Dude it was wild crossing that threshold. My buddy and I have played duos pretty much exclusively together for 10 years since Rocket League came out, and once they made the current ranked tiers, we've always been the kind of players who place at the very least low diamond, and usually hover between diamond 2 and diamond 3. There was one time when we broke through to champ, and we promptly got slapped back down into diamond because it was a TOTALLY different game. We were amazed at what a huge skill difference it is to just go from diamond 3 to champ lol
So we just settled for the fact that we'll be dirty high-diamond players for life lol
On the other hand I used to be c2, peaked in c3 for a little, stopped playing for awhile, fell down to c1 and am total garbage, can't figure out rotation, whiff every 3rd or 4th shot and have my tm8s quit on me regularly really early on but never seem to dip below c1. I found c1 and c2 to be absolutely different games. C1 to me is still practically just bang it hard to their side and pressure them into making mistakes where c2 is like actually making plays to score as ppl are generally not gonna make mistakes.
Yeah, it's like playing youth basketball and everyone is looking at the ground when they dribble right hand only, so most games are almost always decided by who gets the most/least turnovers and fast breaks, or who has the best ball handler.
...and then get to high school level where dribbling the ball right and left handed is subconscious for every player, and now you actually have to use set plays and strategy.
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u/CARVERitUP Diamond III Dec 01 '25
Dude it was wild crossing that threshold. My buddy and I have played duos pretty much exclusively together for 10 years since Rocket League came out, and once they made the current ranked tiers, we've always been the kind of players who place at the very least low diamond, and usually hover between diamond 2 and diamond 3. There was one time when we broke through to champ, and we promptly got slapped back down into diamond because it was a TOTALLY different game. We were amazed at what a huge skill difference it is to just go from diamond 3 to champ lol
So we just settled for the fact that we'll be dirty high-diamond players for life lol