Why Bad Players Think They're Good
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2024
- Thinking you're better than you are, can limit your progression a lot, so today I'm going over why bad players think they're good
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:16 The 7 Fundamentals of Valorant
0:43 1) Aiming
1:34 2) Movement
2:07 3) Tactics
2:37 4) Communication
3:24 5) Utility usage
4:20 6) Game sense
5:05 7) Mentality
6:14 You're not better than your rank
6:48 Performance is everything
7:11 This mentality is dangerous
7:48 Being scared of watching back your own flaws
The two main reasons so many people think the team is the problem is that teammates (being four of them each game) can make much more mistakes than one player. The second is that it is much harder to notice personal mistakes when playing compared to notice mistakes others do
True and not having a reply system. I played thousands of hours of DOTA and League, watching my own reply helps me learn what I'm doing wrong and what I could've done better.
@@laipsax the reply system was confirmed in a tweet to arrive somewhere in late 2024 if I recall correctly
if i top frag 90% of my games as a controller then i think i can blame my teammates
@@Jellyz15z if you lose 90% of your games you are doing something very wrong
Bro not long ago your channel was dead you’ve revived your fn one so much and your val one is pulling views right now aswell👍 deserves for the video quality though
"if its a good try say good try, if its a bad try say nothing" this is something that so many people need to learn toxic players will tilt their whole team of 1 bad round
If it’s a bad try I still type “nt” knowing full well I’m just being sarcastic
@@kevinshady4627Still helps your team’s mental so I type it too
@@RetroCube if you whiff really badly and someone says nt as a joke tho
@@Cleanoelthe valorant community takes things like that way outta pocket. Everyone in that game is a sensitive baby just looking for an excuse to rage.
@@XionicalXionicalah yes, I'm sure that issue is unique to Valorant and definitely does not exist in every single community of literally every single game...
Man having hope/confidence is super important. I once had a game where we were down 11-1. Pretty unwinnable but my team pushed through anyway and we won 14-12
did the enemy team take a single buy round?
0-12 to 14-12 feels better with 54 kills >:D
Lebron ahh comeback
Was it Lotus? It happens way more frequently than anyone would think
i was 12-0 and i was scared of the enemies making a comeback and my team was trolling for a bit but we won 13-5
the trust their intuition point is SUPER UNDERLOOKED
So many times where I wanted to do something, teammate calls something different, I decide quickly in the moment to just do what the teammate says, and it fails miserably.
Cursing at myself for listening to my teammate (on an individual level, not talking macro teamstrat) happens too often
Just trust yourself, vod review yourself, ask people that are better than you to give tips, learn, follow your own intuition, if it's the wrong decision you will learn from it
I Hope there was a hotkey setting. Which would make you press a button to Mute your team when in a clutvh situation because they dont. Know How to shut the fuck up 💀
@@hellstorm3132 there is lol its in the keybinds under communication i think
@@hellstorm3132 there is mate, it's been in the game for like half a year or a year...
Controls > Communication > Voice Clutch Mute, seperate for team or party chat
Honestly, following your teammate's comm will in the long run have a higher success rate than not. The higher you get, the more accurate teammates' calls will be, so it's important that you follow the call automatically without questioning it. This, for one, makes you faster at decision making, which lets you outpace enemies more frequently. And the other benefit is that if you always follow the call, if it doesn't work, it's not your fault. If your teammates says "last one is flank, hold main", the moment you hold main and die from CT, it becomes your teammate's fault. But if he calls last flank, you ignore him and die to flank, it's your fault and your mate will be rightfully pissed at you.
Sorry for the essay, got a bit carried away, tl;dr: following the call should be automatic, as it's beneficial more often than it's detrimental
@@hellstorm3132I believe you should listen to teammates 100% of the time. I’m not gonna go in depth but there’s this video by Woohoojin that explains more in depth of why in the long run listening to teammates is better
In my last game our reyna was botfragging, he popped of one round and I said «pop of queen» he then popped of 3 rounds in a row and got us the win. Confidence boost💪🏼
Don't know how i can say that to my teammates when they are 2/18 and I'm filling yet top fragging with an agen I've never played. I do try to ignore and help them but trust me when i say, they don't even ljke me suggesting even a single thing. And this is when i was in d2. Not to mention that they talk trash too while bot fragging
@@pervert_kun i play in rather low elo, so I got a lot of kids that just need some support
@@jorgoglule1302 good luck to you brother.
