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title: 'Winning Gunfights is Easy... If You Copy This Pro'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=SexLt5DlAOM'
video_id: 'SexLt5DlAOM'
date: 2026-08-03
duration_sec: 538
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# Winning Gunfights is Easy... If You Copy This Pro

> Source: [Winning Gunfights is Easy... If You Copy This Pro](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SexLt5DlAOM)

## Summary

This video analyzes the playstyle of Valorant pro player Marthin, focusing on his efficiency in aim, movement, and positioning. The coach breaks down his techniques and provides actionable advice for improving in ranked play.

### Key Points

- **Efficient Aim Style** [00:29] — Marthin uses quick taps and short bursts instead of spraying, which keeps him mobile and accurate. His crosshair placement is near-perfect, reducing the need for large flicks.
- **Crosshair Placement Off-Corner** [01:18] — Marthin keeps his crosshair slightly away from corners to have more reaction time and adjust to enemy peeks. This is crucial for both holding and pushing sites.
- **Intentional Movement** [03:04] — His movement is precise and minimal, allowing recoil reset while making him a harder target. He strafes between bursts to maximize shooting time while staying mobile.
- **Patience and Repositioning** [04:32] — After each gunfight, Marthin repositions instead of chasing multi-kills. This self-control leads to consistency and fewer thrown rounds.
- **Playing Off Teammates** [05:27] — He coordinates with teammates to take favorable fights, like a 2v1, and falls back when outnumbered. He uses off-angles to catch enemies off guard and escapes with abilities.
- **Shadow Boxing Practice** [07:29] — In custom games, he clears angles slowly, holding crosshair at each potential peek, then speeds up. This combines pre-aiming, angle snapping, and tracking.
- **Deathmatch Warm-up** [08:31] — He recommends 2-3 deathmatches as warm-up to practice techniques against real players on competitive maps.

### Conclusion

Marthin's success comes from efficiency, patience, and smart positioning rather than flashy mechanics. By practicing these techniques, players can improve their consistency and win more gunfights.

