This was Zen before anyone knew who he was

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Zen was just like us for awhile and not the best player in the world. His mechanics were bad, decision making was bad, he was you for real. Let’s take a look at his progress, season by season, starting when he was 11 years old.
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[@CBellRL]

Remember to like the video if you like Zen or think he’s goated. Let me know if you want me to do this with some other pros. Also don’t forget to check out the E Swap Pro S controller on sale now for Black Friday at bit.ly/EswapCbell

[@dogepeely]

Bet

[@Thetrueblox]

WELCOME 😊

[@user-rq5ew5ss2q]

Nice video cbell!!

[@Brentninja7]

Awesome vid

[@kayla_playzrbxyt5691]

Haha i was born February 20th too does that mean im basically your sister?

[@victorbrousseau]

As a baguette myself, we're so proud to have guys like Zen. Esport is going wild in France and that's amazing !

[@JHKRL3]

Thats not zen in 2019 bruh lightning mcqueen is not in 2019

[@robnimil]

“As a baguette myself” mdr😭

[@NamisaMusic]

Crazy how he improved backwards from 2019 to 2011 xP (6:50) Great video though, much love ♥

[@SemadOfficial]

I thought the same thing

[@CBellRL]

Wait I forgot to add in the part about how he time traveled that season?

[@SemadOfficial]

Ah makes so much more sense now!

[@Pro_GameMaster888]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@zyyrrx]

2011 totally, not 2021 or anything

[@Honeybun.]

The glazing is crazy

[@Rukia_W]

How

[@hussee1480]

Tbf everyone glazes zen

[@quentincoleman4789]

Chraaaayeyyy

[@TJ-tm5gp]

Yes but he is the best player in the world

[@molerjsliva9277]

Bro stfu. You cannot watch Rocket League and not like Zen. He is "The Ceiling"

[@AresMano]

Dude was GC at 11 years old. Bruh

[@battlemachine9031]

yeah fr. 16 and still barely c3

[@CometWarriorYT]

@@battlemachine9031bro 14 and I got trolled out of 1700 😭 And this guy was GC at 11 😭

[@FRESHhitsss69]

I sucked at games when I was 11 I’d prob be gold at that age

[@HJTech.]

But gc in 2018 was easier than now

[@FRESHhitsss69]

@@HJTech.it was easier than it is now but it was hard back then. Everything is hard/impossible until it’s normalized. The 900 on a skateboard seemed impossible to do until Tony hawk did it. Now a lot of skaters have done 900s and some have gone beyond that number. Now today skateboarding is beyond what it was 20 years ago but wasn’t any easier back then.

[@theeggthatsurvivedhowtobas778]

Its wild to see how 2018s defintion of grand champ is todays diamond 3 maybe C1 lobby.

[@Void-0001]

Fr watch todays ssl is probably gonna look like C2 C3 in like 6 years

[@guiwald]

I'm gold and can air roll 😂

[@user-il4ff8uk3x]

@@guiwaldnobody cares

[@guiwald]

@@user-il4ff8uk3x Nobody cares, but you, who took the time to reply to my comment. Thanks buddy. I'm sure you will get friends one day to spend time with.

[@No_Hack0]

​@@guiwaldmy bronze friend can air roll too all you have to do is hold 1 button

[@jp7hm136]

Yo cbell make this a series it would be so cool seeing pros past

[@travismefford668]

Lol not really. So he used to be a plat huh? Wow

[@HyperNinja917]

@@travismefford668 12 yrs old, firstkiller was beating pros

[@AlyInSpace]

@@travismefford668 oh wow he used to be plat and became the best player in the world? yea not interesting at all. 🙄 just because u don't like analyzing gameplay or understand the entertainment or role it plays doesn't mean others cant appreciate it or want more of it lol

[@teo_rl]

@@travismefford668pipe down lil bro

[@SoNyXDNB]

@@travismefford668 Jelly much? Bet you are still plat.

[@eggie_D]

i’ve always wanted to see the progression of a professional at any sport from average to the best. this video is way more valuable than u imagine cbell. thank you so much

[@monkethefirst7636]

He still wasn't average at the start lmao, he was GC even back in 2018😭

[@H94R]

@@monkethefirst7636tru but most gcs from 2018 are still gcs to regular ssl now. pro level makes GCs look like bronze 1 in comparison so the progression is still wild considering he didn’t even progress the first few seasons in the video.

[@YeaaIJusShiddedOnEm]

Rocket league is a sport?

