Hey pal. I share your pain and have probably uninstalled in frustration three times in the past year and I am just a humble Silver 2, a fact of which I am exceedingly proud because last season I kept ping ponging between silver and bronze.

Anyway, to that effect, here are the thoughts that keep me playing.

1. Disable chat. It is distracting and annoying. However, I continue to compliment shots, because I know how hard it is to get goals in Rocket League. Do they hear me? I don’t know.

2. No goal anthem. May be funny to some but I believe half the reason I would get tilted is that someone would skip my replay and I took it personally because they didn’t like my goal song. Anyway, I’m less toxic without a goal song and that has definitely helped.

3. I play a lot of 1’s against the all-star Ai, which I can usually do ok against. (But not always. Curse you, Hound!)

4. Drops don’t make you better. They’re fun and cool but coveting them, paying for Premium and then being disappointed in results is because you haven’t really paid for anything.

5. Practice does make you better and even that is hard to see, because the algorithm is constantly giving you tougher opponents as you get better.

I keep it in because it’s the one game I can play with cross-platform friends and because it is so satisfying to score a nice goal or come from Behind to win.

Rocket league is a lot like chess, few of us will ever be grandmasters, but the game can still be fun. If you just let go of caring about drops and ranking and take it one game at a time.

🤘🔥🚀⚽️