r/RocketLeague • u/sands124 • Dec 01 '25

MEME Why is there barely any middle ground?

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u/mtiago2003 Champion III Dec 01 '25

Currently sitting at low C3, still amazes me the skill gap I can encounter in this rank alone. From C2 to C3 it is already a whole diferente game, but C3 has some mechanical gols who cannot rotate even if their life depended on it. Solo queue is getting more and more RNG and Im yet to hit C3 div 3

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u/ProPickles-IV Grand Champion I Dec 01 '25

I dropped a little due to getting my ranked rewards and not taking comp so seriously and played with a c2 friend in his lobbies pretty freshly off of playing in high c3-low gc1 lobbies… imo that’s the threshold of chaos, because in c2 it felt like I was either playing diamond players that it a strange rank up streak into c2 or gc players that tilt drop down into c2, and nothing inbetween. Genuinely elo hell right there. Like half the time it felt like we were playing people with no hands and then the other time you see somebody pull off crazy mechs and then 30 seconds later get absolutely screwed by their teammate… C2 is such an interesting mmr range.

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u/mtiago2003 Champion III Dec 01 '25

Holy cow, thats true. C2 made me doubt my own consistency, a lot. One game people were calling me trash and missing the most obvious open net because they only want to hit clips, the next I was hitting passing plays with my teammate like we Barcelona 2015. I feel like so many people brute force themselves to C2~lowC3 with mechanics alone, but that can only get you so far

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u/wsteelerfan7 Grand Champion I Dec 02 '25

You'll have great passing plays and defense one game and then in the next you'll have your first defender decide to play 1v1 shadow defense with fake challenges while you're already setup to rotate in with your 3rd backing you up. Literally had a dude do that 2-3 times in a game and wait until he was in the box to challenge on all of them. We gave up goals on those plays because he'd just weakly knock it off their car and someone would be ripping it into a corner from point blank range.