[@monkethefirst7636]

@@YeaaIJusShiddedOnEmdo you happen to know of the term e"sports"

[@YeaaIJusShiddedOnEm]

@@monkethefirst7636 no but I know ur mom haaaa goteeeem

[@hyperlitestud]

I think it's pretty cool that you shouted at Wilton's video on being the best RL video ever made. His content is insanely well put together. I've always thought your content is up there with him and sunless and them. Really quality stuff man. I enjoyed this video alot, along with alot of your others. Thanks for the entertainment/ knowledge

[@ryanlunzen9794]

At this age the improvement out of this amount of matches seems normal just his peak now is unmatchable.

[@OskarSvan]

Make this into a series with other pros !

[@Solozoone]

Fr

[@MookY3n]

I love the vids cbell but omg the glazing at 11:37

[@Boombob]

Great video man. You really helped put into perspective how much time and effort is put to become a talented player, and you showcase the same thing as a content creator. There is no substitution to hard work, and just you wait, ill join you. Proud of you man.

[@xal.3275]

i love you bob

[@adrianguzman8272]

watching this gave me motivation to play and grind again and I went from c3 1306 to gc 1 1460 in less than one day

[@alex_frazmc7157]

love the videos man keep it up.

[@muss3128]

Man this gives me some inspiration to train 6 hours in sequence to be a monster 💥🔥

[@VeryButtery]

The amount of grind he put in is crazy. 4k games in a season that’s legit half my playtime at gc2

[@real_Schrooten]

shouldn't you be gc3 by then? I dont know the stats about ranking up higher than c3

[@VeryButtery]

@@real_Schrooten I have ~7k games (if I remember correctly) at gc2 I haven’t played consistently since before free to play. If I did play the entire time I’d be SSL. Peak 1650 season 13, Peak 1644 season 5. Other than that I’ve stopped playing almost completely especially since epic is stopping trading I have no reason to support the game Work sucks man I don’t got time for jack

[@scallopRL]

That’s more than my total playtime at c3 lmao he’s crazy

[@daibach7749]

the goosebumps I experienced watching that edit at the end...

[@scallopRL]

Wayton is just that good

[@Dan-no5fc]

Controller joysticks with Hall-effect sensors for the win! Impossible to ever develop stick drift

[@noahguttormsen]

Everyone need to start somewhere!❤️‍🔥 Follow your dreams because the king was one time a normal human😊

[@MetroTO.]

6:50 "we are now in 2011" oh man I wish

[@CBellRL]

Nice catch lol. Whoops 😬

[@walter_rl]

i agree with the other people saying they want this to become a series, i would consistently watch every one of them. do "relevant" pros first like vatira or joyo or arsenal or retals, etc

[@toknsquirrel]

Honestly, perfect outtro 🙏🫂💙

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

do you edit your won videos? loving the aesthetic my guy!

[@Trepur349]

Everyone sucks when they first start playing rocket league

[@dalpharey3679]

Crazy how 2018 Gc gameplay is similar to 2023 Diamond gameplay Edit: you should do one for Rw9

[@LukeRig]

Diamond is significantly worse than these old gc replays. I would say it’s more comparable to the mid champ range

[@hypar2]

@@LukeRig high diamond is definitely like those gc lobbies

[@thosko98]

press X to doubt, current GC is basically the same as GC back then except for people being more mechanical. 2018 GC is still way more coordinated and players get more power on their hits than Diamond players. It's probably mid Champ as the other guy said, but with less than average aerial mechs for the rank. @@hypar2

[@hypar2]

i was a gc back in 2018, and after coming back to the game recently im diamond now, so i guess its my teamates@@thosko98

[@axtra9561]

@@thosko98 no chance bro he couldn't even air roll

[@izowa_387]

Thank you for this video

[@user-fg2cf8el8w]

Bro this is the progression of the goat

[@xxmysticexpertxx113]

6:22 was he possibly testing out new controls?

[@ITSROCKY007]

we are now in 2011?? lol 6:51

[@Vodysly5_5]

this video might have the most amount of glazing i've ever seen

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

2:48 you are so precious, CBell. Love ya.

