The New Mechanics of Rocket League 2023

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The Rocket League community has still managed to discover and begin perfecting new Rocket League mechanics even in 2023. Today we cover 6 of them that came up in the community this year. These are the New Mechanics of Rocket League in 2023.
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When I first considered this video idea about New Rocket League mechanics in 2023, I didn't think there would actually be enough to talk about to make a full video about it. But after researching for multiple days, there were surprisingly a lot of new mechanics this year. When this game first released, I never thought we would still be talking about new mechanics 8 years later. We're still finding variations of new flicks, new flip resets, new wave dashes, and so much more. As long as new Rocket League mechanics keep getting discovered, I will keep making these videos because it is truly fascinating seeing what the Rocket League community continues to discover each year.
SOURCES
Luther Flick Montage: • Rocket league Luther f...
Double Zap Dash Tweet: / 1618494734200369153
Lix Jump Breakdown: • Someone just discovere...
Amalix Jump Reddit Post: / while_most_of_the_comm...
Suffo Flick Tutorial: • How to SUFFO FLICK in ...
Purple Shot Tweet: / 1712988578676965458
Purple Shot Tutorial: • TUTORIAL NUEVA MECÁNIC...
Jerry Reset Tweet: / 1699596556800766409
0:00 Intro
0:13 Mechanic 1
2:25 Mechanic 2
4:25 Mechanic 3
5:52 Mechanic 4
7:15 Mechanic 5
9:13 Mechanic 6
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Use Creator Code: WAYTON
Thanks to Epic Games and Psyonix for the creator code.
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[@p1zza108.]

i invented a new mechanic: the pizza flick. basically u just have to completely miss the ball and hope they own goal instead of scoring the open net. works 0.0001% of the time so i'd say it's pretty good

[@Kingbee6421]

definitely gonna use that (I’m champ2)

[@999Remi]

I have accidentally done this trick many times in free play which shows its consistency

[@p1zza108.]

fr its so easy to pull off but so effective@@999Remi

[@xavigc5642]

Where does the pizza name came from

[@poopkizi8883]

this works really well in champ 1 in 2's and any 3's game cause like 3's is a mistake now with the whole 1v5 thing

[@imamalox]

Can confirm I've done the AmaLix Jump quite a few times in game since I made that Reddit post. I'm saving the clips for my upcoming tutorial though :) Also, the 1 in 3 success rate is kind of misleading, as failing the mechanic usually just leads to a normal air dribble setup, making it not very high risk to go for. Also props for highlighting the Luther Flick! Definitely an underrated mechanic.

[@WaytonPilkin]

Ooo sick!! I’ll be looking forward to that tutorial!

[@Punda_RL]

Hey man we had a chat in your original video's comments a couple weeks ago. Since then I can get the amalix jump every 90 seconds or so in freeplay, and managed to get the jump down (but no shot) in a match as well. Dedicating a lot of time to learning it (at least 30 minutes a day) but god damn is it hard, the 2nd jump timing is so brain numbing lol. Am waiting for your next tutorial - have my notifs on for you lol

[@EVVAea]

​@@Punda_RLpunda is goated at rl as well??

[@Elixbuilt]

@@WaytonPilkinonly harassing you because I know you are not going to want to miss out on the new mech I made. I want you to be the first to see it

[@oVividz]

@@Elixbuiltjust post it bro lmfao… if it’s consistent/realistic to use in game then it will pop

[@drewanderson7203]

Honestly the Suffo flick looks incredibly stylish and effective if you have space, would be cool to learn it

[@downpipe9935]

someone show this to evample

[@yes2097]

I v done it once before by acsident it was rly lucky

[@shkr_rl]

its very similar to the breezi flick in terms of its weaknesses and strengths, requires lots of space but deadly when done right

[@shadowyzephyr]

@@shkr_rl The Breezi is easy to aim when consistent and one of the fastest flicks. I don't think this can go as fast because of the angle you're hitting the car at. Also, if you get intercepted in the middle of doing a Breezi, you're behind the ball so you just get a 50 upwards. If you get intercepted during this they will just hit it straight over you. I don't know why anyone would pick this outside of either freestyling or as a way to bait someone because they didn't know it was possible to get back to the ball (which after 1 goal they will learn).

