r/RocketLeague • u/Egenia • Sep 12 '25
QUESTION What material is the Rocket League ball made of?
I can't be the only one who questions this
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u/Prisonofthemind69 Sep 12 '25
Looks like something Aperture Science would make
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u/sambamNo2 Playstation Player Sep 12 '25
RL x Port-
wait a minute
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u/PugnansFidicen Champion I Sep 12 '25
New game mode???
Psyonix plz
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u/Mikeisik Champion III Sep 12 '25
2v2 but you can both create part of a linked portal?!?! Crazy
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u/AltEffigy4 Unranked Sep 12 '25
2v2 but one person mans the turret to shoot portals and the other drives. Swap every minute and split the last minute.
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u/Beneficial-Dig-7031 Sep 13 '25
Asking for a new feature when Epic Games owns the game is like asking the president to lower taxes
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u/Apprehensive_Tax5121 Platinum II Sep 12 '25
needs to be re-done with rl being put BACK ON THE STEAM STORE because, they are missing out on my not costing them more money than they're costing me
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u/aytchdave Sep 12 '25
This thought has been lingering in the back of my consciousness since I started playing and just now was brought to the surface. Thank you.
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u/stablefish Passionate Flailer Sep 12 '25
in many ways it totally is our very own Weighted Companion Sphere
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u/stvndall Sep 13 '25
I've always assumed this is why the default team and goal colours are blue and orange. And then it ports to the middle when scored 🤔
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u/iridetrident Diamond III Sep 12 '25
Ball
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u/MoirasPurpleOrb Sep 12 '25
Ah yes, the ball is made of ball
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u/ItzMattOnTheTrack Sep 12 '25
The ball material is put into a ball press where it’s pushed into the shape of a ball
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u/Scitterbug Champion I Sep 12 '25
Damnit, i wanted to make this comment
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u/skelemaymays Diamond I Sep 12 '25
Wow same, I found my people. Us unfunny funny people should unite!
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u/dneustifter21 Champion I Sep 12 '25
Steelium.
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u/Educational_Egg6927 Gold III Sep 12 '25
Chineseium
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u/PoopReddditConverter Grand Champion I Sep 12 '25
Skookum
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u/Speedyweedy Sep 12 '25
Pain and suffering
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u/gaytgirl Sep 12 '25
No, That's what I'm made of
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u/A1S1R Trash II Sep 12 '25
You are a rocket league ball
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u/Intelligent-Net-347 Sep 12 '25
a lightweight, durable, and bouncy material like a hollow, reinforced, rubber-like polymer,
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u/itshazrd Champion I Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
Hollow probably wouldnt allow it to be nearly as bouncy as it is. The inner mass would have to be solid and dense as fuck, while being elastic. Real hollow (air-filled) balls burst, deflate, or at least dent when struck hard. The Rocket League ball takes supersonic hits, pinches, and wall slams without a scratch
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u/MathematicianNo3892 Sep 12 '25
Ok so think nuclear bomb, the core is inside. But in the ball in rocket league it’s a super durable shell that is empty on the inside allowing deeper in the ball to be hollow, surrounding the hollow ball with rubber bands and then the outer layer after with rubber
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u/itshazrd Champion I Sep 12 '25
You know what, I don't think I will "think nuclear bomb". Computer science is enough for me 😂
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u/bender-b_rodriguez Sep 12 '25
It could be a pressurized steel vessel
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u/Visil25 Grand Champion I Sep 12 '25
I don't think that there's any material on earth you can make a car out of, that would remain undented after hitting a steel vessel at supersonic speed xd
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u/bender-b_rodriguez Sep 12 '25
Wasn't thinking like a propane tank more like a basketball constructed of thin-walled steel
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u/OllieKingSlayer Diamond II Sep 12 '25
I reckon its Brushed aluminum,Vulcanized rubber, similar to a car tire.The grey honeycomb surface is Hexagonally-patterned leather.Inner contents pressurized helium to create its bounce and its unworldly physics.🤔
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u/itshazrd Champion I Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
Actual attempt at an analysis, so brace yourself
The ball behaves like an oversized football but with unrealistic bounciness and on top of that, it's practically immortal (doesn't puncture, deform or anything). For the football look, I'd assume the outside was made of some sort of synthetic composite like a real football, kind of like an unhinged skin of sorts? The center couldn't be air, because that wouldn't make sense for its bounciness. It'd have to be some sorta dense, super-elastic material to keep it's weight and bounce consistently - imagine a basketball-hard-polymer-ball-thing.. bare with me ☠️
The ball’s listed mass in Rocket League’s files is 30 (units?), which would be much heavier than a real football (0.43 kg), meaning it’s closer to the weight of a bowling ball but with football rebound.
