What to think about when Aiming | Surefour Tutorials

[@Imabanana847]

Rocketjumpninja is dope as hell. Love that guy. Love that you shouted him out.

[@RocketJumpNinja]

Just heard about this, thanks for the love! And thanks for the shout out, Surefour! Glad to know the videos are helping so many people.

[@lBioHaZarDl]

YO RJN, watched your last Logitech G Pro mouse review, so glad they partially involved you in the design of the mouse! I hope one day they can make you the product manager of your own mouse for esports line!

[@jihung2930]

My boy Zy getting some recognition from pros👌👌

[@akeviklund4394]

Rocket Jump Ninja I’m gonna go by your list whenever I get a pc and move from this piece of shit console haha

[@cal7447]

Rocketjump is another gift that Australia bestowed to the gaming world.

[@loser4cent]

Respect to s4, an actually pro helping/teaching people to get good. Thanks man

[@Rhys-gv3ir]

Choosing a mouse 0:10 Aiming styles & Sensitivity 1:09 Insight on "aiming" 8:01 Crosshair placement 13:39 Tracking 17:01 Movement Mechanics 23:10

[@thehairylarry]

Thank you

[@GankAlpaca]

GWEEEEEEEEEK

[@CertifiedBootlicker]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@holymosey2556]

Epic Royale

[@chuarh7393]

Rhys1810 Oh yeah yeah

[@chungusbrojoe]

got from silver to bronze by one tricking widow thx dude

[@NewgensNeedToBeKilledASAP]

Joe just strafe crouch 4head omegalul

[@isynciswim7382]

That’s backwards

[@bigbob5103]

@@NewgensNeedToBeKilledASAP hehehe so funny

[@danial5870]

iSync iSwim /whoosh

[@SonataNoKami]

Mans gets wooshed and replies to a 1 year old comment oh my lord

[@DannyMGuitar]

Just click at the right time 4Head

[@svnhddbst8968]

ignoring the joke statement; the point is to reduce the things you are overthinking so you focus your brain entirely in a constructive direction. by not micromanaging your aim, your brain's reflexes take over and control your arm better with your subconscious, leaving the decision making out of the way of what you are actually able to do.

[@thaqifkhirudin6610]

4 head is old, now is 5head. Kappa

[@koren9115]

svnhddbst 4Heed

[@locroyal4400]

svnhddbst learn to get a joke 4head

[@svnhddbst8968]

ゆいみら learn to recognize when someone got the joke but wanted to explain the part that isn't a joke for people that missed it.

[@toxicwaste003]

Surefour in a million dollar tournament finals "IM A SHOTCALLER NOT A GOOD TEAMMATE! We're doing great guys, we're doing great"

[@catzilla6279]

I'd love good teammates rather than sportsmanship after carrying a game -.-

[@cryxtheace3129]

15:05 Surefour is actually describing the 3 steps in how your brain processes sensory information into action-Sense (phototransduction in this case), Processing (where the cerebrum will understand information-the occipital lobe specifically processes visual information), and Decision-making (where the cortex decides what to do with the information). I’m surprised how accurately he described something that happens within milliseconds.

[@gin.and.j]

You know you're an expert when you can explain something to a 5 year old

[@hoangminhduc6415]

Tisumi is so good at explaining things 30 minutes of pure CoolStoryBob

[@darkin1484]

CoolStoryBob :thonk:

[@benjamin_lee]

This is very well done surefour. To add on, think of flick shots as an educated guess shot. No flick shot is ever going to be 100%. Every flick shot is always an estimated guess shot of where you think you should shoot at THAT instance in time!

[@NANNIII]

Benjamin Lee why is he constantly flickshoting ? What are the benefits of it ?

[@torakka2ow640]

DA REAL NANNIII Maybe because certain targets are really hard to track. Especially on the level he plays at. People move erratically and when they poke it might be just 0,5 secs they are out of cover.

[@benjamin_lee]

@@NANNIII flick shots increase your chances of hitting your target. If you were to try and track with a hero that you should be flick shooting with, you would miss when you took the shot because by the time you tracked successfully and then shot, the target would have already moved once more.

