How to choose a good mouse, DPI and sensitivity?

[daring walrus]

I have 2.5k hours on Apex Legends and about 250 hours on aim trainers (both KovaaK's and Aim Lab). After all this time, I still feel extremely unsatisfied about my aim. I tried probably +15 mice, and played bunch of sensitivities from 60cm/360 up to 20cm/360, and also tried about 5 different mousepads from control to speed. I feel like my aim is not on point and that it's keeping me back from getting better in general at FPS. The problem is that at this point I cannot define which aspects make a mouse, mousepad, DPI and sens relevant to me for getting to a better level of general skill. If anyone has suggestions, they are welcome. I would like to just reset everything and start again the journey to find my endgame mouse and settings...

[winged talon]

Your problem is that you are thinking the issue is the mouse/settings

When all it takes is practice

Regardless of how bad your setup/settings are

Now of course, there's some things you do want to upgrade if you can like getting a 144hz monitor

And making sure games can run at a solid framerate (preferably above or matching your refresh rate)

But other than that, most modern mice/mousepads are going to be absolutely fine to do well on

Here's a twitter thread I made about this, just to strengthen these points as well

https://twitter.com/sinizap/status/1592590438896369664?s=20

VT sini (@sinizap)

Friendly reminder that you do not need to worry about micro details in your setup.

You can still improve and get good aim & fps skills regardless of how unideal your setup is.

Below is image of how scuffed @Stewie's old setup was, yet he reached pro level despite of it.

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Twitter · Nov 15, 2022, 6:48 PM

I think these tips are going to be relevant to you as well, don't only look at your aim for improvement. In-game there's so many factors that can actually impact how much you can utilise your aim. It might just be that you are creating constantly unnecessarily hard aim moments for yourself in-game.

https://twitter.com/sinizap/status/1592172922948694017?s=20

VT sini (@sinizap)

No matter the outcome, there is always room for improvement

Always try to look for things you can do better!

By deliberately focusing on factors that you have an impact on, you can minimise how much ''RNG'' affects your games. This sets a good player apart from the rest.

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Twitter · Nov 14, 2022, 3:09 PM

You will need to open it up to read the entire thread, but I think those tips will pertain to your issues quite a lot.

Check the #tips channel for tips regarding sens btw @daring walrus

[clever zodiac]

I used to have a similar problem to you. The best thing is to be consistent with your setup(mouse,mousepad) for atleast a month, different shapes and mousepad affect your aimstyle.

And secondly imo don't stray from your main sens for too long, aimtrain with different sens only if it looks like your plateauing, if you aimtrain consistently with different sens and rarely go back to your main sens, it will hurt your aim. The reasoning is from my experience, the way you aim is affected by what sens you use, muscle memory won't dissapear but your aiming habits will change with different sens. If you use 60cm and 20cm when aim training and rarely train with your main, it will create an imbalance in the parts you use to aim with your main sens

So basically to sum it up, choose a setup and stick with it for a month and train/warmup with your main sens, use a different sens to train if you feel you're plateauing in a certain aspect like speed or accuracy( don't train on a different sens for too long)

Edit:
I didn't read the part where you asked how to choose a setup,mb.

1. For mouse, choose a mouse that makes you feel like it's an extension of your hand, that makes you forget you're even holding a mouse.

2. Mousepad imo just choose a random one that compliments your aimstyle and the game you play. Well since it's apex probably a speed pad.

3. Dpi doesn't matter

4.senstivity, since you wanna reset, just a choose a sens that you get the most consistent scores with. Only change sens if you feel like your plateauing in a certain aspect(after that either lower or higher it depending on your weakness and train), and never use a different Sens for too long.