[@unnq]

you don’t need to brazil someone off of this alone, just one goal to sauce on them if you get the chance is enough

[@gamecubebro]

I like the fact that a lot of these new tricks aren't all too crazy or elaborative to stick out brand new but just end up being simple and intuitive

[@lt1s142]

As a casual diamond player seeing new ground mechanics, let's fucking goooo

[@Thanovic]

The instant joy I got seeing the Jerry Reset on here

[@Aisers]

hi

[@Baroochi]

the Jung flick could have been a good one aswell (from Thanovic's vid). Actually viable in game and generates power

[@aZapatos]

I did not expect to be mentioned here lol great video as always 👍 ( 4:08 I’d like to clarify that I can do the double zap dash consistently off a wall, but not from simply jumping off the ground. I’ve tried it off the ground tons of times and I haven’t been able to do it at all.)

[@imamalox]

Do you feel like it's significantly faster than a single zap dash?

[@WaytonPilkin]

I should try more from off the wall. Props to you for finding it!

[@iamallanevans]

Are you forward wave dashing when single jumping off the ground? You don't need to. Its just an empty jump timed right.

[@blurryface9910]

@@iamallanevans and empty jump wouldn't give you any speed...?

[@iamallanevans]

@blurryface9910 Hmm, you'll have to excuse me, I haven't done these since 2020ish. I will have to go back and see how I was doing them and hit free play to jog my memory. If I remember correctly, it's just a rhythmic swivel and an empty jump. I very well could be confusing and combining a couple of them that I was working on. Haha, this should be fun.

[@SALEENS7GTR5]

The 7th and final mechanic of 2023: The No-Trade

[@squidwithsuperpowers6761]

I've been practicing this mechanic a lot, I think I will have it fully consistent within 3 weeks

[@SparTerra]

L,😮

[@mariusjenkins7294]

I have only made one trade in my entire time playing RL, but it still pisses me off that they removed it... It does absolutely nothing to improve the experience for anyone playing the game, and was strictly so more people would buy from the shop... I have bought cosmetics before from RL, but I have no intentions of ever buying one again because they removed trading purely to be greedy... And they removed dropshot, fuck epic, they can all taste my sweaty testicles...

[@horizon6765]

Jajjja😂

[@kitmcquillin2966]

I feel like the Luther flick could be used like a kuxir pinch. Rlly cool

[@prokodza]

It’s been used like that

[@SalSickmanGaming]

It's harder than it looks

[@prokodza]

@@SalSickmanGamingit’s not 😂. Literally just tilt your car and musty 😂

[@turtleturt3261]

​@@prokodzaif you dont know how to musty it is 😅

[@Samosa_rl]

​@@turtleturt3261Replace 'musty' with 'backflip' 👍

[@2s2bs]

I think the Purple Shot is something along the lines of a "Point-Blank Psycho", because the pop/power comes from the force the ball gets from bouncing off your car after the reset and leaning forward to make sure the ball pops into your front wheels, similar to redirects. I know if I get the pop from a Flip Reset when I don't cushion the ball enough, it could go flying, so maybe its making lemonade from lemons, using that uncontrollable pop into a shot.

[@veretxnerd983]

is that a gojo reference

[@2s2bs]

@@veretxnerd983 I forgot that I even made this comment

[@veretxnerd983]

@@2s2bs get lobotomized

[@999Remi]

The fact new mechanics are still being found amazes me

[@RicardoFiorani]

9:00 you have to press the reverse before the flick, so your car stays in air while the ball gains the momentum from the wheels in reverse

[@yorzengaming]

Amazing video man, I discovered mechanic number 4 waaay back in season 2 I kept doing it for fun and I didn't think to do it in vs people because I thought its gonna be easy to defend that but now seeing it again it brings back the memory so I'm definitelly gonna give it a try again :D thanks so much man I know its new mechanic but for me its OG stuff :D idk how to explain but thanks for the memory!

