Why Your Aim Is NOT Improving On Apex Legends

[@Dazs]

This is a very common question I get asked in DMs and in discord. "Why is my aim not improving". Let's break it down in today's video!

[@NPixel7558]

Honestly it just feels absolutely impossible to control recoil, no matter how hard I try to learn the patterns it always feels like the gun just does what it wants, all I can do is pull down.

[@bigmang73]

My aim not only doesn't improve - I noticed it gradually becomes worse. I used to miss around two thirds of a CAR clip from around 50m range, now, however, I only hit 3-4 shots out of entire mag. I actually even thought of quitting the game entirely because of this, even though I enjoy the game itself.

[@EmergencyChannel]

Set settings to default and practice, practice, practice. Then after you are decent, start making adjustments to your settings to fine tune your aim.

[@KidNamedFinger.]

Try taking a week long break.

[@anonieljorgitopedro1786]

Thats weird usually its the opposite. One tip is i have the same aim sets in different games. There are calculators for that. Play a lot of FPS with different sens = thrash aim because you "confuse" your muscular memory.

[@poisonddogpoisonddog6212]

@@EmergencyChannel R u on xbox

[@IDKWHAT2NAMETHISS]

Same. I was playing 6+ hours everyday & my skills vanished out of nowhere. I cant be fucked practicing anymore for garbage that goes away instantly & unexpectedly. I quit every game bc of this bs Its like the recoil thing doesn’t even register when i pull down & it makes me aim all over the place or i just get lasered. Im sick of this happening so i might buy a strike pack or a better controller

[@CloudJordon_]

Im currently in the height of my passion for Apex and dude its so great having these to help along the path of improvement thank you honestly

[@Vosik_Splicer_Archpriest]

no matter what lobby i'm in there's ALWAYS a wraith who keeps tap strafing in front of me like a kid who has eaten too much sugar. they only stop and start shooting when i have to reload or try to retreat.

[@oursavior9339]

Damn that was just real talk right there

[@voidedego]

It's been a solid two months for me since playing Apex and I can 100% say that while I don't really practice in firing range unless I need to understand a legends abilities and their combat styles it's become more and more easy for me to come out alive in those random 1v3's and shooting from farther distances without optics and that is ONLY because I am putting in my time and effort to progress even with all the losses I have faced. (Sadly I just cannot learn shooting non-moving targets in range. It's just what works for me) Love the video!

[@javianbrown8627]

Playing is really one of the best ways to improve, if you want to work on your aim specifically you can just 1v1 someone on your friends list. Shooting the still targets also still helps a bit and there's an easter egg that allows them to move and shoot back. Practicing these things and doing them under pressure are 2 different things though but raising your confidence with practice will reduce the situations where the pressure gets to you

[@IDKWHAT2NAMETHISS]

I literally just become bad suddenly. One week god tier beams with every weapon, after that week: cant control recoil, cant track, lose every fight

[@jamesbaxter7492]

Your delivery of your tutorials is so clean , calm and concise . 10/10

[@silentdude56k]

Very good point about people improving without realizing it. I started recording my own gameplay last year so that I could figure out what I was doing well and what I was doing not so well. Comparing my footage from then to now is eye-opening.

[@PProph]

"Slow progress is still progress" is one of my favourite philosophies. Great video, and that thumbnail is great!

[@metaggrit]

It's actually a settings issue, ramp isn't a default in any other game, so even if you are an fps god, leaving ramp on prevents aim from being a practiceable skill.

[@Jhaeros118]

Daz I'm back here again, made masters in season 14 but had to take last split off. Going through a review of all your aim videos. Thank you for all the knowledge you're spreading

[@thebilliast4466]

Reason #1: Genetics

[@papamuller]

Sometimes my aim gets thrown off because of my mouse wire. I just bought it and I can't afford a bungee. But my real problem is with the strafing during 1v1s. I panic and get stuck when someone jumps on me with tap strafes or something

[@faceman3585]

This is what I find so frustrating. Our R-99s must be made by different manufacturers. If I stand still at that distance in the range, which I've done for hours and hours and hours, my shots will NEVER look like that on controller!!! The horizontal recoil of the gun, even slight, will miss shots at that distance, and trying to mitigate the recoil with your thumb on a joystick just leads to overcompensation. Dead zone and the tiny circumference make it impossible to execute those micro adjustments, and at the distance, even the slightest inaccuracies exponentially decrease precision. It really is an unfair fight. M+K can stop the fight well before it gets to close range, where controller apparently has the advantage due to rotational aim assist. I call total BS tho. No one needs help hitting close range shots. The assistance is negligible. More assistance should obviously be provided for the more difficult shots!

