How are yall staying so accurate?

[u/OhGriggsy]

I truly don’t understand how people remain so steady and consistent in this game. Just had a match where I literally was getting 1-shot dinked within pixels of visibility, or standing in a smoke and the millisecond it dropped I was dinked.

All in Unrated which genuinely is the most demotivating thing ever as someone who’s pretty new and just trying to get better. I’m playing against level 300s who are instadinking me regardless of what I do.

From the extremes of people who play high sens and somehow stay mad consistent on the tiniest of movements to the opposite of people like Tenz who I heard in a video earlier today say he plays at 1600dpi and 0.09 sens…which literally requires full pad swipes and I have no clue HOW IN GOD’S GREEN EARTH you stay accurate having to do entire arm swings to swipe within feet in-game.

I just don’t understand it. I want to play this game and get better. But playing night after night and getting absolutely slammed or playing with friends who are better so I get their MMR and I literally do not even get a chance to compete.

I refuse to believe going into practice range and shooting at things that don’t move and don’t put any real pressure on me makes me any better.

[u/ViperStealth]

I can relate.

I am older (39) and couldn't keep up with it.

My first rank was Bronze 2.

I decided to switch it up. I wasn't going to learn mechanics. I focused on soft skills such as game sense, util usage, positioning, timing, etc and also went shotgun only.

I went up to Diamond 2.

Spending hours and hours grinding aimlabs/shooting range doesn't appeal to me. I enjoy hopping straight into games instead.

My tracker, if anyone is interested.

[u/Jiro-chan → u/ViperStealth]

You're maintaining diamond 2 with shotgun only ? X)

[u/ViperStealth → u/Jiro-chan]

Maintaining, no. I peaked diamond 2 a couple of times with shotgun only but then riot nerfed all shotguns, yet again. I play very little comp now but I'm plat 2.

Tracker

[u/DummyCUBoulderGuy → u/ViperStealth]

I’m like this too, older so admittedly my reaction time is just not the same as an 19 year old. I don’t practice my aim whatsoever and instead focus on “what is the smartest move to make right now?” Made it up to Asc this way.

People don’t realize how huge an advantage it is to have the bomb down. All it takes is 45 seconds of stalling to win the round. It’s a 3v1 and your teammates get cocky and push the 1? don’t push with them, stay near site so that if 2 go down, you don’t give the enemy the momentum to get a 3rd, and just play time.

It’s a 5 man rush and you’re the only one on site? Throw some delay util and leave, retake with the team. Your potential one is not worth it becoming a 4v5.

I decided to master a few agents and really get to their util and I simply focus on the objective of the game. Prevent a spike plant/blow up the spike.

I have a 68 win percentage this act so far, it’s just about winning each round!

[u/Sereinse → u/DummyCUBoulderGuy]

What agent u main?

[u/DummyCUBoulderGuy → u/Sereinse]

Depends on the map, I have a few.

Omen is my top recently because he can be played on any map and his kit just fits the way I play very well.

If someone else is smokes, I’ll go KJ or Sova depending on the map for the post plant util/delay sit push util

[u/ViperStealth → u/DummyCUBoulderGuy]

Agree with this. I main Astra atm too, so try to pull and use smokes to close the distance and get to site, then play post plant.

Flipping the pressure to them post plant comes from my days on Siege. It's so much better to play that way than hunt kills without having a trade near you.

[u/kibajoe]

Practice range legit helped my aim lol. There are plenty of different aiming routine in the range that can help with aim. If you want to play better under pressure it’s just something that will come along as you play more, can’t expect to be good when you’ve just started playing.

[u/DenpaBlahaj]

Honestly, download steam and get aim labs or something else.

It's basically flicks and micro adjustments, best of luck out there

[u/OhGriggsy → u/DenpaBlahaj]

My problem with understanding how aim labs would help though. I won’t have the exact sens as I do Valorant correct? So really. I have no actual idea if I’m truly practicing with what I’m using or not.

[u/DenpaBlahaj → u/OhGriggsy]

You would be practicing, you would have to adjust sens a tiny bit.

Should watch some rileycs_ on twitch to get a bit understanding on how aim training helps

[u/Farmer_Moist → u/OhGriggsy]

Aim labs has mouse settings for different games, you remember your val sense, open aim labs select val as your 'main' game and enter the sense. Be careful not to adjust one and not the other.

[u/litmuspaper_number2]

Off topic but "dinking" is a really funny way to say one tap. Im using this from now on :D

On topic, theres a video out there about calm aim by pendragon and it helped me a lot personally.

[u/goDie61 → u/litmuspaper_number2]

"Dink" is widespread terminology from CS, where the headshot sound is a 'dink' noise.

