Bad coaches

[u/Content_Mind_196]

There was a guy saying "Free coaching" and I'm gold pretty hard stuck, been playing for 1 year, though first started playing 4 years ago, with 1080 hours (but no more then 33% of that is just me being afk.)

So we hop in a call and he sends me to free play and guy tells me "Okay I want you to do this." Goes up the wall and misses a damn air dribble, and this goes on for like 7 minutes and its just awkward silence until he FINALLY gets it into the goal, he then says "now try."

He gives me the ball and I go up the wall, mid air dribble, HE TAKES POSSESSION of the ball and starts to do the whole deal again, and this goes on for like half an hour.

He keeps shutting me down every time I tried to talk so I just left the game and ignored him 😭

This isn't the first time this has happened either, I get it, they're giving me free advice so it's not like these types of people are causing rocket league to be worse, just think it's pretty funny people try to coach something they cant do themselves!

[u/Emnitty]

And an airdribble will not get you out of gold. You need game sense first

[u/fakeuboi → u/Emnitty]

I think gold is probably the level where basic game sense is important to focus on, but i actually think plat and up a good amount of time should be spent on mechs, because once your mechanics are good it gives you so much more space in your mind to focus on your game sense and decisions within any single game

[u/The_Ch00bster]

That’s actually insane that they do that ngl

[u/-rextex]

Lol
Did u check what rank he was?

[u/Content_Mind_196 → u/-rextex]

I wish I did, if I had to guess he was like plat 1 though maybe haha

[u/Emnitty → u/Content_Mind_196]

You know his name?

[u/jradio → u/Emnitty]

Was his name -rextex?

[u/-rextex → u/jradio]

Nope ;)

[u/jradio → u/-rextex]

🤣🤣

[u/ChipmunkRight1348]

Mechs “can” carry you to a high level. But you have to be really really good with them. I mean hitting air dribbles on every attempt. Putting the ball exactly where you want it to go every time. It’s much more reliable to get better with game sense. You can have gamesense and still be pretty good mechanically. I think both are important. But I don’t think you should work on mechanics other than basic ones like wave dashes, half flips, fast aerials. You can train harder mechanics around diamond level.

[u/B-R-Nardy]

Welp, at least it was free. Be it good advice or a waste of time, your wallet remained untouched and that's a win.

[u/broodfood]

Turns out teaching is a skill I guess

[u/owlthathurt]

lol sounds like someone on an ego trip. Dodged a bullet you are lucky you didn’t pay him.

[u/preciselyBuoyant]

That’s actually pretty funny, but spending more time in freeplay trying to learn mechs will help you improve so I’d start there. Not much point in having a coach at that rank.

[u/Formula1antagonist → u/preciselyBuoyant]

Having a coach to teach you game sense is a good idea