hundred percent. warzone made me realize how jittery i really am especially under pressure. after improving that issue, I got better at fps AND irl sports.
man every video i watch from this channel just reminds me of why he's so good. Like not only the production quality but also the way he can talk about things and not only give information concisely but also entertainingly, really loved the filming at 7:00 :D
Tracking is probably the biggest differentiator for raw aim. The first to fire usually wins, but when they don't, tracking makes the difference. For game specific, if you look at every metric in CSGO, positioning is by far the starkest difference between high and moderate ELO.
Tracking is mostly important in hero and arena shooters, you need spray control in CS and you can't really spray at all in Valorant. For those games, crosshair placement is more important.
Just some tip on the tracking side... Start with Centering/Smoothing. They're on the easy side, and set up the fundamentals for tracking. Before you can react to fast strafes, make sure you can track smoothly first or else you'll just have shakey tracking that can't react to direction change. After you're comfortable with Centering, go crazy on tracking scenarios. Ground Plaza, VSS, Long strafes, fast strafes, dodge strafes, xyz/sphere tracking, etc.
My aim is confusing. I hit gold on the voltaic novice reaction tracking scenarios on my first attempt at the benchmarks, but could barely get bronze on the smoothness scenarios.
Coming off of solely playing cs, my tracking was absolute dog shit when I started playing apex. Kovaak's helped immensely with smoothing out my aim and reactivity.
@usemorebrainplz-is7gy Just playing will of course help someone improve, but aim trainer is meant to help accelerate progress by improving certain aspects. Made a switch from roller to mnk and was struggling in silver for multiple days after being masters since s10. Kovaaks helped me isolate my weaker skill sets and get rapid repetition, and quickly flew all the way to diamond after all the consistent practice i was able to do.
I dont agree with a lot of what he said, i think aim training is CRUCIAL and if you don't do it you cannot perform well in any shooters ...its just not going to happen and the aim trainer is teaching you basically how you can control the mouse wich is a huuuge fing deal, you can even play with different sensitivities and you still can aim since your control of the mouse becomes so good! I play fortnite, after the aim training i don't only aim better, i can build better i can move better , i can do everything better, my awareness is better it improves every aspect of the game and well lets talk about how confident you are when you know you can hit your shots, youre not going to shake youre going to be calm because you know you can beat anyone, if you have a bit of talent and some game sense after 1 year of 1 hour/day you can beat anyone ...you might not be the best player but you can kill anybody in any fing game it doesn't matter how god the pro is! you might win 1 out of 10 but you still do it! So you cannot play shooters without an aim trainer and do well, you can beat your friends but not a good gamer! GGS!
Thanks to you and your work I have rediscovered my passion for FPS games, train my aim, look for improvements in tactics, etc.. I also realized that my peripherals are not the best for the games I play and I replaced them.
I think the most useful scenarios for aim trainers are one getting into FPS games on PC so that you can dial in settings and whatnot to find what's comfortable to you, but also to warm up in games that may not have a good warm-up lobby such as OW while you queue or CS with workshop maps.
I recommend looking into the voltaic benchmarks. Mastering mouse control goes way deeper then just all of the most popular scenarios. Advanced raw aim skill translates into any game. Better aim wins fights
@@happy-gq2kw omg u dont need top tier aim to get pred or radiant, gamesense is way more important in high rank than mechanics and for that top 5% is more than enough homie
Great video, it's a novel feeling to see you talking about something I worked on for years. For anyone like me who has visual floaters/snow or has trouble perceiving the 3D space with solid colored walls, there's a visual theme in-game (settings>visuals>theme) called "Struth Dark" that may help out.
I like this channel just surprise me, he keep trying something new, not only to review systems hardware right now, but also sharing some "gameplay experience" using this same editing style. I'd like to see the future in this channel, especially the name is not 'optimum tech', is just "full optimum"
I feel that one of the biggest issue with aim training is that people don't train the correct task(s). I don't care how high your score is on gridshot, it's not going to make you better at Valorant. If you're trying to hit insane flicks you're probably playing the game wrong to begin with.
I wouldn't be caught dead playing that shit but I feel the same thing definitely applies to Hunt: Showdown. But I'm still aim training for it because I suck so bad.
Kovaaks has alot of movement scenarios aswell, they usually have "Dodge" in their name, u get score for hitting the target but also for movement. Some only give u score for mirroring, some only for anti mirroring, and some just general distance traveled to keep you moving constantly.
Thank you for making this video and not baiting people into "aim training gave me aimbot." I have 437 hours in Kovaaks myself and I've only been on PC Mouse and Keyboard for not even 2 years. I worked my way into Voltaic Diamond and I'm working on getting Voltaic Jade at the moment. Aim training has helped me improve faster I believe. Like you said, playing scenarios that frustrate you rather than compliment you is the way to go. Optimum, do you know what your voltaic rank is?
