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Woohoojin says something similar in one of his vids. You have to split your focus between all the different facets of the game, such as aim, what abilities are being used, decision making, etc. When you're new you have to devote all of that focus to one of those tasks at a time to perform effectively, so when you try to split it up and focus on too much in a single game you become overwhelmed. So like you've said, once your aim and mechanics are better, you've now freed up some of that brain energy to be used on those other facets of the game.
Yeah, when you look back at a gunfight its hard to understand if there was something wrong with the plan, you were at some disadvantage or if it was your aim
Fantastic video. I think people dont want to improve their aim because its the hard and boring part of improving a skill so they instead look for an easy fix which leads them to hyperfocus on game sense instead of mechanics when the fact is that no matter how good your game sense is, you cant capitalize off plays if your mechanics arent good.
For me it's not that I didnt want to work on aim but working on my game sense was more natural for me than working on my aim but once I started doing it, it because a big part of my routine for improvement.
Bro mechanics aren’t hard to learn just play the game a lot so many pros that don’t even aim train. Then look at guys who hit radiant judge only do they have god tier aim?
@@tobe.moemeka playing judge only is basically playing a completely different game so that's irrelevant. The skills required to play that cheese strat are different from what you would use to play valorant properly.
Yea this makes sense. Saying "just focus on your game sense bro" is like saying "just be yourself" when looking to get a partner. You need to make yourself attractive and desirable first (aim) before you can actually rely on using your personality (gamesense).
I completely agree with your argument! I started off solely focusing on game sense and avoided most aim training routines. I only recently came to the realization that aim was a huge factor of improving in the game as well after watching woohoojin's video on how to get into gold. In that video, he heavily emphasized a strong foundation of mechanics (dead zoning, burst/strafing, etc.) rather than game sense. He basically argued that game sense in low elo doesn't matter. Thank you for making this video, confirming my realization that I need to put more emphasis on consistent aim training for now.
He was focusing on mechanics specifically though (like movement crosshair placement) and not aim. Maybe if you’ve never played an fps before aim training would help but the best training is playing the game itself
@@tobe.moemeka that's simply not true. theres some people who spend thousands of hours in bronze and still have terrible aim, and its because they've been only playing the game itself instead of practicing in the range or deathmatches. you will not improve your aim just by playing the game normally because thats not practice. it's like throwing somebody who never attends practice into NBA games over and over and wondering why they get 0 points each time and never improve. it's because they haven't practiced the fundamentals and those fundamentals are impossible to learn without first taking the time to build a foundation for them, and in valorant you build that foundation by going into the range and practing your movement and flicks and then going into deathmatch and practing your crosshair placement and reaction time. just playing the game itself will barely or will not at all you get better aim. focusing on getting better aim will get you better aim.
I rarely comment, but this genuinely motivated me. You described almost my exact situation, I have less confidence because of my medical condition and struggle to aim train. But the more I do it, the more comfortable my mechanics will be. I rely and enjoy strategy and only occasionally win duels and 'multi-peeks'. I haven't felt confident to aim train, convinced it was something else but my mechanics are truly lacking with my medical condition holding back my raw aim. Thank you for this, I plan to be a content creator for valorant and have been looking for ways to improve. (Especially the sentinel setups you called out lol)
Cool vid. One other possible explanation for why most content relates to decision making over gunfights is that the amount you can actually teach someone about gunfights is limited, and therefore making the same amount of quality videos is extremely hard if you focus on mechs rather than decision making.
That one seems a lot more probable to me. Some sneaky phrasing being like "You're thinking about aim too much" meaning "it's still your foundation, but I'm gonna imply that you don't need it so you watch my tech video and get upset when you take it that way" Like why can't we just say "Hey, Focus. On. Your. Aim. It's a daily struggle and will help you a lot in the long run. BUT, here's some cool tech you can pull off in your games anyway!"
There is much more in your control improvement wise when it comes to game sense so its kinda something you don't want to always be thinking about and focusing on. Aim is something you improve by consistently practicing it and improving passively over time. Its a brick you have to lay one by one, meanwhile a single change to game sense can be immediately noticeable.
@@royalgftw Yeah I don't think this is a cheap ploy to get signups lol. I'm actually agreeing with you that aim is very important, but I just think people say to focus on game sense because aim its more in your locus of control short term..
@@Someone2knoeI agree. It’s also more applicable in low elo where the enemies, individually, do some weird plays. Having a better aim can punish these plays rather than predicting something unusual.
@@ブランク-x2iI think royalg is pretty spot on, I always use my brain and always caught my enemies when they are not prepared but their aim always saves them and kills me instead.
I improved my game sense naturally from always looking back at rounds I lost and my aim was always average for my rank but I've really enjoyed focused on improving my aim specifically.
Tbh my game sense developed extremely fast My mechanic just couldn't keep up with my pure game sense It carried me straight to platinum but at that point my mechanics just weren't enough for me to continue past that
It's actually pretty funny because I have always told people that I have good game sense and the reason I couldn't climb is because people in low elo play randomly and I can read them. VALORANT is my first FPS game and far from my first strategy so my mechanics are sooooo far behind. Everybody always tells me that my game sense isn't actually good, because if it was I would be ranking up despite my bad aim. I feel like the reason content creators say to focus on gamesense is because most people already have good enough aim. Thank you for finally explaining it in a way that actually helps me.
Completely agree with your statements Royal G! As I rotate late into another site as killjoy, I’m not confident with my aiming capabilities which lead me to not help my teammates faster become I am scared when flanking the enemies. I would usually doubt my confidence playing Valorant, since I just started playing and when seeing other people higher level than me in Valorant, it lowers my confidence. As a result, I wouldn’t practice my aim and cope my mindset that trying to find the best lineup for killjoy, cypher, etc is way more important than shooting. This video was so inspirational to me and for many newcomers playing valorant for sure. Keep up the amazing work!!!
