In Depth Aerials Guide by RLCS Coach — Transcript

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1. 0:00Aerials are a core element of broccoli.
2. 0:0210 years ago, flying with your car to
3. 0:04hit a boat seemed like an impossible
4. 0:06task. But now, it's a skill that you
5. 0:08must have if you want to be somewhat
6. 0:10decent at the game. However, this
7. 0:12doesn't mean that flying hasn't become
8. 0:14any easier, but there is more knowledge
9. 0:16about it. So, I gather all of it from
10. 0:18the internet and my experience coaching
11. 0:20professional players to bring it to you
12. 0:22guys in just one video. I will explain
13. 0:24five fundamental pillars that will be
14. 0:26useful either you are a low ranked
15. 0:28player or a more experienced one. This
16. 0:30will be a longer video so I put chapters
17. 0:33on YouTube so you can just skip to a
18. 0:34part that is more interesting to you but
19. 0:37still watch you recommending all the way
20. 0:38through so you don't miss any important
21. 0:40information.
22. 0:45Thank you DV Hubs for sponsoring this
23. 0:47video. Pillar one fast aerial versus
24. 0:50standard aerial. Which of them is
25. 0:52better? The answer might seem a bit
26. 0:54obvious. Fast aerial, right? The truth
27. 0:56is that both have the same importance.
28. 0:58It's just that each of them have their
29. 1:00own scenarios in which they shine. So,
30. 1:02which are they? Fast aerials are perfect
31. 1:04for boats high up in the air, in which
32. 1:07the idea is to outspeed your opponent.
33. 1:09To fast aerial, you need to jump and
34. 1:11immediately start boosting until you're
35. 1:14far back and then use your second jump.
36. 1:17Simple enough. To solve the most common
37. 1:18mistake that is back flipping, you need
38. 1:20to make sure to not be pressing the
39. 1:22second jump at the same time as you are
40. 1:24inclining your car. The only problem
41. 1:26with fast arrow is that comes at a cost
42. 1:28of sacrificing accuracy and with that
43. 1:31power on your touch. This is why
44. 1:33standard arrow is better in balls that
45. 1:35are close to the ground because it
46. 1:37allows you to save your flip to hit the
47. 1:39ball with strength and precision. This
48. 1:41sounds logic once I say it, but I cannot
49. 1:43stress to you how many people I see
50. 1:44while coaching that just spam double
51. 1:47jump to go for a shot. Just like Bot
52. 1:49Shepherd. Some balls close to the
53. 1:51ground. Consider holding your second
54. 1:53jump. But keep in mind that it only
55. 1:55lasts 1.5 seconds. So you got to be
56. 1:58fast. Also, hold your button on your
57. 2:00first jump instead of just tapping it in
58. 2:02order to gain as much height as
59. 2:04possible. Pillar two, arrow. First, why
60. 2:07do we spin?
61. 2:11Some people may think that this is
62. 2:13unnecessarily flashy, but it actually
63. 2:15serves a purpose, which is to make you
64. 2:17go into specific direction smoothly. If
65. 2:19you aerial without arrowing, you will
66. 2:21see how unstable your car feels. There
67. 2:24are two ways to arrow. Free arrow and
68. 2:26directional arrow. I see many people
69. 2:28confused about the difference in between
70. 2:30these two. Let's say that one is more
71. 2:32accurate and the other one is more
72. 2:34consistent. Free roll allows you to make
73. 2:36tiny adjustments on your car by speeding
74. 2:38purely with your stick or movement keys.
75. 2:41This allows you to be really accurate,
76. 2:43especially when going for aerial or
77. 2:45arrow shots. And it's also flexible
78. 2:47since you can move your car in both
79. 2:49directions. While the AR allows you to
80. 2:52forget about the spinning motion, but
81. 2:54just holding a button and use all your
82. 2:56brain power to adjust and make the touch
83. 2:58you want. It shines the most when used
84. 3:00for air dribbles, flea resets, and
85. 3:02ceiling shots. It also allows you to
86. 3:04turn native spin, which is a really
87. 3:06consistent way of flying where the
88. 3:08momentum generated by your boost gets
89. 3:10spread out, balancing your car and
90. 3:12allowing adjustments mid-flight. Even
91. 3:15though it's possible to achieve high
92. 3:16ranks with just one directional arrow
93. 3:18binded, I recommend you learning both so
94. 3:20you can decide in which scenarios you
95. 3:22should use each of them. Bindings. When
96. 3:24you're choosing your bindings, the most
97. 3:26important thing is that they are
98. 3:28comfortable to you. This is why I
99. 3:29recommend you to have arrol and boost
100. 3:31binded on different fingers. You don't
101. 3:33want to be pressing square and circle
102. 3:34with your thumb at the same time. That's
103. 3:37pretty inconvenient. The most default
104. 3:39way to have them is to bind arrow and
105. 3:42also power slide to L1 or LT boost to R1
106. 3:45or RT and arrow left and right to square
107. 3:48and circle or X on B for Xbox
108. 3:50respectively. Now, before you go down
109. 3:53into the comments, I know that Sen uses
110. 3:55arrow on L2 or LT, which allows him to
111. 3:58control how fast the car spins depending
112. 4:00on how deep he presses the trigger. To
113. 4:02be honest, I cannot tell you whether to
114. 4:04use it or not because I don't use it
115. 4:06myself, but still feel free to try it
116. 4:08because one of the best players in the
117. 4:10world already showed that it's
118. 4:11definitely useful. Stop over spinning.
