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Recently, I have switched a video game I play, Rocket League, to Japanese to
get some more exposure to the language. For those who may not know, it’s
basically soccer with cars. In the game, players are able to quick chat to
quickly communicate with each other. One of these quick chats is "I got it!",
which communicates to other players that you intend to move to hit the ball,
similar to when you would say "I got it!" in volleyball.

As for my question, when playing the game in Japanese, that quick chat is
translated to "もらった！”. Does this translation seem to work in this case? To me,
the phrase "もらった！” communicates more along the lines that you have already
received the ball instead of you intend to hit the ball. Is this so? If that
is the case, what phrase would you use instead to communicate you intend to
hit the ball?

I feel as if I am likely wrong, and that ”もらった！” is a fine translation, just
wanted to hear what others had to say about it.
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“I got it!” / “もらった！” in Rocket League
In general, Japanese もらった is more like an interjection said excitedly when the
speaker thinks they have almost gotten a goal or something is "in the bag".
You can think it's short for 勝利は(ほぼ)もらった or ゴールは(ほぼ)もらった. Since the implied
object is usually not ボール, it does not mean the speaker is going to handle the
ball, nor does it mean the speaker simply received the ball.

At least in volleyball, there is no special Japanese phrase that corresponds
to this type of "I got it".

> ### [スポーツで使える英語～バレーボール](http://ocryugaku.blog53.fc2.com/blog-entry-757.html)
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> 日本語だったら、 **シンプルに「はい！」とか「オーライ！」とか** だと思うのですが、英語では、
>
> 「Mine!」  
>  「I go」  
>  「I got it」  
>  「Got it」  
>  「Me, me, me」
>
> などと言います。

はい and オーライ work in volleyball, but they are too generic. A game of Rocket
League seems to be less speedy than that of volleyball, so something like
"行きます!" or "もらいます!" may be a reasonable option as a translation of "I got
it!". Something like "俺が!" or "私が!" might work, but another problem regarding
the choice of first-person pronoun arises.
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