Why "I just need to hit my shots" Doesn't Fix Anything
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In conclusion spread your gooey liquid everywhere so people walk on it and get stuck
ohh you mean in splatoon! too late now tho
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Top tier dating advice
Ayo
@Octo64 i wont pay child support.
It is like going to the sperm bank, i am not legaly forced to pay you 10k every month.
At least your child will be 1m85.
Or you can miss the easy ones and hit the hard ones. From a charger
Agreed
On god that's actually how it goes everytime, I can land the nastiest flicks with a charger or a blaster, but a dude moving forward in a straight lines? Nah, too difficulty for me.
This is not global advice but. I used to be like that and it turned out to be an issue with my sensitivity being just a hair too low. Do with this info what you will
@@johndelanie3649 seriously, i swear i land more trickshots than i do regular shots, when i'm not getting those rare god games where i've apparently just ascended.
it might have to do with our tracking ability? if the player is not moving in a fast enough direction it might mess with us usually trying to track the direction the player is moving.
@@level0maid No, it’s not my settings or skill. It’s not possible to hit easy ones, I’m a Squiffer. Why do you think we jump all the time? Or why we wanted Zipcaster?
The harder the shot, the easier it is to hit.
This is something so unique about this game. Even if you miss, you can contribute if you miss effectively. Kills still matter, but they aren’t everything
Shots that you miss are just resources you expend to ensure that your enemy isn't where you shot. This is as true in video games as it is in actual military actions.
@@NXTangl and I love how Splatoon handles it differently from other games. You miss shot in front of someone in something like Apex Legends, they might just keep charging at you. You miss a shot in font of someone in Splatoon, and you’ve directly denied them access to that area in front of you. Forcing them to retreat or expend resources to offset the paint you put ahead of them. No other shooter (to my knowledge) has mechanics like that.
The aerospray mindset
@@dynamorolleruser not really. Putting down paint is a viable strategy to take space and support your team
Kinda reminds me of aerospray tho@@Me_Myself_Maly
Tri-Stringer, I got frustrated because I'd miss a lot of my shots. Then I realized that I can make people immobile if I aim and predict well.
And I still miss all my shots on immobile targets ✨
Something I've come to realise about the Stringer after playing it for so long is that you're usually better off going for 70 damage on snipes, Then you're setting yourself up to hit two easy shots rather than miss two difficult ones.
With its projectile speed and size at such long ranges it's usually not worth the gamble, Sometimes 70 damage alone might even be enough paired with a teamate or a previous explosion of yours.
I do wish explosions were buffed to say 32 damage then you could combo in reverse without health recovery interupting, Explosions might even one-shot ink resistance targets with a well placed shot from 96 damage (90 damage only does that to enemies without).
getting perfect aim takes time, especially since we tristringer players need to work 10x harder to get the same value as a liter would. erito didnt just pick up a controller, pick up bow and just got good with it in a day, and you just need to recognize that yourself and keep it pushing
AS THE SNIPER MOVES INTO POSITION TO GET SIGHTLINES ON THE RAINMAKER... THEY GOT THEIR CHARGE READY... WHERE THEY SAW THE ENEMY POP SHIELD, SPLATTING THE REST OF THE TEAM... AS THE TEAM WATCHED THIS... THEY ASKED "WOULD YOU MISS?"
"NAH, I'LL HIT"
AS THE RAINMAKER HOLDER SQUID ROLLS THROUGH THE FIRST SHOT BOTH THE SNIPER AND THEIR TEAM RECOILED IN FEAR AS THE "WE LOST THE LEAD" MESSAGE CURSED THEIR EYES
"STAND PROUD SNIPEWRITER, YOU WERE STRONG"
I spent a good 15 minutes laughing at this
As a liter main, I still think I just need to hit my shots
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Very much agreed. It's awesome when one clutches a win, but it's far better to not put oneself in a position where one needs to do so (after all no one can clutch wins all the time 😅)
I learned this recently as a (relatively newish) hydra splatling player. It was really hard for me to get the splats I wanted, because in my mind if I exist in an opponent's general vicinity and I have a full charge, they spontaneously decide that corporeality is overrated. But I had a hard time actually making that a reality. I have definitely improved recently, and some adjustments I made include:
- Charging behind cover so that my beam of concentrated death is less telegraphed.
