How I would learn Valorant if I started over
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Keki shares his journey to reaching Radiant rank in Valorant and offers strategies for players looking to improve their gameplay efficiently. He emphasizes building core skills like aim, movement, gun control, and decision-making through structured practice routines. Keki also discusses the importance of understanding risk-reward scenarios, using proper settings, and proactively learning from mistakes. For those serious about ranking up, Keki introduces his Immortal Roadmap coaching program, offering guidance from top-tier Radiant coaches and professional players to accelerate improvement.
Takeaways
- 🎯 Focus on fundamentals: Aim, movement, gun control, and crosshair placement are the foundation of improving in Valorant, and daily practice is key.
- 🏹 Effective aim practice: Break down flicking and micro-adjustments to isolate and improve both aspects of aiming.
- 🔫 Gun control: Focus on learning the spray patterns of the Phantom and Vandal, especially the first five bullets, to master consistent recoil control.
- 👟 Movement training: Practice peeking from cover to improve your movement, crosshair placement, and accuracy. Incorporate parkour sections to enhance fluidity.
- 🔥 Decision-making framework: Learn to balance risk and reward in game decisions. Play safe when the odds are even and take more risks when the situation is dire.
- 🧠 Focus on decision-making: Improve game sense by understanding the balance of risk, and reward, and adjusting your plays depending on the situation.
- 🏅 Coaching importance: Having an experienced coach can help accelerate improvement by pointing out weaknesses and guiding your progress.
- ⚙️ Optimize settings: Turn off ‘keep player centered’, enable HRTF audio, and activate tactical callouts to improve awareness and reaction time.
- ⚔️ Play proactively: Don’t be afraid to take aggressive actions and learn from your mistakes to grow faster as a player.
- ⏳ Apply the 80/20 rule: Spend 20% of your time watching educational content or analyzing gameplay to complement your practice and refine your skills.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of the video?
-The main purpose of the video is to provide steps and advice on how to improve efficiently in Valorant, especially for players who want to rank up quickly and avoid mistakes that could slow down their progress.
What are the key fundamentals the video emphasizes for improving in Valorant?
-The video emphasizes four key fundamentals: aim, movement, gun control, and crosshair placement. These are essential skills that players should practice daily to build a strong foundation.
How does the video recommend practicing aim in Valorant?
-The video recommends isolating flicks and micro-adjustments while practicing in the range. It suggests being quick and snappy with flicks but staying relaxed for smoother micro-adjustments. Over time, players should combine these two components for faster, more accurate aim.
What is a good way to practice gun control in Valorant, according to the video?
-The video suggests practicing gun control by shooting in bursts of five bullets at different ranges and learning to pull the mouse down faster during the fourth and fifth bullets, especially when using weapons like the Phantom and Vandal.
How does the video explain the importance of decision-making in Valorant?
-The video explains that decision-making is crucial in determining whether a player wins or loses rounds. While mechanics are important, strong decision-making skills are necessary when facing equally skilled opponents, and players should learn to balance risk and reward during rounds.
What advice does the video give regarding practicing decision-making in Valorant?
-The video advises players to set up a decision-making framework to simplify in-game choices. It highlights the importance of evaluating risk and reward in each situation, understanding when to take a fight, and using util and teamwork to gain map control safely.
Why does the video recommend getting a coach for improvement in Valorant?
-The video recommends getting a coach because it's difficult for new or intermediate players to accurately reflect on their own mistakes and progress. An experienced coach can point out weaknesses and help players focus on improving specific aspects of their gameplay more efficiently.
What are some additional tips provided in the video for improving in Valorant?
-The video provides several smaller tips, including optimizing game settings, refining playstyle, and watching educational videos to supplement practice. It suggests changing certain default settings to gain an advantage and ensuring that players play proactively to control the outcome of games.
What specific settings does the video suggest changing for a better experience?
-The video suggests turning off 'Keep Player Centered' to see more of the map, enabling HRTF (Head-Related Transfer Function) for better sound awareness, and enabling 'Movement Error Graph' to improve accuracy by understanding bullet behavior during movement.
