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.
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
@@nofficerrthe 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
@@minkyungsolo that's just how high ranks look like, u could be Tenz or Aspas but if that random Radiant #28 hits a clip he makes anyone look like a bot.. and please emphasize the High rank statement, i don't mean immortal 1 2 or 3 i mean radiants, genuine radiants.
@@kxzlive8763 it's not just what he's doing. all the players around him can't hit even the easiest shots. there were times when he had his back turned and players were still whiffing shots from a 5m distance
@@kxzlive8763 There is whiffing when you're Radiant, and whiffing because you're low elo and can't even hit body shots with a Vandal (in more than one clip) when there's someone right in front of you. I can see the difference between those types of whiffing, but there is no point in trying to explain this to you, since you won't change your opinion and neither will I. I won't reply to anything after this.
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 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
🎯 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.
@@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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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 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!!
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.
And then my ass over here with 35 assists on Gekko having more impact, entrying, getting first bloods, planting, and our duelists wonder why we hate them
I played duelist one time and I got 10 first bloods the entire game, we won 13-1 because I didn't listen to my team and I trusted myself, something I didn't think to do until I looked here
I had an issue where my 5 stack didn't want to practice an entry strategy in custom game because 'it's not that serious' so then as duellist im not going to mindlessly entry and insta die for nothing, why play my role if it's not that serious, right? Obviously they didn't like the fact they couldn't bait their duellist for easy kills. I'm also so sick of people only calling "lets go A or B" but refusing to fake or use any kind of real strategy. It's why I find myself not playing with the team. The other teams know to instant rotate to defend their sites, cus they know my team is too low IQ to fake any site or set-up any lurkers. Why play my role as duellist when no one else is playing their role?
@@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 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 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
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.
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
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
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 :)
thank you for making this video, it really opened my eyes up and i can tell this experience isnt just from valorant but other real world experiences as well. Hope you go far man.
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
my laptop gets about 60-55 fps even on the lowest possible setting and lowest resolution, and this is disregarding the bugs, such as the game occasionally dropping frames mid combat to as low as 10-15, the game rarely not even loading me into a game and only playing audio while on the loading screen or even sudden waves of massive input delay, making some key presses last 10x longer than what i want them to, and throwing off my movement, timings and much more for sometimes the entire round. These i feel are enough to drop what i think is at least silver level skill and dropping me all the way down into bronze 1
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❤️🔥
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
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.
He is right with the top frag thing but sometimes it’s just not possible to win if you’re topfrag and the next best player has 10-20 kills less than you . I know that kills aren’t everything but it still matters a lot
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.
Its kind of true. You wouldn't say you are good at basketball if you couldnt take on some varsity highschool kid. Or someone on a college level sports. You dont have to be olympic level to be good, but to be great.
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
Ok I get it, the mentality benefit of saying WHAT COULD I DO DIFFERENTLY rather than the team, but sometimes you have teammates who are literally braindead and go 3-20 and only buy sheriff or bucky all game? What could I do differently in that situation? Or when I get afk teammates in back to back games round 3? Valorant rank system is fking broken I don't care what anyone says. If you go 30-15 and lose the game you shouuld be getting +5 at least not -16
"I don't care what anyone says" - why even ask then if you don't care? You can't win all the games, sometimes you are are just meant to lose no matter how good you are. That's rank system in team based game. You are not playing a 1v1 game. Have a good day. (late response, I know)
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”
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?
I've watched thousands of valorant videos to improve, and I am here so say this is the best video I've ever seen. Short, informative and calling you to lower your ego and actually improve at your weak sides. The only thing I'd do harder is saying that if you don't do your kills when you get a chance to duel someone, who do you expect to win your games? Harsh truth, but sometimes it's just your aim being bad at crucial moments.