@@pervert_kun sis* but tnx😅
@@pervert_kundude is 100% the most passive aggressive piece of shit ever in your ranked games.
Also what those top fraggers (at least 97% of them) never mention is how they get those kills, most top fraggers are baiters or exit killers.
They literally wait for the whole team to die just to be able to kill 1 or 2 or 3 players caught lacking.
“But bro i’m positive” 🤓
I think unbinding crouch is just a short fix that lasts at max 1 week. bind swap guns or something to your crouch and you will traumatized everysingle time that u crouch.just unbinding it doesnt mean uare not pressing it. The game doesnt give u neither good or bad feedback so you dont stop doing it, and as soon as you bind crouch back you start doing it again. Negative feedback is the best wat of fixing bad habits such as panic spraying, w/s peeking, and many more
God that made me laugh out loud
Rebind crouch to a key that you’re not used to with the intention to stop panic crouching etc. when you break the habit rebind crouch back to your preferred key.
This is why they should let us bind "kill" to crouch. I can tell you, i have not manually reloaded in tf2 since i bound r to kill
And yet in the very next section he highlights gameplay that contains plenty of crouching.
@@NO-bw5dn there is a huge difference between crouch spray and good movement.
This might just be the best video to understand the concept of improvement in any field.
Our ego is often blinded by the things we're good at. We don't like admitting weaknesses as we feel worse.
But I actually think that is a benefit. To know that you're objectively bad, yet STILL you have enough confidence to compete.. it just gives you even MORE confidence AND allows you to watch back your VODs and admit your mistakes.
Pride is the root of all problems in life
Oh absolutely.
Having a good self awareness, being able to recognize and admit your own mistakes instead of denying them is among the most important things, not only in videogames but literally throughout the whole life.
@@zedus4042wow
I agree with almost everything except the part in which you say that regardless of the computer, you should be able to reach immortal. A few month ago I had a really old computer, I had abt 45 fps when nothing was happenning, but whenever there were a few abilities like smokes and turrets, my fps would drop to 10 and I would get some minor freezes. My computer would also crash once every two or three games, with all of that combined it would have been impossible to reach immortal or even higher than silver. I recently got a new computer, and on average I do 2 to 3 times more kills, so the computer matters because gunplay matters a lot in Valorant, you can be a very good player with nice util usage and strategy, if you can never win a 1v1, you won’t get very far.
bro i've been playing on old ahh laptop about 80 fps and 60hz and i reached plat 2, i got about 3 weeks ago new pc with 240hz monitor and now im in ascendant 1 so in my opinion great species does matter
@@kit3k87 60 fps is already quite good compared to what I had, I couldn't have possibly reached plat
@@kit3k87 cap. There's no difference with 80fps 60hz and other stuff in the grand scheme of things as your reaction isn't fast enough to actually benefit
@@CubeInspectorwhat you are yapping about? Ofc herzs does matter your game is much smoother and you get better mouse control, now im asc 3 btw.
same
I think one major point that i feel is also important is adaptation. Like you said valorant is not about a game of aim and movement but also mentally. I find that those who are quick to adapt are the ones that will win. Life is all about adaptation and valorant forces you to adapt to the opponent play style regardless of attacker or defender
so true i never understand how people can let enter enemies the side 5 times in a row the exact same way or die to the exact same lurk like the round before without adapting to it
@@sheddz6662They play on autopilot and are not really even focusing on the game
This video actually really helped me realize where I need to improve in my game play. I would consider my strengths to be my game sense and utility usage, but I either struggle with or am not particularly great at the other 5 fundamentals, so thank you for creating this, and thank you for making it so easy to understand!!