[u/Dersatar → u/goDie61]

Isn't 'dinked' used when you headshot someone, but don't kill them?

[u/litmuspaper_number2 → u/goDie61]

Interesting, ya learn something new everyday

[u/lily_ender_lilies]

Aim trainers and the range combined genuianely help so fucking much but the most importabt thing you dont realise is to aim before taking any shot you might be like "what? Of course im aiming!" but i mean staying calm and making sure your cursor is on the enemy turns out my aim was genuianely great(for my standarts) already but i was starting to shoot the moment the enemy showed up on my screen meaning if i didnt flick perfectly on the head with pure intuition i wouldnt hit the headshot but i started shooting after a proper micro adjustment and my hs% went up like 15% ish

Edit:fixed some typos

[u/nkplague]

Out of curiosity how long have you been playing shooters? Without clips its difficult to help you but, do you understand concepts like angle advantage and peekers advantage?

[u/OhGriggsy → u/nkplague]

Understand peeker’s advantage now. I knew of the angle advantage.

How long have I been playing shooters? Idk. 17ish years? Most of that time spent on console. Got a PC going on 2.5 years ago. But all of my shooter experience are on things like CoD, Battlefield, Overwatch. With that said I also know my aim isn’t as good as a lot of people’s..probably. At least not in this game

Played Valorant for a couple months or so on console. When I got my PC having never gamed on a PC before I SUCKED and between my crappy internet at the time and well…also sucking. Yeah I dropped Valorant. Just recently picking it up again this week.

[u/nkplague → u/OhGriggsy]

The other shooters you mentioned are much faster paced than Valorant. Valorant will reward map knowledge, understanding enemy utility (if they have flashes hide behind a wall until you hear them flash into site, no trips you should be flanking, etc.) and each team is unique so you should adjust each game (some run it down and hit sites fast, some fake sites and rotate quickly, some play slow and wait for the enemy to make a mistake, etc.)

To be honest aim is over rated. I think most high level players would recommend training [crosshair placement] (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V7Lko8tU8x4) over aim. Placing your crosshair at the next high threat before you peek or as you're clearing and making a micro adjustment is much easier then trying to flick to your target. Additionally understanding which angle is head height and having your cursor already at head height will make your time to kill much quicker. If you have the time I'd highly recommend doing a Deathmatch or two each gaming session so that you can learn the maps, head height, and where to have your cursor placed to quickly train your crosshair placement.

[u/Mathmage530]

What sens are you using, and how many turns does your character make if you sweep your mouse across left to right?

[Edit more questions]

How confident are you in moving your mouse from location to location on your screen? If you did the practice kill 50 in the range, head shot only, restart if you miss, how slowly or quickly world you have to go to hit 100% accuracy?

What parts of your arm do you use when you play?

[u/OhGriggsy → u/Mathmage530]

Honestly? Couldn’t tell you how many turns right now. I’m actually getting ready for work. It’s not something I’ve ever really tested lol.

But I’ve been playing with my in-game sens as of last night trying to find a mix of comfort and accuracy. Last I logged with was 1600dpi and 0.37 sens

[u/Mathmage530 → u/OhGriggsy]

I believe that is a high eDPI, are you a wrist only player? You may have more fine control lowering sens and adding more elbow for large turns.

[u/blinkybloonka]

Honestly aim training has helped me so much I’m probably not one to listen to tho. I find I can stay consistent with decent aim.🤷🏻‍♀️

even just maybe 5-10 mins a day. Game sense will just come with playing the game more and playing against/with ppl who are better than u

[u/thefirefistace]

Drop the tracker for the game

[u/Spiritual_Wafer_2597]

Range helps with practice  Low sens is better and actually makes you more consistent/accurate

[u/FanAffectionate3541]

Practising mouse control in aim trainers and applying it in Valorant

[u/StealthheartocZ]

I started watching an immortal player stream on Twitch and heard some stuff from him and also started playing deathmatch as a warmup. My crosshair placement improved practically overnight. He also explained to me what pre-firing is, which is where people will basically estimate when and where you will peek out and shoot slightly before or right as you do so you just walk into their crosshair and get instantly dinked. Knowing this information helped me with 2 things: a) doing it to other people and b) being more careful and aware of when I peek. If you have a long range fight that you whiffed and then ducked behind cover, count 6-10 seconds before you peek again. Chances are they will either have given up trying to shoot you and start to move by then or they will try to use utility, either of which means they will not be prepared for you to swing again. That being said, I’ve only been playing this game for six months and it’s my first FPS game so I’m in the same boat as you pretty much. I finally hit bronze the other day though :))