- Walking forward. I tend to keep opponents at the edge of my range, so this forces them to disengage & retreat or become acquainted with the grim reaper. I may move at a snail's pace but that's still faster than a statue.
- Actually using my coddamned sub weapon. I'm running gear abilities so that I can do 2 full hydra charges and then throw a sub.
I use Hydra Splatling too, it's an amazing weapon that I really enjoy. On many maps you can even reach enemy territory just by standing in the middle and having high ground.
My preferred way of using Hydra is shooting people from distance before they can even notice. Dropping Booyah Bomb to the other end of the map is also something I like to do to slow down my opponents. Or just instantly get rid of one specific person, I suppose.
As a Hydra player, you need to consider which spaces are "safe" and which are "effective" and move between them, or at least that's how I do it.
your wording is absolutely immaculate, had me grinning through the whole comment
"A lot of the time the solution is actually to set the fight up differently for yourself, so you don't have to hit hard shots"
This is a lesson I learned back on The Conduit for Wii. TCon had a big mix of players, some using the classic controller (Dual Analog), and Wiimote (very accurate and fast motion aiming, even more so than Splatoon).
It was generally agreed early on that motion aiming was superior, yet there were still a number of top players with Console backgrounds who stood out and topped the leader boards. I took the time to watch a lot of gameplay from their perspective to try and pick apart how to beat them more consistently, and what I discovered is that they had a style of play very different from most in that they did not rely on aiming to the same degree. They used every movement, spacing and prediction trick they could so that when things came to a fight, they didn't have to aim to land their shots. Their reticules were kept steady at all times where opponents were likely to appear before they ever got there.
Motion control players would tend to not develop this nearly as much, as the control method invited them to exploit situations where they could aim fast and freely, and in fact made holding the reticle steady in a controlled position much more difficult, so they would jump into situations that would depend on them reacting to threats quickly and precisely.
Ever since then the more I've watched competitive shooters, the more its stood out. The best players are the ones doing the least aiming during fights.
If something is hard to do, you set your self up to do it as little as possible. When the spacing, and the movement, and using your tools to take away their movement options all fail, That is when they use superior technical skill to win, not before.
Being able to win fights with incredible feats of technical skill is really fun and incredibly rewarding.
But NEEDING to win fights with incredible feats of technical skill is a terrible way to set yourself up for competitive success.
Oh man, The Conduit. I wish this had big a bigger hit than it was, it had so many cool ideas
Funnily enough this very accurately sums up how I’ve come to play the game with sticks only. I Can’t do motion, but it’s not been that huge an issue, as I just adapt the playstyle to having to Aim Less. Nice to see precedent of “worse” mechanics still succeeding quite well in other games~
I see. We aren't having skill issues we're having *tactics* issues.
That's a type of skill issue
Thats what i love about stringer, even if you dont hit the 1 shot you still manage to immobilize the opponent pretty well while still getting a bit of damage in which can set you up to get an easier kill
As a stringer main hitting my shots is huge disadvantageous since you are mostly a controll weapon. I turf way more ink by taking enemies down slowly while establishing myself on the map and increasing my territory.
Especially since I paint twice as fast when only firing my explosive shots. The snipes are only good when keeping my position not when reclaiming it.
something i try to tell myself is "dont think about hitting shots, think about creating scenarios and putting yourself in positions where those shots are easier to hit"
And whaddya know, this is also life advice. Instead of forcing yourself to “hit hard shots” when the pressure is on (e.g. mustering the motivation to do dishes when you’ve already had a long, hard day), set yourself up for “winnable fights” (e.g. washing your breakfast dishes right away so you only have to wash dinner dishes when you get home).
I’d love to see a video from Squid School talking about the importance of trying all of the different weapons. I don’t know if there’s already a video about this, but as someone who is AWFUL with chargers; I forced myself to play every weapon to at least one star. In doing so, I’ve learned so much about weapons that I’m going to be fighting against in the future. What it’s also done for me, is make this video very applicable! I never would have thought too much about the topics posed here, if I had never played a charger before.
It's definitely made some of my clips look very strange, as I aim directly in front of someone who just... doesn't go that direction, so it looks like I can't aim at all (and always, in hindsight, I want to say "Man if only I'd known they were gonna stop short and start turning, they were such an easy target in that moment!"), but ultimately I succeed in preventing a player from going somewhere I don't want them!
