If you’ve ever tried to grind Rocket League, then you’d know the pain of getting hardstuck. After much practising, analysing, and self-coaching, your progress is violently halted, and worse, it is abruptly fixed at a specific competitive rank.
It feels like no matter what you do, you can’t get past it, putting up .500 evenings and dropping 100 MMR only to gain it back and end up exactly where you started. We’ve all been there, but how exactly does one overcome it?
In order to hit your new PR in car soccer, you need to find your weaknesses and turn them into strengths, something not many rocketeers do. While others are led by instinct, research will be your upper hand, so without further ado, here are three of the worst ranks to get hardstuck on and how to speed past them in Rocket League:
1. Platinum I → The Greener Grass
Once a player leaves Bronze, Silver, and Gold behind, you’re considered a true Rocket League tryhard. This is where players get really hooked: bettering themselves to rank up 12 divisions, you feel at the top of your game – then, reality hits.
You just blew past every other player who either doesn’t take the game seriously or hasn’t been able to string the wins to make it to Plat. Now, you’ll be facing more mechanically-equipped Golds or desperate and tilted Diamonds; no in between.
If you’re struggling to go deeper into the ranks from here, your biggest missing piece is intentional replay analysis. Right now, your mind is faster than your hands, so you need to let those puppies catch up to how fast you’re thinking.
You’ll leverage this by building your game sense, rotation, positioning, and decision-making by re-watching your losses, not wins, over and over again. This, combined with basic mechanical training packs, will give you the confidence to make a call and the certainty to execute it, beating the opposition with brains, not braun.
2. Diamond III → Champions Field
Once in Diamond, matches and opposing players feel way smarter. Now, you need to protect possessions and punish opponents’ mistakes as a team.
Therefore, the key to moving into Champ territory will be to work as a unit. Open that mic for verbal comms like boost amount, rotation position, and play-making calls. If comms aren’t possible, quick chats will do to call for a teammate push, defensive assist, or kickoff direction.
This will be enough to guarantee beating the opposing brains who are as smart as the individual, not as smart as the team. While you’re at it, you might want to practice some healthy trash talk in chat – it might really come in handy later if you get immune to it now. Just saying.
3. Champ II → The Promised Land
You’ve made it past the Plat Rats and Diamond Dogs. Your Rocket League brain is as swollen as ever. Now, take everything you know and throw it in the trash. This is the rank where you can’t think; you need to just do.
Mindlessly practicing in maps like rings, dribble drills, and shot challenges with your favorite Spotify playlist in the background will be the move if you want to make it to Grand Champion, the 2% of worldwide rocketeers. Speed and mechanics are heavily rewarded when applied consistently in high-pressure environments, such as Champion-ranked games.
Make sure you are focusing just enough to deliver what you’ve been training for, but also can shut off that part of the brain that’s making you second-guess, hesitate, and hold back. To enter flow state, everything must come to you as second nature. Unfortunately, this is also the point of no return. Once you reach this form, you’ll be queuing forever until the servers close or Rocket League 2 is released. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
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