Sidestep Shooting CSGO Tutorial

[@TheWarOwl]

Correct, I am recording at 60FPS so my game FPS will be intervals of 60, and because I'm recording my computer can't reach 120. When I am not recording I cap it at the standard 300. I really have to disable netgraph... because folks keep pointing this out EVERY single video...

[@rempuia69]

Hi owl

[@arri6267]

This has so little views

[@stizaidtl2146]

Wait until they point it out without net graph

[@jimbobmcmuffin4549]

remember when csgo still had that background

[@tudaaar8825]

hello

[@pewdular]

@@tudaaar8825 hello

[@tudaaar8825]

@@pewdular lol it's been 4 months =))

[@lorax2102]

@@tudaaar8825 now its been one month

[@tudaaar8825]

@@lorax2102 yea

[@gjune36]

The quick shift walking tip he mention in this video no longer work.

[@enthymeme4856]

WHAT! Why? Did they make it so it is way less accurate?

[@HoorayforOranges]

That's not true at all. You can run and shoot by a stutter step and be practically 100% accurate. This is simply sidestep shooting as explained in the video.

[@gjune36]

MMACheerpuppy I think you misunderstand. I never said you can't use strafing to be accurate. I said you can't use the quick shift walk tip in the video. This is because of 2 two things. 1) When this video was made, the instant you hit shift you were in walking speed. Players would run at full speed, and right before they shoot they tap shift for much higher accuracy. You can still go from running to walking for more accuracy, but it won't be instant. 2) Also when this video was made, accuracy was not yet bound to movement speed. So the instant you hit walk, you get the accuracy for someone moving at the speed of walking, even though you have not decelerate fully from running to walking. You can of course still stutter step. Just that tapping shift won't help you at all. The timing now is much tighter and require even more skill.

[@gjune36]

Antagonist Wizard July 10, 2013 Update - "- Adjusted the function that mapped movement speed to weapon inaccuracy. The linear portion of this function is now exponential." Accuracy is now base on movement speed. February 5, 2014 Update - "-Movement inaccuracy when walking is now calculated differently, resulting in better walking accuracy across the board." This was the patch where they fixed it completely, and further more refine movement speed and weapon accuracy.

[@bamitseric488]

I read this too late sadly

[@bprincepandey]

I am WarOwl and I still have no clothes on.

[@TheWarOwl]

I read all the comments sir... I didn't reply because I don't qualify as a professional opinion on this. Sidestep shooting and shift stepping are two different techniques that can be used in different situations, or even together to throw off opponents. I don't think you have to choose between them, (By shift stepping I assuming you mean what I call Shift Tapping, where you hit shift to shoot accurately)

[@TOASTYEY]

the shift key makes you WOAAKK

[@aykansozugecer8743]

and when youre WOAKKING um your accuracy is little better

[@gongge4737]

I like to WOAAKK!

[@chessyman9393]

and when u WOAAKK its easier to get killed

[@destin5240]

woah dude! no way

[@deldeldel9855]

The G.O instead of GO just really messes with my brain.

[@elinin8er54]

Just started playing cs:go again after the new update. I suck so bad, so I searched and found this awesome video. It's hard to find such in depth tutorial for cs games. Keep up the good work.

[@astonblair4222]

For the longest time, I thought you were saying "I am the War Owl, and I still have no clothes on." I was thoroughly confused.

[@mariusjanusauskas8612]

i think he says i have no closer (outro)

[@jake4840]

I feel like the look of the guns when shooting, like the way they pushed back, looked much much better 2 years ago when the game came out. It's sad they changed it, and pretty much the visuals in general, I think the game looked nice the way it was when it first came out.

[@MicahJohn21659]

Yeah, "pros" had to go and complain about fog though.. now they're trying to get rid of post processing altogether. :/ I can't agree more about how the viewmodel used to spring upward and back instead of forward and back.. I guess it doesn't matter though considering a bunch of people had that disabled.

[@CataclystX]

That's changeable via console commands, that's just an effect to "show" the recoil more realistically and using effects, because it does look more immerse. *It should be changeable via settings using sliders.* But aspiring pros / pros are too immersed in the game itself and too focused to care, or to want the effect.

[@MicahJohn21659]

CataclystX Care to enlighten us on what console commands will bring back the sort of upward springing motion?

