes me want to practice more. Thanks Wayton for the motivation