[0:00] Do you want your movement to look more
[0:01] like this?
[0:04] But no matter how much you practice,
[0:06] your best clips always end up looking
[0:08] like.
[0:11] [Music]
[0:12] Well, that's okay because in today's
[0:14] video, I'm going to be showing you how
[0:15] to move two to three times as fast as
[0:17] you normally do using the secrets that
[0:19] pros and do not want you to know. But
[0:21] I'm not just going to be teaching you
[0:22] how to move faster. I'm going to teach
[0:24] you what makes you move slower, what you
[0:26] can do to build off of moving faster,
[0:28] and more importantly, how to
[0:30] legitimately use these techniques
[0:32] properly at the right time. But why
[0:34] should you listen to me instead of all
[0:36] the amazing other coaches out there? Tim
[0:39] Pro, Coach Frosty. Hi guys, my name's
[0:41] Dro. I've been coaching Apex
[0:43] professionally for the last 5 years, and
[0:44] I've helped people from professional
[0:46] levels all the way down to the absolute
[0:48] noobs of Apex reach their desired rank.
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[0:53] certain things, but I make them
[0:54] understandable and approachable so that
[0:56] no matter what level of player you are,
[0:58] you will be able to walk away today
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[1:48] in the firing range. Now, let's holster
[1:49] your keyboard and let's get right onto
[1:51] this video. All right, gang. So, what
[1:53] we're going to be doing is we're going
[1:54] to be going over and covering a handful
[1:57] of different ways that you can
[1:59] essentially get your body to move around
[2:01] faster. Now, none of these mechanics are
[2:03] going to be, you know, insane or crazy.
[2:06] Honestly, everything that we're going to
[2:08] cover today, you can do on any platform
[2:11] or any input. So, if you're on Switch,
[2:13] if you're on controller, PC, mouse and
[2:16] keyboard, console, it doesn't really
[2:18] matter. you'll be able to do it no
[2:19] matter what. But like I said, what we're
[2:20] basically going to be doing today is
[2:22] we're going to be starting off with a
[2:23] very basic way on how to slide. And from
[2:26] there, what we're going to do is we're
[2:28] going to take it up a notch and we're
[2:29] going to add new skills to said slide to
[2:32] make it even that much more effective.
[2:34] Now, this is something that I coach
[2:36] everybody on um whenever I'm doing Apex
[2:38] Legends coaching sessions. So, you may
[2:40] have already seen this before, but I'm
[2:42] going to be talking a lot about a whole
[2:44] bunch of things that go into it. So,
[2:46] even if you know what we're going to be
[2:48] doing today, or maybe you already know
[2:50] how to do it, I can almost guarantee
[2:52] we're going to cover a thing or two that
[2:54] you didn't know that's going to either
[2:55] make it one more consistent or two, it's
[2:58] going to make it a lot easier for you to
[3:00] hit in general. So, to start off with
[3:03] what we're going to be talking about, we
[3:05] are talking about instant advance and
[3:08] instant swap slides. Now, these are
[3:10] terms that I have given it myself. It's
[3:12] not like this is a super concrete, you
[3:14] know, terminology. You might hear, you
[3:17] know, a lot of people talk about it
[3:18] because, you know, we've talked about it
[3:19] for so many years that it might have
[3:21] just grown on by now. Some people call
[3:23] it fade slides, but they also don't
[3:25] really know exactly what fade slides are
[3:27] to begin with, and they they kind of
[3:29] confuse fade slides with what we're
[3:30] going to be talking about. Now, when it
[3:32] comes to moving our body around, there
[3:33] are two main things that we need to keep
[3:35] in mind, or rather, there's two main
[3:37] factors that's going to determine how
[3:39] your body moves. And because of that,
[3:40] there's going to affect you in a whole
[3:42] bunch of different ways. The main way
[3:43] that a lot of people are going to be
[3:45] moving their body is moving their body
[3:46] with their gun in their hand. And the
[3:48] second way is going to be moving their
[3:50] body with their weapon holstered. Now,
[3:52] just a quick note, if you have an
[3:53] heirloom or if you don't and you just
[3:56] play with your fists, it's not going to
[3:57] make a difference. Your heirloom is just
[3:58] a pure cosmetic thing. It doesn't do
[4:00] anything to the game other than maybe
[4:02] give you some visual confirmation as to
[4:04] like what state your body is in. But
[4:06] maybe we'll talk about that in a later
[4:07] video. But regardless, there's two main
[4:09] ways that we're moving our body. With
[4:10] our gun in hand and with our gun
[4:12] holstered. Now, everyone knows that when
[4:14] you move with your gun in your hand, you
[4:15] naturally move a little bit slower
[4:17] compared to when your weapon is
[4:19] holstered. So, something that we want to
[4:21] keep in mind, or something that we want
[4:22] to be thinking about in general, is what
[4:25] is your goal in this specific moment? Is
[4:27] my goal to be shooting my gun, or is my
[4:30] goal to be moving my body forwards into
[4:33] a fight, backwards out of a fight, or am
[4:36] I trying to take a new position off to
[4:38] the side and engage from somewhere else?