What is the 80/20 rule mentioned in the video, and how does it apply to improving in Valorant?
-The 80/20 rule mentioned in the video suggests that players should spend 80% of their time playing and practicing and 20% watching educational content or analyzing pro gameplay. This balance helps players set clearer goals and improve more effectively.
Outlines
🚀 Efficient Climbing and Coaching Success in Valorant
In this introduction, the speaker shares their journey to achieving the 'Radiant' rank and coaching thousands of students over the last four years. They reflect on the mistakes they made and inefficient practices they followed while improving their skills. The speaker aims to share tips that would help players improve faster and more effectively if they were starting again. They also promote their coaching program, 'The Immortal Road Map Program,' which guarantees improvement for players aiming to climb ranks like Immortal or Radiant.
🎯 Building the Fundamentals: Aim, Movement, and Gun Control
The speaker emphasizes the importance of mastering the fundamentals—aim, movement, gun control, and crosshair placement. These skills, essential for all ranks, should be practiced daily. They outline a practice routine with drills focused on aim improvement, flicking, and micro-adjustments. Tips on gun control, specifically managing recoil for Phantom and Vandal, and working on movement with Sage walls and parkour drills are provided. The speaker also discusses how to combine warming up with practice to avoid performance drops in ranked games.
🧠 Mastering Decision-Making in Valorant
The speaker moves on to the critical topic of decision-making in Valorant. Good decision-making is essential, especially when mechanics alone won’t guarantee wins. They explain how to balance risk and reward during rounds and make smart choices based on the situation. For example, playing it safe when the odds are even or taking calculated risks when in difficult situations like 1v4 clutches. They emphasize the importance of learning to assess choices and the value of having a coach to guide newer players toward smarter play.
🔧 Optimizing Settings for a Competitive Edge
This section focuses on the importance of optimizing in-game settings for better gameplay. The speaker recommends changes such as turning off 'Keep Player Centered' to see more of the map and enabling 'HRTF' for better sound awareness. They also suggest enabling 'Tactical Callouts' in chat to stay updated even if communication is lacking and using the 'Movement Error' graph to enhance shooting accuracy. By adjusting these settings, players can gain advantages in precision and awareness.
⚔️ Proactive Play and Learning from Mistakes
The speaker encourages players to adopt a proactive playstyle to learn and improve faster, even if it means making mistakes along the way. They advise players to try things out for themselves, especially through aggressive play, which can be particularly useful for Duelist agents. Players should focus on a small pool of agents to become more proficient and refine decision-making skills. The section also highlights the '80/20 rule,' which suggests dedicating 20% of time to watching educational content, reviewing gameplay, or studying pros, alongside actual game practice.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Radiant
💡Fundamentals
💡Aim
💡Gun Control
💡Crosshair Placement
💡Decision-making
💡Warm-up
💡Practice
💡Coaching
💡Deathmatch
💡Settings
💡Proactive Play
Highlights
Climbing to Radiant rank involved many mistakes and inefficiencies, but valuable lessons were learned along the way.
Fundamentals such as aim, movement, gun control, and crosshair placement are key to success in Valorant and should be practiced daily.
A good practice routine focuses on consistent improvement of mechanics and building muscle memory for better performance over time.
Flick shots and micro-adjustments are critical in Valorant; mastering them requires isolating both components during practice.
For gun control, players should focus on mastering the first five bullets of the Phantom and Vandal, as the fourth and fifth bullets rise significantly.
Movement and peeking drills, like using a Sage wall for cover, help improve reaction time, accuracy, and first-bullet precision.
Understanding the balance between risk and reward during decision-making is vital, particularly when assessing fights and potential plays.
Good decision-making can compensate for mechanical deficiencies and is crucial when facing equally skilled opponents.
Warming up and practicing are different: practice targets specific skills, while warming up should be quick to avoid draining energy.
