Short disclaimer that I'm not a pro yet at Valorant, there's definitely still things I can do to improve my routine. But for those wanting to mimic the training I did, here's what I did every day (after experimenting the first couple days and getting coached): -2 hours of Aimlabs -Between 30 minutes to 2 hours of Practice Range -2x Deathmatch with Sheriff, 2x with Guardian, couple more runs with random guns (like Phantom, Ghost, Marshal and Spectre) -Multiple Ranked games, when I had a bad game I jumped back into Deathmatch and rewatched the footage to find flaws -If I had time left, I went through every Aimlabs exercise 1 more time I know this is a really intense routine most people probably don't have time for while I could fully devote myself to it, but still hope it's useful to people looking to improve! My Aimlabs Playlist (can definitely still be optimized): Headhshot (Precision) / Spidershot (Speed) / Spidershot (Precision) / Motionshot (Speed) / Motionshot (Precision) / Microshot (Precision) / Gridshot (Ultimate) / Decisionshot (Ultimate) / FSA Reflexshot (Precision) / VCT NA - YAY / VCT EMEA - Scream / Gridshot 3x3 / VCT NA - TenZ / Icebox Wide Flick / VCT Leer Shot / Voltaic Intermediate Benchmarks S2
Great video and great content! It is amazing how good your aim has improved over in a period of 1 week and congrats on exceeding your goal in rank. I can see you reaching way higher ranks in no time as you have the correct mindset to do it from the start. You didn't do much mistakes apart of the ones you mentioned on your video although I think one huge part that will help you rank up is a good communication with your team (even on solo queue). There is so much that you can adapt to if both you and your team pass the right information + map pings that denies the enemy team from catching your off-guard. In terms of peeking an angle I would suggest you to incorporate in your games the mindset of what people call slicing the pie (clearing common angles slowly to isolate fights to 1v1 and deny trades from the enemy team). I have to admit that I am on the other end of your gameplay, I feel my game sense is decent enough although my aim is lacking and your video is an inspiration to improve on both ends. Keep the with the great content.
That lovely feeling when you're hardstuck at a low rank and decide it's time to improve and put in the work. In the last episode (or whatever the Dorito shows) I went from bronze 2 to gold 1
And being hydrated, really diet in general. People don’t think it cause you’re just sitting at your desk, but food can really energize you or it can make you groggy
Bro, I was jealous of your aim improvement! I was an ascendant-diamond player last act and I kept changing my sens and dpi whenever I have a bad aim day. I never had a chance to practice my aim consistently and your video motivates me to do so. Can't wait to grind again this upcoming school vacation!
@@sairachith9723 Muscle memory doesn't affect your general aim, only those really specific long flicks. Muscle memory has long been proven as a myth in aiming. Changing sens just makes you worse cause you don't know it. If you have well enough mouse control you can control almost any sens fairly well (Long as it's within a normal range and not insanely extreme) :D
Just stay motivated on your sens and dont change it, if you have a bad day, play through it or maybe take a break for a day or two, it might also be a confidence issue
Wow. I'm pretty blown away by the improvement you made, I've felt pretty demotivated constantly dying of the most dumb mistakes you can think of in my ranked matches and this has honestly inspired me to try to improve. Thank you for popping up in my feed, keep improving
I peaked diamond 3 and day 6 made my jaw drop the way you peaked on day 6 was with confidence I never thought I could see improvement that fast the way you went from lost to actually peaking semi correct was insane keep this up would love to see a 30 day improvement video you can easily make it to diamond if you keep grinding and day 7 was even better.
I played A Short Hike a few days ago thanks to you, and I LOVED IT. Every single bit of that video was truthful from the very start to the very end. I went back to rewatch the video after playing it and loved it. Looking forward to more content from you.
This was astonishing for just a week of practice. Your experience from speed runs and so on have enhanced your skill of retaining information and it shows, this is how muscle memory comes with ease to you when applied correctly. As you were saying around the 16 minute mark.. it is definitely stressful to be juggling so many barely touched skills at once. In my experience break them up like you do fights, focus on what you can first and deal with what you can’t afterwards… they’re just skills afterall. I can’t say you won’t ever not have stress when playing, but the more you can rely on your skills, the less you have to actively think about using them and just do it. My apologies if I was simply captain obvious, but as you also said, proper headspace is important, most important if my experience serves me any use. Anyways, definitely subscribing despite my lack of enjoyment towards valorant, but I like your mentality and for that you’ve a loyal viewer
Been playing FPS games since 1999, some competitively. I think the thing that takes FPS beginners' aim to the next level is understanding that aiming is done nearly as much with your left hand as your right. Understanding the relationship between movement and aim is the key to getting better. IMO.
And this is the key to becoming the best of the best. Most players today believe that aiming is done solely by the mouse. Over time, they come across players who can perfectly dodge their shots, while shooting them down precisely Understanding the sync between keyboard and mouse might take time. But when they do, it will feel like winning a lottery.
I would love to see a video on improving positioning. That'd be the next frontier after aiming, since you're already better than 85% of players in that field
Nice job, not sure if anyone mentioned it yet but another thing you can work on is not peeking angles while holding W and a direction. It's a much cleaner and quicker peek if you just set your crosshair and then strafe the angle. I hope that makes sense and helps!!! There are also a lot of videos that show how you can peek better like I'm describing, maybe check those out. Your aim is getting clean but movement is definitely a huge thing in Valorant as you have realized. Nice job!
This video was rly nice to watch! I hope its not the end of your journey in Valorant! I rly liked the editing style with the music and then showing some good shots. I rly would like to see what happens when you continue a routine for a month. Ofc. If you continue i would suggest also looking for more Guides about Movement and trying to lern the game itself.
Seeing this video as a higher ranked player inspired me to get even better at the game, and the only thing i can say to this video is WOW. Amazing progress for 1 week, normally those videos are pretty boring but this was amazing, i do want to give you a few tips tho, not just about aim, i do recommend hopping into a custom game and practice your crosshair placement on the desired map, doing a clearing path (walk around the map clearing EVERY angle, so you get faster at it and learn the swiping aim, poorly used but pretty underrated!) and the other tip is a tip that will help you enjoy more besides ranking up, try to review your gameplay and review your util usage, you had almost every util available on most of your clips, so knowing how and when to use your exclusive utility can be as important as practising your aim. Keep it up, it was incredible!
