Tip 21: Stop overthinking, just play the game. Eventually you will get better the more you play the game. When I say the more you play the game, I meant the more you play it by time, in a year or two you will see the difference. Yes , I said a year or two. Let's be honest here, unless you are talented and can easily learn stuff, you won't really reach platinum,diamond,immortal,radiant.. those four ranks where the game starts to actually become competitive. Iron to Gold is filled with a lot of egotistical people, people who just want to prove something rather than have fun playing. Instead of having fun they end up being toxic and overwork themselves. You won't become like TenZ or ScreaM or etc in under a year.. don't forget, these people have played CS GO for almost their entire life.
lol it def takes talent and practice for sure but you could def get into plat in a year easy if you get the basics. Maybe not someone entirely new to PC shooters but you'd def be able to get there as long as you know the fundamentals
I’m not gonna lie I instalocked controller and I climbed out of bronze and silver so quick. Didn’t even have to frag out. Literally just set my team up and get a couple kills here and there.
@@dangeroussnek8932 I just set the team up for success that’s it bro. You’d be surprised how well people play with a controller who knows how to properly smoke.
as a viper main i rely too much on line-ups but lately I try to use swoop peek more and focus on taking fights rather than always going for line-ups it helped improve a lot faster
for #12, yesterday i played an unrated with a couple of players who werent really that good, but i started some communication and soon enough our entire team was forging plans, helping eachother out, etc. we ended up winning that game 13-10 and had some really good rounds!
It’s amazing how much all these online games have in common, like I’ve played ranked pretty decently in both siege and dota 2 and now I’m getting into valorant. The quickest way in all is to always support your team and kinda boost them forward and set them up for success, it’s kinda the dirty job and it’s not glamorous but in all competitive games it seems like the way to go especially if your not the best with aim or whatever, just learn maps and smokes or whatever the “support” role is and you’ll be going places 🤷♂️
silver me matched up against gold that doesn't know how to use utility (not using viper's wall, dualist sage dying early as defender) I main kayo and they expect me to anchor 1 site alone every round and ace, if they get a plant then it's my fault, nice shit
The thing that got me out of the plat mindset is 1. Don't be scared to lock in duelist 2. Try not to fill unless you have to 3. Its ok to lose a match, you feel like you've wasted your time but it's just time to improve 4. Play other games to refresh your brain and have fun (i often play apex to reset my mind) 5. Don't think that you lost ONLY because you top fragged, chances are they just had a bad game And the last thing is, if your low elo and is scared to botfrag and get Trashtalked just trashtalk them back by saying "it's just a gold game bro, are you a pro or something? "
Coming from Rocket League, I tell my teammates all the time that they make me look good. They could be the same rank, lower rank, higher rank, but they played their part so well, they literally spoon fed me a goal. Same thing applies in Valorant. I may not be the best aimer, but if my teammates set me for a nice little 3k-4k, I look insane to spectators and the enemy team. I did nothing special, my teammates did the work, and I stole the credit. I know, it sounds really bad. But to the trained eye, they know that the person only got that insane 3k-4k because of a teammate's play.
ssl in rl and i can tell you rn it differentiates so much from what end of the rank system you're at (most of the time). iron-gold is all solo play and high gold-radiant teamwork can help sooo much. valorant is also a game where you can just stomp if you play reyna and 1v4-5 every round. it's not the most consistent but i feel it's the most consistent in super low ranks. realistically once you hit plat it's a lot harder and team play is a lot more important. my duo says the exact same thing you say lol
Coming back to this video I can’t thank you enough, I went from silver al the way to plat and currently close to diamond these tips helped a lot thank you so much again
Regarding number 12 and communication: I've noticed that the better I personally communicate in a match, the better my team as a whole communicates in that match. It's like someone just needs to break the communication ice by doing it first. As arrogant as it might seem, many people aren't natural leaders. They are much more comfortable following someone else's lead. Be the leader in effective communication by doing it first.
Another tip: Don't fight your enemy in their strong point if they are dominating you. Accept the fact that the enemy is better than you and make adjustments. I have this friend I always play with when we was still in Bronze. Now I am Diamond and he is stuck at Gold. He always like to fight mid and always die. Even if the enemy is dominating him at mid he still continue to peek and fight. He gets happy when he win but 4/6 times he lose.
The tip where he said don't play alot and enjoy your games works so well... My PR for kills literally jumped from 12 to 31 in three games because I didn't rage like the day before where I only got 3 kills at the most
12:53 , this I needed to hear the most out of all of the tips.. The amount of times I've had toxic teammates but delayed muting them because I thought I would lose out on info is ridiculous, just mute them right away there is no need for that garbage energy in your matches
I totally agree. I got the game 2 days ago and one of my teammates was yelling at me saying I'm stupid. I just muted them and moved on, I don't need that kind of energy.
Today just played in a rank game (I’m bronze 1 btw, playing for less than 2 weeks) and 2 of my teammates were flaming on me and ofc I started to tilt, my score wasn’t bad at all and I was not so bad too, but after yelling at me and telling me every time that I’m troller, that I don’t need to play on Reyna (I’m still learning btw) everyone need to report me, I wanted to exit from the game xd
"If you want to climb, the matchmaking should do a good job of creating balanced teams" also me playing against 5 better ranked players w 4 bronze on my team
The chance of you playing against a good enemy team is as high as the chance of you getting those players on your team instead. Statisticially, just focusing on yourself is enough to rank up.
As somebody who has recently started climing tgrough the mid ranks (plat to diamond) i can say that everything in this vid is true. My aim is good enough, i only started climbing when i focussed on doing my job and a little more and when i started playing a lot more unrated games with my immortal mates.... Playing with and against immortal level players is by far the best way to improve faster and actually get better at the parts of the game that matter like decision making, patience and game sens...
