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.
Tracking is generally just the most noticeable part of your aim and a good way to show off. There really aren't a whole lot of games where tracking for extended periods of time over vast distances is a thing. It's generally only a thing for certain heroes against other certain heroes in hero shooters. Most other games have a combination of a TTK that's way too fast, movement way too slow, and too few automatic weapons with low enough recoil for tracking to make a significant difference. As someone who's largely only played such games (Battlefield, TF2, CoD, Delta Force, various non-PVP FPS games and so on) my point and click is way better than my tracking for a reason.
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 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
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 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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@Warrior25 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.
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.
Really kind of tempted to give this a try just to see if I can find a scenario where I'm aiming down at the targets. Anything lower than 10 degrees is a death sentence for me and in most games it doesn't happen enough to fix it. Thing I don't understand is how it's so much different to aiming up which I have no issues with so I usually try and position myself so the enemy has the high or neutral ground.
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.
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
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
I know this is related more to the last vid than this one but ive been thinking of buying the 2k 360hz asus monitor but after seeing your last video idk if i should wait for this years monitors or just get the asus 2k 360hz one right now, any opinions appreciated
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 recommend finding your best mouse sensitivity in aim training especially if your main game require fast movement, instead find the lowest sensitivity were you can easily do 180 back and forth (not using your whole mouse mat that not realistic ingame) and train on that sensitivity
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.
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...
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)
Why it feels like 'gaming become new "work" or skill you need to work for? Like - every day? For few hours? And I felt like this skillset is easliy gone as soon as you have to long break? This is completely opposite to the goal of 'having fun'? Right or not?
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
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.
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.
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.
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%
the practice range in valorant is actually really good, there's a lot of stuff you can do in it, I for example really liked nAts' warmup and training routine, although I can't do it as many times as he can there are plenty of videos covering useful things to do in the range
just standing bots in val. don’t improve all aspects of aim, like timing shots, motion aim tracking and motion shots. It’s only flicking speed and precision in val. That’s why aim trainers exist. 😌
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.
Most proper aim training guides include movement training as well. That part of your video seems slightly outdated in info. There are movement scenarios in KovaaKs.
those are garbage compared to real humans, to the point of them being basically pointless. Just do 1v1s in the game of your choice and actively watch your opponent and yourself
@@ratflip7908 yeah of course. But Aim training is still good to isolate the aiming part. How many chances to actually 1v1 constantly do you have in-game?
@@RafaelSilva-yv3oh bro im talking literally about movement only depends on the game I suppose but 1v1s are very common in what I play. it's the densest form of fps experience you could find
7:18 That’s why I switched to r5reloaded (being my main game is apex) for sun training from kovaks, trains my movement and common apex aim scenarios, jumppad, valk ult etc, if you play apex and wanna train your aim I highly suggest it
It's trash. Not worth trying. I've been using it for the past month and improved to predator level, it is that bad. Never ever install it, waste of time.
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.
I disagree with the opinions on movement only by adding there are movement based aim training scenarios on Kovaaks and on Aimlabs (not too sure about others). Very true that it won't help you learn the game but will help your aim with movement.
I think it's more that the type of movement you see depends more than aim on what game you're playing. In valorant players move differently to overwatch and apex. So it's much harder to generalise than aiming types.
Aim trainers are always interesting to me, I've always been in the boat that it's a good warmup but doesn't actually train your aim. But my bias comes from aimbotcalvin who is someone who dislikes aim trainers but completely dominates every fps game they play.
Games like Overwatch require much than aim, so most players are going to improve more things at once by spending their time playing the game. Additionally, most people play games for fun, and Aim trainers wouldn't be my definition of fun. I think that would be his reasoning
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.
Aim training is basically just procrastination for FPS players. Makes you feel like you're doing something productive when you would probably be more productive just doing the original thing. Also so many people have anxiety now like anxiety playing with others, ladder anxiety, performance anxiety etc. that aim trainers allow those players to get the feeling of playing an FPS without that stress.
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
@@Zamai2137 i'm not saying you want too. But at the end you're only training your aim because you want to get better at games that are most likely gonna be shooters. And what's the point of training your aim if you can't handle the recoil 😂
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
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.
Staying calm. There was times where I was on pace to decimate my PR in game and kovaaks and I'd lose full and just choke. Any tips to control breathing and prevent fatigue?
