Aim Coach Releases STYKO Aim Report & Program

STYKO is a professional CS player for APEKS, a top 20 CS2 team.
Last time we reviewed Matty's work with EliGE. This time we check out what @MINIGOD1337 did with @STYKO to help him with his aim.
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[@STYKO]

Great video Daniel, really appreciate it you're going in-depth on this report. Cheers! 😊

[@ddkesports]

Haha of course :D

[@rowancclark417]

Been seeing some of your scores on the top of a lot of weekly scoreboards keep it up!

[@TeagFPS]

Hey Daniel! As a CS player who has gotten into aim training recently myself, I REALLY appreciate you not only going over these reports but also describing some of the themes and ideas in them in a really succinct and accurate way! I thought I was an okay player before (faceit level 10, esea rank a, yada yada) but my aim was absolutely lacking, and YOUR videos actually have helped me identify the aspects of my aim that I've been weak in better than the videos made from aim coaches. Please keep it up, you are doing a great job :)

[@oblakovTV]

Very helpful, thank you 🙏 Really appreciate the way you explained it - as if it’s for a child basically, that’s a sign of a much deeper level of understanding this thing!

[@bixcs2]

I was lucky enough to get a coaching session with mini and couldn't speak highly enough of his ability to identify weaknesses, explain both the whys and the hows for training them out of your mechanics.

[@giveomenbuff]

hey man i love your vidoes they are super informative, I just joined Voltaic's server it really help me get started on my aim training journey so I just want to say thank you!

[@michaelschwarz5907]

i had to put in a lot of hours to actually start to understand what i was bad at and how to work on it. someone like mini will see this much quicker than an average player and make good decisions in picking a suitable scenario to remedy it. the time saved alone would make such a coach worthwhile. many people i tried to motivate towards starting aim training start with the wrong scenrsrios and with completely wrong expectations of the results. i had so many hours in CS in which i build up so many bad habits, which were very hard to spot or focus on during a game, that it took many hours to try to iron them out. a coach will certainly help a lot.

[@DinglesFPS]

amazing content!! ❤

[@jaguar5281]

Simply amazing

[@Spurrrg]

Just woke up to this.

[@jag2871]

Great analysis as always ❤ Can you provide the link to the document?

[@morepewpewlessqq]

How does this only have 3.5k views

[@ddkesports]

I dunno 🙈

[@freyalanf]

I love how your headphones look! What are they called? 😸

[@ddkesports]

Sennheiser HD598

[@freyalanf]

@@ddkesports thank you!! Love the colours on them

[@andresgriborio6348]

How do I get one of this aim coaches, and what is the relative amount we are talking about.

[@felicosantosa8400]

Great vid but one thing i can't wrap my head around is how do i switch between predictive and reactive aim in game.

[@ddkesports]

For me, using aim trainers is helpful here because when you play the reactive scenarios, you can most easily isolate that feeling of aiming reactively. You can then more easily integrate that skill into your gameplay. When you're predictive, that's fine for the first shot, like with any dynamic clicking task, so you can land in front of the target, but you want to switch to that reactive feeling afterwards if you're shooting a moving target. This is a similar idea as with arm tension with flicking. To get really fast and snappy you need to increase tension. To get smooth or control after a landing you need to have a reduced tension. The training is helpful to both identify these feelings and then to fine tune them so you have the right amount of tension in the right parts of the movement. With predictive to reactive, it's a similar idea. For some people, switching into that reactive mode is a little easier than for others. My sense is that, as you start out with a predictive movement, it isn't intuitive for everyone that we then need to switch into reactivity to deal with random opponent movement. So I'd recommend trying to increase your skill at reactive flicking (dynamic clicking) and reactive tracking (evasive tracking) and seeing how it feels!

[@felicosantosa8400]

@@ddkesports wow thanks for the info, really appreciate you reading and replying to comments

[@sharpiefps7630]

In my opinion, for that you unfortunately just need to improve your raw mechanical skill. Because when your brain and nerves and hands and eyes are trained enough in these tasks to the point of your conscious observation not being distracted or preoccupied on all the "what if's" and it's easier to get in the zone with clear mind. But if you want to define those, predictive aim would be just playing around common situations that take place on certain maps and bomb sites. Probably the more relaxed playstyle of the two. You rely more on map knowledge and are trying to figure out how your opponents play and where they go. Example being (I'm a Siege player), you throw a grenade in a room, and the opponent has no chose but to leave said room, and runs out. You know he'll be sprinting. You know what is the speed of a sprinting player on your screen (because you've played the game enough), add the distance and the size of the player model to that and you will have an idea of the trajectory that will take place to try to headshot that opponent. Reactive is when you are lacking information about the opponents and you are in a situation where you have to bank on your ability to react in time when they appear on your screen. I.e. your "clutch situations". It's your raw skill, that's why in the report they stated they worked on just pure raw reaction in a tracking task with a bot that often and suddenly changes directions. Hope I got it right. :D