Be it funneling them towards my teammates or putting obstacles in front of the objective, sometimes I just think about corralling the opponents _before_ I think about actually defeating them.
Well i mean i usually just miss the easy shots even after doing everything i can to set myself up in good situations
I'll have you know that i land 60% of my stringer one shots when I don't know the person is there
This will more than likely help me in understanding my shots but I don't think I'll ever truly escape the funny purgatory that is randomly being able to hit shots one game and completely flailing around in others
this is a very good point honestly, i mostly weigh my failures on skill issue because mechanical skill is far outpaced by my decision making, my brain is just faster then my hands. i suppose it helps me stay motivated on trying to have the skill to keep up rather then trying to always compensate with working out a better angle in my head. i think i should apply this sometimes because said mentality is like aways wearing training weights, where sometimes i need to practice utilizing my full range of ability
If you play a weapon that requires no aim (brush/blaster), you'll quickly realize that positioning and timing are what wins fights, not aim and twitch reflexes
@@nexusofavalon7929 my mechanical skill is certainly a factor that holds me back honestly, so investing more into positioning and timing just leaves me having a good idea what to do, but flubbing it too consistently for it to be worth doing.
the video makes a great point honestly in that sometimes the harder option isnt the better option, but if a lack of skill would drive me to make sub optimal plays then i take it as a legit skill issue that i can work on.
I do gotta say that the example you used isn't a good one at all from my experience. Usually, slowing down the rainmaker with ink (for only 5 points) isn't that viable, because just the slight bit of extra travel they get from lag is enough for the lead. And the squid roll they did slightly before the rainmaker also lets them dodge any ink on the ground below the RM. I think the pencil was doomed no matter what they did, unless they hit two super clutch shots in time, which seems very unlikely since you can't see the opponents until it's too late.
Maybe throwing a sprinkler at it was the best option... haha.
Adding to this the other team, if playing optimally, would have waited to pick up the rain maker until someone had pressured the snipewriter off the angle, securing the win 100% of the time. Also if you were going to dive the rainmaker for points someone would have been prefiring paint on the ground anyway. On top of that you could have just walked though the enemy ink and gotten lead anyway if the snipewriter missed the first shot (they wouldn't have time to shoot twice after painting in front of the player before they took lead). And anyway just shooting the player directly would paint their feet about as much as shooting intentionally in front. Overall this just isnt a very good example. In general the only time you should be painting over/in front of someone instead of just shooting them is if they are outside of your range. Note that this is not to say you shouldnt paint over people instead of directly engaging- just make sure you are utilising your weapon's full range in order to increase your own survivability.
I love videos like this that don't blame you or insult you for not being good at the game, but explaining why the method didn't work well, and what would be better. I feel like I learn so much more
This lesson was a pretty important turning point for me when I was trying to learn Tentabrella. Putting yourself into positions where you need to hit the one shot or die is the wrong way to play the weapon, cause we're all human and you don't often get a second shot in those kind of fights. The one shot is inconsistent, but the two shot is pretty darn consistent. With decent range and a mobile shield, you have the tools to set yourself up for advantageous fights where you can afford to not one shot.
As a slosher main that doesn't belong anywhere near this video cause
how would you know this was exclusively about chargers
But also I do in fact suck at aiming, I never take the delay between button presses and the swing actually completing, so if I try to aim at someone moving I'm always just barely off to the side
this is very applicable to sloshers (or any weapon class, really). im currently learning dread wringer and the biggest boon to this weapon is that the amount of paint it puts on the ground makes it really good at trapping enemies and then comboing with either a teammate or just the dmg taken from being stuck in enemy ink
I just need to hit my shots
This is one of the videos that made me think even more about how i do, what i end up not doing, why i lose all my fights and not to throw myself trying not to throw myself
Your videos are always so accidently uplifting, Thank you, it actually makes me feel better at my progress and the amount of improvement I have made when I first started playing the silly squid game
Thanks Coach Gem! ❤ I truly always appreciate your input.
this is exactly something that i've been getting better at as of lately, i feel that a lot of players don't think that painting the map is important in modes other than turf war, even though it quite literally stops your opponents from moving where they want to as long as your ink is in the way
This is also why you want to lead fights with your subweapon.