[4:40] What is your goal right now? Is it to
[4:42] fight or is it to move? If your goal in
[4:43] general is to move, then in general,
[4:46] your weapon should just be going down.
[4:48] You always want to make sure that you're
[4:49] attacking your goal with whatever means
[4:52] possible. for me and for I would say
[4:54] 99.99%
[4:56] of pro players and especially movement
[4:58] players like Fade, Ecstasy, Lemon Head,
[5:01] Sylus, movementless I think his name is,
[5:03] what you're going to notice is every
[5:04] time, or maybe not every time, but a lot
[5:06] of the time when we're trying to move
[5:08] our body, we're going to be holstering
[5:09] our weapon. A lot of people think that
[5:11] we're holstering our weapon just so that
[5:13] we can take out the very fancy heirloom
[5:16] that we spent hundreds of dollars on. In
[5:17] reality, you know, that might be one of
[5:19] the factors, but it's usually, if not
[5:22] only, because we're trying to get that
[5:24] movement speed boost. Now, this movement
[5:26] speed boost doesn't just affect your
[5:28] running speed. It also affects what
[5:30] we're mostly going to be talking about
[5:31] today, your sliding. Now, if I want to
[5:34] take a slide with my gun in my hand,
[5:36] keep in mind that it makes you run
[5:38] slower, which means that your slide
[5:40] isn't going to have nearly as much
[5:42] velocity, which basically just means
[5:44] speed, as you're trying to slide towards
[5:46] someone or slide away from someone. So,
[5:48] in general, your slides are going to be
[5:50] slower. Because your slides are slower,
[5:52] I'll just use maybe this line right here
[5:55] as a guideline. Because your slides are
[5:57] slower, your slides also don't go
[6:02] as far compared to if you were to
[6:04] holster your weapon.
[6:09] You can see that you get a little bit
[6:11] more distance. Now, is that 1 to 2 m
[6:14] going to make or break a fight? Probably
[6:16] not. But being able to move your body
[6:18] faster and further in general is
[6:21] helpful. Imagine if you're trying to
[6:23] slide to this box hypothetically and you
[6:25] end up stopping. Sure, you're going to
[6:27] get destroyed and you know is probably
[6:29] not going to benefit you as opposed to
[6:31] if your slide had actually taken you to
[6:33] where you wanted to go. Now, on top of
[6:35] this, moving with your gun in your hand
[6:38] doesn't just affect your sliding speed
[6:41] and your sliding distance, but it also
[6:43] affects when you can even get into the
[6:45] mechanic itself. So, for instance, let's
[6:46] just say I'm trying to fight this
[6:48] person. I got some good damage on him
[6:50] and I'm really confident that if I push
[6:52] him, I can kill this guy for sure. Get
[6:55] up in his face and finish off that one
[6:57] mag on him. If I want to take a slide
[6:59] with my gun in hand, I need to take a
[7:01] minimum of one, two, three steps. If I
[7:04] take anything shorter than those three
[7:05] steps one two
[7:08] one, you're either going to get what's
[7:10] known as a dead slide, which is a really
[7:13] slow, short slide, or what you're going
[7:15] to get is a no slide. Another way to
[7:18] think of a dead slide where you get
[7:20] stuck into a crouch. Now, this is really
[7:22] detrimental to your gameplay. If I'm
[7:24] trying to fight this person, I got that
[7:26] good break. I'm trying to push up on
[7:27] them and I go crouch and now I'm stuck
[7:29] in the open. Well, one, I'm a slow
[7:31] target as I'm running out into the open.
