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!

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[Rocket League] Awareness Guide

This Rocket League guide is about awareness: It will improve your skill of predicting your opponent or teammate's next move when solo queuing, improve your playstyle in solo queue games, teach you how to deal with toxicity and give other important tips and tricks. This guide is mostly meant for 2v2s and 3v3s, but there are quite a few useful tips for 1v1 players as well.
If you want a quick run-down of the guide you can simply read the short summaries I've written, but if you want the full info, you can read the whole paragraphs.

1) Opponent prediction

At times it may be hard to predict what an opponent will do, but you must keep your focus on both them and the ball. If the opponents are side by side, they might try a passing play. Try keeping your eyes on every opponent, the ball, your teammates all at once. 

It is hard to do but if you can master this you will know how to adapt to most situations, for example you will foresee an opponent go for a demo towards you if you keep an eye on them or you will notice your teammates going for it, therefore you won't have to go for it as well (double/triple commit scenario, which is a likely way you will get scored on). 

You should also keep an eye on the opponents taking boost pads if you can, so you know wheter or not they have boost, and this goes same for your allies, you should know whether they have boost or not in order to know if they will go for it or not, unless they use the text chat (I got it, Take the shot, Defending)

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