Stop Wasting Time Practicing Wrong
45sMany players panic in ranked but are calm in deathmatch; this clip reveals how to transfer that calmness to ranked.
▶ Play ClipThis video presents five simple yet effective tips to improve aim in Valorant, emphasizing that players often waste time practicing wrong and need to transfer their Deathmatch skills to ranked games. The tips focus on practicing with intention, treating Deathmatches like ranked games, mastering fundamentals, identifying weaknesses, building confidence, and sticking to consistent settings and agents.
Players often panic and crouch spray in ranked but are calm in Deathmatch. To transfer skills, practice with intention (e.g., focus on crosshair placement or one taps) and treat Deathmatches like ranked games to mentally prepare.
Pro players like TenZ and Demon1 have mastered core fundamentals (crosshair placement, counter-strafing, movement, utility usage) through hundreds of hours. Emulating this is key to reaching higher ranks.
Drop your ego and rate your mechanics (crosshair placement, flicks, tracking, reaction time, utility usage, movement) from 1 to 10 to identify areas for improvement. Be brutally honest.
Confidence in yourself and your mechanics is crucial. Don't be afraid to take fights or make plays, even if they are suboptimal. Trust your decisions and learn from mistakes via VOD review.
Changing sensitivity or agents frequently hinders consistency. Stick to a few agents and settings that work for you, as different agents require different aiming styles and tempo.
Improving aim in Valorant requires deliberate practice, mastering fundamentals, honest self-assessment, confidence, and consistency in settings and agent choice. By following these five tips, players can see significant improvement in their aim and rank.
"Title accurately promises five easy tips for better aim, and the video delivers exactly that with actionable advice."
What is the first tip to improve aim in Valorant?
Stop wasting time practicing wrong; practice with intention and treat Deathmatches like ranked games.
Why do pro players like TenZ and Demon1 have great aim?
They have put in hundreds of hours mastering core fundamentals like crosshair placement, counter-strafing, movement, and utility usage.
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How can you identify your biggest weaknesses in aim?
Write down all mechanics (crosshair placement, flicks, tracking, reaction time, utility usage, movement) and rate them from 1 to 10, being brutally honest.
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What role does confidence play in aiming?
Confidence allows you to take fights and make plays without fear, often making suboptimal plays work. It's crucial for performing well.
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Why should you stop changing your settings and agents frequently?
Changing settings and agents hinders consistency; different agents require different aiming styles and tempo. Stick to what works and master a few agents.
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Stop Wasting Time Practicing Wrong
Highlights the common mistake of panicking in ranked vs. calmness in Deathmatch, and offers a solution to transfer skills.
Never Neglect Fundamentals
Emphasizes that pro players succeed through mastering basics, not secrets, and encourages consistent practice.
2:11Figure Out Your Biggest Weaknesses
Provides a practical method (self-rating mechanics) to identify areas for improvement, promoting honest self-assessment.
3:19Confidence is Key to Good Aim
Stresses the psychological aspect of aiming, linking confidence to performance and decision-making.
4:28Stop Changing Your Settings and Agents
Warns against frequent changes that disrupt consistency, advising players to stick with what works.
