How to Get Better at World of Tanks!

[@MaxGamingFPS]

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[@Rico_6727]

not sure if it is just me but I cannot get to your website

[@bushweednever]

Quickybaby is an honorable mention, the first one I have ever watched.

[@AJGladys]

Controversial take: the first 10k games don't matter. Theres so many tech trees now you'll be grinding stock tanks for at least 10k games, training crews, figuring out your playstyles and what tanks you like. Don't worry about your WN8/Win rate until you're playing high tiers maxed out.

[@jojojo9240]

you should just not care about WN8. It can be interesting info and make you reflect your skill. You know "limit testing"? It is trying something that might be dumb just for the experience. It helps improving your skill but hurts your win rate.

[@MrPete0282]

I doubt he was a tomato : ) but anyway, it's the mid tiers that u can research n fully upgrade very fast even with standard account and also get to learn maps n watch ur teamates n hopefully learn from them (nowadays much more difficult with so many tourists). Instead nobody plays lower-mid tiers n go straight for t10, that's the main reason for so many bad players in high tiers... easily apparent with reward tank players (ts-54, Patton the Tank...). If u have a tourist/content explorer mentality u won't play well at all , especially in high tiers.

[@zodiak1746]

Hey MaxGaming! I started playing WoT 2 years ago, I played for 2 months only, I could not get better so I gave up. A couple days ago I found your channel and using your tips from the Maps Guide series I can see I got better. You really deserve more subs. I just want to say thank you

[@midcore7157]

Haven't played this game in over 3 years. There are so many new things so i appreciate all your videos on this subject! Keep up the great work!

[@subaquaticsleepwalker7240]

This is really appreciated. I played around twelve matches today and had two wins and the same number survived. I was feeling a little discouraged. It is more fun when I’m winning or setting and smashing personal goals, grinding up to that next tank. My win rate sucks I’ve only been playing for two months I’m at tier six looking forward to higher tier tanks. Glad to be above tier five now. GG keep your barrel clean.

[@neven8004]

Wot without premium is like dark souls.

[@durachoks]

Something imo important not mentioned in video, dont "just play", you have to tryhard, pick a tank and play your best possible game. Ofc you dont have to do it all the time, because its tiring and you will burn out, but you need to have those session where you are going for maximum result. Good way is to pick a tank or tanks and try to mark it, if you cant get 3 marks go for 2 marks. Got tired, take a break and mess around in some other tanks.

[@duke223_]

Very good and informative video! Very honest approach towards stuff like premium time and premium rounds and consumables many people can and should learn from. Those obviously wont boost your stats by themselves but they are a great foundation to start off of in order to step up ones game while improving ones own gameplay by gaining experience through playing and watching others.

[@tohkia8840]

dont forget to blocklist people who are arty mains 😂😂

[@georgekn3mp]

I used to be an Arty main...then I got a computer better than a potato! Don't hate me though, I still love Object 261. @@tohkia8840

[@GMMP1996]

That "Play the game!" Section had a very good motivational speech on it. "You have to fail to become good at something".

[@MPD1337]

Started playing again after 5 years and found these tips very helpful, thanks.

[@TF-ou7js]

The combination between your YT vids and your livestreams is the perfect mix for me to relax. Thanks for the work

[@nostalgicleopard4036]

Great video! I have 3k games and I'm trying to push my winrate to 50% (currently at 49.71, down from 49.75%). The best way I've found to do this is watch someone who helps you improve, in my case skill and max, always evaluate your mistakes, always try and learn from those mistakes, and make sure I'm only playing when I want to and when I enjoy myself. Another thing, I GUARANTEE you will not improve if you are mad at yourself or are getting worked up over a bad session. Also, when checking your play to see if it was you or your team mates who made the mistakes that ended in your death, do not always blame the team. The best players will look at what their team mates are doing and then make their play instead of rushing a powerful position with no support. (1 more thing, like Max said, please use at least some gold. It is there and it is an advantage. Please use it.)

[@barrysworld640]

Greetings from Canada, Max! (plz ignore if appears twice as first comment disappeared) I've been a subscriber for some time now and just want to tell you have much I enjoy and appreciate your WOT video content. You and Skill are my two favorite WOT content providers, as both of you go above and beyond creating just new tank reviews or showing exceptional games. Whether you are creating videos to help us "muppets" improve our gameplay or our understanding of the game, the videos are always very informative and I enjoy your commentary style. Also appreciate the fact that you don't just cherry pick and show your best games, but also bad games where mistakes were made. Gives the rest of us "hope"! Keep up the great work, Max!