[@sparrow3026]

shocking discovery from CBell: not everyone starts out insane at the game 😱

[@Cytro]

Nah mate, I thought Zen was SSL when he started playing, glad this video cleared this up for me /s

[@No_Hack0]

​this is sarcasm right@@Cytro

[@rule2169]

“That can buy all the girls lunch at school” 😂

[@hrdgms27]

dude didn't hold back on the only chance he gets to flame zen 😂😂😂

[@THISMasterModeller]

Loved the video and the edit at the end 👌. This is definitely the Age of Zen

[@tinyikobilankulu9122]

No but he glazing too much😭😭

[@twentiez]

the glazing goes crazy

[@LockIn367]

I think it's important for us to all know we have a final form in rocket league just like what zen has. This inspired me to play more, thank you cbell

[@stevenrichard2196]

Not even in his final form yet

[@LockIn367]

fax@@stevenrichard2196

[@Stianhem]

I was a bubble player in europe from 2015 to 2019, and most of us in the EU bubble/pro scene was well aware of him in 2018... and let me tell you.. booooy was he toxic 😂

[@henrybrun6786]

MY B DAY IS FEB 20TH TOO! LOL WE ALL BROTHERS

[@DomisorusRex]

Mine is feb 19 lol

[@CBellRL]

Welcome brother. Happy early birthday

[@CBellRL]

Worst day to have a birthday tbh

[@henrybrun6786]

@@CBellRL thx bro your content is amazing and I really needed that because my last birthday I had a high fever. Thank you again and I will watch your content for as long as you post

[@collinkastl8694]

happy birthday zen and cbell

[@iambre3]

Amazing!

[@kronosrll]

damn thats crazy bc im on this path rn im getting really close to rlcs level

[@rancyboi5858]

Yoo kronos wsg

[@CBellRL]

Get it bro

[@kronosrll]

@@CBellRL yessirr

[@kronosrll]

im not old enough yet @@CBellRL

[@wally_the_whale1757]

Big W for big MAN

[@thror1709]

Other cool similar video idea: going over some of the past goats (scrub, fairy peak, uhmm..) cause i wasn't playing or watching rl when they were at their peak and i hear them mentioned so often but never know what these players achieved exactly and why it's so special.

[@thokani1821]

I just came across your channel again cbell i quit rl but i remember u wer at 5k subs and watched you congrats mam

[@ryanwoodcock310]

Within an hour 👇

[@Idkflowzy]

Me

[@Phenanz]

Let’s go gang.

[@user-rq5ew5ss2q]

Wooo

[@onofresilva9325]

It's not that crazy, that's how everyone starts when they play Rocket League

[@x8jason8x]

Exactly.

[@standemanonoman408]

yeah lmao

[@nobodygaming6038]

true but did you start gc

[@riccardorocket]

He has over 2000 matches in only ONE season!!!

[@CBellRL]

Ye but he’s made $$$$$ now and is the best, and he was just like an average GC so I wanted to see where that change occurred

[@-Abyanto-_On_Scratch]

the end was sick

[@itsronnylicious]

I still do the Wave dash kickoff until today 😂 and it still Works - however 😂😂

[@LoneRL.]

Be like zen, go for things. My teammates 'OK'

[@hektora]

LOL

[@reecegriffiths7064]

Take a drink every time he says zen impossible edition.

[@TheJacobi]

that would kill the average person

[@dream_fan8879]

hppy bday u and zen

[@user-tz5gt2sp6o]

Glazzing at it's peak

[@Jxy_RL7]

Cbell do you believe me that IM THE MOST MECHANICAL PLAT EVER?!?🔥🔥

[@superiorbanks7983]

Bros trying wayyy too hard😂😂

[@KaliSticksss]

Nah not really

[@ajt1054_RL]

Guys trying to get In a vid

[@boskyrll]

so ur saying u can triple reset, I looked at ur clip and it was a ceiling musty 😂

[@Jxy_RL7]

No i got a clip where i flip reset musty double tap

[@hansg6015]

The amount of games is not very relevant because most hours go into freeplay.

[@BitsPieces______]

6:51 Zen is so goated he played the game before it was a thing 🐐

[@hamzazilani6398]

Those 2 seasons where he played 3k plus games is where he completely transformed, went from a casual/everyday player like us to grinding with purpose and it’s not like he got the mechanics out of nowhere as well he still wasn’t up there mechanically until he started getting top 100, shows that simply playing the game consistently and ranking up Is the quickest way to improve no matter what level, everything else will eventually fall into place

[@Schattenfaust2]

considering he was already GC at 11, at a time when that was the highest rank, it's more that he had inborn talent

[@Treityn.]

