10,000 hrs former top 100 player ( New meta sucks 2025)

Been playing the game for almost a decade and i gotta say peak Rocket League 2015-2020 was amazing. The game wasn't overcomplicated and saturated with players who are inconsistent with damn near everything and im speaking on the behalf of higher elo players, I stopped playing the games for about 2 years after my RLCS run and came back, now i linger around GC3.

Reasons why I love and hate the state of the game currently.

Ill start with the bad stuff

  1. Demo meta- I mean fuck, this mechanic has been broken since the beginning, for instance you can be the one demoing someone and you will be the one to explode, Or you'll see sparks on someones car but the demo wont register. So years later when it became a meta , it just infested Rocket League like the Bubonic plague in Europe in the 1500s. At least if they were going to keep demos at least refine the mechanic.
  2. Taking away trading??? tf enough said
  3. Mechanical Jellyfish.... you might be thinking wtf is that, ill tell you right now. Its people who started playing around free to play. People who got into the game watching Zen and Daniel play, People who skipped fundamentals and basic positioning and went straight into practicing quad flip resets. These are the people that get into higher ranks off their mechanics. These certain players have no idea on how high level positioning works they just rely solely off mechanical ability . I get games with people who are so terrible but can hit a Zen level shot but will still lose. It makes the games with solo q teammates so inconsistent in comparison to 2015-2020.
  4. RLCS challenger tags for top 128 in 2023? Like tf reward the players who made it just as far or further in RLCS in the past seasons, its unfair that the old competitive scene that carried the Rocket League community don't receive any recognition.
  5. Rarely good items in the shop, all a money grab. Bring back crates for crying out loud.

Now the good stuff about Rocket League

1.Nothing

Just kidding,

  1. Such an underrated game, easily one of the most difficult games I have ever played. Ive played many other competitive games , FPS or games like League of Legends.

- there is no perks or different abilities that make you better than anybody else. RL is the only game that is relies on someones individual skill.

- This has kept me playing for the past decade and Im still in love.

  1. Skill ceiling- There is none

  2. Such an easy concept to understand you can let an elderly person or a child watch Rocket League and they can understand the concept.

-When I was competing my 65 year old mother was able to watch the streams over tournaments and understand everything.

****Now before you comment Unc is mad because he can’t keep up. Yes I know I’m an unc and I can’t keep up. The title of this post isn’t called “why I’m not top 100 anymore”. I’m literally and old ass man somehow still hanging around gc3, I’m no where close to keeping up w pros anymore. I don’t care enough to keep up anymore. I just play the game for fun on my limited spare time. People are crazy with mechanics nowadays and I still admire the ability.