Love the video and definitely advise taking these to the game, I often reflect on my mistakes. However in Oceania servers it’s clear that fundamentally there’s a bit of a struggle, I’m bronze and I’ll be matched often with plat all the way up to radiant players
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🎮 *Understanding Confidence and Improvement*
- Confidence impact on improvement,
- Overestimating skill hinders progression.
00:15 🎯 *The Seven Fundamentals of Valorant*
- Seven fundamentals overview,
- Players excelling in a few fundamentals but lacking overall skills.
00:43 👀 *Aiming as the First Fundamental*
- Aiming importance in Valorant,
- Subcategories: crosshair placement, pre-aiming, and recoil control.
01:27 🚶♂️ *Movement as a Crucial Skill*
- Movement's role beyond aiming,
- Common mistakes like frequent crouching in lower ranks.
02:09 🎮 *Tactics: Aggressive and Defensive Play*
- Understanding aggressive and defensive play,
- Importance of smart utility usage and reading opponents.
02:52 🗣️ *Communication as a Fundamental*
- Effective communication vs. unnecessary chatter,
- Valuable vocal encouragement during challenging situations.
03:33 ⚡ *Utility Usage: Winning Rounds*
- Significance of mastering utility,
- Lineups and diverse utility plays contribute to winning rounds.
04:29 🧠 *Game Sense for Top Ranks*
- Importance of fast rotations and understanding opponents,
- Trusting intuition and decisive decision-making.
05:12 😌 *Maintaining a Positive Mentality*
- Avoiding rage and blaming teammates,
- Reflecting on personal mistakes for continuous improvement.
06:21 🏆 *True Measures of Skill*
- The misconception of carrying with high frag counts,
- Emphasizing the importance of winning rounds over individual kills.
07:31 🔄 *Overcoming Excuses for Improvement*
- Dismissing equipment and teammate excuses,
- Embracing discomfort in reviewing and learning from mistakes.
Why is a RL youtuber on a Valorant vid???
@@speedaim6634whats even weirder is that this video is either AI generated by copying marrentm (fortnite youtuber) or he secretly has a second youtube 😭 one of the weirdest things ive seen on youtube
@@cl5rysi thought i was the only one who noticed that. i dont know whats going on either
7:13
Actually kinda true to some extent, I was playing with a laptop that have 30 fps and freezes every 10 seconds and my top rank is Plat 3, now with a new PC (stable 200 fps with cable connection), and my current rank is ASC2.
I tried capping the fps to prove my friend wrong, and there's little difference between 90, 144, and 200 fps. I even forgot to turn off the fps cap at some point and just continued playing with 90 fps.
TL;DR at 90+ fps there's little to no difference, but if your PC is lagging, freezing every single round, then it could be a reason you're still in the lower rank.
Same thing bro gold 3 with 30 fps and when someone sprays or ults it freezes, when I participated in tournaments on their 144 fps monitors, we almost won against immortal and they couldn't believe we were gold and silvers. I think even if u get stable 60fps u can reach immortal but 30 fps with freezing is irritating.
90+ fps there definitely is still a difference lmao. its not as big of a jump as getting to 90 in the first place but its definitely more of a difference then say 240hz to 360hz monitors
legitamitely one of the best videos to watch if you want to get better at valorant, im going to steal some ideas and focus more on my aim, thanks dude!!!! :D
Something I've definitely learned from playing both League and Valorant excessively is that when you play competitive, never blame your team without blaming yourself profusely first, and even then, don't bother because screaming at them won't improve the game. Mute all chat until the end to say GGs, and report players who are being unnecessarily toxic and unhinged. Mentality is big in both games, and I loved that you mentioned it as a basic skill in your video.
Also, a note on aim. Because of how higher numbers usually attribute to a player's input in game, a lot of low elo players I run into in bronze, silver, gold and even plat lobbies will put down their teammates for having less kills. Whenever I speak up and say kills don't matter, rounds do, they turn into a bunch of screaming children. I wished this mindset would change, but lots of people really exaggerate good aim to be correlated with high skilled gameplay. The whole "Oh you're top-fragging so everything you say can't be wrong" mindset really annoys me, both when I'm at the bottom and top of the leaderboard.
