floral tide
Hello, (sorry for slightly scuffed vod) I've seen a few videos on pasu technique but i'm not sure if I am applying it correctly. I try to be as smooth as I can but I still suck at it, I'm not sure if thats the correct approach or if I should be flicking more?
I think I need to spend more time on harder scenarios to push my accuracy, but when I try to do that even on this one I end up tracking it too much
Any advice would be appreciated
round thistle
Your mouse technique looks pretty good, you’ll be able to scale it with speed since it’s stable and controlled. Your understanding of patterns in pasulikes needs work. Play a lot more pasulike and improve your understanding of bot movements.
Watching the VOD your biggest wasted movement comes from the indecision you have on which bot to chase next; you double back constantly and change your mind on which bot to go grab.
Once you pick a bot go click it
Don’t go back for bots you miss
Approach each bot in a smooth (not necessarily slow) fashion
Aggressively chain bots that spawn in close succession to make up for stable pace
floral tide
tysm! I'll work on that tonight in my next session I think it'll help a lot
round thistle
tysm! I'll work on that tonight in my next session I think it'll help a lot
Mattyow has 500+ hours in pasu alone for reference
Don’t be afraid to just put the hours in and sleep on it
floral tide
Don’t be afraid to just put the hours in and sleep on it
thats what I did to get master on it but I thought playing it too much might be a bad idea
round thistle
thats what I did to get master on it but I thought playing it too much might be ...
That’s silly
Pasu is ALL about pattern recognition
floral tide
thats true actually, if anything its the one scenario I should be playing a lot
floral tide
I hated it at first but its actually kinda fun
round thistle
Dynamic clicking is literally also What Happens in Real Games
floral tide
will improving my pasu scores help with other dynamic clicking scenarios? like vt angleshot valorant and vt microshot valorant
round thistle
Flicking to a target we anticipate to keep going predictably, tracking targets we anticipate will swerve on us
round thistle
will improving my pasu scores help with other dynamic clicking scenarios? like v...
No they’re different pattern types
Yes improving your technique Carrie’s to everything else
But bounce type is a pattern that is applied to a ton of scenarios
floral tide
ahh ok that makes sense
round thistle
So yes but no
floral tide
Dynamic clicking is literally also What Happens in Real Games
yeah I need to put a lot more time into it its definitely a weakness for me rn
round thistle
Ya it’s the most realistic tool to learn
Not everything needs to be tracked, but everything has a ttk of at least one click
floral tide
yeah
floral tide
only by 3 currently but its definitely feeling better
if I set myself like 10 mins to do the scenario I end up only finishing like 3 runs because of restarts if I really fuck up or lose focus
not sure if thats a bad thing, also currently focusing on keeping smooth aim and the picking a bot then click it, don't go back if miss it part
going to prac some static on 80cm now
round thistle
if I set myself like 10 mins to do the scenario I end up only finishing like 3 r...
Yeah that’s going to happen it’s pasu
Do not I repeat do not associate progress with finishing scenarios
Just get reps and reps and reps
And pace for pb
And pbs will pop out
floral tide
Do not I repeat do not associate progress with finishing scenarios
perfect, I actually used to think like that till recently lol, then I realised my sessions were becoming really long so I changed it to setting myself 10 or so mins to do the task then taking a break
30mins turned into over an hour 😭
floral tide
And pace for pb
i'm not sure how to think about pacing, like I go in and just try to click properly and go faster if they are closer together
but not much beyond that
round thistle
What’s your pb?
What does pb look like at 15 seconds in? (Score / 4)
Before you reset a run what is your score looking like?
Use those things to monitor fragments productively.
round thistle
perfect, I actually used to think like that till recently lol, then I realised m...
This is the rest of your time aim training
floral tide
ahh I see, I have the aim/score part on the top turned off but I should turn that back on for sure
I turned it off to help with mental because I used to think resetting when i'm not on pace for a pb was bad/not high enough accuracy
floral tide
This is the rest of your time aim training
wdym?
this 80cm/360 for static is working well btw its a good balance between arm and wrist so i'm noticing my flicks seem solid but my micros are kind of weak
round thistle
wdym?
Your time in the trainer is going to be about x2 hours per rank
So Gm will be as long as the entire rest of your journey
floral tide
Your time in the trainer is going to be about x2 hours *per rank*
ahh I see
round thistle
With focused practice and breakthroughs you’ll speed that process up
But we are now making fine refinements on our technique
floral tide
But we are now making fine refinements on our technique
yep
round thistle
In particularly we are taking our intermediate technique which to my eyes is the equivalent of taking a minivan and putting our finger down on the accelerator until we are at 90 mph and the frame is shaking from the stress
floral tide
is it wrong to focus on just one scenario in each category to try get those to gm first?
round thistle
And converting it into the final mature technique which we can scale forever.
floral tide
In particularly we are taking our intermediate technique which to my eyes is the...
lmfao
round thistle
In other words we have to retool our technique and approach for everything using what we know so that it scales into advanced scores
Most advanced scenarios aren’t much more demanding on paper; faster, smaller.
But intermediate tasks allow for a shaking minivan of a technique if you go fast enough
And advanced scenarios will fuck you if you aren’t in a smooth ride at 100mph
floral tide
But intermediate tasks allow for a shaking minivan of a technique if you go fast...
yeah i'm really noticing the difference between how I was practicing intermediate vs advanced
it feels a lot better to be improving my technique now, like i'm going in the right direction
round thistle
That’s why you’re going to sit down for and not finish more than a handful of runs for pasu
And it’s fine
floral tide
like I have noticed my aim in game and in aimlabs being more consistent and better overall already, but I don't want to call myself a good aimer till I have brought my technique up to advanced level and pushed it further
floral tide
That’s why you’re going to sit down for and not finish more than a handful of ru...
that makes sense
round thistle
Because during the session you’re putting in good reps being aware of your technique
I used to think Gm was when your technique became flawless and you pushed speed
Now I understand that is actually nova.
