Being too passive goes hand in hand with low awareness. Players with low awareness have no clue when their team gets an advantage. New players seem to think that the good players are just running around willy nilly but it’s actually about awareness of the situation. You can’t capitalize on the situation if you’re completely unaware of the situation.
the opposite is also very true. was playing rank with a friend on my smurf account as my usual lobbies are way too hard for him. we're in bronze and our 3rd died and started blaming us for "running away ". we weren't running away, we were sandwiched between two teams on low ground, one team had a bocek while the other had a kraber. but apparently. that was an ideal situation to start firing at a team, die, and then blame us for not being aggressive. bronze lobbies were super chill for me. but the amount of mistakes i saw from the lack of awareness is astonishing. and worst of all, they don't know that they're the ones who fucked up.
@@q8asami true bro, I feel you. They can also be stupidly aggressive and then get super angry cause you didn’t want to make a suicide push. Nobody gets angrier than someone who’s getting mad at something they don’t understand.
when do you want to push? after you crack somebody? or do you want to wait till one of them is knocked? if you have shield advantage do you just immediately push no questions asked? fairly new player here and i struggle with this :/ currently in gold 1
@@ruben59 a lot to unpack and to be honest you'll have to play quite a bit to determine the right time to push but a general rule of thumb is if you get a knock and you are safe to push (no other teams nearby) it's better to push. if you all have purple and the enemy has white then by all means do push as well. but be aware it's not just that team, always pay attention to where the other teams are. when you land somewhere, pay attention to where the other teams nearby landed you'll know which side they might come from and set up for it. lastly, i would pay attention to what type of legends my team has, for example if your team has a caustic or wattson, some fights are safer to take indoors. while other legends thrive in open spaces like pathy for example. keep in mind, i would only do this in rank as you need to be smart about it. in pubs tho, you can push all you want and make all the mistakes you want. anyone who gets mad at you for doing something wrong in pubs should get a life. one more thing, and this should apply to both modes. LOOT FAST, always loot fast before a fight and after the fight, 3rd parties are always coming and you want to restock your essentials like ammo and health as soon as possible.
Often times I’ll go on Reddit or wherever else for advice and I’ll see the tip “push and ape every single team you see I swear you’ll improve trust me bro”. Explains why my randoms try to 1v3, die and leave every single match.
I think it's one of those pieces of advice people give where they don't actually want to help others but want to pretend that they're helping others. So they say something vague like "just fight everyone" when it's more conplex than just that simply because it can be [wrongfully] interpreted in so many ways
@@fistofsage to be honest, almost all who advice to push always explain that it's a good way to improve as long as they're smart about it. but apparently that translates to brainless pushing for most noobies. hence why they jump straight into 1v3ing everyone.
Haha this is because pros and streamers fill their heads with this. I know a guy that is masters and has been playing since season 1, and despite the fact that he can output serious damage, he always needs to be revived or picked up. Even he admits that he has poor decision making (this was a master player mind you). When I play with him I can't play at my optimal and when I stream he'll comment "why can't you get kills like this when we play together" and I say "it's because I'm always distracted by your nonsense" lol being a prior Lifeline main I could tell he was either an Ocatne main or Wraith main before becoming a Valk main. Btw he loves to push everything xD then gets knocked. But at least he gets the opponents one shot or at least close.
@@damianplatt8886 dying a lot doesn't really equal improvement. Mitigating the amount of damage you play, playing cover, actually knocking a player in a 1v1 does equal improvement. I still to this day will get players that have 11k kills, push a fight alone as wraith or Pathfinder and then leave immediately. I think the Pathfinder I had was a good Pathfinder because he got 4 kills, but they're legit horrible teammates. I found myself getting super bored today despite getting master and pred teammates, but they were such horrible teammates that I was just alone half the time because they left. I even had a pred valk I was playing duos with today that took off after pinged that I needed ammo. Found some in a nearby bin. I turn to go to her (as Lifeline mind you) just as I did to help her with a fight prior, and she got knocked to a Pathfinder. She left despite that I was actually a lot closer to her location then she thought. And guess what, I killed the Pathfinder (he was a solo). So yes, maybe they will improve in a selfish way, but these sorts of players are why I'm kind of fed up with ranked, because despite the fact that they might actually CAN shoot, they have no idea how to be a good teammate. Dropping loot or heals when your teammate is in need, and God forbid if they need to retrieve your banner in ranked. Chances are they will respawn you and run off leaving you alone (and honestly what's the point in even doing this if they'll run off) or they have no idea how to do so, so they just resort to ratting. Don't get me wrong I respect master and pred players for the amount of time and effort they put into the game, but some can be super selfish.
A tip I have is don’t be afraid to switch your load out mid-late game. There has been so many times where I’m almost out of ammo and either my teammates have not enough ammo to spare, or they don’t even run a gun with the same ammo. So I just switch one of my guns with someone I killed and take the ammo/attachments for that gun.
This is a great tip. Learning gun versatility is so important because you never know when you’re gonna be stuck with a p2020 or a mozam or an opticless sentinel
The 1st tip struck me and if anyone else had this problem as well it is that I never stopped playing one character but then playing that character got dry. For instance I played octane and didn't switch for a while then when someone took my character I was basically handicap so I tried to play different characters and to be honest it improved my game sense in different situations how I react to certain things and really how I play apex.
For any beginner I believe the best goal is to get the badge rewarded from getting 10 wins with 8 different legends. It's a good goal. There's at least 2 legends any person despises in those 8, that right there will grow one's awareness for other legends abilities, weaknesses and strengths
@@michaelrichard4966 do people ever “1 trick” legends? Is that a thing in Apex? I started earlier this week and i gotta say, Rampart is actually so nasty and i’m glad she doesnt get picked much because I generally like to play more obscure and odd legends. For example, In League of Legends, my main champ in the jungle was usually Nidalee, but I’d often get bored of that and pick Brand Jungle. 😂 people would think im trolling till my they saw my KDA. I finished one of my best games as brand with a KDA of 18/3/15 and pissed a lotta people off with it. Oddly fun and satisfying to pull off. Do you think I could pull off a similar thing with Rampart if I 1 trick her? Im trying to learn to a-wall slide but the inputs on controller are brutal without paddles/rear buttons.