as a hypeman i understand how much encouragement can change person, its amazing how i played once with that guy in silver, he was like bot ot table, and when he was alone i just said "take it easy dont worry" he played the round and died after 2 kills, i called out that he did good job, nothing more,, few times after he was almost top of the table and was feeling good about himself and game he play, we still play from time to time, hes already in diamond after like 6 months after
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 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
Most people are genuinely stupid as hell. I see initiators dying instantly within the first 5 seconds of a round, controllers not smoking before we enter site, duelist not entrying and more. Even when I com to tell them what they are doing wrong, all I get told is "shut up bruh". Like what u want me to do abt that. Teams also can't adapt for the life of them, people die to the same setup, lurk, or set strats each time and won't do anything to different to punish it. I also hate it when duelist instalock, do bad, have no mic, and don't listen to strats we call. Like you can have bad games idc, but if ur playing just stupid and have no mic, that's when it triggers me. I once had a duelist doing poorly but they still had a mic and communicated with us and we still won the game. Team play is literally the center of valorant, if u don't have a good team, ur basically doomed to lose from the start. Thats why I always attempt to see if people have mics in the agent select to see if its a game worth going through with or dodging
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.
As a hardstuck low rank player (high silver/low gold) ... Reflecting on myself instead of whining has brought me a lot of improvement! I run other decisions I could have made by my friends if I fail to clutch or make poor decisions in general. I used to blame my friends a lot when hardstuck a few ranks lower, but have in my opinion improved a lot since I stopped doing that! Sure, I'm still very stuck, but my gamesense has improved a lot and I think about tactics and being a team player much more now! I just wish my aim wasn't a consistent 12% hs but I try to compensate for that with other things until that gradually improves (I can't rlly aim train).
@@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.
@@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
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…
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.
The last point was one of the biggest for me. I used to struggle a lot with trying new things or doing things I wasn't super comfortable with in ranked because of the fear of fucking up and embarrassing myself. It legit could not matter less bro. You might throw a couple rounds or even a game here and there but you'll improve and once you do you'll never have to play with those teammates that you embarrassed yourself in front of again because you'll be higher rank.
I really respect so much people saying that it not your teammates fault but yours if u lose a game and I’m sorry to say it but it’s all f-ing bullshit if every single game I play at least 1 or even 2 or 3 of my teammates (now keep in mind EVERY GAME) are going dibble or even tripple negative. And no I’m not in a low rank if you can call Diamond low and of course I know I’m not the best player ever. But seing this boosted guys in every game I play just tired up a lot. Cuz I rly don’t know what kind of improvements we are even talking about with my brim going 3/16 the 25th game in the row.
I used to be like this and frustrated because I watched so many guides, I mean MANY, and played everyday yet was hardstuck silver. This just goes to show how knowledge =/= application and how hard improvement is to achieve
I feel that watching yourself play is a very key aspect to improving. I just started doing this a while ago and went up 2 ranks in a couple days We need a replay system Riot!!!
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
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.
idk man if i’m taking space on site and getting an opening pick as a duelist and my team is still sitting in main i personally don’t think it’s my fault we lost that round
I have a good aim, the problem is timing .. I wait at some wall some enemies will show up .. & they don't come... As soon as I move, the enemy shows up & kills me 😂
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
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!
Its funny that I don't struggle at all with fundamentals. I'm beyond that but I still have to learn other concepts in pro play to reach radiant and above like Depth, Pacing, Posturing, overthinking midround (aka boaster when he brainlags every clutch for fnatic) and recovering from a mental blackout in under 3 rounds (finding downtime midgame to restart my pacing). Despite peaking Immo 2 I had to surround myself with people who are better than me to learn faster and admit to being a student with a master. And working in all fronts with my coach to develop my foundations as pickup pro scout material, I NEVER stop working. I am forever grateful for the people who have done nothing but help me get to where I am so far. I've never lost my passion and for that I am happy and I'm living the life I always wanted.
I struggle at my mental more than I am anything else. I have the aim to get myself where I need. But I end up panicking, or ending up not making good movements or rotating. Movement is another thing I struggle at and the friends I play with are starting to notice me getting silent and angry at myself whenever I die. So that point hit me deep because I cant ever get mad at anyone other than myself. Which ends up making me play worse. 😅
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?
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 (?).
