Hey guys!

Just wanted to make a post of tips and learnings I've gained from placing iron 2 in beta and climbing to immortal 3 by act 3.

Valorant can be stressful and sweaty sometimes but if you learn to detach yourself just a tad from the game, you'll save yourself a few popped blood vessels. BREATHE!

I never used aim labs or any aim trainer really. The practice range is pretty underrated -- my biggest advice is to use the eliminate 50 bots (with strafe and armor on) to practice both your spray and flicks. Keep trying to beat your prior time. The other drill that really helped is using hard bots (no armor) and flicking with either ghost or sheriff.. this will really warm up your aim and brain before jumping in a match (especially for pistol round).

Don't blame your teammates for every little thing that goes wrong, understand that you literally can control most of the interactions you have during a given round. When you die, figure out what you could've done better, and sometimes it's just as simple as you losing an aim duel so don't freak out too much.

Proper utility usage is SO important. Pick a few agents to practice and be good with. For me, that was sova, kj/cypher, omen, and viper on occasion ;). It's okay to sweat a little and practice lineups in customs, because more times than not I've won games because of that practice.

Mix up your playstyle to see what works for you. Try playing fast, and going for unexpected angles and trades AND also try playing for picks, defaulting, and trying to get map info. Judge the pace of the game and keep the enemy team on their toes. Both playstyles are important and should be used depending on your team's goals in a given round, but get comfortable doing either!

You're likely at the rank you deserve to be at. Don't be scared of losing it and shift your mindset to just play to improve.

Lastly, be confident and don't give up. This is still something I am working on, but even if you're at the bottom of the leaderboard or if your team is getting 10-0'd, breathe. You got this g, don't get inside your own head. Just mix up your playstyle if it hasn't been working and start clicking heads :)

TLDR:

I'm boosted (jkjk)

Keep climbing fam, if I can do it you can too I promise. Come through on twitch for some live action high quality top notch gamer moments @ ttv hotdadnokids :)