[@bluuman1]

I noticed the same thing. The deagle swings to the side, which is very ugly/annoying. In this video, it pops up. Glad other ppl noticed!

[@deviatorz]

I think what he is also saying is using shift right after to strafe. Because as you strafe, it takes a longer time to completely stop (to have best accuracy) then to strafe>shift/walking>stop or in other words a>d>a>d>shift>shoot. I am having trouble trying to get better at doing that. Since shift I have to use shift as my pinky, it gets tired really fast.

[@perfumelovr]

Honestly, If i had a pc with 100+fps and like 10 ping, i would get to DMG in just 2 days. Reason i am bad/low rank is because my FPS is so low at times, and my ping gets high too. Sometimes my USB ports will stop completely in the middle of a game. Argghh >::

[@jokis125]

Sure, sure, we all would.

[@perfumelovr]

jokis125 No, you don't get it. I have 2k hours on 1.6 and i played really good there without issues on my potato laptop, but csgo requires a bit better pc so that leaves me with 30 fps and down, i know the flash techniques and the right-left and all that. I can tell you that CSGO is the easiest counter-srike game i have ever played.

[@jokis125]

Neramun I have played shitloads of cs 1.6 myself and I dont consider myself pro. I'm gold nova 3 and I'm happy where I am. Why make excuses like crap PC to mask that you're not that good?

[@perfumelovr]

jokis125 Well i am good lol, i am the moment ak rank. Rank in CSGO can't tell how good i am, i carried myself from silver in some weeks.

[@perfumelovr]

jokis125 My point is that my PC has a low FPS and i have a bad internet which makes me DC and get bans and sometimes it freezez, u know im sayin? if everything was going smoothly i am pretty sure i could have done better

[@TryppiDnB]

Watching this man got me to DMG back in the day. Listen well, practice hard, and put in TIME

[@eliasperarydahl682]

This techique absolutley wrecking my opponents... So nice.... thank you WarOwl, I really appreciate your videos, you're are one of my biggest fans. have a nice day

[@Dragonfire2804]

it takes lots of time to Get_Right guys so practice a lot or you will get n0thing in return.

[@nepucchi]

+Dragonfire2804 wow gg

[@shiroyasha7324]

Dragonfire2804 XD but I can't SCREAM

[@NoName-fn5ek]

fast forward 8 years later and he still... has no closer

[@NoName-fn5ek]

@nathancharnas what no. listen to it closely, he says "closer". A closer means something you say to end a video.

[@miguelrohv5643]

2:38 "you should learn howdy da ba do it "....lols

[@Neditsedits]

CS:JE OH

[@hansspieleder2947]

+Nedits lol i got confused what game he was talking about

[@paulkreymborg3319]

CEE ES GEE OH

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

lol

[@bbsonjohn]

Have you considered re-making some of these older tutorials, re-explaining after all the updates (that drop me from gold nova guardian to silver III after picking this game back 3 years later)?

[@TehFlyingJam]

This is something the CS community has always needed; actual tutorials for how to play the game. CS has always been a hard game to play, with a steep learning curve that drives new players away. SC2 and other competitively successful games have had people like Day[9] to explain the game, but CS has never really had a major source. Netcodeilluminati would be good, but they I don't think many people want to pay for premium.

[@itsDaWatanabe]

WarOwl thank you so much! I just found your channel and i started watching these type of videos and i became a much better player in CS GO all thanks to you! :) Your videos are so helpful my aim and my positioning are much much better and i learned how to side step perfectly! :) Thanks again man! BIG like and subscribe! :D

[@legoclone0965]

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[@cfjlkfsjf]

Since learning this literally RIGHT AWAY i started averaging 40 kills per DM map 80% of the time. One time 5 guys were shooting me at the same time, took them all down :D. I used to be a 20 kill 30+ death guy. Listen to chill music with ingame sound off aswell, as aiming for a 2-3 burst at the head with the AK. It really does make a huge difference then just normal shooting.

[@bad99teddy]

Frist video of you I watched and your the best... tutorialist guy .. thing YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!

[@iCom3nt]

Put the video at 0.5 speed and you get the updated version of this tutorial

[@ziwuri]

Thanks!

[@jakejascob]

The technic where you strafe and go back is called strafe stopping and use dynamic when learning it but once you have it use static or voltic or whatever because it makes aiming alot easier since your cross hairs aren't shoting half way across the screen

[@cyrax1311]

The shift stop is a good idea, thanks.