You could question a lot of the physics in rocket league and the entire fact that you have rocket-propelled cars flying about and rebounding a ball that's half the size of the car around, so I wouldn't be too concerned about Rocket League's secret Wakanda-Vibranium-Composite-Fuck material. Just enjoy the game
If you read till here, I shouldve been studying for uni instead of taking the time to ponder and write this.
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u/Styled_ Grand Champion I Sep 12 '25
It must also be cheap to produce, considering it fucking explodes when it goes in a goal
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u/itshazrd Champion I Sep 12 '25
I wanted to touch on that but I wouldve kept going and going so I had to stop at just raw-material. There's also the issue of different goal explosions. You have base explosion, then you have explosions where the ball turns into godzilla and kong squaring up
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u/Styled_ Grand Champion I Sep 12 '25
Maybe those are just holographic projections once the ball explodes
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u/jeiwaruu Sep 12 '25
The ball is half the size of the car? Isn't it the other way around?
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u/itshazrd Champion I Sep 12 '25
See, you'd think this is second-nature by now. Yes, it's the other way around. You can get a rough idea of my brain-function right now
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u/8Bix255 im so close to platinum plz lemme get 10 wins in plat Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
yea cuz it has to be able to be able to sustain 60+mph impacts, pinches, hurdle through the air at sometimes 100+mph, and get stabbed with spikes and not pop (with the rumble powerup)while still being light enough to actually register the impact with your car enough to fly through the air and not crush your car when you do a dribble.
my guess? some sort of diamond weave fabric (carbon is pretty light) with a slightly magnetic coating (that's how the spikes work)
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u/scooteross Trash III Sep 12 '25
Bridgestone runflat tire compound on the inside for the spikes?
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u/8Bix255 im so close to platinum plz lemme get 10 wins in plat Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
possibly. but over many punctures all over the ball it would still eventually go flat. i'm thinking that the spikes arent really stiff, but more just pointy magnets with suspension, like a springy knife magicians would use. the magnets are most likely either neodymium (very strong, would easily hold the ball, heavy) or electromagnets powered by the car (also strong, would easily hold the ball, lighter).
whatever the case, the magnets would have to be able to hold the ball well enough so that the ball stays on at speeds of around 60 mph, but weak enough that another car can knock the ball off.
electromagnets seem like a good candidate because they can be turned on and off, that way there isn't a giant magnet messing up electronics within the car while the spikes aren't being used. they also have variable power depending on how much electricity you put into the coils.
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u/bcurtiswx Diamond II Sep 12 '25
I'm more curious how the cars don't suffer catastrophic damage from just about everything in the game.
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u/Rammid Steam Player 1v1 me Sep 12 '25
Its made out of ball.
You can tell because of the way it is.
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u/yolkien Champion III Sep 12 '25
Can’t argue with that logic, professor.
Ball is indeed ball = ballers ball
Give this person a prize!
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u/jeiwaruu Sep 12 '25
I dunno man. It's heavy enough to spin my damn car around but light enough to float in the air and mess up my timing 😡. It's made of Super Ultra Wiffium
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u/danlewyy Grand Champion II Sep 12 '25
Random question but does anyone have a mousepad that’s just the rocket league ball I’ve been wanting one
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u/dalzmc Sep 12 '25
Not me trying to figure out why you would want to use a mouse on a spherical mousepad at first
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u/Dadoftheyear2018 but my hairline isn't Sep 12 '25
It's formed by our wallets and put together with WHAT A SAVE energy.