These tips are incredible, and I agree with the majority. The only thing I would add to the bit where you talk about Viper being necessary on Breeze and Sage on Icebox, I would say KJ is a MUST on Ascent! It's just too hard to push B site that has a KJ setup, unless you have a KAYO which you can't always anticipate. The amount of times I've died to KJ on Ascent because of the specific lineup with swarms on Lane and her Bot across main is just INSANE. But thank you so much, this video is amazingly helpful, and I'm going to utilize lots of them in my gameplay! :) Keep it up.
this goes kinda in the direction of play something you know instead of filling, but try to play like you want and play agents that reflect that. Don't avoid you weaknesses. Don't play a agent like sage, because you might have more impact now by healing, stalling and never actually get in a gunfight. Do the opposite: embrace your lack of aim and play agents with flashes like training wheels. You get a bigger window for aiming at the enemy before they kill you so you get real engagements
for some reason i suck with every character except duelist. everytime i try learning a sentinel, controller, or initiator i just dont use them correctly and pretty much never use their abilities. with duelist tho i always use my abilities. but for some reason im rly inconsistent like 1 game im 30k but next im a 5 16 jett instalock
@@bananabuscotch8226 , the reason ur inconsistent might be because you rely too much on a gimmick, an example is jett, jett can get out of a ridiculous amount of situations, she has smokes for cover, a broken dash and updrafts which allow her to take weird angles. It might be you're relying too much on your utility which allows you to survive in situations other agents couldn't, I play brimstone mostly, but also jett and reyna, with a more passive playstyle and by not trying to make unnecessary plays when they are not needed. Yes I don't get 30+ kills even though I could since I have very good aim for my rank, but instead I play it smart and let the enemies be with a disadvantage
Tips: if you play for a long session and getting stressed, try listening to a song while playing, most of the sound matters in valorant but what matters the most is to enjoy the game!
I just got diamond for the first time just playing less. It's a simple but a really powerful tip. If you feel like you're in the wrong elo playing less can put you in elo you deserve faster than just playing tons of matches everyday.
I play 15 matches a day for like 10hrs and I just juggle to silver 3 and gold 1 for like a couple of weeks now. I always start of great 20+ kills the first 4 matches then it goes downhill to having 5kills my last match coz im tilted and sleepy. Haha
From what I've learned, if you are matched with anyone with a lower rank. That lower rank is your real skill level. I've seen plenty of people on gold matched with silvers and bronze wondering why they are there and then bottom fragging the whole game
I’ve been playing video games in general for around 12 years and started playing comp around 12 years old (not official tournaments but just some random tournaments here and there that people host) and the thing with valorant is yes aim is important but with val it’s different type of aiming it takes a different kind of skill you need crosshair placement and know the spread of the guns because when I first played val it was so incredibly difficult cause I’m use to call of duty and apex aiming so it was major hard to get use to it
But now I feel like I’ve gotten pretty decent at it I can get like 10 kills on average a game and the biggest thing to take away from val is that you gotta learn callouts and the maps cause that will reflect on your aiming big time because if your good at aiming but don’t know the maps your not gonna know where any of the corners are or what angles you can take advantage of and so learning about the game can generally make you better
The gimmick thing is something I’ve always treated as a 1 time game ult, once you do it the first time, assume they’re not going to fall for it for the rest of the game which is the case slid the time.
I went from Iron to Silver by not "being the hero" lol. I was getting so triggered by not top fragging every game. I started to focus on abilities and proper positioning which helped a lot, which helped win games. Sure, I am not at the top of the leaderboard, but I was able to put someone else up there. I am still ages away from Radiant, but I am glad that I was able to fix my mentality a little bit to help me win games.
I just started playing the game and have zero experience with fps in general. I was getting really frustrated with myself because I have zero idea what to do or how to get better. However, I decided to change my mentality from "ugh. I'm bottomfrag again and useless" to "hey, I'm still learning the basics and just trying to have fun" and it really helped me feel better overall. Sure, I'm still bottom frag, sure my ratings are super low, but I learned more about the map, I'm getting better at using my gimmicks, I'm still giving my team useful info even if I die, and I feel content getting assists because it means I am contributing SOMETHING, lol. Pretty certain my elo is wood, but I can only go up from here, ya know? 😅
a lot of these tips work in other games too, I climbed a lot in overwatch and learned a ton of these and teach them to other people but I dont know why I threw them out myself when I started playing overwatch so thanks
19th tip is kinda true because i had to hard Carry until diamond Rank because in order to win a single round in plat and below I had to get 2-3 kills in order to win but when i got to diamond i trusted my teammates and I was able to win a round with 0-1 kills average because my team knows what to do in diamond. But in lower elos it's just 5 Man Rush one site. but thats fixed now cuz i reached diamond
i always play omen, but in unranked or the very low ranks Im always in a team with 4 duellants and i even try to communicate with them sometimes but they just dont listen, they rush the spot alone or just dont go with the team together. I will try to use the tipps you presented us for my next games. Thanks for helping
This actually helps me. Got some teamate that wasn't playjng optimally (instalock reyna then proceed to die super fast on defense round) im at bronze 3, my team and enemy are a mix of silver and bronze. Suppressed my rage and tried to play best as i can. Come out with a comeback with 40 kills :v. The reyna listen eventually as long as u dont blame and tried to give advice instead of orders. By round 17ish we became a solid team and win the game. ( I was using viper based on the tip to have at least 1 controller)
That's awesome, being toxic loses way more games than you think. I used to be on both sides of the spectrum of toxicity and when i was toxic but played really optimally I was losing games because my teams mental was broken from their own teammate breaking them down from the inside. And when i was playing optimally and praising teammates for doing well or giving advice when needed then most of the games i played like that seemed to be won really easily or have a really awesome comeback.
This account is what made me become a completely other player. As soon as I started watching your videos I went from Iron 2 to Silver 1 and now even beating up Diamond 2 players.
As a breach I usually keep an eye on my map and use concussion on enemy as soon as my team mate is engaging the enemy at othe side of map. 70% of time my team mate gets the kill
Also the fact that smurfs will always be part of this game so stop complaing and when you see a smurf in your team or enemy team add them and push rank with them
Everyones account should just be linked via a cellphone verified provider so people cant smurf as much and the ability to sign into only 1 account on your hardware for a1 month a time
@@parzivalftw bruh am not kidding my unratted mmr is so high that I get at min 2 diamonds or an immortal player in my lobby while I'm gold in comp. Unrated gives better practice to me then ranked
I don't even have any rank, but from csgo I learned almost all of the things listed in this video before i watched it. And I really started playing better!
im new at valo and just hit lvl 20 and i got bronze 2 and competative games are quite hard for me and this made me quite confident to go out there and train some and get my rank maybe go high even a little bit
I always felt like if I’m not going to be top fragging or at least close to it in my rank I will never be able to get better and assumed I would never make it into higher ranks. This video helped me see that’s not the case.