[@PuddingCh]

Wait, so you're telling me that spamming only premium ammo and yoloing into the enemy tanks OR camping at the bank and ignoring the minimap is NOT the way to go about it? Shocking On a serious note, good guide!

[@BraaapoholicBob]

Max, once again, a really helpful video from you. I definitely can take Mark most of those items as things I am trying to do. I definitely focus on damages matter of fact my goal every single game is to at least do my hit points. The positioning is the big tough part for me, but I’m slowly but surely getting better at that. Super video you’re so helpful to the WOT community. Thank you so much.

[@zGJungle]

Can't recommend HP boost more, the amount of games that I have won only because of this item is crazy, my tracks repair super fast, if I even get tracked because the track health is boosted, ended so many games where I'm only alive because of the extra HP. Also a big fan of Daki, his brain is on another level for this game. When he is a Field Commander and is making decisions on where to send tanks, mid game, describing in detail little hull downs to his team mates to go to, while playing him self, watching enemy rotations etc etc, mind blowing.

[@redlemonade6366]

A really good advice that i got from a really good player was to stick with 1 tank class for example heavy tanks , or with tanks that have similar gameplay. So dont play mouse into EBR into arty into Obj 140 etc. Since it will take you waaay longer to improve at the game playing all the different styles at the same time.

[@durachoks]

yes, this is very true, also starting with tanks with armor will speed up things, you learn more by brawling in an E5 for example than by sniping in a Leo

[@csh5414]

@@durachoks The only thing you learn brawling in an E5 is brawling. This is why so many Heavy tank players are below average. Pretty dumb advice.

[@shadowzone2588]

i don't really care about WN8 as i have fun anyway

[@paulrigby7135]

Then you truly are winning at WoT.

[@K_LeShaeya]

You heard it from here peeps, Daki is a God

[@georgekn3mp]

we knew that already 🤣 but what would you call DezGamez

[@nates205]

Blasphemy. Might be a joke but don't.

[@bogdanmihai7106]

Love Dez. He is entertaining and nice. Daki is a god in WOT ​@@georgekn3mp

[@gabrielegoria1443]

Very good content. Since I don't play to win but to have fun, I usually keep track of my games with the stats counter in the main menu. I reset it every 1k battles just to see my average damage and WTR, so I'm totally agree with your DPG point of view.

[@WhoIsLOK]

I have a little under 6K battles but I seem to be unable to get back to my peak. For a bit my recent WN8 was a little over 3k but now I can’t seem to get back to it. Thanks for posting the guide maybe it will help me get over my plateau.

[@redlemonade6366]

A really good advice that i got from a really good player was to stick with 1 tank class for example heavy tanks , or with tanks that have similar gameplay. So dont play mouse into EBR into arty into Obj 140 etc. Since it will take you waaay longer to improve at the game playing all the different styles at the same time.

[@nostalgicleopard4036]

I'm having that issue right now. I think its because I'm moving away from tier 6 where farming new players is easier and into tier 8-10 where I am the inexperienced player getting farmed. I just stopped looking at stats, and play a couple lower tier games every now and then to refresh my brain

[@WhoIsLOK]

@@redlemonade6366 Honestly makes a lot of sense, thanks!

[@KevinLi-u4c]

Idk if he mentions later on in the video but if you wanna get premium account just wait for christmas lootboxes spend like ~$100 USD on them and then you're set for the year basically unless if they plan on nerfing their value or already did or something

[@Moshhe19]

"Do not focus on winrate, focus on damage instead." This, is in my opinion the most valuable point here. I will freely admit that I find this very, very difficult to do. Me getting tilted is not making me play better in the slightest. Thank you for this video, I learned a few things that I'm going to try and put into practice. Let's see if I can raise my average wn8 and damage per game.

[@georgekn3mp]

yeah I tend to get too aggressive and usually get slammed for it moving too far ahead of the team. Especially in weaker tanks you get punished quick.

[@makiskijken4092]

Just to say: DarkNinja has a very good series on how to play like a wot pro

[@lakesong7566]

for those that is just stuck in a rut, i have decent amount of tank knowledge, game knowledge, and map awareness but cannot seem to get good, what I changed was to always fire premium shells for my first 2 hits to ensure that those initial encounters deal damage and may change the flow of an early push. that will also secure at least 2 damage into the MoE. but most importantly, it changed my mentality to being cheap on gold ammo. within 2 months, i broke WTR from 4800 to 5400+, fixed my winrate from 48.20 to 50%

[@stoyantsonev8641]

Nice content bro keep up the good work ✌🏻

[@ButchE30M3S14]

Btw Max, Daki is a friend of mine. 2 weeks ago he played 1 game on my PC and did 6000 dmg in a 60tp on a setup he doesn’t even use. I was watching over his shoulder and still could not grasp how he does it… STANDING NEXT TO HIM! It’s utter insanity lol.