To consistently swipe, flick in the general direction of the target so it's within wrist range, then use your wrist to finish the alignment. Always flick with your wrist + arm together or just wrist otherwise you'll never have a consistent flick as overshooting/undershooting or building weird habits will make your aim worse in the long run since you'll make missing shots a habit if that makes sense. It might sound like it'll introduce latency when flicking on targets at you're using two separate motions instead of one, but the end goal is to merge both motions into one dynamic motion. always try to focus on accuracy over speed. eventually, you'll be accurate enough to consistently flick at any speed without missing.
Very inspiring video! I recently started aim training myself and got up to Silver 3 but then got a little discouraged, but this video gives me hope that my aim can and probably will keep getting better if I keep practicing.
One thing I’d say would be that ranking up is the hard part since you get a different set of players with different mechanical skills, different positioning, and different aim. Being able to adapt to different situations and being versatile is a pretty strong trait to try to have to being able to deal with such a range of players.
honestly its cool so see someone lower ranked and not as skilled improve like this with this much dedication. It makes me wanna get up and get cracking but some days i just forget completely and then i dont do it for months.
I’m glad this came up on my feed, I’m in bronze, just started playing pc games again after playing controller for 10+ years. I played COD2 competitively on mouse and keyboard when I was a kid but now my aim isn’t very good. I downloaded aimlabs the other day and have been practicing for 20-30 minutes a day for the past 6 days and seeing my scores slowly improve. Hoping to see some good progression like you
Saving this video for later man. Great watch. I’ve been variety gaming for 20 years now and have never been consistent at aiming when I do play shooters, even after 100s of hours in them. Hardest part for a gamer like me is not getting bored and seeking the next experience.
Nice progress, congrats! I just wanted to point out one thing that drove me nuts: the way your mouse cable kept hitting the PC case (?) starting from 2:06 For me, that just heavily affects the way I move my mouse around, especially at lower sensitivity. If the cable gets stuck or even "bumps" into something, the mouse movement/trajectory is affected. Might be an insignificant thing for other people but it just gets to me. I personally use a wireless mouse but even if you'd want to keep using a wired one, I'd just try to find a different way to keep that wire as loose as possible and nowhere near other objects for it to bump into. Keep up the good work!
I have a friend that encouraged me to play valorant, at first I didn't like the game at all but now I do. I've been thinking about trying to improve my aim too cuz im just too bad and this video motivated me. Thank you
Came over from your main channel and must say this other content is great! Very fun to watch you play other games besides just Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Keep up the amazing content!
Omg you have such a chill personality! Thanks for the motivation. I play with my bf and his friends, and they've been playing for years so I am nothing compared to them. I thought my training wasn't doing anything to help, but now I guess it might if I keep practicing. Thanks man ❤😊
Congratulations on your path to getting better! Watching you progress did remind me of my way to becoming a nasty aiming beast and also somewhat made me really proud. The funny thing is that I have not been playing seriously any FPS on a mouse since last year, yet I could feel every move of your mouse, each inch of muscle memory. By watching this video I could accurately relate to what happened the moment you didn't eliminate the enemy. Keep on going, feller. You are on the good path.
this is actually insane, your aim is much better than mine and i’m sitting at plat3. my gamesense is pretty good but my aim is so bad, i’m having to focus so much on aiming that i forget other things sometimes. i wish i could just sit down and aim train but my brain cannot tolerate the repetition of it.
OMG yes i relate to this so much ! what i would suggest is going through woohoojins aim routine to gold im currently s2 but i jumped form b3 to it in like a matter of a 8 days !!
One thing that'll really help you get much better is getting good at counter strafing (also called jiggling). That's when you can very quickly move side to side and hit accurate shots in the split second you're changing direction. If you don't learn that, it'll be much harder to climb as people will be able to head shot you really easily if you have to stand completely still to aim back at them. When combined with good crosshair placement, it allows for super fast corner peaks that most people won't even be able to react to before they are already dead. It's really the main mechanic that makes good players feel so hard to kill since they almost never have to actually stop moving to get headshots.
This video was actually very nice to see. As a person that has religiously played basically only FPS games on keyboard+mouse for around 14-15 years, this reminded me of back when I first started with old cs titles and I was just happy to be improving. And the idea of simply improving really stuck out in this video: the point of the video wasn't you simply becoming an aim god that everybody wants to watch like yay, but simply getting better than when you started, and I think that's what a lot of people are missing. It doesn't matter if you're not high immortal-radiant, especially if you're just playing for the fun of playing, and I find it super dumb to see people commenting things like "insert rank" is the start of high elo, or some similar bullshit when that should just be based off of personal level. If youre in silver, plat is good and something you should reach for, and iron games look easy to you, if youre in high immortal, ascendant is easy as hell and radiant is what you're reaching for, so then how could one possibly be the basis of high/low elo? This said, do you have any plans on continuing this series? I'd be great to see you continuing to improve, and while you're at it you could try and document what you learned along the way, and maybe it could help someone in a similar rank see what their flaws are and try to improve with you. Either way, +1 from me :)
As an ascendant and you as a (bronze at the start of the video, i havent finished it yet and i may have misheard your rank)... your aim scares me. It is legitimately better than mine so...WP.
If anyone is thinking about doing something like this in the near future, something that helped me go from high sens, to a lower sens, was steadily lowering my sens about every 3 days, so it isn't just such a sudden change, and getting used to the world of lower sensitivities.
I found that If you change ur sensitivity all at once, you can start developing that muscle memory immediately, it will just be harder to adjust in the beginning, but it will be better instead of having to constantly adjust muscle memory
If your new to fps or a new to a game in general just spend the first few weeks experimenting between high and and low sens and you will eventually find something your comfortable with. Also once your close to something your like use a binary search to find it.
@@nufaz155 muscle memory does not exist in aiming, as confirmed by alot of aim coaches/pro aimers, changing your sens often is more beneficial since raw aiming is about mouse control (i am t500 ow player got 500hours in kovaaks aim trainer) and i use mouse acceleration which means my sens literally goes fast or slow depending on the speed of my motion
Positive mentality and playing smarter rather than harder, are crazy ways to improve, learning from mistakes in positioning, and when/when not to use util helps out so much.
so i used to be big into BGs, found your other channel with all the BG stuff and watched your content daily. fast forward a year later, im picking up Valorant and i thought the voice sounded familiar. cool to be around a familiar face and voice. i know you’ll help me along this journey too!
your improvement is insane! that being said i do think you could improve tons more by changing some things, positioning being a main aspect. thinking about where you are and having a plan to escape are 2 insane things most valorant players dont consider that could help people a ton.
