r/RocketLeagueSchool

So I'm a peak gc3 free airroll main (not that mechanical, I just know the fundamentals), and I want to learn and switch to directional airroll left since I've heard it leads to much faster progression and I can learn mechanics easier.

I've been practicing directional airroll for the past few days and have a few questions:

1.Do you guys only use directional airroll, or do you use free airroll too?

2.Do you use directional airroll for recoveries after air dribbles/aeriel plays or do you quickly switch to free airroll mid fall?

3.Do you use free airroll to shoot shots like power shots or do you use directional?

4.What is the best way to learn the mechanics I knew in free airroll in DAR?

5.For aerial shots (like you go into the air and then hit the ball midair into the goal), do you use directional airroll for the launch and for the hit? Or do you use directional for just the launch and switch to free airroll when hitting for more accuracy?

6.I find myself confusing free airroll and DAR when recovering and shooting all the time, how do I stop that?

7.How do I maintain control after the first reset?

Thankyou!

This is C1 Gameplay, id like to be in high champ. Some things to take note:

I chose a close loss game on purpose because it was 1. winnable, 2. would have mistakes that made us lose.

On kickoffs, I am usually going right here when im not taking it, this is because my teammate quick chatted on your right, I am usually a soft cheat on kickoffs player and I pretty much always cheat. This also means sometimes when I go for kickoff its being meant to go middle right for the same reason, I mention this because the first goal is pretty much given up from the kickoff, and yes I understand cheating is better on kickoff

https://reddit.com/link/1x2pxlb/video/wowt2gsnepuh1/player

I am a plat and I have 300 hours on the game. Those hours I've been using air roll right and its muscle memory. Does anyone know how i can learn Air roll left way faster and I play on ps5 so no rings map 🫡

ok so obviously we can skip the 'just rotate' comment. whats the secret sauce of rotation. we are talking twos and threes. ive played with some gc mates and they have rpeatedly mentioned backpost. can we mention the most common mistakes the consequences of them, and perhaps the opposite side and its benefits. cheers in advance.

For context I’m a GC1 player on pc, I have around 3k hours. I’ve always run the same controller settings(PlayStation Controller), Jump on X, boost on O, ball cam triangle, and air roll left on L1, air roll right on R1. This means that I actually don’t have free air roll bound, I never have, it was just a decision I made when I started all those years ago.

Recently I’ve been feeling really stuck with my mechanics maneuvering in the air, especially with fine movements and control of the ball, and some of my friends told me that free air roll is really useful for a lot of that and that I might be losing out by not having it bound at all.

So my question is does anyone know exactly how important free roll is to have? Do I just need to get better at utilizing my air roll control better, or should I slap free roll on R1 and learn it.

I am seeking advice on the following bad habits, how I can improve them and if anyone else did the same and how they got over it:
• I frequently double-jump for a ball when a single jump is enough, leading to me sometimes whiffing the ball completely or not positioning myself well enough for a good contact
• I feel like I over-use ARL. I think I’ve gotten pretty good at using it to go up for a ball, but sometimes I think I overuse it instead of free air roll and I use to for looks instead of for actually repositioning my car mid-air
• Im genuinely curious ti hear from people if you think this is an accurate/valid statement: “I use a PlayStation elite controller (DualSense Edge - basically with the two paddles at the back). Back right is mapped to boost, back left to ARL. I think it has helped me tremendously, but also am wondering if the easy access to the buttons mean I overuse them?

I think these are the three main mechanical points that are keeping me at a “ceiling”. Any feedback appreciated!

im not sure why but im not getting the reset when i try to do flip resets. On console i see players turn upside down and then they pull they're joystick (up or down idk) to sort of slap their cars bottom on the centre of the ball and i was wondering should i be doing the same thing on pc?

For my setup i just pop the ball and then fly towards it at its apex and then just reverse tornado spin and hope i get the reset, but most of the time i dont, maybe i should be flying even faster at the ball so my car kind of wraps around the ball? or should i press s before coming into contact with the ball?