I would say this to any wraith player who either is just using her because everyone else is or they see streamers & TH-camrs use them and try and copy what they are doing without knowing why that's why I also don't get when I see a players that has 5-6 digit kills on one character like most of my legends have 3 digit kills besides a handful that I literally don't like playing
Never take a fight unless you have an advantage. Just some helpful advice for new to intermediate players whether it's the element of surprise, higher ground, or better cover. And always have an escape plan ready
I took literally 2-3 months off from playing Apex and I started playing again during Christmas and I’ve brought my k/d up from what was a .74 to .92. I’ve changed my style up in the time period and my character to Horizon and I saw massive improvement in my gameplay.
The number 1 rule I follow in ranked is "only fight teams if you have a good reason to do so." If you just run at every second of gunfire, you'll get there the same time every other team in the lobby did and end up in a chaotic mess that's really hard to stay alive in for long. Playing to take and hold good positions in the ring for late game makes it much easier to get KP and placement points without taking unnecessary risks. It sounds like "just camp" but that's not really it. Throughout the match, players will rotate through certain places to get to the ring, and by already being in those places to pick them off, it'll net fairly easy kills.
To be honest I’m new here and u said something that caught my attention and that is the fact when someone goes down cuz of their own fault and they start to be negative in the lobby which then sets a bad vibe in the rest of the game and just sets everyone up for failure because they’re too busy distracting you with their little punk aggressive words that is uncalled for specially if u know we gonna revive u just sit there and be quiet watch ur teammates gameplay and help em see what they don’t see, 2 pairs of eyes is better than than 1
I like being the person that picks last in the character select screen. I noticed that my first 200 hours I played extremely safe instead of going after someone(like if I broke someone). Now I play looser and when I get good damage on somebody I actually go after them. I can even tell that my style of going for a kill changed I'm more comfortable with sliding in or bouncing off of something like a octane's jump pad or Pathfinders line.
1st Tip is very important. I am a Seer main but I can play most any character decently but I have a handful i play really well. If I'm solo queued and someone picks Seer I have a few other legends I can play really well that synergize with our comp
What, at least on the useful or long run, made me improve massively, was try to solo no fill. almost 100% of the times i play solo qeue, i dreaded it at first, its insane going alone vs everybody when you re not that good. But even tho you dont get high kill games or make you a flashy player, it does make you a more "reliable on yourself" player. This means: - You get more aware; - You tend to survive longer (by experience you get that survival instinct that you can only count on yourself); - When you get teammates again, even if they are randoms and are not that good, you can take care of yourself and clutch more situations than before. Teammate buff turns real all of a sudden.
Comms are important. Most ppl don't use a mic but I swear 90% of the time I just ask politely if they got a mic and they'll plug one in or turn theirs on and then you can comm. This is more for ranked but pubs as well
Pings are also great. With a press of a button you can pretty much tell the squad exactly what you intend to do and they can choose to agree or disagree with the action. A shame no one uses this extremely useful took
@@chromie6571 problem is, the ping system needs an update. You cant ping if you need an assault rifle, you cant ping you need laser sight, you cant ping tell teammates to observe a particular place incase enemies show up (can only ping you're watching there and they wont), you cant ping enemies are pushing you (should replace going to fight enemies with that). that ping is useless
@@theosclong1201 You can actually ping for any attachments by pinging the slots in your inventory. You can even ask for an upgrade by pinging an attachment you already have. I do agree that some pings are useless and some could be changed to something else, but that would take a lot of voice actor work for a system that most people would never touch.
Guessing some people really rely on then. For me personally it's way too noisy. I use comms only when playing with friends currently because most of the times when I'm fighting I get super quiet anyways (focusing and listening for audio cues). Plus I've spent almost 8 seasons not using comms and am use to using strictly pings. Besides most players that use mics will just talk the entire time, say absolutely nothing until AFTER they get knocked, or will have annoying music playing. This is in ranked. I'm not saying they can't use mics, but they don't use them efficiently to rely any sort of helpful information. Besides, if you want to rotate somewhere or disengage, a simply ping to suggest a location works just fine. Even pinging that you want to defend an area gives me enough information. But I'm under the impression that some people truly can't work without it.
@@chromie6571 exactly. I've had teammates take off alone while I turned around for a split second to find that they've gotten knocked. Then they turn on their mics to complain that uts my fault for not looking at the map lol like...ping...it's not hard at all. Say I'm a tiny bit accupied, literally if my teammates ping that they see an enemy or are running off I immediately look at the map. Not a lot of players use the ping. And the ones that do only use it in an annoying way to let us know someone is doing a finisher on them lol
Bad luck is mine. I lose my skills all of sudden my aim skill will suddenly go away and i have to relearn everything up to the point i was at before i lost my aim skill & then guess what happens… i lose my aim skills again, a cycle that never ends, why am i even trying at this point ill never be good
DO NOT BE TOO AGGRESSIVE! Number one rule when playing with random teammates. Stick with your team. Be like water. If your team is aggro then go with them if they’re more passive then be passive with them. Play together as a team! That’s the only rule you need to follow when playing teams. Don’t be a dickhead and jump into fights by yourself and die and get all pissed because your team is nowhere near you. That’s on you. That’s your fault. Rule number one, be a team player.
#5 fax lol, my boy plays against masters all day and he's level 400, I'm a level 100 and I play against plats usually, and he always says how trash I am and how I suck, like bro this isn't my elo this is urs 😭
The hot drops in ranked drive me crazy. I try to land by myself and loot then wing it from there. Like you said, dropping into a fight won't get you points.
well this also depends, what rank you are and how good you are, I am a master player, and I try to hot drop from bronze to plat and I 4 out of 5 times win with now 6 kp and can do whatever I want without thinking about my Lp gain
I totally recommend using different legends, in oppose to using the same one over and over. When I first started playing I only used rampart, so my playstyle became very passive, and I lost alot more fights. Because while a more passive playstyle does help sometimes. Most of the time it doesn't. I still really like rampart and use her alot. Let's say I play 10 matches is a session 5 will probably be rampart, and the other 5 will be a variety of different legends. And it definitely helped my improve not using rampart 10 out of the 10 matches.
I have to ask, how can I find a team, when I work until 5 pm, have kids, married, are there are actually others in a similar situation who want to form a team to play casually, rank to gold/platinum?
hitting a ceiling for sure as a solo player. Once I hit plat- D3ish randoms would give you such a headache. play pubs solo it’s even worse. Champion squad 3 stacks masters preds my squad random level 24 Bangalore and valk that’s just jet packs away every bullet that comes their direction.