[7:34] Two, I'm not able to slide right away,
[7:37] which means that I'm also really easy to
[7:39] hit. I'm just a running target. And
[7:42] three, I'm actually not getting into
[7:44] that slide or I'm getting stuck right
[7:46] here in the open. And that in general
[7:48] also is just going to cause so many
[7:50] issues for your gameplay. Now, something
[7:52] that a lot of people don't know about is
[7:54] something called bullet fatigue. And
[7:56] bullet fatigue is when you're running
[7:58] around in a sprint and as you get shot,
[8:01] it cancels your sprint and you're forced
[8:04] to walk for a split second. This is
[8:06] really important because if you're
[8:08] trying to get into a slide, you need to
[8:11] make sure that your body is sprinting.
[8:13] If you're walking, you're just going to
[8:15] crouch. So, imagine you're taking a
[8:17] gunfight with someone and as you're
[8:19] trying to slide out into the open, what
[8:21] ends up happening is you get forced to
[8:23] walk and now you can't hit that sprint,
[8:26] you can't enter a slide, and you end up
[8:28] getting shot for it. So, in general,
[8:30] moving with your gun in your hand simply
[8:33] causes a whole bunch of disadvantages.
[8:35] Now, as soon as we holster the weapon,
[8:37] not only do we run faster, which means
[8:39] that our slides are also faster, but
[8:42] we've also completely removed the issue
[8:44] of needing to take one, two, three
[8:47] steps. Now, as soon as we holster our
[8:49] weapon, as soon as you take one slide,
[8:51] or as soon as you take one step, you can
[8:54] instantly get into that slide. Meaning,
[8:56] if I'm fighting someone and I'm in
[8:58] behind my cover, as I'm shooting, I'm
[9:01] going to holster my weapon and it's
[9:04] going to allow me to come out into the
[9:07] open into a slide instantaneously.
[9:10] This is what we would call an instant
[9:12] slide.
[9:15] Now, instant sliding doesn't just give
[9:17] you the benefit of sliding further,
[9:20] sliding faster, sliding when you want,
[9:22] but it also helps you completely remove
[9:25] the chance of getting stopped before
[9:27] you're able to enter the slide.
[9:29] Remember, when your gun is in your hand
[9:31] and you need to take three steps into
[9:32] the open, 1 2 3. If you get shot during
[9:36] those three steps, it cancels your
[9:38] sprint. You're forced to walk. And if
[9:42] you go for a slide midw walk, you're
[9:44] gonna get stuck in a crouch and it's
[9:46] going to completely mess up your
[9:47] movement. But if you practice holstering
[9:49] your weapon before you try to move, if
[9:51] you take one step into the cover, when
[9:54] you take one step back out, you can
[9:57] slide from behind the cover or off of
[10:00] the corner. That's going to keep you
[10:01] safe. So, let's just say I'm fighting my
[10:03] opponent from right here. Instead of
[10:06] taking one step out in the open and
[10:09] sliding, instead of what I'm going to do
[10:10] is I'm going to take one step into
[10:13] cover. And then when I go to crouch or
[10:15] slide, I'm actually sliding about right
[10:18] here where he can't see me. And I'm
[10:21] entering that slide into the open. When
[10:23] you're moving your body, there's two
[10:24] different types of way to move your
[10:26] body. There's momentum generating
[10:28] mechanics and momentum keeping
[10:31] mechanics. Momentum generating mechanics
[10:34] are things that you're doing in the
[10:36] moment that make you move. And if you
[10:38] stop doing that action, you stop moving
[10:40] your body. Momentum keeping mechanics is
[10:44] mechanic that once you have momentum,
[10:46] you can use it indefinitely and nothing
[10:49] can stop you until that mechanic
[10:52] eventually runs out. So for instance, a
