Play Valorant Like A Pro
I feel compelled to do another Valorant challenge, and I feel this video is the most excellent way to learn how to treat Valorant like a pro:
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Valorant 29: My Valorant Fears and Emotions
Byjack
I wanted to do a bit of a post to understand how I am feeling right now about the Valorant challenge. I know I feel incredibly stressed, angry, and depressed because I feel like I wasted all my time on Valorant. So much time trying so hard to be good, but nothing seems to really come of it. Sometimes looking at my VODs I feel like my gameplay is the same as it was before.
I don’t really know what is going on and why it seems like I’m new to the game every time. I don’t know why I’m overthinking everything. Why is everything so hard?
I wish I could see major mistakes in my old gameplay.
I guess watching more VOD reviews will help me understand. But that takes so damn long. Maybe it means that there are still opportunities to play much much better. I feel that I maybe have gotten much better but it doesn’t seem to translate over to comp. Maybe it’s also something about understanding the maps better. I really get the sense that I got to plat last time by playing more comfortably on agents and on maps. I think I understood just how to play each map better. But I want to be a more complete player. I want to play with better movement and peeking.
Something else that I feel that I missed out on was just having more posts about the emotions I was feeling. It makes me sad that all my Valorant posts were about techniques and none of them were about emotions.
Valorant has a lot of nice emotions for me. I met my girlfriend on Valorant, I had a lot of friends on Valorant. These days I play mostly alone, but I still like the world. Cool agents and fun to get on to all these different teams. I love it when I have some really fun crazy game sense timing lurks. I guess that is one way that I got significantly better than before.
I wish I had VODs from when I was in iron. I feel that jump from iron to silver was the large one. The jump from silver to plat is weirdly small.
Ok. So I just spent a good hour or so just watching my VODs from bronze until plat then back to gold. I actually feel my overall movement is better and more consistent. The only difference in plat is that I was calmer and held an angle for longer. I also did more wide jiggles. I know for gold I held a lot more angles, and made sure to hold them wide because they would often wide swing everything.
Looking forward, I would be so happy if I kept calm and held angles for longer when moving around the map, held for the wide swing more often. Then when fighting an angle, I want to be more aggressive, swinging very fast and hard, but stopping at the edge and fighting, not leaving until I try to kill them, maybe just letting go of movement keys or crouch spraying. I would love to see my fundamentals get really really good, to a level I know they can get to.
Valorant Higher Elo Insights
Byjack
Yesterday I played two 10 man customs with my brother. It was interesting because everyone was higher elo (high plat to diamond, and immo peak).
I realized something while playing with them. First, they aren’t much better skill wise, but take much fewer risks when they place. I often take a lot of risks and rely on my aim.
However, something occurred to me recently while watching profession Valorant play.
Diamonds and even immortal are not the best Valorant players and I know even from my own Valorant games that playing defensive is not always the best move.
The point is the take risks when you need to, like when your team is down numbers, or if you have a read. In those moments, you need to believe in yourself, trust in your aim and play aggressive, not afraid.
Often times, when I play aggressively, it is out of fear, confusion, and pressure to make a play. When I play defensive, I’m always afraid, confused and defensively hide.
I wonder what it would be like to play in a more yin yang balanced approach. As you would in tai chi, be soft when they are hard, hard when they are soft. What that might me in Valorant is to be gone from places where the team is holding strong map control, and be present in places where they are weak.
I don’t exactly know how this will work as a technique, but I’d like to try it out today.
Valorant 41: Editing the Trifecta
Byjack
I still believe in the same idea of focusing on fewer things but I’ve made a few adjustments.
First, I increased my sens to .37 on 400 dpi in order to make it easier to hit flicks.
Then I focus on two things:
- Clearing angles like I’m attached to a dolly wheels and slide into the peek
- Stopping only when I am on someone’s head
- Crouching if I don’t hit my shot
Similar concept to: combination of crosshair placement and strafing
I Figured Out Arm Aiming
Byjack
Did they tai chi method I mentioned in the previous post. Went really slow and relaxed.
I noticed that there is a natural way to aim.
Here are the steps:
- Get into the mood my swishing the mouse across the screen in broad strokes
- Slow down and control the movement more
- Focus on pivoting on your wrist
- First focus on your elbow moving close and far away from your body
- Then focus on the micro adjust aim with your wrist
Voila! Amazing pain free aim!
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 31: Class in Session – Unit 1 Day 1
Byjack
UNIT 1: VOD Review | Day 1 – TenZ
Exercise: Imitate Tenz and imagine I am him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsgDk8ojQjg&ab_channel=ValorantDAILY
Lessons learned:
- I’m exhausted – fell asleep for a long time after watching and imitating for a short period of time
- Knife to gun transition – keeping knife out until dangerous angles, then switch to gun or do a jump peak while switching if no room
- Hold for peeks – clear where they might peek, not where they might be, continue to hold it or switch to another angle they can push you from
- Set graphics to low
- Don’t push smokes unless with flashes or off of someone else’s contact
- Spray with good spray control – pulling down
- Fall after spraying to reload
- Jiggle if holding close to an angle
- Warm up at the start of each round by flicking onto teammate heads
In game what I did very successfully:
- Spamming through smokes – I got many headshots through the smoke
- Holding peekable angles – I felt I got a lot more intentional to where I was staring
- Holding off angles when watching for the flank (specifically I utilized the place Tenz hid on Pearl in the first round to get kills
- Being more intentional of when the knife is out, I rarely got caught out with my knife. I figured out how much time it takes to pull out the gun, and I always timed it so that I pulled out my gun before peeking anything.
What I can improve on:
- Pulling out the knife more often when I know no one is close
- Spam more boxes
- Utilizing jump peeking more
- Making sure my peeks are still tight and clean and fast
- Being much more focused on holding specific peeks when slowly scaling up