Love the improvement! Currently I'm at dia 1 with so-so aim but that proves aim isn't everything despite it being a fps shooter. Game sense would carry you through the lower ranks but it's a lot harder to develop compared to your actual aim. Some tips i would give is watch pro players or tournaments, see how they play and even think about why they do it. Try taking up lurker roles or even controller agents to start off. The amount of micromanagement needed to be effective is very apparent for you to pull them off (Astra timing her util, harbor cutting angles so you can isolate more fights, and enemy rotations u take advantage off to know when and where to flank) Hope you video your improvement and make your way to immo : )
Amazing improvement. Your aim genuinely looks better than mine in ascendant. I think you'll find that movement becomes a much bigger deal as you climb the ranks and you'll be punished for stopping then adjusting to shoot. But still incredible work.
Man, I have to thank u for this video, you really hyped me not giving up from this game, I am just like you were and now I know I can get better and exactly what to do to get better, keep the good job dude 😊
I'm the same way, I like open world, RPG, all the other games other than FPS, but I LOVE FPS games. This is the best relatable video ever :) thank you.
Woh man you give me the motivation to do that as well ! I'm alors bronze / silver and once I trained in the training range for 2 hours straight and clearly saw the improvement so I should try for a week like you ! Well donc !!
These are some insane improvements for this short period of time! Really interesting experiment :) Edit: Forgot the mention the editing was very clean aswell :D
This was a fantastic video! Through anf through gained a lot watching, and was just well put together. Thanks for showcasing the results of your hard work!
Ngl when it comes to aim as some one who has played shooters forever and just has mechanical skill and watched other ppl who have good aim it is a really under appreciated how hard it is for some ppl to be good
Hi bro, I'm from Brazil :) We use to play fps games very often here, but I don't see disciplinated people like you even in gold or platinum!!! We are very good at aiming, but people here gets too lazy for learning things, and you did it so well and quick!!! I'm proud to see your improvement in-game!!! Congrats. I'm not saying brazil is bad at fps btw, we have a large community and awesome disciplinated players like, we won last worlds :) I'm proud of it. But I also like to see people doing their best at something, it makes me want to improve even more!!! And help others to improve with me!!! If you want, I can tell some tips years of fps showed me, and even things people don't use to notice. There's lots of things no one says and it's very important. I'm not the best valorant player, my highest tier was diamond. But I'm sure I can help you, or anyone's interested!!! Just comment below. I would be happy to help you!!!
That was so inspiring to watch, I will try to do your routines too! Amazing video, I wish I could watch more. I like how you show your bad or not so good plays too, when you whiff etc, I feel better that I'm not the only one, thank you so much for the video, keep it up ♡
This was an awesome watch. To improve that much in the course of the week is bonkers, but you put the time in and you reaped the rewards. The journey might not be a straightline to immortal, but you found a process that's getting you results. I appreciate your grit to grind out the day that you weren't feeling so great, which I think stresses an important lesson. Sometimes it won't be your day, but the practice you put in that day will pay dividends in the long run. Only thing I would stress is the importance of rest. Taking some time away to give your mind and body a moment will do wonders. Making sure that you're getting enough water, sleep, food, and relaxation will do wonders for you improvement journey. Good luck in the rest of your games!
@@riahc3 He's hitting 100K on challenges in Aim Lab. Also, his aim can be transferred to other shooters. He was sick for a portion of the video, so he also got to improve his resilience. In the grand scheme of Valorant ranks, it may not be noteworthy. What are you dunking on him for?
Some corrections: Muscle memory, while it does exist, is not the term you're looking for in aiming. A more accurate representation would be mouse control, that is, how good you are able to manipulate/move your mouse, according to whatever you see on-screen. That being said, the improvement is VERY noticeable, and I'd like to see you keep this up, though maybe less extreme. The improvement you're seeing in this first week (at least part of it) is newbie gains, which are relatively massive compared to whatever improvements you will be making down the road. Your results are still awesome to watch, and shows that you don't need an insane amount of training, moreso the consistency. Good job! Source: Was a Voltaic Platinum in Kovaaks with >300 hours played. Multiple top 10% and 5% scores
@@japstyle2652 No, it isn't. Muscle memory is good for movement, spray patterns and, maybe, some big flicks from usual holding positions. Aim is purely mouse control, even if you're doing it fast. Muscle memory is used in repetitive and identical tasks, like chefs with knives; in game you'll have people coming from all directions and appearing in diferent positions on your screen. Maybe, just maybe, with over 10k hours you'd have memorized every section of your screen, knowing exactly how to move your mouse, but that's not a common thing. Aim IS mouse control.
Huge thing for me was doing the aim labs sensitivity trainer. It gives you tasks to do in a set series. Then adjusts your sens way higher or lower. This lets you play with TONS of different variation while doing the same shooting tasks. It improved my aim dramatically once I found a sens I liked. Medium bots I went from 20-25 average. Hard I could barely get 10, now I can get between 15-20! Which is huge because when I first started in beta I could barely get 2 on Hard.
Your aim insane, you aim like my diamond-ascendant lobbies, I'm low-key having a hard time believing all that improvement was done in a week but if it was, you are gonna be ranking up like crazy
Honestly pretty impressive! Glad to see you lower your sens and get used to it quickly. Only thing I noticed that can help is getting better with bursting. There were a few clips where you’d burst multiple times while aiming around head level and your bullets were going to the heavens. Try to make those bursts as close to your crosshair as possible. Best wishes.
