could be important to note how sensitivity isn’t the only factor to consider for aiming well. it’s your general mouse control that plays a large part in your aim. if you practice on different sensitivities then you can develop your control with your arm, wrist, fingers etc. and become more consistent. that’s why a player like tenz in valorant can swap sensitivities often and still aim well probably not wise to change sensitivities constantly but it doesnt hurt to try out new sensitivities and see where you’re lacking in control
Changing it in aim trainers and playing voltaic valorant scenarios would be good not in game cs. But cs community dismisses aim trainers compared to valorant for some odd reason
@@JohnDOe-ke9cw it's because valorant requires you to almost always go for a headshot since the sprays aren't consistent like in cs. Maybe people don't care as much since they can spray? idk
I've tried this myself and it does actually work. I've gone as low as 1.3 and as high as 3.75 on 400 dpi figuring out where i lack coordination made a huge difference for me. I also learned anything above 2.8 is extremely uncomfortable for my style
Listen, this guy from video, not you pienix. I had same issue with not enough time to react when they swing to me, but my reaction time is good 140-180, mostly about 160-170ms. so I found solution that helped me, I switched resolution from 4:3 stretched to 16:9 1280:720. Yeah it’s but smaller 25-29%, but models feels much slower and I can see them good and never feel destroyed by Ferrari peek like it was on 4:3 stretched. Try it, I think it will boost your play. Also I increased my sens a little bit because it feeled slower on this res, but it’s another advantage to me. Everything feels easier on 16:9, movement peeks strafes, models swinging, only a bit smaller but it worth it. I’m 2200 elo so you can listen to me, but of course it’s not a special achievement, I’m still grinding. Btw my sens now is 1.05 on 1600dpi (4,2 on 400). By the way another question to the author of the video. I feel comfortable to only aim with my wrist, and I asked 3-4K elo players and pro players on their twitch streams is it ok to aim with only wrist? And a lot of them said yes and a lot were aiming just like this. Wicadia, polt, woxic, and many other players using only wrist, so I think we can use this grip and play well with it. But still I want to try and compare arm aiming, because what I tried It feels wrong and too slow like I’m playin on stone I stead of mice, I don’t know exactly why, but I know that most players aiming like this, so could you, author of the video make a guide or lesson how to aim with arm so we can try it and be sure we are doing everything right and if we don’t feel good then we are confident that this grip is just not fitting us? Would be very helpful from you, because your opinion in this question I can trust, what I can’t say about all RUclipsrs who are making guides while have 6lvl faceit
I agree with the resolution thing you mentioned too but for me personally it's mental issue to play 16:9 xD and for the wrist i feel like its almost impossible to switch from wrist to whole hand when you have been playing your whole life WRIST only. But resolution is true! I have tried many times to switch from wrist to whole hand over the years but my aim is level 1 when playing that way and its impossible to adapt.
I would just try to understand what you're doing wrong and where you think you can polish your mechanics and correct it in your own way if you can. Pienix is a great player and coach, but sometimes I feel like he wants to enforce a playstyle that may not suit everyone. Like: "you must arm-aim", "you must have a very fluid and calm aim", "you must use tracking as much as possible", "hold angles statically", "you must NOT go beyond "x" value when it comes to sens". All of these can very well be the recipe for a solid player, however many players have different approaches to it and have reached the pro scene. If you mostly play wrist-aim and have a flicky aim but you're consistent with it, then you can think about it and experiment with other stuff, but sticking to it might just be the best decision for you. I'm not complaining, just adding my two cents, It's fair, it's his coaching session and he can coach whatever he thinks it's best.
7:14 It seems like he was trying to say he decided to peek rather than to hold the angle, and is saying his peeking movement is bad, but he does it anyways because he feels like he'll die instantly if he just holds the angle in the open. It didn't seem like he was saying he was holding the angle, but that he was talking about his lack of confidence in holding an angle, and the subsequent failure in peeking instead of holding.
No I think his intention was to hold the angle and he didn't expect a guy to already be there when he peeked. That's why his aim started shaking because he was surprised.
Right, so maybe explaining the pro/con of peaking a CT angle is in order. After all you rarely see non-AWPing pro's sit totally still on the angle: any prefire would frag them. Now of course recreational players should work on basics and if your competition isn't prefiring you then holding the angle static does improve the % of time you are fully accurate. But there is also the notion from sports like tennis and basketball that staying static reduces your reaction time (watch pro tennis players waiting for a serve). How does this all balance out at different levels of play. Let's get into it!
6:45. I think there's a sense that the student isn't articulating his thoughts very well and also doesn't have the confidence to say what he really means. I think he's saying that he doesn't peek BECAUSE he isn't confident in holding angles and therefore that is WHY he is moving that way. It's not literally saying that "I was holding the angle there".
Yeah, he does not hold because he's not confident. That's why he is constantly on the move. The way pienix doesn't understand a basic thought and decides to talk over him and state the obvious (that he was peeking and not holding) several times is borderline rude. And i've seen him do the similar things in several other instances
Just to add to the why for the extra movement and the lack of confidence holding because i struggle with it to. Its generally body tension holding the mouse tighter and clenching keyboard fingers. When im in more of a flow with good sleep and warmup i dont do it but i can feel when i do exactly the habits in the video.
