Today, i reached diamond, my dream rank. For most of you this is not something to brag about im sure but for someone like me it was a big thing and i know that someone out there may be in same situation as me so i felt like i needed to share my journey. For starter i need to say; im playing with my 60hz monitor laptop, cheapest equipments and that was my first competitive shooter game so there is no way someone is lower than me and anyone can do it. I mean anyone really.

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I forgot to add; i only played soloq.

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Since my english is not great enough i want to keep it short as possible.

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For iron,bronzes ; I deranked to iron in last summer, that was my beta account and i didnt want to change my account because of that but iron was nearly impossible for someone who cant kill 30-40 enemies in a game so i just opened new account. If you was silver and deranked to iron, if u didnt bought any skins just open a new account. You need to learn the game in silver because no one is playing game seriously on iron. Just open new account that was my solution.

For these ranks; best way to rank up is playing the game. Not lowering your sens, not counter-strafe, not anything. Play the game. Play it and improve your game sens, game sens was the thing that got me diamond. If you have toxic teammates just mute everyone and focus, think about what can enemy do, think about if youre the enemy what will you do but think fast. Play it until this will become your reflex and you will be silver.

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For silvers; this is where the thing starts, especially in silver 3. Still you dont need to change your sens if you dont want to but here is what you need to learn;

What got me to the gold was the holding angles. Watch some videos, i dont know how to explain but your crosshair should be a little bit far from the angle youre holding, not in the wall. Watch some videos about holding angle and you will see it probably my english is not good enough for to explain this. Watch some videos about how to rank up etc. and you will see it.

To be honest. That was the only thing got me to the gold. When i see some enemy, i just clicked and they died. Really that was the only thing. If its not good enough for you and youre silver, just read the gold part too.

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For golds; to be honest i still feel like gold and i have a gold aim. As i said what got me to the diamond was my game sens not my aim. Well, i dont know i played some cs with my friend who was eagle and i dominated a little so maybe i improved my aim i dont know.

I was gold for 5-6 months probably. This is the stepping stone for ranking up.

1- Learn counter-strafe.

2-Lower your sense(yes i think this is a must). Find your ideal game sens by watching the TenZ's video about finding your aim. Guys if youre still reading at this point here is how i got used to lower sens; i was playing with some 2008 mouse and i didnt know my dpi but probably most of you have some mouse with adjustable dpi so here is how i got used to; i lowered my dpi to 400. I used it with every game, on google etc. and at some point i just got used to it.

3- You dont need to play duelist. Learn every character.

4- Learn how to smoke, actually this was one of the biggest impacts on my rank just watch some videos about it.

5- Train your aim! This is the one sole thing actually, do aimlabs, dms, practice..

6- In practice room, there is not just shooting range, actually this might not help everyone but for me it worked. Do the parkour and all the other things in hardest mod of course they just helped me on going to plat. It might have the biggest impact probably cause after i did these for couple weeks i was plat. Im not sure tho.

7- Give good infos, learn every places names this is vital.

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For plats; dude i dont know really. Most plats are better than me %100 so i dont know how to give you guys some tips but here is how i got to diamond.

I played this game obsessively. I played 10-12 hours a day and while i wasnt playing i was watching tournemants, streamers, youtube videos.

Keep your energy high, it effects your game. Have a good mental, if you had toxic teammates, trolls in your game just say next game.(even i couldnt do that and i was gold 2 couple weeks ago cause i trolled)

Learn your role, if youre sentinel dont go first if there is no breach's flashing for u. And some extreme situations obv.

If you cant get kills, dont play duelist.(some of you might disagree)

Im sentinel main so last thing i can say is learn lineups, where to put your traps, wall etc.

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Sheesh that was long. These things got me diamond. Hope everyone can make it. But i need to say this. I was obsessed. I played the game 10-12 hours a day, every day is valorant for me from waking up to sleeping. Dont be like that. I wasted so many things. I will continue to study from now on and when my finals are finished. I will climb to Immortal and probably wont stop until radiant. Dont know how much it will take. See ya.