6:24[00:00] you use your aim and literally every
[00:02] single game you play and in order to get
[00:04] your aim at a level where you can
[00:05] dominate even in Immortal and radiant
[00:07] lobes it's mainly knowing these five
[00:10] simple yet effective tips that you need
[00:12] to always remember the first tip is stop
[00:15] wasting time practicing wrong many
[00:17] players fail to realize how much time
[00:19] they have before they need to shoot
[00:20] their gun everyone thinks that you need
[00:22] to have that
[00:23] 0.01% reaction time to win any fight
[00:26] where in reality that just isn't the
[00:28] case and you have a lot more time than
[00:30] you think you do I've seen so many of my
[00:31] students in ranked instantly shake and
[00:33] start Crouch praying the moment someone
[00:35] shows up on their screen however in
[00:37] Death Match they're a lot calmer and
[00:39] more calculated with their movements and
[00:41] cross replacement so the question is how
[00:44] are you able to transfer that Death
[00:45] Match skill into your rank games there
[00:48] are a couple things you can do first
[00:49] thing I recommend is practicing with
[00:52] intentions many people just simply turn
[00:54] into autopilot mode and start blasting
[00:56] music and modestly running it down don't
[00:59] do this this is simply a waste of time
[01:01] and you're getting little to no value
[01:03] out of this whenever you are playing DMS
[01:05] have a certain focus in mind in your
[01:07] games to practice for example having one
[01:10] dm focusing on cross your placement or
[01:12] having another DM focus on simply one
[01:14] Taps these are just a few examples but
[01:16] always practice with intention this is
[01:19] literally the most Surefire way to
[01:21] improve in the shortest amount of time
[01:23] possible the second thing that I
[01:25] recommend doing is to play your death
[01:27] matches like they are rank games the
[01:29] reason why people are so garbage and
[01:31] ranked but are gods and DMS is because
[01:33] they treat it like two different
[01:35] entities which is the complete wrong
[01:37] approach to half treating your DMs like
[01:39] their fights and ranked will allow you
[01:41] to not only take the fights more
[01:43] seriously and gain more value from them
[01:45] but it also helps you mentally prepare
[01:47] for these fights as well when you
[01:48] approach them in your rank games and you
[01:51] also need to try emulating the
[01:53] environment you have in your rank games
[01:54] for example if you play DMS in a certain
[01:56] style of music such as classical music
[01:59] then put the same music on and ranked or
[02:01] if you often catch yourself in Discord
[02:03] talking to your friends a lot try
[02:04] playing a couple without them and focus
[02:06] in when there are no distractions around
[02:08] you the next tip is that there is a
[02:11] reason why these Pro players have such
[02:13] good aim no matter what skill over
[02:15] you're at or how good you think you are
[02:17] never neglect the fundamentals the core
[02:20] reason why players like tens and Demon 1
[02:22] have such Stellar mechanics isn't
[02:24] because they have some secret aim
[02:26] routine or some secret gamer juice that
[02:28] they drink they have simply put in the
[02:29] hundreds of hours developing and
[02:31] mastering the core fundamentals of
[02:33] valerant take LeBron for example how
[02:35] many free throws do you think he shot
[02:37] before you became the best in the world
[02:38] or take Ronaldo how many Defender drills
[02:40] did he do to be the best striker in the
[02:43] world now how many times do you think
[02:45] tens or demon 1 has practiced their
[02:47] crossair placement counter strafing
[02:50] movement utility usage and their General
[02:52] raw mechanics and aim trainers yeah
[02:54] probably hundreds to thousands of hours
[02:56] as well and I'm not telling you to do
[02:59] the same unless you're trying to reach
[03:00] that Pro status but if you are trying to
[03:03] reach the top
[03:04] 0.01% of Val players or just reach that
[03:07] next rank then you need to emulate
[03:10] something similar especially if you have
[03:12] no prior fpx experience so stop
[03:14] neglecting the fundamentals and really
[03:16] hold down on them the next tip is very
[03:19] similar to the second one which is
[03:21] figuring out your biggest weaknesses a
[03:23] lot of players think they have perfect
[03:25] aim where in reality they are far from
[03:27] it you need to drop your ego and swallow
[03:29] your Prof and understand that everyone
[03:31] and that includes you watching this
[03:33] video has something to learn and
[03:35] something they need to improve at now
[03:37] how do I find my biggest weakness
[03:39] environment my biggest tip in order to
[03:41] do this is to Simply sit down and write
[03:43] out all the mechanics that you can think
[03:45] of envirment such as your cross
[03:47] placement your flicks your tracking
[03:49] reaction time your utility usage and
[03:51] your overall movement and rank them all
[03:53] from a scale of 1 to 10 this will allow
[03:56] you to vaguely gaug your personal skill
[03:58] level and see where you need to go to
[04:00] improve also do not be shy about it
[04:02] either and be brutally honest with