@@its_xample that's why I haven't paid for any coaching from anyone. If they all like this, nah. They can learn how to teach people then I will buy their "teachings." Knowing how to be a didact, as this is, and a teacher/coach are two very different things. It's not even a style. It's an inability to recognise one's shortcomings.
@@danjacksonguitar3701 He act like "dictat" because we are not listning even our self ! So to become better we need change our behavior drasticaly. But it can't be done without pain or chill discussions.
As a professional educator, I cringed a little bit listening to the disconnect between teacher and student: the student here is struggling to understand how to best utilize his innate dispositions to be good at some things and bad at others. And managing this absolutely essential to becoming good at anything. I love Pienix, watch lots of his videos and respect his advice, but I'm not sure he's engaging the student where he's at. It's true that you just have to do the right thing. It's also true that the right thing is relative to personal ability: think of all the pro sports players that have non-norm or bizarre forms that work for them! Second, doesn't everyone aim with with arm and wrist with big motions controlled by forearm and small corrections governed by wrist movement?
Travis I’m not an educator! I’m a cs coach, my main goal is to make someone a better player whatever I decide is the best way Been working great so far, ppl get the result
so @pienixcs may have an incorrect way of teaching or come off as argumentative whatever but bro it doesn't matter he's there to point out the issues and help solve them. sometimes its just easier to be like hey this is wrong and this is why rather than attempt to save someones feelings. higher sensitivity's require less movement and if you use your arm its quite hard to control so it almost is always only the wrist and finger tips that is used the arm is practically never used to track only to do 180s or larger movements lower sensitivity's depending on how low are a more balanced approach and you can get a more combined use of wrist arm and finger tips theres positives and negatives of both you just need to find a sens in which gives you the best balance
@pienixcs you do you bro there will always be critics you have turned me from a bottom frag to a carry every game just watching you and doing the practice maps you suggest climbed 3k + on premier after 1 week of doing what you suggest
@@pienixcs I was really offering the comment in good faith. I obviously support pienicx or I wouldn't watch, like, subscribe or comment on his videos. Call yourself a coach or educator or instructor or whatever: It's the same, and sometimes you have to fight off for the moment how right you are to really listen to and address the blockages students have to improvement. Again I'm a big fan and only would comment as food for thought about how to improve. It appears I'm not alone (OF THE PEOPLE WHO WATCH AND PROMOTE YOU). I'd appreciate a considered response.
@@bruh-nq5px The opposite is the case. I've been playing with this high DPI for 20 years. That would be like telling a left-hander to use the right hand.
@@bruh-nq5px ,,you truly believe being on an absurd sens isn't sillu´´ I never said that. The question would rather be whether it makes sense at my already advanced age to completely throw muscle memory overboard after thousands of hours of playing on the “wrong eDPI”? It's not that my eDPI is only slightly higher, it's about ten times the usual one.
Nice video! was very helpful to me might consider getting the course.. One question came to me when you talked about sens: What would you say is the lowest sens one can play at? I don‘t see many pros going below 500 edpi..
to be fair, Im not sure compare to pro play is relevant due to the heavy change in meta because of the flash/smoke setup they have as a team.. Question is how they play in high faceit lobbys (Where they atleast play solo/duo and not team stacked). So by watching demos of 3500k+ players how do they play b anubis and go from there imo if now the goal is to be lvl 10 faceit
@@usemorebrainplz-is7gy I mean you could also watch high elo streamers like docc or Furi and they are also dynamic all the time. Its also a physiological advantage because when you are jiggling or peeking in and out your brainstem stays more alert and you will be able to react quicker
They did a lot more in GO. Peekers advantage is REAL in CS2, ive experienced matches where the ping difference between me and the awp/scout player was such that if I stopped full strafing at all I was instantly dead, and I can usually win peek duels from those angles on mirage with an AK 50% of the time. Absolutely HAD to wide swing him and spray. Its not just about pros having people flash for them, there are some incredibly effective self flashes that you can do, especially on maps like D2. Peeking/swinging has been buffed.
That is just a level up from what is talked about in the video. It is best to first learn how to be static and react to opponent's peeking so you can consistently kill them. Once you learn to be comfortable with that, then you can start to introduce movement into holding angles to be harder to hit while still being able to hit your shots. If you are not confident in reacting to someone peeking, then doing these extra movements might buy you a few milliseconds to not die instantly to the first bullet all the time, but you probably still whiff and lose many fights regardless.
is it going to be part2 of this? I would like to watch it. Because I am struggling to adapt forearm tracking. I used to wrist tracking for years until I saw your videos and started to use my forearm. And lowered my sense as well. But I have been losing so much elo…
Just do what you feel best. Sensitivity is subjective, unless you're going TOO high or TOO low. I use .7 1600 like the guy in the vid and it's completely fine
@@Zealot_csthank you for your answer, as I told I used to do wrist aiming but I had problems with tracking. Thats why I changed to the arm aiming. And now I find myself using just my wrist in pressure moments. So hard to adapt to arm aiming after 5 years of wrist aiming.
I found that doing one arm movement for getting very close to target even while moving and then one adjustment with the wrist after counter strafing works well.