At first I didn't believe that aim trainers were a necessity, I climbed to immortal 3 in Valorant without doing much training at all, however after stumbling on to the aiming community, its changed my perspective fully. Here I am now, over 200 hours in aim labs in the 99.9th percentile and let me tell you what Optimum said really does apply. If you are already a high rank and are getting decent scores in the your runs (95% percentile or higher) I strongly suggest you focus more on things you can improve in game, weather that be game sense, movement or anything else which you think could be improved. Aim trainers act as great tool to refine your aim. I recommend creating a playlist or maybe even finding one online that suits the game you are playing and also the skills you want to improve (static/flicking/tracking) and spending no more than 30 minutes practicing before you que into your ranked matches. If you are consistent with this I will guarantee that you will see improvement. As said in the video, don't be afraid to experiment with different options (sensitivities, FOV , monitor position, desk height or even different mice to see what suits you. consistency is key to improving and ranking up.
As someone who's somewhat new to training but far from new from fps games, using the VDIMs daily and a half hour of regular benchmarking I went from low gold to now about to hit diamond in about 3 weeks and that's with a mousepad change (from a zero soft to a skypad 4).
@@Shyvorix Similar situation to you, I started Plat now Diamond close to Jade. I'm doing only VDIM playlist now with some replays on the run here or there 1~2 hours per day depending on the playlist. But aiming in game (CS) still felt very inconsistent and bad.
Your channel convinced me to go from 10cm/360 to 30cm/360 and aim trainers definitely helped me to make that switch feel comfortable within an hour or 2
you also need to consider the tasks you are doing. In gridshot high sens is like cheating. The point of aim trainers is to hone your control of your mouse not the getting the highest score
I'm really surprised you were even able to live with 10cm/360. How did you (and even now still) live with having to deal with unexpected flanks, like ~180° turn + mouse adjustments?
@@jeremy1933 I'd have to fully disagree with you on that. I'd argue your Xcm/360 should be the same in every game, solely for consistency sake. Though if you're not all that serious about your aiming capabilities, simply use whatever. In the end it's all personal preference
I agree with everything in this video. I can say that my aim is miles better when i am using aim trainer consistently. I also love to test DPI/Mousepads/Mouseskates/mouse/desk and chairhight and for that thats absolutely amazing. Great content as always so kinda unnecesary to writ it.
ZywOo is with s1mple the best FPS player that has ever existed on the hardest and most competitive 20 years old game in the world. You can't compare your results to them at all.
For beginners it definitely helps specially to have some notion of the mouse movement, I started playing Apex like a year ago and before that I had no experience in fps shooting games...
A tip that I heard that helped me if you have been playing for awhile and your mouse control still isn’t where you want it to be go into a aim trainer do 2 to 4x your sense 30 45 min and then go back to your actual sense and I seen some pretty big improvement off doing that.
Speaking in Fighting Game terms as that’s where I’m proficient in. Aim Trainers are like the training modes or more commonly called labs. Figuring out & optimizing combos to be ready for any possible scenario. Lab monsters are like the brains way of playing it but what happens when you’re playing someone who has insane dexterity to just parry everything efficiently as their body is in the zone. Or someone who’s been conditioning/gaslighting you to do what they want you to do. Or they’re just an Unga Bunga Gorilla. In the heat of battle, you need all of them.
I've got over 2500 hours on Kovaaks and I can say that aim trainers definitely help improve your in game performance. I've got roughly 3 hours of free time per day and i like to keep it 50-50 between aim training and play time.
@@MarcusChad Ofcourse not, unless you're going for the e-sports scene. But I have 0 hours in kovaak and almost Predator on Apex Legends. Practise ingame is fine too, my aim improved IMMENSELY when I no longer panicked during fights. Staying calm is key.
I played A LOT of valorant and aimtrainers really did help me a lot even in a very deep rank and high hours. I don't think it's placebo or confirmation bias, since I hated aim trainers and didn't expect an improvement.
I guess this is kind of subjective, but I really think aim training at least 20-30 minutes a day with the intention of improving (pushing your speed, pushing your precision, etc) will always be worth your time no matter how good your aim is. Of course there’s many factors, a more gamesense reliant game like overwatch will definitely have diminishing returns in terms of aim training, but games that heavily rely on good mouse control will always make aim training worth it, no matter how good your aim gets.