I agree so much with the part to not backseat someone to avoid putting pressure on them in a clutch then hype them up after clutch. I am a Iron that already played in Bronze lobby and I was in a 1vs4 none of my teammate backseated me or putted pressure on me making me get the clutch. Then all my teammate told me I did a good play. That made me feel good and more confident about what I was doing and I ended up having 15 kills at the end of the game which was the average of the Bronze players in the lobby. I admit that you aren't totally wrong that a bad laptop shouldn't be to blame but for my case because of it I was always lagging in fight reducing my performance I now have a gaming laptop and even my Diamond/Ascendant friend agree that I play way better now and told me that it's really was holding me back. I also often ask a feedback about some clips to get to know what I did wrong/what I could have done differently to my Diamond/Ascendant and my Immortal friend to see what I could do better I often watch them again myself to identify my mistake I agree that we shouldn't be afraid of founding our mistake.
Ive been playing on the console beta, and i have to say my best strong suits are confidence in my plays, my aim, and my util usage. Im not great at comms (i often just talk to talk), my mental gets fucking DESTROYED when we're losing, and i struggle to move in gunfights. Im just new, but i managed to hit Plat on console! Hopefully i can push it higher by working my fundamentals
The one thing he didn't talk about that should also be kept in mind is "Listening" not every time your team is gonna be able to do things in the same pace as u do it. Weither it's a push or retake or any scenario. At those times try to listen to them and what they are comfortable with and how that thing can be taken advantage of. I have seen so many dualist who try to go in and die then complain about the team not coming behind them for trades without factoring in the part where they got mollyed off then will lurk the whole game getting free kills of few then dying without playing the objective thinking they did good. I had this match just today where our opponents jett was just an aim demon for us and as a dualist of my team I was able to get my team in to site and get the plant down even if i can't defeat opponent Jett, but when we came to defense there jet besides being good was not able to win every round on the back of aim and complained about them. Whereas my team was fine with me getting kills or not the whole match as long as I play the objective and get the trades. Sometimes it's just a little belief, sometimes coordination or mind set but u have to listen where your team might be different or have problems around, listening will always help you be a better teammate of course some of the time it all don't matter and u still lose for whatever reason even if your team is just that bad. But those games will always happen just try to fix those that u can and forget about bad ones.
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
This is quite a good video, but I want to add some input about the first section, aiming. Personally, I think people always talk about aim in the wrong way. First of all, you have to break aim down into two parts. 1. The mechanical part; In Valorant, being good at the mechanical aspect of aim is only 1/3 of what you truly need, buts it’s often taught as the most important part. The mechanical part is purely mouse control. The better your mouse control is, the better mechanics you will have. 2. The game sense. Wait, this paragraph is about aim. Why mention game sense? Because AIM IS 2/3 GAMESENSE. This is almost neverrr talked about when aim is taught, but the deeper I dive into aim the more I realize how important it truly is. Crosshair placement is gamesense. Pre-aim is gamesense. I like the call this “aimsense”. In fact, THE BETTER YOUR AIMSENSE, THE LESS MECHANICALLY GOOD YOU NEED TO BE! it really is astounding when you realize it. The less you need to move your mouse, the better. So to all the people who complain about having bad aim, and have played shooters for years and grind aim labs or kovaks all day, you are wasting your time. I’m sure you mechanics are good enough. It’s time to work on your aimsense.
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
I’m new to Valorant and currently I have 15 hours in game because I don’t really have much time to play unfortunately, but here is what I can tell from myself: (1) my aim is ok, I’ve looked into tutorials and watched pro players play and I’ve learned where I have to aim but there is a lot of room for improvement (2) my movement is bad, sometimes I don’t know if I should crouch walk or run but still getting the hang of it (3) I am good with tactics and know exactly what to do or where to go in order to win or get a opportunity or get the opponents off guard and is something that i probably have more hours in studying the maps layouts than playing the game 😂 (4) I am good with communicating with my teammates and cheering them up but I HATE to play with people that don’t speak English, it just makes it impossible to communicate (5) my main rn is sky but I am a agressive player and I think that sky holds me back in doing so since I have to search for info while my teammates work with the info I provide but I don’t really know what other agent to use(suggestions please) still, I’m not very ability wise since most of my games I just completely forget to use the ability and ult (6) my game sence is good, i can sence if an enemy is close by or where they may go but still has alot of room for improvement (7) my mentality was the worst to the point that I punched my monitor because I couldn’t control myself, but now my mentality has never been better, I understand my mistakes and if I don’t I watch the screen recording of my match to see what I did wrong and work with it, although I have to say, some teammates..