Loved this video as I have the same struggles as you, I’m currently at s3 and a couple of things I need to work on is becoming an IGL and mastering my agents, fragging out is one thing but to understand mechanics and planning and playing ahead (mentally) of your opponents come all long way
this motivated me so well! too bad i have finals next week so i cant play valorant but our sembreak is just after our finals week so im definitely gonna try and do this! good video sir! :>
My aim is pretty good when I play aim labs and practice in the training area i have 0 issue snapping and flicking from target to target but when it comes to in game ranked games my aim completely changes and I feel less confident and start changing sens grip and even mouse shits ruff 😅
I’m with you, when I try to aim I can’t hit sh*t but when I completely auto pilot my aim it’s like tenz but I can’t autopilot aim when I need to track a enemy, I think it’s hard to go from tracking to actually aiming maybe eventually I’ll be able to autopilot that too and I’ll be all set
This was pretty interesting! Considering how you enjoy speedruns as well I wonder what you would think of playing Neon White. It has just the right mix of aiming and precise movement.
Good stuff as usual, would be nice to see un update after longer periods of less intense training (1 to 6 months i'd say) Also: I know you played some chess in the past, I think it would fit the channel's 1 week formula to do some intense grinding on that as well, I'd dig that
I've been thinking about doing a video on chess! I'm just trying to figure out how to make it not too boring and actually interesting to watch, since it's visually less appealing and harder to understand.
@@MyNameIsBen Makes sense, if you want my 2 cents I'd say having a strong opponent to compete against could make the script more compelling. Like playing them on day 1 and day 7 and comparing the games. It would help if the opponent has somewhat of an internet fame but I'm not sure how easy that is to achieve haha
The improvements were awesome to see! I was able to get to bronze myself but I never really apply any of the skills that I have seen from other pro players. I def want to try this out and see how well I can improve!! (maybe also invest in some skins as I am a default main LOL)
Great progress! Unimportant rant: I've heard it so many times as someone who spends a lot of time in the Voltaic discord an other Aim communities that it's embedded itself into me and I need to say it. (Not a professional Aim coach but all good ones will tell you something along these lines) Aim training is NOT muscle memory. Muscle memory the about being able to repeat the same actions without consciously putting in a lot of effort. Aiming is closer to "hand eye coordination," basically being able to accurately respond to immediate visual stimuli. No Aim Labs scenario will ever perfectly replicate a moment in Valorant enough times to make your brain remember how to move two mm to the left and up by 1(for example). It's more about teaching yourself to be able to move your mouse anywhere based on your brain learning how to move the mouse in the best way possible and improving the accuracy of those calculations.
honestly i’m consistently higher diamond and the flicks u hit are better than what i can do.. it’s all mental man. go into the match thinking ur the best in the lobby. you honestly have the aim to just aim diff the entire lobby and sky rocket out of silver
Im glad this worked out for you. Aim training is definitely a good way to improve. I just wanted to clear up a misconception though that aiming is not about muscle memory at all. Its more so hand eye coordination. The difference being that muscle memory would mean picking a new sensitivity would be like starting over, but it’s really not. All your skill you build up will be retained, as long as you’re not going from a high extremity to a low extremity.
yeah its super bad misconception, I used to play on a really low sens, but switched to playing more arena style fps games, so I am way higher now, and if anything I feel more confident. I think switching is actually good training for mouse control.
That's such a huge improvement for one week only. I have to say though aiming is not just mouse. My flicks are terrible but I use my movement to align my crosshair sometimes instead of moving the mouse which really helps. Also valorant isn't all about aim. It's really important that you put effort to game-sense. What I like to do is play swiftplay or spike rush with no sound and thus forcing myself to always be aware of things around me, where enemies could be and when to peek an angle (make sure to be aware of the spike though 🤣)
@@ayden172 it actually does help because you have to check every angle with caution, place your crosshair correctly and THINK of where enemies could be. Im talking about swiftplay not actual match
Short disclaimer that I'm not a pro yet at Valorant, there's definitely still things I can do to improve my routine.
But for those wanting to mimic the training I did, here's what I did every day (after experimenting the first couple days and getting coached):
-2 hours of Aimlabs
-Between 30 minutes to 2 hours of Practice Range
-2x Deathmatch with Sheriff, 2x with Guardian, couple more runs with random guns (like Phantom, Ghost, Marshal and Spectre)
-Multiple Ranked games, when I had a bad game I jumped back into Deathmatch and rewatched the footage to find flaws
-If I had time left, I went through every Aimlabs exercise 1 more time
I know this is a really intense routine most people probably don't have time for while I could fully devote myself to it, but still hope it's useful to people looking to improve!
My Aimlabs Playlist (can definitely still be optimized):
Headhshot (Precision) / Spidershot (Speed) / Spidershot (Precision) / Motionshot (Speed) / Motionshot (Precision) / Microshot (Precision) / Gridshot (Ultimate) / Decisionshot (Ultimate) / FSA Reflexshot (Precision) / VCT NA - YAY / VCT EMEA - Scream / Gridshot 3x3 / VCT NA - TenZ / Icebox Wide Flick / VCT Leer Shot / Voltaic Intermediate Benchmarks S2
I think something that can help u improve is changing your crosshair settings
Great video and great content! It is amazing how good your aim has improved over in a period of 1 week and congrats on exceeding your goal in rank.
I can see you reaching way higher ranks in no time as you have the correct mindset to do it from the start.
You didn't do much mistakes apart of the ones you mentioned on your video although I think one huge part that will help you rank up is a good communication with your team (even on solo queue).
There is so much that you can adapt to if both you and your team pass the right information + map pings that denies the enemy team from catching your off-guard.
In terms of peeking an angle I would suggest you to incorporate in your games the mindset of what people call slicing the pie (clearing common angles slowly to isolate fights to 1v1 and deny trades from the enemy team).
I have to admit that I am on the other end of your gameplay, I feel my game sense is decent enough although my aim is lacking and your video is an inspiration to improve on both ends.
Keep the with the great content.
That lovely feeling when you're hardstuck at a low rank and decide it's time to improve and put in the work. In the last episode (or whatever the Dorito shows) I went from bronze 2 to gold 1
Thanks, you inspired me. Time to work on these.
thats a full time job hahaha
A lot of people also forgets that a good rest can really change a lot for your aim, so never forget to get some good rest guys
Also aimtrain before sleep, it helps improve more and faster
yea thats so true,
@@Joe-vq4lm that is cool to know
I get 8-10 hours. Missing shots and doing bad is boring and makes me tired
And being hydrated, really diet in general. People don’t think it cause you’re just sitting at your desk, but food can really energize you or it can make you groggy
Bro, I was jealous of your aim improvement! I was an ascendant-diamond player last act and I kept changing my sens and dpi whenever I have a bad aim day. I never had a chance to practice my aim consistently and your video motivates me to do so. Can't wait to grind again this upcoming school vacation!
