Why Mindset Is Everything In Aim Improvement

[@yamicrbxl6641]

about a week ago I was feeling like my skill isn't improving significantly like before anymore despite training on kovakks every day. after that I played in an extremely intense overtime comp game under pressure and pushing my limits. in multiple occasions where I am needed to clutch the round in it and stayed calm not raging even after losing winnable rounds. after that day, I feel like my aim, confidence, and game sense really had a significant boost, I also have been able to enter a flow state way more often than before now. sounds really stupid but at that moment I felt like I was pushing my mind and skill onto a new level of strength. this guy is really spitting facts. vouch+1 dont lose to pressure, stay clam.

[@hirayeah3394]

i have this mindset that my aim is always bad, no matter how much growth, like its not ever enough. not even in the comparative sense, but just as like self slander i cant get rid of

[@WestProter]

It’s annoying but it’s the only mindset able to achieve greatness

[@SirBruceDwayne]

Honestly, i wish i found a video like this years ago. Even though my friends tell me I am good at shooters, I always feel like I'm bad and not improving, even when I do all the aim training, learning the mechanics, and improving game sense. Now I realize I just have a terrible mindset, which makes sense why i don't have as much fun as I should. Thank you

[@vPA1N]

I've found this to be true in any aspect of life, but especially gaming. When I have no worries about my outcome I reach my peak

[@stereo.]

OMG THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE PING PONG STORY, so many people see better players and just take that as them being bad with no way to improve its so annoying to remind new players that they just haven't put in the same time commitment yet 24/7 amazing video, to add my own comments about my experience with this mentality (as it applies to rhythm games more so than fps) everything in this video is absolutely 100000% accurate and i can vouch with my own personal experience, ill also add that it generally just makes the game more fun, it changes it from this race with everyone around into this journey of personal growth, its honestly insane how much mentality can affect stuff like that... anywho rant over good video as always west, only bangers recently

[@sohlr]

thanks proter, this really helped me reignite my passion for improvement, sometimes you just forget and get caught up in your ego forgetting about the bigger picture...

[@WestProter]

Love to hear it

[@choesta]

also something relevant to the topic of the video; even if you're not excited when you lose it's okay. Being actively excited about anything for long periods of time is unsustainable and exhausting, as long as you aren't _very_ upset when you make a mistake and learn from it, thats all you really need to get better

[@choesta]

or don't, im not an expert LMAO

[@vitorgdc]

I'm not a Valorant player, but I play Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike Source and Global Offensive sometimes, and even other less competitive yet difficult to learn nonetheless games like Splitgate and Halo ranging from Halo 1 to 3. I've played dozens of good players throughout my hours registered in all of these games, and while I can agree that playing better players serves you as lessons to get better, I can't help but also think that when playing against a lot of these people that were 100 times better than me, I saw myself literally looking at my screen and thinking like "this is literally unhuman, this person I'm playing against right now must have some raw talent that came with them at birth or some biological factor that I don't" because literally no matter what I would do or think of doing, even on my mind, I would get countered and outperformed resulting on me dying. I didn't rage at that either, and don't rage at all, but I'm not sure either, having a mindset is great but not everyone in the world is as good as a lot of these pro's that just make it look like playing the game and owning everyone is easy, and to them, tbh it probably is, because they're not overworking their brain or focus to do that, it's just their natural. I know it probably isn't anything else but the large amount of hours they spent playing which led to them becoming very experienced and trained players, but I also can't see myself grinding hard and stressing myself just for the sake of being better at a game that I already enjoy.

[@HobbitAim]

perfect timing, i watched this drinking my coffee ty sir

[@whiplash9307]

you changed my life.

[@JustADadsValorantAcademy]

i can consistently activate a flow state with music. i just turn it on and send it my performance goes through the roof. but im trying to actively improve now so my stats are tanking and my losses are high.

[@Runefangice1]

This flowstate really sound like me and others chefs at work

[@lilyglass379]

i really needed this tbh

[@KingNatee]

Well to be bluntly honest, there is one way to always hit flow state. Maybe not orthodox but it’s out there. 1 Prescription away from human aimbot for 10-12 hours nonstop. It’s cringe yea but i’m just mentioning that it exists in the world and many pros are on it.

[@erenkacar6955]

I love and appreciate your content. Always looking forward for the next videos

[@choesta]

the growth vs. fixed mindset stuff is giving me flashbacks to school, i hate it.

[@_paczki]

Thanks for this!

[@Kosmic949]

I really struggle with my mindset, enough to where I just get discouraged from aim training in general and just don't even play any games on my pc. I know it's a bad habit and there are days when I don't struggle with it but I'm just super harsh on myself at all times.