Well as a wattson, when I'm left alone to fight a trio full pushing because my teammates just ran in and died, it's hard to get away or fight off 3 people at once. I use my abilities and am usually protected by my fences, but when 3 ppl come up at once and I only got 2 mags without reloading, it's really hard to not lose. Alot of the time when I do die, its because I'm left alone fighting 3 people. If I was in a building like streamer building, than its easier separating the other team, but otherwise it is difficult
I will say my friends only do take sniper fights and prolong it. I always say that we either push once one is knocked or cracked unless there is some known third party. Still... its frustrating cause we lose so many meds attempting these fights when controller players shine in close range.
Anyone else actively seek out rifle players? Lol I feel like I'm making the lobbies a bit safer and a lot more fun for everyone else to properly enjoy the rest of the game.
In regards to understanding your surroundings, do you (or does anyone) have any suggestions on how I can learn maps and get better with my situational awareness? I'm pretty new to gaming and this is a huge aspect that I continue to struggle with.
well a huge tip is to know what is on teams, having streamer mode on, it replaces names with the character being played, so you can see the guns and character teams are using in the kill feed, also, a simple trick, just call out anything and everything you see teams doing, rotating, new teams engaging, pay attention to the zone, the worst thing is being zone held because you didn’t rotate
The whole passive thing reqlly helped actually. Used to be that way the. After this video was playing pathfinder and knocked one on a squad. Normally would just wait and keep poking but i zip lined in jumped on the res, knocked them again and even managed to wipe them. Thanks
2:10 CALCULATE THE FIGHT!!! my friends laughed at me when I said this You don't want to get yourself into fights you can't win Especially if you have low ammo or don't have a good angle Let someone else handle them Go fight someone else ESPECIALLY if they haven't seen you yet 😂 It's just common sense!
You'd be amazed that even some good players will still utter the words "I suck"or "I whiffed" I've heard aceu, ItTimmy, ShivFPS and faide say it. They have their moments. Tbh honest it made me appreciate the fact that everyone makes mistakes. I'm not gonna lie though, for the longest time I thought pred players never got knocked. I thought good players never ever see the ground and that they carry their teammates every game. I was wrong lol everybody, I'm sure, would appreciate a good, or at least, a decent teammate. Even some season 0 vets will say they're bad at the game. This really took me some time to accept as truth 😄
In pubs I always try to push using some brain of course. If you play to loot all the time you will never learn to manage fights or third party situations. I suggest to be aggressive, it always pays👍
Idk if it's just me but I don't mind not having a solo mode and the reason why is because I like playing against teams for sum reason and I never really liked playing the solo modes in other games because when I would it would feel and be weird like people would either camp are just be anoyying like they would shoot you across the map and than chase you and when they get there you crack them and they get scared again idk how to explain it but players would play really weird and boring in solos but I like solo duos or trios it makes me feel more confident and improves my gameplay more than playing solos.
lol yeah im the blame one. i blame myself when i die, when my teammates die, or when i revive my teammate and then they die quickly after Dx i blame myself for all that
I’ve got this one friend that sucks so bad (bad game sense, terrible aim, terrible legend use) but still takes the good stuff and even weapons he knows I’m heavenly with and it’s so annoying cuz he’ll have a purple Evo and a almost all purple R-301 (my main) and get one clipped by a wraith with a p2
A while earlier i was with my random teammates in ranked and we had high ground with a couple other team u told to go where i was and they said quote on quote “We Chill.” So since i didnt wanna be alone i went with them then an enemy team got the high ground and pushed us to another team and we died if you do this please stop Edit: also just for context it was around last ring and we were on the edge of ring too
I like how u ordered # 2 and 3. If u did it the opposite way u would have had a lot bad comments and ppl stopping the video lol. Like the wraith main that quits the first 2 minutes every other game.
Hahaha the moment I see them hesitate and look completely lost I lose hope xD I remember my first encounter with a pred team while soloing. I was watching the killfeed and I figured the team me and my teammaters were approaching was the pred team. I was super hyped to see if I could test my skills (which was probably really low, but I believe facing good players helps me improve). One teammate went down immediately. Then the other. My shields were cracked and all I could think was "aw crap, well this didn't last long" before they aped me lol I have faced two alone in duos though without knowing it. My teammate wondered off alone to loot and got beamed. I thought that was weird. As I came into the room he was in I got pushed by a wraith, and then an octane. I was lucky enough to knock the wraith, so it helped. The thing is most preds are super aggressive with good aim...if the randoms can't hold their own...yeah the pred team will smell this and pounce xD I use to be terrified of preds, I still kinda am, but they're just like every other player. It's better to improve with a good player than wiping a bunch of new players and thinking it makes a player good at the game.
When I look for a load out I choose the weapon I see first when landing and only swap with the same ammo compatibility and attachment capabilities so I never struggle with load out issues
1. Playing one legend 2. Being too passive 3. Being too aggressive in ranked 4. Know your circumstances 5. Blaming your teamates 6. Looking for the same loadout 7. Notice your surroundings 8. Queueing solo
I’m watching this video with about 30 matches in game, and I am hot garbage. This man said if you’re new to Apex with less than a few hundred hours. WHAT?! I’m way behind the curve.
When I play with my friends they mostly don’t take it serious like how I do, we make it to masters and diamond most of the time. If they take it more serious we could be in pred
I think whats stopping me is i started apex watching aceu. Im a console player. Ever since then i watched people like finesse, itztimmy, etc. I started learning movement and stuff and now that’s basically all in fights and i didnt rlly build any aim skill and now i feel that i cant get out of it. I was trying to do movement like them with one: VERY LOW FPS Two: not the resources or equipment they have 3: awareness and thought process. Any thoughts?
Is your sensitivity set to high? Also stop moving around so much lol a simple strafe from left to right is enough. A wall bounce over a thermite can be handy, but why do people do this in a fight. If a player has LOS on you, all that movement means nothing. Catching a player off guard is much more effective. Tracking a players movement is effective. Movement is just to look cool. I'm not saying DON'T move, but I am saying that is you face a player with good tracking and aim, the movement falls apart. I met a guy that us always talking about what he can do, that he's learning to super glide and everything, and when we que up in duos he's the first to go down EVERY TIME and doesn't know why. It's simple, it's clear he's doing something wrong. Walking into a fight without knowing what you're walking into (decision-making), TOO much movement to the point that you are missing all your shots (we have aim assist, let it work for you. The more you move, the less it can help you) and lastly, you're probably not utilizing cover effectively. I'll even tell you something, most players have a tough time shooting a none movement target. I remember I decided to play like a bot while playing Mirage and do as little movement as possible. I go do many kills. At one point a Bangalore started strafing back and forth even though I was clearly standing in one spot. It was mind boggling! But a lesson that some players try way too hard to look cool, when literally all it takes is a tiny peek around a corner to shoot and kill someone with a mastiff. Just try staying still, even if it means you might die. Then when you get that movement that's been ingrained in your mind out, you can start implementing it in small amounts.