Kovaaks, in 2 weeks increase my flicking in warzone with sniper sooo hight that i start to have about 10 kills from 2-3. Basically gave me like 80% in aim. Simply you overshoot person just because you aim him better, also helps to train headshots and control area you want to shoot like upper body. Its really recommended
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 dont use kovaaks to get better aim i mainly just use it to warm up my aim as youll warm up farrrr quicker in there than you would in game and then run the game once my eyes and hands have adjusted to the screen
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.
Tracking is generally just the most noticeable part of your aim and a good way to show off. There really aren't a whole lot of games where tracking for extended periods of time over vast distances is a thing. It's generally only a thing for certain heroes against other certain heroes in hero shooters. Most other games have a combination of a TTK that's way too fast, movement way too slow, and too few automatic weapons with low enough recoil for tracking to make a significant difference.
As someone who's largely only played such games (Battlefield, TF2, CoD, Delta Force, various non-PVP FPS games and so on) my point and click is way better than my tracking for a reason.
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.
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 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
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 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"
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.
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.
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 :)
"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
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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
One of my favorite and humble channels, thanks mate, thumbs up 👍
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
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 training definitely works. You want to get good enough with your aim so you don't have to think about it imo
Great video! could not be said any better
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.
4:03 my boy kenzo
This is one of the best subscribtions I have ever clicked, you keep on making awesome videos.
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
no bullshit, just quality content from the first second of the video, nice !.
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
@@Warrior25 ?
@@mirxge_mirxge That's a lot of hours bro, I am on like 150 haha, so would you say its worth it?
@@Warrior25 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.
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.
Being called an aimbot the highest of compliments
Really kind of tempted to give this a try just to see if I can find a scenario where I'm aiming down at the targets. Anything lower than 10 degrees is a death sentence for me and in most games it doesn't happen enough to fix it. Thing I don't understand is how it's so much different to aiming up which I have no issues with so I usually try and position myself so the enemy has the high or neutral ground.
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.
1:40 I just love this shot. The monitor perfectly blocks the reflection of the camera lens.
great takes and really enjoy your clips 💕
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.
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
What the hell! Someone’s been hitting the gym! Looking good bro keep it up!
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
This is a pretty excellent video. Well thought out, interesting, and informative with some practical take-aways. Top notch!
I know this is related more to the last vid than this one but ive been thinking of buying the 2k 360hz asus monitor but after seeing your last video idk if i should wait for this years monitors or just get the asus 2k 360hz one right now, any opinions appreciated
Will have a review of the OLED 240Hz soon :)
I’ve owned both brands in 360hz (Asus & Zowie) and if you’re into mostly competitive titles I’d recommend the Zowie XL2566K.
@@optimumtech pls compare its motion blur to DyAc+ :^)
@@optimumtech have you got it in hand yet?
There’s some OLED monitors coming out that should be wild id be on the lookout fr
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 recommend finding your best mouse sensitivity in aim training especially if your main game require fast movement, instead find the lowest sensitivity were you can easily do 180 back and forth (not using your whole mouse mat that not realistic ingame) and train on that sensitivity
This.
Or use low sens + configure accel with interGUI software (Intercept Mouse Accel Filter Config).
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.
Write -novid in Kovaaks launch options to get rid of the startup intro.
Thank you
thx for saving my ears from that loud intro
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...
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
trainers provide the basics and the foundation, u build ur movement and map awareness based on these foundations
Great video as always
Why it feels like 'gaming become new "work" or skill you need to work for? Like - every day? For few hours? And I felt like this skillset is easliy gone as soon as you have to long break? This is completely opposite to the goal of 'having fun'? Right or not?
u r my favorite youtube channel ❤❤❤
You know you've made it when you're accused of using an aimbot 🤣
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
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.
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
Haven’t commented much but I love how cleanly edited and how informational your videos are!
Optimum never misses
Thanks for the Input, cool Video! You have earned yourself another sub!
i was wonder about " can aim trainer help you in actual gameplay", thank you for posting such an amazing videos
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.
