Hi I’m immortal and I believe players should train mechanics if they want to speed

run the ranks because gamesense, decision making, and fundamentals don’t really
matter until diamond. Hot take I know, but it’s facts. Here’s my advice. 10% of
your time spent training mechanics can be spent on an aim trainer. I don’t use them
nor do I care for them. FYI, I don’t score as high as my friends who use aimlabs
regularly despite being a higher rank. It’s almost as if aimlabs makes you good at
aimlabs with less in game benefits compared to aimlab improvement.

Secondly, chances are your aim isn’t the issue, it’s your entire mechanics. That
means movement+aim AND how you peek/positioning. Aim includes crosshair placement,
flicking, tracking, etc.

I understand this routine sounds nuts but if you want insane mechanics as fast as
possible you need to do this. I’m going for radiant. THIS IS FOR PEOPLE WILLING TO
PUT IN THE TIME. IF NOT JUST DM AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.

Also check out my Reddit post on Valorant Mentality.

FIRST WATCH THIS: https://youtu.be/YkaRovHxapA

Let’s train mechanics. DO NOT MOVE AT ALL UNLESS THE STEP EXPLICITLY TELLS YOU TO
ADD MOVEMENT. Keep your hands on WASD but DO NOT MOVE. READ THE STEP AND FOLLOW IT
WORD BY WORD. Also UNBIND crouch.

Step 1: Turn on eliminate 100 with armour on. Stand in the area the bots spawn on
the left or right facing the side of the head of the bots. Switch your position
after every 100 kills. Buy a guardian and kill the bots without missing. You should
be hitting 100/100 without missing for the first 500 kills. If you are missing, you
are going to fast. Don’t move.

Step 2: do the same thing but on various elevations. Use Jett to get on top of
different boxes around the practice range. After every 100, change elevation
(different box, anything but flat ground). 500 kills with guardian, don’t miss a
single shot. If you miss you are going to fast. Don’t move.

Step 3: go back and do step 1 but this time you’re going to actually flick like you
would in game. You’re still using a guardian. However, after you flick to the head
you don’t shoot. You flick to head. If you miss, you recorrect and don’t shoot. Do
this until you are on the head. THIS IS ONE FLUID MOTION KEEP YOUR CROSSHAIR
MOVING. Once on the head, trace the inside of the bots head on the very edge. Do 2
circles (one clock wise one counter clock wise)and shoot them to kill. 500-1000
kills. This little circle teaches you how to micro adjust (very very small mouse
movements when you’re just barely off target).

The above 3 steps train your “point at head and shoot” mechanic. You need to spend
a lot of time doing this slowly and it will be boring. This builds instinct. We use
a guardian because if you use a vandal you can shoot before on the head and still
get a kill. Play some music. Basically what you’re doing is breaking down the
process of a flick and making it very slow and accurate before increasing speed
without sacrificing accuracy. This will elevate your aim. Most people just practice
fast flicks and miss 1/3 shots because they’re copying tenz’s speed. You’re not
really improving, just building bad habits. The most important part is you aren’t
missing. Like at all. Increase speed but don’t miss. You aren’t actually flicking
fast, just increasing speed but never missing. Also, try to lift your mouse as
little as possible. That means only lift your mouse when you run out of mouse pad.
That means you aren’t resetting to neutral mouse position in between kills. Your
neutral mouse position = where your mouse is when you start a round or the default
position on your mouse pad. This results in your mouse being in awkward positions
all over your mouse pad while aiming. This teaches you how to hit those long flicks
across your screen. This also teaches you how to flick while clearing awkward
angles or being caught with your mouse away from default position. This will feel
incredibly awkward. But good aim form will feel awkward for anyone with bad habits.

It’s worth it, those long across your entire screen flicks radiants hit are fun but
take a long time to learn.

Important: draw a straight line from one enemies head to the other. Not a curved
line, a straight line. Outside of this linear movement there should be no mouse
movement. That means draw a linear line from every bots head to the next bots head
an onwards. Don’t wave your crosshair around in between kills.