[@hctr82]

3:57 i actually started implementing that new method about 7 months ago, but I never took the time to improve it as you did. great vid 👍

[@VasLG]

Another amazing Video Wayton! Keep up the good work!

[@Mtn_Mateo]

Like you said, the fact their still people coming up with new stuff keeps this game so exciting. The potential is limitless

[@ToxiqSnaiQ]

i watched one of your older vids, youve grown so much both as a content creator and irl

[@insertname5997]

I remember watching the video on the Suffo flick when it had like 50 views and it was insane. Glad to see it be shown more.

[@dylanpsimer4583]

I agree with your last point that the important part of a mech is if you can replicate it. I've personally done something very similar to some of these by accident but will always just write it off as a failure unless I am trying to do it and can replicate it.

[@Jackilichous]

for the first mechanic, you should have tried a rolling ground musty to compare it to. they are very fast as well

[@nightwarrior5568]

I think the speed just off the touch will be similar but the set up time between the two would make the first mechanic better

[@Jackilichous]

@@nightwarrior5568 yeah fair take i just thought it would be the best comparison since i think they're so similiar

[@shadowyzephyr]

Seems like rolling musty is to a musty as a luther flick is to a 45 flick. The luther flick is probably a bit slower speed on the ball but faster to setup.

[@TheRazeryan]

Great video, mind blowing stuff. Can't Wait to see these in RLCS. you know it'll happen after everyone used to say flip resets "aren't that competitive." Lol

[@montythemack]

Love your videos bro. Keep it up!

[@stephanthomas481]

Yay new vid from wayton i was waiting!

[@F4TALS]

I swear i feel like I’m ranking up just by watching you keep it up

[@Gimmy27]

Letsgooo love this series every year

[@sombrepenguin77]

Wayton the Goat I am going to try to get some of these consistent, but thanks for being able to showcase these or else I probably would of never found them. 🙏🙏🙏

[@stefanheinze-milne7040]

Great video, Wayton. Kudos to your professionalism and passion.

[@DoubleCheekedUpCat]

I wish I came up with one of these. Like this is insane🔥💯

[@RG32107]

3:10 once again this is known in the plat league already. It is called TRD or "Thirst Rush Dash" as it was discovered originally by an unknown player in Plat (common to not know the player of origin from plat league) who felt it was necessary to hit the ball prior to their teammate at every opportunity. The move was performed without prior knowledge of the speed benefits of TRD and was only later discovered when a PPLP (Pro Plat League Player) was studying film on how to better beat teammates to the ball regardless the positioning.

[@a.w.5682]

Mechanic 2: I have practicing a little bit and I’ve found that the middle step doesn’t even need to be there. If you do it right, the front of the car naturally pops up from the first wave dash and you can immediately wave dash again. not sure how good or consistent it is compared to what’s shown in the video but it’s there. it’s a thing

[@mdogg95]

New Wayton video let’s goooooo!

[@soyelchamako0954]

Really cool video. Thanks for the info.

[@zlette]

I remember a couple years ago I hit a double reset where you wavedash onto the ball after getting your first flip. I think it could be useful if done consistently although the times I've gotten it my car goes plummeting into the floor unless I flip immediately. Often times that just causes a miss anyways. I have a clip of me hitting a nice one in freeplay though.

[@CactousMan639]

Great video! Now a suggestion: it would be cool to include your controller overlay.

[@Leogaben]

Very good video! Thank you for the mention!

[@shadowmaster7333]

9:00 I certainly couldn’t do it but I did notice that wayton’s front wheels were farther back than in the clip just by a little bit. So that made me think that with the hitbox of the octain when you jump like that you slightly pinch the ball between your wheels. Though l’m just a diamond and that was just what I noticed.

[@tamo1110]

Been doing the 'double zap dash' for about a year. I think its just the car cancelling out the first wave dash so the 2nd becomes easier. Very useful in game but hard to get consistent at it

[@GraffitiLionsYt]

the vid ive been waiting all year for

[@redlinegaming3612]

The first one is just a floor pinch from a different angle. I came up with this concept years ago but forgot about and I never practice. It comes from snow day as you can pinch the Puck using this or even a forward dodge to implement it.

