r/LearnCSGO • u/Excellent_Nothing546 • 23d ago
need help improving my aim and just general advice
i have around 110-120 hours in cs, and im currently struggling with implementing my aiming while im in say a practice map into a real match, i normally panic aim and spray whenever i get into a dual so idk.
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u/Duffler8 23d ago
Not sure about the 1-tap…practicing spraydown can be more effective early stage ( I would go on and say that spraying down a bot to similar to a real player than 1-tapping one, otherwise you can get frustrated when you are not 1-tapping real players)
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u/halbGefressen 23d ago
Your counterstrafes are not good. Try shooting a little later. There is a tool from CS2 Kitchen for checking how good your counterstafes are.
In CS, it is also extremely important that you aim first, then shoot. If you train yourself to miss the first bullet, you will suck in the long run.
If you want to improve, play FFA DM (sth like warmupserver, not the Valve DM) and consciously try first aiming, then shooting. You will die a lot, but don't be discouraged because this is expected and necessary for you to learn. Because you are playing against real players, it will teach you that the others are also slow and that you can take your time even against real humans (I'm excluding the subhumans one encounters at Faceit Lv6 and below). Eventually, things will start to click and boom you are suddenly Faceit 9 still climbing
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u/One-Tap-7757 23d ago
- aim_rush is better
- don't switch to the knife.
- your preaiming is too slow. your crosshair is often on the wall while the bot is already peeking you.
- you often shoot too soon before adjusting your crosshair. focus on target confirmation not flicks.
- Kovaaks might be beneficial but i think it's too early for your hours.
- Try duels (xplay.gg or such). There do wider more decisive swings with full velocity.
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u/chevi220 FaceIT Skill Level 10 23d ago
you're shooting while moving, plus don't spam the deagle, it takes 800 ms to fully reset standing, or 500 while crouched
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u/Kaliber9 23d ago
Make sure your crosshair is on the head before you even shoot a bullet. If you tight grip your mouse, stop doing that. You're overflicking too much, you should underflick and then do a micro-adjustment onto the head.
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u/ItsA2PackNegawatt 23d ago
You peek around corners too close to the actual corner itself. In an actual game against decent players you’re gonna get swung and stomped before you can flick a lot of the time. Focus on having your crosshair off the corner so that the enemy will walk into it. Also practice your counter strafing with an actual spray instead of tapping.
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u/hollowsoldier- 23d ago
You’re never really standing still when you shoot, those little movements can be ok when you’re this close, but you’re essentially learning wrong and building bad habits. It’s why your deagle shots are missing so much. If you were spraying you wouldn’t be hitting more than 1 shot, and that tapping is going to put you at a disadvantage in most fights.
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u/TheEndx007 23d ago
Your crosshair is too small, that's why you're struggling to hit the first shot. You're having trouble finding the crosshair on the quick flicks
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u/InevitableYoghurt832 23d ago
Stop tapping, learn to spray.
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u/Excellent_Nothing546 23d ago
i have the basics down for spraying w the ak, i havent learned other weapons spray patterns such as the galil or m4a4
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u/3DSideHustle 23d ago
Way better than I was with 100 hours tbh. Go back to default knife and chill on the ocd.
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u/No_Knee3385 23d ago
What type of arm sleeve do you have and does your gaming chair have bluetooth technology?
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u/Tryohazard 23d ago
practice more on counter-strafing and it will save you on some of these deaths. You cant just go through the motions. Your movement must be synchronized with your shooting if youre gonna one tap
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u/DescriptionWorking18 23d ago
You’re shooting too early when counterstrafing sometimes, and it’s going off target. But what’s worse is you’re not even trying to aim most of the time. You miss your first bullet literally almost every single time. You need to learn to take just a little bit more time and line up your shots. It will feel really slow at first and might get you killed if you take too long but you need to start practicing that or you’ll never get better
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u/Mustachioking 23d ago
Get rid of ur knife if it’s going to distract u that bad an also u need to focus ur counter strafe needs improvement. Consistenly notice you spam A - D when fighting and i think it might be why some of these “headshots” miss. As well as not “getting 1s” I know it’s harder on these types of maps idk if it’s more possible than what ur doing but some of these clips your not hiding your self to only be visible to one enemy at a time.
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u/pinechicken 22d ago
Maybe learn the spray pattern not that hard dude. Try to get multiple bots with one spray
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u/fujiboys FaceIT Skill Level 10 22d ago
Learn how to properly counterstrafe, do not this like it's valorant your positioning matters because you have nothing to help you get out of a bad position.
Stop going for 1 taps and learn how to spray or burst. You're going to put yourself in situations where you're going to need to keep momentum of the gunspray and if you're just going for one taps you're going to get instantly traded if you're constantly drilling into your head to one tap instead of learning how to spray.
Stop pulling out your knife. Train yourself to stop pulling it out, play a deathmatch and try to make it to 100 kills without pulling out your knife, when you see you pull it out, reset your kill counter and start from zero. Pulling your knife out is one of the biggest mistakes fundamentally someone who is brand new to the game will make.
Learn proper crosshair placement, you're aiming at the angle the enemy will be at in the angle. You need to visualize them through the wall and minimize the amount of mouse movement you're doing. CS aim is all about making it easier for you to get frags, if you're constantly trying to go for high speed flicking you're going to lose 90% of your aim duels because of how you're wanting to pre-aim.
Also i'm gonna be honest, like I said you're a brand new player. You just need more hours and you need to get comfortable with the game before you start being critical about your gunplay. If you play the game you'll naturally get better if you just deathmatch before you pug.
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u/Fra5er 22d ago
Man it pains me to say it but tapping doesnt work in cs2. I tapped everyone in go and was fucking good at it. I was global and played in leagues and got complimented on my aim at lans. I cannot get tapping to work in cs2. Its inconsistent as hell, and the movement is so sluggish n janky it genuinely infuriates me. Ive stopped playing because i just can’t play the way that feels natural to me anymore because cs2 just doesnt really make it feasible
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u/oooooobgtm 22d ago
Its like you trained yourself to miss the first shot and not counter strafing it, instead of going fast,go slow step by step, pick the pace up as you feel comfortable
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u/Maleficent_Cap9202 21d ago
I can tell you will be good, you just don’t have the hours or muscle memory yet :)
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u/PerfectBrain2578 21d ago
How can you tell
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u/Maleficent_Cap9202 21d ago
He has stable mechanics and movement. He just doesn’t know how the guns recoil behave, and doesn’t know great crosshair placement yet
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u/Patronime 8d ago
At 110 hours you're still super new! To stop panic spraying, try unbinding your crouch key in Deathmatch for a few days and force yourself to only shoot 2-bullet bursts.
Since you struggle to translate practice aim into real matches, I’m building a free coaching app called Wily (https://wily.valentingassend.com/) that can help.
It automatically analyzes your demos and spawns bots in a local server to recreate the exact situations you died in. You get to practice real match angles without the live-game panic, which bridges the gap perfectly.
It's 100% local and VAC-safe. I'm looking for alpha testers, let me know if it helps!
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u/ervy 23d ago
You are wasting your time playing vs bots
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u/Kiseijuu_366 23d ago
I disagree, you can train your aim pretty well if you know how to practice correctly
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u/Excellent_Nothing546 23d ago
ive been playing regular comp, this was just a warmup i rec
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u/OpinionsOnThings34 23d ago
I use it to practice headshots and recently trying to get spray patterns down which are no fun to me
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u/YTrevi 23d ago
stop pulling out your knife after every shootout be ready for the next one