Hey, i kow you probably won’t see this comment but thank you, this video is something I believe I needed not for playing valoant but from moving on with my life. Although I will be taking your tips and applying them to reach farther up the valorant ranks. once again thanks man great video
I loved this video!!! Taking this advice to heart as I'm trying to get better at valo over the summer. My first approach was keep going as I am and try to get better at playing with teammates and developing strategies, but you've made me realise it might be a good idea to focus on some aim training first. Hope I can get out of bronze lol ❤
I'm new to Valorant and hoping to climb soon but I'm already noticing this. There have maybe been one or two rounds I won bc I had some awesome million IQ flank or Omen teleport and ended up behind everyone when they weren't looking. There have been way more rounds that I won because I simply peeked and won the gun duel, whether, through luck or my aim improving passively as I get used to the game, I think I'm gonna start waking up an hour earlier to aim train before work and see where that takes me.
one of the best advice ive heard when I solo queued was when we were 3-9, one guy said that we were playing like we were blaming each other instead of working together. Safe to say that we won that game because everyone including myself started seeing faults in our individual plays and started organizing ourselves. I agree with the aim over game sense because at the end of the day, you need to at least win one guy fight to reach a level of tactical advantage unless its pointless.
Guys, 60% AIM 40% MOVEMENT 120% Gamesense. You need a mix of gamesense and aim products, Crosshair placement and pre aiming to help aim, gamesense also helps you position yourself for the situation and avoid enemies backstabbing. Map knowledge and Opponent info is also a product of gamesense
i feel like the right way to go about this is iron-plat--> mechanics/aim/movement diamond-radiant--> game sense decision making etc. it's different for everyone but one thing for sure is you can't improve your game sense without playing and if you just lose every fight you take even if its 80-20 odds in your favour at that point the problem is clearly not your game sense
never understood why so many people think this, the game is literally a first person SHOOTER. Of course how good you are at shooting will always be top priority.
I feel like this is the answer I have been looking for that no one wanted to say. In my main game OW I have the same conclusion that aim is the most important thing, despite their being more impactful abilities and more importance on movement. So why would this conclusion not be true in a game with less abilities and less variation in movement? These games are shooters first before anything.
Ngl, I’ve been overthinking too much during rounds, trying to read the enemy’s every possible move and create a counter-strat. But at the end of the day, it didn’t matter since I didn’t land my shots when it mattered lmao 😂
i shut down the people who say gamesense is more important with a single sentence "all aim no brain is a well known phrase, all brain no aim isnt" it doesnt matter how well you play if you whiff, i have a number of clips where my gamesense and outplaying has been insane, only to dump an entire mag, barely killing the guy in the last bullets aim over gamesense gives you people like tenz, who is one of the best players in the game. focusing on your mechanics is the most important part, you can train your aim but you cant exactly train gamesense beyond telling someone what they should pay attention to, but thats like telling someone their crosshair placement is bad and theyre sweeping the floor, they do know it, theyre just struggling to fix it
Most people think knowledge is more important because it gives you the ability to analyze the world and come up with better decisions if all you need to do is copy and paste stuff into chat got to make hella money you don’t need mental power to get put that into action.
A lot of the times for me when I’m playing Astra it doesn’t come down to aim, it’s just who’s smarter because the weird smokes I do sometimes just really tick people off lol, especially with a judge.
this guy gets it. lots of people won't grasp the meaning out of this as the messaage is very hard to communicate. reality is with confidance and believe you are far more able to self-leard and improve in.. anything really. this video isn't about valorant it's about everything.
We all know that the most important thing in val is mental. Radiant aim degrades quite quickly if you're triggered out of your mind, same with game sense, can't hear shit while screaming because of last round
This is exactly what i'm struggling with, yt videos kept telling viewers that game sense is better to improve and i did exactly that. I watch a lot of youtube videos on how to improve your gamesense, like understanding the map or how agents work. Im not gonna say that it's not important, but it's not helping me at all, i have all this knowledge but im still bot fragging every game, meanwhile my friend whos an aim only no brain guy is consistent with 2nd or 3rd fragging. Ultimately his impact in game is bigger than me and this belief of gamesense > aim developed a coping mechanism in me, i kept telling myself "at least i have better knowledge of the game than my friends and enemies, that makes me better than them" When in fact i just suck 😐 This vid made me realize that you NEED certain levels of mechanics to properly execute that knowledge you have on the game, reading your opponents is not going to stop you from whiffing.
My G has literal Silver gamesense, with maybe 100 hours played on Valorant, he has insane aim (50% hs average), I put him in Ascendants lobbies and he dropped 20-30 kills in multiple games, being mvp every single time. If that was the other way around, these would've not been the results.
wao. tuve que traducir este video con chat gpt y leerlo detenidamente. sentía que en este video largo y aburrido para el algoritmo estaba la respuesta, y si lo está. muchas gracias royalG. te ganaste un nuevo seguidor para ver todo lo que subas. eres un crack e inspiración. thks for this video man, ur amazing... :D
I went to Diamond through sheer game sense and high iq gameplay, but now I can't get past Diamond because my aim is pretty average. So yes, aim is important in a tactical shooter game, and it is more important if you want to reach higher ranks. Game sense can only let you reach so much. For me, I simply believe in the very simplistic idea that if your mechanics are better, the more you can focus on the other things.
the pros say game sense is the most important because it is... for them. all pros have the aim to capitalize on the advantageous scenarios, and are good enough to win at least half of their gunfights. its much more effective for them to just focus on gamesense.
forgot to mention that aim transfers to any fps game you touch. Gamesense can be very game specific. Having good aim rly lets you have good time and fun in any game. Time for people to load kovaak's
What gets me when im practicing aim and mechanics is that i could be spending my time doing something that can actually help in the long run. I love gaming, but winning is a diminishing return.
I agree with What you say. Game sense often involves teamplay, something hard to find in soloq. Aim is about yourself only so focusing on aim makes you able to just count on yourself and carry/clutch when needed.
This video is extremely similar to something that just happened in MMA. A guy named Du Plessis just beat a guy named Whitaker, where Du Plessis used great tactics but Whitaker has amazing mechanics. There’s an article by a guy named Jack Slack about this fight. Wanted to comment to share it with you, because the conversation of tactics vs mechanics seems to have a lot of crossover between games and sports.