@@michałstegrzyński8492 When you implement minor adjustments with hand and wrist i would be interested in your feedback when you are practicing spray transfers for scenarios where you could be facing 3 or more targets. Minor adjustment control also dramatically decreases TTK in any aimduel scenario. It's a mechanic you will add on to the one you just mentioned. It's similar to the motion of writing with a pencil, but with the crosshair/ mouse sensor.
@@danjacksonguitar3701 well most of the time with 3 targets you’re dead anyway I dont see the point here. Let me reiterate, if I peek i am usually one small adjustment away from the target, what I meant is that I do two movents when the target is far away. This is far more consistant than doing a flick and praying that its on
not sure if this is good practice but I went from 1.5 sens @ 800dpi down to 1.0 slowly over the course of a couple weeks. 1.5 to 1.4 to 1.35 etc down to 1.0, i didn't notice much of a difference in the moment but my aim has improved and there wasn't an awkward getting-used-to phase. again, not sure if this is good practice but it helped me. i also bought a 3ft long mousepad.
Is it just me or pienix’s way of “teaching/coaching” is a bit condescending? Might work to put people in corners and asking them questions to establish authority and superiority as you should but this isnt a good way, regardless if you have results or not. The guy here obviously was explaining at around minute mark 7, that as a ct he doesnt feel comfortable being still while checking an angle or holding it, he is more comfortable and feels safer strafing into the angle rather than being still, so wide jiggling an angle feels more comfortable for him than simply being still. You understand what hes saying and you get what hes trying to say maybe not using the best words but all you try to do is to dumb down the person infront of you with witty remarks and comeback questions. That doesnt go a long way my friend.
Yeah hes coaching is trash tbh. For him counter-strafing is next from god and I have played multiple times top 1000 eu lobbies faceit and I don't think about counter strafing and can get 20 kills easy. As a coach you should give protocols and ways to play for you strainght, not just find mistakes and tell say "you make mistake here, don't do it" even tho idea is right and you should not critique these small things. If you buy coaching from pienix, it is a waste of money and you will NOT get better.
@@ekeguitar i feel like you mightve had a bad experience with him, what im trying to say isnt “dont get coaching with him”. His methods could and is probably working with a certain group of people, and that could be the goal. But to be a messenger and a teacher in whatever field it may be, sports, e sports, medicine, engineering, life in general. You must not give concrete structure of criticism, every person reacts differently, and some might fold to the way pienix relays his message. And the “you are fat, you should go to gym” is an actual way that actually works with a good amount of people, but not most.
I guess it’s a matter of preference and maturity. Pienix’s to-the-point, no nonsense, no sugarcoat comments are to get the correct message and feedback across in the clearest and shortest way possible. People mistake it for being condescending, but in reality he is just telling the truth of the situation, ironing out any misconceptions the player may have. And if people can’t take that, then grow the f*** up and stop being a baby (in my opinion). It’s nothing personal, take it on the chin and work to be better.
@@Tipsi89 I got this take as well from watching the video. Its not to establish who is superior, its to break down what happened in the round and in the persons head without sugar coating mistakes. it will always sound bad when someones pointing out mistakes constantly BUT that's what he is being paid for and he spots so many mistakes and addresses each one minor or major.
Your question kinda answers itself, different pros have different setups, even outliers like Woxic who was once top 10 HLTV uses 3200 edpi. So use what feels comfortable for you, only then you can practice more
Hey man, Been following you for a while. I am currently between 2300-2400 elo on faceit, but still struggles with inconsistensy and overall hs %. Been watching a hole lot of videos about this already, but yet i still struggle. I was thinking about buying one of your coaching sessions, but dunno which one. The ones you do in videos like these, what order are those, is it the cheapest ones, the middles or the most expensive ones? Hope to have a reply, also i wouldent mind the session to be uploaded to youtube if it would help others.
In the videos you can see all of the session packages It's only up to the intensity you want and the budget If you're looking for long term relationship i would choose the middle one (1x a week) or the highest tier (3x a week) For any questions you might have im available on discord -> pienix#2977 Looking forward to the sesh🫡
Focus on it, but not to the point where you lose focus on the angle you're holding. Micro adjustments, like a small little reminder in your mind to not move the crosshair. That's what I did and still do, it works
He already said it on previous videos. That man moved his crosshair while shooting (and also moved himself sometimes) and you dont have to do that (ignoring recoil control obv) you just confirm that your crosshair is on the man and then you shoot. That's why lower ranks struggle on pistol rounds, they just spam the pistol instead of tapping and aiming for the head and also why those people panic with the deagle because if they miss the first shot they barely can recover to aim a second accurate shot.
I am gonna tell you what the difference is between him being afraid of being peeked and other guys. He probably has the same issue with CS2 as thousands of other players, where it is simply impossible to react to a peek(and I am not talking about just run peek, it almost impossible to react to a shift peeker as well, not to mention a regular one), almost every game due to game's being bad, or internet, or subtick, improper hitboxes or its misalignment, server to client delay, resolution, or whatever - this issue does exist and I personally first noticed this when I suddenly became really bad at CSGO which then translated into cs2. And after experiencing the same disadvantage where you almost all the time being killed by a peeker even though you know he supposed to be dead, you stop doing that and try to catch them off guard while they are fully rushing into site and checking other angles. I rarely have a game in CS2 when it feels normal, not delayed, where you do not die behind walls or your victims do not die ca second later after you've already released your finger from a button. All I can tell that this game is broken and I totally understand this dude who does not want to wait while is going to be peeked at. Maybe it is related to image scaling or something, because I do too play 4:3 stretched and it is just fkn terrible, absolutely horrible gameplay I wanna quit! And by the way when you are holding an angle with an AWP you never do any type of tracking or else you'd be dead, what are you talking about, you either hold it still and click when an enemy runs into it or you just flick with your sensitivity memory.
