Valorant 14: Insane Warmup
My insane warmup strategy:
- No sound (focus on clearing every single angle)
- Good crosshair placement
- Movement-based aiming
Results: 1st place deathmatch sheriff only, breeze
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Valorant 4: Thoughts While I’m On Break
Byjack
I’ve been traveling for the past two weeks and haven’t been able to play any Valorant, but today I was thinking about some of the things I wanna try.
I saw this amazing video by scream (a professional EU valorant player known for his aim).
Some major takeaways:
- Warm up wrists
- Practice jett knives in practice range
- Practice not only one tapping but also burst spraying
- Should take longer with Vandal, spray burst with phantom
- Crosshair placement is key for getting kills, be ready for a wide swing or a small jiggle depending on the situation
- Always look to play off of your team, solo carrying is VERY hard even for pros, Valorant is a combo game
Other things I’ve been thinking to try:
- I need to get used to all sorts of movement, play around with it like I do with dance
- I should aim with movement a lot more
In general, I feel like I need to apply what I learned from dance – keep feeling out the things that feel uncomfortable. Try different ways to do the same thing. Look for something that feels good. Understand my body as well as just the ingame mechanics.
Valorant 36: Washed Again
Byjack
Today I am officially getting back into the grind right, using the same technique as before where I try to emulate the pros.
Some thoughts:
- Does a lot of wide swinging in big smooth arcs.
- A bit of movement based aim
- Ficks very fast to new angles
- Two taps, using movement strafing, then crouch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOe664CVI1o&ab_channel=Pimbz-VALORANTCLIPS
Some thoughts:
- Aspas aim is much more similar to mine, less smooth, but distinctly clears and preaims angles
- Barely counterstrafes, taps a lot and them spray
- Does a lot of widepeeks as well
- Like to hold angles a lot more
- Good attempt to wide swing, need to hold angles more until the swing
- Wide swing needs good crosshair placement
- Make sure you are ready for them to be visible at the edge of your swing
- Good practice holding angles
- Good overall but prefire is a bit messy, might be from pain and uncomfortable elbow position
- Crosshair can also get a bit unstead, not using movement to aim
My games today were frustrating. I felt I was moving too fast when it was dangerous (I have a feeling enemies are nearby). I tend to rush my aim and my peek. What helped a lot with that is the preparing your crosshair in the intuitively most comfortable way to take a fight. It’s engaging and helps me slow down and be more intentional. I won every game after using that technique.
Valorant 42: Chaining Kills
Byjack
A new mentality that I’ve been working with is the idea of chaining kills.
- Come up with a play that I want to go for (util, direction, etc.)
- Go for not a single kill, but a multikill
- Expect more than one
- Have a gameplan for getting not one, but 5 kills
It is interesting that taking the offensive makes you much better at being confident. Also, expecting multiple attackers and working on killing as many as possible makes it a lot harder for people to catch you with a trade.
Valorant 17: Choosing My Own Path
Byjack
I’ve looked at multiple things recently:
- My lesson with a CS Go / Valorant coach
- A excellent video of someone reaching radiant from silver
- A video of how to aim well by Scream a team liquid professional valorant player
What I realized is that there are many ways to improve and win valorant games and climb to plat. There are somethings that will make it easier but you don’t need to do all of them.
Valorant, like life, is a game with specific rules, but how you play it is up to you.
A few different examples:
- You can play only solo queue (deciding to team up with random people)
- You can play only with people you know
- You can play the game to gain rank
- You can play the game to try out the different agents
- You can play the game for the high reaction time and mechanical skill like aiming
- You can play the game for the strategy required
I decided to make a list of how I want to play Valorant in the context of this challenge.
- I want to play with people who are fun to hang out with
- I want to make the entire game comfortable to play for me
- I want to focus on the actual objective, killing all the enemies and winning each round
Step 1: Finding people to play with
The most efficient way is just to focus on playing with people I already like playing with and try to meet new people by adding new people from games I play. I should also focus on unadding people I don’t like playing with.
Step 2: Making the game comfortable for me
The areas I need to focus on being more comfortable:
- Minimap
- Being able to visualize where everyone is just looking at the map
- Aiming
- Being able to comfortably get the physical mechanics of aim and crosshair placement down
- Movement
- Knowing the different ways and distances to peek comfortably
- Abilities
- Knowing lineups and ability planning
- Clearing
- Knowing how to path through a site properly
- Switching weapons
- Knowing the physical coordination of switching knife, pistol and main weapon
Step 3: Focusing on winning rounds
Usually, I am laser-focused on two things:
- Abilities
- Killing people and not getting killed
I want to reframe Valorant for me.