I don't know... I'd say aim training (mouse control) is more then 50%. No matter how good your prediction is... No matter how good your game sense is... If you can't point exactly where you want to point or track exactly how you want to track it all means jack sh*t. You can play for hundreds and hundreds of hours and you can still be at the same rank and not climb up... As the actual games don't train you much of the mouse control. As they don't give you the repeated routines that you could muscle memory on like aim trainers do... I'd rather say it's 80/20. When you have proper mouse control, you will quickly pick up on how generally players are able to move and how much/where can they move in the shootout. Maybe I'm wrong.
i put about 100 hours in kovaaks, started seeing diminishing returnes after about 50 hours, but it helped me a lot. I still play from time to time and find it fun kind of in a hypnotizing sort of way constantly clicking targets.
ik people have already written this but there's a reason why people use different aim routines for different games, that's because different games reward certain aimstyles over others based on their gameplay like apex is tracking heavy because the movement is fast and weapon accuracy has to be maintained at all times while moving while a game like cs or valorant would discourage this aiming style since theses ttk can be instant and require precision to pull off so something like flicking is more within it's nature. the reason why i'm even typing this is because as stated in the video the best way to practice your aim is with in game trainers and not aim trainers, this is true but there is something i believe is crucial that was forgotten in the video, general aim trainers like aim labs and kovaaks can't target everything, even when it comes to aim, an example of this is crosshair placement, while an aim trainer can teach you to leave your crosshair on the same vertical axis when you switch over to a game like cs the crosshair placement might be much higher etc, my point for bringing this up is that you shouldn't be dependent on your flicks or tracking skills to win gunfights at all in any game, but use it in tandem with other skills to achieve your best possible fights
Honestly, my personal opinion for aim training is that I never really train for personal improvement, I mean, I've tried almost every single scenario and that only makes me the best version of myself. This is somewhat true because no matter what I do my aim training wouldn't make me as good at all of the players who are actually really good. Obviously we are built different and that just makes it more refreshing to see that u can only be better for yourself. I feel like a tip would be to only train to get used to ur mouse the next day since waking up from ur bed, ur brain might not be used to ur mouse shape instantly, but thats when aim training comes in handy as it helps ur hand get used to it faster than gripping it each game..
If you want to get into aimtraining, and making sure you are not developing bad habits or playing scenarios completely wrong, i recommend riddbtw and westproter channels
ironically now that i have less time to game i've been playing a few minutes of aimlabs here and there instead which has already made me better at apex than when i used to grind the game for hours a day.
I've found that it helps to break bad aiming habits too, i put a flick shot trainer on in overwatch and use a metronome starting really slow like 50bpm then 60bpm only moving up once i've been able to hit 100% of the targets within a certain timeframe.
It’s actually so relatable how your experience with aim trainers was. The whole discovery and “cheat code” feeling then sinking 100s of hours only to have very marginal improvements hit so very close to home. I’ve altogether ditched kovvaks for R5 modded servers and it’s the way to go 100%
As one of those top 0,1% aimers I can say that aim training is probably the most productive thing you can do to advance your esports career. Just stay away from frenzy clicking xD Btw Voltaic benchmarks & Voltaic resources in general are really good I'm currently sitting on 2400 hours of KovaaK's lol (definitely not more hours in KovaaK's than my main game)
The true strength of an aim trainer lies in the fact that is allows for very efficient -nonvariable aim warmup, which can be included in a training routine. Thus allowing someone to fully warmup their aim first and then log into a game and focus on the mechanics of the game itself, rather than still having to focus on both the aim and the mechanics.
Repetition... some people are natural. Everyone else needs practice. The more, the better. Eventually, it'll become like driving. Traveling for miles without much conscious effort.
Back in the cod2 days I used to play Audiosurf with some nice "chill" Dragonforce songs (4-5 songs only) and got accused of having aimbot. It was hilarious.
Yuup, i ultimately only play single player masterpieces because of it.... sometimes i hop back into apex and battlefield just to being destroyed with depression level increasing again😅
In short it's a shame that the general multiplayer side of gaming it's turning in only sweats players screaming at you if you suck throu voice chat, everything you try in there will make you feel trash at times
My friend is literally rank 1 in all the main aim trainers. He was on my Overwatch team and while his game sense could use some work, he is basically an aimbot.
very good and informative video, only thing i disagree with is using widow hs lobbies for warmup in ow2. regular ffa or tryhard ffa lobbies are much better suited for warmup and improvement, even as widowmaker, since the hs only mode is imo too reductive compared to actual in game fights
But as widowmaker you're literally only ever chasing headshots. And since the headshots are the hardest thing to hit it would make sense to train it the hardest. I mean shit if you can consistently hit widow headshots everything else just seems easy in comparison
I spent 405 hours on aim labs over Covid. I used to play Fortnite back then but now I play valorant. Went from bronze 3 to Ascendant 3 almost immortal.