[@NANNIII]

Benjamin Lee seems legit

[@jimjohnson6944]

Wow you're actually a really good teacher. The fact that you're able to break things down that are probably just habit for you at this point is awesome.

[@cristian_3702]

13:16 basically the moral of the story: tutu ruu

[@mak10123]

Well done video s4. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. Your work is appreciated my dude

[@chokoon21]

In short, just get good gaming socks

[@nelsoncurrie]

settawut leenavong nah a gaming bed has a good in game advantage

[@pwnmclovin1]

You need them big circle glasses.

[@Mark-xw5yt]

I thought it was a joke but i used it and i got placed in mid bronze instead of low! Thankyou sm

[@carl9362]

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[@yiepie9822]

Noah that is where it’s at

[@arthurchance7671]

I am old. I have been playing these kinds of games since before most of you were born. I have never seen anyone put into words what most people just naturally evolve into doing the way you have in this dated video I somehow stumbled across in 2020. I have a son into gaming, and I couldn't explain why his dad had such awesome aim. I could only say, " Son, I was forged in the time of iron - and it took much sacrifice and toil!" Now i can show him your video, thank you! Great work here!

[@T3RD5ify]

wow that crouch spam tutorial was amazing. I was wondering why my crouch spam didn't work against good widows

[@monsiboy4517]

My accuracy went from 20% to 50% because of this video. Thank You!!!

[@inquisitorichijou883]

I don't know how helpful this can be for me. The video is clearly made for PC players, but I'm one of those who play on console. And how I had to learn from others I talked to: there is a huge difference between console and PC; so much that players who switched between systems stated it was like learning the game all over again. I light of this, I have no idea how much all of this here applies to me.

[@philipdemers3422]

The clickling at the proper time idea actually helped me a ton! Thank you for your awesome insights Surefour :)

[@FlipsMG]

I feel like this tracking advice is really misleading and will hurt people's aim. You suggest that they pay attention to their cursor, but you'll find that you're going to either not predict their movement enough and your bullets will often go behind the target, or you'll over predict and miss like 5 bullets when they change direction. A better way to improve your tracking aim is to watch your enemy exclusively and not look at your cursor/crosshair at all. This intense focus on a target and following them slowly with your eyes is called "smooth pursuit". It's the same type of eye movement used in reading for example. The goal is to watch the enemy and allow your muscle memory to follow them on it's own, as long as you're watching them with a smooth pursuit eye movement you'll keep them in the center of your screen and track them perfectly with zero prediction required. If this prediction/reaction style is how you actually approach tracking, then you're a genetic god for being able to track with that style so well. But it is not the best way to do it and is not an approach to improve quickly. This level of reaction and prediction to get a professional level of tracking with this style requires naturally very good reaction times and thousands of extra hours of play to learn how to predict every character's movement patterns in every area of every map. Improving your smooth pursuit eye movement will DRAMATICALLY and RAPIDLY increase your tracking aim in every fps game with any character or gun that depends on tracking. In this sense it is universal aim improvement unlike your prediction/reaction methodology. You can do specific eye exercises to help this type of eye movement and your overall ability to focus. You want to imagine it like reading, you should be able to make out the color of everything the character you're looking at is wearing, their gun, how their legs/arms/head/etc. are moving at every moment the same way you can make out every letter as you read. Peer reviewed studies have shown this type of eye movement in humans and apes to be dramatically increased also when using hand movement to follow what they are tracking, which ties in with aiming perfectly. If done properly you should be able to track people equally well with no crosshair enabled at all. And disabling your crosshair completely when training this type of eye movement is a great way to help at first if you struggle with tunnel visioning on your crosshair instead of truly seeing and watching the character you're shooting at. Crosshairs are really only important for flick shotting as a measurement reference point that your eyes use to quickly guage how much arm/wrist movement your muscle memory needs to snap onto a target.

[@ArnobMD]

Wow usually I dont read long comments, but this was well worth it.