This is a really good video with incredible tips but I feel like the background is a bit distracting. I would of loved to see clips that correspond to what you were talking about. Great video :)
cool to know that you used to play tennis, I actually got over my hatred of watching myself from competing in fencing and tennis, watching back that footage is still the best thing I have ever done to improve how I played those sports and it still applies to Valorant
Great vid. One thing I never did was VOD review, but I blame that on Valorant not having a replay system 😅
Thanks man, the last advice really got to me. Good stuff!
Marren, ty for the incredible videos (for Valorant and Fortnite). You have genuinely helped me throughout both games :)
Idk if this is marren. It might be a other guy using a AI to clone marrens voice
@@TelosShade Now that I think about it, u might be on to something.
it’s definitely him
@@strykerf I agree, by making another channel this way it won't hide his Fortnite videos with Valorant videos. Creating two high money incomes while doing what he enjoys, it's a smart move.
I also think that he doesn’t want to use his Fortnite channel to grow this one.
This is more of a life advice than advice on how to get better at valorant 😂😂
See, your point number 7, mentality, is the one I struggled with the most. Not in the way you might think though. I DID ask "what could I have done better" or "how could I have avoided that death". So much so, it got to the point i was blaming everything on myself, from my own deaths to the round outcomes to the final score and even to the performance of my own teammates. "Maybe if i just commed more information they could have clutched". "Maybe I just needed to put more positivity in the voice chat and raise their spirits." it was a slippery slope for me and i had to reign myself back in because it was starting to deteriorate my own confidence knowinig that everything, in one way or another, was my fault.
I feel one fundamental you missed (or should have expanded on in Game Sense) is positioning. It’s def a part of game sense, but it’s so important that it should have been brought up separately. If you play flashes, play defensive flash zones. If your teammates aren’t playing on site, don’t play on site. Figure out if you wanna play an on or off angle: if on, don’t statically hold, and jiggle, and if off, then hold crosshair out wide. Change positions and the angle you’re holding/peeking after each gunfight ends. If splitting a site, make contact at each lane at roughly the same time. Etc…
7:12 I say it because I end up with an average of 1000 + ping at random times as well as constant network warnings and huge fps drops. I am running val on a 2012 workstation (that was insane for its time). Am I in the right for saying that, or wrong?
As an Iron 3 player, I have completely eliminated any chance of my setup holding me back. I see where I go wrong, not where my teammates are "ruining my game". Sure, there are games where my entire team plays like absolute shit (excuse my french) and I get annoyed then, but I keep trying and keeping improving my own game, rather than pick apart someone elses. Good advice, thanks so much!
Keep going my g❤️🔥, I was hardstuck silver in my 1st year blaming my potato pc, my team, etc.. all were excuses to not improve, so I focused on what I could do differently/better now I peaked immo3, and took this episode off so I could upgrade my rig then come back stronger to hit Radiant❤️🔥
Nah if your stuck iron id call it gg. All you gotta do at that rank is w key with spectre 😂
@@raidenotpbeing stuck in iron doesnt exist
not having played enough does
@@shrek9025 facts
Fair fair@@shrek9025
Amazing video. Thank you for the knowledge. This can be applied to a lot of different games and other things in in life.
Thank you for the video! I might show this to my friends as they so confident in their aim, asking me to 1v1 every single time I tried to explain thing to them (?).
keep up the grind marren
So he actually is marren
@@benibanyai its VERY obvious
@@ninesfn646 i havent seen him acknowledge it before this and after a ~3 year long break from fortnite i didnt trust my memory
Marren?? Are you undercover lol
A10 has a fantastic video about ranked mindset, confronting your ego and focusing on improvement rather than rank. He’s a Top 500 Overwatch coach, but his video applies to other games and life in general. The video is called “Why the Secret to Winning is Losing”
Perfect example vid of how ticktok and reels editing tricks shd be put into play in editing. GREAT VID BTW
"i am iron 1 but i play like a radiant player" -My teammate that died beacose he was planting right next to a enemy
"Dont crouch" proceeds to crouch in every single clip
Great video, a must-watch. This is important for all ranks.