GUN RUN was the best thing that apex could've done to decrease the skill gap between the entire lobby. I looked at all my favorite streamers playing gun run and as expected all of them killed it... But they didn't get better... I improved by about 300% tho i went from being able to only make bronze 2 to gold. From being afraid to drop in any place with another team to dropping with 4 teams and coming out alive. To being able to say "i can kill" when all i have is a mozzy or p2020 with no additional ammo. Mind you my monitor is still shit, 60fps on ps4, craaaazy wild stick drift. What I'm saying is, gun run forced you to get better at fighting enemies. And that increased the level of the entire apex pool except for those who are already the best
im leaving this comment for self improvement i have around 1100 hours on ps4 but i straight up just feel like im not getting better like i have clips of when i started olut in s5 and there is huge improvement but i feel like im not doing good on 2 points aim and awareness and ve tried the yt vids but cant find som that works for me any tips i need em?
I feel like this video should play whenever a person gets apex I'm a solo player and most of my randoms that are in my range 500+ for some reason don't have these I'm my opinion obvious skills like literally today I had a game were we pinched between zone and a team blocking one way out and one that wasn't blocked I pinged (not a social player) to try and get them to back off and reposition so that we don't get trapped but the for some reason ego challenge them and instantly get downed like most of my teammates lack awareness and most how drop or just keep pushing and then leave or complain that either we are not playing to their style or that why we didn't drop with them first it's not always a good idea to all drop the same building because then your fighting for loot and always pushing without breaks to either heal or loot means you have limited resources because you never loot the people you killed to replenish the resources you used in the fight
I have the opposite problem i know how to play every legend to there outmost potential so if i get stuck on a legend i didn't want it is gonna be fine because ik how to use them but here comes the problem after you realize how good all the legends are i became stuck in who do i play game in and game out so i never really had a main legend and still don't
imo for the first tip. When i think of a main. I think of a character u become better with than u are on any other character in the game. I don't have a problem with playing more then 1 character. But i dont see the point of having a main if you cant even use them in all game modes. Like how you said "it might be good for pubs but not in ranked" I totally see where your coming from however I will keep playing my main even if it is a downside in anything. Once again this is just my opinion and I certainly do not mean any hate with the comment. Just thought I would share how I see
7:53 to add onto this: blaming others only hurts your progress as a player. Take accountability and fix your mistakes. Harder to do without a killcam though. Killcams are useful for figuring out your mistakes and fixing them in real time. Seeing it from the victors pov can help you realize your faults w/o having to record your gameplay and analyze it 9:03 this is why I practice with every gun except the wingman. It’s too odd for me rn
Bro I can barely play this game right now, I got on and my options were storm point pubs, storm point ranked and storm point control, then I played control only to get wiped by 3 stacking preds and masters (my hightest rank is gold and my kd isn't even 1) who were camping our spawn and only used snipers, played one round got off. Average apex experience. Also horrendous lag the whole time.
Hahaha I've had that happen in control as well. It's a douche move for sure and the only way to outplay this is to have teammates that are just as good, unfortunately.
Being too passive goes hand in hand with low awareness. Players with low awareness have no clue when their team gets an advantage. New players seem to think that the good players are just running around willy nilly but it’s actually about awareness of the situation. You can’t capitalize on the situation if you’re completely unaware of the situation.
True. I have an issue with awareness and memorizing the finer map details as I'm getting up in age.
the opposite is also very true. was playing rank with a friend on my smurf account as my usual lobbies are way too hard for him. we're in bronze and our 3rd died and started blaming us for "running away ".
we weren't running away, we were sandwiched between two teams on low ground, one team had a bocek while the other had a kraber. but apparently. that was an ideal situation to start firing at a team, die, and then blame us for not being aggressive. bronze lobbies were super chill for me. but the amount of mistakes i saw from the lack of awareness is astonishing. and worst of all, they don't know that they're the ones who fucked up.
@@q8asami true bro, I feel you. They can also be stupidly aggressive and then get super angry cause you didn’t want to make a suicide push. Nobody gets angrier than someone who’s getting mad at something they don’t understand.
when do you want to push? after you crack somebody? or do you want to wait till one of them is knocked? if you have shield advantage do you just immediately push no questions asked? fairly new player here and i struggle with this :/ currently in gold 1
@@ruben59 a lot to unpack and to be honest you'll have to play quite a bit to determine the right time to push but a general rule of thumb is if you get a knock and you are safe to push (no other teams nearby) it's better to push. if you all have purple and the enemy has white then by all means do push as well. but be aware it's not just that team, always pay attention to where the other teams are.
when you land somewhere, pay attention to where the other teams nearby landed you'll know which side they might come from and set up for it.
lastly, i would pay attention to what type of legends my team has, for example if your team has a caustic or wattson, some fights are safer to take indoors. while other legends thrive in open spaces like pathy for example.
keep in mind, i would only do this in rank as you need to be smart about it. in pubs tho, you can push all you want and make all the mistakes you want. anyone who gets mad at you for doing something wrong in pubs should get a life.
one more thing, and this should apply to both modes. LOOT FAST, always loot fast before a fight and after the fight, 3rd parties are always coming and you want to restock your essentials like ammo and health as soon as possible.
Often times I’ll go on Reddit or wherever else for advice and I’ll see the tip “push and ape every single team you see I swear you’ll improve trust me bro”. Explains why my randoms try to 1v3, die and leave every single match.
I think it's one of those pieces of advice people give where they don't actually want to help others but want to pretend that they're helping others.
So they say something vague like "just fight everyone" when it's more conplex than just that simply because it can be [wrongfully] interpreted in so many ways
@@fistofsage to be honest, almost all who advice to push always explain that it's a good way to improve as long as they're smart about it. but apparently that translates to brainless pushing for most noobies. hence why they jump straight into 1v3ing everyone.