[@burkles4456]

If you are tracking them then they do not move from the center of your screen. How is it like reading?

[@burkles4456]

Oh and you are a professional esporter right?

[@eueueueu21]

@@burkles4456 stop beeing so dismissive. its a theory. eitheir way youre still "practecing" tracking. its an old debate follow your target or crossair placement. fps are not as old as chess, a lot to learn and study. what he was talking about was progression in your training wich is something 90% of these improve your aim videos DONT mention. i can asure you, follow this video and you can train for 5 years and still be shit at aiming.

[@Andrewwsm]

Carlos lol imma take advice from the guy that said practecing

[@ilyktosk8]

i like this one, very in-depth and more accurate than most aim analysis videos. but guys remember do not over-analyze your aim

[@emeraldsky2823]

Great job at winning the 1v1 dual them shots were amazing! 🤩

[@gabrielenannotti8]

Dude wtf, your tips made like night and day difference on my aim. Thanks so much for having me enjoying fps properly.

[@twitch.tv1_eli_1lul56]

Choosing a mouse 0:10 Aiming style and sens 1:09 Insight on aiming 8:01 Crosshair placement 13:39 Tracking 17:01 Movement mechanics 23:10

[@thoup]

No

[@recht181]

hey man, I started playing OW coming from Valorant and I got recommended this video. It's also great for highlighting the difference between aiming in a tac-shooter and aiming in this hero-shooter game, and I really like the vid and the lessons. Thank you

[@myralianna5388]

Literally the whole thing about clicking being the most important thing and the cross hair just being a measurement changed everything for me. How you talked about the guy playing csgo and him just clicking when he knew where to click. I’m listening to this whenever I wake up in the morning from now on. Seriously improved my aim sooo much. Thank you Surefour.

[@myralianna5388]

10:50-16:00

[@bryannpowell4953]

Would you help me

[@bryannpowell4953]

Explain more plz

[@edgarrodriguez7733]

Congrats to my boi for winning the widow tournament, was rooting for ya since the beginning, big fan

[@aquaugly3212]

Good job at the OWL the 1v1 widows had me at the edge of my seat and i enjoyed it a lot definitely gonna start tuning in to the channel dude great content 👍

[@davids.1956]

I didn't realize this is what I was up against in Titanfall way back then. We appreciate you.

[@d.oconnor4047]

The crosshair aiming tip has exactly the same principlae as how I play pool, If i watch the tip of the cue I almost always miss but if I watch the ball I'm trying to hit instead the outcome is usually much better, great video :)

[@RazurChan]

"Then there's the opposite end of the spectrum, where you go full wrist." "DUUH DUUH DUUUH!"

[@cristian_3702]

Mayuri!!!!

[@delysid18]

Man that osu! theory you had about when you click being the most important thing is something I figured out forever ago. Everything thought i was crazy. But it's good to see someone else come to the conclusion. This is also what makes target practice a good way to improve, if done correctly.

[@Zan0s]

Holy shit this video has actually helped me soooooo much. It sounds dumb but just that one advice of basically saying "click on them not on the crosshair" and now I'm landing so many more shots, because instead of trying to move my mouse onto them I'm just moving it over them and clicking when I need to.

[@bryannpowell4953]

Do you move like a flick shot

[@lighteningpupd913]

Well done most people just say git gud or practice but what do i practice lol thanks for giving me the clues

[@1215-q1u]

I think you did a very good job at explaining something that is very difficult to put in words but in my opinion its best to just practice and dont expect instant results but most importantly remember it's just a game (for most people)

[@fatmanyscoopable]

*_Dude, i just switched from console to pc 2 or 3 days ago. It is like you knew that, you have uploaded this on the perfect timing for me._* *_The problem is, that my gamesense is now good, but my mechanical skill is shit. For example to find the perfect settings for me. On console it was much easier, because the settings are much more limited._* *_I just wanted to thank you for those videos because that is not self-evident. Big thanks to my senpai_* ❤️❤️

[@khadija7530]

Symcathetico I think i might be able to help find your sens, just tell me your screen size, mouse dpi and current sens.

