Yeah he's really chill. One of the nicer pros in the community. At least to my knowledge.
A) you do a slow kickoff (you need to always roll as you approach, sucks to learn, but yeah)
I watched Johnny's tutorial and it pretty much says the same stuff so I'm trying to focus on learning a new kickoff. I still don't have the timing down quite right, feel like I'm getting there too late most of the time, even against players who aren't using fast kickoffs.
Okay so I think this post changed my RL life...If you're late to non fast kickoffs, you're severely botching your roll+boost timing, which is bad in general, since you should be boosting when you roll pretty much always when you're not needing the boost (ie, when movement>boost) since it's faster.
Look at who gets the first touch- if you're outright beating them by a mile, it's good to know how to do a basic fast kickoff, where you beat them to the ball and hit it to the side before they even get there- combining this with a ceiling shot or wallshot->backboard in 1s would be a free goal every kickoff if they never got faster. This is a lot less useful at higher level, the most common occurence of it I see is when someone kinda botches their diagonal and says f it and hopes they get it by maybe 5 frames.
Otherwise just try to get there with speed+roll center, if you're not beating them by a mile and hitting it into them way out and you're able to roll into the ball relatively centered, you'll usually win
Most people switch their controller scheme. I have mine at default but I use paddles so it doesn't bother me. Boost on B and roll on X is terrible though.
Paddles is probably the GOAT setup for RL but without them here's the best I've found:
Kux uses default but he probably contorts his thumb to hit multiple buttons at once. Try some kickoffs without holding boost down on your flip then tell me it isn't game changing! Also all the ground to air dribbles you do are almost impossible if you can't jump while holding boost. I have a friend who uses circle+x but he uses the top of his thumb and has no trouble hitting both buttons at the same time so if you can do that you're fine. For me it just feels too awkward.
It's not hard for me to hold them at the same time but it feels weird to double tap x while holding circle unless I do it with the tip of my thumb which is not my default hand position. Just not used to it. I think I'm gonna try R1 for boost and see if I can get used to using my middle finger for accel on R2. Square for boost works pretty well but I am not 100% on my x double taps still.well yeah if you can't hold X and O at the same time you're screwed
idk I'm used to it, I do it with just my thumb, plenty of games I can claw though so it's fine
But that screen tearing.....