Generally, you want to either play for a plant/defuse or try to kill every member of the enemy team.
As a result, I want to think about Valorant in the following plays:
- Brute force brawl with team, if team is pushing site together
- Try to get the enemy to trip up and make a mistake by confusing them and holding weird angles or lurking
- Try to set myself up for an ace by having my abilites and pathing planned out
Overall I think Valorant meets the following needs for me:
Growth: Getting better over time
Significance: The chance to practice my learning techniques in a measurable area
Love and connection: Playing with people who I like hanging out with
Here is what I think my routine should generally be:
- Warmup physically, and stretch, get pumped up with music
- Warmup in deathmatch, get a feeling for the mouse
- Warmup in the range and spike rush and defuse
- Meditate
- Play a game, focus on winning rounds
- Vod review, focus on the minimap awareness
- Practice in custom game lineup and setups to win next time or win by more
- Meditate, reflect and write blog post
Valorant 13: Advice From My Brother
Byjack
Today I had a strategy session with my brother who is almost at the rank I want to be (Plat) about major mindset shifts I need to do to get out of Bronze and Silver.
Here are the main areas we came up with:
- Learn to play off of contact better:
- Swing when you see teammates swinging
- If you see someone holding, pre-aim and get ready to trade
- Crosshair placement and preaiming
- Holding for wide swing vs close
- Methodical clearing
- Ability usage
- Have gameplan for ability usage for the beginning of every attack and defending round
- Map awareness
- Look at minimap more
Valorant 11: Getting Back From Being Washed
Byjack
I’m doing REALLY badly with Valorant. Some observations:
Good Things
- Movement is actually REALLY good
- Aim is not bad
- Gamesense OK
What I Need To Work On
- Stop having the bad habit of moving TOWARDS the enemy. Try to keep strafing. More so in game, but also in deathmatch.
- Movement is good, but move in the way to isolate angles, don’t try to peek too hard.
- When aiming, need to have a smoother crosshair, don’t let the movement throw off crosshair
- Need to work more on “catching the kills” and timing
- Catching kills is mostly trying to hold angles, need to feel the swing (either wide or close)
- Need to feel the timing of how soon and quickly to peek back out after missing
- Use movement to adjust aim
- Spray through and feel out the preaim (feel out where they are)
- Can improve movement by using the crouch/crouch peek more often
Overall, I think I’m not doing as badly as I think I am. Just need to slow down the frantic movement to have steadier crosshair movement. I need to hold angles more, and only peak when I feel like I can snap onto a head (catching the aim).
Like in my aiming exercise, I should only hold angles, until the aim comes alive for me.
The biggest downfall I see multiple times is using movement to get closer when I can just hold the angle from far away. My aim is actually really good, just don’t give it any room to shine.
Valorant 4: Thoughts While I’m On Break
Byjack
I’ve been traveling for the past two weeks and haven’t been able to play any Valorant, but today I was thinking about some of the things I wanna try.
I saw this amazing video by scream (a professional EU valorant player known for his aim).
Some major takeaways:
- Warm up wrists
- Practice jett knives in practice range
- Practice not only one tapping but also burst spraying
- Should take longer with Vandal, spray burst with phantom
- Crosshair placement is key for getting kills, be ready for a wide swing or a small jiggle depending on the situation
- Always look to play off of your team, solo carrying is VERY hard even for pros, Valorant is a combo game
Other things I’ve been thinking to try:
- I need to get used to all sorts of movement, play around with it like I do with dance
- I should aim with movement a lot more
In general, I feel like I need to apply what I learned from dance – keep feeling out the things that feel uncomfortable. Try different ways to do the same thing. Look for something that feels good. Understand my body as well as just the ingame mechanics.
Valorant 36: Washed Again
Byjack
Today I am officially getting back into the grind right, using the same technique as before where I try to emulate the pros.
Some thoughts:
- Does a lot of wide swinging in big smooth arcs.