[@kevinblaha6287]

I have been playing since launch. Finally got GM. Aiming has always been my weakness. Its so rare to see actual aiming tips from a pro head clicker. Surefour you are a real one. Hope you get to read this. We appreciate you. Even if you are a shameless weeb.

[@rabidtf]

this is probably the best aiming related video ive seen on youtube

[@zimsearchmister1712]

I just watched you win the Widow battle in the All-Stars! You are AMAZING SUREFOUR, I love you, keep up the great work! ❤

[@icyice1586]

shoutout to Bishu for getting me to watch this vid. CONGRATS ON WINNING THE TOURNAMENT SUREFOUR ! Also make Canada proud at the World Cup! Fellow alberten cheerin you on !

[@Vugen18]

S4 ur a legend man. I love your streams , and you seem like a good person. Hope you are happy

[@Riclaval]

Liked this video, because it mentions exactly what I'm doing, which is not looking at the cursor but thinking about timing.

[@danneltheflannel]

Wow, this is the first actually helpful aim tutorial I have seen, thanks.

[@zZDavidHD]

@Surefour Yo, whats good, dude thats byfar the best Aiming tutorial what i´ve seen in years! Well explained, if someone wants to learn it properly! You can use that Tutorial pretty much for every Game! Good Job Boyyy

[@fatbearr_]

This is genuinely the most helpful aim video ever.

[@assemblerx86]

Thank you Mr Surefour. This thing you said about moving cursor and clicking at the right time with overflick is genious. I instanly got 20-30% more headshots in Widowmaker wars after few minutes of practicing this. I was able to do flicks like never before :o Great video

[@bryannpowell4953]

What made you able to be so accurate that fast would you help me plz

[@Purelocov12]

Thank you so much. It was so hard for me to explain to a friend on how aiming works def will share this vid with everyone

[@Yshtola.]

i shall apply this to my console aim FeelsDelusionalMan

[@Ins4n1ty_]

This actually explained why I suck so much with hitscan heroes, yet I'm very good on projectiles. So many years maining Thresh on lol made me too predictive of the opponent to have decent reactions.

[@m2skyy]

thank you so much! that was so informational and really helped me out. ily man!

[@marcosantana4330]

This has to be the best Aim guide, put all my questions in one video.

[@ThomasS17]

That feels like my classes right now. The prof is the only one talking and asking the students questions we answer in the chat.

[@KindOldRaven]

Never figured out if I'm an arm or wrist aimer. Unless I'm using über high sensitivity, I'm almost always using both. Use arm to get into the general direction (or snap on if lucky) then use wrist to correct. This happens almost at the same time (not exactly of course, as you explained you'll get sensor-drift basically ;p). Also for me it was the exact opposite: I can flick with the wrist, quite well, but tracking in general is much, much smoother and more controlled when using the arm (only using wrist when correction is needed). That's just me though. Love the video and a big fan :D EDIT: I think my sensitivity makes me use both: I'm generally between 35-43cm/360

[@ItsKryptick]

Rocket Jump Ninja is amazing, cool that you gave him that shoutout. I always go to him before I buy a mouse.

[@brey200ms]

Predicting their predictions with my predictions, got it coach.

[@fluidmotion499]

Thank you sooo much I was 3400 at my peak and thought my aim was pretty good but this brought It up to a whole new level in just minutes by changing the way I think about aim.

[@bryannpowell4953]

How do you change it

[@thomasschulz8477]

Nice! Thx S4 exactly what I needed xD

[@jokur7]

that timing of sub sound @ 6:05 xD My day is done!

[@Dukenukem]

I like the way you stumble to explain "if you have to think, you are too slow"

[@DjTrustNo.1]

good insight, advice, real talk and passing of knowledge. GJ!