I just started playing FPS games as a whole and valorant is a lot of fun but i TOTALLY suck however, a new thing i learned is do NOT hold down your button to run while you're shooting because they just go everywhere and also crouching also helps aim
8:40 just had to timestamp here cause he says "disapeak" instead of "disappear" and thought it was super funny for some reason lmao. Thanks for the video, Im finding this super helpful so far :)
0:45 That's sooo true. I have been aim training in valorant death match and the practice area, I also played an hour of csgo warmups before it and it's just like you never REALLY 100% of the time get the chance to one shot everyones head without them seeing you (or even shoot people at all), or if you're gonna end up on a flick compilation, the 2nd persons gonna one-shot you after you flick the first of the 3 people.
i don’t like recording my games but almost any of the time i make mistakes i realize it within a couple seconds then think what could’ve i done to make it better for me could’ve been in a better position, could’ve i just swung i feel like i’m better than most people at realizing the things i do wrong which makes me already 10x better than people. I also from other games know how to properly do vod reviews and learn a lot.
There's a strategy video I saw that filling a smoker for your team is more important than choosing your own preferred agent because there are maps that makes smokes very essential, and you just have to deal with your agent by doing more with frags since it's the staple skill every player should have.
my friend has been playing valorant for about 7 months and I just started playing 2 days ago and he has been coaching me and the other players also help me because I always say help me a bit coz I'm new at the start of games and I have learned alot in the past 2 days
He explains all these things we need to do, but nothing about what they mean or how to do them. I had to pause and look up "swing peek", correct crosshair placement, counter strafing, etc... Obviously I'm a total beginner but this was still very helpful.
When you said that people in your game are the same rank, that doesn't really apply to all games because there are definetly a lot of smurfs in the valorant community like an immortal playing could be playing on an iron account making it hard for iron players to get a higher elo and a different rank.
I have some questions if any comment readers are willing to answer! Okay so I’m not necessarily new to shooters, but Valorant feels like a whole new world. Not only is the game extremely different from others in the actual strategy and game play, people use terms and names that they just expect others to know, but new players like myself do not understand. Like I understand a “wide swing” probably means taking a corner widely, but is hat correct? Is that bad? when do you do that and why not? What is swinging together and how to do it well and when?? Trading?? Baiting teammates? I actually don’t understand this one, I’m assuming you basically make your teammates think you’re covering an area but you’re not and then they die? Counter strafing. “Most players know what it is but-“ umm okay so what about is that don’t? How do you do it well? In the clip of the strafing it looked like they were not hitting the center which seems counter productive. The goal is to hit the target in front of you, correct? So how is that beneficial? Also I thought you weren’t supposed to move while shooting?? When to push smokes! Do you just sit and waste time for the 15 seconds or what? I’ve been watching so many Valorant videos and I can’t find one that is actually discussing this stuff. It’s all extremely basic knowledge like “you buy guns at the beginning of the round!” Or they have more intermediate knowledge but it’s very vague. Someone please help me lmao I want to go into comp as a semi competent player
10:00 yea this is me. I practice counterstrafing for around 20 mins before going into games but I find myself rarely using it in game because I hit on or two shots so I just instant commit to the kill instead of counterstrafing, or the enemy will hit me a few times so in my head there doesn’t seem to be a point in moving to stop shooting because they will just kill me, but I’m sure if I actually start doing it I will end up winning more fights
I know I'm a little late, but Shroud's videos where he watches VCT are I think the best to really get an inside look into the players thoughts and skills And sidenote: I did find that the commentators would say similar points in their analysis. But there's something.. pretentious almost about calling eSports the way you would a football game. I much preferred it coming from someone just talking like a gamer
one of the reasons i feel communication is so hard for me is that i lack the ability to take control, ill have a plan ill want to execute with my team but i wont say anything because i dont wanna be the reason that we lost a round, and i feel like sometimes if i just said something we could have won just a few more rounds. Like if i ask a teammate to swing with me and we both die because of it without any progress ill feel like crap
For communication, in my situation is hard cuz some players are just rude, arrogant and just shrugs it off. Like if I ask them to stay on site a little bit longer cuz enemy is not pushing the opposite site, they'll just say mind your own business and go do what they want. Like what the hell man.
As someone who is grinding through unranked to get to 20. I am beyond excited to start comp. I got my first ace a few days back and now I am just collecting them. Time to get myself destroyed in comp
normally i come across a starter in unrated but when i try to give tips they just ignore even though they really ez to do, just like if ur gonna be a duelist make sure to check corners when ur in front, and as u said u don't really need to focus on aim, so they normally die but atleast they did something good instead just ingnoring and let teammates die because they didn't check atleast a corner.
Sometimes in the spikerush i get 0 kill at the end of the game it make me look like noob i try to improve my self but there's always a thought that you gonna get a 0 kill again and in some match it happens and i get depressed that I'm not improving.😔😔
It looks fun, but if it's that hardcore then I'm not sure if it's for me! I have a coworker playing that would be fun to join, but I'm definitely one of those not used to talking and playing at the same time (unlike at work!).