1v3s will help you improve because if you can 1v3 it makes 1v2s a lot less freighting and 1v1s a cake walk
Haha this is because pros and streamers fill their heads with this. I know a guy that is masters and has been playing since season 1, and despite the fact that he can output serious damage, he always needs to be revived or picked up. Even he admits that he has poor decision making (this was a master player mind you). When I play with him I can't play at my optimal and when I stream he'll comment "why can't you get kills like this when we play together" and I say "it's because I'm always distracted by your nonsense" lol being a prior Lifeline main I could tell he was either an Ocatne main or Wraith main before becoming a Valk main.
Btw he loves to push everything xD then gets knocked. But at least he gets the opponents one shot or at least close.
@@damianplatt8886 dying a lot doesn't really equal improvement. Mitigating the amount of damage you play, playing cover, actually knocking a player in a 1v1 does equal improvement.
I still to this day will get players that have 11k kills, push a fight alone as wraith or Pathfinder and then leave immediately. I think the Pathfinder I had was a good Pathfinder because he got 4 kills, but they're legit horrible teammates.
I found myself getting super bored today despite getting master and pred teammates, but they were such horrible teammates that I was just alone half the time because they left. I even had a pred valk I was playing duos with today that took off after pinged that I needed ammo. Found some in a nearby bin. I turn to go to her (as Lifeline mind you) just as I did to help her with a fight prior, and she got knocked to a Pathfinder. She left despite that I was actually a lot closer to her location then she thought. And guess what, I killed the Pathfinder (he was a solo).
So yes, maybe they will improve in a selfish way, but these sorts of players are why I'm kind of fed up with ranked, because despite the fact that they might actually CAN shoot, they have no idea how to be a good teammate. Dropping loot or heals when your teammate is in need, and God forbid if they need to retrieve your banner in ranked. Chances are they will respawn you and run off leaving you alone (and honestly what's the point in even doing this if they'll run off) or they have no idea how to do so, so they just resort to ratting.
Don't get me wrong I respect master and pred players for the amount of time and effort they put into the game, but some can be super selfish.
A tip I have is don’t be afraid to switch your load out mid-late game. There has been so many times where I’m almost out of ammo and either my teammates have not enough ammo to spare, or they don’t even run a gun with the same ammo. So I just switch one of my guns with someone I killed and take the ammo/attachments for that gun.
This is a great tip. Learning gun versatility is so important because you never know when you’re gonna be stuck with a p2020 or a mozam or an opticless sentinel
The 1st tip struck me and if anyone else had this problem as well it is that I never stopped playing one character but then playing that character got dry. For instance I played octane and didn't switch for a while then when someone took my character I was basically handicap so I tried to play different characters and to be honest it improved my game sense in different situations how I react to certain things and really how I play apex.
For any beginner I believe the best goal is to get the badge rewarded from getting 10 wins with 8 different legends. It's a good goal. There's at least 2 legends any person despises in those 8, that right there will grow one's awareness for other legends abilities, weaknesses and strengths
@@michaelrichard4966 do people ever “1 trick” legends? Is that a thing in Apex? I started earlier this week and i gotta say, Rampart is actually so nasty and i’m glad she doesnt get picked much because I generally like to play more obscure and odd legends.
For example, In League of Legends, my main champ in the jungle was usually Nidalee, but I’d often get bored of that and pick Brand Jungle. 😂 people would think im trolling till my they saw my KDA. I finished one of my best games as brand with a KDA of 18/3/15 and pissed a lotta people off with it. Oddly fun and satisfying to pull off.
Do you think I could pull off a similar thing with Rampart if I 1 trick her? Im trying to learn to a-wall slide but the inputs on controller are brutal without paddles/rear buttons.
I would say this to any wraith player who either is just using her because everyone else is or they see streamers & TH-camrs use them and try and copy what they are doing without knowing why that's why I also don't get when I see a players that has 5-6 digit kills on one character like most of my legends have 3 digit kills besides a handful that I literally don't like playing
Legend versatility is so important. This game was based off of Overwatch and Fortnite and the character setup of your team is imperative in ranked.
Never take a fight unless you have an advantage. Just some helpful advice for new to intermediate players whether it's the element of surprise, higher ground, or better cover. And always have an escape plan ready
I still lose no matter how big of an advantage i have hell i could cheat and i would still lose somehow
I took literally 2-3 months off from playing Apex and I started playing again during Christmas and I’ve brought my k/d up from what was a .74 to .92. I’ve changed my style up in the time period and my character to Horizon and I saw massive improvement in my gameplay.
Went from 0.79 to 1.12 what helped me was getting more aggressive and being confident in fights + new 144hz monitor
This man deserves all the best things in life for helping us get good at apex
🤝
The number 1 rule I follow in ranked is "only fight teams if you have a good reason to do so." If you just run at every second of gunfire, you'll get there the same time every other team in the lobby did and end up in a chaotic mess that's really hard to stay alive in for long. Playing to take and hold good positions in the ring for late game makes it much easier to get KP and placement points without taking unnecessary risks. It sounds like "just camp" but that's not really it. Throughout the match, players will rotate through certain places to get to the ring, and by already being in those places to pick them off, it'll net fairly easy kills.
Listen if you’re third partying you can bet a fourth is on its way
To be honest I’m new here and u said something that caught my attention and that is the fact when someone goes down cuz of their own fault and they start to be negative in the lobby which then sets a bad vibe in the rest of the game and just sets everyone up for failure because they’re too busy distracting you with their little punk aggressive words that is uncalled for specially if u know we gonna revive u just sit there and be quiet watch ur teammates gameplay and help em see what they don’t see, 2 pairs of eyes is better than than 1
My problem isn't being stuck in playing one character, my problem is I like too many characters 😂I just end up picking the one I vibe with the most
I like being the person that picks last in the character select screen. I noticed that my first 200 hours I played extremely safe instead of going after someone(like if I broke someone). Now I play looser and when I get good damage on somebody I actually go after them. I can even tell that my style of going for a kill changed I'm more comfortable with sliding in or bouncing off of something like a octane's jump pad or Pathfinders line.
That clutch @9:23 though! Damn
1st Tip is very important. I am a Seer main but I can play most any character decently but I have a handful i play really well. If I'm solo queued and someone picks Seer I have a few other legends I can play really well that synergize with our comp
I wonder if you still play Seer after his nerfs, good thing you know a few lagends well.