- A bit of movement based aim
- Ficks very fast to new angles
- Two taps, using movement strafing, then crouch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOe664CVI1o&ab_channel=Pimbz-VALORANTCLIPS
Some thoughts:
- Aspas aim is much more similar to mine, less smooth, but distinctly clears and preaims angles
- Barely counterstrafes, taps a lot and them spray
- Does a lot of widepeeks as well
- Like to hold angles a lot more
- Good attempt to wide swing, need to hold angles more until the swing
- Wide swing needs good crosshair placement
- Make sure you are ready for them to be visible at the edge of your swing
- Good practice holding angles
- Good overall but prefire is a bit messy, might be from pain and uncomfortable elbow position
- Crosshair can also get a bit unstead, not using movement to aim
My games today were frustrating. I felt I was moving too fast when it was dangerous (I have a feeling enemies are nearby). I tend to rush my aim and my peek. What helped a lot with that is the preparing your crosshair in the intuitively most comfortable way to take a fight. It’s engaging and helps me slow down and be more intentional. I won every game after using that technique.
Valorant 42: Chaining Kills
Byjack
A new mentality that I’ve been working with is the idea of chaining kills.
- Come up with a play that I want to go for (util, direction, etc.)
- Go for not a single kill, but a multikill
- Expect more than one
- Have a gameplan for getting not one, but 5 kills
It is interesting that taking the offensive makes you much better at being confident. Also, expecting multiple attackers and working on killing as many as possible makes it a lot harder for people to catch you with a trade.
Valorant 17: Choosing My Own Path
Byjack
I’ve looked at multiple things recently:
- My lesson with a CS Go / Valorant coach
- A excellent video of someone reaching radiant from silver
- A video of how to aim well by Scream a team liquid professional valorant player
What I realized is that there are many ways to improve and win valorant games and climb to plat. There are somethings that will make it easier but you don’t need to do all of them.
Valorant, like life, is a game with specific rules, but how you play it is up to you.
A few different examples:
- You can play only solo queue (deciding to team up with random people)
- You can play only with people you know
- You can play the game to gain rank
- You can play the game to try out the different agents
- You can play the game for the high reaction time and mechanical skill like aiming
- You can play the game for the strategy required
I decided to make a list of how I want to play Valorant in the context of this challenge.
- I want to play with people who are fun to hang out with
- I want to make the entire game comfortable to play for me
- I want to focus on the actual objective, killing all the enemies and winning each round
Step 1: Finding people to play with
The most efficient way is just to focus on playing with people I already like playing with and try to meet new people by adding new people from games I play. I should also focus on unadding people I don’t like playing with.
Step 2: Making the game comfortable for me
The areas I need to focus on being more comfortable:
- Minimap
- Being able to visualize where everyone is just looking at the map
- Aiming
- Being able to comfortably get the physical mechanics of aim and crosshair placement down
- Movement
- Knowing the different ways and distances to peek comfortably
- Abilities
- Knowing lineups and ability planning
- Clearing
- Knowing how to path through a site properly
- Switching weapons
- Knowing the physical coordination of switching knife, pistol and main weapon
Step 3: Focusing on winning rounds
Usually, I am laser-focused on two things:
- Abilities
- Killing people and not getting killed
I want to reframe Valorant for me.
Generally, you want to either play for a plant/defuse or try to kill every member of the enemy team.
As a result, I want to think about Valorant in the following plays:
- Brute force brawl with team, if team is pushing site together
- Try to get the enemy to trip up and make a mistake by confusing them and holding weird angles or lurking
- Try to set myself up for an ace by having my abilites and pathing planned out
Overall I think Valorant meets the following needs for me:
Growth: Getting better over time
Significance: The chance to practice my learning techniques in a measurable area
Love and connection: Playing with people who I like hanging out with
Here is what I think my routine should generally be:
- Warmup physically, and stretch, get pumped up with music
- Warmup in deathmatch, get a feeling for the mouse
- Warmup in the range and spike rush and defuse
- Meditate
- Play a game, focus on winning rounds
- Vod review, focus on the minimap awareness
- Practice in custom game lineup and setups to win next time or win by more
- Meditate, reflect and write blog post
Valorant 13: Advice From My Brother
Byjack
Today I had a strategy session with my brother who is almost at the rank I want to be (Plat) about major mindset shifts I need to do to get out of Bronze and Silver.