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
@@nofficerrthe 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
"Dont crouch" proceeds to crouch in every single clip
also obviously smurfing in said clips
@@minkyungsolo that's just how high ranks look like, u could be Tenz or Aspas but if that random Radiant #28 hits a clip he makes anyone look like a bot.. and please emphasize the High rank statement, i don't mean immortal 1 2 or 3 i mean radiants, genuine radiants.
@@kxzlive8763 it's not just what he's doing. all the players around him can't hit even the easiest shots. there were times when he had his back turned and players were still whiffing shots from a 5m distance
@@minkyungsolo im assumming you don't whiff shots i guess.. and think every one else's clips who include people whiffing means they're smurfing..
@@kxzlive8763 There is whiffing when you're Radiant, and whiffing because you're low elo and can't even hit body shots with a Vandal (in more than one clip) when there's someone right in front of you. I can see the difference between those types of whiffing, but there is no point in trying to explain this to you, since you won't change your opinion and neither will I. I won't reply to anything after this.
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
🎯 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
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.
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 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 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 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!!
different story when you have an 8 year old kid screaming in voice chat while tryna concentrate on the game
Learning muting mechanics lol
@@mhmmmmmmm my head would have imploded already if it wasn't for the mute button
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” 🤓
And then my ass over here with 35 assists on Gekko having more impact, entrying, getting first bloods, planting, and our duelists wonder why we hate them
I played duelist one time and I got 10 first bloods the entire game, we won 13-1 because I didn't listen to my team and I trusted myself, something I didn't think to do until I looked here
@@efun77yeah nah those people are the reason i still won't play ranked without my duo
I had an issue where my 5 stack didn't want to practice an entry strategy in custom game because 'it's not that serious' so then as duellist im not going to mindlessly entry and insta die for nothing, why play my role if it's not that serious, right? Obviously they didn't like the fact they couldn't bait their duellist for easy kills.
I'm also so sick of people only calling "lets go A or B" but refusing to fake or use any kind of real strategy. It's why I find myself not playing with the team.
The other teams know to instant rotate to defend their sites, cus they know my team is too low IQ to fake any site or set-up any lurkers. Why play my role as duellist when no one else is playing their role?
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
@@oltsuuuuuuuu 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.
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
Can we just give props to the gameplay in the background. Damn they're nasty.
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
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.
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
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
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 :)
thank you for making this video, it really opened my eyes up and i can tell this experience isnt just from valorant but other real world experiences as well. Hope you go far man.
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
my laptop gets about 60-55 fps even on the lowest possible setting and lowest resolution, and this is disregarding the bugs, such as the game occasionally dropping frames mid combat to as low as 10-15, the game rarely not even loading me into a game and only playing audio while on the loading screen or even sudden waves of massive input delay, making some key presses last 10x longer than what i want them to, and throwing off my movement, timings and much more for sometimes the entire round.
These i feel are enough to drop what i think is at least silver level skill and dropping me all the way down into bronze 1
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 😂
@@tyfoongomlbeing stuck in iron doesnt exist
not having played enough does
@@shrek9025 facts
Fair fair@@shrek9025
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
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
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.
He is right with the top frag thing but sometimes it’s just not possible to win if you’re topfrag and the next best player has 10-20 kills less than you . I know that kills aren’t everything but it still matters a lot
This is more of a life advice than advice on how to get better at valorant 😂😂
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
I thought all of it was good until bro said “ur not good until immortal”. That’s just fucked.
Its kind of true. You wouldn't say you are good at basketball if you couldnt take on some varsity highschool kid. Or someone on a college level sports. You dont have to be olympic level to be good, but to be great.