[@brysonsnel7323]

Surefour I actually love you! You did good today on the all Star game

[@quicktime4141]

Now to get the 30% aim-lock I need a gaming chair

[@bOObies2]

Damn this is a good video. When you retire from competition start an E-sports school, man. In the future, I'm sure those will be lucrative. You are really good at explaining things simply and using really good examples in practice. Thank's Surefour

[@P3t9L]

I could listen to your voice, next to the campfire..sipping a cup of wine...talking about overwatch being an ez clap

[@RexSilber]

Summary: Just klick the heads

[@sarahp3442]

Okay dad

[@carnage7826]

one of the best if not the best video about aiming.

[@Tinybabyfishy]

18:08 the timing is perfect, i laughed a lot

[@reedaustin3768]

I saw you while watching the finals and you are a beast with the McCree.

[@MrYaj9]

SureFour... You're awesome! Thank you, Sempai!

[@vishnujeganmogan1750]

I don’t want advice from a scrub like surefour I want advice from tisumi

[@Shockz161]

Old but Gold, thanks

[@Ellipsis115]

10:38 Holy shit yeah that is litterally everything even tracking if you're not on them you shouldn't really be clicking. I think the build up talking about Osu is what actually convinced me to commit to actually aiming like this. This is why better players don't benefit as much from high refresh rate monitors and better systems as the latency just doesn't matter as much, although the latency CONSISTENCY will probably still matter a lot. Also the tracer insight is basic but new to me - get close for damage - blink away/to cover to reload. Kinda play like reaper where you just sneak in close at an off angle or behind, then use cooldowns as escape tools/for flanking/sustain if you have heals.

[@glimmer-glain]

this video made me dizzy but it was still awesome and super informative, this guy is great

[@orellaminx3530]

Nostradamus would have been an excellent gamer "Silly camper, I predicted you'd be there 10 years ago"

[@jessekriebel1346]

Great Vid Teach! Love the classroom spin. Congrats on the big win and a great season. Would love to see you play console and compare.

[@devin6272]

by far the best guide for aiming ever

[@Ranorimonus]

That's some nice content you got there. I didn't even know I could learn something about aiming but I did. Didn't know you played osu! and have the same rank as I do x). I hope I would bump into you in a multi lobby. Good luck and keep up the good work.

[@DavidBlanch0]

I bet Carpe is watching this now.

[@MainUkraine]

Another important detail is arm aim is good for hitscan heroes and wrist aim may be better for projectile heroes like genji for example because 180 dashing is a really important skill to master with genji and high sens and wrist flicks makes turning faster. But nonetheless it's better to stick to one sensitivity for all heroes.

[@SuperStarkiller999]

I am a wrist aimer and hitscan player, thats why I always get accused of cheating cause the cam seems like its shaking.

[@sejo5057]

MainUkraine I think arm aim is better for flicking. I am a wrist player but I always flick with my arm because it's a lot easier. I have to swipe twice if I'm using my wrist but with my arm I just do a full swipe. I find wrist more accurate when making small crosshair adjustments which is why I use my wrist since you won't need to flick must of the time if you have good crosshair placement.

[@MainUkraine]

@@SuperStarkiller999 I think that could just be you shaking your mouse because I used to be a wrist aimer playing with 12,000 dpi and 2 sens and only a few months ago I went down to 1,600 dpi and 2 sens to arm aim but when I was at 12,000 dpi I never looked shaky in first person.

[@MainUkraine]

@@sejo5057 Yea one thing that's important that Surefour doesn't really mention is that tracking and prediction can help you with hitscan heroes not just projectile. Understanding patterns of enemy movement and tracking them helps you land those easy headshots with widow and mccree much easier. This is especially the case when an enemy is locked in one movement direction like a strafe jump because you can hit the head easily on the peak of the jump or by predicting the trajectory on the way down. Some pros like pine play with high sens and flick using wrist aim and do great on widow too although the majority of pros play on low to very low sens.

