@Swaggy probably that if u spam them u just completely lose accuracy. It really gets to me because in a fight for some reason I don’t think about tapping a ghost when fighting from long range and it causes u to lose accuracy. It’s very noticeable with a sheriff. If u spam that thing the bullets will go to the corner of your screen.
that's because your mentality changes or whatever. in dm you're very relaxed because you know that if you die, you just respawn right after. while in all the other gamemodes you only get one chance per round (unless you get revived by sage), so you feel more pressure and stress
A blessing and a curse for sure. Gamesense is much more difficult to improve, as there isn't a "Gamesense trainer" like there is for aim trainers. Instead, it's just developed over time with playing
The reason why I play sentinels in silver: there are so many duelist instalocks I feel pressured to make a decent team comp Also, confidence is literally everything; yesterday I was so fucking confident I almost got a 50 bomb but I also often tilt and throw
i know we're all different, but confidence was the biggest thing for me. Act 1 S 1 I was D3. Had some self-issues happen in my life where my confidence was low, especially about gaming. That mentality I was in dropped me to SILVER 1. Right now I am back to D2, after i realized the confidence issues i was having. It's actually like a lightswitch too. I'll have on and off days to where I am either playing Diamond/Immortal level or straight Silver aim with very little gamesense
Same. And often buy armor over ghost - get one from the body of fallen too cocky teammate or from enemy and we are good. XD After pistol - it's a spectre big flank big time. XD
Taking a different approach to the question of "is my aim my biggest problem?" with this video. We'll be talking about some different signs that I've seen through coaching, and VOD review that do indicate that your aim is a big contributing factor to why you aren't ranking up. Now, having 1 or 2 of these signs isn't too bad but if you are noticing 3+ then maybe we aren't spending enough time focusing on aim training. Let me know which of these you guys do in the comments!
Good stuff man, keep these guides going -- I saw a comment on another video saying you're better than some of the other valorant "improvement" channels... and they're 100% correct! I've been sharing your videos with my friends. Hope your channel keeps growing!
i have a big question im an awp player and when im not playing with the op i usually kind of lose many duels where i had the advantage in the other hand with op i get 2-3 kills many rounds , im plat and im worried that if i ever reach higher ranks i cant just rely on my op skills, should i start playing only vandal or phantom and dont play op in a while? or just keep playing op whenever i can? because definetly the op doesnt help at all learning very good crosshair placement for headshoot since you aim for the body. Love your vod reviews (Jett main)
Yup. Aim and reactiontime are my downside. I have super good game sense, but I can never hit the first shot no matter what. I always click before I move my mouse for some reason. I have been aim training for almost 6 months and even silvers have better aim than I do and I'm at plat 3 lol.
What type of aim training have you been doing? What is your hardware situation like in terms of mouse, mousepad/space etc? 6 Months is a LOT of time to aim train
@@Dragonmar I have a deathadder v2 pro. A 3xl hyperx fury s pro mousepad. A 24.5 240hz 1ms monitor. I play a lot of DM and aimlabs. I mainly play tasks like 6 shot, timing shot, strafe track, and lots of the precision based tasks. I seem to undershoot 90% of the time I miss. Even if I change my sensitivity which I have only done a couple times I can hit shots perfectly for a day or two and then once I get used to it and i build muscle memory, I consistently undershoot.
With the whole reaction time thing, using human benchmark I can consistently score from 150-165ms however in game its more like 300ms for me to even start to move my mouse.
Lol same here dude. I know all lineups in every map. My teammates are amazed when they see it. They think I'm smurfing when I pull off several double shock dart kills.......then they see my aim.
@@toast7969 I am not a sova main, I was just poking fun at people who compensate for bad aim if you don't believe me I have some nice csgo clips of my aim on my channel
My aim is definitely improving. I don’t ever have the 20 round spray down, I do have 10 round spray downs but I’d probably says 50/50 or my kills are from first shot accuracy and the other from sprays. I’m definitely trying to improve my reaction time, I encounter people too frequently who are faster than I am.
everytime you upload i'm like wow this actually really helpful, and when i play ranked it turns out that your advice helps a lot!!! thanks for every upload and merry christmas!
I disagree with the "why not a guardian?" argument you don't actually use guardian most games, that's true, but you do use single fire weapons such as pistols in pistol rounds. Also in aim trainers sometimes there is this mode called something like 5 bullets 5 kills or something like that, I feel it's somewhat similar to use the guardian. Lately I've been doing DM using first the guardian which makes you do more micro adjustments on the go to be competitive against other rifles. In the end of the day you HAVE to land the headshot, and that's what you want, even with the other automatic rifles... only after a couple DMs with the guardian I go for vandal or phantom focusing on taps and bursts, I feel I've improved greatly. I'm not a high rank player as I'm only diamond on a 60hz, but for those who are mid-level like us it might be a good way of expanding on the very basic "dm with no crouch vandal burst only" as sometimes you can aquire a bad habit of starting a burst before you fully stop on your counterstrafes, which again, using the guardian that forces me to do that or die, has helped. It's hard and the first couple DMs I got pretty bad scores, but that's exactly what you want to do right? Beat the worst player version of yesterday yourself.