I’m happy to do an experiment to confirm that I’ll pay you to coach random student of mine for an hour, we record it Then I’ll coach him, we post the recordings on RUclips and ppl will compare What do you say?
Man this guy feels kinda frustrating. Like he has an answer for everything when you tell him he made a mistake/give advice. Before he can improve, he needs to accept his mistakes and accept the advice given to him, not just argue back like a 5 year old would 😂
are you special or something? he is legit asking me questions on why I'm giving answers I'm also explaining my thought process on what I'm doing and the reasons if its wrong then i can be told I'm not arguing you degenerate I'm having a conversation
The fastest sensitivity you can comfortably control the micro flicks is the sens you should go for in tac shooters. Utilizing aim trainers on top of this will make your aim consistent
Bro plays on 4:3 and he wonders why they ferrari-peak him all the time - delusional. Also, his 1400 edpi is outrageously high for his resolution (looks like 1280:960). I believe the guy should go 16:9 1080p and lower sens to 1000 edpi 400@2.5 as a starter. I personally play on that sens and feels great at both 4:3 (1440:1080 - my main res) and 1080p. I still can’t conclusively decide between the two though.
First of all, this kind of feedback is kinda shitty because hes is putting his mistakes out there for everyone to see. Second of all, im guessing OCE has a much smaller player pool.
you realize this is one game where he purposefully chose because 1 he played poor 2 felt as if his game in a general was bad in terms of mechanics and would like advice its not an accurate representation of the persons skill from one game you EU Players are delusional in thinking your region is the best your level 9/10 is not good, any oce player that went to Eu including my self has gained 300-500 elo get off your high horses
@@asdfffgfdgdfgdfgdfgdg don't have experience with eu faceit level 10's as im in au but I've noticed a high variance in skill between faceit level 10's around 2k elo
@@krisk6314 yeah hate to break it to you i went to eu for holiday and gained 250 elo EU level 9-10 is easy in comparison to OCE 9-10 as you dont verse pro OCE players every game due to player base, every time a PRO OCE player goes to EU for boot camp they come back +300-500 elo
People need to stop being so soft. He is there for a reason and one reason only and that's to get better and have a better understanding. I see it in golf a lot. People will hit a shot badly and try and comment on why they did a bad shot 'oh I lifted my head' Then they say stuff to a coach I do this because of x. When really you don't really know why you do it. The guy getting coached clearly didn't know why he did stuff and hasn't put much thought into what he does. Pienix asked many question and he couldn't come up with answers. He should realise this now and then Pienix also told him what he needs to do after. It's abrupt but effective. Remember you're there for a reason. If someone shocks you into a realisation it's going to way more effective than someone babying you. He could just Baby you all the way to your goals but I'm fairly certain it will take way longer and cost a bit more money.
could be important to note how sensitivity isn’t the only factor to consider for aiming well. it’s your general mouse control that plays a large part in your aim. if you practice on different sensitivities then you can develop your control with your arm, wrist, fingers etc. and become more consistent. that’s why a player like tenz in valorant can swap sensitivities often and still aim well
probably not wise to change sensitivities constantly but it doesnt hurt to try out new sensitivities and see where you’re lacking in control
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@@syke0of lmao
Changing it in aim trainers and playing voltaic valorant scenarios would be good not in game cs. But cs community dismisses aim trainers compared to valorant for some odd reason
@@JohnDOe-ke9cw it's because valorant requires you to almost always go for a headshot since the sprays aren't consistent like in cs. Maybe people don't care as much since they can spray? idk
I've tried this myself and it does actually work. I've gone as low as 1.3 and as high as 3.75 on 400 dpi figuring out where i lack coordination made a huge difference for me. I also learned anything above 2.8 is extremely uncomfortable for my style
Listen, this guy from video, not you pienix. I had same issue with not enough time to react when they swing to me, but my reaction time is good 140-180, mostly about 160-170ms. so I found solution that helped me, I switched resolution from 4:3 stretched to 16:9 1280:720. Yeah it’s but smaller 25-29%, but models feels much slower and I can see them good and never feel destroyed by Ferrari peek like it was on 4:3 stretched. Try it, I think it will boost your play. Also I increased my sens a little bit because it feeled slower on this res, but it’s another advantage to me. Everything feels easier on 16:9, movement peeks strafes, models swinging, only a bit smaller but it worth it. I’m 2200 elo so you can listen to me, but of course it’s not a special achievement, I’m still grinding. Btw my sens now is 1.05 on 1600dpi (4,2 on 400).