## Transcript

He had some of the best stats in Valorant and also recently broke the kill record in a best of five. Since I'm a Radiant coach and I've watched many of his games, I tried to find out what makes Marthin special and discovered
I'll focus on how he dominates in ranked. I'll give you important takeaways on his aim style, repositioning, and angle holding. Plus, methods at the end. Starting with what most people will think of first, his
aim. And no, it's not super flashy. There's no inhuman flicks or crazy spray transfers, but what there is is efficiency and consistency. Efficiency is an important part of Marthin's approach, not only in his aim, but in
his whole approach. Marthin has mastered a truly efficient fighting style with quick taps, short bursts, minimal spraying, and near-perfect crosshair placement, which he makes the most of with his perfected movement techniques.
Marthin doesn't spray often, not only because it's harder to control a weapon the longer you fire it and uses up more of your magazine, but also because it allows him to stay more mobile during fights. For this reason, you will see he
mainly taps or bursts and his crosshair placement accompanies this style well. You wouldn't need to spray someone down or rely on movement to kill your enemy if you just one-tap them before they can react in some situations. In this clip,
crosshair and then shifts it multiple times. This is because he understands there. So, let's break this down. Notice how his crosshair is offset away from the corner at first, placed so he can react based on how we expect the enemy
to peek him. He moves his crosshair to the corner because he sees the Jett's shoulder and tries to peek her since she didn't see him. But this doesn't go as Jett doesn't swing the way Marthin expects her to, he was still aware of
how she might move. So, with little effort, he was able to adjust his crosshair back on the target and win the duel. And normally, we don't want to on the corner. The reason for this is that it gives us more space to react to
the enemy and adjust to their peek if needed. This exact idea of crosshair placement is not only important for holding a site, but also when pushing one. When attacking or retaking a site, you may often find yourself flicking
This is often referred to as angle every player makes is putting their crosshair too close to the corner where an enemy may peek from. This is the same idea as before, where if your crosshair
is too close to the corner, you'll find yourself being forced to flick 100% of overwhelmed by the number of angles to watch for and it's a common issue I see in many of my students, where they'll switch between too many angles too
quickly and aren't fully ready for someone to actually be somewhere. And comfortable, so it's important that we allow ourselves time to react and pull Valorant before, you'll understand that standing still and hoping that your
shots land doesn't really work all the time. So, how does movement affect what we're talking about? When you watch Marthin play, at first glance, it's hard to notice how impactful his movement is because it's so little and unnoticeable
movement is exactly what Marthin does so well. It doesn't look as crazy as that of Prxmiis or Jinggg, but it's precise and meaningful. Every strafe before the next between bursts is intentional and
he understands his own movement enough that it looks super fluid alongside his aim. He moves just enough between his shots to allow his gun's recoil to reset while still moving enough to make himself a harder target. This way, he's
maximizing the amount of time he's shooting the enemy while still staying mobile and hard to hit. And this exact fluidity between his aim and movement is just another example of this man's incredible efficiency. Now, I understand
that even if you study these amazing pros, it's still hard to find the exact advice that directly pertains to your current struggles with ranking up. If you're feeling lost, trying to guess what to work on, and you want to hit
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replicate his aim and movement. We'd be missing a core part of what makes his style so great, his patience and his positioning. When we look for fights, these two go hand in hand and Marthin
not only has a great understanding of positioning, but also great self-control players would get caught up in multi-kills and then look for more right away, Marthin instead repositions after each gunfight, ready for the next one.
because you like to go Rambo-style guns blazing, ask yourself this: Do I top frag half of my games and bottom frag the other? That might be due to a lack of self-control and an inability to know when to slow down, which leads to
throwing away rounds and shows up as inconsistency on your career profile. This consistency from Marthin is why in almost every game of Santiago, Marthin in and killing everyone like he was using an aimbot. In this round, we can
see how Marthin takes an initial fight and repeeks quickly without hard forcing a fight. We re-peek here because we only saw one enemy and we know our Jett started here and is likely holding main with us, so it would be a 2v1. After
spotting a second enemy there, we understand the fight is less favorable than the 2v1, so we fall back to a safer position and jiggle pre-fire without forcing any fights and instead, we are just drawing attention for our Jett.
After the tripping garage gets broken, he quickly goes to hold it just like he round, firing a few bullets on contact then moving back. Though this time, not re-peeking as he's alone and understands he does not need to fight directly.
Instead, he takes an off angle looking to catch an enemy off guard and isolate a fight before TP'ing away since the enemy isn't expecting anyone to be in this whole round how he's playing around his Jett on site. We're not taking
pointless fights alone when we have a teammate nearby and we look to fight off our Jett when the enemies aren't looking at us, kind of like playing ping-pong allows us to take much more favorable fights as the enemy is less prepared to
fight us when we swing, not only because their crosshairs are aimed away from us, when we'll peek. And if we make use of also won't know where we'll peek. Let's talk again about how he plays off
where the enemy is least likely to be pre-aiming because they wouldn't expect someone there. This is particularly powerful on a character with an ability to get out quickly like Chamber or Jett. And in the very next round, we can see
lean away from C as they lost hard in the last round. So, he starts towards garage, but immediately after hearing the enemy sprinting C long, he engage the opponents running through the smoke and still TP back to safety. The
takeaway here is that even in safer angles, angle holding itself allows us to disrupt the enemy's push and still escape before we get punished. Now, you want to go hop straight into ranked and play like Marthin, but first, let's go
into a custom game. And from the barrier, we'll walk up, pause, and take our time clearing each angle one by one, pretending that an enemy can be in any section that we clear. We hold our crosshair shortly each time, prepared
for someone to peek into us, especially if we're expecting an enemy. After practicing this shortly, we'll want to speed it up and that may look something like this. We call this shadow boxing and it will enable you to combine
pre-aiming, angle snapping, and angle tracking as Marthin does. So, after you get comfortable with this, the next time you play ranked and are following behind a teammate, watch for where the enemy can peek from and place your crosshair
teammates from range while still scaling with your team. On defense, play for angles where you can catch people swinging early. Focus on angles that which can even include going forward
into spaces like the cubby in short on bind. This is especially repeatable if you have an ability to help you escape like a Chamber or Yoru TP. And finally, we need time and a lot of repetitions to improve our mechanics. And this is where
playing deathmatches becomes essential. Aside from ranked, nothing else will help us practice these techniques on competitive maps whilst fighting real players. You'll want to aim for two to three deathmatches as your warm-up and
done with ranked. This method of practice ensures we're making effective use of our time and effort to improve. That's all I have for you today. I do you learned something from it. And maybe even some of you will be the next
even some of you will be the next Marthin on the ranked ladder.