119. 4:14Sometimes I'm watching a student's
120. 4:15replay in which they did everything
121. 4:17right. We are in the perfect place with
122. 4:19a good amount of boost to score an open
123. 4:21net. Just to the ball, spin more of what
124. 4:24is needed. It just misses and I cannot
125. 4:26hold myself from asking why. Especially
126. 4:29happens with directional arrow. Most of
127. 4:31the times you need to spin to align
128. 4:33properly with the ball. But at the
129. 4:34moment of the contact, it's usually
130. 4:36better to keep your car still and maybe
131. 4:38free arrow slightly to ensure an
132. 4:40accurate touch. If you don't believe me,
133. 4:42just look at this iconic clip from
134. 4:44Justin.
135. 4:45>> And it's almost there. Justin keeps it
136. 4:47alive. Turn it there. Bounces into the
137. 4:50corner. Energy still around. Justin hit
138. 4:52there for the shot and
139. 4:57this is Rocket League.
140. 4:58>> Pillar three, boost efficiency. There
141. 5:00are a few keys to be efficient with your
142. 5:02boost when you're flying. Feathering
143. 5:04technique. This is a well-known
144. 5:05technique in which you tap your boost
145. 5:07button instead of holding it in order to
146. 5:09save boost. A common issue is that
147. 5:11people misunderstand it and think that
148. 5:13this applies to the whole arrow. But in
149. 5:15reality, you cannot feather at the
150. 5:17beginning of it. Think it in this way.
151. 5:18When you just jumped, your vertical
152. 5:20momentum is almost zero. So the force
153. 5:22required to move your car is high,
154. 5:25meaning that you have to boost more. As
155. 5:26you gain more speed, your momentum will
156. 5:28carry you up even when you're not
157. 5:30boosting. With this in mind, we will
158. 5:32feather to keep our height, which is
159. 5:33especially useful when air dribbling.
160. 5:35Feathering also prevents over boost,
161. 5:37which shifts orientation. So correct, we
162. 5:40choose enough boost for direction and
163. 5:42not speed. Another way to save boost is
164. 5:44to jump straight from high places
165. 5:46instead of from the ground. So get
166. 5:47familiar with jumping from the wall, the
167. 5:49ceiling, the net. No matter your
168. 5:51position, you should be able to take off
169. 5:53properly. The best technique that you
170. 5:54can use is to simply use your dodge in
171. 5:57order to gain distance in the air
172. 5:59without boosting since you will reset
173. 6:01your down momentum by canceling the
174. 6:03gravity and starting your aerial once
175. 6:04the flip ends. I especially use it when
176. 6:07defending an aerial play from the
177. 6:08backboard and I am low boost. On the
178. 6:10training side, one of my favorite ways
179. 6:12to do it is by using Speed Jump Boost by
180. 6:15DMC. This workshop is the definition of
181. 6:18old but gold. You're an Epic Games
182. 6:20player and you don't know how to play
183. 6:21workshops? Well, don't worry. I got you.
184. 6:23I have a tutorial on how to do it.
185. 6:25Finally, there is one more thing that
186. 6:27allows you to save boost, which comes up
187. 6:29on the next pillar. But before that, I
188. 6:31wanted to talk about DB House. This is a
189. 6:33Rocket League community where you will
190. 6:34have access to more than 10 monthly
191. 6:36coaching events and find potential
192. 6:38teammates that actually care about the
193. 6:41game. You can party up with them and
194. 6:42also multiple professional RLCS coaches
195. 6:45that will help you improve massively,
196. 6:47including me. Each coach explains
197. 6:49different concepts from their respective
198. 6:51points of view, enhancing the value of
199. 6:53the explanation. Check their website and
200. 6:55join their Discord. Pillar four,
201. 6:58bringing the ball midair. This is one of
202. 7:00the two most important pillars out of a
203. 7:03ball. It's what separates mid players
204. 7:05from top tier ones. Being able to read
205. 7:07the ball fast and accurately not only
206. 7:09allows us to beat our opponents, but
207. 7:11also to be efficient while doing it. It
208. 7:13all begins with your takeoff. This part
209. 7:15is crucial because it allows you to save
210. 7:18boost, determine how fast you reach the
211. 7:20ball, and if you'll get to it in time or
212. 7:22not. Sometimes we read the bounce
213. 7:24perfectly. We took off before our
214. 7:26opponent, but we were simply facing the
215. 7:28wrong way, which makes the aerial really
216. 7:30hard to adjust and we whiff. Since we
217. 7:32have more control of our car in the
218. 7:34ground and in the air, consider taking
219. 7:36an extra moment to properly aim your car
220. 7:38to your destination before jumping for
221. 7:40the ball. To prepare our takeoff
222. 7:42properly, we first need to read where
223. 7:43the ball is going and when we will
224. 7:45encounter it. This is a skill that has
225. 7:47to be trained. There's no cheat code
226. 7:50around this. is just practicing in free
227. 7:52play in training packs a lot. A training
228. 7:55pack I love is double tap playground
229. 7:57which allows you to set up yourself to
230. 7:59go for a double making every single try
231. 8:02unique. You didn't like the part of no
232. 8:04cheat codes, right? Well, I can give you
233. 8:05a tip to be better at reading the ball.