@@Schattenfaust2he’s just lucky

[@TheRealKingKoor]

That edit at the end of the video went unreasonably hard

[@louissambou3942]

4:23 Hellooo ! 😂😂😂

[@cameroninc2086]

It’s insane a gc lobby looked liked that not insanely long ago you could never get away with that anymore.

[@Shody_mo_games]

What a save!

[@SimplyAnAxolotl.official]

I love how the own goals look like the exact same lol

[@jlucsx]

happy bday, btw

[@fragles_1]

nah man y'all born in my month 💀👍

[@zlotywest860]

Im not anywhere close to this mechanic skills but i mostly do this one last turning touch on when in air. Throws most people off, but can end up on the crossbar.

[@slayervictor]

this guy really loves Zen

[@mokVile]

I like how I just watched a video of a 20+ year old was respectfully mocking at an 11 year-old kid. Keep up the good work!

[@niglet6484]

we all start somewhere 🗣️

[@lenaic3360]

the look after "we're basically brothers" got a subscribe XD

[@mattiraggi]

happy birthday

[@ZoeyRZ]

I like to alternate my kickoffs with wave dashes / speedflips, only on 2s though do I do neither if its right side net kickoff cause I cant speedflip with AR right only AR Left

[@user-of5kp9rc8i]

i don't if this changed but banners outside of the map are showing lightning mcqueen so that means that replays are from few days ago.

[@notytcom2342]

had this controller, got stick drift on both stick and to replace them is almost as much as the controller. my a button and my left bumper were sticky too.

[@master.9202]

i dont think people realize how long those videos take to make, really nice video! Keep going!

[@quinnbennett1828]

LMAO my birthday's also feb 20, clicking on your video and you mentioning that is funny af

[@torybush2352]

I just learned that zen, cbell, and me share a birthday

[@PedroPascoaPedro]

That first ones match against rezears was where IT truely started.

[@CarpeCerebrum]

wait im curious, whats so bad about wavedash kickoff? or is the straight jump without angling thats the sad part? i only play competitive casually and generally am mid c1 in 3's so kickoffs can get pretty scuffed, but my wavedash kickoff pretty much always beat any opponent. as well as being able to direct it the way i want like >60% of the time, although i think that probably has less to do with wavedash than car control.. just curious what the shade on wavedash was, or if it was because the way he wavedashed

[@cyrnoz1803]

Just not optimal

[@LilKabbage]

was gonna say I'm C3 and always do the wavedash kickoff. stared as a way to practice wavedashing but I've done it ever since. I don't see how its better or worse than your normal kickoffs, aside from speedflipping obviously

[@iliatekutev1952]

I would do the sidewall read and i am 10 years old!!! I am happy

[@ogctyler1574]

Glazing

[@kivsa85]

A great video

[@That1playzstuff]

Anyk3. Realize he was playing with gregan at 5:37 😂😂

[@ChemWizKid87]

I've been stuck in high Plat/low Diamond for a while now and i always had a suspicion that I wasn't progressing because I was holding back too much playing too conservative and after seeing this video I'm even more convinced! Time to free the beast!! My apologies to all my future teammates

[@lucaspeavler6190]

One thing no one saw is gregan in the 2nd replay, who is vitality’s coach

[@snakeboi9346]

I felt pretty good at the start... But that feeling went away after 2 mins

[@WilliamOgVictorSjoveClips]

At 12:06 you can see it says that lightning McQueen is in the shop but it first came out on nov 7 2023

[@Xaydraya]

IM ALSO A FEB 20TH BABY, LETS GO

[@slick4759]

hard glazing from cbell

[@jaeoo]

The glaze in this video gives me blood clots

[@mario2jz]

glazing

[@WeTalkEverything.]

Can someone tell me where he got the rl poster on the wall?

[@mjay1571]

No way ne zen and cbell have the same birthday 🎉😊

[@xboxkindaguy]

In one of his GC two's game, he was playing RLCS coach Gregan lol

[@NotSoStNick]

Zen has played over 30k games at the highest level of rocket league. He’s been GC since about legacy season 6.

[@shmedley69]

The sign said lightning mcqueen was in the shop back in season 9 lol

[@legaia216]

Holy shit, my dad and brother are also feb 20! Look I’m sure there are plenty of individuals that have the same birthday, but I know a duo.

[@Enlyy61]

Idk why but i read the the thumbnail as " zen was _bald_ "

[@LittleMask-qy4lh]

can i have the link to the replay with gaspow and radosin please