By the way another question to the author of the video. I feel comfortable to only aim with my wrist, and I asked 3-4K elo players and pro players on their twitch streams is it ok to aim with only wrist? And a lot of them said yes and a lot were aiming just like this. Wicadia, polt, woxic, and many other players using only wrist, so I think we can use this grip and play well with it. But still I want to try and compare arm aiming, because what I tried It feels wrong and too slow like I’m playin on stone I stead of mice, I don’t know exactly why, but I know that most players aiming like this, so could you, author of the video make a guide or lesson how to aim with arm so we can try it and be sure we are doing everything right and if we don’t feel good then we are confident that this grip is just not fitting us? Would be very helpful from you, because your opinion in this question I can trust, what I can’t say about all RUclipsrs who are making guides while have 6lvl faceit
I agree with the resolution thing you mentioned too but for me personally it's mental issue to play 16:9 xD and for the wrist i feel like its almost impossible to switch from wrist to whole hand when you have been playing your whole life WRIST only. But resolution is true!
I have tried many times to switch from wrist to whole hand over the years but my aim is level 1 when playing that way and its impossible to adapt.
I would just try to understand what you're doing wrong and where you think you can polish your mechanics and correct it in your own way if you can.
Pienix is a great player and coach, but sometimes I feel like he wants to enforce a playstyle that may not suit everyone. Like: "you must arm-aim", "you must have a very fluid and calm aim", "you must use tracking as much as possible", "hold angles statically", "you must NOT go beyond "x" value when it comes to sens".
All of these can very well be the recipe for a solid player, however many players have different approaches to it and have reached the pro scene.
If you mostly play wrist-aim and have a flicky aim but you're consistent with it, then you can think about it and experiment with other stuff, but sticking to it might just be the best decision for you.
I'm not complaining, just adding my two cents, It's fair, it's his coaching session and he can coach whatever he thinks it's best.
@@williamrosa8577 correct
Why not play on max resolution?
@@swagtf2 I feel easier aim in this resolution and aiming and picture feels smoother
I love that you pointed out how your sensitivity doesn’t matter on stationary targets. Super helpful 13:36
7:14 It seems like he was trying to say he decided to peek rather than to hold the angle, and is saying his peeking movement is bad, but he does it anyways because he feels like he'll die instantly if he just holds the angle in the open. It didn't seem like he was saying he was holding the angle, but that he was talking about his lack of confidence in holding an angle, and the subsequent failure in peeking instead of holding.
This was my same thought.
Pienix just straight up doesn't understand English sometimes
No I think his intention was to hold the angle and he didn't expect a guy to already be there when he peeked. That's why his aim started shaking because he was surprised.
Right, so maybe explaining the pro/con of peaking a CT angle is in order. After all you rarely see non-AWPing pro's sit totally still on the angle: any prefire would frag them.
Now of course recreational players should work on basics and if your competition isn't prefiring you then holding the angle static does improve the % of time you are fully accurate. But there is also the notion from sports like tennis and basketball that staying static reduces your reaction time (watch pro tennis players waiting for a serve). How does this all balance out at different levels of play. Let's get into it!
6:45. I think there's a sense that the student isn't articulating his thoughts very well and also doesn't have the confidence to say what he really means.
I think he's saying that he doesn't peek BECAUSE he isn't confident in holding angles and therefore that is WHY he is moving that way. It's not literally saying that "I was holding the angle there".
Yeah, he does not hold because he's not confident.
That's why he is constantly on the move.
The way pienix doesn't understand a basic thought and decides to talk over him and state the obvious (that he was peeking and not holding) several times is borderline rude.
And i've seen him do the similar things in several other instances
EliGE was also a professional StarCraft player before CSGO, not an FPS but wrist accuracy was already very good
Just to add to the why for the extra movement and the lack of confidence holding because i struggle with it to. Its generally body tension holding the mouse tighter and clenching keyboard fingers. When im in more of a flow with good sleep and warmup i dont do it but i can feel when i do exactly the habits in the video.
you sound so mad dude. you talk to him like he is stupid sometimes. he is your student. humble down i would be pissed as a student
Its a style of coaching. If you dont like it you dont buy it
@@its_xample that's why I haven't paid for any coaching from anyone. If they all like this, nah. They can learn how to teach people then I will buy their "teachings." Knowing how to be a didact, as this is, and a teacher/coach are two very different things. It's not even a style. It's an inability to recognise one's shortcomings.
@@danjacksonguitar3701 He act like "dictat" because we are not listning even our self ! So to become better we need change our behavior drasticaly. But it can't be done without pain or chill discussions.
@@Vunerio speak for yourself. Some of us constantly do the opposite.
@@michałstegrzyński8492so many soft men these days
Sick love the videos going to order me some coaching from you soon! 👍
As a professional educator, I cringed a little bit listening to the disconnect between teacher and student: the student here is struggling to understand how to best utilize his innate dispositions to be good at some things and bad at others. And managing this absolutely essential to becoming good at anything. I love Pienix, watch lots of his videos and respect his advice, but I'm not sure he's engaging the student where he's at.
It's true that you just have to do the right thing. It's also true that the right thing is relative to personal ability: think of all the pro sports players that have non-norm or bizarre forms that work for them!
Second, doesn't everyone aim with with arm and wrist with big motions controlled by forearm and small corrections governed by wrist movement?
Travis I’m not an educator!