The first tip works for nearly any slower fps game I play a lot of extraction shooters too and my aim is…average at best (some days I feel I have aim it but others feel like I am 4 years old using a mouse for the first time) So I mainly focus on positioning and making fights as one sided as possible. It’s def still important to learn enough aiming to be able to win duels but it’s more important to learn how to make “duels” one sided IMO
being calm helps me so much i get tilted so much when my teammates whiffs or doesnt win a 3v1 and it actually makes me lose momentum wich leads me to losing
Strangely enough for me teamplay I do better than actual skill, tactics and logic plays is simple for me but actually getting amazing frags is still hard. It sucks whenever you match up with people who don't give or listen to any intel.
one thing i observed about almost all bad teammates is that they never listen and most of the time just swear and dont take intel / listen to footsteps
1. Aim isn't that important 2. Bad teammates can still be good (play off teammates dumb pushes) 3. Teamplay is important 4. Play less = Rank up more 5. Controller is a must have 6. Everything else doesn't matter 7. Crossfires are important (esp for 5 man pushes) 8. Crosshair Placement is the Whole game 9. Baiting teammates is really easy (to do unintentionally) 10. Dying from the map 11. Pushing smokes is often a bad idea 12. Communication is really hard but really valuable 13. You need counter strafe more (the point of counter strafing is to make yourself more difficult to hit) 14. Don't rely on gimmicks too much 15. Pay attention to pro play 16. Record your games 17. Play with people better than you (challenging 18. Toxic players won't say anything useful 19. You don't need to hard carry (normally) 20. Check out skillcapped's site
I just started playing, I only have two games, and my first rule is to mute, I know communication is essential but knowing that I'm a newbie I don't want to encounter toxic people that'll ruin the game for me.
I started out abusing off angles and abilities like the 3 overpowered Breach flashes, and so on, and i actually improved my aim as i played more and more, and because i started to warm up for 30 min before playing. so... brains before flicks, i guess. Maybe it helped that i had 300 hours in CSGO before and watched a lot of pro tournaments and my game sense developed, but i got an ace with 2 breach flashes, and a faultline in a 1v5 on haven on attack because of 70% luck, 30% peeking 2 blind enemies at a time.
Matchmaking sucks for me, I’m bronze 1 but whenever I start doing good in my games, I’ll start getting placed with gold and high silver. I wouldn’t mind it if people weren’t so mean, it discourages me every time
Thanks, I think I have enough momentum finally, that I can just have fun with it and warch the excitement build up... I know people and they LOVE to tell a secret, and this one is/has already gone viral! But don't think I planned this, I really am a team player or I would have taken out all the giants at once, but this is about the most exciting thing happening atm, so I'm just enjoying my anonymity for the last few days of my life! ☝🏻🙏🏻👼🏻
Want to IMPROVE fast, WIN more FIGHTS, and get the RANK you've always wanted then check out: www.skill-capped.com/valorant
Wait 1 week ago
v what he said v
I think this was uploaded sooner (like a month ago), and was premiered to go public today
Lmao
what crosshair is that? i want it. thanks
"You have 4 teammates you don't have to fight alone"
Raze- Bring it!! Me against the world
Was that supposed to be funny?
@@oxygen8050 yes and so is ur birth
@@ohok5247 tf is wrong with u bro I was just asking if he meant for it to be funny
@@tallest_wookie1842 no like actually I was asking
As a Raze main, it is pretty funny
Tip 21: Stop overthinking, just play the game. Eventually you will get better the more you play the game. When I say the more you play the game, I meant the more you play it by time, in a year or two you will see the difference.
Yes , I said a year or two. Let's be honest here, unless you are talented and can easily learn stuff, you won't really reach platinum,diamond,immortal,radiant.. those four ranks where the game starts to actually become competitive.
Iron to Gold is filled with a lot of egotistical people, people who just want to prove something rather than have fun playing. Instead of having fun they end up being toxic and overwork themselves.
You won't become like TenZ or ScreaM or etc in under a year.. don't forget, these people have played CS GO for almost their entire life.
you could definitely hit plat in under a year maybe even diamond if you play enough
Eh
lol it def takes talent and practice for sure but you could def get into plat in a year easy if you get the basics. Maybe not someone entirely new to PC shooters but you'd def be able to get there as long as you know the fundamentals
Very nice tip.
@@TimTamSlam7 yeah, I got to plat in 5 months, this game is my first fps ever
I’m not gonna lie I instalocked controller and I climbed out of bronze and silver so quick. Didn’t even have to frag out. Literally just set my team up and get a couple kills here and there.
how? lol..too much RR for helping w smokes?
@@dangeroussnek8932 I just set the team up for success that’s it bro. You’d be surprised how well people play with a controller who knows how to properly smoke.
@@Veemock oh so it requires that your teammates know they need to press 4 to plant. You made it sound too easy lol.
@@dangeroussnek8932 yeah some people are brain dead bro. The strat I mentioned only will get you so far. I’m hardstuck now 🤣
@@Veemock that was fast lmao
as a viper main i rely too much on line-ups but lately I try to use swoop peek more and focus on taking fights rather than always going for line-ups it helped improve a lot faster
Relatable. I started maining raze after feeling the need to take more gun fights only to realise I was relying too much on her util.
PATHETIC I BARELY REMEMBER LINE UPS AND SEARCH THE MAP ON RUclips BEFORE START THEN SPRAY THROUGH SMOKES
My main used to be reyna,then cypher,then Kay/O and now it's killjoy
You need a cordinated team so that u can use linups and tell them to survive as it helps a lot in post plant
lineups is the last thing to learn imho.
for #12, yesterday i played an unrated with a couple of players who werent really that good, but i started some communication and soon enough our entire team was forging plans, helping eachother out, etc. we ended up winning that game 13-10 and had some really good rounds!
It’s amazing how much all these online games have in common, like I’ve played ranked pretty decently in both siege and dota 2 and now I’m getting into valorant. The quickest way in all is to always support your team and kinda boost them forward and set them up for success, it’s kinda the dirty job and it’s not glamorous but in all competitive games it seems like the way to go especially if your not the best with aim or whatever, just learn maps and smokes or whatever the “support” role is and you’ll be going places 🤷♂️
Only works in high elo
or just master your raw aim and positioning skills to hard carry because you can't rely on your teammates for shit.
@@TTInfiniteGaming both are valid, so just watch how the second or third round goes and then choose which way it is.