[@EmergencyChannel]

Strafe back and forth while aiming down sights, recoil smoothing will get rid of 90% of your recoil with the added benefit of being harder to hit.

[@faceman3585]

@@EmergencyChannel Not the point. I know how to jitter aim. The point is, in the video, he is standing completely still and beaming.

[@zorkmeadd]

i'm m&k, and i'll admit the only controller players i've seen with that good of recoil control are literal pros. you really need to play to your strengths by which input you use. apex has enough maneuverability that in most cases you can either force a close range fight or just run. controller has the advantage up close and you just gotta play to that.

[@Dazs]

Its a massive time investment. Everyone will find different walls. For controller at that distance to master it will take several hundred if not a thousand hours to master. Same for my recoil control, I personally have upwards of thousand plus hours. I can tell you at the start of my switch to Apex. I would never be able to do this. Even then I spent an hour just spraying the R-99 while listening to music. If it was easy, we would be doing it. No reason to even make videos or ask “how one does it”. Controller has an edge close range. I need to spend more hours to win. But a controller player has to spend more hours to train at a distance. Learning curve varies of course. Why this statement is so difficult. I seen some controller players learn quickly range. Then struggle close range. (A settings thing) When I played pro and even at high tier ranked lobbies. This is assumed everyone can aim like this. But its also .1% - 1% of the player base. I dont use jitter aiming personally as you can see from this video. I learn the pattern. If I switched inputs to controller. I am confident I could achieve these results. Because I know how to practice…But it would take me thousand hours of practice.

[@Dazs]

Its just a hard pill to swallow overall. If a controller player masters this distance, we know their close range is near 100% accuracy. Then the conversation at that high end becomes “for a mouse & keyboard player it takes nearly 3,000 hours to master close range fights to that perfection”. Either way, the wall shifts. At a pro or high level its better to have both controller and MnK on the roster to balance strength’s and weaknesses. Most end game becomes close range. You can run a comp that closes the gap. Gibby, wraith, and horizon. Bubble forward, port in, take height. Gotta think outside the box to improve and counter play. Its always easier to fall back “controller is easier close range” “MnK is easier mid range” “controller has aim assist” “MnK has more settings and control” Reality: your positioning is not good, your comms and synergy with your team is rough, or your pushes and time to engage was incorrect. Mechanical aim can be fixed with thousands of hours. By literally anyone. But unless who acknowledges their poor play, you will remain stuck no matter how good your aim gets (to a certain degree)

[@Gwegory22]

What do you use to record and is that how you “demo” review ?

[@typehere6689]

Sounds about right. Wonder how I am to get like 16 hours every day for multiple years to get good...

[@katawa_2335]

I practiced every day, but my aim would never improve running on 4 3 controller settings. I figured that running linear instead of classic was a better fit for me, and I had finally pasted my hardstuck plat wall.

[@IDKWHAT2NAMETHISS]

I have been playing linear for a long time. My aim just becomes bad randomly. I practice for over an hour in the range shooting dummies from super far away. I improved for a while often having no problems with beaming people from over 80m but i get on one day and its all gone, back to the garbage aim ive always had since i started playing fps.

[@mettdamon6024]

Love your content and routine on aimlab

[@MrBlazingninja]

Thanks I needed these words said homie!

[@famousduncan3596]

I have 300+ hours in apex and I still play like I just started, in literally in any other shooter I am pristine (mostly)

[@anti6643]

Yeah idk why all these videos ignore ping, how bad the guns are when it comes to firing rate like the g7 and 3030 which will literally not shoot, not to mention no regs, different legends size which leads to more no regs. Shooting in this game is inconsistent and if your not using an smg your bullets travel at carrier pigeon speed

[@parkerhunter1085]

Are you streaming on yt or twitch??

[@hermicks]

Bro I been putting in countless hours in the game and firing range, I keep trying different ranges... Aim Labs! Kovaaks! and I can't seem to be able to catch up to the players that Apex keeps matching me up against... I'm practicing and practicing and not seeing the fruits of my growth..