[@WestProter]

Some days you just gotta accept your skill is what it is and the only way to get over that is to train it

[@GavinZbeatsfan9999]

Just explained me. Except I avoid playing with better players 1 on 1 entirely in case I lose. I usually will just block anyone who beats me in 1v1. I regress severely every 3-4 weeks & idk why. If my aim improves it’ll be godly for 3-4 weeks then it’ll regress back to being beyond garbage for up to 2 months before I see improvement again, then the same thing happens. I’m pretty much torturing myself & it’s deserved tbh

[@SanaOsniva]

Thank you

[@samRi_cs]

Great video dawg

[@iNSOMdotTV]

My biggest obstacle: Having fun while losing to a better player. Playing through waves and waves of cheaters throughout the years it's always in the back of my mind someone may be cheating. I think it's far less these days than cs 1.6 days but still always in the back of my mind at high mmr on any fps game especially. I would 100% have fun playing against a player I knew 100% wasn't cheating but that isn't possible to know for sure.

[@WestProter]

Always assume not cheating unless 100% teleporting, invincible, flying, etc. If they aren’t blatant enough to be 100% sure, play for learning to play better, and assume they aren’t cheating. Even if they are you’ll still learn to play against those with better mechanics or predictions.

[@tylergoral]

ReboundMaster certified

[@noir5505]

West proter and Valorant Ascended hard carrying fr

[@mizu6]

i know i need to adopt a growth mindest, because im very fixed on about everything in life. but i dont know what to do to actually adopt that growth mindset, because i always care about my current skill and due to the fact im the lowest rank in every game i play (literally i have the lowest score on various kvks scenarios) i always put myself down about my rank. i dont know what to do

[@broakroze]

I feel like I have a fixed mindset, but it’s because I have tremors. If I start listening to music or increase stress at all, I can’t hit anything. How do I grow with that?

[@WestProter]

Try to teach yourself not to get stressed. Practice staying calm. That is what you are learning/growing on. Also I know a guy who finds he can release strain in his muscles from stress by tensing a different muscle like his leg. Idk if that works though.

[@johnnynguyen980]

Do you use vector motion blur? if you should put a eclipse on the reticle so it doesnt blur out like that

[@WestProter]

I don’t even edit lol. I’ll bring it up next vc with editor

[@asdrol]

I feel so lost, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I try so hard to improve myself. I barely know what I'm doing wrong and I feel like Im mechanically naturally untalented. I aim train and yet my friends who don't have significantly better aim than I do. No I don't chase scores and I try my best to do the hna playlists right, but I still can't seem to achieve a sufficient level of aim.

[@WestProter]

I’d try other playlists as well. Hnas work ok fast flicks, others work on precise control needed for games. Makes sure you follow hnA instructions when you do play, and don’t treat shaking like it’s not an error, it’s still an error, you’re just pushing speed enough that it will happen.

[@asdrol]

@@WestProter What do you think about Aimer7's routine, I switched from his to hna about a couple months ago. Is it also alright to shorten the playlist? I personally find it really hard to play a 90 minute playlist even if its split up into something like 30 minute sessions.

[@euroramic]

DUDE I HAVE THAT BOOK FROM COLLEGE THE SECOND ONE LOOOL IMA READ IT TN

[@WestProter]

Profesor with phd: read this good book. You: Random KZbin video game guy: read this good book. You: IM IN

[@euroramic]

@@WestProter 😂😂😂😂😂 i try to read it at night but i watch your videos instead 💀

[@quarentyn9992]

tbh this is something which i try to keep up throughout my game and sometimes even in my life. but when my teammates and some of my friends say i'm trash or make fun of me if i did a dumb play or if i whiffed, my morale goes down pretty bad and i become tilted easily when they say this type of things and as a result i perform really badly. my question is how do you counter this? like the one where you mentioned the ping pong game and all where your entire floor roasted you, how did you respond in that situation? (P.S. really sorry for the bad english xd. it's my second language and i'm still learning it)

[@WestProter]

You just gotta accept that teammates are just weird mad people and your friends just like making fun of each other. Let go. Accept it. If your friends are genuinely mad you need to get better friends OR if they’re good irl friends maybe they aren’t the best ranked friends

[@ИванФролов-з7ч]

It’s always like bro mindset I have no problems with that . And than ohhh shit that’s me

[@SooFragZ]

have you ever made a video on finding the perfect peripherals to maximize your potential. i only asked because i had bought a bunch of different mousepads and at first i dismissed that cloth mousepads were good. instead i assumed i could only achieve my potential with an artisan mousepad cause it is deemed the best pad ever made. turns out after 2 months of using the zowie gsr rogue i have become more consistent than i ever have been

[@WestProter]

I could look into it. 2 months is a lot of time, so you’d expect improvement even on a slightly “worse pad” not saying your pad is worse

[@SooFragZ]

@@WestProter it exceeds my peak potential on an artisan pad. and all the pros use cloth control pads. just a thought i had

[@SooFragZ]

sorry i should be more direct with my original question. i was wondering if you could do a video on finding the perfect peripherals

[@pabl0191]

any stance on the sensitivity finder in aimlabs? could you perhaps make a video on its usefulness or not worth?

[@WestProter]

idek if it's worth it to look at. If I was still doing more frequent shorter videos I could do a 3 minutes of just why sens finders are memes and that one somehow managed to be even more of a meme, but nowadays, it's not worth it in the upload cycle.