I’m tis but a humble low-rank, but from what I’ve seen, game sense are what creates opportunities, but mechanics are what allow you to capitalize and even broaden the flexibility of said opportunities
When I think of aim I think of it like muscles. Better to be strong bc it can come in handy in any sinario its like the saying (I know it's cringy but) "Better to be a warrior in a gardener than a gardener in war"
This is so true when i was new to this game I only focus on game sense cuz everyone said that its important it make me weak asf after watched vct lock in I want to be like derke so I try focus on aim and mechanic only and it make me a better player i can just fuck it and go hs everyone now i fear no one in rank game
I feel like it's not even close up to (a pure guess here) about ascendant / immortal. To get to Radiant, you may need some serious game sense even if the aim is still just as important. But before that, at least to those ranks I mention, I think it's almost pure mechanics. Aim and movement (which is technically part of aim).
Aim is definitely an easiest way to improve in the beginning. But its also worth remebering that game sens is usually what devides radiant player from low immo or ascendent one. That's why i dont really believe that all these coaches lie. That's just how it works on higher level. Also i love self awareness in the vid.
Been notcing this myslef this rank reset. I still have very high adr but my aim is literally the only mechanic holding me back. I stoppped prioritizing my aim over the last couple months and have suffered for it. I deranked a whole 300rr before the new season started because of it. I started working ony my aim and other mechanics these past two weeks and feel a lot better on an individual level.
I'd like to add on as well, many fans also misinterpret content creators motives. in Woohoojin's latest video (conicidentally made around the time of this one) where he showed a specific aim TRAINING routine (a routine specifically adressed to improve the MECHANICS of a player and not as a WARMUP), he started the video off talking about how many of his own livestream chats misconstrues his comments on AIM, taking him as an anti-aimer (someone who preaches that aim does not matter at all, and game sense is the only thing that matters) when in fact, he preaches that it is more important after a certain level of elo to focus more on Game sense as the barrier rather than aim. For the gold player example, many videos and anecdotes confirm that many mid-low elo players do have the mechanics equivalent to higher elo players. If we use the same analogy on a Diamond vs Radiant in a pure 1v1 where the Diamond is a former CS:GO Global Elite and has thousands of hours on aim labs. I'd say the Diamond might win 7-8/10 times in a straight 50/50 duel. However, they might still be stuck at diamond because they dont have the coordination to play with the teammates leading to games where they might play as Reyna and get 30 kills but not end up winning because the team was too disorganized and the objective wasnt played optimally. I think its important (at least from my interpretation) to understand that RoyalG is not attempting to make that argument that Game sense is not important as he repeatedly mentions the importance of Game sense, but rather, emphasizing how Game sense can be learnt just through hours of playing the game more while thinking consciously. You won't improve at 1 taps if you dont go in the range or Aimlabs and you wont get better at tracking if you dont go out of your way to practice tracking. In a competitive game of Valorant, you simply can't focus on the minor details of aim so it is more important to root the basics of the mechanics deep within via muscle memory so that in the game, one can focus on Game sense. Still I do firmly believe that all the "Content creator coaches" and pros do all have a right mindset in that Game Sense is more important in separating the goods from the greats. This leads to the opposite effect of Valorants early stages where almost all the people focused purely on aim. The community was overly aim oriented towards the early stage of Valorant content creation and now has overcorrected and overemphasize gamesense. There are many great testimonies to players with cracked out aim who rank up 4-5 ranks just from a Woohoojin VOD Review. But at the same time there are players who spend hours upon hours on honing game sense but when given a 70-30 duel, loses it due to pure mechanics being weak. I think the title could be somewhat miscontrude but I think the overall message is great and necessary for the Valorant community to hear. Great video RoyalG, keep it up!
Thing is, like all skills, aim and gamesense start improving slower as one gets more proficient in them, so its most effective to be training both, so when you get aim that is better than your gamesense you don't just hit a wall, but in stead just catch up with your gamesense, and vise versa. If people only improve their gamesense they won't rank up, but they will also not rank up if they only train their aim, you need both.
You described me as a player :D I literally avoided playing ranked until I finally had "enough gamesense(for now)", thinking I´d ruin my teammates ranked games otherwise. I literally have a 0.6 KD but 1.8 KDA cuz I´m so scared to peek that I´m just heavily supporting my team with util instead. I hit insane blinds with breach, pulls and stuns with astra - but whenever I try to capitalize from this myself without a teammate I just whiff for ages xD So I´m way too reliant on my teammates to actively play with me or having the best lurk ever so even I can cash out on 2, timings, etc. Just because I´m insecure and not training my mechanics enough.
Thank you so much for this video even though it’s for valorant the concepts mentioned in this video can be applied to real life. You can never change the world if you can’t make your bed the only practice like aim training that can raise your skill sealing is meditation because it allows you to do the things you don’t want to do. Therefor the valorant player with the most potential I’s the one with the best aim and the best coaches around him to help him develop everything else. Irl you have books, RUclips, and the internet to coach on every aspect of life. And you have meditation right there to actually implement what you know you should do.
They say game sense is more important than aim. 99% of the world subconsciously live and hold the belief that knowledge is more important than mental power. Who tf cares if you know exactly how to make 1,000,000$ If you don’t have the mental power to sit down and work for 8+ hrs a day to make that money. Meditation allow you to capitalize off of knowledge as aim allows you to capitalize off of game sense.
i strongly disagree .age and health, definitely but genetics? come one man, maybe yeah some genetic disease will give less motor function but for most people, that's irrelevant. why the fixed mindset?
@@k_otey Thousands of hours of experience specifically training aim. Aim hinges more on eye agility and eye focus agility, along with reaction time in my experience, if that even makes sense. Muscle memory seems to be overwhelmingly easier to develop. Esports in general is super young, haven't seen anyone bio mechanically break down what is happening in the eyes and how that information is being processed in the brain when someone is playing games at a very high level. Can't hit what you can't see so to speak. Everyone has varying degrees of built in motion blur and sometimes even seeing double images if only for a brief period of time whenever their eyes are moving in the sockets, or the image is moving independently. But this is only my opinion from my experience and observations.
