[0:00] What do you think are your main mistakes
[0:02] in Valerant that are holding you back
[0:03] from ranking up? Is it your aim, your
[0:06] game sense, your mechanics, or your
[0:08] mental? Now, as someone who's coached
[0:10] over 500 players and hit rank one, I can
[0:13] tell you the real mistake holding you
[0:14] back most is awareness. And it wasn't
[0:18] even in those four options. Let me
[0:19] explain what I mean. To aim properly,
[0:22] you first need to know that you're about
[0:24] to take a fight. You're about to need to
[0:26] aim. That anticipation is key for your
[0:29] hand to even move. Think about when you
[0:32] do a reaction time test, right? You
[0:33] already know what's about to happen.
[0:35] Same thing when you aim train. You've
[0:36] chosen a task and you know what's
[0:38] coming. So, you anticipate. That's how
[0:40] your body works. You have a stimulus.
[0:42] The stimulus gets sent to your
[0:43] receptors. Your receptors sends that
[0:45] message to your brain. The brain
[0:47] processes it and the brain sends the
[0:49] message to your aectors, which is your
[0:51] hand. And then you react. But when you
[0:54] anticipate, it becomes like this. You
[0:56] have the stimulus, then it goes to your
[0:58] brain, then it goes to your hand. There
[1:00] are way fewer steps and your response is
[1:02] faster and cleaner. I'm going to break
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[2:39] the video. Whenever you're in an area,
[2:42] that area gives you context. When I am a
[2:44] lobby and I'm playing a death match,
[2:47] there absolutely will be people in
[2:49] lobby. Those possible fights are what we
[2:52] call timers. Let me show you what I
[2:54] exactly mean by this. Whenever I'm in
[2:56] this area, there's a lobby. A lobby,
[2:59] there's always people. C, there's always
[3:01] people. Garage, there's always people.
[3:03] There's often the spawn window. So now I
[3:06] already tell myself, where can people be
[3:08] here? See, long behind me when I'm here
[3:12] short
[3:14] when I take breaks of it.
[3:21] Um, I recorded
[3:24] a recorded path of defense. Like it's
[3:28] the same thing for [ __ ] any other
[3:30] map. I guess just because it's a
[3:32] different map doesn't mean that string
[3:34] does not work the same. You know,
[3:36] Haven's the most the easiest way to
[3:39] think about it. Like [ __ ] this guy
[3:42] player. One more dead grass lobby. I
[3:45] mean, there you go. They always come at
[3:47] the same places. You remember them. You
[3:49] remember the fights. You remember the
[3:50] timers. Now, let's go more in depth.
[3:53] Now, I have a thought of a client/ a
[3:57] fan. All right. The thing that's very
[3:59] important here is to know, is he
[4:01] anticipating? Does he remember where the
[4:03] fights come from or is he just reacting?
[4:06] If he's reacting, he's playing wrong.
[4:08] All right. Here, he reacted late. He
[4:11] didn't anticipate. The only reason he
[4:13] turned around is because of the sound.
[4:15] He didn't actually react properly,
[4:16] right? So that's a delayed reaction due
[4:18] to him not remembering people or see.
[4:21] All right. When he's here, let's see
[4:22] what's going on.
[4:25] He's being very very very cautious of
[4:27] everything. That's wrong. There's
[4:30] they're not everywhere. They're at these
[4:32] they're at these exact same spots every
[4:34] single time. So he should not be
[4:35] worried. Now there's always a spawn B.
[4:38] The guy B can always come A. All right.
[4:40] That's a possibility. That's a timer.
[4:43] However, you see how late he's going to
[4:45] react to this. His crosser didn't even
[4:47] move yet. So that means he did not
[4:49] anticipate the player. Therefore, he
[4:51] reacts late again. So he's surprised
[4:53] that a player is there. Long is
[4:55] possible. CT is possible. Short is
[4:57] possible again. So you see how he swung
[4:59] short. He knew someone was short.
[5:02] However, he swung without any purpose.
[5:04] He was surprised to see the player
[5:06] short, which he shouldn't. Therefore, he
[5:08] gets punished. He doesn't anticipate.
[5:10] When we're here, we know there's always
[5:12] someone a lobby. We know there's someone
[5:13] someone see.
[5:15] All right. Someone spawn window. All
[5:17] right. Now, someone lobby, right? We
[5:18] know someone is lobbying, but we're
[5:20] swinging without any purpose. We're not
[5:23] putting any type of focus on what's in
[5:25] front of us. We don't anticipate. We're
[5:27] purely hoping that the enemy whiffs and
[5:31] then we get there on time. But if we
[5:33] hope for the enemy to whiff, we will
[5:35] instantly get one tapped. In every
[5:37] single gunfight that he took, he needed
[5:40] the enemy to whiff. He never reacted
[5:42] first. He never was able to shoot first.
[5:45] Compare it to mine. I just literally
[5:47] destroyed them the moment I was there.