Idk if I was clear enough: precise burst is partially a one tap and partially a controlled 4 bullet spray, so training the tap part also helps greatly on the effectiveness of your burst aim mechanics, and not just training bursts. Players individually struggle with one part or another, if you say getting hs kills on pistol rounds is an indication of strong enough aim, I feel like saying later to only train burst fire is a contradiction. We are not scream, yes, but we gotta train the skill he perfected because that's the ideal aim, and also develop the ingame decisionmaking to what kind of fire mode to use. No "inate talent" BS arguments accounted for btw...
Btw don't tell yourself that your hertz are holding you back. One guy from my team is playing on 60 hertz and fps he is immortal 3 almost radiant. Btw follow my yt if you want :))
I am a serial ads-er. The last god I played was Halo where I'd you didn't ads, you were dead. I made my ads to hold instead of toggle which didn't help much, then I shifted it to mouse wheel down. And honestly, it works. Unbinding/ rebinding crouch will work wonders.
You said you lost all confidence when you hit immortal, that’s me. I’m floating between imm1 and dia3 and I feel like I’m always playing bad and always bringing my team down.
For further insight on my confidence I recently deranged to D2, I played TSM Myth and went 5/19/4 in a Diamond lobby. Mg confidence has rebounded some but I still need to gain that needed cockiness, or big dick swinging immortal mindset.
Aim trainers only helps your general aim. Personally for me, I would much rather use Valorant's in game range and deathmatch to warm up and practice my aim. Aim trainers don't compensate the feel and recoil.
tbh personally i hate the idea of a forced trade, which means pushing for one reason is to die so your team could trade you for kill meanwhile you can take the kill without even sacrifing any player of your team
The issue I seem to have with my aim isn't any of these, the issue I have is the crippling disparity between my performance in deathmatch vs my performance in ranked, I go from the second coming of screaM in DM to a bot in ranked, this never used to be the issue but has suddenly arisen and it's screwing me over because I'm a duelist player
I feel that one. Mindset is a lot of it man. In a dm your mind isn't racing like it is in ranked. Just try to relax when you load into your next game man
For me, when i’m in death match, my mindset is to hit one taps and improve my aim. But, when i’m in a real comp game, the only thing on mind is getting kills which leads to spraying.
Very well made video. I usually avoid mid on maps but still win gunfights when I eventually go to them. I personally don’t like taking ego 1v1s Bc I end up overthinking what happens to my team if I lose. But on the occasional day when I feel Ballsy I take the 1v1s I win most of them.
Saw the video to think about myself, and it just got more clear that my problem is my game sense The most part of my aces where on pistol rounds, I usually do not shoot first and I just can't spray
I used to be a bronze Jett main and realized that my aim was holding me back, then I began a journey of aimlab. Went from Gold 1 in aimlab-Master 4 in Aimlab. Now I’m a gold 3 and about to hit plat, next act I really hope ai can hit immortal. If I’m streaming and have an insane pop off game could I send it to u to review?
@@teletrikus sorry for my assumption it’s the only thing you mentioned lol. Gridshot is just weird I feel like sometimes I get around 85-90k and I’m d2 but I use a pretty low sense so like after two runs of gridshot my arm gets mad tierd.
My mentality is holding me back the most I think. Ive spend hours in aimtrainer, click heads ez in DM/bot training but put me in a ranked match and my aim becomes anxious, I start overthinking shots etc and just whiff everything like I know I could hit normally
7 of these 8 just 100% apply to me and I've already noticed most of these myself and reflected on it and have been gettinngg alot better by working on it specifically but very very great Video props to you keep up the good work! Really great recap/rewrap for me in my Head that i was/am on the right path since a Radiannt player like you says the same
Most of these don't happen to me, but the moment I whiff pretty rarely unless it's really long range, but the moment I miss my 3rd shot, I just start panicking and crouch spraying/dying (I don't know how to control valorant recoil).
You definitely got me at crouch spraying, pretty much every time I have a full auto gun if I'm not hitting the first shot I immediately go into a crouch and spray at the body. Should probably work on my first four shots and start burst firing more
10:24 I dont do this but since Im a jett main and Ive been playing valorant and csgo for 10 hours I was pretty tired. When I thought that I can get much frags anymore I took Cypher (my old main). I was really helpful to my team and my rank.
Idk but these vids are actually good and helpful i mean there are so many videos with tips on the internet but i didnt see any with actually helping tips!