Consider that the point where you have become fully consistent in your application of aim and are simply working on speed and granular optimization
This is also why I am in my thread pushing pasu all the time even though I already have a Gm score in it
The whole time I am training I am not looking at Gm pace at all because it’s not my end goal
I’m looking at what my technique needs for nova
floral tide
The whole time I am training I am not looking at Gm pace at all because it’s not...
thats fair
round thistle
So I am very very minded in refining technique first
So what I’m mainly looking for is ‘can I make my technique feel like I can scale it up’
floral tide
So what I’m mainly looking for is ‘can I make my technique feel like I can scale...
thats a good way of thinking
round thistle
My old static technique was a shaking high way minivan
But now I’m working on making it scale
For TS it’s going to be ‘can I reach my old pbs with half the tension I used to have’
And that will happen by directly using my mature static technique and applying it to Ts
floral tide
And that will happen by directly using my mature static technique and applying i...
I started grinding TS a bit recently and managed to get close to GM on skyswitch, but after a few more days it doesn't feel like its worth grinding on its own and working on my static would be more effective
round thistle
It will greatly help you to think about which aim techniques lie at the fundamentals of all the other ones
Smooth and clean strafe response
Responsive and effortless flicks and micros
These are the building blocks of all other techniques
Dynamic works out micros specifically
floral tide
Dynamic works out micros specifically
I already knew my micros needed to be better, but focusing more on dynamic has really revealed the extent of it
I was doing about 10 mins a day of a 180 centering advanced map to work on my smoothness with a higher sens, but I think its basically just the smoothness in my arm thats gotten better, so would it help with micros/other areas to change that to trying to work on smoothness in my wrist?
round thistle
I was doing about 10 mins a day of a 180 centering advanced map to work on my sm...
Turn your sens up
floral tide
Turn your sens up
It was already a lot higher then I normally use so I didn't want to up it more but I def will now
round thistle
The next breakthrough is going to be breaking through a super clean precision technique into your reactive range.
And that will make you fucking kill reactive
For most people they should have a pretty sizeable gap between their precise and their reactive categories
To start
But after 1000 fast strafes your brain adjusts to the visual stimuli and you can regulate the action
floral tide
For most people they should have a pretty sizeable gap between their precise and...
yep, its closed now since I spent a lot of time focusing on other categories rather then tracking
and my reactive improved from that
I was stuck on pilltrack intermediate being almost master for like literally ages then crushed it when I came back after training up other things
round thistle
I think the master Gm grind is a really good way to demonstrate why the scenarios were selected
And why categories are all useful even if some are derivative of others
But static is the most rigid and the one that will grow the slowest
floral tide
I think the master Gm grind is a really good way to demonstrate why the scenario...
is it bad to focus on like just one scenario in each category to bring it to gm before bringing up my weaknesses?
floral tide
But static is the most rigid and the one that will grow the slowest
yup thats the experience i've had
round thistle
is it bad to focus on like just one scenario in each category to bring it to gm ...
This is a Jim question and you know it
You should do what’s sustainable for you.
If it gets you in the chair practicing then it’s a dub
Don’t overthink it
Eventually you’ll get good enough that you no longer care about rank
And can enjoy tough scenarios on their own merits for being the equivalent of a compound lift in the gym
floral tide
thats true but I thought maybe the other scenarios would enhance the one i'm practicing and overall allow me to improve faster or something
round thistle
Look at pgti
A bitch of a scenario that blends like 4 skills
It’s dynamic and it’s hard and it’s fun
round thistle
thats true but I thought maybe the other scenarios would enhance the one i'm pra...
I mean sure
But so would improving the other ones
floral tide
true, thats why I've been trying to get these up first
round thistle
Look at my sheet
floral tide
my idea for the aimlabs benchmarks is get gm, then get my intermediate weaknesses up to jade/master then focus on the next rank
floral tide
Look at my sheet
where can I see it?
floral tide
clean
round thistle
I am significantly more well rounded
floral tide
and that was after bringing the scenarios in advanced further?
floral tide
damn nice
round thistle
You will too
floral tide
ty for the advice, I definitely feel more confident in this path now lol
round thistle
But yeah tldr it’s time to detach yourself from your score
And really just celebrate the pursuit of technique
And in that pursuit you’ll make gains
floral tide
yeah that makes sense
round thistle
You are not getting any farther without overhauling your aim
It has to be more stable and balanced and scalable
I think this is a common issue; the intermediate benches encourage people to basically hard force their flawed technique to go faster by not punishing them enough with small or fast bots
They know this
It’s designed on purpose to be like this
You should be grateful to the voltaic staff for doing a great job at balancing their benches for your journey
The intermediate benches are there for scenario immersion and teaching a player how to work hard
floral tide
I think this is a common issue; the intermediate benches encourage people to bas...
yep thats exactly what I did
floral tide
they put a lot more thought into the benches then appears on the surface
round thistle
You can use these ideas to improve as well
It stands to reason that you can actually make an advanced scenario even smaller, even faster
And force yourself to work on technique
When you notice that you’re no longer able to work on technique it’s time to supplement with a harder scenario
floral tide
When you notice that you’re no longer able to work on technique it’s time to sup...
ahh I see
yeah that makes sense
round thistle
In that regard, there’s your reason to grind other scenarios
Same category fundamental, different bot type
Broadening your aim technique
floral tide
ok that does make sense
