Can my Freestyle BOT beat the SMARTEST AI in Rocket League?

Stallion the Freestyling Rocket League Bot is back to take on its most worthy opponent yet. After playing both former SSG pro Retals and professional freestyle Pulse Fire in shot for shot HORSE battles, we now move on to a bot vs bot showmatch. Stallion can can flip reset, air dribble, ceiling shot, ground pinch, and Musty Flick, but can it beat the smartest Bot in Rocket League? Nexto, the machine learning bot, has put in over 200 thousand hours of training to become the first Grand Champion Rocket League Bot. In this video we will see if Nexto's big brained defence can stop Stallion's freestyle shots. It's brains vs mechanics, bot vs bot, in this special version of Rocket League HORSE. Special thanks to Nexto Devs Rolv & Soren.
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[@markmurphy9121]

This is a really cool idea can't wait to see where bot development ends up

[@siphermusic216]

There someday will be a BRLCS. Everyone can programm their own bot and then some get chosen for the BRLCS and then the bots face off

[@Rocket_Sledge]

@@siphermusic216 In case you dont know, RLBot already kind of does this with their Bot Championships.

[@siphermusic216]

@@Rocket_Sledge thats soooo cool can someone send me a link to a video like that? I just said that as a joke actually

[@thefunbunns]

@@siphermusic216 go to rlgym on twitch

[@Rocket_Sledge]

@@siphermusic216 Here is the community: www.rlbot.org/ discord.gg/s57BZab

[@TheXboxChampion]

Bots should not be able to play this well...

[@tmklll]

Nexto is not even close to whats possible lol... Rolv and soren are training a new bot called tecko :)

[@virxec05]

#dealwithit

[@mitchelllee951]

The freestyle bot is literally just a replay

[@Mustafa_Khan]

@@mitchelllee951 but have you seen nexto

[@1of8B]

Pov: You're called a bot sometime after watching this vid "Yo thanks my guy" 😩.

[@jixxyboi5272]

hey sledge your videos always find a way to amuse me thank you

[@Rocket_Sledge]

you are welcome!

[@vness_.]

@@Rocket_Sledge video idea, one player from each rank will show off their skills and get a friend to try and guess what rank each person is (I think it’s been done before but it is a good video)

[@Bogxs]

@@vness_. pretty sure rocket sledge himself done this

[@vness_.]

@@Bogxs not sure, I thought it was striped

[@lurkx465]

@@Rocket_Sledge I love your videos

[@Mike_Toreno]

Pros watching this realizing defeating Tecko with cheap air dribble tactics is gonna be even more difficult: 👁👄👁

[@sijenkai3928]

Like, tecko is gunna be that one sweaty gc now instead of the carried gc that came from c2

[@nowherenearby9461]

@@sijenkai3928 he supposed to be an ssl tho

[@mesh8349]

@@nowherenearby9461 not anymore, oof still can’t believe that they cancelled tecko

[@nowherenearby9461]

@@mesh8349 hell no, why?

[@mesh8349]

​@@nowherenearby9461 Lack of improvement or something like that

[@rayzr8945]

Super entertaining video! I love that you featured the bot devs and have them guess the outcome of each shot

[@ClassicMiddleton]

I mean this in the most polite way, but you three give off such podcast vibes in the way you talked with each other. Great video though! Very cool idea. Just thought I was gonna hear about squarespace or AirB&B hosting 😂

[@spamreplyer2601]

"Playing like a bot" is gradually becoming a compliment...

[@jam0766]

Yo. Good to see you still making great content!

[@maxmusterman3371]

This video is absolutely amazing! Thanks and congrats to the devs on their awesone model!

[@zeepip3386]

6:35 This is the greatest pogo I have ever seen!

[@mirza0852]

That Plan B shot is actually insane

[@twinkiller6038]

Recently started watching this channel, and it is really awesome! Love the vids.

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Thank you! Glad you're here!

[@overworldfresh4870]

I love the videos and keep up the good work

[@ImJustJ3STER]

I'd love to see competitive tournaments where bot creators create Rocket League bots and make them fight other people's bots. Kind of like chess bot tournaments.

