Valorant 16: Initial Thoughts From The Coach

I started out just trying to predict when I would die, but dying stresses me out too much to tap into my intuition (you need to be relatively clear-headed to feel things intuitively). I focused then on saying “die” aloud every time I died or predicting when I died. This is taken from a sports exercise of intentionality (you vocalize what will happen, for example, if you are playing badminton, you say “hit” when you hit the birdie, and “miss” if you miss). This exercise is supposed to train your intuition and powers of prediction and anticipation.

Some takeaways:

• Crouching can make most people miss if they are shooting at you.
• The direction you run and bunny hop is very important, need to figure out the most evasive ways. Sometimes running directly at them has zero chance of success. I need to work on sometimes facing the side not just forward to be more evasive.
• The timing of peeking is important, how they have been spraying bullets is important.
• When you are running behind a wall, before you peek, you don’t need to bunnyhop, just run normally, feel out intuitively, the moment you should peek out
• I should start just by shouting out dead, every time I actually die, then try to predict
• I need to aim higher to knife to the head, I keep knifing the body.
• What I should try next is to stay alive for as long as I can.
• I should also focus on letting the shock and frustration from dying play out before going again so quickly.

My intuition also tells me that I should focus on what I’m missing or losing when I’m dying and focus on those feelings right after dying.