I’m a cs coach, my main goal is to make someone a better player whatever I decide is the best way
Been working great so far, ppl get the result
so @pienixcs may have an incorrect way of teaching or come off as argumentative whatever but bro it doesn't matter he's there to point out the issues and help solve them. sometimes its just easier to be like hey this is wrong and this is why rather than attempt to save someones feelings.
higher sensitivity's require less movement and if you use your arm its quite hard to control so it almost is always only the wrist and finger tips that is used the arm is practically never used to track only to do 180s or larger movements
lower sensitivity's depending on how low are a more balanced approach and you can get a more combined use of wrist arm and finger tips
theres positives and negatives of both you just need to find a sens in which gives you the best balance
@pienixcs you do you bro there will always be critics you have turned me from a bottom frag to a carry every game just watching you and doing the practice maps you suggest climbed 3k + on premier after 1 week of doing what you suggest
@@pienixcs obviously you're a great coach, but you can still always get better
@@pienixcs I was really offering the comment in good faith. I obviously support pienicx or I wouldn't watch, like, subscribe or comment on his videos.
Call yourself a coach or educator or instructor or whatever: It's the same, and sometimes you have to fight off for the moment how right you are to really listen to and address the blockages students have to improvement.
Again I'm a big fan and only would comment as food for thought about how to improve. It appears I'm not alone (OF THE PEOPLE WHO WATCH AND PROMOTE YOU). I'd appreciate a considered response.
Pienix would go crazy, im playing with 3000 DPI and 3.0
I would
why are you deliberately making the game harder for yourself?
@@bruh-nq5px The opposite is the case. I've been playing with this high DPI for 20 years. That would be like telling a left-hander to use the right hand.
@@Hansgans So If you've been playing for 20 years and you truly believe being on an absurd sens isn't sillu you should be pretty high elo, right?
@@bruh-nq5px ,,you truly believe being on an absurd sens isn't sillu´´
I never said that. The question would rather be whether it makes sense at my already advanced age to completely throw muscle memory overboard after thousands of hours of playing on the “wrong eDPI”? It's not that my eDPI is only slightly higher, it's about ten times the usual one.
Nice video! was very helpful to me might consider getting the course..
One question came to me when you talked about sens: What would you say is the lowest sens one can play at? I don‘t see many pros going below 500 edpi..
2:00 to be fair in most pro games you rarely see people holding an angle statically (unless they are awping).
to be fair, Im not sure compare to pro play is relevant due to the heavy change in meta because of the flash/smoke setup they have as a team.. Question is how they play in high faceit lobbys (Where they atleast play solo/duo and not team stacked). So by watching demos of 3500k+ players how do they play b anubis and go from there imo if now the goal is to be lvl 10 faceit
@@usemorebrainplz-is7gy I mean you could also watch high elo streamers like docc or Furi and they are also dynamic all the time. Its also a physiological advantage because when you are jiggling or peeking in and out your brainstem stays more alert and you will be able to react quicker
@@r.w.8182 Docc and furi is probably high elo faceit players so we are talking about same thing here
They did a lot more in GO. Peekers advantage is REAL in CS2, ive experienced matches where the ping difference between me and the awp/scout player was such that if I stopped full strafing at all I was instantly dead, and I can usually win peek duels from those angles on mirage with an AK 50% of the time. Absolutely HAD to wide swing him and spray. Its not just about pros having people flash for them, there are some incredibly effective self flashes that you can do, especially on maps like D2. Peeking/swinging has been buffed.
That is just a level up from what is talked about in the video. It is best to first learn how to be static and react to opponent's peeking so you can consistently kill them. Once you learn to be comfortable with that, then you can start to introduce movement into holding angles to be harder to hit while still being able to hit your shots. If you are not confident in reacting to someone peeking, then doing these extra movements might buy you a few milliseconds to not die instantly to the first bullet all the time, but you probably still whiff and lose many fights regardless.
7:59 nice ak craft
is it going to be part2 of this? I would like to watch it. Because I am struggling to adapt forearm tracking. I used to wrist tracking for years until I saw your videos and started to use my forearm. And lowered my sense as well. But I have been losing so much elo…
Just do what you feel best. Sensitivity is subjective, unless you're going TOO high or TOO low.
I use .7 1600 like the guy in the vid and it's completely fine
@@Zealot_csthank you for your answer, as I told I used to do wrist aiming but I had problems with tracking. Thats why I changed to the arm aiming. And now I find myself using just my wrist in pressure moments. So hard to adapt to arm aiming after 5 years of wrist aiming.
It's impossible to make minor adjustments without wrist aiming.
I found that doing one arm movement for getting very close to target even while moving and then one adjustment with the wrist after counter strafing works well.
@@michałstegrzyński8492 When you implement minor adjustments with hand and wrist i would be interested in your feedback when you are practicing spray transfers for scenarios where you could be facing 3 or more targets. Minor adjustment control also dramatically decreases TTK in any aimduel scenario. It's a mechanic you will add on to the one you just mentioned. It's similar to the motion of writing with a pencil, but with the crosshair/ mouse sensor.