Deathmatch is recommended for improving multiple skills simultaneously, including crosshair placement, aim, movement, and gun control.
Decision-making frameworks help simplify choices during the game, ensuring a more confident and clear approach to each round.
Coaching can accelerate improvement by providing outside perspectives and pinpointing areas for specific focus and refinement.
Certain game settings, like turning off 'keep player centered' and enabling HRTF, can give players an advantage by improving map awareness and sound localization.
Playing proactively and aggressively helps players learn from mistakes and grow, especially when using duelists or agents that allow more freedom for experimentation.
The 80/20 rule: Spending 20% of your time on educational content, such as videos or pro gameplay analysis, alongside playing, can boost learning and set clearer goals.
Transcripts
I've climbed to radiant in the first
episode and I've coached thousands of
students in the last 4 years but before
I managed to even climb to radiant I
wasted a lot of time made tons of
mistakes and practiced things extremely
inefficiently hey guys it's keki and
though I can't roll back time I know
that if I could I'd be able to rank up
and improve so much faster than I did
originally that's why I wanted to use
this video to go over the steps that I
would take to learn Bor if I could start
all over again now I know most of you
guys aren't just starting out but even
if you're already a more experienced
player I'm I'm sure this video will help
to improve more efficiently from here on
out and before the video starts if
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description below now back to the video
okay so to start out learning valerant
all over again we need to build our
fundamentals aim movement gun control
and crossair placement are the building
blocks of any Valor player fundamentals
are the kind of skills that everyone
regardless of rank should try to
practice every single day think of how
Kobe would practice making th shots a
day regardless of how good of a player
he was therefore setting a good practice
routine that works on these skills is
extremely important both to get the
basics down as well as setting ourselves
up for the future by having a reliable
routine that we can continue to use over
time so let's dive straight into some
drills you can use to work on different
parts of your mechanics first for your
general aim since valer is so flick
heavy with a large focus on micro
adjustments I like to practice my flicks
with a simple drill in the range there I
make sure to isolate the flick and the
micro adjustment motions so that I
practice both parts properly first we do
a quick flick in the direction of a bot
and then we micro adjust to make sure we
are on Target and shoot a quick tip
about flicks is that you want to be
quick and snappy but not at the expense
of creating too much tension in your
hands try to relax your hand towards the
end of the flick so that your micro
adjustments can be smooth and accurate
and for your micro adjustments try to
use more of your fingertips instead of
your whole arm or wrist when you're
starting out you should clearly isolate
your flick and micro adjustments but
over time as you get better you can
combine these two components and speed
it up then for the next skill gun
control I recommend going to the area of
the range where you can pick the
distance and trying different shooting
Styles at different ranges important to
note here is that the first five bullets
of both the Phantom and Vandal are
pretty easy to control as all you have
to do is pull straight down but one
thing to take note of is that the first
three bullets of both the Vandal and
Phantom barely go up but the fourth and
fifth bullets jump up a lot so you want
to make sure that you end up pulling
down your mouse even faster towards the
fourth and fifth bullet of your spray a
good way to practice this drill is going
from left to right with five shot bursts
at 10 m of range the goal of this
practice is to develop your muscle
memory because the amount that you need
to pull down with your mouse is the same
for every distance that you take
gunfights in so no matter the gun and
distance try to get tight groupings with
your bullets and experiment with the
accuracy of different guns the more
familiar you are with the gun at
different ranges the better you'll be
able to use them in game after that to
practice your move M and peing you can
place a sage wall in front of you and
then peek around the wall to work on
your reactions crossair placement and
movement make sure your first bullet
accuracy is good here and try to
constantly move from left to right if
you're missing a lot of shots try to use
a gun like the sheriff or Guardian to
really force yourself to be accurate you
might be a little slow at first but
you'll be able to speed it up over time
then if you really want to be fluid with
your movement it also helps to run
through the parkour section until you
can complete it successfully with
relative ease some of the jumps will
require you to crouch jump and for a lot
of jumps you'll also need to midair if
you're really struggling it's not the
most important thing to focus on but if