234. 8:08Just look at it when it's bouncing on
235. 8:10the wall and forget about your car for a
236. 8:13little bit. This allows you to read it
237. 8:14more accurately. At first, it might be
238. 8:17hard to control your car without looking
239. 8:19at it, but you will get consistent in no
240. 8:21time if you train it enough. Finally, it
241. 8:23comes the part when we hit the ball. So,
242. 8:25the crucial part is the last adjustment
243. 8:27when we're arriving to it. We have to
244. 8:29determine whether we want to go for a
245. 8:31shot in which we will hit it with the
246. 8:33corner or the nose of our car, a soft
247. 8:36pass with more surface of our car or
248. 8:38usually the wheels or if we are arriving
249. 8:40late and we need to adjust for a block
250. 8:42which you will usually go for with the
251. 8:44roof of your car allowing you to boost
252. 8:46during the 50 for more force. This makes
253. 8:49a lot of difference whether your commit
254. 8:50is useful or completely useless. So pay
255. 8:54attention to which scenario you're in.
256. 8:56Pillar five, landing and recoveries.
257. 8:58This last concept which is really simple
258. 9:00but makes a huge difference. Pro players
259. 9:03are characterized by maintaining control
260. 9:05of their car even when having a rough
261. 9:07landing. This is why recoveries are the
262. 9:09second most important thing on this
263. 9:10list. The idea is pretty
264. 9:12straightforward. Land with your for
265. 9:13wheels on the floor and power slide to
266. 9:15recycle your momentum. It just drives me
267. 9:17mad when I see people landing backwards
268. 9:19and they just try to keep accelerating
269. 9:21forward and they kill their momentum
270. 9:24because it makes the recovery way
271. 9:26slower. But wait, this also applies to
272. 9:28higher gameplay because people usually
273. 9:31struggle when landing on the wall
274. 9:33because they don't pay enough attention
275. 9:34to it. The worst part is that it's so
276. 9:37useful and so gamechanging. You don't
277. 9:39believe me? Just look at this clip from
278. 9:41Juicy during the last major.
279. 9:43>> Gentle mates hope alive.
280. 9:45>> I think it's a big uh you know it's a
281. 9:47big positive for gentle mates that this
282. 9:49is Seiko getting this late goal.
283. 9:51>> An insane pass. Crazy, I know. Well, if
284. 9:54you want to get recoveries like that, I
285. 9:56recommend you a few things. The first
286. 9:58one is to practice in this training pack
287. 10:00that I created to fly towards the wall,
288. 10:02pop it up, land on the wall, jump again,
289. 10:04and do a follow-up touch. This is skill
290. 10:06that will definitely be useful in twos
291. 10:08and threes to leave wide open nets to
292. 10:10your teammates since you will be beating
293. 10:13two players in a row. Secondly, practice
294. 10:15with Hornets's nets workshop, your
295. 10:17overall recovery skill. It's a really
296. 10:19fun map that will definitely challenge
297. 10:21you. If you're on console and you cannot
298. 10:23play workshops, just do this frivol
299. 10:25drill which I call a monkey of the
300. 10:26jungle where you jump from the ground to
301. 10:28the wall onto the ceiling onto the bad
302. 10:31board to end up in the ground and repeat
303. 10:33the cycle. If you see that that's too
304. 10:35hard for you, skip the silling part. If
305. 10:38you think that it's too easy, try adding
306. 10:40flips, wall dashes, and backwards or
307. 10:42sideways landings to spice it up.
308. 10:44Lastly, I have a team exercise. Create a
309. 10:47pride match with unlimited boost and
310. 10:49time and jump in with a friend. Your
311. 10:51friend will pass the ball up high and
312. 10:53you will try to control in one touch,
313. 10:55land, and pass right after the first
314. 10:57bounce so your friend can do the same.
315. 11:00Do this as fast as possible as if you
316. 11:02were in a real match. If you see that
317. 11:04you still struggle, add an extra bounce
318. 11:06to set up your path. That should give
319. 11:08you more than enough time. And if you
320. 11:10don't have any friends to play with,
321. 11:11well, just join DB Hubs. There you'll
322. 11:14have a family that is willing to train,
323. 11:16grind, and learn together.
324. 11:20That was a long video. I try to cover as
325. 11:22much as possible on this video. So, I
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335. 11:43And with nothing else to say, thanks for
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337. 11:50[Applause]
338. 11:51[Music]
339. 12:04chicken.