I feel like I have an ascendant-level game sense and a gold-level aim. I just hit diamond last act, and I am quickly climbing through platinum again after the rank reset. Unfortunately, I lose games because of stupid aimers and smurfs a lot. I am a controller main, but I am starting to learn Sova, so I can provide information to myself and the team, rather than sitting midsite putting down smokes when my team won't comm. I've learned how to defend with Sova, and it is super helpful to put a recon bolt on the entry point at the keystone (the top), so I get easy kills when they entry.
While I disagree with the thesis, I mostly disagree because game sense is an incredibly generalized concept which can encompass so many aspects of the game and it’s not an easy thing to discuss without breaking it up I’m interested to see what you have in store for the next videos
bravo man. Gamesense is of course important, but if u cant take advantage of ur outplays, then whats the damn point. nada. Aim, at least until plat, is really all u need (which is the majority of the player base). Of coure then aim is less important, and gamesense is slightly more, but again, if ur confident in ur duels and just use ur util decently, which is vastly common sense, its not gonna be the limiting factor to climbing. Keep preaching, and hopefully share some aim training vids
Imo Once you reach a high level of aim you'll start seeing less and less improvement over time While game sense questions your strategic skill and what you can do in certain situation (it fully depend on how creative you are) and thus it have almost endless possibilities There are so many correct answer to a game sense situation like that Radiant Reyna and Brimstone situation who says the brim can't ult himself to make the Reyna run pass him and he get an easy shot from behind ? (Or just be smart and place his molly/stim in a way that makes the Reyna think you're somewhere else) As for the aim situation you only have 1 correct answer and that is to hit your shot Or to sum it all up work smarter not harder
I mean, some guy got immortal 1 with a shorty and sure that’s probably the peak u can get with little to zero aim but a lot of people with better aim than most radiants are hardstyck in below plat so
I think one thing you didnt mention is valorant and csgo have a unique way of aiming compared to other games. Aim in tac shooters emphasizes crosshair placement much more than other games. Im top 500 in overwatch on hitscan dps (soldier), onyx every season in halo infinite, and Ive even hit predator in apex before but Im silver in valorant, my aim in valorant is actually kinda bad even though my aim in most fps games is actually very good and its mostly cause my crosshair placement is bad (also tbf I use a really high sens in valorant, .37 at 1600 dpi). Anyways TLDR: just saying that practicing aim will get you high rank isnt necessarily true, you need to be good at the specific type of aim thats used in tac fps games.
I do not agree with 2 points: Genetics do also matter in Valorant (e.g. I have very unsteady hands, which makes mechanics hard.). Secondly, I think many coaches preach about game sense, because most players only focus on aim training and not on game sense/playing together at all.
I mostly agree with this take, but it’s a bit misleading to lump all mechanical skills into the umbrella term of “aim”. IMO, many micro-mechanics are just as important as raw aim, including movement, bursting/spraying/recoil control, crosshair placement, confidence (being ready for gunfights), etc. To a certain extent even map knowledge and (micro-)positioning should fall under mechanics too. The less important stuff I’d consider “game sense” are more macro strategies, midround calls, timing, playing off teammates, utility usage, etc. Idk I could be wrong tho, im still barely a gold player bc I can’t be bothered to play enough games to climb :)
The overall take is that aim is more important than game sense. As you described, you can break down "aim" into several sub-categories. However, there are almost limitless sub-categories that you can create for "game sense". IE: understanding rotation timings, knowing when to lurk, when you have a timing on an opponent, when to jump peak for info, playing off teammates util, efficient coms, etc
@@getninjaed yeah got that, my point was that “aim” is not the best umbrella term to describe all mechanical skill, since aim means something much more specific to me (e.g flicking/tracking)
It’s funny bc I’ve been seeing a lot of radiant coaches and players say gamesense is key and 90% of their round wins are from straight up aim fights. I have many friends who have hit immortal 3 who’ve never vod reviewed, don’t make plans or preround comm and simply aim.
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i feel like you forgot to mention the fact that when your aim and mechanics are better, you can actually more freely focus on game sense
Ngl true, as a shooter player, i would agree.
Woohoojin says something similar in one of his vids. You have to split your focus between all the different facets of the game, such as aim, what abilities are being used, decision making, etc. When you're new you have to devote all of that focus to one of those tasks at a time to perform effectively, so when you try to split it up and focus on too much in a single game you become overwhelmed. So like you've said, once your aim and mechanics are better, you've now freed up some of that brain energy to be used on those other facets of the game.
Yeah, when you look back at a gunfight its hard to understand if there was something wrong with the plan, you were at some disadvantage or if it was your aim
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Fantastic video. I think people dont want to improve their aim because its the hard and boring part of improving a skill so they instead look for an easy fix which leads them to hyperfocus on game sense instead of mechanics when the fact is that no matter how good your game sense is, you cant capitalize off plays if your mechanics arent good.
people look at it wrong, they expect one week to see results, you have to be patient and embrace progress
@@CentsGD tbh you can see results from just 1 week of aim training if you do it well.
For me it's not that I didnt want to work on aim but working on my game sense was more natural for me than working on my aim but once I started doing it, it because a big part of my routine for improvement.
Bro mechanics aren’t hard to learn just play the game a lot so many pros that don’t even aim train. Then look at guys who hit radiant judge only do they have god tier aim?
@@tobe.moemeka playing judge only is basically playing a completely different game so that's irrelevant. The skills required to play that cheese strat are different from what you would use to play valorant properly.
Yea this makes sense. Saying "just focus on your game sense bro" is like saying "just be yourself" when looking to get a partner. You need to make yourself attractive and desirable first (aim) before you can actually rely on using your personality (gamesense).
I completely agree with your argument! I started off solely focusing on game sense and avoided most aim training routines. I only recently came to the realization that aim was a huge factor of improving in the game as well after watching woohoojin's video on how to get into gold. In that video, he heavily emphasized a strong foundation of mechanics (dead zoning, burst/strafing, etc.) rather than game sense. He basically argued that game sense in low elo doesn't matter. Thank you for making this video, confirming my realization that I need to put more emphasis on consistent aim training for now.
