I just beat nexto for the first time despite sucking at 1v1s (currently diamond 1). Id be happy to share what I learned over all my games against it before I finally won.

For some context, I suck at ones because I never play it because I get tilted because I suck at ones. It’s a repeating cycle that I haven’t cared enough to break. All last season, I only played 11 ones games. Because if this, while my peak in 2s and 3s in c3, I’ve never passed low d2 in ones.

A couple weeks ago, however, I found out about the rlbot community and decided to try my hand against a couple bots. Beating the others, I quickly moved on to nexto, who absolutely destroyed me every game. However, unlike with ranked 1s, I did g get tilted against nexto, so made it my goal to eventually beat it. After lots and lots of losses, I finally figured out where nexto’s weak points were on defense and how to hold it back on offense. Finally, I won a game 6-5.

Id say the main takeaway on defence is to never let nexto get any space, instead suffocating it as much as possible. For offence, I found a combination of air dribble bumps or air dribble/ceiling shot/double tough/flip reset to be pretty effective.

Overall, I think practicing against nexto is incredibly helpful and will certainly benefit my one’s level. Id absolutely recommend it to anyone else who wants to improve at ones but gets too tilted to play it normally. If you have any more questions about what I learned over the process, feel free to ask!