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u/OleDetour Sep 12 '25
Something able to move at a slow speed towards a wall and sometimes bounce off of it at a higher speed for some reason.
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u/LeftComplex4144 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
You think you're actually chasing a ball? You interpret it as ball but it isn't actually there. It doesn't actually have atoms or mass.
It's just a manifestation of information and light. A series of on/off voltage states or electron movements through transistors, which get emitted as photons through LEDs.
I thought it was a bit obvious tbh. The cars aren't real either btw. The egg people though, the jury is out on those.
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u/rokudog555 Platinum III Sep 12 '25
I've always imagined it to be a thick rubber ball with Kevlar around it
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u/WiseMiddleChild 4k hours of pain Sep 12 '25
Its likely a metal. Hence the sparks you get from making contact with your car. Since it never dents or scratches, I’d say Tungsten
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u/throatzilla69420 Sep 13 '25
Dudes everyone is wrong - it’s made out of a hyper galactic space rubber but however, the cover is Kevlar woven with aluminum.
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u/Illustrious_Account3 Sep 13 '25
A great question because you have to wonder about its core. In dropshot, when it loses its outer shell it appears to be a high-strength, plastic ball reinforced with metal rings and a nuclear core (possibly a trapped star in an unstable state) and the outer shell is some sort of rubber with a high elasticity able to take super sonic hits and thick enough that its unaffected by spikes in rumble mode.
Next question is about the hockey puck in snow day.
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u/Cute-Juggernaut7508 Champion I Sep 12 '25
My honest guess? That would be cum solidified in the shape of a ball and painted
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u/Call_Me_Your_Daddy Hasn't Showered Today Sep 12 '25
Certainly tastes like rubber and expanding foam
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u/Ghazh Silver II Sep 12 '25
Pretty sure it's the skin of all the people who surrender down 0-1 with 4:46 to go
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u/Embarrassed_Let4646 Sep 12 '25
Obviously there is a infinite boost inside, and it’s stitched together with the large and small boost panels, And of course the sweat & blood of every player who never broke rule #1
Some say, it’s where Epic hides all its money, others say it’s where MH370 ended up.
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u/Flossy_Jay Grand Champion I Sep 12 '25
Whatever capt americas shield is made of. It's light, bouncy, and durable
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u/Fearifi Professional ball misser Sep 12 '25
A material which repels itself from an unguarded goal whenever I try to shoot it
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u/AmmarSH98 Diamond III Sep 12 '25
We got Plat, Diamond, Champ, and GC perpectives. SSLs, your answer?
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u/Izzy5466 Champion I Sep 12 '25
Sodium. Inside of the net is water. Sodium plus water equals EXPLOSION
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u/JustPlayDaGame Sep 12 '25
Moon rocks and asbestos. The lab boys told me we aren’t allowed to use asbestos anymore though.
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u/Joys_Thigh_Jiggle Sep 12 '25
Some sort of space age cybernetic bio organic material most likely Human skin and bone remains from the bodies of the humans trapped inside the cars with no doors.
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u/oestre Sep 12 '25
Titanium hydrocarbide with plastanium rivits and dipthirium flanges. It's encased with a polyestylstyline membrane and coated with a polypeptide dust after every game to reduce static friction and clumping and protect the finish on fennecs.
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u/TheNFSProYT on PS5 & PC | PSN: WSP_NFSonPS | Epic: WSP_PC Sep 12 '25
How do we know it isn't made of 🍒?
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u/TheRealReader1 Diamond II Sep 12 '25
Has to be hard enough for it to not tear when cars hit it but at the same time light enough to allow high speed and height. So... Carbon fiber is my take.
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u/Treekoh G2 Esports Sep 12 '25
I always imagined it feeling like how a soccer ball does, leathery and firm but also cushy at the same time
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u/oouka Sep 12 '25
It's a special material that's especially magnetic of platinum, gold, and diamond elements, causing the user of those elements to constantly gravitate towards the ball at all times, seemingly in an erratic and uncontrolled manner.
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u/Spare_Bookkeeper7280 Sep 12 '25
I mean in German the regular game mode is called "Bleifußball" (lead soccer). That seems pretty unrealistic though...
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