"matchmaking should do a good job on balancing teams"
bronze games: allow us to introduce ourselves
silver me matched up against gold that doesn't know how to use utility (not using viper's wall, dualist sage dying early as defender) I main kayo and they expect me to anchor 1 site alone every round and ace, if they get a plant then it's my fault, nice shit
against and with gold teammates I might add
matched me gold1 teammate but still frickin lost
Everytime i play in my comp (iron 3) i keep getting matched with silver players or bronze 3 which makes me want to play comp less and less lol
@@RanRaiii its unfair
i want to learn how pro players crosshairs magically snaps into enemy heads 😂 that just looks sick🔥
Thats snap showed how ur muscle memory work or in a good state. Good muscle memory also require practice.
@@wanzulfahmi2701 ong, especially new kbm players
@@wanzulfahmi2701 also disabling mouse accel helps it alot
@@FindPotential valo has raw input which removes all accel by default
@@FindPotential having it on or off doesn't effect in val
The thing that got me out of the plat mindset is
1. Don't be scared to lock in duelist
2. Try not to fill unless you have to
3. Its ok to lose a match, you feel like you've wasted your time but it's just time to improve
4. Play other games to refresh your brain and have fun (i often play apex to reset my mind)
5. Don't think that you lost ONLY because you top fragged, chances are they just had a bad game
And the last thing is, if your low elo and is scared to botfrag and get Trashtalked just trashtalk them back by saying "it's just a gold game bro, are you a pro or something? "
Trashtalking gets so hard bc I can’t talk AND play so it’s a lot of “yeah”s and “um”s while I’m trying to roast lmao
that helped me alots.Thanks bro
Coming from Rocket League, I tell my teammates all the time that they make me look good. They could be the same rank, lower rank, higher rank, but they played their part so well, they literally spoon fed me a goal.
Same thing applies in Valorant. I may not be the best aimer, but if my teammates set me for a nice little 3k-4k, I look insane to spectators and the enemy team. I did nothing special, my teammates did the work, and I stole the credit. I know, it sounds really bad. But to the trained eye, they know that the person only got that insane 3k-4k because of a teammate's play.
ssl in rl and i can tell you rn it differentiates so much from what end of the rank system you're at (most of the time). iron-gold is all solo play and high gold-radiant teamwork can help sooo much. valorant is also a game where you can just stomp if you play reyna and 1v4-5 every round. it's not the most consistent but i feel it's the most consistent in super low ranks. realistically once you hit plat it's a lot harder and team play is a lot more important. my duo says the exact same thing you say lol
I came from rl as well!
rl is bad
lol I came from Rocket League too
@@omegadonkez4301 youre bad
Coming back to this video I can’t thank you enough, I went from silver al the way to plat and currently close to diamond these tips helped a lot thank you so much again
How long did it take you to get to plat from silver?
@@nicolsson_yt8344 I don't imagine long. If you play the game consistently then you should improve fast.
@@alternateaccount9510 bull
“You don’t need to play the hero”
Btw we have a guide to teach you how to hard carry in any rank
I know like that doesn’t make any sense lol
Regarding number 12 and communication: I've noticed that the better I personally communicate in a match, the better my team as a whole communicates in that match. It's like someone just needs to break the communication ice by doing it first. As arrogant as it might seem, many people aren't natural leaders. They are much more comfortable following someone else's lead. Be the leader in effective communication by doing it first.
Another tip: Don't fight your enemy in their strong point if they are dominating you. Accept the fact that the enemy is better than you and make adjustments.
I have this friend I always play with when we was still in Bronze. Now I am Diamond and he is stuck at Gold. He always like to fight mid and always die. Even if the enemy is dominating him at mid he still continue to peek and fight. He gets happy when he win but 4/6 times he lose.
Ego peeking is the worst. They just don't give up.
Thats true thanks
This is something that wins me so many games. If someone is better than you try to outsmart them rather than hope you can win a duel
The tip where he said don't play alot and enjoy your games works so well... My PR for kills literally jumped from 12 to 31 in three games because I didn't rage like the day before where I only got 3 kills at the most
I also climbed from low to immortal, just got immortal today and im still shaking, tips like these would help new players a lot!
12:53 , this I needed to hear the most out of all of the tips.. The amount of times I've had toxic teammates but delayed muting them because I thought I would lose out on info is ridiculous, just mute them right away there is no need for that garbage energy in your matches
I totally agree. I got the game 2 days ago and one of my teammates was yelling at me saying I'm stupid. I just muted them and moved on, I don't need that kind of energy.
Today just played in a rank game (I’m bronze 1 btw, playing for less than 2 weeks) and 2 of my teammates were flaming on me and ofc I started to tilt, my score wasn’t bad at all and I was not so bad too, but after yelling at me and telling me every time that I’m troller, that I don’t need to play on Reyna (I’m still learning btw) everyone need to report me, I wanted to exit from the game xd
"If you want to climb, the matchmaking should do a good job of creating balanced teams"
also me playing against 5 better ranked players w 4 bronze on my team
I played with 3 unranked on each team(I was one), 1 bronze and and 1 silver on my team, and a bronze and diamond on the opposing side
Ah yes, when your 5 stack of bronzes gets placed against 1 b3, 2 s1’s and 2 s3’s who just deranked. Extremely fair
Cope
The chance of you playing against a good enemy team is as high as the chance of you getting those players on your team instead. Statisticially, just focusing on yourself is enough to rank up.
Good tips, good content as per usual.
As somebody who has recently started climing tgrough the mid ranks (plat to diamond) i can say that everything in this vid is true. My aim is good enough, i only started climbing when i focussed on doing my job and a little more and when i started playing a lot more unrated games with my immortal mates.... Playing with and against immortal level players is by far the best way to improve faster and actually get better at the parts of the game that matter like decision making, patience and game sens...
9:15 "so many gamers are incredibly introverted"
*cries in EU while team screams in 3 different slavic languages*
These tips are incredible, and I agree with the majority. The only thing I would add to the bit where you talk about Viper being necessary on Breeze and Sage on Icebox, I would say KJ is a MUST on Ascent! It's just too hard to push B site that has a KJ setup, unless you have a KAYO which you can't always anticipate. The amount of times I've died to KJ on Ascent because of the specific lineup with swarms on Lane and her Bot across main is just INSANE. But thank you so much, this video is amazingly helpful, and I'm going to utilize lots of them in my gameplay! :) Keep it up.
this goes kinda in the direction of play something you know instead of filling, but try to play like you want and play agents that reflect that.