"After watching this video, I quickly joined the free tests available on the same website and focused intensively. In my first CSGO game at the silver rank after that, I made an Ace and carried the game, consistently being in the top 2 in the following matches. I achieved 3 victories, 1 draw, and 4 games in total. Thanks, buddy! This video randomly came across and helped me accomplish these feats!" 👏
Dude's cracked. Bought Kovaaks after seeing this video, was expecting myself to be maybe somewhere near 40-50% :D Boy was I wrong, 20-35 is my top range depending on tasks, I can't imagine getting 85% :D
i mean, i played many different fps games with different aspects of importance and back in the day i did it on an underpowered laptop with less than 60fps.... even the ones with reflexes as the main trait for the game, sometime better map knowledge and predictions and making surprises is much more effective than you might think.... because it makes you get into your own pace... don't follow the opponent's pace that could be erratic, make the opponent follow your own pace so all you need to do is chill and just do your thing as if it was clockwork... but tbh when it comes to actually training, i think the best training method is just limit your fps to 30 in a game you want to be good at.... and just keep playing it till you get 30~40% headshot accuracy in far range shots.... this is like the most spartan move and the quickest way to get actually good in a game.... because when i finally got a 60fps monitor and a setup that could do 60 fps stable, i was killing those people where i was at in terms of ranking from my old setup.... and when i got my 144hz setup... it was just a cake walk....
I tried Aim Trainers, but I felt like I get way better results by just playing. I think it really depends on the game, but overall nothing beats actually playing as you're also training game sense and gaining game knowledge
Unless it’s an aim trainer with the same weapons and recoil patterns that are in the game you’re trying to improve in I don’t think they do hardly anything.
1:28 this is literally my tracking skills lol. Idk how ppl can track so precise, it's like reading ppl's minds and knowing when and where someone will move.
From where i stand, aim trainers just helps your foundation of mouse control. Once you start getting good like you said, in the top 10%, you dhould try harder senarios. Like of you get qltop 10% overall in the basic online playlist then go up to intermediate and train there untill top 10% again the onto the next one
Great Video! I personally didn't really game much in my infancy and I my bros always were way better than me. I definitely feel like they accelerated my improvement. Nowadays I even hit tricky shots sometimes.
Staying calm is probably the hardest part; lose your nerve and no amount of aim training will undo bad decisions
Yeah, I find physical, mental condition is by far the biggest factor for me.
If I am tired, hungry, frustrated, angry, sleepy, I suck at games.
hundred percent.
warzone made me realize how jittery i really am especially under pressure. after improving that issue, I got better at fps AND irl sports.
Tilt factor 100% exists, fatigue and actual health as well
Makes me think of playing Destiny 2. I know the movement is different but it is so frustrating being smooth at CoD and other fps games.
Multiple times my aim has saved me from terrible decisions
man every video i watch from this channel just reminds me of why he's so good. Like not only the production quality but also the way he can talk about things and not only give information concisely but also entertainingly, really loved the filming at 7:00 :D
not to mention he's both jacked and cracked at fps
i saw that angle and i was like "why is that angle so hard"!!!
Mr Robot style shot
S+ Tier quality content no doubt
Exactly !!! This channel is actually really really good
Tracking is probably the biggest differentiator for raw aim. The first to fire usually wins, but when they don't, tracking makes the difference.
For game specific, if you look at every metric in CSGO, positioning is by far the starkest difference between high and moderate ELO.
Tracking is mostly important in hero and arena shooters, you need spray control in CS and you can't really spray at all in Valorant. For those games, crosshair placement is more important.
Just some tip on the tracking side... Start with Centering/Smoothing. They're on the easy side, and set up the fundamentals for tracking. Before you can react to fast strafes, make sure you can track smoothly first or else you'll just have shakey tracking that can't react to direction change. After you're comfortable with Centering, go crazy on tracking scenarios. Ground Plaza, VSS, Long strafes, fast strafes, dodge strafes, xyz/sphere tracking, etc.
I didn’t realize there was terminology for it lol
My aim is confusing. I hit gold on the voltaic novice reaction tracking scenarios on my first attempt at the benchmarks, but could barely get bronze on the smoothness scenarios.
I cannot track smoothly for the life of me lmao
Coming off of solely playing cs, my tracking was absolute dog shit when I started playing apex. Kovaak's helped immensely with smoothing out my aim and reactivity.
Or it was because you started playing apex and with time your muscle memory for apex got better (just by playing it day after day)
@usemorebrainplz-is7gy Just playing will of course help someone improve, but aim trainer is meant to help accelerate progress by improving certain aspects. Made a switch from roller to mnk and was struggling in silver for multiple days after being masters since s10. Kovaaks helped me isolate my weaker skill sets and get rapid repetition, and quickly flew all the way to diamond after all the consistent practice i was able to do.
Banger video! I love how you place emphasis on prediction/movement/calm. Couldn't have worded it better myself.
it’s the banana
banana
does better pc help?
Wow I thought of banana and I got banana
I dont agree with a lot of what he said, i think aim training is CRUCIAL and if you don't do it you cannot perform well in any shooters ...its just not going to happen and the aim trainer is teaching you basically how you can control the mouse wich is a huuuge fing deal, you can even play with different sensitivities and you still can aim since your control of the mouse becomes so good! I play fortnite, after the aim training i don't only aim better, i can build better i can move better , i can do everything better, my awareness is better it improves every aspect of the game and well lets talk about how confident you are when you know you can hit your shots, youre not going to shake youre going to be calm because you know you can beat anyone, if you have a bit of talent and some game sense after 1 year of 1 hour/day you can beat anyone ...you might not be the best player but you can kill anybody in any fing game it doesn't matter how god the pro is! you might win 1 out of 10 but you still do it! So you cannot play shooters without an aim trainer and do well, you can beat your friends but not a good gamer! GGS!