@@danjacksonguitar3701 well most of the time with 3 targets you’re dead anyway I dont see the point here. Let me reiterate, if I peek i am usually one small adjustment away from the target, what I meant is that I do two movents when the target is far away. This is far more consistant than doing a flick and praying that its on
@@michałstegrzyński8492 yeah we're talking about two completely different skill levels here
not sure if this is good practice but I went from 1.5 sens @ 800dpi down to 1.0 slowly over the course of a couple weeks. 1.5 to 1.4 to 1.35 etc down to 1.0, i didn't notice much of a difference in the moment but my aim has improved and there wasn't an awkward getting-used-to phase. again, not sure if this is good practice but it helped me. i also bought a 3ft long mousepad.
Do you not think using low sens is a crutch for bad mouse control? Why not fix the aim issue rather than hiding it by changing sens ?
Is it just me or pienix’s way of “teaching/coaching” is a bit condescending?
Might work to put people in corners and asking them questions to establish authority and superiority as you should but this isnt a good way, regardless if you have results or not.
The guy here obviously was explaining at around minute mark 7, that as a ct he doesnt feel comfortable being still while checking an angle or holding it, he is more comfortable and feels safer strafing into the angle rather than being still, so wide jiggling an angle feels more comfortable for him than simply being still. You understand what hes saying and you get what hes trying to say maybe not using the best words but all you try to do is to dumb down the person infront of you with witty remarks and comeback questions. That doesnt go a long way my friend.
Yeah hes coaching is trash tbh. For him counter-strafing is next from god and I have played multiple times top 1000 eu lobbies faceit and I don't think about counter strafing and can get 20 kills easy. As a coach you should give protocols and ways to play for you strainght, not just find mistakes and tell say "you make mistake here, don't do it" even tho idea is right and you should not critique these small things. If you buy coaching from pienix, it is a waste of money and you will NOT get better.
@@ekeguitar i feel like you mightve had a bad experience with him, what im trying to say isnt “dont get coaching with him”. His methods could and is probably working with a certain group of people, and that could be the goal. But to be a messenger and a teacher in whatever field it may be, sports, e sports, medicine, engineering, life in general. You must not give concrete structure of criticism, every person reacts differently, and some might fold to the way pienix relays his message. And the “you are fat, you should go to gym” is an actual way that actually works with a good amount of people, but not most.
I guess it’s a matter of preference and maturity. Pienix’s to-the-point, no nonsense, no sugarcoat comments are to get the correct message and feedback across in the clearest and shortest way possible. People mistake it for being condescending, but in reality he is just telling the truth of the situation, ironing out any misconceptions the player may have. And if people can’t take that, then grow the f*** up and stop being a baby (in my opinion). It’s nothing personal, take it on the chin and work to be better.
@@Tipsi89 I got this take as well from watching the video.
Its not to establish who is superior, its to break down what happened in the round and in the persons head without sugar coating mistakes.
it will always sound bad when someones pointing out mistakes constantly BUT that's what he is being paid for and he spots so many mistakes and addresses each one minor or major.
Do you think its better to rest your wrist on the table or have it elevated like zywoo/twistzz. Or is totally it up to personal preference?
Your question kinda answers itself, different pros have different setups, even outliers like Woxic who was once top 10 HLTV uses 3200 edpi. So use what feels comfortable for you, only then you can practice more
Hey man,
Been following you for a while. I am currently between 2300-2400 elo on faceit, but still struggles with inconsistensy and overall hs %.
Been watching a hole lot of videos about this already, but yet i still struggle. I was thinking about buying one of your coaching sessions, but dunno which one. The ones you do in videos like these, what order are those, is it the cheapest ones, the middles or the most expensive ones?
Hope to have a reply, also i wouldent mind the session to be uploaded to youtube if it would help others.
In the videos you can see all of the session packages
It's only up to the intensity you want and the budget
If you're looking for long term relationship i would choose the middle one (1x a week) or the highest tier (3x a week)
For any questions you might have im available on discord -> pienix#2977
Looking forward to the sesh🫡
I love how he just "hearted" your comment, but didn't actually reply lol.
@@mynewname7830 ????
@@mynewname7830 but he did?
how can one work on not panic moving the crosshair and instead keep it still? Like the guy did at 5:57
Gotta train your reaction time. If your cursor is already on target but you move it, it means you're to slow to realize it.
Focus on it, but not to the point where you lose focus on the angle you're holding. Micro adjustments, like a small little reminder in your mind to not move the crosshair. That's what I did and still do, it works
@@erik9775 hmm alright thanks for the help
He already said it on previous videos. That man moved his crosshair while shooting (and also moved himself sometimes) and you dont have to do that (ignoring recoil control obv) you just confirm that your crosshair is on the man and then you shoot. That's why lower ranks struggle on pistol rounds, they just spam the pistol instead of tapping and aiming for the head and also why those people panic with the deagle because if they miss the first shot they barely can recover to aim a second accurate shot.
I am gonna tell you what the difference is between him being afraid of being peeked and other guys. He probably has the same issue with CS2 as thousands of other players, where it is simply impossible to react to a peek(and I am not talking about just run peek, it almost impossible to react to a shift peeker as well, not to mention a regular one), almost every game due to game's being bad, or internet, or subtick, improper hitboxes or its misalignment, server to client delay, resolution, or whatever - this issue does exist and I personally first noticed this when I suddenly became really bad at CSGO which then translated into cs2. And after experiencing the same disadvantage where you almost all the time being killed by a peeker even though you know he supposed to be dead, you stop doing that and try to catch them off guard while they are fully rushing into site and checking other angles.