[@chriswesley2989]

Two of these look actually useful. Nice!

[@pipo1692]

Your videos are great!

[@Kibannn]

Ooh can't wait to find out what new things I can use to hit the post/crossbar and get scored on

[@hydrarl3869]

that suffo flick would be useful asf to learn, not just for the shots you can get, but it will 100% help w/ awkward recoveries

[@NeedMoreYarn]

Love the stuffo and the purple shot! Very cool, hope to see em standard in pro play in a couple years time!

[@coastify]

Waytons videos make my day

[@0CT0.]

Can’t wait

[@Royalrights]

I feel motivated to hop in freeplay and try some of these out. ty

[@pedrosolorzano6020]

I have a reset that I can do sometimes (if I'm trying to go for it), and I have seen it here and there, where you can basically jump off the ball, and still have a reset forever. Problem is that it's generally useless cause I'm too far away from the ball afterwards, like when hitting a first reset and slapping the ball away.

[@jesseihc3361]

good list. the luther flick was being done consistently in like 2018.

[@Brotato333]

I stopped playing RL a couple months ago but I still watch your videos because of how entertaining they are :)

[@edgeribble]

why

[@SpinGoal]

I've done 4 mechanics from this video. I have over 3000h and play this game CASUALLY (not tryharding to learn mechanics) and I've done it multiple times "just by that" somehow not knowing about these mechanics and the rarity of them. Mechanic 5 is my favourite. When you are a bad player from Diamond 3 and you wanna do flip reset and ur bad, sometimes you hit the ball with that power. There are way more mechanics which can be used in game, but we people in fact don't know them and even if we do them by random, on 99,99% cases we don't notice it.

[@emmanuelgonzalez5897]

I think the Purple Shot will work when you go for a flip reset those that when contact happens it looks like the ball gets snugged against the car. Like you can really see how the snugg/hug happens. A brief magnet moment... thats where we tap jump to launch the ball. IMO

[@s1lv3rfir3]

YESSSS NEW WAYTON UPLOAD MY DAY IS SAVED

[@yumicheeseman]

Great video sir Pilkin

[@JezzaN1]

Amalix and purple shot seem like the two that could be the most deadly if the consistency really gets dialled in. Didn't play much from early-mid 2023 onwards, so it's always cool to see people discovering new mechanics in this game.

[@Fatherandsonreact]

Greats video Way

[@thatonedude1107]

I’m going to create a new mechanic so I can name it double banana cheeseburger supreme instead of my name blank

[@ConPlexVAL]

ive done the leo one accidentally twice, once when i was first learning resets(broke my mind) and once a couple months ago as i was trying to learn double resets

[@FatherGabe.]

Lets GOO WAYTONNNN

[@87firearrow]

9:25 I saw that "reset dash" (is what I called it) before that clip was made in a Striped vid when someone tried to do a triple reset, barely manage to set ONE up and "reset dashed" to get 3 resets.

[@87firearrow]

It was a bit different tho

[@reed6514]

I have a bunch of clips saved of a mechanic that i wanna turn into a video. Basically, on the ground approaching a 50/50, you jump, turn your nose left or right, and put your wheels toward the ball, then you do a backflip. Sometimes i get a flip reset, which I'm not sure how to capitalize. Sometimes i whiff. Many times i get a surprising hit past my opponent. I think it has potential, and I've never seen it in the wild.

[@WrDaniel_10]

yeeeeaaaaaaa, finaly a new video, and its a good and interesting one

[@ProfessorThock]

The suffo flick looks soooo nice. Also I’m rooting for Jerry. Let’s make Jerry resets real

[@Thebigbuffoona]

I love your content❤

[@blurryface9910]

Sick video! I can't wait to never be able to do any of this.

[@NORXE8]

The first mechanic from Arabian guy and thanks wayton to make a good content

[@user-hp7ih4zw4k]

less go wayton with a vid

[@vitrums]

thanks for a banger video

[@itsJxkerl]

Qued up with you last night. Didn't think Waytoney with the summer series tag was you, but I guess it is.