[@mrdgamesrl]

I want to see what a stallion could do if it could go higher or lower to avoid saves

[@fatmouse4279]

U would have to program a brain on it then

[@mrdgamesrl]

@@fatmouse4279 yeah it might be even more complicated than nexto

[@thefunbunns]

@@mrdgamesrl not more complicated, hard to train specific mechanics though.

[@TheJacobi]

@@mrdgamesrl I dont think so because all you would be programming is the shot/mechanics and the brain to shoot around a player/avoid bumps

[@maxmusterman3371]

@@TheJacobi Oh if its so easy, you can shurely add it

[@sparrowhawk_4]

Great format!

[@mrlychee38]

Great vid sledge!

[@jonnyt69]

Stallion should learn some more insane shots

[@AlphaGamerDelux]

this was cooler then expected

[@townnoodle1153]

I was looking forward to the psycho

[@mrdgamesrl]

Just opened. The vid already know it's gonna be a banger

[@edzusozolins007]

Never thought i will watch video, where are playing only bots

[@Rocket_Sledge]

That is true, Rocket League is getting weird lmao.

[@FlexNiko]

imagine training the stallion to also use a neural Network to train against nexto to avoid saves

[@TheKyyyle]

loved the shout out to the freestyler who did that og shot. respect. sweet vid btw

[@Rocket_Sledge]

thank you!

[@krystiandziedziela3317]

we need second part, when stalion is going to be more trained by freestylers

[@infernape716]

rocket sledge always has banger video ideas

[@brixbuildz]

This bot needs to teach me his ways

[@tallguygreg]

This was great!

[@SimplyTiffany2009]

cant wait for nexto v3

[@haze6511]

Good video sledge

[@sleeplosangeles]

This is crazy actually

[@jirkabrezik4221]

Great vid

[@TV_HypeZ]

I can't wait for next time someone calls me a bot now lol

[@niclowe696]

i was cheering on the last shot WTF

[@christopherfox7650]

Cant wait for tesko to come

[@JoshyDev]

I defenitly didn't see this one coming 👀

[@cheeseman144]

Same

[@mr.jasonlee395]

Great video👍

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Thanks 👍

[@infinitezeros8072]

I personally think that nexto is awesome! I wanna 1v1 nexto when I get to grandchamp

[@Ostrid1]

Imagine nexto but with full access to stallions freestyle library. He would dominate lobbies 😂

[@gamerandcontroller9129]

Has anyone done two Nexto up against each other?

[@supercyberdigi]

I was right! It is fluump vs Musty!

[@1of8B]

Pov: You're called a bot sometime after watching this vid "Yo thanks my guy" 😩.

[@tymonishim]

How Bot replacements in ssl lobbies should be:

[@OrignalElidest]

U went easy on the last shot. Great video though!

[@tamertamertamer4874]

I mean idk if stallion can really be qualified for this because all he does is repeat the exact movements of a player It would be really interesting if there is a bot that can do a flip reset while in a game tough

[@zayaanrab7942]

Would be interesting so see how Nexto handles a psycho

[@Rocket_Sledge]

I have one in Stallion's library but Nexto never even lets him get setup for it.

[@hecticYoutube]

AI taking over

[@waffyyy]

"They're evolving"

[@alexandredaigle8479]

Dude this is literally like, top percent KZbin rocket league content

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Thank you sir!

[@Feer]

Great idea. Great video.

[@Bweyg]

Eyyy Feer I haven't seen you in a bit! How's it going :]

[@Feer]

@@Bweyg been good. 👍 hope you have as well

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Thank you!

[@dxaisy]

Brains are better than mechanics is what I learned from this

[@Loomass]

Stallion wins in my mind personally it’s just a shot picking skill issue😅

[@alphalance9408]

Cool original idea!

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Thanks!

[@GGs319]

really wonder what would happen with nexto defending a psycho

[@gobbleringd4686]

Rocket sledge, make a bot that watches all mustys videos and learns from them.