[@SuperStarkiller999]

@@MainUkraine I am on 1200 to 3 right now and totally sure I don't shake at all, only killcam from oberwatch is like that

[@LucidOreo]

My 3 main takeaways: 1. "When you're trying to shoot, don't think about where your crosshair is, think about WHEN you need to click. You're the one telling your crosshair when you want to click, not them telling you." I need to drill this into my head because I'm always clicking when my crosshair is no where near my target. 2. When A-D strafing, add a crouch here and there to form an upside down "V" or a skewed "N" but don't just tap the crouch button, hold it for a little bit longer to really get the benefit of your opponent missing their shots. I usually just get headshotted by Widows because I tap crouch for a split second and my head ends up back where it was less than 0.1 seconds ago. 3. When up against projectile Heroes like Hanzo, predict when he will shoot and go in the opposite direction right before he does. A-D strafe for longer but not too long to become too predictable and for the love of god NEVER EVER jump! This applies even to Widow, you'll end up in a predictable movement path and get headshotted. I'm guilty of this sometimes and I mean I main Hanzo so you'd think I would actually never do this but I still do against other Hanzos 😂

[@kyhouse]

Awesome video, Surefour! As much as I'm a Philadelphia Fusion and Carpe fan, you showed that you are THE best Widowmaker player in the world! Keep up the content, I learn so much from your videos.

[@zpuddy1355]

hell yh rocketjumpninja my boy

[@coolbrotherf127]

I learned a lot from this video. There's a lot here that most people don't teach.

[@Troopertroll]

Fun thing to keep in mind for this tracking example with the Zaryas, is that moving in the opposite direction has the same effect as just using a lower mouse sensitivity.

[@StradShow]

I never thought about aiming as a spectrum. Totally makes sense though.

[@BladeofmoonlightKitto]

I've seen so many aim guides, but none has ever talked and shown examples of the importance of when your supposed to click. I've always just assumed that I need pixel perfect reticle placement.

[@acreo7357]

When you watch a 30 minute video about aiming but you play console 😭

[@akeviklund4394]

Ryan Peters shit will be useful if we ever move to pc though won’t it

[@chron2609]

Principles are still true on console

[@zany_fps]

I plan on moving to pc so this really helped

[@yozora2099]

*pc master-race*

[@Hailiums]

Besides the beginning bit about what mouse to use/ sensitivity/ arm vs wrist aim this is still useful to console players. They're fundamentals that apply universally.

[@schnibba1234]

Believe him he’s the guy who switches sens and still completely annihilates all other pro widows

[@EsquireR]

Alright, I'll go feed some widows now.

[@Gingerbaard]

Happy to see rocketjumpninja mentioned, he deserves it

[@nejuu]

WTF this Guide was soooo damn detailed, didnt expected that. This definetly helps me a lot, thanks dude keep goin

[@ZiPMo85]

my prediction always gets predicted after i predict their prediction of my prediction

[@samuelfrade2652]

Just predict their prediction of your prediction of their prediction of your prediction of their prediction of your prediction of their prediction of your prediction of their prediction of your prediction of their prediction of your prediction.......

[@MetaDiscussions]

I learned a metronome helps be unpredictable, I believe people catch onto beats easy. So like a song I will change my movement based on random rhythm and change the rhythm as randomly as possible

[@devonfoushee1533]

this is the best aiming guide on youtube, thnx guy!!!!

[@miz1704]

26:12 best hanzo fan art ever made

[@Nevarek_]

Damn, so that clicking blindly thing is legit. I thought I've been compensating for bad aim or get lucky, turns out it's not a bad habit.

[@FuzzyDPozzy]

oh man this video must be paid lmao so good informative thanks so much!!!

[@frescoclean]

"well you can't do both" "well myself I'm kinda like a hybrid so I'm special" everybody thinks they're special

[@omartrapp5132]

Well he is special his aim is top1%

[@frescoclean]

Omar Trapp he’s telling people wrong info

[@omartrapp5132]

frescoclean damn fast reply also i don’t care to be honest I was just saying he’s special in the aiming category

[@ultraviolet4747]

There's so many variables! >:3

[@MrTheRedFox911]

Just move your mouse, and put the crosshair on their heads, and click.

[@symmeta7168]

As fast as possible

[@samuelabreu4349]

Your "new sub" sound is the same as my cellphone notification sound