[@wrknjob]

THE THUMBNAIL 💀💀💀

[@leonhartescanor8136]

My aim is so bad that it reset every play like sometimes my aim is so good and sometimes its so bad and it's always bad

[@SAMy698]

my aim was good for a while and all of the sudden it just dropped and now its bad

[@se7bun]

Bro I couldn't even get though the the good video i just kept dieing looking at the thumbnail lmao why the gun like dat

[@Jk-zv6tz]

Apex aim just feels weird. Can't put my finger on it, but it always feels alien compared to other FPS

[@serasleepy]

Great vid :O I am hitting a wall right now but will be patient like you said

[@zorkmeadd]

how much time do you think somebody should spend aim training vs actually playing apex? i try to play ~4 hours of apex every single day (i've kept this up for 6 month so far! very proud of myself), how much of my time should be taken up by aim training? also i would like to thank you for these videos, they truly seem like some of the best educational videos on improving in apex that i've been able to find. on days that i've had low motivation to play and improve watching one of your videos has rekindled my motivation. thank you so much!

[@jomarimahilum9767]

Loved your videos been watching some of your guides, and right im kinda stuck of finding my sensitivity really, i tried almost every range of sens from higher sens to low sens. this is the situation i had every time I change my sens. at the 1st day of using the sens is I kinda adapt to it quickly, my scores in kovaaks got higher everytime I change but after a week or so, i kinda feel something is off, im over flicking and over correcting. not the same from the very 1st day of using the sens, thats when I got frustrated and change another sens. what can you advice to that?

[@irhcsa]

I can hit shots with the wing man all day, but I cannot for the life of me track targets that are strafing. I practice with aim trianers and have like 5k hours in apex. My brain cannot predict which way they will strafe. In the aim trainer I cant ever keep on the target that is moving random directions.

[@pxartfun4688]

Bro i guess i will quit apex, because i can't do it anymore,i play since s2 and still in bronze and silver,and i always suck and barely play well!do u have any advices for improving because i don't,i will go crazy, Everytime i play apex,i rage quit and wanna destroy everything!pls give me some tips for improving, i love this game sm but i suck anyway

[@FirstNameBasis_]

Dazs seems like a really fun person to play with but maybe that's just because they seem to have alot of patience. And I can learn alot from them. Makes me wanna hop back on apex to meet people who arnt toxic. Lol

[@doom9242]

That thumbnail hurt me on a personal level 😂

[@javianbrown8627]

Because of frames! I hate taking a fight that's in my favor, by pushing an enemy I know is low, dropping like 25 frames and then I'm unable to track. I play on console though but this could be optimized a bit better

[@maxliamlogar7685]

Love a daz

[@colleen9081]

When I shoot the recoil is insane

[@izharma1739]

If you want to know how good or bad your aim, just use Wingman or PK

[@danarichards3003]

Awsome video 👍👍

[@hueysimon2726]

The aim isn't the problem. Aim assist is the problem. If you have any lag, which I ALWAYS do, it literally never activates. I can clip videos showing that when I face someone, I see them first, I start shooting first, I hit with most of my bullets, but they win. I look at the kill feed and it shows me only firing half of the bullets that my screen registered as hits. That is 1 to 1.5 seconds of latency, in nearly every match, 99%. Now, I can get on any game with a dedicated server and not experience that problem. So, either their servers are garbage for some of us, or they aren't using dedicated servers for gameplay, only for matchmaking. It's not SKILL based matchmaking, because since my connection is hindered by apex and/or playstation network, I lose most gunfights, making my overall lifetime k/d .27. This is lower than every other shooter i've played since shooters existed, and i've played most of them. I'm not the best by any stretch, but I could reliably maintain a k/d of 1.0 to 1.3 in every one of those shooters, maybe dipping to a .9. What i'm experiencing in this game makes it literally unplayable. My brother also pointed out that nearly every player that beats us like we're newbs is playing on Xbox. I'm guessing they aren't having their network throttle their connection like playstation does. Also, if you are below level 16 you clearly get boosted, which is why so many people smurf in this game. And since there is no real penalty for cheating in apex, there is no reason not to do it. I've seen level 2 people play like pros, mastered movement, aiming, peeking, strafing, ducking, slide shooting, etc. If there wasn't an advantage in doing it, why would they. And I know they do, because my brother and I have tested it, numerous times, just to prove it. As long as we were both below level 16, we won every gunfight and won matches, easily. As soon as we hit 16, it went back to sweatfest with lag. So, either i'm getting on xbox to get an advantage against PS players and be equal footing to xbox players, or i'll just delete it as it is now unplayable, at all.

[@djethreii]

"I put the time in, I earned my stripes" - Bangalore.