[@WaterLemon147]

Mix these two together and you got a grand champ bot

[@CarLC0X]

now would it be possible to combine the two in a sense? like have a bot that plays and can automatically pick from a pool what to do depending on circumstances? I know boost would be a problem but i think it would be awesome if possible. maybe even unbeatable

[@outspade]

hypercompetitive bot that simultaneously styles on their opponent mercilessly

[@brydonthunder]

Not currently because Stallions mechanics aren't actually real. If the ball was 1mm outside of where its suppose to be Stallion just doesn't work. Nexto is the exact opposite, where instead of built in coded plays, Nexto has tons and tons of constant micro adjustments to the point its unhuman

[@jejeneumen4931]

If anyone makes stallion able to fake people, then he would’ve won

[@zelow5833]

You here that freestylers? Its either no brain all mechs or the opposite kinda😂😂

[@crazydave6787]

Is stallion actually an AI or does it just record input and play it back?

[@TheScienceNerd100]

I was rooting for Botimus

[@Darxeal]

botimus would easily clap both of these bots 😎

[@rohandayaram8359]

I was wondering how adobe illustrator was gonna play RL

[@gavinmills5951]

brains might have won but im gonna stick to machanics lol

[@uziiii.-.999]

No u need both

[@annoyingvalkrie4344]

Yae u right

[@jackscaping3618]

kiddd i just downloaded nexto so i can hopefully get out of champ in 1s lmfao

[@gamerboyfadi3870]

combine these 2 bots so make stalien have a brain too

[@Chizinky]

Lmak this was not supposed to be that close

[@StoneDart868]

Question: will there be a 2022 airshow?

[@Rocket_Sledge]

As of right now there are no future Air Shows planned. Maybe next year.

[@liq2029]

i like the little edit at 09:37, which probably means that wasn't on its first try. Also explains why you went with a custom overlay a toddler could've made not showing the timer :) Beautiful deception of 99.9% of your audience.

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Wow that's great detective work, you might be the 00.1%! In reality what you're seeing is probably the state setting as the bot adjusts itself to match the exact starting point of the pre-recorded human shot it is about to repeat. As for the overlay? It's an altered version of the same HORSE overlay I used for my videos against Retals and Pulse Fire, which in turn I based off how Musty set up his HORSE videos. Time and score is irrelevant in these videos as it's just unlimited time private matches so it's the best place to put the graphics. Originally I asked my son to make it but he had to go for his nap so I had to do it all by myself!

[@Ze_Techno]

Love your voice !

[@YxsdrEditz]

same

[@driptofen511]

great video idea

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Thanks!

[@retendgaming10]

Teach him airdribble bumb.

[@Insharai]

man I wanted to see a psycho xD

[@Rocket_Sledge]

I did test the Psycho that Stallion knows (as seen in the Pulse Fire video). But Nexto never even let him get it set up, it was too long of a shot.

[@Insharai]

@@Rocket_Sledge that's pretty much what I expected lol, just would have been a funny one xD

[@trader_skeetz5514]

what if they combine nexto's comp skill and stallions freestyling abilities into 1 bot 😭

[@quadblueshadow3132]

not possible, lol

[@shadowyzephyr]

@@quadblueshadow3132 maybe tecko will surprise us by clipping on everyone, i mean it did go for a ceiling shot once

[@trader_skeetz5514]

@@quadblueshadow3132 how not

[@Peksisarvinen]

@@quadblueshadow3132 It's definitely possible, all you gotta do is program in all the possible setups, the shots that can follow the setups, and prioritize them according to which ones are likeliest to succeed depending on the scenario (amount of boost, amount of opponents and their location etc). It takes a hell of a lot of coding though, if you want the bot to have a varied shot selection.

[@markobihari7480]

So if I get called a bot that's a compliment

[@chasebowman9815]

You should run this more often off camera so Nexto learns how to defend in the air better

[@shadowyzephyr]

nexto doesnt learn outside of training instances. also I doubt stallion's library is that big, so even if nexto could learn that way, it would just learn to defend the specific shots that stallion has, and might not generalize that knowledge.