[10:54] bunny hop, I'm actually not holding
[10:56] forward. All I'm doing is I'm keeping my
[10:59] body moving by jumping. And the jump
[11:02] keeps all of that momentum. So, whatever
[11:04] speed you go into that mechanic with, I
[11:07] can keep that momentum
[11:10] indefinitely. A slide keeps your
[11:13] momentum until it eventually slowly runs
[11:17] out. Now, with this in mind, once I'm in
[11:20] cover and I slide out, because I'm now
[11:24] transferring my body from a momentum
[11:26] generating mechanic to a momentum
[11:28] keeping mechanic as I slide out, there's
[11:30] no way for my opponent to stop my
[11:32] movement. Meaning, once I've entered
[11:34] that slide, he can't stop me from
[11:36] pushing him. Or if I'm in a defensive
[11:38] position, once I enter that slide,
[11:41] there's nothing he can do to stop me
[11:43] from moving backwards. But if I were to
[11:45] try to do this with my gun in hand once
[11:47] I start pushing out and he shoots me,
[11:49] he's able to stop my push forward by
[11:51] stopping my momentum or he's able to
[11:53] stop me from running back by canceling
[11:55] my sprint. So that's why it's super
[11:57] important that we try to use instant
[11:59] slides as often as possible. Holster our
[12:01] weapon behind cover, slide out, and now
[12:05] there's nothing that they can do to stop
[12:06] our momentum. This also stacks really
[12:09] strong with shooting. That's because if
[12:12] your gun is in your hand, if you try to
[12:13] sprint and then shoot, it's going to
[12:16] force you into a walk. Especially if
[12:18] you're aiming down sight, you're going
[12:20] to move even that much slower. So
[12:22] instead, if we can hold that momentum,
[12:25] you can essentially shoot your gun while
[12:29] sprinting because you're carrying that
[12:32] momentum with a slide where you're
[12:34] carrying that momentum with a bunny hop.
[12:36] Now, that is instant sliding. Super
[12:38] basic. We're going to shoot, holster our
[12:42] gun behind cover, slide out with one
[12:45] singular step. Now, we can change this
[12:47] instant slide to an advanced slide. An
[12:50] advanced slide is very similar. The only
[12:52] difference is when we actually take out
[12:54] the weapon. Now, right now, we have
[12:56] fixed all these issues of moving slow,
[12:58] not being able to slide when we want,
[13:00] removing the issue of possibly getting
[13:03] your sprint canceled, being able to
[13:05] slide further. We fixed all of those
[13:08] issues, but we created an issue by
[13:10] accident. Before, at the very least,
[13:12] with our gun in hand, we could shoot
[13:14] whenever we wanted because our gun was
[13:16] in our hand. But now that our gun's
[13:17] down, if I'm here and I go to push out,
[13:21] my gun comes out really late from when I
[13:23] left the cover, which means that even
[13:25] though I'm doing the action that I want,
[13:27] I can't follow up with what I want to
[13:29] do, shooting my gun right away.
[13:33] So, here's how we're going to fix this.
[13:34] When we holster our weapon, there's a
[13:36] little white dot that appears in the
[13:38] center of our screen. This is your
[13:39] holster crosshair. Very similar to
[13:41] having a weapon crosshair. This holster
[13:44] crosshair, if I were to hit my swap
[13:47] weapon bind, whether you're on
[13:48] controller, this might be your Y or your
[13:50] triangle or a paddle, or if you're on
[13:53] mouse and keyboard, whatever you set it
[13:54] bound to. For me, it's one of these side
[13:56] buttons on my mouse. When I go to hit
[13:58] that bind in 3 2 1, you'll notice that
[14:02] that onscreen crosshair doesn't change
[14:04] right away. I'll do that again and pay
[14:06] attention to it. My holster crosshair.