[@Eshelion]

Very nice video. I'm mostly f2p, but I'm not annoyed by anyone saying premium account is worth buying - it's simply personal preference, what they want to spend money on, especially after taking into consideration hours of play daily. Is it worth for someone playing 3h/day? Most likely. For someone playing 3 games a day? I doubt it (cases of extreme joy or disgust made by game aside). Certainly it helps maintaning proper economy. For me huge help was watching experienced and good people, even if I don't always focused on memorizing all positions taken by them, I've discovered plenty new places to take or consider when playing from opposite side as well as some techniques for some tanks (like "this tank works better overly side scrapped" or "this has some weak pixels there so you need to angle a bit different").

[@helohel5915]

Also tank choice is pretty important. Some tanks, like the hwk30, just lose games since you cant really fight against elc 90s on even ground

[@vXCozmoz]

First off, thanks for the upload and your honest thoughts. Don't get me wrong much of you said is common sense. Meaning good info. With that said: How to get better is by far more the just "play max tier, get best equipment, spam full gold, gg". I was honestly hoping for more in depth info. Like show examples ingame, locations, good spots and where to be if your team is losing etc. Things like that. Because of the endless 5-15 /15-5 simulator as skill4itu put it, it won't matter if you're super unicum if your team is bad. Being rushed by 4-6 tanks, you will die. How to counter that? You get my point. Also, many likes to play tier 6-8 tanks as well for different reasons. Minimap awareness is very important!

[@Pittsburgh-412]

Very well said sir!! I've been playing wot for about 10 years now and I'm still not good 😂. But I always learn and continue to do my best. One thing that a lot of people got wrong is just because a tank is really good or op, doesn't mean it will make you a better player

[@peterbassey9668]

Yep, I agree. Some tanks suit our personalities more. I'm evenly split between TDs and Heavies. I wouldn't touch a med or light. Right now, there isn't even an SPG in my garage.

[@ohgord-qc3qd]

Good Judgement comes from Experience, Experience comes from Bad Judgement!

[@michaelmedicworldoftanks33fps]

I never knew that DaKillzor is 5k for most of his tanks lol gonna subscribe to him too now 😃

[@parsembleu]

THANK YOU Max! Very informative and kind video. By the way, I am learning so much from my errors, so that I deceided to make more errors, to learn more... Or not?

[@strikeeagle360]

Love your videos. I watch every single one. Keep it up😊

[@soulvolcano8327]

3:34 Thats because of Quickybaby, prefering Vents over anything

[@MajorTaylor92]

Mailand kajzoo and u are being my teacher, thank you very much✌🏼

[@kallbrand]

Max, you can't come out and say that the developers should have a bit of money! That will get some knickers wound up. Good content as always.

[@DethScarred]

Large repair/med kits are nice because its one button press instead of a sequence

[@jaystewart5487]

Good advice, thank you!

[@Julian_0500]

key info man. im stuck around 2500/3,1k wn8 rn. will use this to my advantage

[@kieranlong5671]

Need to send this to my teammates

[@GoatingVirtual]

Man…I just love Daki. His beard brings in this aura of the hottest man there is. I-I mean, I like his streams

[@shark_de_mique]

Thanks for the video, your advice does make a lot of sense. Here is an exaggeration, but if we think about it, wot is a sociaty emulator, where following individual goals, as long as they are not hurting your surrounding, is better than try to achieve communitarian ones right from the start

[@georgekn3mp]

How to grow from tomato to chad...dont wait until you got 25k battles as even great battle stats wont budge that rating much! Unless you re-roll and then get scorned in chat 😅

[@Setonix1-.-1]

Tbh with wot plus gold reserve you have nowadays, you can grind yourself the amount of gold you need for month of premium in 5weeks, which after one month and some extra investment of money make it better, as you have for same money that you put in, the premium acc and wot plus which gives you great t8 prem tank for credit grind, it requires a lot of time to fill those weekly reservs though so its good to keep in my mind, but i honestly decided to take this route and its great to have both for price of one when only thing i need is to play like 100 battles a week and invest a little to gold from time to time (which after 3 christmas boxes you got for free is not necessary for some months if you got enough gold)

[@Luebke2773]

But i think if i only focus on damage, i am egoistic. I see in many games that the toptier heavies camp in the back. They make often much damage, but go to agressiv mode to late when the team needs help and is loosing. That is the wrong way to play in my opinion. Sorry for my bad english

[@antoniotoni779]

helpful video max , keep it up 😊❤💪

[@michal7770]

Solid, you've saved me once again Max

[@EmilDragonul]

I like your videos, thank You so much for all the good work!