Just wanted to say I really appreciate the variety of your content. Love your main "core" stuff, but also the kind of "one offs" like this video.
I stopped playing multiplayer FPSes years ago and subbed for SFF PC stuff but all of Optimum's videos are just so engaging
Thanks to you and your work I have rediscovered my passion for FPS games, train my aim, look for improvements in tactics, etc.. I also realized that my peripherals are not the best for the games I play and I replaced them.
I think the most useful scenarios for aim trainers are one getting into FPS games on PC so that you can dial in settings and whatnot to find what's comfortable to you, but also to warm up in games that may not have a good warm-up lobby such as OW while you queue or CS with workshop maps.
I recommend looking into the voltaic benchmarks. Mastering mouse control goes way deeper then just all of the most popular scenarios. Advanced raw aim skill translates into any game. Better aim wins fights
but as he said, if u hit top 5% its enough for your game
Just play.
@@mvlaris Your game? For what rank in that game? Predator, radiant, I donot think so)
@@happy-gq2kw omg u dont need top tier aim to get pred or radiant, gamesense is way more important in high rank than mechanics and for that top 5% is more than enough homie
@@happy-gq2kw LMAO you dont need good aim to hit radiant, hell theres even pro players with completely mediocre aim
Great video, it's a novel feeling to see you talking about something I worked on for years. For anyone like me who has visual floaters/snow or has trouble perceiving the 3D space with solid colored walls, there's a visual theme in-game (settings>visuals>theme) called "Struth Dark" that may help out.
Love seeing two of my favorite channels on the same video/thread. You're the fps youtube instructional goat bro
@@calvinstevickbrown8171 Thank you! Much appreciated :)
I like this channel just surprise me, he keep trying something new, not only to review systems hardware right now, but also sharing some "gameplay experience" using this same editing style. I'd like to see the future in this channel, especially the name is not 'optimum tech', is just "full optimum"
You should have waited for 365 hours
Heh i see what u did there 😏
Why?
Why not another 4 hours? Make it 369 😂
He could still change the title.
Man could not take more than 352 hours
I feel that one of the biggest issue with aim training is that people don't train the correct task(s). I don't care how high your score is on gridshot, it's not going to make you better at Valorant. If you're trying to hit insane flicks you're probably playing the game wrong to begin with.
I wouldn't be caught dead playing that shit but I feel the same thing definitely applies to Hunt: Showdown. But I'm still aim training for it because I suck so bad.
Show us your workout routine
Exactly, what I thought. 😂
Pushups situps and plenty of juice
And your cycle haha (kidding kidding… unless?)
Im just gonna assume he warms up with 225 on the bench or does heavy weighted dips
@@KillerInstinct1 Not everyone is on juice. It's just insulting to assume that.
Kovaaks has alot of movement scenarios aswell, they usually have "Dodge" in their name, u get score for hitting the target but also for movement. Some only give u score for mirroring, some only for anti mirroring, and some just general distance traveled to keep you moving constantly.
dude i dont understand the scoring for the movement at all its not intuitive
"Nice aimbot optimum, how much you pay for?" is probably the best compliment someone can get in an fps.
for people wondering, its at 7:45
@@Chuha97 i wasnt wondering thank you
Thank you for making this video and not baiting people into "aim training gave me aimbot." I have 437 hours in Kovaaks myself and I've only been on PC Mouse and Keyboard for not even 2 years. I worked my way into Voltaic Diamond and I'm working on getting Voltaic Jade at the moment. Aim training has helped me improve faster I believe. Like you said, playing scenarios that frustrate you rather than compliment you is the way to go. Optimum, do you know what your voltaic rank is?
Great video! could not be said any better
At first I didn't believe that aim trainers were a necessity, I climbed to immortal 3 in Valorant without doing much training at all, however after stumbling on to the aiming community, its changed my perspective fully. Here I am now, over 200 hours in aim labs in the 99.9th percentile and let me tell you what Optimum said really does apply. If you are already a high rank and are getting decent scores in the your runs (95% percentile or higher) I strongly suggest you focus more on things you can improve in game, weather that be game sense, movement or anything else which you think could be improved. Aim trainers act as great tool to refine your aim. I recommend creating a playlist or maybe even finding one online that suits the game you are playing and also the skills you want to improve (static/flicking/tracking) and spending no more than 30 minutes practicing before you que into your ranked matches. If you are consistent with this I will guarantee that you will see improvement. As said in the video, don't be afraid to experiment with different options (sensitivities, FOV , monitor position, desk height or even different mice to see what suits you. consistency is key to improving and ranking up.
