How to INSTANTLY improve your mechanics | VALORANT | Guide 2025

[00:00] What do you think are your main mistakes

[00:02] in Valerant that are holding you back

[00:03] from ranking up? Is it your aim, your

[00:06] game sense, your mechanics, or your

[00:08] mental? Now, as someone who's coached

[00:10] over 500 players and hit rank one, I can

[00:13] tell you the real mistake holding you

[00:14] back most is awareness. And it wasn't

[00:18] even in those four options. Let me

[00:19] explain what I mean. To aim properly,

[00:22] you first need to know that you're about

[00:24] to take a fight. You're about to need to

[00:26] aim. That anticipation is key for your

[00:29] hand to even move. Think about when you

[00:32] do a reaction time test, right? You

[00:33] already know what's about to happen.

[00:35] Same thing when you aim train. You've

[00:36] chosen a task and you know what's

[00:38] coming. So, you anticipate. That's how

[00:40] your body works. You have a stimulus.

[00:42] The stimulus gets sent to your

[00:43] receptors. Your receptors sends that

[00:45] message to your brain. The brain

[00:47] processes it and the brain sends the

[00:49] message to your aectors, which is your

[00:51] hand. And then you react. But when you

[00:54] anticipate, it becomes like this. You

[00:56] have the stimulus, then it goes to your

[00:58] brain, then it goes to your hand. There

[01:00] are way fewer steps and your response is

[01:02] faster and cleaner. I'm going to break

[01:05] this down for you in Valerant. But

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[02:39] the video. Whenever you're in an area,

[02:42] that area gives you context. When I am a

[02:44] lobby and I'm playing a death match,

[02:47] there absolutely will be people in

[02:49] lobby. Those possible fights are what we

[02:52] call timers. Let me show you what I

[02:54] exactly mean by this. Whenever I'm in

[02:56] this area, there's a lobby. A lobby,

[02:59] there's always people. C, there's always

[03:01] people. Garage, there's always people.

[03:03] There's often the spawn window. So now I

[03:06] already tell myself, where can people be

[03:08] here? See, long behind me when I'm here

[03:12] short

[03:14] when I take breaks of it.

[03:21] Um, I recorded

[03:24] a recorded path of defense. Like it's

[03:28] the same thing for [ __ ] any other

[03:30] map. I guess just because it's a

[03:32] different map doesn't mean that string

[03:34] does not work the same. You know,

[03:36] Haven's the most the easiest way to

[03:39] think about it. Like [ __ ] this guy

[03:42] player. One more dead grass lobby. I

[03:45] mean, there you go. They always come at

[03:47] the same places. You remember them. You

[03:49] remember the fights. You remember the

[03:50] timers. Now, let's go more in depth.

[03:53] Now, I have a thought of a client/ a

[03:57] fan. All right. The thing that's very

[03:59] important here is to know, is he

[04:01] anticipating? Does he remember where the

[04:03] fights come from or is he just reacting?

[04:06] If he's reacting, he's playing wrong.

[04:08] All right. Here, he reacted late. He

[04:11] didn't anticipate. The only reason he

[04:13] turned around is because of the sound.

[04:15] He didn't actually react properly,

[04:16] right? So that's a delayed reaction due

[04:18] to him not remembering people or see.

[04:21] All right. When he's here, let's see

[04:22] what's going on.

[04:25] He's being very very very cautious of

[04:27] everything. That's wrong. There's

[04:30] they're not everywhere. They're at these

[04:32] they're at these exact same spots every

[04:34] single time. So he should not be

[04:35] worried. Now there's always a spawn B.

[04:38] The guy B can always come A. All right.

[04:40] That's a possibility. That's a timer.

[04:43] However, you see how late he's going to

[04:45] react to this. His crosser didn't even

[04:47] move yet. So that means he did not

[04:49] anticipate the player. Therefore, he

[04:51] reacts late again. So he's surprised

[04:53] that a player is there. Long is

[04:55] possible. CT is possible. Short is

[04:57] possible again. So you see how he swung

[04:59] short. He knew someone was short.

[05:02] However, he swung without any purpose.

[05:04] He was surprised to see the player

[05:06] short, which he shouldn't. Therefore, he

[05:08] gets punished. He doesn't anticipate.

[05:10] When we're here, we know there's always

[05:12] someone a lobby. We know there's someone

[05:13] someone see.

[05:15] All right. Someone spawn window. All

[05:17] right. Now, someone lobby, right? We

[05:18] know someone is lobbying, but we're

[05:20] swinging without any purpose. We're not

[05:23] putting any type of focus on what's in

[05:25] front of us. We don't anticipate. We're

[05:27] purely hoping that the enemy whiffs and

[05:31] then we get there on time. But if we

[05:33] hope for the enemy to whiff, we will

[05:35] instantly get one tapped. In every

[05:37] single gunfight that he took, he needed

[05:40] the enemy to whiff. He never reacted

[05:42] first. He never was able to shoot first.