Don't avoid you weaknesses.
Don't play a agent like sage, because you might have more impact now by healing, stalling and never actually get in a gunfight. Do the opposite: embrace your lack of aim and play agents with flashes like training wheels. You get a bigger window for aiming at the enemy before they kill you so you get real engagements
for some reason i suck with every character except duelist. everytime i try learning a sentinel, controller, or initiator i just dont use them correctly and pretty much never use their abilities. with duelist tho i always use my abilities. but for some reason im rly inconsistent like 1 game im 30k but next im a 5 16 jett instalock
@@bananabuscotch8226 , the reason ur inconsistent might be because you rely too much on a gimmick, an example is jett, jett can get out of a ridiculous amount of situations, she has smokes for cover, a broken dash and updrafts which allow her to take weird angles. It might be you're relying too much on your utility which allows you to survive in situations other agents couldn't, I play brimstone mostly, but also jett and reyna, with a more passive playstyle and by not trying to make unnecessary plays when they are not needed. Yes I don't get 30+ kills even though I could since I have very good aim for my rank, but instead I play it smart and let the enemies be with a disadvantage
Tips: if you play for a long session and getting stressed, try listening to a song while playing, most of the sound matters in valorant but what matters the most is to enjoy the game!
ruining the game for others like this
the players who are trying to rank up will hate any player who is having no game sound and listening to songs
@@gauravkumar-mw2mq you can listen to music in unrated or deathmatch or whatever, but in comp i wouldnt listen to music for this reason lol
@@spxncer0910 you should have clarified lol....my bad
@@gauravkumar-mw2mq he’s not original commenter bro 😂
@@joshie5285 lmao..my bad😂😂😂
I just got diamond for the first time just playing less. It's a simple but a really powerful tip. If you feel like you're in the wrong elo playing less can put you in elo you deserve faster than just playing tons of matches everyday.
I play 15 matches a day for like 10hrs and I just juggle to silver 3 and gold 1 for like a couple of weeks now. I always start of great 20+ kills the first 4 matches then it goes downhill to having 5kills my last match coz im tilted and sleepy. Haha
@@deciphertwentythree7726 My sprint coach in track would tell us, training form while exhausted is useless. I guess the same applies to valo
From what I've learned, if you are matched with anyone with a lower rank. That lower rank is your real skill level. I've seen plenty of people on gold matched with silvers and bronze wondering why they are there and then bottom fragging the whole game
I’ve been playing video games in general for around 12 years and started playing comp around 12 years old (not official tournaments but just some random tournaments here and there that people host) and the thing with valorant is yes aim is important but with val it’s different type of aiming it takes a different kind of skill you need crosshair placement and know the spread of the guns because when I first played val it was so incredibly difficult cause I’m use to call of duty and apex aiming so it was major hard to get use to it
But now I feel like I’ve gotten pretty decent at it I can get like 10 kills on average a game and the biggest thing to take away from val is that you gotta learn callouts and the maps cause that will reflect on your aiming big time because if your good at aiming but don’t know the maps your not gonna know where any of the corners are or what angles you can take advantage of and so learning about the game can generally make you better
Yeah, a good thing to do as a beginner is find some guns you think are fun using and learn their spray patterns
@@slatespok facts you just gotta have fun and your brain and muscle memory will adjust to getting better you can’t take it srsly in the beginning
@@Kingkhan0440 yeah that is true! You cant get better if you don't have fun playing
@@slatespok big facts
I fixed my cross hair placement and went from iron 2 all the way to gold in one act. You can do this aswell.
The gimmick thing is something I’ve always treated as a 1 time game ult, once you do it the first time, assume they’re not going to fall for it for the rest of the game which is the case slid the time.
This video was really helpful and you've done a great job covering all the common mistakes players make. Thankyou so much
the controller one was so true i remember playing a match in breeze with no smokers and it was extremely stressful
I literally started playing 2 days ago, and it's surprising how 'good' or 'bad' players, don't really matter here. Everyone is just trying their best
I went from Iron to Silver by not "being the hero" lol. I was getting so triggered by not top fragging every game. I started to focus on abilities and proper positioning which helped a lot, which helped win games. Sure, I am not at the top of the leaderboard, but I was able to put someone else up there. I am still ages away from Radiant, but I am glad that I was able to fix my mentality a little bit to help me win games.
I just started playing the game and have zero experience with fps in general. I was getting really frustrated with myself because I have zero idea what to do or how to get better.
However, I decided to change my mentality from "ugh. I'm bottomfrag again and useless" to "hey, I'm still learning the basics and just trying to have fun" and it really helped me feel better overall. Sure, I'm still bottom frag, sure my ratings are super low, but I learned more about the map, I'm getting better at using my gimmicks, I'm still giving my team useful info even if I die, and I feel content getting assists because it means I am contributing SOMETHING, lol.
Pretty certain my elo is wood, but I can only go up from here, ya know? 😅
a lot of these tips work in other games too, I climbed a lot in overwatch and learned a ton of these and teach them to other people but I dont know why I threw them out myself when I started playing overwatch so thanks
19th tip is kinda true because i had to hard Carry until diamond Rank because in order to win a single round in plat and below I had to get 2-3 kills in order to win but when i got to diamond i trusted my teammates and I was able to win a round with 0-1 kills average because my team knows what to do in diamond. But in lower elos it's just 5 Man Rush one site. but thats fixed now cuz i reached diamond
U sure do like saying diamond a lot huh
@@zannyy7812 l0l just fried
This might be one of the best yet!! Learnt so much, thanks guys.
i always play omen, but in unranked or the very low ranks Im always in a team with 4 duellants and i even try to communicate with them sometimes but they just dont listen, they rush the spot alone or just dont go with the team together. I will try to use the tipps you presented us for my next games. Thanks for helping
dunno wb unranked, but low elos don't have mics usually (saying this as b1 with a mic)
Communication really is key. If you don’t talk then your already at a bigger disadvantage than you’d think.
