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Can a Jobless Boomer Rank Up in 3 Months? My Valorant Journey
Three months ago, I lost my job after the startup I worked for shut down. Instead of giving up, I decided to take on an unexpected challenge: could a total Valorant beginner-an older player with zero FPS experience-actually rank up? Inspired by Natty Aim, who left his job to pursue Valorant full-time, I dove headfirst into the grind. This is my story from Iron, documenting every frustrating setback, hard-fought victory, and lesson learned along the way.
In this video, I share my Valorant progression journey over three intense months. You'll see my early days of missed shots, wild aim attempts, and slow-but-steady improvement as I worked to climb out of Iron. From mastering agents to understanding game sense, this journey has been about far more than just ranking up-it's been a test of resilience and commitment to see if someone like me can make it in Valorant.
If you've ever wondered if an older player with no FPS background can rise through the Valorant ranks, this one’s for you! 🎯
👍 If you’re enjoying this journey, don’t forget to like and comment on your own Valorant experiences-every interaction helps this video reach more fans like you!
📅 Subscribe to follow my next steps in Valorant as I continue the climb.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Initial Expectations
03:10 Aim Training & Practice Range, and Deathmatches
06:30 Deathmatches - 3 Month Progression
10:30 Ranked Progression and Thoughts
#valorant #valorantjourney #rankupinvalorant #irontobronze #valorantboomer #valorantbeginner #rankupValorant #boomervalorant #unemployedgamer
In this video, I share my Valorant progression journey over three intense months. You'll see my early days of missed shots, wild aim attempts, and slow-but-steady improvement as I worked to climb out of Iron. From mastering agents to understanding game sense, this journey has been about far more than just ranking up-it's been a test of resilience and commitment to see if someone like me can make it in Valorant.
If you've ever wondered if an older player with no FPS background can rise through the Valorant ranks, this one’s for you! 🎯
👍 If you’re enjoying this journey, don’t forget to like and comment on your own Valorant experiences-every interaction helps this video reach more fans like you!
📅 Subscribe to follow my next steps in Valorant as I continue the climb.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Initial Expectations
03:10 Aim Training & Practice Range, and Deathmatches
06:30 Deathmatches - 3 Month Progression
10:30 Ranked Progression and Thoughts
#valorant #valorantjourney #rankupinvalorant #irontobronze #valorantboomer #valorantbeginner #rankupValorant #boomervalorant #unemployedgamer
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I lost my job, so now I'm grinding valorant full time as a beginner
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When youre practicing anything i always find it helpful to have 1 singleminded focus at a time throughout the entirety of whatever practice session youre doing. For example its easy to mindlesly practice deathmatch because its relatively comfortable to mindlessly grind. Its SO important that youre CONPLETELY focused on just 1 thing at a time. Which i know can be overwhelming because theres just so much other stuff to learn but people inherently suck at multitasking so if you spread that focus too wide you end up getting better at nothing. A few kind of prompts i gave myself when getting better at Deathmatch are: 1. Making sure regardless of situation my crosshair is at head level posted on an angle only briefly leaving its post to pre aim an angle or to fight someone (make sure not to hold angles, you want to be constantly checking new ones as frequently as possible to make the excersise harder/more valuable) 2. Binding W to equip melee making it manditory to only fight people with your A and D keys (my personal fav amd what i recommend you right now. Also only do this in deatmatch never in real games unless youre a psycho) 3. bringing the timing of the stopping and starting movements in your 2 shot bursts as low as you can possibly manage (you can think of valorant gunfights as a (accurately fired bullets):(time spent moving) ratio. the better the ratio the less you will die
I couldn't agree more. I 100% agree. This is what I've been doing this whole time. When you see the video where I focused on head height - that's ALL I DID in DM. I didn't care if I died or killed so long as my cursor aimed for their head. FOr the gun hygiene video same thing - as long as I adopted the right fight technique I was happy. This week I'm focusing on head height cross hair placement. BUt honestly my whole motto has been just one thing at a time or you get lost. My problem has been sometimes when you focus on something for a week (problem A) and then focus on problem B the next week, problem A starts to slip again. Let me know what you think about that and how you've overcome it?
I’d say increase your sensitivity a little bit, it’s seems slow but your progress looks good man keep it up, it’ll be a hard grind but worth it
Yeah I've been pretty bad at constantly changing my DPI. It's 36 ingame with 800 dpi now.
That crosshair placement is so low almost every gunfight. not once too high
You'd be surprised how many times I hear that. Actually you probably wouldn't.
Do you stream?