I rarely have a game in CS2 when it feels normal, not delayed, where you do not die behind walls or your victims do not die ca second later after you've already released your finger from a button. All I can tell that this game is broken and I totally understand this dude who does not want to wait while is going to be peeked at. Maybe it is related to image scaling or something, because I do too play 4:3 stretched and it is just fkn terrible, absolutely horrible gameplay I wanna quit!
And by the way when you are holding an angle with an AWP you never do any type of tracking or else you'd be dead, what are you talking about, you either hold it still and click when an enemy runs into it or you just flick with your sensitivity memory.
I can't wait for your next Gosu sesh
Probably no more
@@pienixcs :'(
Does anyone else think this guy isn't a good teacher? He's arguing against this student that's not a good way to teach anything
I’m happy to do an experiment to confirm that
I’ll pay you to coach random student of mine for an hour, we record it
Then I’ll coach him, we post the recordings on RUclips and ppl will compare
What do you say?
@@pienixcs pay me to do anything mate
My man copies ELiGE sensitivity but not his resolution so he is afraid of holding an angle because enemies move so fast
Saying 1120 edpi isn’t that high bc elige uses that sens 🤣🤣 that’s like saying my edpi of 664 isn’t low bc Niko’s sens is lower
Man this guy feels kinda frustrating. Like he has an answer for everything when you tell him he made a mistake/give advice. Before he can improve, he needs to accept his mistakes and accept the advice given to him, not just argue back like a 5 year old would 😂
I don't think he was frustrating. This coaches style is very argumentative. "WHY DID YOU DO THIS"
are you special or something? he is legit asking me questions on why I'm giving answers I'm also explaining my thought process on what I'm doing and the reasons if its wrong then i can be told I'm not arguing you degenerate I'm having a conversation
Which sensitivity is good?
prolly anywhere from 600-1000 edpi (dpi x sensitivity), i recommend 700-800 tho
the one u good with
@@hapocs2 yeah but a lot of ppl play ridiculously high sens thinking it’s perfect for them
any sens you can track well with without shaky aim (probably lower but theres a handful of ppl that play on hella high sens)
The fastest sensitivity you can comfortably control the micro flicks is the sens you should go for in tac shooters. Utilizing aim trainers on top of this will make your aim consistent
Bro plays on 4:3 and he wonders why they ferrari-peak him all the time - delusional. Also, his 1400 edpi is outrageously high for his resolution (looks like 1280:960). I believe the guy should go 16:9 1080p and lower sens to 1000 edpi 400@2.5 as a starter. I personally play on that sens and feels great at both 4:3 (1440:1080 - my main res) and 1080p. I still can’t conclusively decide between the two though.
I play on 4:3 600 edpi myself, agree here
where did you get 4:3 from lmao i play 16:9
So how hes lvl9 if hes basic mechanics are ass positioning bad holding bad like how
First of all, this kind of feedback is kinda shitty because hes is putting his mistakes out there for everyone to see. Second of all, im guessing OCE has a much smaller player pool.
@@laufsteakmodel yeah au player pool is so tiny, you'll see a pretty high variance in skill in player at faceit level 9 in au
You would be surprised if you see how lower elo lv 10s play.
you realize this is one game where he purposefully chose because
1 he played poor
2 felt as if his game in a general was bad in terms of mechanics and would like advice its not an accurate representation of the persons skill from one game
you EU Players are delusional in thinking your region is the best your level 9/10 is not good, any oce player that went to Eu including my self has gained 300-500 elo get off your high horses
@@asdfffgfdgdfgdfgdfgdg don't have experience with eu faceit level 10's as im in au but I've noticed a high variance in skill between faceit level 10's around 2k elo
thats poor coaching, FYI. Thats not how
you effecitively teach anyone anything.
No clue how someone who plays like this can get to lvl 9
It’s OCE
@@pienixcs ohh I was really confused cuz im EU people like that play around lvl 4
@@krisk6314 yeah hate to break it to you i went to eu for holiday and gained 250 elo EU level 9-10 is easy in comparison to OCE 9-10 as you dont verse pro OCE players every game due to player base, every time a PRO OCE player goes to EU for boot camp they come back +300-500 elo
@@inocents5379 he isnt pro btw Ive tried all regions but eu is hardest to climb i can tell you that
People need to stop being so soft. He is there for a reason and one reason only and that's to get better and have a better understanding.
I see it in golf a lot. People will hit a shot badly and try and comment on why they did a bad shot 'oh I lifted my head' Then they say stuff to a coach I do this because of x. When really you don't really know why you do it.
The guy getting coached clearly didn't know why he did stuff and hasn't put much thought into what he does. Pienix asked many question and he couldn't come up with answers. He should realise this now and then Pienix also told him what he needs to do after. It's abrupt but effective.
Remember you're there for a reason. If someone shocks you into a realisation it's going to way more effective than someone babying you. He could just Baby you all the way to your goals but I'm fairly certain it will take way longer and cost a bit more money.
So much “participation trophy energy” comments here. “He is too mean”, cry cry cry.