Is dribbling worth learning?

[Lews Therin Telamon]

I've been pretty consistently in Gold One lately, so I'm looking into practicing some skills. I pretty much stick with a ground game, although I have pulled off the occasional emergency aerial save.

Anyways, I was playing around with dribbling (and failing spectacularly), but I'm wondering if it is useful in actual game play? I've had players dribble against me, and it was never really an issue to just smack the ball off the roof of their car.

Any improvement tips or links would be appreciated.

[GrunzJr]

It depends on the game mode you're playing.

In Solo Duels, yes, it's essential to retain control of the ball instead of always hitting it away from you. This goes for Doubles too, perhaps slightly less so.

On the contrary, in 3v3 Standard, you won't find many chances to dribble as there will most likely be one of the three opponents ready to challenge you.

Basically, it doesn't hurt to be able to do it, but it's always situational.

[Zen ©]

I was like you when i was in gold, so i went to drop shot to force myself to learn and develop air skills. still cant dribble for poop but ive hit diamond.

[the_lone_ran9er]

Originally posted by Wired Aces:

I've been pretty consistently in Gold One lately, so I'm looking into practicing some skills. I pretty much stick with a ground game, although I have pulled off the occasional emergency aerial save.

Anyways, I was playing around with dribbling (and failing spectacularly), but I'm wondering if it is useful in actual game play? I've had players dribble against me, and it was never really an issue to just smack the ball off the roof of their car.

Any improvement tips or links would be appreciated.

Even if you only play 3's it's a valuable skill to learn IMO. Only because the process of learning to dribble trains your brain in ways that will help your ball control greatly, even if you never attempt an actual "dribble play" in a match. You'll spend so much time getting in tune with subtle manipulation of the ball, there will be pay off in your game play. Use the Workshop and do the Dribble obstacle course if you haven't tried it yet.

[Lews Therin Telamon]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I play mostly 2s since they took solo 3s out. I'll try out the obstacle course and play some drop shot to start working on those aerial skills. I've played around with the aerial training course too, but haven't progressed past the basic level.

[Pigeon]

The sooner you master mechanics of the game, like flicks and aerials and I guess this includes dribbling, the faster you will rise through the ranks. Practicing these skills will make you more consistent to pull off more advanced moves in-game.

Practice makes perfect and in this game it's very true.

[Daredeviler_21]

Dribbling in gold doesn't necessarily mean having it on your roof, you can still dribble a ball by using your car to roll it left and right around people. Start with that first, it teaches you how to keep possession.

[Oops Ur Bad]

every time you try to dribble ur teammate will be there shadowing so you cant actually do anything and will try to hit it even though they can clearly see what youre doing :).

[Quas]

By dribbling you can outplay a goalie and when you have much distance it's better to dribble than just shoot the ball far away.