[14:08] So, right now, I have primed my body to
[14:10] move fast. As long as you see that
[14:12] crosshair, that's the state that your
[14:14] body's in. So, right now, my body's
[14:15] ready to move fast. Gun down. I'm going
[14:17] to hit my button in 3 2 1. And you can
[14:21] see that that crosshair doesn't
[14:23] immediately change. It takes about half
[14:25] of a second. That half second change is
[14:28] your body transitioning from gun down
[14:30] moving fast to gun in hand moving slow
[14:33] again. This means because there's a half
[14:36] second delay that you have half of a
[14:38] second where your body will still gun
[14:40] down move fast. So, if I'm in cover and
[14:43] I'm shooting someone,
[14:45] if I holster my gun and then I hit swap
[14:48] weapon, for that half second, I can
[14:52] actually still slide out using the
[14:55] instant slide mechanic that we just
[14:56] learned a moment ago. So, what we're
[14:58] basically going to practice is peeking,
[15:00] holstering into cover, swap, step,
[15:04] crouch, jump. If the jump is one
[15:06] mechanic that is just kind of messing
[15:08] you up, it's like one too many steps for
[15:10] you, just remove it and add it later in
[15:12] the future. Holster on holster slide,
[15:16] holster on holster slide. And now you
[15:19] can see from the very beginning, we've
[15:21] changed our method of sliding from
[15:23] shooting 1 2 3.
[15:27] We then moved it to shooting holster
[15:32] slide out. And now we've fixed it to
[15:35] peeking holster on holster sliding.
[15:38] You can see that you're able to shoot
[15:40] your gun at the very top of your slide
[15:44] jump now as opposed to at the bottom of
[15:48] your slide jump. Now, this should be the
[15:51] new way that you slide from here on out.
[15:53] This mechanic has almost zero downsides
[15:55] other than the half second it takes to
[15:58] holster your weapon and the half second
[15:59] it takes to unholster your weapon. But
[16:02] that 1 second of setting yourself up is
[16:05] helping you one move faster, two, move
[16:09] further, three, move sooner, and four,
[16:13] actually be able to shoot your gun as
[16:15] soon as possible. So for 1 second of
[16:18] setting yourself up, you get a vast
[16:20] amount of benefits out of it. Like I
[16:21] said, this should be the new way that
[16:23] you want to be moving from now on. As
[16:24] you're shooting, you should be using
[16:26] this to push up with your gun in your
[16:27] hand. as you're in a gunfight and you
[16:29] don't like your position, you should be
[16:30] using this as a way to slide backwards
[16:33] while still being able to keep your gun
[16:35] in hand once you land on the ground. So,
[16:37] as I'm fighting holster on holster
[16:40] slide, I'm able to flick back around and
[16:43] keep fighting as I'm moving away. I want
[16:46] to push into this fight. Oh, I'm losing
[16:47] my health. I don't really like this.
[16:49] Holster on holster slide. Move back. I'm
[16:51] able to get back into fighting. I like
[16:53] that push. I'm going use work my way up.
[16:55] Oh, too many people in front of me. Move
[16:57] back a little bit. You know what? Now
[16:59] I'm winning this fight. I'm going to
[17:00] start working my way back in. Holster on
[17:02] holster. Slide. Move up. I got a dead
[17:03] slide there cuz I accidentally made a
[17:05] mistake.
[17:07] But as you can see, it is such a
[17:09] powerful way to move your body around as
[17:11] fast as possible. Now, just a moment
[17:13] ago, I ended up making a mechanical
[17:15] mistake and I accidentally didn't get
[17:17] into the slide the way that I wanted to.
[17:20] Even though my gun's down, for some
[17:21] reason, I'm not sliding right now.
[17:23] That's because even though we don't need
[17:25] to take one, two, three steps and now we
[17:28] just need to take one step, I
[17:30] accidentally didn't even take that full
[17:32] step and instead I crouched way too
[17:35] soon. So this is where things like
[17:37] heirlooms can actually be pretty
[17:38] beneficial because once you see your
[17:41] heirloom make a full rotation from where
[17:44] it is right here to off to that right
[17:46] side, now I know that I have sprinted
[17:49] long enough to enter a slide. You could
[17:51] probably hit a slide with the wraith
[17:53] heirloom being at about halfway or
[17:56] pointing towards your wraith portal. The
[17:58] heirloom is going to be different on
[18:00] every legend. The speeds, the
[18:01] animations, everything will be
[18:03] different. So, it's not going to be the
[18:04] best visualizer, but is a tool that you
[18:06] could possibly use to help you get a
[18:08] little bit more consistent if you're
[18:10] having an issue with this mechanic. Now,
[18:12] at the end of the day, this is just a
[18:14] tool to help you move your body sooner
[18:17] and to help you move your body faster.
