Recoveries tips
Below are tips, videos, and links with descriptions of different ways to recover your car. Improving your recoveries will greatly improve your game speed and help improve the overall flow.
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Easiest to Hardest
1. Landing Straight
How: Simple, land on your wheels. Use air roll to position your car on all 4 wheels
When to Use: When you fall off the ceiling, bumped, or in the air
2. Flips
How: Use your jump button to get in the air, then lean the car forward and jump again
When to Use: Need to get speed, low on boost.
3. Reverse
How: When you land, hold the reverse button. Steer your car straight out. Holding powerslide can make a smoother transition from being backward to facing forward
When to Use: When you land backward or are spun out.
4. Directional Flips
How: Use your jump button to get in the air, then lean the car forward and to the side, (usually 45 degrees) jump again
When to Use: When you have to change your direction but keep moving forward
5. Small Pads
How: When you are low on boost, you can pick up mini pads to gain boost to help improve the rest of your recoveries
When to Use: Pick up small boost pads when rotating back, its best to learn where they are for improved efficiency
6. Backflips
How: Hold reverse, then backflip. The flip will get you more distance than only driving in reverse
When to Use: When you land backward or are spun out
7. Powerslide
How: When you land, hold the power slide button. This is the primary mechanic to use with advanced/smooth recoveries.​
When to Use: When you land in awkward positions, this will help keep your momentum and buy you time to figure out how you want to recover
8. Jump / Flip off Walls
How: When you're on the wall, jump or flip off the wall toward your objective​
When to Use: Save time instead of driving down the wall. A directional flip is preferred if you need to go further because it will decrease the time it takes to get to your objective
9. Powerslide Jump Flips
How: Hold power slide, jump and utilize your flip​
When to Use: When you land awkwardly and need to continue moving in the direction of your momentum. The flip will increase your speed and give you time to turn your car forward again
10. Boost Down
How: Face toward the floor and boost​
When to Use: When you have boost to spare and need to get to the floor quickly
11. Goal Post
How: Drive into the opponent's net and drive off the roof, use your flip to change direction or increase your speed​
When to Use: When you have speed and it would save you time opposed to turning around on the ground in front of the opponent's net
12. Save Flip, Bumped
How: Use your saved flip to change direction, flip into the ball, wave dash, etc. ​
When to Use: When you get bumped, fall from the ceiling, or any other way you manage to save your flip while being in the air.
13. Half Flips
How: Backflip, flip cancel, air roll. You can learn to half-flip in different directions for improved efficiency.
​When to Use: When you have to turn your car around quickly and drive in the opposite direction. Best to do quickly if you have boost to assist with the recovery
14. Reverse Half Flips
How: Hold reverse, backflip and perform a half-flip to straighten your car
When to Use: This can be used if you have a little boost, if you reverse for a second before half flipping, you will go farther and faster
15. Wave Dash
How: Jump, angle car, wait for back wheels to touch ground, hold analog stick forward, use second jump​
When to Use: To get supersonic fast, position yourself better / rotate faster
16. Wavedash Off Walls
How: Jump off the wall and wavedash towards your objective​
When to Use: When you are low on boost on the wall and need to go towards the center of the field or gain distance off the wall
17. Wavedash Jump Flip
How: Perform a wavedash, jump and flip​
When to Use: When you are low on boost and want to get to your objective quickly. This will increase your speed and distance but you will have decreased control of your car while flipping
18. Ceiling Double Jump
How: Double jump from the ceiling, rotate your car and boost towards the ground with accuracy​
When to Use: When you need to get to the floor as quickly as possible.
19. Ground to Wall Flip
How: Jump from the ground onto the wall. You can air roll or flip cancel to position your car better on the wall for your situation
​When to Use: If you are low boost and need to get up the wall or if you can gain speed / smoother transition to go up the wall to save a shot on net. The timing can take practice to perfect