Dont blame bad aim on changing ur sens
@@easansan2542 you just felt like shit talking huh?
@@easansan2542 i mean it does contribute to making it worse imo cuz muscle memory is not being built which leads to aim that you are not comfy with👨
@@sairachith9723 Muscle memory doesn't affect your general aim, only those really specific long flicks. Muscle memory has long been proven as a myth in aiming. Changing sens just makes you worse cause you don't know it. If you have well enough mouse control you can control almost any sens fairly well (Long as it's within a normal range and not insanely extreme) :D
Just stay motivated on your sens and dont change it, if you have a bad day, play through it or maybe take a break for a day or two, it might also be a confidence issue
The improvement is insaneee
omg its rage elexir i love your videos
lol what are you doing here rage, i rememeber last time i watched you it was on the john doe roblox situation haha
Fr the improvement here wants me to start practicing
You need to play a sport
I bet if i did this i would have good results for a day. The next day my aim skill would suddenly go away
Wow. I'm pretty blown away by the improvement you made, I've felt pretty demotivated constantly dying of the most dumb mistakes you can think of in my ranked matches and this has honestly inspired me to try to improve. Thank you for popping up in my feed, keep improving
@@Moro-r6y what if my pc is sh*t enough that I can't record?
I peaked diamond 3 and day 6 made my jaw drop the way you peaked on day 6 was with confidence I never thought I could see improvement that fast the way you went from lost to actually peaking semi correct was insane keep this up would love to see a 30 day improvement video you can easily make it to diamond if you keep grinding and day 7 was even better.
What is the playlist
I played A Short Hike a few days ago thanks to you, and I LOVED IT. Every single bit of that video was truthful from the very start to the very end. I went back to rewatch the video after playing it and loved it. Looking forward to more content from you.
Thanks! I love finding hidden gems as well, maybe in the near future I stumble upon a new one :)
geometry dash pfp
@@camdyn5 dont play anymore, though
I’m better at geometry dash tho
Geometry dash pfp that's insane.
This was astonishing for just a week of practice. Your experience from speed runs and so on have enhanced your skill of retaining information and it shows, this is how muscle memory comes with ease to you when applied correctly. As you were saying around the 16 minute mark.. it is definitely stressful to be juggling so many barely touched skills at once. In my experience break them up like you do fights, focus on what you can first and deal with what you can’t afterwards… they’re just skills afterall. I can’t say you won’t ever not have stress when playing, but the more you can rely on your skills, the less you have to actively think about using them and just do it. My apologies if I was simply captain obvious, but as you also said, proper headspace is important, most important if my experience serves me any use. Anyways, definitely subscribing despite my lack of enjoyment towards valorant, but I like your mentality and for that you’ve a loyal viewer
muscle memory isnt a thing in aiming pls stfu
Been playing FPS games since 1999, some competitively. I think the thing that takes FPS beginners' aim to the next level is understanding that aiming is done nearly as much with your left hand as your right. Understanding the relationship between movement and aim is the key to getting better. IMO.
And this is the key to becoming the best of the best. Most players today believe that aiming is done solely by the mouse. Over time, they come across players who can perfectly dodge their shots, while shooting them down precisely Understanding the sync between keyboard and mouse might take time. But when they do, it will feel like winning a lottery.
I would love to see a video on improving positioning. That'd be the next frontier after aiming, since you're already better than 85% of players in that field
Nice job, not sure if anyone mentioned it yet but another thing you can work on is not peeking angles while holding W and a direction. It's a much cleaner and quicker peek if you just set your crosshair and then strafe the angle. I hope that makes sense and helps!!! There are also a lot of videos that show how you can peek better like I'm describing, maybe check those out. Your aim is getting clean but movement is definitely a huge thing in Valorant as you have realized. Nice job!
This video was rly nice to watch! I hope its not the end of your journey in Valorant! I rly liked the editing style with the music and then showing some good shots. I rly would like to see what happens when you continue a routine for a month. Ofc. If you continue i would suggest also looking for more Guides about Movement and trying to lern the game itself.
Seeing this video as a higher ranked player inspired me to get even better at the game, and the only thing i can say to this video is WOW. Amazing progress for 1 week, normally those videos are pretty boring but this was amazing, i do want to give you a few tips tho, not just about aim, i do recommend hopping into a custom game and practice your crosshair placement on the desired map, doing a clearing path (walk around the map clearing EVERY angle, so you get faster at it and learn the swiping aim, poorly used but pretty underrated!) and the other tip is a tip that will help you enjoy more besides ranking up, try to review your gameplay and review your util usage, you had almost every util available on most of your clips, so knowing how and when to use your exclusive utility can be as important as practising your aim. Keep it up, it was incredible!
To consistently swipe, flick in the general direction of the target so it's within wrist range, then use your wrist to finish the alignment. Always flick with your wrist + arm together or just wrist
otherwise you'll never have a consistent flick as overshooting/undershooting or building weird habits will make your aim worse in the long run since you'll make missing shots a habit if that makes sense. It might sound like it'll introduce latency when flicking on targets at you're using two separate motions instead of one, but the end goal is to merge both motions into one dynamic motion.
always try to focus on accuracy over speed. eventually, you'll be accurate enough to consistently flick at any speed without missing.
Very inspiring video! I recently started aim training myself and got up to Silver 3 but then got a little discouraged, but this video gives me hope that my aim can and probably will keep getting better if I keep practicing.
One thing I’d say would be that ranking up is the hard part since you get a different set of players with different mechanical skills, different positioning, and different aim. Being able to adapt to different situations and being versatile is a pretty strong trait to try to have to being able to deal with such a range of players.
Best way to better this skill is to take some time to grind out ranked games to learn other players habits
honestly its cool so see someone lower ranked and not as skilled improve like this with this much dedication. It makes me wanna get up and get cracking but some days i just forget completely and then i dont do it for months.
that is fucking insane
3rd incredibly underrated channel I've found in a week
exceptionally great video
and I mean good aim is just really satisfying
I’m glad this came up on my feed, I’m in bronze, just started playing pc games again after playing controller for 10+ years. I played COD2 competitively on mouse and keyboard when I was a kid but now my aim isn’t very good. I downloaded aimlabs the other day and have been practicing for 20-30 minutes a day for the past 6 days and seeing my scores slowly improve. Hoping to see some good progression like you
Saving this video for later man. Great watch. I’ve been variety gaming for 20 years now and have never been consistent at aiming when I do play shooters, even after 100s of hours in them. Hardest part for a gamer like me is not getting bored and seeking the next experience.