[04:04] yourself if you're not brutally honest
[04:06] and see your faults objectively then you
[04:08] will never reach the ranks that you want
[04:11] and if you need more help in that area I
[04:13] do offer coaching if you simply join my
[04:15] Discord in the description you can see
[04:17] all my past students achievements and
[04:18] descriptions on how I can elevate your
[04:20] game in the shortest amount of time
[04:22] possible I'm only taking a couple more
[04:23] students for December so shoot me a DM
[04:25] and book a session today the next tip is
[04:28] confidence is key to good aim raise your
[04:31] hand if you consider yourself an
[04:32] unconfident player if you're raising
[04:34] your hand we need to change that right
[04:37] now the key to being successful in
[04:39] nearly anything anything is your
[04:41] confidence in yourself many players I
[04:44] know and talk to refuse to think they
[04:46] are good enough and believe that they
[04:48] will never reach the goals because of
[04:50] one bad game or one toxic player you
[04:52] need to put yourself higher the reason
[04:54] I'm able to perform in games and reach
[04:56] numbers like being top 1,000 of all of
[04:59] North am America is Sheely my confidence
[05:01] in my gameplay and my overall mechanics
[05:04] I'm not scared to take fights I'm not
[05:06] scared to make plays and I'm definitely
[05:08] not scared to carry my games many people
[05:10] overthink and over complicate every
[05:12] single decision they make and completely
[05:14] forget what valant is all about which is
[05:17] a tactical shooter sometimes you just
[05:19] need to take those fights or need to
[05:21] make a play even if it's the quote
[05:23] unquote the least optimal play and even
[05:26] if you do make a mistake that's all
[05:28] right as well you can expect yourself to
[05:30] be the most perfect player all you can
[05:32] really expect yourself to do is to do
[05:34] everything with full confidence in
[05:36] yourself to succeed and most of the time
[05:39] you can get away with these poor
[05:40] decisions because of this but still
[05:42] remember being confident does not excuse
[05:44] you from making these dumb and stupid
[05:46] plays should still try to use all the
[05:48] context clols you have and the
[05:50] information you get before making
[05:51] decisions but if you do find yourself in
[05:53] a situation where you have no idea what
[05:55] to do whatever decision you do end up
[05:57] making in that moment you need to have
[05:59] full full confidence in yourself that
[06:01] you are better and that you have made
[06:03] the right one even if it was an
[06:05] objectively wrong play or an unoptimal
[06:07] one that is what VA review is for and I
[06:10] know this is a very complicated topic
[06:12] and I will 100% make a video about how
[06:15] to maximize your confidence in and
[06:17] outside of the game so if this video
[06:19] gets say five likes I'll make that video
[06:21] ASAP the fifth and last tip is to stop
[06:24] changing your settings and agents that
[06:27] you play stop I mean stop changing your
[06:30] settings every round and changing agents
[06:32] every game and expect to consistently
[06:35] perform and aim at your best I know tens
[06:38] does it but again he has thousands upon
[06:41] thousands of hours in FPS games which
[06:44] allows him to literally play on any
[06:46] setting imagable because of this however
[06:50] you most likely don't stop changing your
[06:52] sense after every whiff or change your
[06:55] agent after every unfortunate game you
[06:57] have stick to what works and what has
[07:00] been working when I reached a moral for
[07:01] my first time I suuck to three agents
[07:04] Max and played them and mastered them
[07:06] all the way until I reached the mortal
[07:08] and if you think that the agent you play
[07:09] doesn't affect your aim you are
[07:11] wholeheartedly mistaken there are some
[07:13] agents geared to more fast and tracking
[07:16] mechanics such as rays and some agents
[07:18] that focus on more slow and methodical
[07:21] aiming Styles like SOA switching over to
[07:23] different roles and agents messes up
[07:25] your overall Tempo in the game and your
[07:28] play style they have been developing
[07:29] subconsciously over your whole time
[07:31] playing valant so I'm making this so
[07:33] much harder for yourself and trust your
[07:35] intuition trust the process and most
[07:38] importantly trust yourself you are good
[07:40] enough to reach your goals but you need
[07:42] to stick it out and stop changing what
[07:44] is working for you just because of a
[07:46] couple poor performances thanks everyone
[07:48] for watching today's video and I
[07:49] generally hoped you learned something
[07:51] today again if you haven't already make
[07:53] sure to join my Discord in the
[07:55] description to meet like-minded players
[07:57] who are striving to improve in valent
[07:59] just like you also shoot me a DM if you
[08:01] feel stuck or lost in valent and need
[08:03] that extra push to reach that next level
[08:05] again thanks for watching and if you
[08:07] want to see my thought process in a
[08:08] moral 3 and radiant lobbies then make
[08:10] sure to check my last video where I do
[08:12] an in-depth breakdown each play I do
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