[@CaptPatrick01]

Fistful Of Frags is a great game to practice this technique with, as its gameplay is designed to revolve entirely around this method of aiming.

[@Gone29364]

this vid hitting different bruh

[@JenningsJCT]

Great video. Enlightening and entertaining. My favourite mix.

[@jonathanwhisnant3005]

I've had the lucky headshot thing happen multiple times. It's fun to watch them get pissed off when they do like 98 damage to you but they take 103

[@Nakabozu]

YES! OH MY GOD! I've been waiting so long for this! I love you WarOwl!

[@user-zl1xw6nb1c]

This was uploaded on my birthday!!

[@magic4218]

I now just see his face in my mind when I hear his voice...

[@Hashslingingslasher-]

no, you just don't have the face you imagined (a lumber jack) in mind when you used to hear him

[@RedSodaGaming]

great video, funny, informative, and well edited. Thankyou for that.

[@Sos_June]

strafing is when your moving back and forth with A and D but the critical point is where you stop to go to the opposite direction your walking only at this point do you get a accurate shot (which is when you stop for a fraction of a second)

[@Stou1422]

400k!!!! Congrats WarOwl!

[@wongoli]

Thanks for these tutorials man! Really helpful!

[@ohcyx]

This series should be revised by WarOwl

[@justinhhhh-069]

this is like the most op movement in csgo i used it against awper in a long and the 1taps really works!

[@Versified]

Thanks man, this actually helped me so much

[@bryanandrews9193]

A good place to practice is actually the back wall of T spawn on dust. There are two wooden square frames with a median between. Also works with shotgun peeking

[@ayush_stha]

The shift key technique is probably the one for me, cause it's easier to react with the pinky which is otherwise free.

[@tyler4475]

damn, watching 7 years later. and honestly his video quality wasn't that bad.

[@kablooey60]

Steel Doors Master Race

[@dad.spielt]

i love those tutorials ! Good job!

[@mike-_5955]

CLASSIC KZbin CONTENT

[@SuperDmanC]

Holding shift will slow you even faster, which helps your recoil return to zero faster. Practice makes perfect!

[@lam1501]

Time to re-watch the whole tutorial series.

[@Its.mojster]

1 more time for 2020

[@Mordax14]

he even explains it: your accuracy is higher. Probably both factors play a role: faster stopping and being more accurate

[@dadegenerate1704]

yes the old tips that I can't still fucking mimic

[@sadekgheidan]

You hit shift when you intend to stop and release it when you continue your strafing. You don't hold shift the entire time

[@Chris349]

Strafing makes a big difference at least for me. Just move back and forth a bit while shooting while most other people stand in one place. Suddenly you win more shootouts.

[@UptightGiraffe]

I just realised TheWarOwl has around 500k subscribers. HE NEED MOAR!!!!!

[@skateurself]

well there is something I never knew.. Im gunna go practice haha

[@beau6113]

wow.. been playing cs on and off since beta and I never knew about shift-shooting

[@crimsonmango4420]

You deserve alot more subs thx for the help

[@Sos_June]

forsure man glad to help, practice and hopefully you'll get better

[@powpowx93]

wtf i just had to watch a 5 min unskippable ad?

[@Delnieh]

+PowPow X adblock?

[@powpowx93]

Delnie nah, i want him to make money.

[@pcarrierorange]

+PowPow X He only makes money if people click on the ads to follow the links, though.

[@SamTulster]

+Richard Alley Not tru. He makes money if we sees the ad.

[@y0embrue]

+PowPow X lmao youtube is back at it again

[@cyphi474]

You basically dont stopping. Key is time your shot to moment when you change direction form left to right or right to left and you stop for tiny moment, as you slow down to zero before you start moving to other side. If two players meet and both doing that, one who can predict oponent direction wins, so sometimes you want change direction again same side as before to throw off oponent and get that little time to aim your next shot more accurately while oponent have to reaim. I wouldnt suggest use walk for this. First its less accurate. Second you may slow down but you still keep moving original direction, that slows you down when you switch sides and makes you more vulnerable. It can be used in same direction throw off(pretending you going change sides then move further away) but its risky as oponent can still hit you. Good player will expect that and most likely do his own throw off to turn table, so then its very situational. It has to be praticed. Try be unpredictable, dont do just left-right because its easy to counter.