It doesn't paint immediately unless it's a burst bomb, but you want to put your sub in the opponent's way so they can't move forward whenever possible.
I wonder if in the example you're supposed to go further, and drop down so you're between the rainmaker and the goal when you have your charge ready.
Very helpful video. I also was telling myself to do more aimdrills all the time but now i know what to work on.
in this situation, I think laying down a sprinkler bas near the rainmaker would have also been helpful. not sure if there was enough time leading up the clip starting but something to consider.
Some irony to getting better aim is that if aim becomes perfect, it can never matter again to who wins the game. The pieces in chess all have perfect aim, and that game is all about positioning.
Having better positioning seems to be more fundamental to taking advantage of the mechanics of Splatoon than having better aim. Splatting a bunch of people (in a video game) is much more flashy, but all the things Gem discussed ultimately build up to a bigger effect than having better aim.
Ideally one should not neglect hitting their shots better, but it will fix less problems than having better positioning.
I knew exactly where you were going with this clip as yiu paused it, I've made this mistake enough times using the snipewriter, but honestly it wouldn't been a coin flip if i did the right thing or not
Even better! You can do both! You can miss hard and easy shots!
Everybody look! Gemothy is preaching the gospel again!
The mistake was made minutes before the missed shot. No amount of mechanical acuity can compare to the foresight to not find yourself as a charger facing a 1v4 rainmaker push.
once you reach a certain competency in mechanics, missing your shots has a lot more to do with your situational awareness and ability to read the game and other players intentions than it has to do with actual mechanics
you aim in your mind first, then your hands do the rest
Wait this changes everything hold up. Wait an actual damn second, I think this tip is about to improve my performance tenfold. Okay maybe not that much, but this is eye-opening.
Really needed to hear this thank you
I would like to point out though, sometimes you do need to just work on your aim... Especially at the lowest of ranks. You can tell it's important to work on your aim there because many players there are using the aerosprays and rollers specifically to compensate for bad aim. Being able to out range them will get you through the lowest couple of ranks for free assuming you can aim. Don't get me wrong, taking smarter fights will get you there too, but sometimes when you're learning focusing on just the most important thing, your largest weakness is more important. I feel very strongly that this advice really starts to make sense when your progression starts to slow down. Maybe that's rank A or maybe it's rank X but hey.
Can't agree more
Even if you did hit your shots it'll likely be too late
I needed to hear that, I'm definitely that guy 😅
This should help with my rec brella gameplay, thanks.
Still need to improve my aim though
As a dynamo main, I'll just die and more even with good aim.
Why does he sound like a therapist 💀
I would have thrown a sprinkler as the rm shield exploded. Then, even more of the ink in front of the rm would have been painted, giving me an even easier shot.
I'm having this issue as a Squeezer main
Im surprised you didn't mention the fact that thinking "I just need to hit my shots" can ironically shift your focus to whether or not you hit your shots instead of the things actually needed to hit your shots.
I'm fairly sure he already has a video on that already
Besides this wasn't about mid match mindset though. This was about drawing conclusions after the match.
i thought my screen had a visual bug
Title quote + “I wish I could’ve reacted faster” are very unproductive thoughts and won’t help improvement.
Situational awareness + a solid, replicable gameplan >
This is why I play splatlings. I just find them easier to hit shots with heavy edit especially
(Jokes aside this is useful advice)
As a Tri Player, how do I miss shots?
Golden tip
Can't beat lag. Hope for server's in 4
Anyone else think something looks off about the thumbnail?
It looks suspiciously AI-generated, but I'm not 100% sure. I was under the impression Gem was against AI art, though?
the picture seems like it was taken from below so that may make it look a bit AI generated, but i feel like that maybe the basketballs were just placed like that to make a funny image rather than the image being AI generated. also the words on the balls are consistent between balls so i would say otherwise
Nothing is AI generated. People got all those basketballs stuck that way on a real hoop
Or like for example: turf war. If you said "I could've hit my shots" then you're dumb. Because turf war says ink the most turf. Not kill many players.
Yes, when I play Elitr, it really does remind me of basketball, when I get hot from deep🔥 It's gonna be real dangerous, but often times I the shot so badly against other Elitrs🧱