This actually helps me. Got some teamate that wasn't playjng optimally (instalock reyna then proceed to die super fast on defense round) im at bronze 3, my team and enemy are a mix of silver and bronze. Suppressed my rage and tried to play best as i can. Come out with a comeback with 40 kills :v. The reyna listen eventually as long as u dont blame and tried to give advice instead of orders. By round 17ish we became a solid team and win the game. ( I was using viper based on the tip to have at least 1 controller)
That's awesome, being toxic loses way more games than you think. I used to be on both sides of the spectrum of toxicity and when i was toxic but played really optimally I was losing games because my teams mental was broken from their own teammate breaking them down from the inside. And when i was playing optimally and praising teammates for doing well or giving advice when needed then most of the games i played like that seemed to be won really easily or have a really awesome comeback.
This account is what made me become a completely other player. As soon as I started watching your videos I went from Iron 2 to Silver 1 and now even beating up Diamond 2 players.
when you said "this sort of segways into" I immediately got PTSD as if i was in a LTT video LMAO
BROTHER you gave me the best tip, 8:22 looking at the map when holding. I always die like 3 times a game because of that
As a breach I usually keep an eye on my map and use concussion on enemy as soon as my team mate is engaging the enemy at othe side of map.
70% of time my team mate gets the kill
I wish I had teammates like you :,)
Also the fact that smurfs will always be part of this game so stop complaing and when you see a smurf in your team or enemy team add them and push rank with them
If you can't beat em join em 😂
actually you kinda improve playing against smurfs
Everyones account should just be linked via a cellphone verified provider so people cant smurf as much and the ability to sign into only 1 account on your hardware for a1 month a time
@@parzivalftw bruh am not kidding my unratted mmr is so high that I get at min 2 diamonds or an immortal player in my lobby while I'm gold in comp. Unrated gives better practice to me then ranked
@@xfrankenstein6981 excuses
I don't even have any rank, but from csgo I learned almost all of the things listed in this video before i watched it. And I really started playing better!
im new at valo and just hit lvl 20 and i got bronze 2 and competative games are quite hard for me and this made me quite confident to go out there and train some and get my rank maybe go high even a little bit
1:40 immediately subbed and liked
I always felt like if I’m not going to be top fragging or at least close to it in my rank I will never be able to get better and assumed I would never make it into higher ranks. This video helped me see that’s not the case.
“Matchmaking should always do a good job at balancing teams” I wish that was the case. Good tips tho, I already picked up on a lot of these myself.
I always get someone who disconnects 😭
I just started playing FPS games as a whole and valorant is a lot of fun but i TOTALLY suck however, a new thing i learned is do NOT hold down your button to run while you're shooting because they just go everywhere and also crouching also helps aim
8:40 just had to timestamp here cause he says "disapeak" instead of "disappear" and thought it was super funny for some reason lmao. Thanks for the video, Im finding this super helpful so far :)
Lmao he said dissipate
@@DoctorEw. I heard disapeak lol
Dude you did an excellent job,explaining everything in this video,thank you ❤🔥
0:45 That's sooo true. I have been aim training in valorant death match and the practice area, I also played an hour of csgo warmups before it and it's just like you never REALLY 100% of the time get the chance to one shot everyones head without them seeing you (or even shoot people at all), or if you're gonna end up on a flick compilation, the 2nd persons gonna one-shot you after you flick the first of the 3 people.
Myself tip: When you feel on fire, try to get duellist or some carry agent. When your not, play a more strategic agent.
i don’t like recording my games but almost any of the time i make mistakes i realize it within a couple seconds then think what could’ve i done to make it better for me could’ve been in a better position, could’ve i just swung i feel like i’m better than most people at realizing the things i do wrong which makes me already 10x better than people. I also from other games know how to properly do vod reviews and learn a lot.
There's a strategy video I saw that filling a smoker for your team is more important than choosing your own preferred agent because there are maps that makes smokes very essential, and you just have to deal with your agent by doing more with frags since it's the staple skill every player should have.
my friend has been playing valorant for about 7 months and I just started playing 2 days ago and he has been coaching me and the other players also help me because I always say help me a bit coz I'm new at the start of games and I have learned alot in the past 2 days
Communication is important but it's also difficult when I'm getting screamed at by my team to "get back into the kitchen" when making calls
He explains all these things we need to do, but nothing about what they mean or how to do them. I had to pause and look up "swing peek", correct crosshair placement, counter strafing, etc...
Obviously I'm a total beginner but this was still very helpful.
This is one of the best tip videos I've seen for any game. Well done
When you said that people in your game are the same rank, that doesn't really apply to all games because there are definetly a lot of smurfs in the valorant community like an immortal playing could be playing on an iron account making it hard for iron players to get a higher elo and a different rank.
my eyes actually hurt when some players keep the crosshair pointing at the ground all the time
If ur iron, bronze, silver, One tip is make sure you have good gross hair placement and check your corners
I have some questions if any comment readers are willing to answer!
Okay so I’m not necessarily new to shooters, but Valorant feels like a whole new world. Not only is the game extremely different from others in the actual strategy and game play, people use terms and names that they just expect others to know, but new players like myself do not understand.
Like I understand a “wide swing” probably means taking a corner widely, but is hat correct? Is that bad? when do you do that and why not? What is swinging together and how to do it well and when?? Trading??
Baiting teammates? I actually don’t understand this one, I’m assuming you basically make your teammates think you’re covering an area but you’re not and then they die?
Counter strafing. “Most players know what it is but-“ umm okay so what about is that don’t? How do you do it well? In the clip of the strafing it looked like they were not hitting the center which seems counter productive. The goal is to hit the target in front of you, correct? So how is that beneficial? Also I thought you weren’t supposed to move while shooting??