Alright I’ll preface this with saying I play CS and not valourant. But playing DM with your crouch unbound is literally such a good tip and idea, and I’m mad I’ve never thought about that. Good shit
I think why people blame their teammates significantly more often than finding the mistake in their own behavior is that we naturally judge people by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. If people understood their teammates intentions they probably wouldn’t blame them as much. Plus, obviously it’s a nicer feeling to not be guilty of the roundloss yourself
yes but when you have a duelest at the bottom of the leaderboard rushing in and dying then it kinda is their fault
we were on defense lol on attack they would just sit back @@vangattan
BRO IS NOT MARRENTM
Hahah
Thx for mentioning lineups. It genuinely triggers me how some people look down on lineups, especially when some agents are literally lineup required like sova & fade. They be calling lineups cringe until they die from one.
the issue is people in low elo who force them every single round when their not needed
7:58 i was super focused until you did THIS.....BRO this was fire....its like holding for the jump peek at mid top in ascent with an op but cooler
I watched that live lol
Isn’t this the fortnite guy?
So its not just me who recognised his voice
its impressive how a simple "dude well done" after a clutch helps with the mental, even if they knew they did good
I would add to the mentality point you made, that mindset is what causes a lot of potentially good players to be very inconsistent. And with mindset i don't mean that you talk positively to yourself or that you try to motivate yourself, i mean mindset in the literal sense, meaning how your brain is actually operating while you play, which ties in with the point you made about reflecting your play after you win/lose a round. People make the mistake of doing these things DURING the round which will lead to them whiffing/freezing/peeking lazy etc.. During a round you want to think as little as possible and focus as much as possible on what you're seeing on screen and reacting instinctively, which sounds easy, but is incredibly hard to maintain. That is also the reason why some people seemingly perform better when they don't care anymore or if they're listening to music during dm's. Imo it's also the reason why players like TenZ, who has the potential to be the best, fall off completely to the point they perform very bad during matches they really care about, compared to when they just play instinctively.
tl;dr: Practice tapping into flow state as much as possible while you play, and delay actually thinking about strats/mistakes/habits to after the round or to situations you are 100% safe during the round, like during rotates etc. and your consistency in aim and decision making will improve drastically.
i can relate to this because every time i play in my singles championships in tennis i say "no thx, i dont want to see my mistakes". now i realize that in valorant and in tennis, for me, i need to rewatch that.
I changed my mindset from, "Why is my teammates so bad" to "What did I do wrong this round" and I moved from bronze to ascendant in 2 acts.
What Agents did you play?
@@mith3879if you want to improve the fastest, play duelist. It will improve most of your skills via aiming, movement, game sense, etc. playing agents that may not get you into more combat, will be slower to learn the fundamentals and more. If you are engaging in fights more often, you will improve much faster even if you are not a duelist main. Finding atleast one duelist your alright with, play with it more often and you will see a slight if not major speed difference in your improvement. I went from bronze to gold in 1 act because of this.
Cap
@@raidenotp believe what u want, it's your life after all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@At0mic.Shad0w can u give a tracker link or ur ingame name? Becasue i found it hard to belive that u wennt in 2 acts from bronz to Ascendent. I do think u could go in 2 acts from bronze to plat or low dia
amazing video man playing this game for more than 2 years straight opened my eyes!
The last point hits hard for me, I can apply that towards any other skill as well; if you don't listen back and try to improve from what you did before then how will you ever truly master a skill?
Something really interesting to me, is that I'm quite good at every single one of these skills, especially aiming and mentality which were frankly excellent, and only after I stopped taking valorant seriously, is when I ranked up, I stopped taking valorant seriously due to not being able to communicate due to mic issues and I ranked up which makes me truly curious as to what my issues were in valorant, I can only presume that I communicated too much and that got me to lose focus and that my fps issues may had caused the game to be downright unplayable which only dropped in gunfights as it was a cpu issue. I was hardstuck gold for a while yet in many situations I am confident that I did perform very well. And I never believed that my teammates were bad or did not listen to me, which makes me truly curious as to what had made me not be able to match my "potential" and what precisely I was missing.