[@chasebowman9815]

@@shadowyzephyr I didn’t know he didn’t learn out of training instances and if he did you have to realize that by learning how to save those freestyle shots he is still learning how to read what the opponent is doing in the air and that would help with airial defense

[@krazypotato570]

One of them were the ball hit the wall and bounced up is from frontal panda

[@Rocket_Sledge]

It is not. To learn a shot the freestyler has to be in the lobby with me and Stallion. Some of the ones I've used include Panther, Mesko, Reel, and Crunchy.

[@belakirner6703]

What if you combine these two

[@teunxl30]

Hi! Great content. Could you ask if there is any way to release this Nexto bot that behaves in a defensive way? I think it would be great to improve your shots just by having the ball and try to score it. Please let me know :)

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Like you would want a Nexto that locks in place until you touch the ball?

[@teunxl30]

Yeah!:) So you can practice ur shots on goal. Maybe have the ball a bit more on the players side instead of the middle(don’t know if that’s possible)

[@Rocket_Sledge]

@@teunxl30 I'll look into it

[@nowhaK]

I was triggered he didn’t do a sidewall

[@akiideal4622]

Me a diamond can now finallx say: Bots play better than me

[@nexus3393]

Will stallion ever come out?

[@amenaweeb7373]

Y don’t u took the toxic nexto🤣🤣

[@benprice3586]

Will Stallion ever be released?

[@superxtreme1589]

Sledge try creating a new preset which people will know that when they see it they will know its sledge. (obv a red and yellow theme)

[@Rocket_Sledge]

I've been using a few presets like that for the last 2 years. But I dont play so it's kinda pointless.

[@daboysbelike9525]

How do the developers get these bots too do this?

[@mesh8349]

When’s stallion releasing?

[@tech232ohio]

Watching this months later as I lose to nexto in a ranked c3 2s match

[@AdsForAdults]

Does Stallion just use replay values to "learn" moves and just "Copies" them and executes them with perfect Replay level execution?

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Replays don't store a lot of information. So Stallion has to learn by being in the private match with the play doing the shot. It then records the exact inputs being used.

[@katarzynakudka2129]

I have a qauestion when will this bot be released

[@Rocket_Sledge]

I won't be taking questions. Sorry.

[@jraps3581]

What car is stallen using i wanna become him

[@floopdawooop3633]

anyone know the name of the intro music it's been bugging me for weeks that i can't find it

[@Rocket_Sledge]

Shake Down by Jules Gaia

[@pal1531]

gg

[@lurkx465]

Epic

[@user-ho7jn6kr2g]

I flicked nexto

[@kushalb4275]

I wish I could be a bot!

[@eskipaxy]

So a bot can get a tw octane but i cant..

[@ummm6050]

Combine nexto and stallion

[@criticaldawg]

Nexto is nothing like a gc. Don’t let these videos fool you. Lol all nexto does is flick it does absolutely nothing else just flick.

[@Rocket_Sledge]

living up to your name I see.

[@criticaldawg]

Am I wrong though?

[@Rocket_Sledge]

​@@criticaldawg Mostly I'm concerned you are going to expose the massive Content Creator Collective that all banded together to try to fool people into thinking Nexto was good.😅 You are correct that Nexto has good flicks. But let's not overlook it's defence as well. Nexto is referred to as a "GC" bot because it regularly beats GCs or at least gives them a good challenge. If you dont believe that all you have to do is go to the RLBot discord which regularly has high level players trying the bot and expressing their independent thoughts on its skills. But like all bots it has weaknesses. In videos you usually see people trying it for the first time and thus he will beat them. This is unprecedented territory for AI and I dont think it's incorrect to thus call it GC" unless you really want to get pedantic about it. Also I don't think it's fair to say the bot isn't good just because it uses one mechanic more than another. In fact I would expect there is a lot of GC ranked players that get to their rank while heavily relying on only a couple key mechanics or skills as well.

[@criticaldawg]

@@Rocket_Sledge If you took away the fact it nearly has a perfect flick rate what else does nexto do?

[@HoraryHellfire]

@@criticaldawg Good movement, fake challenge (better than some monkey GC1s!), and get a proper 50/50 on the ball. Has pretty good save positioning. Becomes more apparent when you learn to deal with the flicks.

[@beamedONRBX]

bro pc advantage is insane