Nice progress, congrats!
I just wanted to point out one thing that drove me nuts: the way your mouse cable kept hitting the PC case (?) starting from 2:06
For me, that just heavily affects the way I move my mouse around, especially at lower sensitivity. If the cable gets stuck or even "bumps" into something, the mouse movement/trajectory is affected. Might be an insignificant thing for other people but it just gets to me. I personally use a wireless mouse but even if you'd want to keep using a wired one, I'd just try to find a different way to keep that wire as loose as possible and nowhere near other objects for it to bump into.
Keep up the good work!
I have a friend that encouraged me to play valorant, at first I didn't like the game at all but now I do. I've been thinking about trying to improve my aim too cuz im just too bad and this video motivated me. Thank you
Came over from your main channel and must say this other content is great! Very fun to watch you play other games besides just Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Keep up the amazing content!
This video is more educational than every pro player video where he talks about improving aim
nah this is unreal. gonna try this when i can, hope i improve even half as fast as you
Omg you have such a chill personality! Thanks for the motivation. I play with my bf and his friends, and they've been playing for years so I am nothing compared to them. I thought my training wasn't doing anything to help, but now I guess it might if I keep practicing. Thanks man ❤😊
Congratulations on your path to getting better! Watching you progress did remind me of my way to becoming a nasty aiming beast and also somewhat made me really proud. The funny thing is that I have not been playing seriously any FPS on a mouse since last year, yet I could feel every move of your mouse, each inch of muscle memory. By watching this video I could accurately relate to what happened the moment you didn't eliminate the enemy. Keep on going, feller. You are on the good path.
this is actually insane, your aim is much better than mine and i’m sitting at plat3. my gamesense is pretty good but my aim is so bad, i’m having to focus so much on aiming that i forget other things sometimes. i wish i could just sit down and aim train but my brain cannot tolerate the repetition of it.
OMG yes i relate to this so much ! what i would suggest is going through woohoojins aim routine to gold im currently s2 but i jumped form b3 to it in like a matter of a 8 days !!
I recommend listening to music while doing aim training.
@@Rose333X indeed its fun while listening to music
@@Rose333X thank you!
@@belac_ttv np, hope it helps.
HOW DO YOU HAVE ONLY 3K SUBS LIKE THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST VAL VIDEOS IVE SEEN IN A WHILE
One thing that'll really help you get much better is getting good at counter strafing (also called jiggling). That's when you can very quickly move side to side and hit accurate shots in the split second you're changing direction. If you don't learn that, it'll be much harder to climb as people will be able to head shot you really easily if you have to stand completely still to aim back at them. When combined with good crosshair placement, it allows for super fast corner peaks that most people won't even be able to react to before they are already dead. It's really the main mechanic that makes good players feel so hard to kill since they almost never have to actually stop moving to get headshots.
This video was actually very nice to see. As a person that has religiously played basically only FPS games on keyboard+mouse for around 14-15 years, this reminded me of back when I first started with old cs titles and I was just happy to be improving. And the idea of simply improving really stuck out in this video: the point of the video wasn't you simply becoming an aim god that everybody wants to watch like yay, but simply getting better than when you started, and I think that's what a lot of people are missing. It doesn't matter if you're not high immortal-radiant, especially if you're just playing for the fun of playing, and I find it super dumb to see people commenting things like "insert rank" is the start of high elo, or some similar bullshit when that should just be based off of personal level. If youre in silver, plat is good and something you should reach for, and iron games look easy to you, if youre in high immortal, ascendant is easy as hell and radiant is what you're reaching for, so then how could one possibly be the basis of high/low elo?
This said, do you have any plans on continuing this series? I'd be great to see you continuing to improve, and while you're at it you could try and document what you learned along the way, and maybe it could help someone in a similar rank see what their flaws are and try to improve with you.
Either way, +1 from me :)
Bro, ive been watching your heathstone videos for a long time. Im honestly glad you switched your focus because this video is phenominal!
This honesty gave me a lot of motivation to practice more and just train more thanks man been in a slump lately
ur disclipine in not crouch spraying is insane.
your aim improvement is insane!
I just started my own practice yesterday and this lovely video popped up for me today, perfect
As an ascendant and you as a (bronze at the start of the video, i havent finished it yet and i may have misheard your rank)... your aim scares me. It is legitimately better than mine so...WP.
If anyone is thinking about doing something like this in the near future, something that helped me go from high sens, to a lower sens, was steadily lowering my sens about every 3 days, so it isn't just such a sudden change, and getting used to the world of lower sensitivities.
I found that If you change ur sensitivity all at once, you can start developing that muscle memory immediately, it will just be harder to adjust in the beginning, but it will be better instead of having to constantly adjust muscle memory
Small increments help as well
If your new to fps or a new to a game in general just spend the first few weeks experimenting between high and and low sens and you will eventually find something your comfortable with. Also once your close to something your like use a binary search to find it.
@@nufaz155 muscle memory does not exist in aiming, as confirmed by alot of aim coaches/pro aimers, changing your sens often is more beneficial since raw aiming is about mouse control (i am t500 ow player got 500hours in kovaaks aim trainer) and i use mouse acceleration which means my sens literally goes fast or slow depending on the speed of my motion
@@kyrazen oh shit, my bad, thanks for the info
Your video actually inspires me to start training my aim again. Keep it up!
having good aim is really important since you don’t have to think about it, you can focus on other things and think/plan ahead way easier
Positive mentality and playing smarter rather than harder, are crazy ways to improve, learning from mistakes in positioning, and when/when not to use util helps out so much.
so i used to be big into BGs, found your other channel with all the BG stuff and watched your content daily. fast forward a year later, im picking up Valorant and i thought the voice sounded familiar. cool to be around a familiar face and voice. i know you’ll help me along this journey too!
your improvement is insane! that being said i do think you could improve tons more by changing some things, positioning being a main aspect. thinking about where you are and having a plan to escape are 2 insane things most valorant players dont consider that could help people a ton.