[@kendale4638]

Good words of advice, thank you

[@maximuspumpernickel8819]

What are your thoughts on flipping the first aid and repair slots especially if you're choosing the small ones.... reason being the driver and tracks being the most important in a pinch you can easily double tap #4 or #5

[@MaxGamingFPS]

It makes sense to do so. At the end of the day, it's just down to personal preference and what you are used to.

[@georgekn3mp]

Or using both Large and Small Repair kit, who needs a fire extinguisher 😁

[@nojoojuu]

RNG and MM do not agree with You Max! But Max-imazing damage is the way to play this game, all unicums agree with that! Thanks Max!

[@desainisme]

As f2p player I agree haha, credit minus every game while playing tier 8-10 even you're winning

[@buttonman1831]

Rule number one, don't rely on your team. Rule number 2, focus on damage.

[@tohkia8840]

As a tourist i aprob 😂😂

[@csh5414]

If I played this game 40 hours a week I would be pretty good too.

[@MaxGamingFPS]

You would hope so, but time spent does not always equate to skill. Learning is a lot more beneficial.

[@csh5414]

@@MaxGamingFPS Nah, this game is all about perishable skill, take a 3 month break and see how good you are. CC play 40+ hours a week. The basic skills become second nature. If this was my job I would make sure I was good at it…

[@BraaapoholicBob]

Re-watching this video again Max. Probably need to save it as a Favorites and watch it over and over till it gets through my thick skull. 😂

[@Red_Lion2000]

This might sound petty, but thanks for referencing prices in Pounds instead of dollars and not using Yankee broken English. Subbed.

[@Rico_6727]

this new 180 day break thing is great for free to play. you wait for content and when you come back you get 14 days of premium and a bunch of bonuses

[@TheJohnnyh13]

Ez as that. Good motivation lies in here. I have nearly 10k battles, already got a Pool and WR about 52%. I think im going to farm 20mil, choose 3-4 tanks, load them as u suggested and see what happens.

[@Warbaby_]

My favourite content creator is MaxGamingFPS ❤

[@enyaaka]

Actually, if u get wot+, u can farm the gold necessary for premium each month.

[@varunabraham7638]

Max could you make a nerfed vz55 review any time soon

[@1DeleterX1]

Speaking about credits earned, what do you recommend doing if you finish 1 vs 10 or 1 vs 15, (taking into account that you have a 95% chance of losing) would you fight and spend more credits? Or do you wait for the inevitable?

[@ErwinRommel2016]

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[@harshadissanayake9862]

the problem i have is i cant hit my shots and pen them even though i have around 75 hit ratio. i have like 25000 battles and started to play the game around 2016 so i know where are the weak spots are. i even have an indicator that tells me I'm fully aimed. with all that after fully aiming i miss all the while enemies going 60km in the open fields turn and snap me in my weak spots. things like this happen 90% of the time where i miss around 3000 dmg. also its annoying to get 23.50 winrate while your session rating is 9500-10000.

[@ohgord-qc3qd]

Frequent Use Creates Knowledge

[@nostalgicleopard4036]

KEKW

[@ohgord-qc3qd]

@@nostalgicleopard4036 Was beginning to think no-one had noticed

[@vitality113]

it took me 3 years to master the blitz version of the game. interested to take how long it will take me to learn this game

[@samtu5862]

Well said, I totally agreed with you `

[@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701]

I do NOT use Gold Rounds cause it NEGATES a very important aspect of the Game i.e. almost Any tank.... *Armor*

[@maddahy]

I hate prem ammo with a passion, however: the way damage is paid in credits is by a fundamental variable, a soft stat, say x. We just don't know this, each tank has a certain price per point of damage. However on top of this there are a few + or - factored in: wether is your own spot or spotted by others, wether you spot for others, tier difference etc. (off the top of my head: spotting for others is 0,5x, shooting dmg spotted by others is 0,75x and each tier gives a 10% bonus, iirc). Asuming equal fundamental x (which is not the case), it results that front brawlers such as prem heavies are potentially best creditmakers. Hence a Lowe in a tier x match being relatively aggressive/engaged can easily shoot fullgold and make a ton of credits, whereas same Lowe sniping from the back in a t-2 match should really not touch neither gold neither prem consumables (and potentially neither the game itself).

