How to master Rocket League mechanics

Are you lost on becoming consistent at a mechanic and are you wanting to step your game up? This guide might help you with that!

I would always scratch my head why I couldn't pull it off in real matches, but at some point I started learning that I was learning the wrong way, and most likely so are the other folks that are trying to learn a mechanic.
We'll discuss some points where I was struggling myself and I've seen other people struggle with in our coaching sessions.

1. You're practicing in Custom Training too much!

While practicing in Custom Training isn't necessarily bad and can help you reach the base foundation of learning a mechanic/shot, it only teaches you one way to pull something off by setting it up for you.
People tend to lean to Custom Training as their way of learning a mechanic, but how many times in a match will you be put into exactly that scenario where (for example with air dribbles) the ball already rolls up the wall for you?

Taking air dribbles as an example, freeplay will teach you a lot more on setting yourself up in different situations than custom training will do, you'll have to set yourself up and control the ball to the wall yourself!

Now that you know you should use freeplay rather than custom training, let's jump into the next section!

2. You're using Unlimited Boost in Freeplay!

Once again, put yourself in realistic situations, it's the best way to prepare yourself for real matches!

You don't have unlimited boost in a real match and learning the basics with unlimited boost is fine, but without unlimited boost you can't learn how to manage your boost properly preparing a shot or making a shot!

To turn off unlimited boost, go into freeplay and disable the setting displayed in the GIF!

3. You're trying, but not analyzing!

Most of the times when someone is learning a mechanic, they're trying to do it, but they aren't really focusing on why it's not working out for them.
Even I myself do this.. Even though I know the mechanic, when I fail I don't look at why it failed and just try again without analyzing, though to learn how to do them consistently, you'll need to take every single mistake you make and try to counter that!

Check out some video's on how people do that specific mechanic, see why it isn't working for you!

Again with air dribbles as an example, people tend to say when they hit the ball too far away from them that they were boosting to hard, but thinking outside the box, it's NOT the fact that you're boosting to hard to it, you're actually supposed to jump to push the ball outside with you rather than hitting it away, meaning you barely have to boost at all to get close to the ball!

4. Focus on your opponent!

This next tip might be a struggle for someone that has just learned to do the basics since you have to focus on your car and the ball, but once you get the feel for it, feel free to leave your eyes off the ball or your car for a second to look at what your opponent is doing!

You won't notice, but especially in the beginning your eyes will focus on the ball and your car rather than the opponent, try to tell yourself to look at your opponent more often!
Not only for the mechanic, but in general of playing as well!

5. You're skipping the basics and going to far ahead of yourself!

This is an issue I have been experiencing since I started coaching with many many players, even more so that when I ask someone to do the mechanic they need help with, I immediately recognize it's because they skipped the whole basics, and when I ask them to do the basics, it just shows that they haven't controlled the basics yet.

Unfortunately most of the people I tell to focus on basics first will deny that this is why it's going wrong.
And they will continue trying without really understanding why it isn't working while the basics will explain them exactly why something isn't working.

6. You've seen pro's do it, not how they do it!

It's one thing to look at a pro doing something sick, but have you ever thought of looking at every single step they're taking and why it's going so smoothly for them?
Again... Air dribbles as an example, you'll see pro's do an air dribble but did you also realize they're matching the ball's speed, jumping off the wall as soon as they hit the ball, and in even more detailed where they'll hold their jump button longer so the ball will stick to them? If you do step-by-step analysation of how they do something, you'll start to recognize your mistakes more often!

Guide by Sleepy