Mate, really loving your channel with the variety of interesting videos.
thanks for the kind words :D
This motivated me to the MAX , thank you for making this videi
Love the improvement! Currently I'm at dia 1 with so-so aim but that proves aim isn't everything despite it being a fps shooter. Game sense would carry you through the lower ranks but it's a lot harder to develop compared to your actual aim. Some tips i would give is watch pro players or tournaments, see how they play and even think about why they do it. Try taking up lurker roles or even controller agents to start off. The amount of micromanagement needed to be effective is very apparent for you to pull them off (Astra timing her util, harbor cutting angles so you can isolate more fights, and enemy rotations u take advantage off to know when and where to flank)
Hope you video your improvement and make your way to immo : )
Amazing improvement. Your aim genuinely looks better than mine in ascendant. I think you'll find that movement becomes a much bigger deal as you climb the ranks and you'll be punished for stopping then adjusting to shoot. But still incredible work.
You can clearly see his movemen't is holding him back. If he he trains his movement for a day he'll be set for life
Man, I have to thank u for this video, you really hyped me not giving up from this game, I am just like you were and now I know I can get better and exactly what to do to get better, keep the good job dude 😊
It’s very motivating someone starting from my elo unlike many others I see where their starting from silver or gold
this is actually amazing. thank you for putting this out
I'm the same way, I like open world, RPG, all the other games other than FPS, but I LOVE FPS games.
This is the best relatable video ever :) thank you.
Inspiring stuff, man. I'm just trying to get better at aiming in OW, and your approach here has helped me. Thanks!
nice video, i rly enjoyed how you directed it with the commetary and everything
This is my favorite valorant video out of all the valorant TH-camrs this is my favorite video to watch and I watched this at least 5 times
Woh man you give me the motivation to do that as well ! I'm alors bronze / silver and once I trained in the training range for 2 hours straight and clearly saw the improvement so I should try for a week like you !
Well donc !!
Insane vid man, love your regular stuff but this is great content as well, keep up what you're doing
These are some insane improvements for this short period of time! Really interesting experiment :)
Edit: Forgot the mention the editing was very clean aswell :D
This was a fantastic video! Through anf through gained a lot watching, and was just well put together. Thanks for showcasing the results of your hard work!
This inspired me to do something myself with my aim/ gmeplay overall, thank you for inspiring me
Ngl when it comes to aim as some one who has played shooters forever and just has mechanical skill and watched other ppl who have good aim it is a really under appreciated how hard it is for some ppl to be good
Glad to see your side channel popping off Ben :D
Hi bro, I'm from Brazil :)
We use to play fps games very often here, but I don't see disciplinated people like you even in gold or platinum!!! We are very good at aiming, but people here gets too lazy for learning things, and you did it so well and quick!!! I'm proud to see your improvement in-game!!! Congrats.
I'm not saying brazil is bad at fps btw, we have a large community and awesome disciplinated players like, we won last worlds :) I'm proud of it. But I also like to see people doing their best at something, it makes me want to improve even more!!! And help others to improve with me!!! If you want, I can tell some tips years of fps showed me, and even things people don't use to notice. There's lots of things no one says and it's very important.
I'm not the best valorant player, my highest tier was diamond. But I'm sure I can help you, or anyone's interested!!!
Just comment below. I would be happy to help you!!!
What your facebook so i can add u
Account name or discord?
Bro honestly I think you have to have the best progression idea on TH-cam
very nice video, refreshing watching your dedication for the week pay off
That was so inspiring to watch, I will try to do your routines too! Amazing video, I wish I could watch more. I like how you show your bad or not so good plays too, when you whiff etc, I feel better that I'm not the only one, thank you so much for the video, keep it up ♡
I’m super shocked how you aren’t popular. This was super professional and I just automatically assumed you had millions of subs. I’ll support you :)
This was an awesome watch. To improve that much in the course of the week is bonkers, but you put the time in and you reaped the rewards. The journey might not be a straightline to immortal, but you found a process that's getting you results. I appreciate your grit to grind out the day that you weren't feeling so great, which I think stresses an important lesson. Sometimes it won't be your day, but the practice you put in that day will pay dividends in the long run. Only thing I would stress is the importance of rest. Taking some time away to give your mind and body a moment will do wonders. Making sure that you're getting enough water, sleep, food, and relaxation will do wonders for you improvement journey. Good luck in the rest of your games!
Putting so much time to climb B3 to S1 is not really worthy....
@@riahc3 He's hitting 100K on challenges in Aim Lab. Also, his aim can be transferred to other shooters. He was sick for a portion of the video, so he also got to improve his resilience. In the grand scheme of Valorant ranks, it may not be noteworthy. What are you dunking on him for?
@@riahc3 his raw aim is immortal level now. doing that in a week is pretty good.
@@iEternalnite Because it's the truth: So much training just to climb ONE step of the ladder.....
@@georget.1023 I'm talking about this video
Much quality and insight in your video man. The work was worth it ! A really enjoyable watch. Subbed for support !
Very fun watch
Some corrections: Muscle memory, while it does exist, is not the term you're looking for in aiming. A more accurate representation would be mouse control, that is, how good you are able to manipulate/move your mouse, according to whatever you see on-screen.
That being said, the improvement is VERY noticeable, and I'd like to see you keep this up, though maybe less extreme. The improvement you're seeing in this first week (at least part of it) is newbie gains, which are relatively massive compared to whatever improvements you will be making down the road. Your results are still awesome to watch, and shows that you don't need an insane amount of training, moreso the consistency. Good job!
Source: Was a Voltaic Platinum in Kovaaks with >300 hours played. Multiple top 10% and 5% scores
Muscle memory is def. The good term.
Source : playing fps since counter strike 1.5 , over 10k hours counter strike
@@japstyle2652 No, it isn't. Muscle memory is good for movement, spray patterns and, maybe, some big flicks from usual holding positions. Aim is purely mouse control, even if you're doing it fast. Muscle memory is used in repetitive and identical tasks, like chefs with knives; in game you'll have people coming from all directions and appearing in diferent positions on your screen. Maybe, just maybe, with over 10k hours you'd have memorized every section of your screen, knowing exactly how to move your mouse, but that's not a common thing. Aim IS mouse control.