[@Yourlocalwordrobe]

I started in 2021 and have up for 2 years, I might tyr again

[@craigwelch2176]

Hi does a premium account increase your stats results in a game by itself? Ie if you are a free to play will your stats be lower or is it because you can afford gold ammo etc.

[@ohgord-qc3qd]

Your stats are the same. But you get more credits per game, so you can use consumables like food or directives and afford to spam the gold ammo, and more xp for vehicle upgrades and crew training, so you are better equipped. If you find a tank that feels comfortable, and doesn't make you feel like shouting at it every game, then you are most of the way there

[@hyperquick7412]

it does by increasing average XP in tanks, because somehow the game doesn't put base xp in stats

[@ziginaigra]

@@hyperquick7412 avg xp is very imortant 😂

[@Va4444]

Large kits, medium n repair have 10% boost. I'll use them for that. They are expensive tho

[@ThingsTo2Know]

New player here. Why no HE ammo? Thank you for the help bro 🙏

[@alwin592]

As always a learning experience, thanks a lot. I am struggling with the issue of when using HEAT. I understand using it when dealing with light tanks . anti tank or artillery but how to decide using it when dealing with medium/ heavy tanks.

[@Go4Corvette]

That guy must be paying someone to play all day for him and who is very good. I don't see how one guy can do that good all the time because the teams just don't help you most of the time.

[@Pony_Pincess_Butterfly]

Good Vid ty

[@SlyMeerkat]

Great video, very informative and helpful, thank you and keep up the good work :)

[@No1001-w8m]

You're absolutely right, Wargaming has made sure that playing this game without premium account is a pain, but I refuse to buy premium as Wargaming is very politicaly biased.

[@joemama7163]

When a 10k spotting game is worth more than a red wn8 I'll start caring.

[@cursetommy]

Great content

[@shangron5796]

great advice

[@arsicpedja]

Nice video :) GG :)

[@wetsock9777]

I have srated playing recently and no matter how many videos of people playing or how to get better, I seem to always fail ingame and have been for the past 2 months i have revisited the game. I try but never get above 2000 damage in games and i really dont know what to do

[@tboneisgaming]

Thanks Max. I'm a pretty average player who seems to have reached a plateau of around 900-1000 WN8. I've gotten to the point where I've become frustrated with the game and taken a break. When I do return. Do you have any advice? With regards food, I'm hesitant to use it for the sim reason of losing so many hit points to fire damage. I've lost my tank during clan wars because of it.

[@SiNNeR90737]

@maxgamingfps you said "warbaby' were you refering to quickybaby?

[@Devoson]

lets gooo!

[@ivoryfoxmusic]

max, when i play the T-54 i lose 110k credits a game with a premium time. also i don’t have a rammer on my heavy tank (i totally don’t only have autoloaders)

[@omarsaad5117]

You gotta be fan of orzanel.. his wn8 is higher than skill4ltu and he particlly take weak slow tanks and make them work..even skill4ltu said orza is a mater jedi

[@Mike2077f]

Another good wot content creator to watch no matter how controversial he is, is chems. He doesn't stream very often, but he has a whole video on map placement and other guides to getting better at the game. Tank setup and map position are the most important to learn for this game.

[@aa1944-k2r]

quickybaby didnt make the list 💀💀

[@Andi.E]

Stupid question i hope i can get an answer. There are little purple corners in the Icons of each tank. Is that a mod or how do i get them. It looks cool

[@antlerr]

because there teir X aka 10's

[@Andi.E]

@@antlerr ahhh thank you

[@400-pound-ninja]

I've got 50 hours in the game and I'm still just going into the battle to die first and not no more that 400 damage, I've paid for tanks that didn't help, I try and camp that doesn't work I've tried rushing, has anyone got any tips, or want to help me.

[@furlockfurli2719]

Thank you!

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

I disagree the only universal equipment I think is vents, if your job is to do damage, yes rammer. Not if you're meant to do scouting like a light no need for a rammer then

[@MaxGamingFPS]

Vents is mostly irrelevant unless it’s auto-loaders.

[@cdegraaff9865]

The lesson is get better ,pay lots😮

[@ziginaigra]

do u have daki poster on your wall😂btw from all streamers u named i can only watch yzne more than 10 min without getting annoyed