That's my goal! These tips all come from my experience with helping actual players like you which is why I think its easier for some people to connect. Not everyone loves this style of content, but these education videos are my favorite!
I often struggle with mid range gun fights. At long ranges i am comfortable tapping and bursting, and spraying at short range, but at mid range I often commit to the spray and die or I try to let my recoil reset and die to the adversarial spray.
I always play duelists in unranked but the reason why I cant play duelists in ranked is cause they get instalocked like 75% of the time so I have to play a more supportive role. Wish Riot adds a system where you can choose which role you want to play before heading into the match.
It’s easy tho you just become the instalocker... just make sure you’re there for the countdown and then pre aim your curser, if people talk shit just leave before the match starts
@@zookoh1595 Wish I could but I always load in like a couple seconds before everyone else and by then its too late. I went into a ranked match and when I got into agent select there were already 3 people locked in all with duelists.
Got my first win in a deathmatch since starting the game a few months ago, so I hope that is a sign my aim is slightly improving. I try to keep my crosshair at head level and pre-aim corners but people still walk around and 1 tap me like they know i am there, no idea how.
For me, I think it's a mental blockade. I tend to lose more games when I'm actually up in a half than down by the half. It's an extreme choking problem in diamond.
#1: When I get the first few shots, I almost always win. #2: I'm bad with pistols but pull of the pistol rounds because of good crosshair placement (Aim with pistols is trash tho) #3: Yes, Almost 65 percent of the time. #4: My main has no flashes and Mobility. #5: I'd rather take trades. #6: I don't avoid mid ever. #7: That's true but only because I am Cypher main and feel very comfortable strategically taking kills and knowing the enemies location. I use duelists in unrated only when I'm not in the serious play mood. #8: I'd rather not use the spectre, I rarely use it because of its stats. I use the stinger in eco rounds but Shotguns are rare for me to use. I'm Bronze tho, with bad aim
I think I'm good enough in long range duels, but close range? I try to tap and burst while they just crouch and spray... more times than I can count I've either missed headshot (because they crouched) and/or just hit 3 bullets then died ("burst" I do are all either 3 bullets or a spray)
I am play mainly sage and currently I am play 3 / diamond 1. My game sense is probably my major weakness because I tend to make brainless plays ALOT OF STUPIDITY. Also, I spray for the wrong reasons. Crouch as well. I aim train and do well but when actually playing I don't do too well. (Ethos training workshop map aimlabs) Unfortunately, I can't even play my own rank anymore and diamond is just not fun. So to make myself feel better and FEEL confident, I make a new account then play "duelist." I don't plan going competitive but still want to play at a higher rank or first my own rank. Edit: I also don't have consistent first shot accuracy
i use the bulldog instead of the vandal and phantom because i know my bronze teammates are gonna push something stupid all die, and then i am in a 1v5, that im not gonna win, and then since i bought the bulldog my eco wasn't completely ruined
as a sova main i can confirm you dont need monster aim for shock darts. once they hit a surface they have a bigger damage hitbox and you can be a little bit off and still get them bc of that hitbox
I feel like I’ll go into ranked and I’ll be on derank game, then I’ll get tense and tilt, but when I relax (idk when it happens, just random) I’ll drop a 2-3 kd and winning my fights. Also am sentinel main
I think people who are moving have the advantage. When they are moving you have to do the tracking and controll the recoil, but they can headshot you because you are standing still, so they just strafe and kill you and you get mad because you wasted 17 bullets, hit 3 and the onetapped you :) Dm2 btw xdd
True, sign #4 is like what backseat gamers tell me to do. Dude, I'm good enough that abilities don't change shit for the enemy so it's more economical to save my abilities
sometimes i am inconsistent in 1 tapping..idk, maybe i was thinking too much.... about the minimap and the teammates placement...maybe i should focus more on myself instead..?
I disagree with the mid option because in my opinion Mid areas need more teamwork to control and if they have Ops or Sage walls and my team just stand there sleeping or never use their utility to fight the Ops I just never go mid again.