Here are the main areas we came up with:
- Learn to play off of contact better:
- Swing when you see teammates swinging
- If you see someone holding, pre-aim and get ready to trade
- Crosshair placement and preaiming
- Holding for wide swing vs close
- Methodical clearing
- Ability usage
- Have gameplan for ability usage for the beginning of every attack and defending round
- Map awareness
- Look at minimap more
Valorant 11: Getting Back From Being Washed
Byjack
I’m doing REALLY badly with Valorant. Some observations:
Good Things
- Movement is actually REALLY good
- Aim is not bad
- Gamesense OK
What I Need To Work On
- Stop having the bad habit of moving TOWARDS the enemy. Try to keep strafing. More so in game, but also in deathmatch.
- Movement is good, but move in the way to isolate angles, don’t try to peek too hard.
- When aiming, need to have a smoother crosshair, don’t let the movement throw off crosshair
- Need to work more on “catching the kills” and timing
- Catching kills is mostly trying to hold angles, need to feel the swing (either wide or close)
- Need to feel the timing of how soon and quickly to peek back out after missing
- Use movement to adjust aim
- Spray through and feel out the preaim (feel out where they are)
- Can improve movement by using the crouch/crouch peek more often
Overall, I think I’m not doing as badly as I think I am. Just need to slow down the frantic movement to have steadier crosshair movement. I need to hold angles more, and only peak when I feel like I can snap onto a head (catching the aim).
Like in my aiming exercise, I should only hold angles, until the aim comes alive for me.
The biggest downfall I see multiple times is using movement to get closer when I can just hold the angle from far away. My aim is actually really good, just don’t give it any room to shine.
Valorant 4: Thoughts While I’m On Break
Byjack
I’ve been traveling for the past two weeks and haven’t been able to play any Valorant, but today I was thinking about some of the things I wanna try.
I saw this amazing video by scream (a professional EU valorant player known for his aim).
Some major takeaways:
- Warm up wrists
- Practice jett knives in practice range
- Practice not only one tapping but also burst spraying
- Should take longer with Vandal, spray burst with phantom
- Crosshair placement is key for getting kills, be ready for a wide swing or a small jiggle depending on the situation
- Always look to play off of your team, solo carrying is VERY hard even for pros, Valorant is a combo game
Other things I’ve been thinking to try:
- I need to get used to all sorts of movement, play around with it like I do with dance
- I should aim with movement a lot more
In general, I feel like I need to apply what I learned from dance – keep feeling out the things that feel uncomfortable. Try different ways to do the same thing. Look for something that feels good. Understand my body as well as just the ingame mechanics.
Valorant 36: Washed Again
Byjack
Today I am officially getting back into the grind right, using the same technique as before where I try to emulate the pros.
Some thoughts:
- Does a lot of wide swinging in big smooth arcs.
- A bit of movement based aim
- Ficks very fast to new angles
- Two taps, using movement strafing, then crouch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOe664CVI1o&ab_channel=Pimbz-VALORANTCLIPS
Some thoughts:
- Aspas aim is much more similar to mine, less smooth, but distinctly clears and preaims angles
- Barely counterstrafes, taps a lot and them spray
- Does a lot of widepeeks as well
- Like to hold angles a lot more
- Good attempt to wide swing, need to hold angles more until the swing
- Wide swing needs good crosshair placement
- Make sure you are ready for them to be visible at the edge of your swing
- Good practice holding angles
- Good overall but prefire is a bit messy, might be from pain and uncomfortable elbow position
- Crosshair can also get a bit unstead, not using movement to aim
My games today were frustrating. I felt I was moving too fast when it was dangerous (I have a feeling enemies are nearby). I tend to rush my aim and my peek. What helped a lot with that is the preparing your crosshair in the intuitively most comfortable way to take a fight. It’s engaging and helps me slow down and be more intentional. I won every game after using that technique.
Valorant 42: Chaining Kills
Byjack
A new mentality that I’ve been working with is the idea of chaining kills.
- Come up with a play that I want to go for (util, direction, etc.)
- Go for not a single kill, but a multikill
- Expect more than one
- Have a gameplan for getting not one, but 5 kills
It is interesting that taking the offensive makes you much better at being confident. Also, expecting multiple attackers and working on killing as many as possible makes it a lot harder for people to catch you with a trade.