[5:49] If I didn't, it was just a whiff. And
[5:51] that's okay. We're human. But in this
[5:53] case, he's not giving himself a chance.
[5:55] He's just depending on luck to win his
[5:57] gunfights. Now, I don't know if you guys
[5:59] realize, but most of what I'm talking
[6:01] about is pattern recognition. So, the
[6:04] players slash the fights are often taken
[6:07] at the same places. There's always these
[6:10] fights, this possibility. What's very
[6:13] important is for you guys to realize,
[6:16] wait, people cannot be here. Wait,
[6:18] there's always someone here. Wait,
[6:20] there's always someone here. When you
[6:22] have context and you're aware of the
[6:24] possibilities, these timers will be
[6:27] created. Whenever you know a timer is
[6:29] possible, your brain will go into a high
[6:33] focus mode. It's going to be like,
[6:34] "Wait, yo, be ready. There's someone."
[6:36] Therefore, you will always react and you
[6:39] will always be able to shoot first.
[6:41] However, if you don't anticipate and you
[6:44] play reactively, you're always depending
[6:46] on others to whiff. Now, I'm just going
[6:48] to give you guys a little preview of
[6:50] what I some I often coach in a comp
[6:53] environment. All right, let's start.
[6:56] They want pistol round. All right, it's
[6:58] eco. Uh-huh. If they're eco, there's two
[7:01] options usually of what they will do in
[7:03] the round. They will all either all go
[7:06] in the mains, A main, B main, or they
[7:08] will go mid. All right, now let's see
[7:11] how it goes.
[7:13] Anti- rush setup top mid. So neon top
[7:17] mid tiles and one tiles. So you know
[7:19] there's at least two mid. So the rest
[7:22] are probably in the mains, B main, A
[7:24] main. We don't know. Anything is
[7:26] possible, right? But we know there's two
[7:27] mid. Mid player died. All right, ISO's
[7:30] gone. Now you see how there's no
[7:31] followup mid. there's no one else mid.
[7:34] This tells you, all right, so they don't
[7:36] want to go mid in the end. They want to
[7:38] do something else. They probably want to
[7:40] go in the mains then. So here, A main
[7:42] and B main are vulnerable. Now, you see
[7:44] how there's no noise, right? This tells
[7:47] you they are walking up. If they are
[7:50] walking up, should you play very scared?
[7:53] Absolutely not. You have a gun
[7:55] advantage. You know they are walking up,
[7:57] you just need to hold the angle and then
[7:59] boom, kill them as they're walking up.
[8:01] Pretty simple, right? So now retrieving
[8:04] flash, there's still the same scenario
[8:06] where they're playing the main. So now
[8:08] here we know that they're coming anytime
[8:11] soon now. So we should be very very very
[8:14] ready and we should hold the angle
[8:16] tight. We should not be jiggling. We
[8:17] should not be holding wide. So now the
[8:20] the client/fan
[8:22] is surprised that there's someone be
[8:26] shouldn't be. There's absolutely can be
[8:28] someone there. So now someone died mid.
[8:31] So now they could go back mid or they
[8:33] could go back be mid. We don't know. One
[8:36] a m kill. So we know one mid, one A, one
[8:38] B, one missing, two mid. They both died.
[8:42] All right. So one A, one was mid. Spike
[8:46] mid. So now the spike is
[8:49] we are waiting. And now we have zero
[8:52] confirmation of where the players are.
[8:55] Right. So this tells us about the
[8:58] timers. What is possible in front of us?
[9:02] It's very simple. Anything except mid.
[9:06] So now if we're playing peak, the only
[9:09] thing that's important to us right in
[9:11] front of us that we want to do properly
[9:13] is take care of B main. That's the only
[9:17] thing that is possible that we should
[9:19] pay attention to. So now if we're
[9:21] swinging B main/holding it, we should be
[9:23] ready, which the client/fan wasn't.
[9:27] Therefore, she gets punished. You see
[9:30] how we played with probabilities? We
[9:33] played with the context of the
[9:34] information that tells us what are the
[9:36] timers. They are not mid. They have to
[9:39] be be made. Therefore, I need to be
[9:40] ready. They are not here. They have to
[9:42] be here. This is pattern recognition.
[9:44] Once you know which happening, you have
[9:47] a timer in front of you and you pay
[9:48] attention to the timer. So, here's a
[9:51] little quick recap. The area gives you
[9:55] context. That context gives you
[9:57] possibilities. Those possibilities tells
[10:00] you where and when a fight might happen.
[10:04] That's what we call a timer. Now, being
[10:06] aware of the timers, depending on the
[10:09] information given to you, depending on
[10:11] your experience, is how you will set
[10:13] yourself up for success. But this is
[10:16] just one of the big part. There are
[10:18] still a bunch of other mistakes you can
[10:20] do, of course, but that's the biggest
[10:23] one you guys all do. So, if you guys
[10:25] want me to break down more mistakes of
[10:26] what you guys possibly might be doing,
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