How long does it take to reach every rank in Rocket League?

I asked the Rocket League community a ton of questions and gathered all the answers together into a bunch of interesting statistics. In this video, I share the best ones, including how many hours it takes to get to every rank in Rocket League.

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As I was originally climbing the ranks of Rocket League, I always had a ton of questions and curiosities about how I compared to the average Rocket League player. How many hours does the average player at a rank have? Will I get better faster if I play 1v1 or 2v2 or 3v3? Questions like these never really got answers until now. Fortunately, over 1000 survey submissions later, I got to answer a ton of these questions and I'm presenting them back to the community in this very video.

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[BasikLee]

For the win percentage, it needs to be above 50% in order to rank up. People actively grinding the game would most likely have a win percentage larger than 50% since they are improving consistently. It's most likely these same people that take an interest in RL content and replied on your survey. The people who don't take the game too seriously or have dropped it, probably won't bother replying on your survey. It's interesting though, but this is my best guess

[AreionGlobal]

Salutations Wayton. On behalf of the Plat Union we are sorry for our misleading and false responses. We promise to continue blaming our teammates for our lack of success and we will continue flip resetting. Thank you and again we are truly sorry.
-The Platinum Union

[bernoulli]

I think the avg win % in your survey is above 50% because respondents to a rocket league survey will be inherently keen on the game and actively learning things, so as a group, they are climbing.

[theweightofarms]

That decrease in team play seems like it happens when players start to feel confident with some of their mechanics and gameplay, thus feeling like they are better than their team or not trusting their team

[aquanos]

I liked how you showed all of the different metrics like demoes and goals per game but i personally wouldve been interested in seeing how many players are playing 2v2 / 3v3 as a premade and whether or not it makes a difference in hours / matches played compared to rank.

[brycebarber]

started RL a couple months ago. Mainly played training packs for fun. Finally played comp today and placed Plat 1. Love this game so far, and I have been enjoying your vids!

[jerry]

Would be interesting to see how the stats differ by region. I imagine in smaller regions especially that ranking up takes way more hours

[anotherperson]

Bro I love watching Wayton apply real world stuff in his graphs. The whole last bar graph reminded me of my dad’s work he showed me once. Where he took a graph of oil production in one well over time, and found the average amount you should find in similar wells.

[jeffwark]

I think your 55% win percentage would be due to the self selection of the data points. If you could somehow query the "master database" for 100 (or 10000) from each rank/division, you would most likely get a better data sample.

Thank you for your great videos.

[Zitronenstrauch-uno]

Hey Wayton, I think that those win% are measured from gameplay hour 0 onwards. Everyone who made it out of bronze will not fall back to bronze 1, hence they have a positive winrate, which is more than 50%.

[AvaWillows]

I love how Wayton always finds a way to roast plats in his videos 😂

[braindawg]

What are the confidence intervals on these various figures? I'd love to see some error bars! There certainly weren't an even number of respondents from every category/rank, so you'll have much higher confidence in the averages for some ranks than others. I'm also curious about the variance within each rank.

Would be great to see some robust statistical analysis of an even larger player set!

Also, I have a feeling that the reason Psyonix doesn't release their official data is so that new players don't realize they'll need to put in >300 hours to get out of the trash tiers. And those of us in Plat 2 with 1300+ hours don't completely lose hope.

[CosmicS]

Never before have I felt better about spending 10 years in champ 3

[BloxCr]

Thanks for letting us be apart of your video Wayton! Glad I could help as a champ 3 (virge of gc1)! I like to compare my current stats to my later stats!

[Noer]

I’m just sharing my stats for the fun of it cause why not.

Rocket league stat Time Played: 1803 hours
Actual Time Played: 5095 hours
Peak Rank: GC 1 Div 1
Favorite Game Mode: 3s
If you want anymore info just reply and I’ll try to respond if I can anyways yeah if you read this far much love <3

[AbsoluteIKeatI]

2 Notes from me:

1) I didn't participate in the survey but I am curious if players may have entered their extra modes rank as their highest rank and skewed the data. For example I have 2400 hours and am GC1 in 2s and 3s but I was GC1 in rumble back at 1500 hours and am now GC3 in it so possible data skews there.

2) The win percentage could be 1 of 2 things. The first is just how RL calculates stats and I don't know how it counts stats when people abandon or forfeit and leave before the scoreboard, very possible Psyonix just didn't do this correctly. The other thing is your survey is skewed towards people who are active enough in the community and care enough to take a survey about Rocket League and players like that tend to put more time and effort into the game and thus have higher win percentages than the players who don't watch youtube and just sometimes play cuz they're bored. I would wager that has at least a 2% swing in your data.

[awstrieb]

Hey Wayton! Just putting this out there. At 6:00 you mention the win rate percentage and how it has a similar rate across the board. When you think about it, you see a fairly consistent line going up in most of your stats in terms of goals per game, assists, etc. So is it possible that the average rate that people rank up is roughly 5 or 6%? Just a thought

[SlickClick]

As a newer player on the verge of diamond in 2s, Plat is the rank I started being able to control the ball a lot. I think the lower assists but higher goals and other inconsistencies is that everyone is fighting eachother to make solo plays because either we are doing it to try and improve, we think we are the best, or our teammates seem to be letting us down so we feel like we have to do it all ourselves. As someone who is genuinely trying to improve, Plat has been a very frustrating rank but as long as you keep a more calm and mature mental, you can litterly watch the game unfold and start reading plays. I've found in upper Plat I can 'train' about half of my teamates in the first couple minutes by making a good center and then immediately beeliningback for rotation until they get the idea.

[touhouplay]

Thanks man ! Today I was actually thinking about that after watching some off your videos, like what is the average learning curve in Rocket League Ranks, super interesting, I've got the game since 2015 but never played seriously, this year because im getting older (29 this year) video games bore me a bit, but my friends play rocket league often, so I gave myself the challenge to at least have a basic control of each game mechanics and achieve Champion. I've got 250 hours on RL since 2015, 1500 matches, 54% win and Im currently Diamond 1. Today i just learned to dribble thanks to your video about it and became confortable doing so after an hour. I guess im part of the ones who get the game quite quickly according to your average rank curve, Im doing lots of drifts and air combat in simulation games (Assetto Corsa, DCS World) so serious mechanics learning is something I like doing. And actually after watching your videos and playing more seriously, It made me realise how complex of a game RL is and I start to enjoy it in a whole new way, I didnt felt that passion for a game since Skyrim, so thank you ! 😉

[nathanperley]

Hey Wayton! Just wanted to let you know that you are my favorite content creator. You beat everybody out there in my opinion. Your style of editing, the clear time put into videos, and the quality of content is outstanding. I love watching every single one of your videos. The content is so much better then other rocket league YouTubers. You are seriously underrated. So, keep up the great work man. Looking forward to future uploads!