He was focusing on mechanics specifically though (like movement crosshair placement) and not aim. Maybe if you’ve never played an fps before aim training would help but the best training is playing the game itself
@@tobe.moemeka that's simply not true. theres some people who spend thousands of hours in bronze and still have terrible aim, and its because they've been only playing the game itself instead of practicing in the range or deathmatches. you will not improve your aim just by playing the game normally because thats not practice. it's like throwing somebody who never attends practice into NBA games over and over and wondering why they get 0 points each time and never improve. it's because they haven't practiced the fundamentals and those fundamentals are impossible to learn without first taking the time to build a foundation for them, and in valorant you build that foundation by going into the range and practing your movement and flicks and then going into deathmatch and practing your crosshair placement and reaction time. just playing the game itself will barely or will not at all you get better aim. focusing on getting better aim will get you better aim.
I rarely comment, but this genuinely motivated me. You described almost my exact situation, I have less confidence because of my medical condition and struggle to aim train. But the more I do it, the more comfortable my mechanics will be. I rely and enjoy strategy and only occasionally win duels and 'multi-peeks'. I haven't felt confident to aim train, convinced it was something else but my mechanics are truly lacking with my medical condition holding back my raw aim. Thank you for this, I plan to be a content creator for valorant and have been looking for ways to improve. (Especially the sentinel setups you called out lol)
"Aim isn't that important" -Aim Demons
"Looks aren't that important" -Good looking people
they went down that path to see the other just to realize was the side even useful
Cool vid. One other possible explanation for why most content relates to decision making over gunfights is that the amount you can actually teach someone about gunfights is limited, and therefore making the same amount of quality videos is extremely hard if you focus on mechs rather than decision making.
That one seems a lot more probable to me. Some sneaky phrasing being like "You're thinking about aim too much" meaning "it's still your foundation, but I'm gonna imply that you don't need it so you watch my tech video and get upset when you take it that way"
Like why can't we just say "Hey, Focus. On. Your. Aim. It's a daily struggle and will help you a lot in the long run. BUT, here's some cool tech you can pull off in your games anyway!"
even TenZ showed and said in ranked all u need is aim and gamesense/planning doesn’t matter
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@@ggarzagarcia ruclips.net/video/CPeX3BkdEBM/видео.html
goddamn dude. thank you, i wont put into to words how much thankful I am for you doing this video. now my eyes are finally fully open.
everyone can agree royal g is a 10/10 on the sexy scale
There is much more in your control improvement wise when it comes to game sense so its kinda something you don't want to always be thinking about and focusing on. Aim is something you improve by consistently practicing it and improving passively over time. Its a brick you have to lay one by one, meanwhile a single change to game sense can be immediately noticeable.
Not hating but he sounds like hes coping himself so he can get ppl to sign up on watever academy hes on
@@ブランク-x2i I don't quite see how my arguments are made to make people sign up for gosu academy, could you please explain?
@@royalgftw Yeah I don't think this is a cheap ploy to get signups lol. I'm actually agreeing with you that aim is very important, but I just think people say to focus on game sense because aim its more in your locus of control short term..
@@Someone2knoeI agree. It’s also more applicable in low elo where the enemies, individually, do some weird plays. Having a better aim can punish these plays rather than predicting something unusual.
@@ブランク-x2iI think royalg is pretty spot on, I always use my brain and always caught my enemies when they are not prepared but their aim always saves them and kills me instead.
Great explanation man. My game sense is good, but my aim is not good enough and I can't capitalize on it as well as I would like to.
I improved my game sense naturally from always looking back at rounds I lost and my aim was always average for my rank but I've really enjoyed focused on improving my aim specifically.
I love your take and the way you view things. I wish you all the best in your youtube journey. Love your content!
Tbh my game sense developed extremely fast My mechanic just couldn't keep up with my pure game sense
It carried me straight to platinum but at that point my mechanics just weren't enough for me to continue past that
Mysterry recapped lmao, dude I love your editing and suttle humour, hope you hit that million!
It's actually pretty funny because I have always told people that I have good game sense and the reason I couldn't climb is because people in low elo play randomly and I can read them. VALORANT is my first FPS game and far from my first strategy so my mechanics are sooooo far behind. Everybody always tells me that my game sense isn't actually good, because if it was I would be ranking up despite my bad aim. I feel like the reason content creators say to focus on gamesense is because most people already have good enough aim. Thank you for finally explaining it in a way that actually helps me.
BTW, I am not saying I am some kind of tactical genius, just quicker to understand strategies than an average silver player
Completely agree with your statements Royal G! As I rotate late into another site as killjoy, I’m not confident with my aiming capabilities which lead me to not help my teammates faster become I am scared when flanking the enemies. I would usually doubt my confidence playing Valorant, since I just started playing and when seeing other people higher level than me in Valorant, it lowers my confidence. As a result, I wouldn’t practice my aim and cope my mindset that trying to find the best lineup for killjoy, cypher, etc is way more important than shooting. This video was so inspirational to me and for many newcomers playing valorant for sure. Keep up the amazing work!!!
Hey, i kow you probably won’t see this comment but thank you, this video is something I believe I needed not for playing valoant but from moving on with my life. Although I will be taking your tips and applying them to reach farther up the valorant ranks. once again thanks man great video
I loved this video!!! Taking this advice to heart as I'm trying to get better at valo over the summer. My first approach was keep going as I am and try to get better at playing with teammates and developing strategies, but you've made me realise it might be a good idea to focus on some aim training first. Hope I can get out of bronze lol ❤
I believe game sense is super important but especially at lower elo your mechanicals will go a long way.
I'm new to Valorant and hoping to climb soon but I'm already noticing this. There have maybe been one or two rounds I won bc I had some awesome million IQ flank or Omen teleport and ended up behind everyone when they weren't looking. There have been way more rounds that I won because I simply peeked and won the gun duel, whether, through luck or my aim improving passively as I get used to the game, I think I'm gonna start waking up an hour earlier to aim train before work and see where that takes me.
one of the best advice ive heard when I solo queued was when we were 3-9, one guy said that we were playing like we were blaming each other instead of working together. Safe to say that we won that game because everyone including myself started seeing faults in our individual plays and started organizing ourselves. I agree with the aim over game sense because at the end of the day, you need to at least win one guy fight to reach a level of tactical advantage unless its pointless.