I agree with everything you said other than "top fragging should be expected". What should be expected is having sufficient for your rank knowledge of fundamentals of a tac fps game (like how map control works, the ins and outs of your agent and your role within a given composition, econ management, being able to give and react to info etc.). Of course you shouldn't just go negative but unless you are smurfing, I would say going positive in K/D is a reasonable target but in general, you will feel it when you have impact, I can have single digit kill games where I know I am an asset to my team, not saying it couldn't get better or that being bad in the frag department is always excusable, but in general playing the game in the correct way will help become a contributing player way and be able to win games with lesser teammates, even in the those games when you just don't feel your aim and it happens to the best of them (and us), mechanics in general will come as long as you give in the hours and play concious deathmatch (understanding the flaws in your mechanics and actively training them) but that should never be the bulk of your time, this ain't fortnite!
damn this doesn't only apply to valorant but also in other games that i play too, maybe also in real life. damn man, keep it coming. u've earned a sub
This video is very helpful esp for low ranks as me, but even high ranks can find their mistekes here. I honestly think i do all of these mistakes at some level lol. Butttt wanted to mention that pc did matter for me, cause when i played on my friend's setup for 3 weeks and got used to it i ranked up from s1 to p1 easily when i played on a small old laptop before. Nothing changed in my plys besides setup, so it can be a thing for some, but others aspect in the video imo are the main reasons ppl dont rank up thinking they are good
The one about having hope is important, but something just as important is not getting complacent
This might be somewhat unrelated, but i had a badmin match a couple years ago where i was ahead 18-8 in the third set, and I ended up loosing 19-21 because i thought i had already won
Best video,i understood very much from video than the other many videos i watched from other channel
This background song, I recognize it from the rise of nAts video. I normally use the video to give me an inspiration to play and help me to focus better. And also to train more on all 7 fundamentals.
I hate the idea of unbinding crouch, because if you actually know anything about habits/addiction, this does practically nothing, the best way to crouching less is to keep it blinded by consciously focus on not using, and learning when you should use it, as if you unbind it, you will either never use it, which is not ideal, or you will try and use it optimally but because you unbinded it, you will just go back to crouch spamming. The best way to remove a habit/addiction is to have the thing you are trying to get rid of still around you, in this case keeping crouch binded, as you are learning to avoid the temptation rather than just avoiding the entire mechanic. If you avoid the mechanic, you will either have to keep it unbinded, or you’ll just give 8n to temptation.
I've gotta say this. When you are playing ranked, it is significantly easier if you can play with a close friend or two. Playing in a duo or trio significantly improves your strategic thinking compared to solo queue or full 5 stacks. I also wanted to say that game sense and understanding some basic strategy goes a long way in your match. Don't just rush A or rush B. If you wanted to play slow, then always make sure to captivate on your opponents mistakes. I have won countless rounds just because the enemy keeps running around and reveals all their position via sounds. Attacking becomes much easier when you realize you are attacking a weak site and you can just trade your kills to secure a win
To some degree i think thinking yourself as a good player may help, BUT when accompanied by properly defining and knowing what good means to you. Because for me, i always think myself as good, because it helps me to gain confidence but at the same time i know that my “good” isn’t the same good as pro player good, and that there’s higher height to be achieved. So i basically think that i’m good but not good at the same time. And i alao dont really blame my teams that much if im mad about em i just go quiet and turn up some songs. And hey that got me to immo last season
Saying what am I doing whenever reflecting on anything especially gaming is so big and a great way to improve to the max
Such a good Video, i learned a lot, thats worth a sub
Best guide ive seen, in every part of my life, this mainly applyies
Radiant player here! 1 thing I would like to add is that instead of unbinding crouch I would put it as every time you crouch it pulls out your knife, so you lose the gunfight instead of having no punishment for crouching!
Great video man keep it up!
I like the harsh critiques. You straight up ripped my excuses and therefore ego.