Step 4: Many of you think you have good movement but you actually don’t have full
control of it. For example, when you slice the pie while peeking something, you are
probably unable to slice the pie at the precise angle you want to which results in
you over peeking unintentionally.Turn on eliminate 100 armour and stand in the
middle of where the bots spawn. Use a guardian so you can’t spray (movement speed
is the same as vandal/phantom) You are only allowed to press A and D. No W and S.
You can never stop moving. DO not flick the bots but use movement to move your
crosshair into the bot. Keep your crosshair at head level at all times floating in
the air not aiming at anything. Counter strafe the crosshair into the bots head and
shoot while changing directions (dont stop). This teaches you how to counter strafe
(useless in this game), strafe shoot (very important), and how to peek. You should
always be peeking with A and D. Not W, S, or AW/DW. 1000 kills. Remember to never
stop moving, counter strafe and immediately move again regardless of hitting or
missing your shot and then try again. Because you are standing in the middle and
never stopping your movement you will need to 180 degree while moving to kill the
bots that spawn behind you. This builds your ability to 180, or 135, or 90, etc.
Peeking with A and D is superior because you fly across your enemies screen where
as with AW or DW you aren’t as fast. This trains that mechanic and makes you
familiar with ONLY moving with A and D. Overtime, you will naturally transition to
A and D movement/peeking in your ranked games because you practice this mechanic
daily.

You can also turn on practice and stand where the bots spawn. Start on the left or
right and counter strafe your way through the whole line up while shooting when
your crosshair is on the head. For example, start on the right and hold A until
your crosshair is about to reach a target, let go of A and tap D (counter strafe)
and shoot the target before holding A again and shooting the next bot to the left
of the bot you just killed. This builds your ability to peek into angles and shoot
them with no flick. An easy kill. If you master this, there is literally no way you
aren’t platinum 1.

Step5: now buy a vandal or phantom and aim train while moving. Simply put it all
together. No spraying. Just tapping/bursting. You can flick fast and normal now
(finally).

Turn on practice and flick to one bot, shoot them in the head but hold down for a
spray and transfer to another bots head. The spray should be short and you only
start spraying once your crosshair is on the first bots head you flicked too.
Mentally tell yourself which bots you will go for. Pick two right next to each
other. Farther ones should only be done once you’re really good at spray
transferring two bots that are right next to each other. Keep in mind the first 3
bullets or so are practically dead straight on a vandal so when you transfer you’re
barely below the second bots head, not at stomach level (used for longer distance
between bots spray transfers).

Learn how to burst as fast as possible without the bullets not going where your
crosshair is. Do this by bursting a wall as fast as possible. 2/3 bullets and
repeat. All your bullets should be going in the same place, if they aren’t and you
have spread, you are bursting too fast.

Turn on movement in bots and track them for a while before shooting. Don’t move.

Move across a stationary bot (A and D only). Crosshair glued to the centre of their
head. This teaches you how to move and track. For example, you want to walk across
an angle where the enemy will peek, you want your crosshair to be on the edge of
the angle as you walk by it. This trains that mechanic.

45m-1h have now passed.

Step 6: DM OR CUSTOMS MATCH. Clear every angle (counter strafe) by slicing the pie
as if you are taking a site in game. For example if you spawn in by teleport
outside showers on bind, go take A site as if you are in a game. Clear every angle
perfectly at head level as if someone is holding it. If you happen to see someone
try and kill them. Made it through A site without dying? Great, rotate to B as if
you are a defender rotating sites while clearing every angle and onwards around the
map. Keep your crosshair at head level while transitioning between every angle. You
will go 20-40 every game. You are practicing clearing angles and slicing the pie
(YouTube it). Do not just hold W and try to win the DM like every low to mid rank.
Peek with A and D not WA or WD or W. This is boring, annoying, and seems like a
waste of time but this level of discipline is required at immortal and radiant.
Peeking incorrectly = dead unless you get lucky. How are you supposed to peek and
move properly in ranked if you just hold w while peeking incorrectly in DM during
your warm up? Stop doing that.

Then DM and train aim/peeking without clearing angles. Peek with A and D and not W
at your opponents. Peek like it’s a ranked game. Slice pie still.

Step 7: hop in ranked, keep crouch unbinded until diamond. I understand this is
controversial but even s0m (csgo pro/radiant in valorant) has crouch completely
unbinded. He literally queues radiant ranked with it off. In my opinion it’s almost
useless in this game until diamond but many would consider that a hot take. Tap and
burst with minimum spraying. Use a phantom the same way you use a vandal.

1000 character limit... 1800 word essay written insanely fast... god I love this
game... cya in immortal!