some of the earlier drills are pretty
easy for you it might be worthwhile
spending some time to work on your
movement and to top the fundamentals off
it's a good idea to also play Deathmatch
in order to focus on your cross
replacement aim movement and gun control
all at once here I should mention that
it's crucial to understand the
difference between warming up and
practice practice like in sports should
Target specific areas of your game with
plenty of time dedicated to each drill
warming up on the other hand is a quick
routine me to get you ready for your
games or even before practice keep your
warm up under 20 minutes since anything
longer can start to drain your energy
and hurt your ing game performance many
players prefer to combine warming up and
practice which makes sense since
practicing for hours can get tedious but
remember if you spend 40 minutes to an
hour focus on every drill to warm up it
might cause you to underperform in
ranked games so taking that into
consideration you can try to shorten the
time you spend on each drill keep some
drills and take some out or completely
separate your practice and warm-up times
now that you know what the basic
mechanics are and what the drills we
need to practice them are now it's time
to move on to the next step working on
our decision-making skills that's
because decision making like mechanics
is absolutely crucial in determining
whether you win or lose rounds of course
if you have much better aim than your
opponents you can get away with
decision-making mistakes to an extent
but at some point you're going to face
players that are also strong
mechanically which will force you to
rely on game sense as well now this is
an area that's generally pretty hard to
grasp for newer players there are a lot
of different factors at play and the
there's a lot to think about as a new
player so this is where we need to set
up a basic decision-making framework to
help simplify our decisions in the game
so that we can play more confidently and
have a clearer idea of what we need to
do at any moment to figure out whether a
decision is good or bad you need to
understand the balance between risk and
reward at the start of the round when
both teams have full buys and solid
agent compositions the odds of winning
are pretty even this means you should be
looking for favorable tools for instance
dry swinging into an operator right at
the start is a huge huge mistake the
risk of dying is extremely high and
while the reward is decent it doesn't
outweigh the risk essentially your team
has around a 50% chance of winning the
round by playing it safe but by taking
that risky fight you're drastically
lowering your team's chances instead
it's smart to use your util and work
with your team to take map control
safely and engaging in more favorable
fights on the contrary when you're in a
desperate situation like a 1v4 clutch
the Dynamics change the risk of dying to
an operator is still high but because
you're already expected to lose a round
the risk is less significant if you only
have let's say 10 to 15% chance of
winning the round but taking a fight
with a 20 to 25% chance of winning could
actually improve your odds of winning
the overall round suddenly that fight
doesn't seem so bad of course if you
have a choice between a fight you're
likely to win and one you're not you
should pick the favorable one but just
because a fight looks unfavorable
doesn't mean it's a bad idea for
instance if your team is on an Eco with
sheriffs and you get a 1 V one against
an enemy with a vandal that's a good
fight to take even if your chance of
winning the duel might only be 25% it
can still increase your team's chances
of winning the round your team's chances
of winning the round without the kill
might only be 20% anyways so you don't
have much to lose but if you win that
duel and better yet you take a 2V1 fight
and win that duel and pick up the gun
your chances of winning the round could
double to 40% because now you have a man
advantage and a better weapon
understanding this concept early on is
crucial because it's key to grasping the
game at a higher level and learning more
effectively if you lose a 50/50 or even
a 4060 duel while you're trying to win a
one before clutch the lesson shouldn't
be that you took a bad fight and you
lost a round because of it the decision
to take that fight was good because it
increased your odds of winning the
overall round when you were already
expected to lose a round similarly
pushing into the enemy spawn and picking
up some Eco frags doesn't mean you
should take away that that was a good
play sure you technically took favorable
fights and you got a lot of kills but it
was actually a pretty dumb idea and you
took an unnecessary risk B is a
complicated game to learn since you can
get rewarded for bad plays and you can
get punished for good ones if you're
either above or below average when it
comes to mechanics and game sense it
becomes especially hard to reflect on
whether or not the decisions you made
were Justified which is why it's so
important to have a decision-making
framework in which you can evaluate your
choices however there's another thing
that's really important here since it's
