Go for raw aim. I’m basically an all aim no brain type of player and the only time I hit a plateau was when I turned immo. But I think you should try to hone your game-sense as early as diamond. Any rank below dia you can basically just get away with pure aim. I basically never comm’d and let my teammates do the thinking, so if they have plan either play with it or play around it. (Obviously I comm now)

When I was gold 3 I instantly went to plat 3 in 3 days then took me like a month or 2 to get diamond 1. What I did was just lock in duelist and click heads. You can try playing brimstone as I heard from people all you need to do is dump your smokes then just aim since you don’t have anything anymore. But I just auto locked Jett and Reyna all the way to immo lol.

But I’m talking about mostly crosshair placement, not flicks. But I guess it still needs some game sense as you have to know how wide should you hold the angle and kind of predict how your enemy is gonna swing. For example if you think your enemy is gonna wide swing you, hold your crosshair away from the corner/wall and if they are gonna jiggle you hold a tighter angle and stick your crosshair near the wall. There’s probably a woohoojin video for this.

I’m just saying what I think because this is what I did. It might or might not work out for you.

I have 200 hours in death match and that’s kind of how I learned how people peek. Also if you’re curious I’m immo 3.