Yeah I do. twitch.tv/danreks_ I need to stream more often and consistently. But keep dropping the ball on that one. But I am gonna put a more dedicated effort into it.
@@Danreks No pressure, mayb just do it whenever you feel it
Nice video dan! Quite an improvement! Looking forward to future videos
Thanks friend! Yeah I didn't notice the improvement, it felt like I was treading water. But looking back over this video I can definitely see it. Hopefully I can show more in future videos:)
@@Danreks clicked the bell button for you too. GLHF!
Second comment: I would REALLY focus on only free for all deathmatches until you feel extremely comfortable in gunfights, I am no expert in this game but I was global elite in csgo and one thing is you look really stiff in the way you move your crosshair and stuff. If I were you, I would spend my time tryibf to reach a goal of like... as many ffa deathmatches as possible played, maybe 1000-2000 dm games actively working on crosshair placement and taking good fights, and movement. You could get in maybe 6 to 7 dms per hour, if you did that for 8 hours a day for a month i'd be curious to see how much you improve. Probably the most of any method.
I think you'd find me at the bottom of a lake with a heavy weight around my foot doing that. But I am pushing the DM's though. I did 5 DM's a day for 2 weeks and it made a big difference. I've only done FPS for three months so happy with my progress so far.
You can improve as high as you want! You aren't 100! I think your biggest enemy or wall based on a title like this will be showing yourself you can do what you put your mind to 65 or 25. I would focus on the journey and not capping yourself at anything lower than rank 1 on the leaderboard! Not that you "have to reach rank 1" or even that you will, but realize you can always improve from where you are... don't convince yourself "ok i have hit radiant(or any rank) I cant learn anything more", it is nonsense! :)
That's good advice. I think it can be quite easy to make excuses rather than believing in yourself and just going for it. I guess I am enjoying the process though in the end I end up where I end up. If that makes sense. But I'll always be looking to improve no matter what my rank.
I’m b3, having started at about the same time as you!! If you’re in NA servers-I’d love to queue up with you sometime my friend!
I'm in Australian servers unfortunately. I wish so badly I was in the US servers I'd love that big population:)
I think your mechanics are better then people in bronze as a person that was in your boat and now a diamond player just continue locking iso or reyna and just out aim everyone until you get into at least silver. You need to just keep telling yourself ranked is the same as a dm if you lose its a game your there for fun as I struggled to stay calm. Pretty much no one silver and below aim trains so think you’ll gain pretty quickly the woohoojin gold drill helped me a ton to
Yeah I hope so. I definitely need to be confident and tackle fights like a DM. But I was doing some stupid stuff like not peeking properly, checking corners and crosshair placement that I am working on right now.
Hi dan. I love the commitment. Im a fellow boomer (42), diamond player that has been able to climb despite below average aim. Keep it up, i will join the ride and follow the journey!
Nice that's awesome to hear. Thanks for subbing that means a lot especially for my small channel? Have you found age made a difference to you?
@Danreks Yes of course I've had to change my approach to focus more on the games sense, movement and utility usage and less reliant on aim. Of course aim is important. However I know my reaction will naturally be slower so I tend to focus on support agents rather than duallists. KJ, Cypher, Omen, viper are great picks to build a good base off of. I'd be happy to share some basic things a focus on to help in your climb.
You are now my inspiration bro
Haha thank you friend!
YOU ARE HAPPY DUDE HAHA I LIKE IT
Sometimes you just got to laugh at yourself:)
Bro you are good. Not just about the game YOU yourself is good.
Thank you thank you. Thanks for all the cool comments I love it!
i just also started playing and i am 19 and you are better then me and it shows anyone can improve
When did you start playing? Thanks for the comment I appreciate it.
keep going brother youre improving very well, i would suggest going into the practice range and learn all the agents abilities and how to use them because players with ability usage is low in lower ranks so youll have an advantage over them. Subbed and liked ❤
Thanks yeah I think that's a good idea. I'm pretty locked into Omen for now too as I get used to his abilities.
You're doing awesome man. Can you share your aim training routine
I can but it's changed quite a bit. Try Charla7an's - ua-cam.com/video/OmA9kBLaHvY/v-deo.html
When u play deathmatch, try to ignore the kills and put your entire focus on the crosshair placement...placing ur crosshair at EXPECTED headlvl at all times...and try not to spray with the vandal, burst with 2 bullets strafe then burst...these two things will give u a lot of improvement....Great vid
Yeah so this next video I am working specifically on crosshair placement! THank you for the tips. I know that crosshair placement is my most glaring flaw right now.