really difficult to accurately reflect
on whether or not your choices are good
or bad especially as someone who doesn't
already have a lot of experience playing
the game at a high level it's extremely
valuable to have a properly trained and
experienced coach by your side once you
have the basics down and you no longer
need to worry about what each agent does
how you should use each weapon or where
enemies might be on specific Maps it's
all about honing in on your weaknesses
and working on specific things one by
one while keeping the fundamentals in
mind in the background simply said this
is something that's incredibly difficult
to do without having some sort of
outside support since you don't know how
to play like a pro or radiant as a new
to intermediate player by definition
it's impossible for you to know the
intricate difference between how you
play and how a more experience players
play in other words how can you teach
yourself to play like a pro if you
yourself don't already know how to play
like a pro now I think it's important to
mention that not just any player that's
a higher rank than yourself fits the
description of a good coach even many
Immortal players have plenty of bad
habits that they might teach you to make
as well and even if someone's a good
player that doesn't automatically make
them a good coach so we do Rec recomend
getting a coach that you know you can
trust like for example one at IRP but
even if you go with a different coach
having someone to point you in the right
direction is usually better than trying
to take a wild guess at what the right
direction is by yourself those three
points cover the big picture strategies
and if you focus on them I'm confident
you'll see a lot of success however
there are a few smaller tips I want to
touch on that are equally important and
can give you an extra Edge these include
optimizing your settings refining your
play style and even tips on watching
videos like this one to improve your
gameplay let's dive into the first tip
settings a lot of settings come down to
personal preference like whether you
prefer bodies or Holograms what color
you want your player outlines to be or
if you want to play left-handed or
right-handed but there are also some
settings that you should consider
changing by default as they do give you
a real Advantage for example turning off
keep play centered allows you to see
more of the map which is crucial
especially if your teammates aren't VCT
level communicators another important
setting is enabling hrtf under audio
settings this enhances your ability to
pinpoint enemy locations and if you're
using a stereo headset or
earbuds additionally toggling on
tactical call outs in chat ensures that
even if your team's communication isn't
top tier and you're not constantly
watching the map you'll still have
access to important call outs as they
automatically appear in the chat helping
you keep track of the round's progress
lastly a great setting tip to help you
with your shooting accuracy is enabling
the movement error graph setting this
tool shows you when your bullets are
accurate while strafing in gunfights
allowing you to better learn and control
your movement during gunfights now that
we've gone over settings let's go over
another really important tip which is
trying to play proactively to control
your games and have a larger impact on
the outcome of each round if you're
sitting back behind your teammates all
the time you won't have enough time to
try stuff for yourself and learn from
your mistakes of course playing
aggressively is difficult and you're
definitely going to lose your team
rounds by trying something failing and
dying because of it but that's how you
learn a mistake that's bigger than the
one that cost you the round is making
the decision to never try things at all
so if you want to improve you want to be
proactive always trying something out
making mistakes and learning from them
also in part because of that reason I
really recommend playing dualist if
you're just starting out they're ideal
for the aggressive play style and with
them you have more room for mistakes and
you also have more abilities to help you
succeed even if your teammates don't
know how or don't want to necessarily
help you then regardless of whether you
decide to play duel list or not it's
always a good idea to stick to a small
agent pool so that you can build up
experience with your kit and eventually
shift your focus away from ability usage
and on to more pressing things like
decision- making and as a final tip try
to take into account the 8020 rule of
course you can't spend all day playing
games but even if you could it's not the
most effective way to learn if you have
some downtime need a quick break or just
want to watch a video it's a good idea
to mix that in with your practice and
play time mindly grinding the game all
day every day isn't always going to be
most fruitful so taking about 20% of
your total time spent on valerant and
using that to watch educational content
or even analyzing Pro gameplay is a
great way to mix things up and giving
yourself clearer goals to work towards
and that's all you need to know for this
video thanks for watching
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