Thank you a lot for this video!😊👍
U honestly deserve to be one of the biggest Apex info channels period 👏🏾‼️
Good stuff as usual, thank you
What, at least on the useful or long run, made me improve massively, was try to solo no fill.
almost 100% of the times i play solo qeue, i dreaded it at first, its insane going alone vs everybody when you re not that good.
But even tho you dont get high kill games or make you a flashy player, it does make you a more "reliable on yourself" player.
This means:
- You get more aware;
- You tend to survive longer (by experience you get that survival instinct that you can only count on yourself);
- When you get teammates again, even if they are randoms and are not that good, you can take care of yourself and clutch more situations than before.
Teammate buff turns real all of a sudden.
Comms are important. Most ppl don't use a mic but I swear 90% of the time I just ask politely if they got a mic and they'll plug one in or turn theirs on and then you can comm. This is more for ranked but pubs as well
Pings are also great. With a press of a button you can pretty much tell the squad exactly what you intend to do and they can choose to agree or disagree with the action. A shame no one uses this extremely useful took
@@chromie6571 problem is, the ping system needs an update. You cant ping if you need an assault rifle, you cant ping you need laser sight, you cant ping tell teammates to observe a particular place incase enemies show up (can only ping you're watching there and they wont), you cant ping enemies are pushing you (should replace going to fight enemies with that). that ping is useless
@@theosclong1201 You can actually ping for any attachments by pinging the slots in your inventory. You can even ask for an upgrade by pinging an attachment you already have. I do agree that some pings are useless and some could be changed to something else, but that would take a lot of voice actor work for a system that most people would never touch.
Guessing some people really rely on then. For me personally it's way too noisy. I use comms only when playing with friends currently because most of the times when I'm fighting I get super quiet anyways (focusing and listening for audio cues).
Plus I've spent almost 8 seasons not using comms and am use to using strictly pings.
Besides most players that use mics will just talk the entire time, say absolutely nothing until AFTER they get knocked, or will have annoying music playing. This is in ranked. I'm not saying they can't use mics, but they don't use them efficiently to rely any sort of helpful information. Besides, if you want to rotate somewhere or disengage, a simply ping to suggest a location works just fine. Even pinging that you want to defend an area gives me enough information.
But I'm under the impression that some people truly can't work without it.
@@chromie6571 exactly. I've had teammates take off alone while I turned around for a split second to find that they've gotten knocked. Then they turn on their mics to complain that uts my fault for not looking at the map lol like...ping...it's not hard at all. Say I'm a tiny bit accupied, literally if my teammates ping that they see an enemy or are running off I immediately look at the map.
Not a lot of players use the ping. And the ones that do only use it in an annoying way to let us know someone is doing a finisher on them lol
Bad luck is mine. I lose my skills all of sudden my aim skill will suddenly go away and i have to relearn everything up to the point i was at before i lost my aim skill & then guess what happens… i lose my aim skills again, a cycle that never ends, why am i even trying at this point ill never be good
DO NOT BE TOO AGGRESSIVE! Number one rule when playing with random teammates. Stick with your team. Be like water. If your team is aggro then go with them if they’re more passive then be passive with them. Play together as a team! That’s the only rule you need to follow when playing teams. Don’t be a dickhead and jump into fights by yourself and die and get all pissed because your team is nowhere near you. That’s on you. That’s your fault. Rule number one, be a team player.
#5 fax lol, my boy plays against masters all day and he's level 400, I'm a level 100 and I play against plats usually, and he always says how trash I am and how I suck, like bro this isn't my elo this is urs 😭
These tips help really help me as a new player
Thanks so much doing this
I hit that skill ceiling long ago I can't get better at this game I will surely always suck
That's how I feel
New subscriber here and love your content of explaining the game and teams behaviour yes I’ve been there but in the end it’s just more frustrating
The hot drops in ranked drive me crazy. I try to land by myself and loot then wing it from there. Like you said, dropping into a fight won't get you points.
well this also depends, what rank you are and how good you are, I am a master player, and I try to hot drop from bronze to plat and I 4 out of 5 times win with now 6 kp and can do whatever I want without thinking about my Lp gain
I notice I'm more aggressive in games where I can respawn as the game is still going and tides can turn the next team fight
I totally recommend using different legends, in oppose to using the same one over and over. When I first started playing I only used rampart, so my playstyle became very passive, and I lost alot more fights. Because while a more passive playstyle does help sometimes. Most of the time it doesn't. I still really like rampart and use her alot. Let's say I play 10 matches is a session 5 will probably be rampart, and the other 5 will be a variety of different legends. And it definitely helped my improve not using rampart 10 out of the 10 matches.
I have to ask, how can I find a team, when I work until 5 pm, have kids, married, are there are actually others in a similar situation who want to form a team to play casually, rank to gold/platinum?
I just realised how versatile he is with all the legends
It’s impresive
hitting a ceiling for sure as a solo player. Once I hit plat- D3ish randoms would give you such a headache. play pubs solo it’s even worse.
Champion squad 3 stacks masters preds my squad random level 24 Bangalore and valk that’s just jet packs away every bullet that comes their direction.
It's the segways to the following videos for me. they always get me
subbed
11:00 I only just found people to play with and immediately hit masters but I have solo q'ed to diamond before
Well as a wattson, when I'm left alone to fight a trio full pushing because my teammates just ran in and died, it's hard to get away or fight off 3 people at once. I use my abilities and am usually protected by my fences, but when 3 ppl come up at once and I only got 2 mags without reloading, it's really hard to not lose. Alot of the time when I do die, its because I'm left alone fighting 3 people. If I was in a building like streamer building, than its easier separating the other team, but otherwise it is difficult
Ty for the video im new too Apex so this will definitely help🖤 also subscribed
This is very helpful thanks for the tips :)
I will say my friends only do take sniper fights and prolong it. I always say that we either push once one is knocked or cracked unless there is some known third party. Still... its frustrating cause we lose so many meds attempting these fights when controller players shine in close range.
Don't underestimate no filling duos. You learn how to 1v2, and you're not making your randoms suffer with your playstyle
yeah problem with no fill duos it insane matchmaking time. can last 10 minutes or more
@@theosclong1201 damn! I don't have that problem. That must suuuck
Yeah the match time is always shit for some reason for me
Most of my 3k damage games were solo duos, even had one game where i killed most of the lobby, but sadly got 16kills instead of 20 as Bangalore.