[18:18] This is not going to absolutely make and
[18:21] break a fight. It's not going to
[18:22] completely break someone's ankles. It's
[18:24] not going to make you invincible, but it
[18:26] is something that you can use to help
[18:28] you push into fights more aggressively.
[18:30] Remove yourself from fights faster and
[18:33] more safely and set yourself up into new
[18:36] positions more effectively. Your goal if
[18:39] you want to take this very basic way of
[18:42] moving your body to the next level is
[18:44] trying to figure out how can you chain
[18:46] this into the next thing that you're
[18:48] trying to do. How can I apply this to
[18:50] what my current goal is or what my
[18:53] future goals are? For instance, maybe
[18:55] right now I'm fighting this person. If I
[18:57] were to try and push past him, he's
[19:00] going to shoot me. He's going to cancel
[19:02] my sprint and he's going to make me stop
[19:03] and move slow. So instead, what I'm
[19:06] going to do is I'm going to instant
[19:08] slide, which is going to put me into a
[19:11] momentum carrying mechanic. Either a
[19:13] slide or a bunny hop. And from here,
[19:17] that momentum is going to be carried to
[19:19] this wall. From the wall, I can use this
[19:23] to possibly set myself up to break his
[19:25] ankle. As I carry myself here, I can
[19:30] break his ankle and come on back into
[19:33] this fight. So again, everything is a
[19:35] tool that you are trying to use to set
[19:37] yourself up for the next step of your
[19:40] fight. I see a lot of people who take
[19:42] mechanics and they use them 24/7 and
[19:45] they to some degree almost abuse them
[19:48] and they wonder why they never get
[19:49] better. It's because they're taking
[19:52] something that can be used in a whole
[19:53] bunch of situations and they use it in
[19:55] every situation, but not every situation
[19:57] needs that specific movement or
[20:00] mechanic. So again going forward
[20:02] practice how can I use a specific method
[20:06] of moving my body to benefit me
[20:09] depending on whatever situation I am
[20:12] currently in. Now if you want to be able
[20:15] to do this mechanic more consistently.
[20:19] One of the tips that I could give you is
[20:21] customizing your either mouse and
[20:23] keyboard keybinds or customizing your
[20:26] controller button layout so that you can
[20:28] hit the buttons that need to be hit more
[20:31] consistently and more easily. Now, for
[20:33] people who are on mouse and keyboard,
[20:35] the binds that I use specifically to be
[20:38] able to do this easily in my opinion is
[20:40] instead of using one, two, and three as
[20:42] my primary, secondary, and holster
[20:44] weapon, instead what I do is I use cycle
[20:46] weapon instead of weapon one and two. My
[20:49] cycle weapon is bound to the most
[20:51] forward side button on my mouse. So, in
[20:54] this case, it would be mouse 5. For my
[20:56] holster, I swapped my holster from the
[20:58] three key and I moved it over to the
[21:00] most further back side button on my
[21:03] mouse. I play with the Razer Viper V3
[21:05] Pro and I have two side buttons. So, my
[21:08] forward side button is cycle weapon. My
[21:10] backside button is holster. This makes
[21:12] it really easy for me to hit back
[21:15] forward step crouch jump backside button
[21:19] forward side button step forward crouch.