What scenarios do you train for Valorant
4:03 my boy kenzo
One of my favorite and humble channels, thanks mate, thumbs up 👍
Aim training definitely works. You want to get good enough with your aim so you don't have to think about it imo
I'd suggest trying out Voltaic Benchmarks and Fundamentals. Improved my aim significally.
Sorry for replying to old comment, did you do both or just the benchmark? And how are you progressing since then
As someone who's somewhat new to training but far from new from fps games, using the VDIMs daily and a half hour of regular benchmarking I went from low gold to now about to hit diamond in about 3 weeks and that's with a mousepad change (from a zero soft to a skypad 4).
@@Shyvorix Similar situation to you, I started Plat now Diamond close to Jade. I'm doing only VDIM playlist now with some replays on the run here or there 1~2 hours per day depending on the playlist. But aiming in game (CS) still felt very inconsistent and bad.
1:40 I just love this shot. The monitor perfectly blocks the reflection of the camera lens.
Your channel convinced me to go from 10cm/360 to 30cm/360 and aim trainers definitely helped me to make that switch feel comfortable within an hour or 2
you also need to consider the tasks you are doing. In gridshot high sens is like cheating. The point of aim trainers is to hone your control of your mouse not the getting the highest score
I'm really surprised you were even able to live with 10cm/360. How did you (and even now still) live with having to deal with unexpected flanks, like ~180° turn + mouse adjustments?
@@keppycs Skittlecakes the apex pro uses 10cm/360
Tbh sens should be game dependent, you don’t need ultra high sens for, say, Valorant vs OW
@@jeremy1933 I'd have to fully disagree with you on that. I'd argue your Xcm/360 should be the same in every game, solely for consistency sake. Though if you're not all that serious about your aiming capabilities, simply use whatever. In the end it's all personal preference
I agree with everything in this video. I can say that my aim is miles better when i am using aim trainer consistently. I also love to test DPI/Mousepads/Mouseskates/mouse/desk and chairhight and for that thats absolutely amazing. Great content as always so kinda unnecesary to writ it.
Bro got so many monitors, peripherals and a good pc but hasnt activated windows yet😭
one could argue, all of the peripherals he OWNS and are his... :D
or its just a test rig or sum
no bullshit, just quality content from the first second of the video, nice !.
This is one of the best subscribtions I have ever clicked, you keep on making awesome videos.
What the hell! Someone’s been hitting the gym! Looking good bro keep it up!
0:00 ironically this is exactly how zywoo got so good at CS. No warmups or aim training, just matches.
Zywoo is a different breed dont compare
ZywOo is with s1mple the best FPS player that has ever existed on the hardest and most competitive 20 years old game in the world.
You can't compare your results to them at all.
Aim trainers helped me when I moved from console to pc. The best tip I can give is aim train, but your priority has to be playing your main game.
Being called an aimbot the highest of compliments
trainers provide the basics and the foundation, u build ur movement and map awareness based on these foundations
For beginners it definitely helps specially to have some notion of the mouse movement, I started playing Apex like a year ago and before that I had no experience in fps shooting games...
A tip that I heard that helped me if you have been playing for awhile and your mouse control still isn’t where you want it to be go into a aim trainer do 2 to 4x your sense 30 45 min and then go back to your actual sense and I seen some pretty big improvement off doing that.
This is a pretty excellent video. Well thought out, interesting, and informative with some practical take-aways. Top notch!
Speaking in Fighting Game terms as that’s where I’m proficient in. Aim Trainers are like the training modes or more commonly called labs. Figuring out & optimizing combos to be ready for any possible scenario.
Lab monsters are like the brains way of playing it but what happens when you’re playing someone who has insane dexterity to just parry everything efficiently as their body is in the zone. Or someone who’s been conditioning/gaslighting you to do what they want you to do. Or they’re just an Unga Bunga Gorilla.
In the heat of battle, you need all of them.
I've got over 2500 hours on Kovaaks and I can say that aim trainers definitely help improve your in game performance.
I've got roughly 3 hours of free time per day and i like to keep it 50-50 between aim training and play time.
2500 wtf
@@MarcusChad ?
@@mirxge_mirxge That's a lot of hours bro, I am on like 150 haha, so would you say its worth it?
@@MarcusChad Ofcourse not, unless you're going for the e-sports scene. But I have 0 hours in kovaak and almost Predator on Apex Legends. Practise ingame is fine too, my aim improved IMMENSELY when I no longer panicked during fights. Staying calm is key.
I played A LOT of valorant and aimtrainers really did help me a lot even in a very deep rank and high hours. I don't think it's placebo or confirmation bias, since I hated aim trainers and didn't expect an improvement.
Stuff like this proves how out of touch I am of today's gaming culture even after having 37+ years of experience in it!
Damn are you 50 or something??