Love the content ❤
Just out of curiosity, what editing software do you use? :)
These vids are really good, I have ranked up on val and Fortnite thanks to you
you've earned a sub thx alot
im Bronze but i mostly play with high ranks not getting carried or boosted now when i play on mmy own rank i expect my team to use they're ability i want them to but
my gamesense is my biggest flex, my utility usage oh that one is pretty sh*t, mentality im not a rager but my mentality is like Joshseki, my aim is decent most games i play well some games are bad, movement im decent as a duelist main (mostly Raze and Neon), i got my tactics from watching VCTs my team just dont understand them most of them dont even have mics, my comms are godly paired with my gamesense & mentality, Last but not the least aiming Its decent most of the time i know how to control my aim by not spraying but also most of the time i forget that mechanic so i spray, if i die i blame myself for pushing "why did i push bruh we're defenders" but i also blame my teamate for not pushing with me or giving me smoke tho i commed it, My biggest blame tho is for this mouse & keyboard which sometimes doubles the letters i type & and this old windows 7 laptop that is reformated to windows 10 so i can play valorant
The first thing you said "Ye i ain't reading allat'
i was hardstuck silver playing solo, but then i started palying 5 stack with my friends and now i'm diamond. I was stuck mostly because i was only comfortable on raze, so i think learning more agents is important too
Bro I got too distracted with the background gameplay, you're so insanely good holy shit.
Btw, what's your DPI and sens?
Tht was actually such a great video 💯🔥
For me my hardware really was an issue, I was playing on a gaming laptop for a long time and it didnt have great performence, becuase of this I was stuck p2 for a long time. But as soon as I upgraded to an actual gaming pc and got a 240hz monitor I got to d2 in 6 days and I’m still climbing very fast with over 65% win rate
thank you for your advice it really helps
honestly all of your points can also be implemented to CS2 and as someone that only plays cs2 thank u man, helps alot
I think another fundamental is trading and positioning > where post plant is part of that
5:01 "trusting myself compared to my DEAD tm8s" that silent anger was visible
Lot of good advice here. Need to check myself more often
Mindset is a big one for me. But not towards my teammates but towards myself. If i miss 1 shot or make 1 wrong move or die i just judge myself soo badly. Im so ashamed i did something wrong and afraid people will start yelling at me. So i do it to myself first😅. And i will just get tilted like that. Im very much ashamed that im in iron 2
That ace at the beginning of the video was nuts lol
honestly think the trading and util usage are the most imporatnt thing dia+. I mean obv theres some ppl in diamond that need to work on their aim and movement, but I think most aim's crosshair placement is good enough. Its more about their ability to work as a team and use util.
qick tip if you look at youre mistakes just laugh at them with or with out friends makes it more fun and efectiv
Thanks for the Video I learn a lot
I just have to say set up does make a difference but it should be a small amount as I have lag out of games or even had teammates ask if I am lagging on ranked I have gone from iron 1 to bronze 2 as of now I would say that the only thing that would make a difference is consistency other wise your best is the best at the time and if you can’t play at all then you should not be playing
This video make so much sense since it came from someone who's atleast have an athlete mentality ❤love this type of content❤
I was playing the other day, (and for context, I currently have TRASH internet because it's satellite internet while there's solar activity, and I haven't been able to even get ethernet hooked up) and I was pretty much just getting upset that I was being held back by my internet while still maintaining the idea that I'm better than the players I was playing with. But I basically just ended up with confidence like I was smurfing when I'm not and even when I felt that I was trying I was making more mistakes than I should.
After the game I thought to myself (largely because of a video I was watching), what if it's not just my internet? Ran a dm, reviewed it and then focused on clearing things patiently in a second dm. Did way better despite the lag.
Basically I had gotten really lazy with how I cleared angles and just kind of swept around the angle, which means I'm not actually expecting the enemy there, which means I'm not aiming properly.