[@IDKWHAT2NAMETHISS]

I put my time in too but earned no stripes

[@luke7054]

Happy bday

[@angelazcona7]

Hard to put the time in when respawn doesnt let me play the game for 2 weeks because of an input lag bug on xbox. Lol

[@FatalShotGG]

1:29 people get embarrassed when they miss a bullet in a video game? Oh, I get it... They care what children and bored adults think about them😂😂

[@Lexivo753]

trying to get better this game is exhausting and I've tried almost everything to improve, I've maintained between a 1.2-1.6 KD, have played since week one, and have almost 3000 hours of playtime without so much as a 3k, I've been killed by abusing_R2 twice in pubs today despite not winning any of the last 30 games, even after dying in the first 5 squads multiple times I still die to pred 3 stacks and have been since season 4, my brother with half my playtime has a 4k and it honestly feels like the games SBMM maliciously targets me, I've put an absurd amount of time into this game but its hard to improve when you get beamed by a 50,000+ kill master/pred almost every game, I genuinely don't know how to improve without smurfing or apex easing back on their brutal SBMM

[@CarlosDiaz-ee7uc]

Nah he tweakin

[@SoonerState]

but... if you had your mouse sense at .5 with ads multiplier at 1. what was your dpi at? I still feel like I haven't found my sense with how inconsistent I am.

[@Dazs]

Gotta try new things. Take notes on what you liked about different sensitivity settings.

[@Dazs]

Also you don't want to run my sensitivity, I utilize mouse acceleration.

[@SoonerState]

@@Dazs I only bounce around on the dpi. 800 900 or 1000. Sense at 1.3 with ads at .6 and I do not have mouse acceleration turned off. I can tell a difference when you had it off and on and I definitely couldn't handle that.

[@SoonerState]

@@Dazs so is that why you have those values so low, because mouse acceleration is on?

[@Dazs]

@@SoonerState yeah, my sensitivity has a multiplier, hard cap, and a custom acceleration setting.

[@mistakenquan]

I need a how to optimize horizon tutorial

[@Overreactionary]

Can we take a sec to appreciate not only the work put into this video, but also the work put into the editing, and into the thumbnail design. I tried out 3d thumbnail design before, let’s just say it’s harder then it may seem. Great work man! Really an inspiration to small Apex creators everywhere.

[@itspaaach]

What's the discord server link?

[@disaiahm98]

Y’all remember to just enjoy the game , it can be fun just messing around the firing range too, those dummies can be pretty entertaining! But they talk **** too😂

[@paulaelkin6673]

I struggle on long range and I play on controller I got my average damage up to 30 rather than 11 but I still struggle I also have high sense so it's a little hard but I know that I have time and skill so while this video was not helpful to me I'm sure it was to a lot of people great work dazs

[@paulaelkin6673]

It wasn't helpful for me cause I have confidence and I'm pretty good even if I play for only months but this would be really helpful if I didn't have confidence

[@paulaelkin6673]

Which lots of people don't which I can relate to because I don't have confidence in real life

[@paulaelkin6673]

Wdym kmndra

[@paulaelkin6673]

@@kmndra5831 wdym kmndra

[@FatalShotGG]

I swear these thumbnails are all the same bro😂😂🤒

[@gokuljosh1186]

Can you do a video on your takes on best team compositions, need not be a guide, just your opinion on best legend compositions for s13

[@user-vs5il9zz5m]

Love the info you gave us god tier facts!!!!!

[@d-manc2749]

Most of the time it's not your aim, it's your internet or the effing compensation lag lol. I once shot ppl running to the left and i have to shoot 1 meter in front of him to reg lol.

[@PsyTim91]

I recently just started the voltaic benchmarks and I'm gold complete with 40 hours in kovaaks. Have over 3k hours in apex and been diamond since season 8. It's a game changer I didn't realise how bad my aim was til I did the benchmarks 🤣 Gunna push diamond by end of august 💎 (VT rank Benchmark not apex rank diamond )

[@paulaelkin6673]

If you gold you'll likely hit plat and by the time you do you'll hit diamond cuase there's a big difference between gold and platinum so I believe you can do it

[@PsyTim91]

@@paulaelkin6673 I'm plat in smoothbot and pasu so far. I've started using a sens randomizer to see if that helps my mouse control

[@calamitypj]

Just so you know as a voltaic diamond, my aim in Apex( with a big emphasis on aim in Apex alone ) isn't that different compared to when I was voltaic gold. I still get dunked on A LOT. I will say you have 2k more hours in apex than I do. Some of the biggest hurdles for me deal with terrain and visual clutter.