[@user-id4eo8hu9z]

I was starting to get worried because Wayton hadn't posted for ages and he was one of my top favourite youtubers. So, thank you so much for posting another video Wayton ❤

[@Le-sos]

bro the purple shot got me as hyped as i was when i first found out about mechanics like the air dribble when i was gold

[@DanWoodCoaching]

That first one on the list… I actually love how easy and useful this is.

[@chillz.]

LETS GO WAYTON POSTEDDDDD 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@queasyclipsrl]

Cool seeing the suffo flick getting some love

[@Danilo-xl9cb]

I actually did two of these mechanics by accident and finally someone talks about the suffo flick

[@Rekka7773]

it's fun after all this time seeing so many mechanics, because you don't need to learn how to do every mechanic, just need to master the ones you enjoy and can help you win

[@lunar3348]

I did the purple shot in training once I thought it was just lag 😅 good to know I did something cool for once

[@Edgyhimself]

@Wayton Pilkin I actually just tried the purple shot and with in the first minute of trying i scored two purple shot double taps and a really powerful that went above crossbar.

[@JedJ-ux3tc]

Glad my man Suffo is getting some recognition ive been following him for a while and hoping somebody shows him

[@frst.4633]

Out of all these the suffo flick is def my favorite

[@lucasglanville2880]

The suffo flick is so satisfying to watch

[@morbid1.]

I can see some of those things being useful like this luther flick seems to be very good for faking flick and going low shot

[@Popotato7777]

Wave dashing everywhere has helped me a ton and somehow i see any of these and get completly lost, Nice.

[@RealBeanss]

Lets goo he uploaded

[@rlwynnharmonic6518]

The purple shot one looks like you have to get the reset with the ball behind your car, then backflipping sends the wheels into the ball with more power than usual.

[@lutherlupiezowiec4540]

Ngl, this is the first time in my life I've seen another Luther openly acknowledged, awesome to see them bring GLORY to the name.

[@angelmetuatini3425]

Ive done the jerry reset before it came out on purpose but its cool someone found it

[@PieHardOfficial]

As someone who worked on Gamers8 this year, next year is going to be incredible.

[@w1ck3djoe67]

So wayton i recently figured out you can jump off the ball after a flip reset and still have a flip definitely could be used competitively

[@theonetruebean]

On mechanic 2, I feel like I remember seeing something like this but instead of doing the second dash they would boost and it would let them fly without using their jump on the ground.

[@davidasher3624]

I've been playing this game for years. Insane we're still learning new stuff from it.

[@RealCryo]

The "Purple shot" i have done it a couple of times in game even a few months ago but did not even think anything of it

[@ChutaMadre88]

Sick vid

[@vinvos8651]

Haven’t played RL in a year or so but i have definetly done Jerry Reset by accident in the past.

[@Bokisa3]

realy good video

[@ChiiLoX]

I made like a reddit post and yt tutorial a year or 2 ago about how to easily and way faster get into the 2 wheel drift

[@okamiexe1501]

For the Leo Reset, I think the power comes from skimming the ball after reset. i noticed the car is in the same orientation as you would do a psycho, where the front wheels contact the ball, launching it forward.

[@GnuSnu]

Nope, try adding power to the ball in the psycho while moving in the same direction that the ball moves (you won’t) I think the power may come from the back of cars hitbox hitting the ball from the back, but I may be very mistaken here

[@Tp_OverHeat]

My guess is tapping reverse before the reset so the ball goes off your spinning wheels, kind of like one of those launcher things in a hot wheels track.

[@Zenikai_]

for the purple flick you need to do a backflip flip cancel for it to work. i've done it so many times on accident i just "know" that's what you're missing.

[@piotrikolo123nowak3]

It is so crazy that we are still able to find new mechanics

[@Nadal-]

last clip was crazy. THE WAYTON FLICK????? xd

[@xhappybunnyx]

i love these peeks into the wild world of the RL Lab