Rocket League Defensive Strategies and How They Can Help You Rank Up

Here are some Rocket League Defensive Strategies that you should know how to do. These five scenarios will help you rank up. Techniques like shadow defense, aerial defense and corner defense broken down for easy understanding. These defensive tips are helpful to implement into your game right away and you'll see an increase in your rank quicker than you expected. Corner defense is especially important and can help you get better at rocket league quickly.

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[shmurgy]

also
corner defense: 4:53
ground/shadow 6:30
aerial 7:25
offensive: 8:35

[ravioli]

My notes as a diamond 1/2:
Play back post alot and be last man.
If someone is aerialing, let the man on the wall go first and force a mistake
If your the last man on defense, shadow defend.

[andrewgordon]

Hey man, don’t downplay being a golf pro! That’s a super cool job and you have to be pretty good to run a course. Recently found you two or so weeks ago and love all the content, keep up the good work!

[EboRL]

I think this video is very helpful for people who are more offensive. You mentioned how you'll move up from gold to diamond quickly from defense. I can confirm, I got to diamond strictly by being good at defense and patience, and having no mechanical or offensive skill at all (I didn't know how to half-flip, wavedash, fast aerial, flick, shoot off the wall, double touch, air dribble, ceiling shot, not give away possession with clears, actual rotation, how to not go boost over ball, etc). Now, I'm trying to catch up my mechanics to my rank and sit at D3/C1 one year later and can do all of the above with some sort of consistency. The reason I'm not higher is because I sacrificed my patience, and I am trying to bring that back into my game now. Great video CBell.

P.S. My Esports roster is currently using yours and Wayton's videos the most for improvement. Thank you for providing insightful quality content to the community.

[minotaur]

Am a champ 1 player who has no flashy offensive plays, cant make a backboard read to save his life. But defense carried me through all the mid ranks.

[shmurgy]

wow this is quality content. props to you man! you deserve more subs.

[kyrin]

I definitely needed to hear this. Very Classy Presentation as well. Loved How You explained all the factors that were happening in each of the example clips. I Died at 6:21 xD Keep up the Awesome Videos!

[devinmainez]

Haha.. you used to be a “smaller YouTube channel” bro. Keep up the great work

[Hannes]

Mastering the training pack 'uncomfortable saves' is 100% what got me from plat to diamond. It also taught me how to air roll which i barely used before. So practicing defense is definitely worth it

[carlynz]

This is so true. When I realized I could just hang back and make a "good" clear, I went from plat 2 to dia 3 in just a couple weeks. Thing is, now I'm struggling to hold on to Champ 1 because of how much better everyone is with their shot placement and challenges.

[NaopolitanMusic]

I've played for just over 2 years now and I'm a 1700 gc. I've always been defensive minded when playing sports, so naturally when I started playing rocket league this mentality followed suit. Early on, I used custom training for aerials, awkward over the head long shots, save direction and reaction time. In my first season I ended on plat 3 in 1v1, and dia1 in 2s and 3s. Now I realise how pivotal that mindset was to ranking up fast early on!

[aos-archive]

"Assume ballchasers". That's what I did 4000 hrs ago. That's still what I do today. My mechanics are shit, but at least I'm aware of what's going on.

[knowmercy]

I used to play 3s with my friends A TON and I scored a 90% on the all star goalie in silver (now at gold but I play console) and they made me goalie for all the games but now I can save more shots so yes it does help.

[cbx]

damn every time i come across one of your videos you have like 1k more subs, keep up the good work man!

[chasekarl]

great video man, defense is way underrated.

[TheRealUMKB]

This is straight facts I got to champ 3 by improving defence

[liikerirl]

Well I guess this explains why I ranked up. Like I hit champ with far inferior mechanics than the other fellas in my games and all I could do to explain was "I play it safe and don't douple commit". Been trying to play 1's for getting better and more consistent with mechanics, but it's a whole different kind of animal....

[Shinigami_no_kagetatsu]

I’m only at plat 2 div 3 and when I first started playing in 2018 I was all about offense and I ranked at silver 1 but when I started playing again after it became free to play I became a defensive player and I placed gold 3 but after working a bit more on some offense I got to my current rank of plat 2. In conclusion, if you focus on learning defense then you will rank up higher.

[migueleu]

I felt this will help me so much, thanks dude

[orlando]

This man should have more subs. Keep up the good work!