Crosshair
Choosing a right crosshair is important. When choosing a crosshair you want to know your aim style. Put your opacity at 50 so you can see what you are shooting at. Don’t make it huge, since you won’t know where your shot is going to land
I use a green crosshair on the thinnest settings. I use it with a small gap in the middle, no dot, and medium crosshair length, so I can track easier, I use this for all characters.
Always use green or a color that contrasts the enemy
Some people use dots. If you want to track the enemy with ease use a crosshair, if you need to be accurate try the dot.
Your crosshair really doesn’t matter that much, but it shouldn’t be something stopping your aim.
Aim training
When working on your aim, people generally think they have to improve their mouse movement, most of the time it’s not about landing a crazy shot, but knowing when to shoot.
Surefour has great videos talking about it
The best way to train your aim is in game, try hard FFA since you are always in a fight. Being able to land your first shot is essential, since your enemy won’t be trying to dodge it if he doesn’t know you are there. When entering a 1v1 you will be actively training your movement, game sense, and mechanics, making FFA the best way to get good inside the game fast.
If you don’t know when to click then osu! can help you a lot. This game makes you track and flick to click at the right time. Another good alternative is FPS osu! which takes in count 3D aim and can help some people improve.
The fastest way to improve aim is using Kovaaks. This is a paid aim trainer with thousands of scenarios to practice diffrent aspects of aim. When creating your play style on Kovaaks you should focus on the main 3 aspects of aim, Tracking, Clicking and Target Switching. Aim is a skill, the more times you repeat it, the better you get. Aim trainers are better at training raw aim than in game games such as tryhard ffa, this is because you get to do many more repetitions on shorter amount of time. On a game you might flick 20 times, but in an aim trainer you can flick over 100 times in less than a minute.
Crosshair Positioning
The crosshair is an indicator of where your shots will land. Knowing where to have your crosshair will help you win against someone who doesn’t. When thinking where to place your crosshair you should think where your enemies will be and where will they move in the future. Look at the gameplay of a good Mccree, they are able to do insane flicks and tracking, but they generally don’t. Because they let the enemy walk into the crosshair. The same applies with widow hook shots, players predict where the enemy widow will be, and they place the crosshair so when they fall at a certain height, the crosshair will fall into the enemies head.
This becomes more important the lower your sensitivity is, since doing movements to adjust your crosshair will be harder and slower. In CSGO players generally hold their crosshairs at the corners because they expect enemies to be there, but in Overwatch you have to apply your knowledge of the game to predict where someone will be. This is why players can predict tracer recalls and immediately kill her before she is there.
Flicks
The closer your crosshair is the enemy, the less distance you will have to move your mouse, making your shots easier to hit. A problem with lower rank players is that they flick every shot they do. Letting the enemy walk into your crosshair is much better and consistent than randomly moving your mouse into the enemies hit box. Console players are much better at this since it’s really hard to aim at the console, players in the console move their crosshairs into the enemy meanwhile they wait to pull the trigger at the right time. Make sure you have the lowest input lag possible, since you want to click at the perfect time, and input lag shouldn’t make you miss a shot. You want to flick when you know that your enemy won’t be in your crosshair. Flicking is not a skill but rather a combination of target switching and click timing, it is not something you should practice. Instead, you should focus on the fundamentals of aim before mastering flicking, use aim labs or Kovacs to practice tracking and clicking
Eye Placement
You should always be looking where you want to shoot. Track your enemies head, not your crosshair. You want to see how your enemy is moving so you can shoot at him. If you look at your crosshair then you won’t know where to shoot and you will probably have tunnel vision. Keep track of your enemies even if your crosshair is not on them, this is specially important for characters that have to multitask like an Ana that’s being flanked, or a Genji with blade. If you are struggling with tracking your enemies, maybe try raising your model detail or render scale. It helped me see heads clearer. I recommend putting the outline strength in 33% as it will let you see heads clearer and track them with ease.
Clicking
Not knowing when to click is a major problem that affects a lot of players. It’s about taking the easy shots. You can see players in Grand master or T500 with shitty mechanics, but they know when to do what. If an enemy doesn’t know you are looking at them, then they will probably move in a predictable pattern. You should always try to have 100% percent accuracy with your first shot. Many good players over sometimes flick, but it doesn’t affect them since they know when to click, they might to a larger movement than what’s required but their crosshair is clicked when the enemy is on it.
Take a look at this clip
Here this CSGO players over flicks but clicks just in time and does a clutch play. Things that helped me learn when to click where osu! and COD mobile. Cod mobile is a shooter on a mobile device, it's going to have you learn how to click and release.
Over Analyzing Aim
Your aim is probably not holding you back unless you are in bronze, it’s not the reason why you are losing games, don’t think too much about your sensitivity or aim. It should be something natural that you don’t have to think about. Your mind should be on the game.
We are not mechanically consistent every day, we are humans, not machines.
The only thing that will be consistent most of the time is your mentality and your mindset.
There are things we will never be able to control, so why bother?
Focus on your mentality and game sense consistently. Good aim should come as you play.
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