[@HDiSG]

Great video! can't wait for the others

[@daboyz6106]

Liked just because of the Safety Dance reference.

[@flapjack123able]

You sir just got a new subscriber :D

[@zexnynex777]

I will add tho, when the gamer was "spraying" the wall... that looked fun :-)

[@domz577]

Damn I miss the 2012 background.

[@Melox-gt2oy]

oh my god! This video is like... 1000 years old!

[@ZeCee]

Weapons are more accurate when shift stepping. Supposedly allowing you to move (and be more evasive) and still maintain a good degree of accuracy. Watch 2:15 I don't see pro players use this often. Probably because they have already mastered sidestep shooting which is arguably more effective.

[@darthrevan3342]

In a pure duel I found that sidesteping with SG-553 is really good, since you will shoot firt your accuracy resert way faster with scope on, the obvious down side is that against multiple oponent since you are slower it isn't going to matter, but in a 1 o 1. And I have tried this in duel arena servors... I just did wreck skilled AK-47 playersjust by having my scope ready a little bit before teh engagement. I noticed that they kinda miss their headhsot by trying to shot before mebefore I always ended up shooting first with SG-553.

[@JeremyEr10]

We need "CSGO video tutorials" on the main menu!

[@evionify]

You sound like Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development. Awesome voice and video! =]

[@zezsn1p3r]

Great vids maeen, very useful.

[@HoreanAir]

thanks for explaining so clearly

[@Lewahunter8864]

And ScreaM has already master these techniques

[@OneLunchMan4897]

So... I'm not a expert, but after hearing the part about countering sidestep shooting, it got me thinking about crouching's (actual) competitive use compared to walking, other than slightly more accuracy, I'm not exactly a global elite though, Wouldn't it be more practical in the csgo "meta/high level play" to actually strafe/sidestep & then crouch over sudden patterned stops? Before i get people saying "OMG U S!1v3r $krub10rD", think about it o.o in csgo higher ranks, you don't see people using the crouch key at all for the most part, which of course means Aim for the usual head level. For example, 2 Deagle Users in pistol round on level ground both sideshooting, not factoring in recoil control, just shoot-wait for recoil to cooldown- and shoot again. if you strafe for evasiveness, & then crouch for less than a second or so to burst, fire, & repeat, Wouldn't it be harder to predict & hit you because the head level wouldn't be always at the same level to aim at, even without factoring the crouching user's accuracy advantage. From what I know, wouldn't that make them actually miss shots completely every time you crouched & fired since they would be aiming for where you head would usually be, and shoot above you, instead of the lower position of the head when crouching? Obviously you wouldn't crouch walk at all, but instead of what TheWarOwl said about stopping, you would just hit crouch & fire briefly, move, and repeat. idk, ideas welcome :)

[@OneLunchMan4897]

Dayum, that was longer than I thought.

[@naim1691]

Jk4887 At higher ranks this might work but in the silver ranks, when I tried this, most people are going for bodyshots so you end up crouching into a headshot.

[@sarahbell180]

Naim Abrahams So kinda like the whole decoy technique, where you throw a decoy at an area, stand on the decoy, so you fool high ranks into thinking its a decoy but silvers just rush?

[@OneLunchMan4897]

Naim Abrahams Kyle Bell That's what I meant, doing the unexpected, but since side step shooting is such a basic high rank style, I figured it'd actually make a notable change, compared to the decoy juke, I mean, if u consider the amount of people in upper ranks that use side step shooting going for 1 deag's/1 taps, it throws them off completely, since it's just not the norm and catches them off guard. Still, TheWarOwl Could you give us some insight? ^^

[@poppinlochnesshopster3249]

Kyle Bell Yeah, can't tell you how many times I die in various PvP games because I use a superior strategy that would allow me to win a 1v1 fight against someone who actually is good at the game, but I end up dying because the psychology of the strategy is irrelevant because the opponent doesn't use the optimal strategy for the situation :( (IE if you fake someone out but they shoot you anyway because they "missed" where the fake would be)

[@RodrigoSilva-bj6kz]

Hey WarOwl, do you use your fps_max on 60. Does it really make difference between 60 or 100 or higher? Or 60 is already enough? Your videos are amazing, you really try to help and your comments on pro games are funny. Thanks!