[05:45] Compare it to mine. I just literally

[05:47] destroyed them the moment I was there.

[05:49] If I didn't, it was just a whiff. And

[05:51] that's okay. We're human. But in this

[05:53] case, he's not giving himself a chance.

[05:55] He's just depending on luck to win his

[05:57] gunfights. Now, I don't know if you guys

[05:59] realize, but most of what I'm talking

[06:01] about is pattern recognition. So, the

[06:04] players slash the fights are often taken

[06:07] at the same places. There's always these

[06:10] fights, this possibility. What's very

[06:13] important is for you guys to realize,

[06:16] wait, people cannot be here. Wait,

[06:18] there's always someone here. Wait,

[06:20] there's always someone here. When you

[06:22] have context and you're aware of the

[06:24] possibilities, these timers will be

[06:27] created. Whenever you know a timer is

[06:29] possible, your brain will go into a high

[06:33] focus mode. It's going to be like,

[06:34] "Wait, yo, be ready. There's someone."

[06:36] Therefore, you will always react and you

[06:39] will always be able to shoot first.

[06:41] However, if you don't anticipate and you

[06:44] play reactively, you're always depending

[06:46] on others to whiff. Now, I'm just going

[06:48] to give you guys a little preview of

[06:50] what I some I often coach in a comp

[06:53] environment. All right, let's start.

[06:56] They want pistol round. All right, it's

[06:58] eco. Uh-huh. If they're eco, there's two

[07:01] options usually of what they will do in

[07:03] the round. They will all either all go

[07:06] in the mains, A main, B main, or they

[07:08] will go mid. All right, now let's see

[07:11] how it goes.

[07:13] Anti- rush setup top mid. So neon top

[07:17] mid tiles and one tiles. So you know

[07:19] there's at least two mid. So the rest

[07:22] are probably in the mains, B main, A

[07:24] main. We don't know. Anything is

[07:26] possible, right? But we know there's two

[07:27] mid. Mid player died. All right, ISO's

[07:30] gone. Now you see how there's no

[07:31] followup mid. there's no one else mid.

[07:34] This tells you, all right, so they don't

[07:36] want to go mid in the end. They want to

[07:38] do something else. They probably want to

[07:40] go in the mains then. So here, A main

[07:42] and B main are vulnerable. Now, you see

[07:44] how there's no noise, right? This tells

[07:47] you they are walking up. If they are

[07:50] walking up, should you play very scared?

[07:53] Absolutely not. You have a gun

[07:55] advantage. You know they are walking up,

[07:57] you just need to hold the angle and then

[07:59] boom, kill them as they're walking up.

[08:01] Pretty simple, right? So now retrieving

[08:04] flash, there's still the same scenario

[08:06] where they're playing the main. So now

[08:08] here we know that they're coming anytime

[08:11] soon now. So we should be very very very

[08:14] ready and we should hold the angle

[08:16] tight. We should not be jiggling. We

[08:17] should not be holding wide. So now the

[08:20] the client/fan

[08:22] is surprised that there's someone be

[08:26] shouldn't be. There's absolutely can be

[08:28] someone there. So now someone died mid.

[08:31] So now they could go back mid or they

[08:33] could go back be mid. We don't know. One

[08:36] a m kill. So we know one mid, one A, one

[08:38] B, one missing, two mid. They both died.

[08:42] All right. So one A, one was mid. Spike

[08:46] mid. So now the spike is

[08:49] we are waiting. And now we have zero

[08:52] confirmation of where the players are.

[08:55] Right. So this tells us about the

[08:58] timers. What is possible in front of us?

[09:02] It's very simple. Anything except mid.

[09:06] So now if we're playing peak, the only

[09:09] thing that's important to us right in

[09:11] front of us that we want to do properly

[09:13] is take care of B main. That's the only

[09:17] thing that is possible that we should

[09:19] pay attention to. So now if we're

[09:21] swinging B main/holding it, we should be

[09:23] ready, which the client/fan wasn't.

[09:27] Therefore, she gets punished. You see

[09:30] how we played with probabilities? We

[09:33] played with the context of the

[09:34] information that tells us what are the

[09:36] timers. They are not mid. They have to

[09:39] be be made. Therefore, I need to be

[09:40] ready. They are not here. They have to

[09:42] be here. This is pattern recognition.

[09:44] Once you know which happening, you have

[09:47] a timer in front of you and you pay

[09:48] attention to the timer. So, here's a

[09:51] little quick recap. The area gives you

[09:55] context. That context gives you

[09:57] 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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