Please help me with aim.

[misty pendant]

Need a lot more context to really help you out.

First of all, what is your benchmark rank like and which categories do you struggle the most with?

Which playlist(s)/scenarios are you playing?

Also understand that flicking technique is one of the more difficult techniques to master. Several weeks can be considered "not enough" for now.

A VOD of you playing the scenario or scenarios you struggle with can also be helpful to give more direct feedback

[misty pendant]

Thanks for answering.

Okay so to start out, start with the benchmarks first that can be found in #resources. If you are using Aimlabs you can use the "Valorant benchmarks" found in the webportal that is linked in the same channel.

This benchmarklist gives you an overview of your strengths and weaknesses, which allows you to do 3 things:

1. You either keep re-doing the Valorant benchmarks in terms of training, given that they are made for both training and benchmarking

2. You continue doing the Woohoojin routine as long you feel like it still provides enough challenge

3. Or you do the fundamentals routine (#resources) to work on overall aim, or the VDIM routine if you want to work on very specific aim categories:

LG56's Daily Improvement Guide
KovaaKs: https://bit.ly/LG56VDIM
Aimlab: https://bit.ly/VDIMdoc

Which playlist you play is up to your personal preference.

Don't aimtrain more than 2 hours maximum per day. Beyond that you will hit dimishing returns.

If you feel like a playlist is too long, then either take regular breaks or split up the playlist over the day or 2 days if necessary

[misty pendant]

To answer your flicking question before I forget: flicking is one of the more difficult techniques to get right as I mentioned and will take a lot of time to work on. So make sure you give yourself the time and patience to slowly perfect it over time.

The technique consists of: a fast flick, and a smoother/slower micro correction. This way you balance speed and precision.

Here is a good video on the matter:
https://youtu.be/s6D5EbHt9wM?si=aMnAv3ubRXYyOHor

Lorys in the video talks mostly about making your flicks "explosive" , but if you cannot handle that now, then just start off flicking at a reasonable speed you can manage

[lilac grove]

From my own experience - that just comes with time. The better you get, the more confident and consistent you'll become

In kovaaks/aimlabs?

[misty pendant]

As Panto mentioned, that comes with time and improvement.

You mentioned you have 700 hours of playtime, but honestly the confidence you talk about can come from many things when we talk about the game's perspective.

If you feel like your aim is the issue, then playing the game a lot can make it very difficult to properly "train" your aim, given there are so many factors prohibiting you from doing so. Aimtrainers like Aimlabs/Kovaaks allow you to train in a stress free environment: you can isolate and train specific things much much better than you can in-game.

Your in-game confidence however can stem for many things: your game sense, positioning, crosshair placement yada yada. Remember that Valorant is more than just aim and that you can get a very high rank with proper crosshair placement and positioning alone.

In terms of consistency, I want to mention 2 imporant things:

• Both our performance, and improving our performance will always be met with peaks and dips. Improvement/skill isn't linear. Given that we as humans are just naturally inconsistent, you should expect your days to be too.

Some days you are kicking ass. Some other days you feel like you can barely hold your mouse. This might even change on an hour-to-hour basis. This all has to do with our focus and the many many factors that we simply cannot control. The only real things you can do to "minimize the damage" is:

1. Make sure you sleep well.
2. Stay hydrated.
3. Take regular breaks.

You might often notice that when you start gaming, you perform your best the first hour or so, and then play worse and worse as time goes on. Well, that is just your focus diminishing, thus having frequent breaks can be very helpful.

And as I said - there are plenty factors outside of our control that can cause some inconsistency. Expect them to happen.

• The second important point is: aiming is subconscious. One big problem that people have is that people keep overanalyzing their aim both in-game and in the trainer. You cannot "force" yourself to aim a specific way. Your subconscious knows how to do so, and you can only allow your subconscious to take over if you focus on the game, and NOT your aim.

Have you ever had moments where you hit some nasty shots, thought to yourself "damn, how did I do that? I want to do it again" only to fail miserably? Those shots were done by your subconscious. Then your conscious kicked in and tried too hard to replicate it.

The only time you want to be conscious of your aim is when you are trying to find and break bad habits during aim training.

You want to focus on all aspects surrounding your match, meaning your positioning, proper crosshair placement, enemy rotations and what not. Simply put; focus on the game itself.

Getting too hung up on bad aim performance, like missing a flick, just pulls attention away from what really matters.

Obviously, if your aim in general is pretty mediocre, then your hand-eye coordination might struggle to replicate the things you preferably want to do, but this all can be trained 🙂

And in an aim trainer you can worry about your aim lmao

I recommend the routines that I mentioned before. They are long, but it is fine to split them up.

You can for example just do 30 minutes of the playlist, and finish the rest later that day or tomorrow.

In terms of content, I am not super familiar with many creators, but both MattyOW and RiddBTW have good videos on aimtraining.

And Woohoojin for general Valorant stuff.

I never played it so I can't judge, but I believe it is a well-respected routine.