[@NFN.josh.]

🎙I will be one of the greatest artist of my generation🌏🔥

[@veats4699]

🔥

[@zenngl]

Gl

[@thomaskdrums]

Thought about having to improve my aim just while I was playing today. Nice reminder on what I need to focus on :) I started playing about two months ago and your content helped me so much. Thank you ! Hopefully I'll catch up to one of your live streams someday !

[@Shakura8]

I only need patience in this fast pace game .. just patience .

[@oakleyb6407]

Early

[@maxliamlogar7685]

Firstt :)

[@Dazs]

Hello First :)

[@yahiamazari7299]

i just need good gpu i have 2.13 kd with so bad

[@possibly_meta7389]

Woo

[@DipperBoar]

Hey Dazs. Not really something to do with the video but you know how you say to bind jump to scroll wheel down in order to do super jumps? Well when you do that and try to use it with Valkarie, her jetpack gets activated sometimes. I was wondering if there was a way to use the scroll wheel for jumping without activating Valk's jetpack?

[@shootinstuff1079]

It would be nice if there was it's own input kinda like how you activate gibbys shield or ashs death tracker. But maybe switching it from whatever you have the jetpack behavior to( toggle or hold idk what u use) to the opposite might help. I have no clue I don't play Valk just a suggestion to try and help 🙃

[@adoorknob6341]

acetone

[@Shypa]

in S13 there is no SBMM

[@Cubixl]

thats false

[@Shypa]

@@Cubixl Ah, okay. Then there is a display bug. It shows me i ranked silver but have to fave Master and Preds. No clue if im Pred or if they are just silver.

[@Cubixl]

@@Shypa You talking about ranked or pubs? If you talking about pubs its completly possible that you get in games with masters and preds because pub sbmm is separate from your rank. Pub sbmm is calculated from your lvl, K/D accountwide, and your performance of the 5 previous game (kills, dmg and time to kill you had!). Hope that clarified it for you

[@Shypa]

@@Cubixl 🤣 Okay, in Ranked im Silver and have to face Silver/Rold ranked masters and preds. in Pub my kd is 0.9 - 0kills last 9 matches. average dmg dealt 248. Facing diamonds to preds. Im constantly killfeeded to these ppl.

[@Cubixl]

@@Shypa so you only face masters and preds cause they deranked this season and didnt grind their way up to their rank again...so be patient...

[@N1xko]

I think my aim aiite can still improve but it aiite my movement could use work but input limitations 🤷🏽‍♂️ what i think i need to work on is decision making, thing is I either play randoms or with friends, randoms never listen to me and my friends let their egos get better of them cause they been playing since launch solo queue frustrating for me especially with the 3rd parties

[@mr.peanut2278]

my guy is giving advice with a xim

[@Dazs]

Don't use a xim, just lots of practice.

[@Dazs]

Only losers use xim and waste their time and life.

[@James00037]

Yeah, its a tough pill to swallow but aim is the least of my problems

[@XenomorphTerror]

NO ONE PLAYS APEX LEGENDS FAIRLY ANYMORE THE ONLY PEOPLE STILL PLAYING ARE MODDING THEIR CONTROLLER INPUTS ON AN XBOX SERIES X THERE'S NO POINT IN PLAYING APEX WHEN EVERYONE CAN CHEAT WITH A MOD SUBSCRIPTION THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE BEAT YOU SO QUICKLY IS BECAUSE THEY'RE MODDING THEIR CONTROLLER INPUTS AND THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULD POSSIBLY BEAT THE TRIPPLE STACKED MODDERS UNLESS YOU YOURSELF ARE ALSO PART OF A TRIPPLE STACKED CONTROLLER MODDING TEAM THAT'S SWEATING EVEN HARDER THAN YOUR CHEATER ADVERSARIES. YOU EITHER CHEAT AND LOSE TO A BETTER CHEATER SQUAD OR YOU PLAY WITHOUT CHEATS AND LOSE EVEN FASTER TO A CHEATER SQUAD BECAUSE THERE'S A CHEATER SQUAD IN EVERY SINGLE APEX LOBBY AVAILABLE NO MATTER WHAT TIME OF DAY YOU PLAY PERIOD

[@PrincePalmUwU]

Oh boy you're going to piss off a lot of PC players including when console is more superior. 🤣 Yikes!

[@netorare_ow7446]

Most of you will never improve regardless of this good video. Just give up.

[@John4Real]

thanks dasz, this is literally my question to myself everyday.🥲