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@@matheusmendes6236 What do you use to move your mouse your mind? No your muscles. Mouse control = Muscle memory.
Huge thing for me was doing the aim labs sensitivity trainer. It gives you tasks to do in a set series. Then adjusts your sens way higher or lower. This lets you play with TONS of different variation while doing the same shooting tasks. It improved my aim dramatically once I found a sens I liked.
Medium bots I went from 20-25 average. Hard I could barely get 10, now I can get between 15-20! Which is huge because when I first started in beta I could barely get 2 on Hard.
Very nice video, this proves everyone can imrove with a good mindset and some determination. Good job man
Your aim insane, you aim like my diamond-ascendant lobbies, I'm low-key having a hard time believing all that improvement was done in a week but if it was, you are gonna be ranking up like crazy
Honestly pretty impressive! Glad to see you lower your sens and get used to it quickly. Only thing I noticed that can help is getting better with bursting. There were a few clips where you’d burst multiple times while aiming around head level and your bullets were going to the heavens. Try to make those bursts as close to your crosshair as possible. Best wishes.
Dude insane progress💥💥💯
Ty for this video, now I feel motivated to train my aim!!!
Loved this video as I have the same struggles as you, I’m currently at s3 and a couple of things I need to work on is becoming an IGL and mastering my agents, fragging out is one thing but to understand mechanics and planning and playing ahead (mentally) of your opponents come all long way
i love seeing stuff like this idk why but it makes me wanna try all that myself
This video was beautifully produced man, nice work ❤
I feel so inspired! Thank u man
Loved this video - really well done and super easy to watch! You improve really fast as-well! :)
Great vid man keep up the practice!!!
Great job and great video Ben thank you !
I’m so motivated now to try this lol. Thank you
this motivated me so well! too bad i have finals next week so i cant play valorant but our sembreak is just after our finals week so im definitely gonna try and do this! good video sir! :>
Well done on this video man, I hope your channel grows enormously. ❤
Insane improvement 👀 would u mind sharing ur aimlabs routine?
This was so entertaining to watch!!! keep it coming
My aim is pretty good when I play aim labs and practice in the training area i have 0 issue snapping and flicking from target to target but when it comes to in game ranked games my aim completely changes and I feel less confident and start changing sens grip and even mouse shits ruff 😅
I’m with you, when I try to aim I can’t hit sh*t but when I completely auto pilot my aim it’s like tenz but I can’t autopilot aim when I need to track a enemy, I think it’s hard to go from tracking to actually aiming maybe eventually I’ll be able to autopilot that too and I’ll be all set
This was pretty interesting! Considering how you enjoy speedruns as well I wonder what you would think of playing Neon White. It has just the right mix of aiming and precise movement.
Nice video , the editing is pretty good
Good stuff as usual, would be nice to see un update after longer periods of less intense training (1 to 6 months i'd say)
Also: I know you played some chess in the past, I think it would fit the channel's 1 week formula to do some intense grinding on that as well, I'd dig that
I've been thinking about doing a video on chess! I'm just trying to figure out how to make it not too boring and actually interesting to watch, since it's visually less appealing and harder to understand.
@@MyNameIsBen Makes sense, if you want my 2 cents I'd say having a strong opponent to compete against could make the script more compelling. Like playing them on day 1 and day 7 and comparing the games. It would help if the opponent has somewhat of an internet fame but I'm not sure how easy that is to achieve haha
You should do voltaic help my raw aim drastically
I’m valo static aiming and dynamic is really important and voltaic give u a rank to see were you are at
@@MyNameIsBen what was your aimlabds routine?
i can relate to this so much, also very nice video, i just subbed
The improvements were awesome to see! I was able to get to bronze myself but I never really apply any of the skills that I have seen from other pro players. I def want to try this out and see how well I can improve!! (maybe also invest in some skins as I am a default main LOL)
Great progress!
Unimportant rant:
I've heard it so many times as someone who spends a lot of time in the Voltaic discord an other Aim communities that it's embedded itself into me and I need to say it.
(Not a professional Aim coach but all good ones will tell you something along these lines)
Aim training is NOT muscle memory. Muscle memory the about being able to repeat the same actions without consciously putting in a lot of effort. Aiming is closer to "hand eye coordination," basically being able to accurately respond to immediate visual stimuli. No Aim Labs scenario will ever perfectly replicate a moment in Valorant enough times to make your brain remember how to move two mm to the left and up by 1(for example). It's more about teaching yourself to be able to move your mouse anywhere based on your brain learning how to move the mouse in the best way possible and improving the accuracy of those calculations.
honestly i’m consistently higher diamond and the flicks u hit are better than what i can do.. it’s all mental man. go into the match thinking ur the best in the lobby. you honestly have the aim to just aim diff the entire lobby and sky rocket out of silver
This video was a hell of an inspiration for me 👍
Love this for you brother
Im glad this worked out for you. Aim training is definitely a good way to improve. I just wanted to clear up a misconception though that aiming is not about muscle memory at all. Its more so hand eye coordination. The difference being that muscle memory would mean picking a new sensitivity would be like starting over, but it’s really not. All your skill you build up will be retained, as long as you’re not going from a high extremity to a low extremity.
fr. I'm Imm and an experienced FPS player. You could put me in a DM with 5x my sens and I would be smashing almost every head by the end of it.
I was about to comment the same thing
thank you, someone thats knows mouse control.
yeah its super bad misconception, I used to play on a really low sens, but switched to playing more arena style fps games, so I am way higher now, and if anything I feel more confident. I think switching is actually good training for mouse control.
@@TheSectric I personally use a sensitivity randomizer when doing aim training and seeing huge improvement
That's such a huge improvement for one week only. I have to say though aiming is not just mouse. My flicks are terrible but I use my movement to align my crosshair sometimes instead of moving the mouse which really helps. Also valorant isn't all about aim. It's really important that you put effort to game-sense. What I like to do is play swiftplay or spike rush with no sound and thus forcing myself to always be aware of things around me, where enemies could be and when to peek an angle (make sure to be aware of the spike though 🤣)
@@ayden172 it actually does help because you have to check every angle with caution, place your crosshair correctly and THINK of where enemies could be. Im talking about swiftplay not actual match