[@USIncorp0]

Very useful trick to know, thank you WarOwl

[@rockbuddy662]

I love your videos

[@Mordax14]

I am pretty sure in order to stop quicker. The other way to stop quick is the so called "Stutter Step" Surely it is not to be quiet since the technique is for infights

[@LudicrousAndroid]

A) I didn't know that a had no way of knowing that B) I think you do ( :D ), from what I've seen you can do both of the techniques with out trouble C) Thanks for the reply D) And yes I mean what you call Shift Tapping

[@SariusGames]

Great advice, especially when you mentioned the shift shot! I'm going to try that! \m/ Rock steady bro!

[@GenericInternetter]

1. Get the community workshop Aim Botz map 2. Put HS Only mode on 3. Grab the AK 4. Strafeshoot 500 bots 5. Put on Speed 2, ADADA 1 & 3 6. Strafeshoot 500 more bots 7. You are now fucking unkillable if the enemy appear on your screen before they shoot Worked for me, less than 100 hours in CSGO

[@davidkumar9216]

Thanks war owl I play original vs but now I'm into Cs go.

[@EricMetalhead]

He is the War Owl, subscribing is the law...

[@AsuraiGaming]

An updated Strafe Shooting tutorial please? :3

[@thomasferlauto7981]

Wait- so you're just as accurate crouch walking as you are standing still?

[@markyang7846]

The Almighty Commentator your slightly more accurate crouching, but standing is just normal accuracy. But holding shift and moving left and stop for a second or the right, you'll have some what accuracy.

[@thomasferlauto7981]

Mark Yang Ah- so it's based on how fast you're moving but also whether you're crouched or not.

[@giovioddo270]

WarOwl, I think you should post a video discribing the proper video settings, and 120hz monitor settings for cs go.

[@RodrigoSilva-bj6kz]

I guess he's talking about strafing while walk to reduce the speed of your movement and it's going to improve your aim and precision while shooting.

[@MikeFoxclaw]

Wow. Dust was WAAAY more dustier than now.

[@Csgoskillsapp]

After a lot of research, this is the best tutorial on Sidestep / Strafe Shooting around. We reference it in our more extensive guide at csgoskills.com/academy/aiming/ and in our CS:GO Trainer app at play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapleapps.android.csgoskills, which you might enjoy as well.

[@cfjlkfsjf]

Thanks for that site, i been following it a little. :) One thing though, put the app on my iphone, do we have do do every single 1 of those PER DAY?

[@Csgoskillsapp]

cfjlkfsjf We do like to do 3 per day for ourselves. Currently we have a training plan in the android version (iOS soon as well) that randomly selects 3 tasks into one training session. Of course you can do as many sessions per day as you like.

[@Aieee007]

What command is in consol is to stop time ( when it goes to 00:00 to continue and not to start a new round )

[@JokerCZECH11]

oh... how i miss that old menu.. it was so much better then now

[@maxbenninger8101]

Good one.

[@JokerCZECH11]

i think more funny is that you give your own comment like :D btw i bet u didnt play it since beta like me but loadings were so much better then now it looked more detailed then now... now its just some simple ugly menu theme

[@proffessorX]

JokerCZECH11 sorry to be that guy but the word is THAN, not then. THAN THAN THAN....."it was so much better than now". But I do agree the menu was a lot more CS than battlefield back then.

[@JokerCZECH11]

thegrumpytrooper Sorry :( dont send me to the camp

[@proffessorX]

JokerCZECH11 :) no camp for you.

[@casperthomsen6952]

@TheWarOwl The video stops after 0:41 and dosent start again i think u have reupload it

[@dreamcast13]

+Casper Thomsen (“Pikkewakke”) Yep :(

[@trolljegarane8684]

Thank you for providing som good advice

[@dhlee2023]

that's good tip it would help me a lot thanks

[@expandingkhaos3046]

thank you. can we expect more?

[@JPeachyDev]

Warowl. The voice of a god.

[@perillous]

what i dont understand is why not make the hitboxes the exact size and model as the mesh for example.. the arm hitbox be the same model and size as arm.

[@Ricky-lb5wn]

YOU SHOT ME WHILE MOVING

[@Nr1Sgt]

yes yes yes this is was i subbed for! plz do a grenade spot tutorial to :D

[@ViincenttB]

you sir earned my sub!