Anyone else actively seek out rifle players? Lol I feel like I'm making the lobbies a bit safer and a lot more fun for everyone else to properly enjoy the rest of the game.
Tip #9:
You’ll never be Faide or Aceu, stop solo dropping/pushing and then being shocked you immediately die.
No i am not trying to be faide, i am trying to be me
I am trying to become me but a pro version lol
Wraith and Octane mains
@@momentykk then solo queue.
@@donovanthomas9572 i played like 150 matches
I think for the 1st tip choosing one legend from each class is the best way to go at it bc you have diversity
Keep going!!! Love you videos!!
Amazing info bro. Thanks 🙏
In regards to understanding your surroundings, do you (or does anyone) have any suggestions on how I can learn maps and get better with my situational awareness? I'm pretty new to gaming and this is a huge aspect that I continue to struggle with.
well a huge tip is to know what is on teams, having streamer mode on, it replaces names with the character being played, so you can see the guns and character teams are using in the kill feed, also, a simple trick, just call out anything and everything you see teams doing, rotating, new teams engaging, pay attention to the zone, the worst thing is being zone held because you didn’t rotate
Well learning the map is kinda hard, but playing a lot helps, and watch other people play and see where they sit and hold
from this video i just got from 1k damage to 2k
thanks so much
The whole passive thing reqlly helped actually. Used to be that way the. After this video was playing pathfinder and knocked one on a squad. Normally would just wait and keep poking but i zip lined in jumped on the res, knocked them again and even managed to wipe them. Thanks
What do you think about splitting to flank vs stacking together?
Maining Path 99% of thr times...no matter the meta & being able to get diamond each time (Bloodhound Bangalore Wraith as back ups)
Awsome vids bro keep up the awesome work
2:10
CALCULATE THE FIGHT!!!
my friends laughed at me when I said this
You don't want to get yourself into fights you can't win
Especially if you have low ammo or don't have a good angle
Let someone else handle them
Go fight someone else ESPECIALLY if they haven't seen you yet 😂
It's just common sense!
I love how you talking about how you are one of those rookies when in the background you having like 7-10 kills and becoming the champion
You'd be amazed that even some good players will still utter the words "I suck"or "I whiffed" I've heard aceu, ItTimmy, ShivFPS and faide say it. They have their moments. Tbh honest it made me appreciate the fact that everyone makes mistakes.
I'm not gonna lie though, for the longest time I thought pred players never got knocked. I thought good players never ever see the ground and that they carry their teammates every game. I was wrong lol everybody, I'm sure, would appreciate a good, or at least, a decent teammate.
Even some season 0 vets will say they're bad at the game. This really took me some time to accept as truth 😄
In pubs I always try to push using some brain of course. If you play to loot all the time you will never learn to manage fights or third party situations. I suggest to be aggressive, it always pays👍
Coming from a mad Maggie Main but in all seriousness this really helped
Idk if it's just me but I don't mind not having a solo mode and the reason why is because I like playing against teams for sum reason and I never really liked playing the solo modes in other games because when I would it would feel and be weird like people would either camp are just be anoyying like they would shoot you across the map and than chase you and when they get there you crack them and they get scared again idk how to explain it but players would play really weird and boring in solos but I like solo duos or trios it makes me feel more confident and improves my gameplay more than playing solos.
I'm currently maining cat and b.hound, although I am trying to grasp ash it's tough (level 25 player here btw)
The clip at 11:20 is disgustingly satisfying ❤
lol yeah im the blame one. i blame myself when i die, when my teammates die, or when i revive my teammate and then they die quickly after Dx i blame myself for all that
I’ve got this one friend that sucks so bad (bad game sense, terrible aim, terrible legend use) but still takes the good stuff and even weapons he knows I’m heavenly with and it’s so annoying cuz he’ll have a purple Evo and a almost all purple R-301 (my main) and get one clipped by a wraith with a p2
My problem right now is having inconsistent aim and low mastery of guns I rarely use
You can’t just get your best loud out, that’s not how a battle royale works…
Loba mains “suuuure, you can think that”
A while earlier i was with my random teammates in ranked and we had high ground with a couple other team u told to go where i was and they said quote on quote “We Chill.” So since i didnt wanna be alone i went with them then an enemy team got the high ground and pushed us to another team and we died if you do this please stop Edit: also just for context it was around last ring and we were on the edge of ring too
I like how u ordered # 2 and 3. If u did it the opposite way u would have had a lot bad comments and ppl stopping the video lol. Like the wraith main that quits the first 2 minutes every other game.
Already Subscribe 👍 , i watch your video since a while and im greatfull of all the tips
Since switching to PC, I tried committing to mnk. But I'm too bad with it and it's discouraging. I really need to get a controller again
I don't blame my teammates.
I just lose all hope when I see I died to a triple pred team.
Hahaha the moment I see them hesitate and look completely lost I lose hope xD I remember my first encounter with a pred team while soloing. I was watching the killfeed and I figured the team me and my teammaters were approaching was the pred team.
I was super hyped to see if I could test my skills (which was probably really low, but I believe facing good players helps me improve). One teammate went down immediately. Then the other. My shields were cracked and all I could think was "aw crap, well this didn't last long" before they aped me lol
I have faced two alone in duos though without knowing it. My teammate wondered off alone to loot and got beamed. I thought that was weird. As I came into the room he was in I got pushed by a wraith, and then an octane. I was lucky enough to knock the wraith, so it helped. The thing is most preds are super aggressive with good aim...if the randoms can't hold their own...yeah the pred team will smell this and pounce xD
I use to be terrified of preds, I still kinda am, but they're just like every other player. It's better to improve with a good player than wiping a bunch of new players and thinking it makes a player good at the game.
When I look for a load out I choose the weapon I see first when landing and only swap with the same ammo compatibility and attachment capabilities so I never struggle with load out issues
1. Playing one legend
2. Being too passive
3. Being too aggressive in ranked
4. Know your circumstances
5. Blaming your teamates
6. Looking for the same loadout
7. Notice your surroundings
8. Queueing solo
my main is octane and my 2nd main is Wattson :)
I never blame my teammates but one time I was with a bloodhound who rushed in got downed immediately and then I died so he blamed me
I’m watching this video with about 30 matches in game, and I am hot garbage. This man said if you’re new to Apex with less than a few hundred hours. WHAT?! I’m way behind the curve.