Valorant 17: Choosing My Own Path
Byjack
I’ve looked at multiple things recently:
- My lesson with a CS Go / Valorant coach
- A excellent video of someone reaching radiant from silver
- A video of how to aim well by Scream a team liquid professional valorant player
What I realized is that there are many ways to improve and win valorant games and climb to plat. There are somethings that will make it easier but you don’t need to do all of them.
Valorant, like life, is a game with specific rules, but how you play it is up to you.
A few different examples:
- You can play only solo queue (deciding to team up with random people)
- You can play only with people you know
- You can play the game to gain rank
- You can play the game to try out the different agents
- You can play the game for the high reaction time and mechanical skill like aiming
- You can play the game for the strategy required
I decided to make a list of how I want to play Valorant in the context of this challenge.
- I want to play with people who are fun to hang out with
- I want to make the entire game comfortable to play for me
- I want to focus on the actual objective, killing all the enemies and winning each round
Step 1: Finding people to play with
The most efficient way is just to focus on playing with people I already like playing with and try to meet new people by adding new people from games I play. I should also focus on unadding people I don’t like playing with.
Step 2: Making the game comfortable for me
The areas I need to focus on being more comfortable:
- Minimap
- Being able to visualize where everyone is just looking at the map
- Aiming
- Being able to comfortably get the physical mechanics of aim and crosshair placement down
- Movement
- Knowing the different ways and distances to peek comfortably
- Abilities
- Knowing lineups and ability planning
- Clearing
- Knowing how to path through a site properly
- Switching weapons
- Knowing the physical coordination of switching knife, pistol and main weapon
Step 3: Focusing on winning rounds
Usually, I am laser-focused on two things:
- Abilities
- Killing people and not getting killed
I want to reframe Valorant for me.
Generally, you want to either play for a plant/defuse or try to kill every member of the enemy team.
As a result, I want to think about Valorant in the following plays:
- Brute force brawl with team, if team is pushing site together
- Try to get the enemy to trip up and make a mistake by confusing them and holding weird angles or lurking
- Try to set myself up for an ace by having my abilites and pathing planned out
Overall I think Valorant meets the following needs for me:
Growth: Getting better over time
Significance: The chance to practice my learning techniques in a measurable area
Love and connection: Playing with people who I like hanging out with
Here is what I think my routine should generally be:
- Warmup physically, and stretch, get pumped up with music
- Warmup in deathmatch, get a feeling for the mouse
- Warmup in the range and spike rush and defuse
- Meditate
- Play a game, focus on winning rounds
- Vod review, focus on the minimap awareness
- Practice in custom game lineup and setups to win next time or win by more
- Meditate, reflect and write blog post
Valorant 13: Advice From My Brother
Byjack
Today I had a strategy session with my brother who is almost at the rank I want to be (Plat) about major mindset shifts I need to do to get out of Bronze and Silver.
Here are the main areas we came up with:
- Learn to play off of contact better:
- Swing when you see teammates swinging
- If you see someone holding, pre-aim and get ready to trade
- Crosshair placement and preaiming
- Holding for wide swing vs close
- Methodical clearing
- Ability usage
- Have gameplan for ability usage for the beginning of every attack and defending round
- Map awareness
- Look at minimap more
Valorant 11: Getting Back From Being Washed
Byjack
I’m doing REALLY badly with Valorant. Some observations:
Good Things
- Movement is actually REALLY good
- Aim is not bad
- Gamesense OK
What I Need To Work On
- Stop having the bad habit of moving TOWARDS the enemy. Try to keep strafing. More so in game, but also in deathmatch.
- Movement is good, but move in the way to isolate angles, don’t try to peek too hard.
- When aiming, need to have a smoother crosshair, don’t let the movement throw off crosshair
- Need to work more on “catching the kills” and timing
- Catching kills is mostly trying to hold angles, need to feel the swing (either wide or close)
- Need to feel the timing of how soon and quickly to peek back out after missing
- Use movement to adjust aim
- Spray through and feel out the preaim (feel out where they are)
- Can improve movement by using the crouch/crouch peek more often
Overall, I think I’m not doing as badly as I think I am. Just need to slow down the frantic movement to have steadier crosshair movement. I need to hold angles more, and only peak when I feel like I can snap onto a head (catching the aim).
Like in my aiming exercise, I should only hold angles, until the aim comes alive for me.
The biggest downfall I see multiple times is using movement to get closer when I can just hold the angle from far away. My aim is actually really good, just don’t give it any room to shine.