Recently i've started to spray way less and tap fire (spraying close range and tapping at mid - long) i've been knowdising it's not really my aim that's holding me back anymore in my rank but it's my way of playing. I've been watching a few of your videos on common problems in all ranks and some videos about gold from other youtubers. Nothing seems to help me climbing out from gold 3 - plat 1 and am currently thinking if it's my game knowledge/sence or it's just small plays that i do that make me "stuck" in gold
As jett main, my always go to weapon is Marshal and OP. Even though when I play cypher or omen, I still play with those snipers even getting headshots with OP. Main concern is I somehow suck with rifles. My Sniping skills won't even translate to rifles
For me ‘Sign 7’ is a yes and no, because at first I was playing duelist and I have insane aim (not exaggerating, I would consider myself as the most consistent with my aim in my group of friend), since my 2 friends keep on picking duelist I took the initiative to play sentinels because every match we played, we never had sentinels. At first I was forced to play sentinels with good aims, but as the time goes I feel like my aim is getting worst because i’m a cypher main and it requires me to play passive or else my trip wire will be disabled as soon as I die. So, if you play sentinels (specifically cypher) this point doesn’t work for you, cause you have to play very safe or else your teammates will have to watch for possible flanks for the rest of the round. And yeah, it’s really hard to get my ‘normal’ aim again, now i got an avg 0.8/0.9 KD and 1.1 KD at most. Immortal 1
I was iron just a few months ago and decided to go into practice tool and deathmatch for 10 min or so before each game instead of instantly queueing and just got Plat, my games are relatively inconsistent but I don't ever spray croutch, if I'm having a bad aim game I focus on utility use, flank pressure and timing my peaks to win fights, I also go to judge and Odin with gun use and usually end up buying guns for top fraggers and taking a shorty, this almost always works but it's frustrating and a boring playstyle to be honest, I just don't know if I have the time and energy to grind deathmatch just to gain some semblance of constituency.
Also another thing to add that's odd, I almost always win my pistol rounds , but I never get sheriff and I get 2 or 3 kills every time. If I don't pop off I basically just become bait, it's funny because I chose bait as my tag under my gamer tag, unfortunately its quite fitting some games, it's just another note to my inconsistency. I love your vod reviews and I wish you could view one but I don't know how to do any vod stuff unfortunatly, I don't even own a comp other than a shit laptop, I use my friends comp while he's at school since we are close but I don't have much time available with it to really grind that stuff. Like I said about 2 games of deathmatch into 2 games of comp and that's basically it.
I mostly win pistol round and 2nd round but I struggle with full buy rounds. I still am having a hard time getting out of Iron 100+ games in (I am new to FPS games). My aim just goes downhill when the enemy also has rifles. that's why sometimes I just buy a ghost or sheriff and use shotguns in close range. i really have trouble dueling people who use the phantom while walking or the spectre while crouch walking. sorry for the rant
on that first tip for some reason i am getting all those headshots in pistol rounds and on sheriff rounds even when not getting of the first shot, but when i use vandal or phantom, my aim just dissapears D:
I dont play duelists in ranked because some moron has already locked reyna jett and phoenix and i am forced to pick for smokes or they scream lock sage and usually i do cause i actually want to win.
How do I fix inconsistency? One day I one tap everyone I see but the other day I can't even spray to an enemy properly. This has been an issue for me since I started playing Valorant
The main thing holding me back is my hardware. You can only do so much on a 60hz screen with a lousy response time, 4-core laptop CPU and a laptop graphics card, all at the price of $500.
Been playing death matches and unrated with crouch button unbounded for past 2 weeks so kinda feel happy to be actually practicing something told in a video😂😂😂
I am really glad I watched this! After watching, I immediately recognized the aiming mistakes I have been making. I have since become a better aimer, way better in fact. I win 99.9% of my aim duels now, and hit crazy one tap flicks. Turns out all I needed to do was buy a ton of skins and instalock Jett!
Im silver1, and i dont go for trades but I play more aggressive than I should. I main astra so I need to learn to sit back more I think. I struggle mainly with crosshair placement and crouching habits
#7 im kj main, because other players doesnt know how to use fkin cyph's wire or kj's alarmbot I'm also playing viper,raze, omen(only on icebox) and jett(rarely and mostly on icebox)
I dont know why but i cant seem to hold my plat rank since i started aim training in aimlabs. I have been using aimlab everyday 1 hour for 1 month and my aim is still very shaky and unstable. I was plat 3 in act 1 and i get worse with every game im playing. I cant even get a positive kda in gold 3 anymore, what am i doing wrong. I use immortal valorant practice routine in aimlab and repeat every task 5 times
you probably need to more thoughtfully think about what the issues on your aim style and habits are. It won't come from a month of training but slowly identifying 'micro' habits and correcting them ingame sometimes more than in aim trainers. Try to research about that one paper that a guy wrote on aimtraing and kovaaks I guess his name is "aimer7" and maybe ron rambo kim's channel...
I already watched and read those and i try to focus more on accuracy rather than speed and my some of my scores are on the leaderboard too but i cant seem to hit anything in my games. Even when i am behind someone i whiff very often and sometimes get flamed for that too
In the strafetrack precision for example, i get a score of 110000 consistently but my aim isnt smooth and very shaky. Also when i flick to targets, my aim doesnt go in a line but instead shaky like a curvy line to the target when its in a spot i dont expect
It’s funny how I know i can out aim any one below maybe d2 or d3 as p2 and yet I find myself terrified of getting into an aim duel. I am always like I need to play safe and not die for free and the lose, so the next round i wide swing mid and get a free kill.