[@felicosantosa8400]

@@sharpiefps7630 your point about aimong conscious observation is valid tho i think i sort of am overthinking things that i shouldn't think about

[@sharpiefps7630]

@@felicosantosa8400 yea man that's what I'm referring to. There is this fancy term, "conditioned response", in the military training. When a task is trained enough times it's in your bones and you don't even have to think anymore going in. Whatever comes your way, you will be prepared. That's why we are grinding the aimtrainers. :D

[@thecousindeci1103]

I have a question about your grip in static, I use a glass pad and to get stopping power I use my pinky finger to drag along the pad. Do you do the same? I don't know whether its a bad habit or not.

[@Alex_zer0_Shoveller]

your ability to stop should be in the wrist/arm itself, if the surface makes this hard it’s probably too slippery! light mouse+ medium/heavy grip mousepad i found to be the best combo and have had better results, this is my experience at rocketjumpninjas verdict but do what feels comfortable for you! tension and discomfort should be avoided at all costs as well as too much friction

[@Alex_zer0_Shoveller]

zowie gtf-x is one one down from hardpad, bettr ergonomics too i’d recommend that if you need the glide

[@thecousindeci1103]

@@Alex_zer0_Shoveller I understand control pads can be much better for static but I've seen many good players who use the same pad and skates as me and they can do static like gods. I don't think the pad is the problem at all. I've only had it for one month so I guess it's something I have to get used to.

[@Alex_zer0_Shoveller]

@@thecousindeci1103 i mean each to their own, if it works it works but a month you should already be sorta used to it, if you’ve only been aim practicing for a month all up then maybe but if you’ve changed to it from other pads and notice a decrease in performance even after a month then thats an easy verdict, i’m sure with enough time anything can work and it depends on what you are trying to achieve but static flicks will suffer on a glass pad objectively and there’s a lot of people who have tested that already

[@thecousindeci1103]

@@Alex_zer0_Shoveller yeah static has always been my weak point even on slower cloth pads I've used, but I've improved alot with every other subcategory in one month diamond to master. But my static seems to be stuck at diamond, obviously I'm aware glass pads are worse for static but it's weird I'm not improving in that one area.

[@DeathEzer]

try soulcas also.

[@ddkesports]

Oh nice, will do. I'll make the next one shorter too. I really allowed myself to go on some tangents here.

[@DeathEzer]

@@ddkesports haha, Goodluck really loving your content.

[@ddkesports]

@@DeathEzer thank you!

[@DeathEzer]

@@ddkesports welcome

[@ddkesports]

I recorded it and it's longer than this one and I have no idea how 😁

[@Rwilkinson85]

Dan, what are you maining these days?

[@ddkesports]

Game wise or mouse wise?

[@sharpiefps7630]

I'm personally struggling to find these reports useful for an average non-proplayer aim trainer enthusiast. Because the common themes and keywords in these are the simplified one's: "underdeveloped" (44:36), "improving", "getting a better idea", "building confidence" (46:00). Essentially just comes down to the colloquial "getting gud". All the aiming skills that we should work on. Predicting and reacting, wideflicking and microflicking, tracking and smoothness. It's not nuanced that even the best players have uncovered unpatched areas of mechanical skills, and of course they will improve faster if they hire top aimers to find those blindspots. What would be of actual help is pro's making these reports themselves in collaboration with the aimers coaching them. What is their daily routine, diet, overall fatigue and stress levels, how healthy their bodies are, how do they manage stress during both CS matches and aim training sessions, how much they play either of those per day. Posting more situational game clips too. The only insight brought forward is when Daniel himself comments on practical microsituations that take place during matches and what to do about them because he has been around in videogames. :)

[@MINIGOD1337]

"Because the common themes and keywords in these are the simplified one's: "underdeveloped" (44:36), "improving", "getting a better idea", "building confidence" (46:00). Essentially just comes down to the colloquial "getting gud" . Just to clarify this part we do go over these things during sessions in more depth with the player while following certain plan that we came up with. When it comes to Styko hes currently working on a little video kinda talking much more in-depth about things we did behind these keywords, as in what we did to build confidence, how we got a better idea about X problem, what we did to improve & how we developed certain parts of our aim. It would be really hard to describe all of these keywords in-depth in these types of documents considering that the entire program lasts 8 weeks thats why we mainly just highlight and briefly talk about some main concepts that we were working around. I believe what you are looking for will be covered in that video styko is working on which should bring a way better idea of what happend behind these words.

[@sharpiefps7630]

@@MINIGOD1337 Thank you, king. I'm looking forward to it. All in due time of course. Appreciate your effort. 🤛