@Danreks yeah...also try not to spray with the vandal in DM...it becomes a habit before u know it....All the best for ur journey
@@joelsuraj2501 Cheers will do.
This is the first video I've seen on your progress but i can tell you come a long way keep it up man I'm definitely subscribing to see the rest of your progress! :]
Thank you you're still early to the channel and we can call you an OG if I manage to make it in this valorant world:) Thanks for the support it means a lot.
I don't know if you watch much valorant content but that helped me improve a lot! Just putting on a high level stream or video to notice some things they do right or even things they do wrong. It's great to get yourself in the headspace of what high level play looks like for understanding how the game works. And it's good content to watch while you're doing something trivial like eating or cleaning!
Yeah I've been watching Charla7an, RoyalG, NattyAim etc. If you know of any particularly good vids feel free to link them. Especially people progressing like myself. Thank you for the comment much appreciated!
1 thing that I have noticed is that you reload in deathmatches too. In deathmatches when you get a kill, the gun gets reload by itself. Another thing, please don't reload too early, you have enough bullets to land multiple headshots or spray at least 2-3 enemies in a single mag (Vandal - 25 bullets). At last, try to aim at head level at all times, you are looking at the floor more often. I hope this helps you. 👍🙌
Ok thanks for the heads up. I guess I just am more fearful of running out of ammo and it's a habit thing at this point. And crosshair placement is definitely my next drill to work on!
There are so many things to learn that I take for granted since I played a lot of counter strike and other games. It's really good how fast you are picking up the skills. I think your best skill is how good you are able to detect what you need to improve and actually work a lot on it, you will be high rank in the future!
It sounds like you have a lot of unconscious competence which is a great place to be. I'm at the other end that if I try focusing on things like crosshair placement it takes up all the bandwidth and so I tend to not focus on other things. SO really just trying to get this to be more intuitive and a habit. I guess it takes time:) Thank you for the comment!
@@Danreks Have you read mental game of poker by any chance? It sounds like you may have picked something up from his adult learning model
I'm 40, I had no experience in FPS and today, after playing Valorant since the beta, I'm Asc 3. You are doing a great job. Tips: focus on crosshair placement. That will ALWAYS give you advantages. Then, get out of the habit of reloading, learn to stay with few bullets and with that you will give less information to the enemy. Plus you should take advantage of those bullets to the head. Play more with sheriff, it is a weapon that forces you to hit the head.
So these seem to be the two main criticisms im hearing. Don't reload all the time and also crosshair placement. There have been times I forget to reload and get caught out so I guess it's becoming a fear reload. And this next vid I am 100% focusing on crosshair placement. Thanks a lot for the comment. How have you found the FPS journey?
@Danreks Quite fun. The improvement is noticeable. ¿Could you show some of your games, so we can see how you play as a team and how you interact with the rest of your teammates?
It's good that he has also focused on calm aim rather than panicking!!!👌👌
Hahah I don't know about that I feel like I am panicking so much in ranked:) I think that's my problem maybe because I am a lot calmer in ranked.
loving this content! goodluck on your valorant journey!
Thank you friend!
great job
Thanks friend!
You’re awesome. I am a immortal 2 and I want to tell you that the fastest way of improving is using a duelist like iso or Reyna because it really helps you with your mechanics and just playing is enough to improve game sense but at the end of the day omen is a great character and it’s your choice. Also I love what you are doing and it is really cool to see someone serious about the game drastically improving, you will get radiant in no time. Keep doing what you are doing, much love❤👍
I guess for me I can still work on that mechanics etc in aim training, practice range and deathmatches. What's letting me down is bad crosshair placement, peeking like an idiot, and rushing into fights I can't possibly win. So my thinking is focusing on that is only going to aid my mechanics because each fight I have will give me a chance to use those skills better, than say running into 3 people and getting gunned down. I hope that makes sense? Ultimately, my main agent I want to move too is Omen so there's also that. Do you play ISO/Reyna or what is your main agent?
You've improved such a crazy amount for not playing valorant until recently
Yeah I was feeling like i havn't improved. It's a strange how that happens because when I made this video, and especially that montage, I was blown away. I just don't seem to be ranking up:)
Ive been watching the journy so far and me being silver myself, i understand the pain of learning how to get good, keep up the good work! I can already see the improvment!
Thanks! How long you been grinding in SIlver for? I think sometimes you don't recognise the progress you've made but looking back I can see it happened (thankfully).
