Learn how to place yourself when attacking and defending.
Rocket League is a very dynamic game. Players are moving all over the place at great speed, trying to get the ball and put it into the rival’s goal. The first thing you have to do is try not to run around like a chicken with its head cut off, because you’ll only make things worse for your team. Define your role clearly. Go defence if you’re in the first quarter of the field and try to launch a quick counterattack if you manage to block your rival’s offensive push. If you’re best on offence, do everything you can to steal the ball from your rivals and then send a centre pass in so one of your teammates can shoot it into the goal. But always be sensible.
Manage your Turbo. It isn’t infinite.
Turbo lets you speed up in the air, giving you a huge advantage when shooting a ball that is dropping down from the sky into the goal. On the ground, you’ll find Turbo bars to recharge your levels of this useful boost, plus a sort of energy balls that top your Turbo up completely. These balls take a while to reappear once you’ve used them, though. So use your Turbo wisely, when you really need it. For example, to gain the advantage in a 50/50 ball, to hit a rival and destroy their car, or, as we said in the beginning, to fly up and shoot the ball into the goal.
Feints and dribbling are very useful.
Not everything in Rocket League is about going full out in a straight line as if your life depended on it. Throughout the match, you’ll find yourself in situations when you have to feint and dribble to keep from being taken out by your rivals. Whenever you can, use the double scissors move as if your car were Neymar’s feet. Dribbling will get you out of some tricky situations and can also be used to distract your rivals. A turn of the steering wheel, U-turn or even reversing at the right time will help you gain a few seconds that could be a vital advantage in getting to the ball in defence or offence.
Double jump, the foundation of the game.
Rocket League’s hallmark is its ‘flying’ cars. Mastering the double jump technique and flying are essential if you want to stand out. If you spend the whole match anchored to the ground, you’ll be lost my friend. It is essential to know how and when to do the double jump and start a short but intense flight into the air that will allow you to shoot the ball or make a saving block. Nothing in Rocket League is more satisfying than executing this perfectly. So, we strongly recommend you train and work hard at the tutorials that show how to do it.
Don’t take your eye off the ball.
In your first matches, it will be nearly impossible. But you have to try. The Rocket League ball behaves like a billiard ball, banking off surfaces and moving according to the angle it is hit. Sometimes the ball becomes nearly invisible, either because it is moving so fast or because it is above you. But it’s always good to keep an eye on the second camera that stays on the ball. This way, we can more or less monitor its movements and control our car based on them.
