The people at Diamond and higher have been playing since at the very least early 2017, with a couple of freak exceptions. Sorry this must be very confusing since I just jumbled everything up but I hope this could be helpful to you. So dominus could be a good car to continue honing your skills dude, but remember that the higher you go, octane will probably be your best bet. At that level, dominus is used much less and the ranks are dominated by octane because of the control aspect.

But as you get to high diamond ranks and champion, the name of the game is control and passing plays and also positioning. Power is a great tool for those ranks and will win you most games. Now if you are in the bronze to platinum level, I think dominus is perfectly fine for you. Now I threw a lot of stuff at you, so what does it all mean? To summarize, the dominus is great for so many skills like aerials and generating power because of the long body and clean outline, yet the pitfall for the great car is that control is sacrificed heavily. It made me a much better 1v1 player with flicking and mechanics. The longer shape of the dominus gives the advantage of more control when flicking a ball. The nice clean shape is also good for dribbling the ball on your car and flicking the ball. It makes aerials easier and other mechanics like air dribbling or redirects. With an octane, the shape is more irregular but the dominus has a clean outline that can really be favorable for a lot of players. Having the rectangular hitbox gives it a nice clean visual of how the car will hit the ball. Here's some good and bad stuff about the hit box: The dominus is shorter in height to the octane, making the hitbox of the dominus into almost a rectangular prism. This aspect of the dominus ultimately leads me to go back to the octane every time. It really can be a curse since you can hit bangers but also fail to hit the easiest open nets or easy shots. I can't tell you how many times I have had an open net with a dominus and was not been able to put it in by either hitting it to the sides or just plain over the bar. The dominus can slam the ball to great lengths but the tremendous power is also a weakness since control is heavily decreased. And the a man with the dominus really needs to be able to control the power for it to really be useful in a game.

Now as we all know, great power comes with great responsibility. It will take time to be able to hit the sweet spot on the dominus which is like the front bumper and corners of the car, but once you get used to it you will be hitting shots as fast as the speed of light.

Having a longer car allows you to create more power easily.

Wall shots will become more stronger, aerials will contain more power. It really feels like you can hit much better boomers with a dominus if you get the timing right. While I do prefer using octane, playing with the dominus allows you to create more power in your shots more easily than with a shorter car like the octane. It probably feels too heavy and clunky while the octane is so light and agile. So to start off, switching from octane to dominus is a massive shift and it really can't just be learned overnight. I might be wrong or have a different experience than you will with playing the two cars, but I will try my best to outline how these two cars influenced my playstyle and the pros/cons I have played with dominos and octane both for around 500-600 hours each so I am pretty adept at using both the cars so I think I will be able to answer your concerns to the best of my abilities.

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