[@pabl0191]

@@WestProter I asked bc I'm really tempted to test it tomorrow because recently I've been really uncomfortable on my sens in Valorant and doubting whether it's working or not bc of inconsistency.

[@WestProter]

If you ever perform poorly, the issue is only your sens if common sense tells you that sens is unplayable

[@thatoneuser8600]

A bunch of health related articles say physical exercise improves reaction time, but idk by how much. Did you notice any improvements in your average scores when you exercised consistently?

[@WestProter]

I’ve been exercising consistently long before I started gaming. Like intense distance running. I have no idea if it would effect my gaming, but when I started i was 17 with 230 ms reactions so it’s not going to make a terrible reactor into a god

[@pabl0191]

@@WestProter 230ms jesus lmfao

[@WestProter]

@@pabl0191 lol. like 190 now

[@pabl0191]

@@WestProter congrats on the improvement. I'm lucky to be between 150-160ms.

[@pandora7705]

I thought my enemies were ascendants and I thought they are better than me, so I could not even shoot them My kd was trash End of the game I looked at their ranks and they were just plats and diamonds (': All of the game my mental was low and even in the beginning of the game I was thinking like oh god I'm dead They are probably better than me, I am already dead etc

[@junvu9104]

bro lurks with jett

[@WestProter]

I just point and click. I don't put that much thought into it

[@squashiid2742]

I use fingertip grip(high sens) in val and i cant aim on high Range. You have any tips ?

[@WestProter]

If the cm is higher than 30, experiment with 5cm lower (min 30cm), if you don't like it, don't stay, most who switch like it. Regardless of how good or bad the sens is, you need to practice a lot. Focus less on these factors and more on highly focused hours of practice.

[@frost3680]

well idk if i am gonna get replied or not but one thing i wanna say that happens to me is i change my sens on game , after some time i play pretty good then i think if i train with sens i am gonna get better then i go to kovaaks and do ur valorant routine and get the same scores that i used to get before example "1 wall 6 target small" 940 score average and then this happens in game i start doing underflicking and over flicking i cant control my recoil my strafe shooting gets so much worse cant kill enemies from behind i get frustrated and change my sens and then everything goes to normal every just goes pretty decent until i go to kovaaks and i checked my fov and everything if theres something wrong but everything is alright do u have any advice for me?

[@WestProter]

Stop trying to associate skill issues with settings. It doesn’t matter what sens you play just play

[@frost3680]

tnx man ♥️

[@seraph4984]

do you have a routine to increase headshot percentage

[@WestProter]

I don’t care for it it’s a useless stat. 500 variables in any shot taken, why does it matter if it was a head or not when you spray through a smoke. Why is it better to die more often aiming slowly and always hitting heads than hit bodies occasionally and hit more heads than you would’ve aiming slowly?

[@seraph4984]

@@WestProter what else should i focus on then if not going for more headshots

[@velvetvlr]

why would someone book you when titan0s is $10 more and u get 1 more hour ?

[@velvetvlr]

this is no hate just a question

[@WestProter]

“If you consistently overflick, lower your sens, if you consistently underflick, raise it.” - titan0s

[@vitaroHere]

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[@bigpotato3982]

first

[@shiima-_-]

wow, this video is not about aim

[@alexbowker1021]

It is about aim though? If you have a shit mindset you'll cap your ability to get better and focus on achieving stuff and proving stuff in the moment instead of using it as an opportunity to grow which can severely affect your growth and ability to get better aim

[@WestProter]

I mean it’s applicable to aim. It was intended like that. Do you guys not like this?

[@alexbowker1021]

@@WestProter I think this is an amazing video and personally helped me understand why I'm harming my growth. I think your mindset videos are some of the best. My comment was defending it

[@ecstxs]

@@WestProter no, it's great. I think learning about aspects that have large to minute effects to your skill that isn't specifically "just go aim train" or something. Even as a casual player, getting better at a game is more fun and hence is learning how to get gud. I do have a question about a certain situation. I've noticed a trend where I play as good as I realistically can and feel like breaking a skill cap for about a week then suddenly my aim and game sense goes down dramatically. I've never change anything in the middle of these "good weeks" and I'm sort of confused why this happens? Usually the first day of throwing is like ok sure bad day it's fine but it continues and takes ages to get even near to the level I was playing at. Any explanation or solution? Thanks!

[@leonwok7453]

Definitely keep up these videos, to improve aim or gameplay you need to have the mental for it, and these videos always reminds me to not only focus on my gameplay and mistakes but also on outside factors such as getting adequate sleep and mental state. Love the content

[@xpologyz]

what do you think the best mouse grip is im plat 3 in val and i play fortnite as well on fortnite i play a1-3-1 palm due to me using mouse buttons and val im trying fingertip grip should i switch or play val 1-3-1 palm as well

[@WestProter]

Don’t really think too much about it. Depends on a lot on hands and mice.