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
Babe wake up…new Optimum tech vid just dropped
the practice range in valorant is actually really good, there's a lot of stuff you can do in it,
I for example really liked nAts' warmup and training routine, although I can't do it as many times as he can
there are plenty of videos covering useful things to do in the range
no
@@553sg4 gigachad true reply
just standing bots in val. don’t improve all aspects of aim, like timing shots, motion aim tracking and motion shots. It’s only flicking speed and precision in val. That’s why aim trainers exist. 😌
@@AI_Artist_gg the bots can move….
it sucks
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
ty
Most proper aim training guides include movement training as well. That part of your video seems slightly outdated in info. There are movement scenarios in KovaaKs.
those are garbage compared to real humans, to the point of them being basically pointless. Just do 1v1s in the game of your choice and actively watch your opponent and yourself
@@ratflip7908 yeah of course. But Aim training is still good to isolate the aiming part. How many chances to actually 1v1 constantly do you have in-game?
@@RafaelSilva-yv3oh bro im talking literally about movement only
depends on the game I suppose but 1v1s are very common in what I play. it's the densest form of fps experience you could find
7:18 That’s why I switched to r5reloaded (being my main game is apex) for sun training from kovaks, trains my movement and common apex aim scenarios, jumppad, valk ult etc, if you play apex and wanna train your aim I highly suggest it
It's trash. Not worth trying. I've been using it for the past month and improved to predator level, it is that bad. Never ever install it, waste of time.
@@gdgd5194 haha yeah maybe it costs some of your sanity and ability to engage with women
Workout routine is up next
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.
There are also movement scenarios and aimbeast.
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.
I disagree with the opinions on movement only by adding there are movement based aim training scenarios on Kovaaks and on Aimlabs (not too sure about others).
Very true that it won't help you learn the game but will help your aim with movement.
I think it's more that the type of movement you see depends more than aim on what game you're playing. In valorant players move differently to overwatch and apex. So it's much harder to generalise than aiming types.
Very qualitative video.Thanks so much as myself included never really thought of "How prediction affects aim"
Aim trainers are always interesting to me, I've always been in the boat that it's a good warmup but doesn't actually train your aim. But my bias comes from aimbotcalvin who is someone who dislikes aim trainers but completely dominates every fps game they play.
Games like Overwatch require much than aim, so most players are going to improve more things at once by spending their time playing the game. Additionally, most people play games for fun, and Aim trainers wouldn't be my definition of fun. I think that would be his reasoning
Nonsense.
Ali, please tell me what corsair lpx ram did you use in your 4090 build? Love your style!
look mom I'm on tv
You nailed this. Great video
Im Voltaic Master and Silver in valorant))
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.
Aim training is basically just procrastination for FPS players. Makes you feel like you're doing something productive when you would probably be more productive just doing the original thing.
Also so many people have anxiety now like anxiety playing with others, ladder anxiety, performance anxiety etc. that aim trainers allow those players to get the feeling of playing an FPS without that stress.
unles u full focus to the level of mental exhaustion after an hour playing
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
Don't forget that recoil patterns is also something you can't learn from aim training games.
He already said it in the video...
Imagine playing games with that shi....
Why would you want to train recoil in AIM TRAINER? It was made purely for training and improving mouse control
@@Zamai2137 i'm not saying you want too. But at the end you're only training your aim because you want to get better at games that are most likely gonna be shooters. And what's the point of training your aim if you can't handle the recoil 😂
This dudes cracked af and telling people NOT to do what he did.....hmmm.
Your internet is more important than your aim on an offline game if you want to play online.
very wise
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
I have no idea why I am watching this video, but I'm staying on because of how well it is presented.
Switching from Controller to MnK, aim trainers have been helping to significantly speed up the process
Are you still using the Wooting 60HE?
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.
Staying calm. There was times where I was on pace to decimate my PR in game and kovaaks and I'd lose full and just choke. Any tips to control breathing and prevent fatigue?
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
Kovaaks, in 2 weeks increase my flicking in warzone with sniper sooo hight that i start to have about 10 kills from 2-3. Basically gave me like 80% in aim. Simply you overshoot person just because you aim him better, also helps to train headshots and control area you want to shoot like upper body.
Its really recommended
One of the best channels on UA-cam.
This is why I think games like division were awesome. You could practice in pve with your exact build before pvp.
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..
The best part about aim training as you can see, you get ripped as this guy😎
How is the coating on your superlight not worn out?
i dont use kovaaks to get better aim i mainly just use it to warm up my aim as youll warm up farrrr quicker in there than you would in game and then run the game once my eyes and hands have adjusted to the screen