"wow im out of touch, even though im old! how can that possibly be!" nah im just playing granpa dont catch a heart attack
I guess this is kind of subjective, but I really think aim training at least 20-30 minutes a day with the intention of improving (pushing your speed, pushing your precision, etc) will always be worth your time no matter how good your aim is. Of course there’s many factors, a more gamesense reliant game like overwatch will definitely have diminishing returns in terms of aim training, but games that heavily rely on good mouse control will always make aim training worth it, no matter how good your aim gets.
Babe wake up…new Optimum tech vid just dropped
gotta show lyric the goat when talking about mechanical skill. dudes fucking nuts
I don't know... I'd say aim training (mouse control) is more then 50%. No matter how good your prediction is... No matter how good your game sense is... If you can't point exactly where you want to point or track exactly how you want to track it all means jack sh*t. You can play for hundreds and hundreds of hours and you can still be at the same rank and not climb up...
As the actual games don't train you much of the mouse control. As they don't give you the repeated routines that you could muscle memory on like aim trainers do... I'd rather say it's 80/20. When you have proper mouse control, you will quickly pick up on how generally players are able to move and how much/where can they move in the shootout.
Maybe I'm wrong.
i put about 100 hours in kovaaks, started seeing diminishing returnes after about 50 hours, but it helped me a lot. I still play from time to time and find it fun kind of in a hypnotizing sort of way constantly clicking targets.
ik people have already written this but there's a reason why people use different aim routines for different games, that's because different games reward certain aimstyles over others based on their gameplay like apex is tracking heavy because the movement is fast and weapon accuracy has to be maintained at all times while moving while a game like cs or valorant would discourage this aiming style since theses ttk can be instant and require precision to pull off so something like flicking is more within it's nature. the reason why i'm even typing this is because as stated in the video the best way to practice your aim is with in game trainers and not aim trainers, this is true but there is something i believe is crucial that was forgotten in the video, general aim trainers like aim labs and kovaaks can't target everything, even when it comes to aim, an example of this is crosshair placement, while an aim trainer can teach you to leave your crosshair on the same vertical axis when you switch over to a game like cs the crosshair placement might be much higher etc, my point for bringing this up is that you shouldn't be dependent on your flicks or tracking skills to win gunfights at all in any game, but use it in tandem with other skills to achieve your best possible fights
great takes and really enjoy your clips 💕
Honestly, my personal opinion for aim training is that I never really train for personal improvement, I mean, I've tried almost every single scenario and that only makes me the best version of myself. This is somewhat true because no matter what I do my aim training wouldn't make me as good at all of the players who are actually really good. Obviously we are built different and that just makes it more refreshing to see that u can only be better for yourself. I feel like a tip would be to only train to get used to ur mouse the next day since waking up from ur bed, ur brain might not be used to ur mouse shape instantly, but thats when aim training comes in handy as it helps ur hand get used to it faster than gripping it each game..
I have no idea why I am watching this video, but I'm staying on because of how well it is presented.
Very qualitative video.Thanks so much as myself included never really thought of "How prediction affects aim"
Haven’t commented much but I love how cleanly edited and how informational your videos are!
The best part about aim training as you can see, you get ripped as this guy😎
If you want to get into aimtraining, and making sure you are not developing bad habits or playing scenarios completely wrong, i recommend riddbtw and westproter channels
Thanks for the Input, cool Video! You have earned yourself another sub!
u r my favorite youtube channel ❤❤❤
ironically now that i have less time to game i've been playing a few minutes of aimlabs here and there instead which has already made me better at apex than when i used to grind the game for hours a day.
"aim trainers don't teach you map knowledge" some revolutionary stuff right there
I've found that it helps to break bad aiming habits too, i put a flick shot trainer on in overwatch and use a metronome starting really slow like 50bpm then 60bpm only moving up once i've been able to hit 100% of the targets within a certain timeframe.
This is why I think games like division were awesome. You could practice in pve with your exact build before pvp.
It’s actually so relatable how your experience with aim trainers was. The whole discovery and “cheat code” feeling then sinking 100s of hours only to have very marginal improvements hit so very close to home. I’ve altogether ditched kovvaks for R5 modded servers and it’s the way to go 100%
you gettin cooked at the 1v1 servers?
@@andrewkim7111 I'm doing the cooking. It's great
As one of those top 0,1% aimers I can say that aim training is probably the most productive thing you can do to advance your esports career. Just stay away from frenzy clicking xD
Btw Voltaic benchmarks & Voltaic resources in general are really good
I'm currently sitting on 2400 hours of KovaaK's lol (definitely not more hours in KovaaK's than my main game)
No way you have 2400 hours lol
@@ivanderdev theres's a ton people with high hours i have 1k session time about 500 actually aim training
@@ivanderdev that doesn't even include my Aim Lab hours
@@VultraV Thas fucking crazy bro
@@ivanderdev well I enjoy playing aim trainers xD
that widow shot is NASTY and shall be reported indeed
Confidence is key. It'll make you a lol calmer in very intense situations.
bro started his CS:GO pro arc
The true strength of an aim trainer lies in the fact that is allows for very efficient -nonvariable aim warmup, which can be included in a training routine. Thus allowing someone to fully warmup their aim first and then log into a game and focus on the mechanics of the game itself, rather than still having to focus on both the aim and the mechanics.