Guys, 60% AIM 40% MOVEMENT 120% Gamesense.
You need a mix of gamesense and aim products, Crosshair placement and pre aiming to help aim, gamesense also helps you position yourself for the situation and avoid enemies backstabbing.
Map knowledge and Opponent info is also a product of gamesense
Didn't know you played CSGO, would love to see some videos of it from you.
:D
i feel like the right way to go about this is
iron-plat--> mechanics/aim/movement
diamond-radiant--> game sense decision making etc.
it's different for everyone but one thing for sure is you can't improve your game sense without playing and if you just lose every fight you take even if its 80-20 odds in your favour at that point the problem is clearly not your game sense
gamesense doesnt matter until immortal 3
never understood why so many people think this, the game is literally a first person SHOOTER. Of course how good you are at shooting will always be top priority.
istg royalG every guide i saw from you hitts me sooooo hard like u r opening my eyes to the small things i need thank you man really all love
I feel like this is the answer I have been looking for that no one wanted to say. In my main game OW I have the same conclusion that aim is the most important thing, despite their being more impactful abilities and more importance on movement. So why would this conclusion not be true in a game with less abilities and less variation in movement? These games are shooters first before anything.
Ngl, I’ve been overthinking too much during rounds, trying to read the enemy’s every possible move and create a counter-strat. But at the end of the day, it didn’t matter since I didn’t land my shots when it mattered lmao 😂
i shut down the people who say gamesense is more important with a single sentence
"all aim no brain is a well known phrase, all brain no aim isnt"
it doesnt matter how well you play if you whiff, i have a number of clips where my gamesense and outplaying has been insane, only to dump an entire mag, barely killing the guy in the last bullets
aim over gamesense gives you people like tenz, who is one of the best players in the game.
focusing on your mechanics is the most important part, you can train your aim but you cant exactly train gamesense beyond telling someone what they should pay attention to, but thats like telling someone their crosshair placement is bad and theyre sweeping the floor, they do know it, theyre just struggling to fix it
i agree, because i have horrendous aim, and even if i manage to sneak up behind the enemy without them seeing me, i still get killed because i missed
Most people think knowledge is more important because it gives you the ability to analyze the world and come up with better decisions if all you need to do is copy and paste stuff into chat got to make hella money you don’t need mental power to get put that into action.
nah i think ur underestimating the amount of people who rlly cant be bothered. W video tho
A lot of the times for me when I’m playing Astra it doesn’t come down to aim, it’s just who’s smarter because the weird smokes I do sometimes just really tick people off lol, especially with a judge.
this guy gets it. lots of people won't grasp the meaning out of this as the messaage is very hard to communicate. reality is with confidance and believe you are far more able to self-leard and improve in.. anything really. this video isn't about valorant it's about everything.
I always say this to mid-low ranks, focus on aim, game sense will come with playing more
We all know that the most important thing in val is mental. Radiant aim degrades quite quickly if you're triggered out of your mind, same with game sense, can't hear shit while screaming because of last round
This is exactly what i'm struggling with, yt videos kept telling viewers that game sense is better to improve and i did exactly that. I watch a lot of youtube videos on how to improve your gamesense, like understanding the map or how agents work. Im not gonna say that it's not important, but it's not helping me at all, i have all this knowledge but im still bot fragging every game, meanwhile my friend whos an aim only no brain guy is consistent with 2nd or 3rd fragging. Ultimately his impact in game is bigger than me and this belief of gamesense > aim developed a coping mechanism in me, i kept telling myself "at least i have better knowledge of the game than my friends and enemies, that makes me better than them" When in fact i just suck 😐
This vid made me realize that you NEED certain levels of mechanics to properly execute that knowledge you have on the game, reading your opponents is not going to stop you from whiffing.
My G has literal Silver gamesense, with maybe 100 hours played on Valorant, he has insane aim (50% hs average), I put him in Ascendants lobbies and he dropped 20-30 kills in multiple games, being mvp every single time.
If that was the other way around, these would've not been the results.
I love this video. With alot of my students I always tell them, what good is it to have gigachad gamesense when you can't hit the most basic shots.
wao. tuve que traducir este video con chat gpt y leerlo detenidamente. sentía que en este video largo y aburrido para el algoritmo estaba la respuesta, y si lo está. muchas gracias royalG. te ganaste un nuevo seguidor para ver todo lo que subas. eres un crack e inspiración. thks for this video man, ur amazing... :D
the "oh please dont head to the comment section" got me lmao im here, heres your interactivity
I went to Diamond through sheer game sense and high iq gameplay, but now I can't get past Diamond because my aim is pretty average. So yes, aim is important in a tactical shooter game, and it is more important if you want to reach higher ranks. Game sense can only let you reach so much. For me, I simply believe in the very simplistic idea that if your mechanics are better, the more you can focus on the other things.
2:27 nostalgia hits hard 😢
the pros say game sense is the most important because it is... for them. all pros have the aim to capitalize on the advantageous scenarios, and are good enough to win at least half of their gunfights. its much more effective for them to just focus on gamesense.
forgot to mention that aim transfers to any fps game you touch. Gamesense can be very game specific. Having good aim rly lets you have good time and fun in any game. Time for people to load kovaak's
Not the mystery recapped skit 💀that shit got me on the floor
Honestly the most authentic no BS video ever made about VALORANT.
You earned mad respect for this.
What gets me when im practicing aim and mechanics is that i could be spending my time doing something that can actually help in the long run. I love gaming, but winning is a diminishing return.
I agree with What you say. Game sense often involves teamplay, something hard to find in soloq. Aim is about yourself only so focusing on aim makes you able to just count on yourself and carry/clutch when needed.