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
Ok I get it, the mentality benefit of saying WHAT COULD I DO DIFFERENTLY rather than the team, but sometimes you have teammates who are literally braindead and go 3-20 and only buy sheriff or bucky all game? What could I do differently in that situation? Or when I get afk teammates in back to back games round 3? Valorant rank system is fking broken I don't care what anyone says.
If you go 30-15 and lose the game you shouuld be getting +5 at least not -16
"I don't care what anyone says" - why even ask then if you don't care? You can't win all the games, sometimes you are are just meant to lose no matter how good you are. That's rank system in team based game. You are not playing a 1v1 game. Have a good day.
(late response, I know)
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”
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?
I've watched thousands of valorant videos to improve, and I am here so say this is the best video I've ever seen. Short, informative and calling you to lower your ego and actually improve at your weak sides. The only thing I'd do harder is saying that if you don't do your kills when you get a chance to duel someone, who do you expect to win your games? Harsh truth, but sometimes it's just your aim being bad at crucial moments.
"i am iron 1 but i play like a radiant player" -My teammate that died beacose he was planting right next to a enemy
as a hypeman i understand how much encouragement can change person, its amazing how i played once with that guy in silver, he was like bot ot table, and when he was alone i just said "take it easy dont worry" he played the round and died after 2 kills, i called out that he did good job, nothing more,, few times after he was almost top of the table and was feeling good about himself and game he play, we still play from time to time, hes already in diamond after like 6 months after
Haha that's what I love to hear!
Marren?? Are you undercover lol
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 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
Most people are genuinely stupid as hell. I see initiators dying instantly within the first 5 seconds of a round, controllers not smoking before we enter site, duelist not entrying and more. Even when I com to tell them what they are doing wrong, all I get told is "shut up bruh". Like what u want me to do abt that. Teams also can't adapt for the life of them, people die to the same setup, lurk, or set strats each time and won't do anything to different to punish it. I also hate it when duelist instalock, do bad, have no mic, and don't listen to strats we call. Like you can have bad games idc, but if ur playing just stupid and have no mic, that's when it triggers me. I once had a duelist doing poorly but they still had a mic and communicated with us and we still won the game. Team play is literally the center of valorant, if u don't have a good team, ur basically doomed to lose from the start. Thats why I always attempt to see if people have mics in the agent select to see if its a game worth going through with or dodging
All the cod players complain about sbmm without realising they are the average or below that it's trying to protect
its impressive how a simple "dude well done" after a clutch helps with the mental, even if they knew they did good
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.
Jokes on you, I’m UNCONFIDENT AND THATS WHY I DONT IMPROVE. Can’t be overconfident if you never had confidence to begin with
As a hardstuck low rank player (high silver/low gold) ... Reflecting on myself instead of whining has brought me a lot of improvement! I run other decisions I could have made by my friends if I fail to clutch or make poor decisions in general. I used to blame my friends a lot when hardstuck a few ranks lower, but have in my opinion improved a lot since I stopped doing that! Sure, I'm still very stuck, but my gamesense has improved a lot and I think about tactics and being a team player much more now! I just wish my aim wasn't a consistent 12% hs but I try to compensate for that with other things until that gradually improves (I can't rlly aim train).
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.
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@@tyfoongoml 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
Perfect example vid of how ticktok and reels editing tricks shd be put into play in editing. GREAT VID BTW
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…
the production and style of this video is so good lol, gj
Isn’t this the fortnite guy?
So its not just me who recognised his voice
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
BRO IS NOT MARRENTM
Hahah
5:01 "trusting myself compared to my DEAD tm8s" that silent anger was visible
Bro are u marrentm?
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.
The last point was one of the biggest for me. I used to struggle a lot with trying new things or doing things I wasn't super comfortable with in ranked because of the fear of fucking up and embarrassing myself. It legit could not matter less bro. You might throw a couple rounds or even a game here and there but you'll improve and once you do you'll never have to play with those teammates that you embarrassed yourself in front of again because you'll be higher rank.