[21:23] So all of my weapon mechanics, swapping
[21:27] and holstering, looking around, aiming
[21:30] and shooting, anything that revolves
[21:32] around my weapon is all done with my
[21:34] right hand. Anything that it involves
[21:36] moving, moving forwards, backwards,
[21:38] left, right, crouching, and jumping is
[21:40] all done with my left hand. So, I've
[21:44] separated mechanically my right side of
[21:47] my brain or my right hand for aiming and
[21:49] the left side of my brain, my left hand
[21:51] for movement. This makes it a lot easier
[21:54] for me to focus on doing two different
[21:56] things at once, like incorporating my
[21:59] aiming mechanics into my movement or my
[22:01] movement mechanics into my aiming. Now,
[22:03] the best thing that you can do if you
[22:05] play on controller and you want to have
[22:06] the most consistent movement possible,
[22:08] you're going to need to play with a pro
[22:11] controller with at least four paddles on
[22:13] the back of your controller. Four
[22:15] paddles is the most optimal. Anything
[22:17] less, like Edge Pro Controller that only
[22:19] has two paddles is very unoptimal, and
[22:22] anything over four paddles starts to be
[22:24] pretty clunky in the back. Now, it is
[22:27] possible to use more than four. Like I
[22:28] know some controllers have like six to
[22:30] like eight back buttons, but for
[22:33] paddles, paddles is the key word is most
[22:36] optimal. Paddles are a lot wider
[22:38] typically, so it's going to be a lot
[22:40] easier to hit with your fingers,
[22:41] especially if you have big fingers. I
[22:43] know me personally playing with back
[22:45] buttons, my fingers would always like
[22:46] misclick because those buttons are so
[22:48] tiny. My fingers were so much bigger
[22:50] than them. So by having bigger paddles,
[22:52] it makes it easier, more consistent. On
[22:54] top of that as well, the most important
[22:56] thing when it comes to your movement is
[22:58] being able to keep your thumb on the
[23:00] analog stick while you're hitting the
[23:02] face plate buttons. Ax YB. The reason
[23:05] why this is important is because you
[23:06] want to be able to aim while you're
[23:08] crouching and aim while you're jumping
[23:11] around and aim while you're interacting
[23:13] with loot on the ground. So you can
[23:14] basically look around and loot
[23:16] everything instead of strafing your body
[23:18] to pick everything up. You should also,
[23:21] really important, be able to look around
[23:23] while you're setting yourself up to
[23:25] unholster and swap your gun and get into
[23:29] those instant slides. So, when we start
[23:31] doing mechanics like instant slides
[23:33] where you have to hold Y to put your gun
[23:36] down, tap Y to bring it out, hit crouch,
[23:40] and hit A, you're hitting four inputs.
[23:43] One of them is a delayed long input, all
[23:46] while you can't look around. So having
[23:49] those paddles on the back and mapping
[23:51] your four buttons to them is going to
[23:53] help you do that way more consistently.
[23:55] The way that I would map my back paddles
[23:58] is mapping your crouch to your top left
[24:01] paddle, your jump to your top right
[24:04] paddle, your interact to your bottom
[24:07] right paddle, and your swap weapon to
[24:10] your bottom left paddle. Now, if this is
[24:12] really uncomfortable, you're more than
[24:14] welcome to change it, but there's a
[24:16] reason behind why I would set it up this
[24:18] way. You want to make sure that the
[24:19] buttons you hit the most are on the hand
[24:21] that you use the least or that is the
[24:23] least important. Your right hand is the
[24:25] most important because you are aiming
[24:27] 24/7 with it. The last thing you want to
[24:29] do is be spamming crouch while you're
[24:32] trying to aim and that's tensing all of
[24:35] the muscles in your forearm and forcing
[24:36] you to miss extra shots that you don't
[24:38] need to be missing. So, if we are going
[24:40] to be sliding non-stop to reposition
[24:43] oursel or holstering and swapping our
[24:45] weapon over and over again, that's why
[24:46] we put our Y on our least used hand, the
[24:49] left. We also are going to be crouching
[24:52] a lot. Spam crouching as you are in a
[24:55] gunfight.
[24:58] You're going to be crouching in and out
[25:00] of cover
[25:02] and sliding around a lot. as well. If
[25:05] you're playing hold to crouch, which you
[25:07] should be if you have a Pro Controller,
[25:09] you're going to be holding crouch as
[25:12] you're bunny hopping around or as you're
[25:14] sliding
[25:16] in and out of a gunfight, which means
[25:18] that you don't want to be holding a
[25:20] button non-stop if you're trying to aim
[25:22] at the same time. Now, my favorite go-to
[25:24] controllers are the ones over at Aim
[25:26] Controllers. Not only do they have a
[25:28] lifetime warranty, but in my opinion, I
[25:31] have played with a handful of different
[25:33] pro controllers. From Scuf to
[25:35] PlayStation to the Xbox Elites to Battle
[25:38] Beavers to Hex Gaming controllers, I've
[25:40] played with everything. And my favorite
[25:42] shaped paddles and the most responsive
[25:44] in my opinion are the ones from Aim
[25:46] Controllers. Now, let's just say you
[25:48] can't afford a Pro Controller. That's
[25:50] totally fine. The next two best options
[25:53] that you could play are going to be
[25:55] ninja, which lets you crouch with your
[25:57] paddles and jump with your paddles, but
[25:59] it doesn't let you swap your weapon. Or
[26:02] what you could also do is play
[26:03] customized. Now, like I said, you want
[26:05] to put your crouch on your left side.