Thanks bro, time to hit Gridshot again. See you in Dallas buddy.
i suggest woohoojin's recent video of an aim training playlist for valorant
while gamesense is important, it cant be your only crutch for having terrible and inconsistent sim. great video!
This video is extremely similar to something that just happened in MMA. A guy named Du Plessis just beat a guy named Whitaker, where Du Plessis used great tactics but Whitaker has amazing mechanics. There’s an article by a guy named Jack Slack about this fight.
Wanted to comment to share it with you, because the conversation of tactics vs mechanics seems to have a lot of crossover between games and sports.
I’m tis but a humble low-rank, but from what I’ve seen, game sense are what creates opportunities, but mechanics are what allow you to capitalize and even broaden the flexibility of said opportunities
I didn't see the video but the title reminds me of “as a beginner you learn the rules, as master you learn how to break them"
When I think of aim I think of it like muscles. Better to be strong bc it can come in handy in any sinario
its like the saying (I know it's cringy but)
"Better to be a warrior in a gardener than a gardener in war"
This is so true when i was new to this game I only focus on game sense cuz everyone said that its important it make me weak asf after watched vct lock in I want to be like derke so I try focus on aim and mechanic only and it make me a better player i can just fuck it and go hs everyone now i fear no one in rank game
I feel like it's not even close up to (a pure guess here) about ascendant / immortal. To get to Radiant, you may need some serious game sense even if the aim is still just as important. But before that, at least to those ranks I mention, I think it's almost pure mechanics. Aim and movement (which is technically part of aim).
Aim is definitely an easiest way to improve in the beginning. But its also worth remebering that game sens is usually what devides radiant player from low immo or ascendent one. That's why i dont really believe that all these coaches lie. That's just how it works on higher level. Also i love self awareness in the vid.
The best coach comes back at it again!! Looking forward to this series
TenZ so good only example bro found of him bottom fragging was on 1st round of a game
That thumbnail goes hard
me listening to this to be more educated, whilst being consumed into royalg's relaxing voice to aim train in aimlabs:
Been notcing this myslef this rank reset. I still have very high adr but my aim is literally the only mechanic holding me back. I stoppped prioritizing my aim over the last couple months and have suffered for it. I deranked a whole 300rr before the new season started because of it. I started working ony my aim and other mechanics these past two weeks and feel a lot better on an individual level.
BRO THAT MYSTERY RECAPP INTRO WAS SO COOL FR
I'd like to add on as well, many fans also misinterpret content creators motives.
in Woohoojin's latest video (conicidentally made around the time of this one) where he showed a specific aim TRAINING routine (a routine specifically adressed to improve the MECHANICS of a player and not as a WARMUP), he started the video off talking about how many of his own livestream chats misconstrues his comments on AIM, taking him as an anti-aimer (someone who preaches that aim does not matter at all, and game sense is the only thing that matters) when in fact, he preaches that it is more important after a certain level of elo to focus more on Game sense as the barrier rather than aim.
For the gold player example, many videos and anecdotes confirm that many mid-low elo players do have the mechanics equivalent to higher elo players. If we use the same analogy on a Diamond vs Radiant in a pure 1v1 where the Diamond is a former CS:GO Global Elite and has thousands of hours on aim labs. I'd say the Diamond might win 7-8/10 times in a straight 50/50 duel. However, they might still be stuck at diamond because they dont have the coordination to play with the teammates leading to games where they might play as Reyna and get 30 kills but not end up winning because the team was too disorganized and the objective wasnt played optimally.
I think its important (at least from my interpretation) to understand that RoyalG is not attempting to make that argument that Game sense is not important as he repeatedly mentions the importance of Game sense, but rather, emphasizing how Game sense can be learnt just through hours of playing the game more while thinking consciously. You won't improve at 1 taps if you dont go in the range or Aimlabs and you wont get better at tracking if you dont go out of your way to practice tracking. In a competitive game of Valorant, you simply can't focus on the minor details of aim so it is more important to root the basics of the mechanics deep within via muscle memory so that in the game, one can focus on Game sense.
Still I do firmly believe that all the "Content creator coaches" and pros do all have a right mindset in that Game Sense is more important in separating the goods from the greats. This leads to the opposite effect of Valorants early stages where almost all the people focused purely on aim. The community was overly aim oriented towards the early stage of Valorant content creation and now has overcorrected and overemphasize gamesense. There are many great testimonies to players with cracked out aim who rank up 4-5 ranks just from a Woohoojin VOD Review. But at the same time there are players who spend hours upon hours on honing game sense but when given a 70-30 duel, loses it due to pure mechanics being weak. I think the title could be somewhat miscontrude but I think the overall message is great and necessary for the Valorant community to hear. Great video RoyalG, keep it up!
Thing is, like all skills, aim and gamesense start improving slower as one gets more proficient in them, so its most effective to be training both, so when you get aim that is better than your gamesense you don't just hit a wall, but in stead just catch up with your gamesense, and vise versa. If people only improve their gamesense they won't rank up, but they will also not rank up if they only train their aim, you need both.
I aint reading allat
which video was it I want to improve my mechanics
You described me as a player :D I literally avoided playing ranked until I finally had "enough gamesense(for now)", thinking I´d ruin my teammates ranked games otherwise. I literally have a 0.6 KD but 1.8 KDA cuz I´m so scared to peek that I´m just heavily supporting my team with util instead. I hit insane blinds with breach, pulls and stuns with astra - but whenever I try to capitalize from this myself without a teammate I just whiff for ages xD So I´m way too reliant on my teammates to actively play with me or having the best lurk ever so even I can cash out on 2, timings, etc. Just because I´m insecure and not training my mechanics enough.
Thank you so much for this video even though it’s for valorant the concepts mentioned in this video can be applied to real life.
You can never change the world if you can’t make your bed the only practice like aim training that can raise your skill sealing is meditation because it allows you to do the things you don’t want to do. Therefor the valorant player with the most potential I’s the one with the best aim and the best coaches around him to help him develop everything else. Irl you have books, RUclips, and the internet to coach on every aspect of life. And you have meditation right there to actually implement what you know you should do.
woah this is the first time i’ve seen a movie recap channel make a valorant video
They say game sense is more important than aim. 99% of the world subconsciously live and hold the belief that knowledge is more important than mental power. Who tf cares if you know exactly how to make 1,000,000$ If you don’t have the mental power to sit down and work for 8+ hrs a day to make that money.