I've been playing Valorant for a little while now and its nice to see some new valorant youtubers! Excited to watch your valorant journey!
Thank you Valorant is definitely an exciting FPS game. I heard Valorant was the best so I tried it. What do you think of Valorant?
Hello fellow Boomer! I wish you the best of luck on your journey. We can race to immortal 😂 best regards// mr mediocre
haha. Something tells me you'll win you're already in SILVER. That's like the heavens of elite gameplay to me.
You’re inspiring me to put the work in with my health too brotha ❤
That's awesome! Try Keto it totally works. But you can't do it half assed you're either in or out. haha. Let me know if you do it!
Full Video: ua-cam.com/video/RD7xXU9em4I/v-deo.html
good work
Thanks hope your enjoying Valorant.
Awesome improvements since the last video!
Thanks Valorant is so awesome
love the video friend!
Thanks friend #valorant.
Thanks friend.
Good job with the improvement, two major things to work for you winning more fights. Number one would be to always imagine an opponent in the angle youre about to peek, and placing your crosshair so there is minimal distance from the crosshair to the head. Number two would be standing still before peeking the common areas where the enemy might be, which makes you more prepared in the gunfight. And I dont think you were over agressive at all, but not being prepared to take that gunfight was what cost you.
Yeah I'm working on crosshair placement now. It def works when I anticipate where the enemy is going to be but at this point I'm good at one or the other i.e. head height or where is the opponent. If I guess where the opponent is my crosshair tends to drift down. I only have so much bandwidth until it becomes a habit haha. So I'm doing both but my emphasis right now is on head height cross hair placement then I'll transition into the anticipation stuff.
Really a strong progression both in game and your health. Keep it up
Thank you appreciate it!
Thats crazy that there are such high ranks in your death match games
Yeah I didn't even know that existed until last week haha.
sadly in a deathmatch you can face any rank. I've had to play against radiants while in silver
As someone focusing too much time in aimlabs for fun and researching vids on getting better, I'm voltaic masters right now. But I'd say its good to practice precise aim with hit confirmation, but if it's a "micro correction", that shouldn't take correction. There's a certain range that is for everyone, I think its valuable to know what it is in the aimtrainers anyway, less important in-game. In-game there's quick triggers that'll tell you if you've gotta risk flicking faster than usual, or clicking after a direct flick without taking time to hit confirm/micro correct. Someone could shoot at you and land a bodyshot putting you on a timer, or peek an angle you weren't expecting, I'm sure you can think of in-the-moment triggers that'll say "You better go for the shot quicker than x!" which sometimes might mean you skip micro correcting, but sometimes might not, it depends. I think if you get in the habit of not micro correcting/hit confirming ever, it'd be detrimental. But feel free to take time to speed up hit confirming itself in practice, I can definitely understand the desire, and I enjoy "VT Pulseshot Three Hard" or an easier variant, in aimlabs for it
Since you like stats so much, how about you track % of time your crosshair is at head height? Might be interesting way to incentivize yourself to be constantly thinking about how to correctly aim at the next threat every time.
Funny you should say that I am doing this right now. Just need more days to collect all the data:)
As someone who sucks to any shooter it is going to be a good run watching your videos 😊
Ha thanks! I suck too which is why I'm trying everything I can to suck less:)
it seems to me your micro adjustments are a bit off, make sure to keep an eye on that
Ok that's interesting I wonder why that would be.
You got heavily buffed lol. GGs
Thank you!
Glad to see your improvement. It's very very niceeee
It's weird because I can see it in the data but if you had of asked me I would have told you I hadn't improved at all:)
@@Danreks :( idts bro
You're doing great so far, I'm so glad people are actually responsible enough to actually practice the game before hopping into ranked. I'd like to advice you to have your graphic settings set to lowest as possible; this reduces input lag, further improving your gameplay. Let me know if you need help with that!
Charla7an actually has a video on this and I optimised my settings but then when I updated my drivers it reset it:)
i think your biggest problem is moving the mouse down when youre just strafing left to right
Dude if I had a cent for every time I was told that I'd be a rich man. I promise I am working on it:)
I love the visuals
Thank you I wasn't sure if it was too much:)
Nice video friend!
Thank you!
Hell yeah man!, the improvement you've had is insane! 200 subs soon hopefully!
haha yeah the support has been crazy.
Hey man, If you're up for it, one of my friends is Diamond and is interested in coaching others. He helped me get from iron 3 to Silver 2 so far so I can vouch for him. Let me know.
I've already got coaching lined up but thank you!
@Danreks no problem man wish you the best on your endeavors