Well said
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My largest reccomendation w/ aim training is changing up your routine any time you feel like your aim is plateauing
You nailed this. Great video
One of the best channels on UA-cam.
Switching from Controller to MnK, aim trainers have been helping to significantly speed up the process
Repetition... some people are natural. Everyone else needs practice. The more, the better. Eventually, it'll become like driving. Traveling for miles without much conscious effort.
This video was interesting! I’d like to watch more videos like this.
just love how high-end are these videos
Back in the cod2 days I used to play Audiosurf with some nice "chill" Dragonforce songs (4-5 songs only) and got accused of having aimbot. It was hilarious.
so this is what I'm up against when I just want to chill and play games
Yuup, i ultimately only play single player masterpieces because of it.... sometimes i hop back into apex and battlefield just to being destroyed with depression level increasing again😅
In short it's a shame that the general multiplayer side of gaming it's turning in only sweats players screaming at you if you suck throu voice chat, everything you try in there will make you feel trash at times
My friend is literally rank 1 in all the main aim trainers. He was on my Overwatch team and while his game sense could use some work, he is basically an aimbot.
very good and informative video, only thing i disagree with is using widow hs lobbies for warmup in ow2. regular ffa or tryhard ffa lobbies are much better suited for warmup and improvement, even as widowmaker, since the hs only mode is imo too reductive compared to actual in game fights
But as widowmaker you're literally only ever chasing headshots. And since the headshots are the hardest thing to hit it would make sense to train it the hardest. I mean shit if you can consistently hit widow headshots everything else just seems easy in comparison
This dudes cracked af and telling people NOT to do what he did.....hmmm.
I spent 405 hours on aim labs over Covid. I used to play Fortnite back then but now I play valorant. Went from bronze 3 to Ascendant 3 almost immortal.
"After watching this video, I quickly joined the free tests available on the same website and focused intensively. In my first CSGO game at the silver rank after that, I made an Ace and carried the game, consistently being in the top 2 in the following matches. I achieved 3 victories, 1 draw, and 4 games in total. Thanks, buddy! This video randomly came across and helped me accomplish these feats!"
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I have only just started aiming training this week and am almost too 600 in flicking speed this vid has helped and got me into aim training
Dude's cracked. Bought Kovaaks after seeing this video, was expecting myself to be maybe somewhere near 40-50% :D Boy was I wrong, 20-35 is my top range depending on tasks, I can't imagine getting 85% :D
you actually keeping esports alive
thank You
i mean, i played many different fps games with different aspects of importance and back in the day i did it on an underpowered laptop with less than 60fps.... even the ones with reflexes as the main trait for the game, sometime better map knowledge and predictions and making surprises is much more effective than you might think.... because it makes you get into your own pace... don't follow the opponent's pace that could be erratic, make the opponent follow your own pace so all you need to do is chill and just do your thing as if it was clockwork...
but tbh when it comes to actually training, i think the best training method is just limit your fps to 30 in a game you want to be good at.... and just keep playing it till you get 30~40% headshot accuracy in far range shots.... this is like the most spartan move and the quickest way to get actually good in a game.... because when i finally got a 60fps monitor and a setup that could do 60 fps stable, i was killing those people where i was at in terms of ranking from my old setup.... and when i got my 144hz setup... it was just a cake walk....
Great video as always
Nah the opening scene of this video is crazy. Goes hard
your overwatch aim looks insane
Honestly you really make the best videos
Most underrated aim trainer is Quake Champions.
unexpected gaming chad
Thanks for the vid mr optimum
I tried Aim Trainers, but I felt like I get way better results by just playing. I think it really depends on the game, but overall nothing beats actually playing as you're also training game sense and gaining game knowledge
Unless it’s an aim trainer with the same weapons and recoil patterns that are in the game you’re trying to improve in I don’t think they do hardly anything.
@@daltoneverett6629 Ya your right aim trainers dont help aim your so smart kid
Optimum never misses
I come for the biceps
(not gay)
Can't wait to see the new Asus x Aimlab mouse test :D
Great video!
1:28 this is literally my tracking skills lol. Idk how ppl can track so precise, it's like reading ppl's minds and knowing when and where someone will move.
From where i stand, aim trainers just helps your foundation of mouse control. Once you start getting good like you said, in the top 10%, you dhould try harder senarios. Like of you get qltop 10% overall in the basic online playlist then go up to intermediate and train there untill top 10% again the onto the next one
Great Video! I personally didn't really game much in my infancy and I my bros always were way better than me. I definitely feel like they accelerated my improvement. Nowadays I even hit tricky shots sometimes.
0:32 this is absolute gold