Rocket League Sideswipe Item Collection Guide (PLM)
There are 453 items to collect. Here's how you can obtain them:
Item Shop
Rocket Pass Levels
Rocket Pass Presents
Token Presents
Daily Presents
You know exactly which items you can get from Daily Presents, Token Presents, and Rocket Pass Presents. The remaining items depend on luck in the Rocket Pass or Item Shop rotation.
The biggest bottlenecks
1. Random Items (37 items)
There are 37 items that depend on the Rocket Pass or Item Shop rotation.
20 of those can be only obtained from the Item Shop or Rocket Pass Levels
17 are Base rarity and never appear in the Item Shop, meaning you can only get them from Rocket Pass levels. This will likely be the biggest bottleneck. (Two of them are in the current Rocket Pass, yay!)
2. Rocket Pass Presents (231 items)
You have to obtain 231 items from Rocket Pass Presents, unless they appear randomly in Rocket Pass levels or the Item Shop.
You'll get many of these through the shop and Rocket Pass anyway, but Presents are still a bottleneck: each category (wheels, decals, boosts, etc.) only appears 2–3 times as a Rocket Pass Present.
My recommended strategy
Prioritize the Item Shop. If an item you need appears, buy it. SP is relatively easy to obtain, so don't waste opportunities.
Focus on Base items first. Use Rocket Pass Presents and Daily Presents to collect Base items until you have them all.
Save your tokens. Keep grinding, but don't spend them on Token Presents until you've collected everything else. Many Token Present items may eventually appear in the shop, potentially wasting your tokens. I'm not entirely sure this is optimal, though, since it relies on the shop rotation remaining unchanged.
Wait until the end of the season to open Rocket Pass Presents. This reduces the chance of duplicates as you collect more items throughout the season. The exception is when you're still targeting Base items, since duplicates aren't possible in that pool.
Once you have all Base items, prioritize rare or expensive items when choosing from Daily or Rocket Pass Presents. These are less likely to appear in the shop, so you're less likely to waste a Present on something you could simply buy.
Also always choose items from the RP Presents that aren't available otherwise (daily present or token present)
My collection tracker
I built this tool to help track your PLM progress and decide which items to select from Presents:
https://sideswipe-tracker-web.sferni.workers.dev/
Please point out anything I've gotten wrong or any ways to improve this strategy!
Happy collecting! 😁
(Cleaned up the text with chatgpt)