[26:08] So, by playing on customized, it would
[26:10] let you move your crouch over to your
[26:12] left, your jump over to your right, and
[26:15] then you could set your cycle weapon to
[26:18] your analog stick. That way you're
[26:20] swapping while keeping your thumb on the
[26:22] stick. Really important. You're
[26:23] crouching while keeping your thumb on
[26:25] the stick. Really important. And then
[26:27] you would be jumping while keeping your
[26:29] thumb on the stick. Really important.
[26:31] Now, that is how you are going to be
[26:33] moving around as fast as possible. One
[26:37] more tip that you could use, this is
[26:39] mostly just for controller players
[26:40] because only controller players have aim
[26:42] assist. You're going to want to also, if
[26:45] you play with advanced look controls,
[26:47] scroll all the way down to your
[26:49] targeting compensation, which is your
[26:50] aim assist. And you're going to want to
[26:52] turn off your melee target compensation.
[26:55] This is your aim assist when your weapon
[26:57] is holstered. And the reason why you
[26:59] want to turn this off, if you're in
[27:01] front of someone and every time that you
[27:03] move with your weapon in hand, it sticks
[27:05] to that person, even though it's maybe
[27:07] not the most strongest aim assist,
[27:09] depending on your sensitivity or if
[27:11] you're on console or PC. But when you
[27:14] try to move away, what's going to end up
[27:15] happening as you try to turn and move
[27:18] away from that person, is your aim
[27:19] assist is going to stick on them and
[27:21] it's going to feel very uncomfortable
[27:23] as you try to turn away. It's basically
[27:26] going to slow your movement down. So, if
[27:29] you turn off your melee target
[27:32] compensation, when you holster your
[27:34] weapon, you can move side to side and
[27:37] your aim assist won't stick to your
[27:39] target. Meaning, when you go to slide
[27:42] into the fight, you'll have aim assist.
[27:45] And when you go to leave the fight, you
[27:47] won't have aim assist. and it will make
[27:49] it easier to move in
[27:53] and out
[27:55] of those situations. Now, that is
[27:57] absolutely everything that you need to
[27:59] know on how to move faster in Apex
[28:01] Legends. If this video helped you out at
[28:03] all, make sure to leave a like,
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[28:09] part of learning this mechanic was so
[28:10] that other people know if they should be
[28:13] having issues as well as they try to
[28:15] learn it. This is not going to be the
[28:16] easiest mechanic for most people. So,
[28:18] definitely make sure to let people know
[28:19] if you're also having issues so that
[28:21] people don't feel left out. One last
[28:23] thing, if you do want to continuously be
[28:24] getting better at Apex Legends or figure
[28:26] out why maybe you're having any
[28:28] mechanical issues, whether it be with
[28:29] your super glides, your super jumps,
[28:32] your movement, your aim, or how you take
[28:35] and approach fights. Maybe you're not
[28:36] dropping as high damage as you want.
[28:38] Make sure to book a coaching session
[28:39] with me in the link in description down
[28:41] below on my website, the district.pro. I
[28:44] have lots of different coaching options
[28:45] from budget to advanced, from ranked to
[28:48] pubs, from 1v ones, and to mechanics. I
[28:50] also have weekly classes every Thursday
[28:52] where we go over your own gameplay and
[28:55] we can figure out what is going on and
[28:57] help you understand why you and other
[28:59] players might be having issues. Those
[29:01] weekly classes are my most affordable
[29:04] and your first month is 50% off. So,
[29:07] every month you can get four 1-hour
[29:09] classes or basically one class a week.
[29:12] Now, this class is every night on
[29:14] Thursday at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard
[29:17] Time. And if you're not able to show up
[29:19] to the class, that's perfectly fine. As
[29:21] long as you submit your clips, I will
[29:23] watch them, go over them, and I will
[29:25] upload them to my website and my
[29:27] Discords online class so that you can go
[29:29] back and rewatch it whenever it gets
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