When to push smokes! Do you just sit and waste time for the 15 seconds or what? I’ve been watching so many Valorant videos and I can’t find one that is actually discussing this stuff. It’s all extremely basic knowledge like “you buy guns at the beginning of the round!” Or they have more intermediate knowledge but it’s very vague. Someone please help me lmao I want to go into comp as a semi competent player
Opinions on tip #1: "Aim is not that important" sounds somewhat wrong, instead, say "Aim is not the only important thing"
10:00 yea this is me. I practice counterstrafing for around 20 mins before going into games but I find myself rarely using it in game because I hit on or two shots so I just instant commit to the kill instead of counterstrafing, or the enemy will hit me a few times so in my head there doesn’t seem to be a point in moving to stop shooting because they will just kill me, but I’m sure if I actually start doing it I will end up winning more fights
I know I'm a little late, but Shroud's videos where he watches VCT are I think the best to really get an inside look into the players thoughts and skills
And sidenote: I did find that the commentators would say similar points in their analysis. But there's something.. pretentious almost about calling eSports the way you would a football game. I much preferred it coming from someone just talking like a gamer
one of the reasons i feel communication is so hard for me is that i lack the ability to take control, ill have a plan ill want to execute with my team but i wont say anything because i dont wanna be the reason that we lost a round, and i feel like sometimes if i just said something we could have won just a few more rounds. Like if i ask a teammate to swing with me and we both die because of it without any progress ill feel like crap
For communication, in my situation is hard cuz some players are just rude, arrogant and just shrugs it off. Like if I ask them to stay on site a little bit longer cuz enemy is not pushing the opposite site, they'll just say mind your own business and go do what they want. Like what the hell man.
My first game and first round I hit 3 smurfers all headshots in a row, then proceeded to lose in a blow out, I feel like the aim is 95% RNG vs skill.
As someone who is grinding through unranked to get to 20. I am beyond excited to start comp. I got my first ace a few days back and now I am just collecting them. Time to get myself destroyed in comp
“If ur teammate is doing something stupid, make it LESS stupid”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
the controller tip for me was perfect, it made me try agents like brimstone, and it went perfectly well! keep going with the great content!
Daily dose of internet type of voice, soothing and wanting me to hear more
Pretty good guide especially the last part
Tip # 4 was huge for me, comp games can be very fatiguing. Take time away to come back refreshed
normally i come across a starter in unrated but when i try to give tips they just ignore even though they really ez to do, just like if ur gonna be a duelist make sure to check corners when ur in front, and as u said u don't really need to focus on aim, so they normally die but atleast they did something good instead just ingnoring and let teammates die because they didn't check atleast a corner.
I have this friend who was a global elite in csgo and he help me a lot in getting better
Sometimes in the spikerush i get 0 kill at the end of the game it make me look like noob i try to improve my self but there's always a thought that you gonna get a 0 kill again and in some match it happens and i get depressed that I'm not improving.😔😔
im new to Valorant have only played around 10 or less matches but all matches have been with and against Diamond/Platinum Ranked players
Most of the words you said during the vid I didn't really get but I do like all the game sense tips.
It looks fun, but if it's that hardcore then I'm not sure if it's for me! I have a coworker playing that would be fun to join, but I'm definitely one of those not used to talking and playing at the same time (unlike at work!).
The "like what have you accomplished felt personal" 6:10
The first tip works for nearly any slower fps game
I play a lot of extraction shooters too and my aim is…average at best (some days I feel I have aim it but others feel like I am 4 years old using a mouse for the first time)
So I mainly focus on positioning and making fights as one sided as possible.
It’s def still important to learn enough aiming to be able to win duels but it’s more important to learn how to make “duels” one sided IMO
being calm helps me so much i get tilted so much when my teammates whiffs or doesnt win a 3v1 and it actually makes me lose momentum wich leads me to losing
i just started only got a couple hours and im hoping this helps me. And if your wondering i decided to main omen. hes cool
14 is so true, Skye in gold is a pushover and I can push everything but not in diamond
I moved from sova to jett and I went from D1 to immortal 3 in 60 wins
Strangely enough for me teamplay I do better than actual skill, tactics and logic plays is simple for me but actually getting amazing frags is still hard. It sucks whenever you match up with people who don't give or listen to any intel.
Thank you for the video! It helpt me very much!
one thing i observed about almost all bad teammates is that they never listen and most of the time just swear and dont take intel / listen to footsteps
This is one of the best “tips” videos of all time
I have been hard stuck iron 3 for a long time but every mTch i lose I am the team mvp (most of the time) this is gonna help me a lot thx
1. Aim isn't that important
2. Bad teammates can still be good (play off teammates dumb pushes)
3. Teamplay is important
4. Play less = Rank up more
5. Controller is a must have
6. Everything else doesn't matter
7. Crossfires are important (esp for 5 man pushes)
8. Crosshair Placement is the Whole game
9. Baiting teammates is really easy (to do unintentionally)
10. Dying from the map
11. Pushing smokes is often a bad idea
12. Communication is really hard but really valuable
13. You need counter strafe more (the point of counter strafing is to make yourself more difficult to hit)
14. Don't rely on gimmicks too much
15. Pay attention to pro play
16. Record your games
17. Play with people better than you (challenging
18. Toxic players won't say anything useful
19. You don't need to hard carry (normally)
20. Check out skillcapped's site
Thanks Dude that's what I am looking for
I just started playing, I only have two games, and my first rule is to mute, I know communication is essential but knowing that I'm a newbie I don't want to encounter toxic people that'll ruin the game for me.
I started out abusing off angles and abilities like the 3 overpowered Breach flashes, and so on, and i actually improved my aim as i played more and more, and because i started to warm up for 30 min before playing. so... brains before flicks, i guess. Maybe it helped that i had 300 hours in CSGO before and watched a lot of pro tournaments and my game sense developed, but i got an ace with 2 breach flashes, and a faultline in a 1v5 on haven on attack because of 70% luck, 30% peeking 2 blind enemies at a time.
Matchmaking sucks for me, I’m bronze 1 but whenever I start doing good in my games, I’ll start getting placed with gold and high silver. I wouldn’t mind it if people weren’t so mean, it discourages me every time
Thanks, I think I have enough momentum finally, that I can just have fun with it and warch the excitement build up... I know people and they LOVE to tell a secret, and this one is/has already gone viral! But don't think I planned this, I really am a team player or I would have taken out all the giants at once, but this is about the most exciting thing happening atm, so I'm just enjoying my anonymity for the last few days of my life! ☝🏻🙏🏻👼🏻
Thank you so much for this!