I really respect so much people saying that it not your teammates fault but yours if u lose a game and I’m sorry to say it but it’s all f-ing bullshit if every single game I play at least 1 or even 2 or 3 of my teammates (now keep in mind EVERY GAME) are going dibble or even tripple negative. And no I’m not in a low rank if you can call Diamond low and of course I know I’m not the best player ever. But seing this boosted guys in every game I play just tired up a lot. Cuz I rly don’t know what kind of improvements we are even talking about with my brim going 3/16 the 25th game in the row.
Great vid. One thing I never did was VOD review, but I blame that on Valorant not having a replay system 😅
yo the clips in the background are actually nuts
I used to be like this and frustrated because I watched so many guides, I mean MANY, and played everyday yet was hardstuck silver. This just goes to show how knowledge =/= application and how hard improvement is to achieve
amazing video man playing this game for more than 2 years straight opened my eyes!
Thanks man, the last advice really got to me. Good stuff!
wait, bad players think they're good?
Man I think i'm shit since day 1, and I've been playing for over a year
I feel that watching yourself play is a very key aspect to improving. I just started doing this a while ago and went up 2 ranks in a couple days
We need a replay system Riot!!!
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
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.
Dang, i can apply this to real life experience too, thank you
idk man if i’m taking space on site and getting an opening pick as a duelist and my team is still sitting in main i personally don’t think it’s my fault we lost that round
I have a good aim, the problem is timing .. I wait at some wall some enemies will show up .. & they don't come... As soon as I move, the enemy shows up & kills me 😂
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
the quote "what am i doing?" goes hard for life as well
I like the harsh critiques. You straight up ripped my excuses and therefore ego.
" what am I doing, Why am I not acing every round to win us the game "
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!
3:02 THE 9-3 CURSE :0
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7:59 i was gona clown you here but a second later i just laughed at myself 😭
Its funny that I don't struggle at all with fundamentals. I'm beyond that but I still have to learn other concepts in pro play to reach radiant and above like Depth, Pacing, Posturing, overthinking midround (aka boaster when he brainlags every clutch for fnatic) and recovering from a mental blackout in under 3 rounds (finding downtime midgame to restart my pacing).
Despite peaking Immo 2 I had to surround myself with people who are better than me to learn faster and admit to being a student with a master. And working in all fronts with my coach to develop my foundations as pickup pro scout material, I NEVER stop working. I am forever grateful for the people who have done nothing but help me get to where I am so far.
I've never lost my passion and for that I am happy and I'm living the life I always wanted.
Saying what am I doing whenever reflecting on anything especially gaming is so big and a great way to improve to the max
I struggle at my mental more than I am anything else. I have the aim to get myself where I need. But I end up panicking, or ending up not making good movements or rotating. Movement is another thing I struggle at and the friends I play with are starting to notice me getting silent and angry at myself whenever I die. So that point hit me deep because I cant ever get mad at anyone other than myself. Which ends up making me play worse. 😅
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?
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 (?).
I agree so much with the part to not backseat someone to avoid putting pressure on them in a clutch then hype them up after clutch. I am a Iron that already played in Bronze lobby and I was in a 1vs4 none of my teammate backseated me or putted pressure on me making me get the clutch. Then all my teammate told me I did a good play. That made me feel good and more confident about what I was doing and I ended up having 15 kills at the end of the game which was the average of the Bronze players in the lobby. I admit that you aren't totally wrong that a bad laptop shouldn't be to blame but for my case because of it I was always lagging in fight reducing my performance I now have a gaming laptop and even my Diamond/Ascendant friend agree that I play way better now and told me that it's really was holding me back. I also often ask a feedback about some clips to get to know what I did wrong/what I could have done differently to my Diamond/Ascendant and my Immortal friend to see what I could do better I often watch them again myself to identify my mistake I agree that we shouldn't be afraid of founding our mistake.
