Im a top 1% player in Rocket League after playing for 4500 hours.
The skill gap between me and the best players in the game is the same gap as between me and a brand new player.
But i will still beat 99% of the game's population.
Same for me, but with Tetris. I'm not the best, but I'm confident I can handedly beat the vast majority of the population. I spent most of my lockdown days just doing Tetris.
Similar on Splatoon. Before the recent rank reset I was S+6, it blows my mind that people go up to like S+20. But when the season ends, all the S+x ratings reset to S rank, and playing with normal S rank people recently reminded me of that.
I don't do too much X rank, I mostly stick to anarchy. Though I do jump into the occasional X game when I'm feeling masochistic.
My main goal really is to master as many kits as I can and to learn their roles, and X games are not the tier for experimentation. Anarchy is a bit more lenient.
Yeah same, but with like 2K hours. At some point I was Grand Champion 1 or something. I could probably win against 2 noobs without me using jump and boost, but in the few moments I played against pros I got equally clapped. It's insane to me how much better pro players are.
After Epic bought it the whole game slowly went to shit though. Psyonix once treated the game and its community as their baby, but it just became a soulless money printer without any decent innovation. So I barely play anymore, even though the core game is ultimately still fun.
As long as you always play to improve, watch videos to keep up on mechanics/metas, and just immerse yourself in the game, you'll always climb up. If you play at least 2 hours a day, you'll be insane before you know it.
But in the spirit of this post, you could spend your time doing something so much more productive than a video game lol
Played 932h (around 900h actual playtime) and almost exclusively played ranked or rumble/dropshot but never casual.
Best rank was Diamond 2 or 1 not sure anymore.
Played it only on keyboard. No controller ever used.
Gave it up as a sort of protest against the buyout and never went back.