Meditation allow you to capitalize off of knowledge as aim allows you to capitalize off of game sense.
Mechanical ability is absolutely gated by genetics and age, and health too.
i strongly disagree .age and health, definitely but genetics? come one man, maybe yeah some genetic disease will give less motor function but for most people, that's irrelevant. why the fixed mindset?
come on*
@@k_otey Thousands of hours of experience specifically training aim. Aim hinges more on eye agility and eye focus agility, along with reaction time in my experience, if that even makes sense. Muscle memory seems to be overwhelmingly easier to develop. Esports in general is super young, haven't seen anyone bio mechanically break down what is happening in the eyes and how that information is being processed in the brain when someone is playing games at a very high level. Can't hit what you can't see so to speak. Everyone has varying degrees of built in motion blur and sometimes even seeing double images if only for a brief period of time whenever their eyes are moving in the sockets, or the image is moving independently.
But this is only my opinion from my experience and observations.
I feel like I have an ascendant-level game sense and a gold-level aim. I just hit diamond last act, and I am quickly climbing through platinum again after the rank reset. Unfortunately, I lose games because of stupid aimers and smurfs a lot. I am a controller main, but I am starting to learn Sova, so I can provide information to myself and the team, rather than sitting midsite putting down smokes when my team won't comm. I've learned how to defend with Sova, and it is super helpful to put a recon bolt on the entry point at the keystone (the top), so I get easy kills when they entry.
You're right!
as a fellow radiant i agree with your take
While I disagree with the thesis, I mostly disagree because game sense is an incredibly generalized concept which can encompass so many aspects of the game and it’s not an easy thing to discuss without breaking it up
I’m interested to see what you have in store for the next videos
bravo man. Gamesense is of course important, but if u cant take advantage of ur outplays, then whats the damn point. nada. Aim, at least until plat, is really all u need (which is the majority of the player base). Of coure then aim is less important, and gamesense is slightly more, but again, if ur confident in ur duels and just use ur util decently, which is vastly common sense, its not gonna be the limiting factor to climbing. Keep preaching, and hopefully share some aim training vids
RIP the rebibe me jett guy :(( never forgotten
ily royal gggg
Imo
Once you reach a high level of aim you'll start seeing less and less improvement over time
While game sense questions your strategic skill and what you can do in certain situation (it fully depend on how creative you are) and thus it have almost endless possibilities
There are so many correct answer to a game sense situation like that Radiant Reyna and Brimstone situation who says the brim can't ult himself to make the Reyna run pass him and he get an easy shot from behind ? (Or just be smart and place his molly/stim in a way that makes the Reyna think you're somewhere else)
As for the aim situation you only have 1 correct answer and that is to hit your shot
Or to sum it all up work smarter not harder
I mean, some guy got immortal 1 with a shorty and sure that’s probably the peak u can get with little to zero aim but a lot of people with better aim than most radiants are hardstyck in below plat so
i thought i was watching valorant, this become my old ap psychology class again lol
that got deep near the end
This video hurt my feelings. But for the best bc I do need to be more confident ;-;
I think one thing you didnt mention is valorant and csgo have a unique way of aiming compared to other games. Aim in tac shooters emphasizes crosshair placement much more than other games. Im top 500 in overwatch on hitscan dps (soldier), onyx every season in halo infinite, and Ive even hit predator in apex before but Im silver in valorant, my aim in valorant is actually kinda bad even though my aim in most fps games is actually very good and its mostly cause my crosshair placement is bad (also tbf I use a really high sens in valorant, .37 at 1600 dpi).
Anyways TLDR: just saying that practicing aim will get you high rank isnt necessarily true, you need to be good at the specific type of aim thats used in tac fps games.
I do not agree with 2 points: Genetics do also matter in Valorant (e.g. I have very unsteady hands, which makes mechanics hard.). Secondly, I think many coaches preach about game sense, because most players only focus on aim training and not on game sense/playing together at all.
bro became mystery recapped for 10 seconds
Thank you it's really helpful !
completely agree
I mostly agree with this take, but it’s a bit misleading to lump all mechanical skills into the umbrella term of “aim”. IMO, many micro-mechanics are just as important as raw aim, including movement, bursting/spraying/recoil control, crosshair placement, confidence (being ready for gunfights), etc. To a certain extent even map knowledge and (micro-)positioning should fall under mechanics too. The less important stuff I’d consider “game sense” are more macro strategies, midround calls, timing, playing off teammates, utility usage, etc.
Idk I could be wrong tho, im still barely a gold player bc I can’t be bothered to play enough games to climb :)
The overall take is that aim is more important than game sense. As you described, you can break down "aim" into several sub-categories. However, there are almost limitless sub-categories that you can create for "game sense". IE: understanding rotation timings, knowing when to lurk, when you have a timing on an opponent, when to jump peak for info, playing off teammates util, efficient coms, etc
@@getninjaed yeah got that, my point was that “aim” is not the best umbrella term to describe all mechanical skill, since aim means something much more specific to me (e.g flicking/tracking)
@@kentoshin just semantics then. I agree "mechanical skills" is more accurate. Saying "aim" is a more catchy title though IMO
as a silver player facing ascendant recently, i agree, i throw granade and boombot while satcheling and he just one tap me
To be honest this was my exact mentality but my friends change my mentality
YO WTF IS THE MYSTER RECAPPED SPOOF DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS VIDEO?
Loved the vid
🤔interesting topic
It’s funny bc I’ve been seeing a lot of radiant coaches and players say gamesense is key and 90% of their round wins are from straight up aim fights. I have many friends who have hit immortal 3 who’ve never vod reviewed, don’t make plans or preround comm and simply aim.
In lower elo game sense is useless. Every match differs immensely in skill level and mechanics and you cannot reliably predict enemy movement.
as a low elo player i disagree either they move or stand still
good vid brotha