Ive been playing on the console beta, and i have to say my best strong suits are confidence in my plays, my aim, and my util usage. Im not great at comms (i often just talk to talk), my mental gets fucking DESTROYED when we're losing, and i struggle to move in gunfights. Im just new, but i managed to hit Plat on console! Hopefully i can push it higher by working my fundamentals
The one thing he didn't talk about that should also be kept in mind is "Listening" not every time your team is gonna be able to do things in the same pace as u do it. Weither it's a push or retake or any scenario. At those times try to listen to them and what they are comfortable with and how that thing can be taken advantage of. I have seen so many dualist who try to go in and die then complain about the team not coming behind them for trades without factoring in the part where they got mollyed off then will lurk the whole game getting free kills of few then dying without playing the objective thinking they did good. I had this match just today where our opponents jett was just an aim demon for us and as a dualist of my team I was able to get my team in to site and get the plant down even if i can't defeat opponent Jett, but when we came to defense there jet besides being good was not able to win every round on the back of aim and complained about them. Whereas my team was fine with me getting kills or not the whole match as long as I play the objective and get the trades. Sometimes it's just a little belief, sometimes coordination or mind set but u have to listen where your team might be different or have problems around, listening will always help you be a better teammate of course some of the time it all don't matter and u still lose for whatever reason even if your team is just that bad. But those games will always happen just try to fix those that u can and forget about bad ones.
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
"when you reach immortal, you start being good" is like saying "there are no losable games in Valorant"
Best video,i understood very much from video than the other many videos i watched from other channel
Well said I learn that I needed to record my guitar playing and hear it to see if it sounded like the song
Wait the marrentm valorant yt? (This is awesome keep it up!)
Amazing video. Thank you for the knowledge. This can be applied to a lot of different games and other things in in life.
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
Great video man keep it up!
This is quite a good video, but I want to add some input about the first section, aiming. Personally, I think people always talk about aim in the wrong way. First of all, you have to break aim down into two parts.
1. The mechanical part;
In Valorant, being good at the mechanical aspect of aim is only 1/3 of what you truly need, buts it’s often taught as the most important part. The mechanical part is purely mouse control. The better your mouse control is, the better mechanics you will have.
2. The game sense.
Wait, this paragraph is about aim. Why mention game sense? Because AIM IS 2/3 GAMESENSE. This is almost neverrr talked about when aim is taught, but the deeper I dive into aim the more I realize how important it truly is. Crosshair placement is gamesense. Pre-aim is gamesense. I like the call this “aimsense”. In fact, THE BETTER YOUR AIMSENSE, THE LESS MECHANICALLY GOOD YOU NEED TO BE! it really is astounding when you realize it. The less you need to move your mouse, the better. So to all the people who complain about having bad aim, and have played shooters for years and grind aim labs or kovaks all day, you are wasting your time. I’m sure you mechanics are good enough. It’s time to work on your aimsense.
WHATS GOOD MARRENTM
These vids are really good, I have ranked up on val and Fortnite thanks to you
The amount of games I lost/nearly lost because of team mates' mental is really scary.
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
I’m new to Valorant and currently I have 15 hours in game because I don’t really have much time to play unfortunately, but here is what I can tell from myself: (1) my aim is ok, I’ve looked into tutorials and watched pro players play and I’ve learned where I have to aim but there is a lot of room for improvement (2) my movement is bad, sometimes I don’t know if I should crouch walk or run but still getting the hang of it (3) I am good with tactics and know exactly what to do or where to go in order to win or get a opportunity or get the opponents off guard and is something that i probably have more hours in studying the maps layouts than playing the game 😂 (4) I am good with communicating with my teammates and cheering them up but I HATE to play with people that don’t speak English, it just makes it impossible to communicate (5) my main rn is sky but I am a agressive player and I think that sky holds me back in doing so since I have to search for info while my teammates work with the info I provide but I don’t really know what other agent to use(suggestions please) still, I’m not very ability wise since most of my games I just completely forget to use the ability and ult (6) my game sence is good, i can sence if an enemy is close by or where they may go but still has alot of room for improvement (7) my mentality was the worst to the point that I punched my monitor because I couldn’t control myself, but now my mentality has never been better, I understand my mistakes and if I don’t I watch the screen recording of my match to see what I did wrong and work with it, although I have to say, some teammates..