Idk what the last tip is because that’s last clip was fire lmao
When I play with my friends they mostly don’t take it serious like how I do, we make it to masters and diamond most of the time. If they take it more serious we could be in pred
i wanna say thx and i want to know how much it is for coaching i just need better game sense
I think whats stopping me is i started apex watching aceu. Im a console player. Ever since then i watched people like finesse, itztimmy, etc. I started learning movement and stuff and now that’s basically all in fights and i didnt rlly build any aim skill and now i feel that i cant get out of it. I was trying to do movement like them with one: VERY LOW FPS Two: not the resources or equipment they have 3: awareness and thought process. Any thoughts?
Is your sensitivity set to high? Also stop moving around so much lol a simple strafe from left to right is enough. A wall bounce over a thermite can be handy, but why do people do this in a fight. If a player has LOS on you, all that movement means nothing.
Catching a player off guard is much more effective. Tracking a players movement is effective. Movement is just to look cool. I'm not saying DON'T move, but I am saying that is you face a player with good tracking and aim, the movement falls apart.
I met a guy that us always talking about what he can do, that he's learning to super glide and everything, and when we que up in duos he's the first to go down EVERY TIME and doesn't know why. It's simple, it's clear he's doing something wrong. Walking into a fight without knowing what you're walking into (decision-making), TOO much movement to the point that you are missing all your shots (we have aim assist, let it work for you. The more you move, the less it can help you) and lastly, you're probably not utilizing cover effectively.
I'll even tell you something, most players have a tough time shooting a none movement target. I remember I decided to play like a bot while playing Mirage and do as little movement as possible. I go do many kills. At one point a Bangalore started strafing back and forth even though I was clearly standing in one spot. It was mind boggling! But a lesson that some players try way too hard to look cool, when literally all it takes is a tiny peek around a corner to shoot and kill someone with a mastiff.
Just try staying still, even if it means you might die. Then when you get that movement that's been ingrained in your mind out, you can start implementing it in small amounts.
GUN RUN was the best thing that apex could've done to decrease the skill gap between the entire lobby. I looked at all my favorite streamers playing gun run and as expected all of them killed it... But they didn't get better... I improved by about 300% tho i went from being able to only make bronze 2 to gold. From being afraid to drop in any place with another team to dropping with 4 teams and coming out alive. To being able to say "i can kill" when all i have is a mozzy or p2020 with no additional ammo.
Mind you my monitor is still shit, 60fps on ps4, craaaazy wild stick drift. What I'm saying is, gun run forced you to get better at fighting enemies. And that increased the level of the entire apex pool except for those who are already the best
Number 5 is really important
I just hit my pr of 13 kills, but i don't know what to improve at in order to get a 20 bomb
Thanks for the vid
im leaving this comment for self improvement i have around 1100 hours on ps4 but i straight up just feel like im not getting better like i have clips of when i started olut in s5 and there is huge improvement but i feel like im not doing good on 2 points aim and awareness and ve tried the yt vids but cant find som that works for me any tips i need em?
I have over a hundred kills on bloodhound, octane, revenant,seer, Pathfinder, fuse,ash, loba. lifeline
Bro those mad maggie abilities
I feel like this video should play whenever a person gets apex I'm a solo player and most of my randoms that are in my range 500+ for some reason don't have these I'm my opinion obvious skills like literally today I had a game were we pinched between zone and a team blocking one way out and one that wasn't blocked I pinged (not a social player) to try and get them to back off and reposition so that we don't get trapped but the for some reason ego challenge them and instantly get downed like most of my teammates lack awareness and most how drop or just keep pushing and then leave or complain that either we are not playing to their style or that why we didn't drop with them first it's not always a good idea to all drop the same building because then your fighting for loot and always pushing without breaks to either heal or loot means you have limited resources because you never loot the people you killed to replenish the resources you used in the fight
Bro my main thing that I always die to is popping a bat and getting swinged lol
How do you when you shoot have no recoil?
It’s funny found a random when I was playing with my homie (D4) now we play on a daily bases and all of us are masters
I never blamed my teammates at all in a game I always just got very frustrated at the game😅
I play crypto to rely only on movement tech and positioning. If im out of position , I die.
watching you play Maggie makes me want to use her
I have the opposite problem i know how to play every legend to there outmost potential so if i get stuck on a legend i didn't want it is gonna be fine because ik how to use them but here comes the problem after you realize how good all the legends are i became stuck in who do i play game in and game out so i never really had a main legend and still don't
play mirage each time you are undecided
@@theosclong1201 why i mean i'll still carry my whole level 10 teammates
Then pick a legend based on what your teammates picked. Pick the legend that fits the best with what they took
@@ateyaba7253 i play no fill
There is 1 weapon i wouldn't rather melee my enemy than pick, and that is the charge sniper. 😅
just curious do you play with friends or solo que
Does anyone know how you get your ranked badge to shine? You you have to get that badge both splits?
Yes you need to reach that rank on both splits
U deserve 100k
I’m not the best apex player I fall in to the passive category but with over 800 wins I’ll play save
imo for the first tip. When i think of a main. I think of a character u become better with than u are on any other character in the game. I don't have a problem with playing more then 1 character. But i dont see the point of having a main if you cant even use them in all game modes. Like how you said "it might be good for pubs but not in ranked" I totally see where your coming from however I will keep playing my main even if it is a downside in anything. Once again this is just my opinion and I certainly do not mean any hate with the comment. Just thought I would share how I see
I subbed bro 💯👍
Been following you since 15k subs. Ill finally join the ranks brotha
7:53 to add onto this: blaming others only hurts your progress as a player. Take accountability and fix your mistakes.
Harder to do without a killcam though. Killcams are useful for figuring out your mistakes and fixing them in real time. Seeing it from the victors pov can help you realize your faults w/o having to record your gameplay and analyze it
9:03 this is why I practice with every gun except the wingman. It’s too odd for me rn
Bro I can barely play this game right now, I got on and my options were storm point pubs, storm point ranked and storm point control, then I played control only to get wiped by 3 stacking preds and masters (my hightest rank is gold and my kd isn't even 1) who were camping our spawn and only used snipers, played one round got off. Average apex experience. Also horrendous lag the whole time.
Hahaha I've had that happen in control as well. It's a douche move for sure and the only way to outplay this is to have teammates that are just as good, unfortunately.
If I can only controller what I can why not just for us solos
my strikepack helped me improve