There is one thing I have to call out about the Setup so rn I am plat 3 peaked dia 1 a day ago but my pc gets worse and worse and bought a new one bc everytime I got peaked I had a mili second frozen screen or my game random crashed or idk my pc didnt react. I played my whole time on this pc so I know how it is to play low Performance and that a low tier pc or lags can hold you back. Best example is my friend who loved val but played it on laptop with like 30 fps after he switched he got better. Ofc is this just one thing u need to be able to aim good, communicate well have game sense and stuff but I think its important to let u know
Yo is that you playing in the clips in the vid? That looks like pro gameplay perfect aim and crosshair placement . Im curious who the clips are
On that last point of watching ur own matches, how would you recommend I record them in order to see my mistakes?
I agree that you can be good regardless of your hardware but I used to play on an old bad laptop that barely ran the game and then changed to a newer better pc and saw a great improvement in my gameplay.
Hi, can you make a video on mouse control and overcoming hand fatigue(more common with claw grip) and similar physical aspects which improves quality of life? I think many need help in those especially. Thank you for the amazing content
you get hand fatigue? Dont death grip the mouse cuz it absolutely shakes up everything
@@submaryne3518 do you think some good quality grip tapes help? Part of that tight feeling is also due to the coating of the mouse.
@@DiffGeoTopo Not that i know of, but if grip tapes need to be used to fix the gripping issue then are you sure your mouse isnt too big/small?
yeah im sure, currently with xtrfy m4 with 18*10.5 cm hands@@submaryne3518
thanks a lot btw for helping me in the comments!
I am a GM Overwatch player and a lot of the "What am I doing wrong" mentality also applies and is what I've been doing on Valorant as well
btw my k.d is 1.2, i play as sentinel and i never mvp (3 mvps for 280 games this act) and i got from plat to asc this act and i'm very happy about it, just record your games, review vods, check pro vods and train aim and scuccess will be nearby
Tbh for me the main problem (on cs cuz i like it more than val) is consistency in aiming. That’s because by watching lots of analysis and pro games im not really bad at shotcalling and my group manage to win pretty easily IF our aim is good. The problem is having that consistency in aiming. Right now im at gold nova /master guardian level on csgo (now cs2) which i can say can be like plat in val? We are still climbing and i think we can reach a rank a little higher but more than that point i think its difficult if you have time costraints too. Then it becomes a matter of enjoying even a loss if you played your cards well. I started enjoying games i lost when i knew i made right calls and we all followed, even if the other team is much better aiming wise
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great video as always, what is ur dpi and sens btw?
The way I see it is like in sports your not going to get a perfect pass or throw you also have to adapt
Yeah i agree with the top frag thinking they are better rank mindset,
All the way till bronze to platinum my rating is very high and my bad or below avg days are when im top 4 or below on game scoreboard. So I naturally think im around plat3-diamond2 range (p1 rn).
but I know even though im doing good on score, im throwing on average, 6 or so rounds, which im trying to fix before hitting diamond. Hopefully I can fix my round throwing decision making before than 😊
I love this video
Thanks for this!
This is some really good advice :)
I struggle to see what I do wrong when I play, even when I rewatch my clips, I just feel like most deaths were just unlucky and I can't improve because I cannot identify what mistakes I am making.
I play milsim so communication is key and finding people that talk and fall in line to move as a group with a bit of gamesense is difficult. More of a team game and much more relaxed and can jump on whenever without having to try hard. Just know where common base setups are and take commander and airstrip them.
Going to apply this mindset to poker. Was making a shit ton of money when I started. Kind of plateuad and blamed it on variance. Maybe I've gotten too comfortablw
I totally agree with this, there is one problem. low elo players are not just hard stuck because of team mates they are screamin at there duelist for not entering too.
I am a jett main I have 2 IDS, on one I am acendent 2, the rank that opened in this episode was plat 3, easy climb. but then the other ID is hard stuck on silver/Gold. not even that the team maters are totally outta there mind lacking skills and game sense and when you provide calls they wont listen and then they are better and lose the round. its really on team how they play not on players them selfs if they mastered it. I get called out in gold lobby for bottom fragging where as my taem wwont enter site and there would be some guy sitting behind and taking end round frags or lurk kills where as in acendent lobby if I am in site I see all 4 players in site ready to trade me and fight with me, that a key difference. I often get like players who are just numb and doesnt know what they are doing in game in low elo.