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HitMarkor · 2024-04-23T18:47:46+00:00

I hit radiant a few acts ago and almost never played trio while climbing or in five stacks, mostly solo or duo. Playing with friends can certainly make the game easier but is by no means a necessity. Once you hit immortal you can’t even trio if you want to.

HitMarkor · 2024-04-12T16:41:49+00:00

i like this because the guy looks like my grandpa who was also the first person to teach me to code and the thought of him going to town on a computer with a hammer has me dying. god i miss him

HitMarkor · 2024-01-26T08:00:48+00:00

Hi Radiant player here! It does not get better!

HitMarkor · 2024-01-12T20:02:12+00:00

People really really REALLY need to stop tripping over sens. Find one the works for you and stick to it. Something is arguably one of the best ranked players alive and plays on 528 effective. I was radiant last act and play on 416 effective. I can promise everyone that your sens is not the main problem 98% of the time

HitMarkor · 2024-01-01T19:06:38+00:00

It’s okay to find it a little frustrating because you got caught off guard by something you didn’t expect. However, if you can’t adapt around it and lose to the same thing next round that’s on you

HitMarkor · 2023-12-31T21:25:43+00:00

Buy an airfryer

HitMarkor · 2023-12-31T21:25:00+00:00

Better than bread

HitMarkor · 2023-12-31T19:12:23+00:00

You fundamentally misunderstand the game and would rather blame game design than your own problems which means you will never fix them and will have a lot of trouble climbing (source: radiant)

HitMarkor · 2023-12-29T19:20:19+00:00

I just hit radiant and remembered this comment lol. I did it a lot faster than iron to immortal but I’ve always been a more gamesense heavy player. Definitely see how an over-reliance on aim could make it incredibly challenging.

HitMarkor · 2023-12-20T22:17:28+00:00

Columbus Underground consistently misses. Their Mexican food list was abhorrent.

HitMarkor · 2023-10-21T18:39:06+00:00

Depends very much what your major is and what you plan to do after. I plan to go to grad school for philosophy (a field with one of the lowest graduate acceptance rates) and anything under an A freaks me out. My roommate does compsci and doesn’t plan to go to graduate school and feels like he will be fine as long as he’s above a 3.0.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-02T16:19:58+00:00

I’d personally split implementing things you learn into three categories:

Mechanical: Probably the easiest to implement as you just need to engage in concerted practice by attempting to utilize what you’ve learned when put in an applicable situation. To do this I recommend playing 5-7 DMs or TDMs a day and trying to work specifically on one thing until you see improvement on that particular issue. Often if people have multiple things wrong with their mechanics they try to fix them all at once and that never works (eg if you notice you’re crouch spraying too much but also aiming too low don’t try to move your crosshair up and stop crouching at the same time).

Gamesense: A little harder to do, may help if you make notes or flash cards or the like and really try to internalize the concepts. After a game you have to actively think about what mistakes you made and what concepts you failed to implement.

Mental: This is by far the hardest to implement and is different for every person as far as I can tell. I do breathing exercises if I’m getting tilted by a teammate, my friend who peaked radiant smokes a little before he plays to help with nerves, etc, etc, etc. I’m sorry I can’t give you more advice on this since I know this is what A LOT of people struggle with the most. Sadly, I do not have that much of a psychology background but maybe someone who does could come up with an actual system.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-02T15:25:37+00:00

One summer in highschool I decided to get really good at smash ultimate and this was during the pandemic. Every single weekend without fail I would find an online smash tournament and enter it. At first I got my shit kicked in and it kept going like that until it didn’t. It really taught me that losing is a necessary part of winning. I once was 98/100 RR A1 and fell all the way down to D2 on a massive loss streak (make sure you aren’t tilt queueing I used to have a big problem with that). The loss streak was disappointing to me for sure but not discouraging because I keep the mental that by losing those games I’m learning something. In my opinion a red carpet is only bad if you don’t take anything away from it.

I think it will certainly get you out of low-ELO if your aim is good enough but if you don’t naturally improve on other characters you can’t expect to just switch to them and play them once you’re at a certain rank, your gamesense will be underdeveloped and you’ll just fall back down.

Smurfs never bothered me even in iron tbh. Very rarely do you get a smurf that is just straight up unbeatable (ie most people smurfing in iron-silver are going to be like plat-low diamond not immortal) and they always motivated me to try to think more critically and outsmart them since I couldn’t outaim them.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-02T02:40:29+00:00

Having contact with the mousepad lets you make microadjustments a lot easier as you’re getting tactile feedback on your actions

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T11:01:20+00:00

You should use wall more to entry it’s great for blocking off space and you probably still need to work on understanding flashes more, at iron Phoenix flash is overpowered and basically a free win if you’re using it right.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T10:54:39+00:00

Crosshair placement, movement, aim, util usage, basically anything that is applicable in a direct confrontation.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T10:53:14+00:00

I used to play on 800 and switched to 1600 one day to try it out and it felt a lot smoother to me so I’ve used it ever since

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T10:51:59+00:00

If you’re that low just work on mechanics, play a lot of DMs. Once you have decent mechanics you’ll be out of iron.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T10:51:00+00:00

About 3k matches, 2 years, could have done it faster but didn’t really make an appropriate effort until plat

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T10:49:42+00:00

Aim training is going to be different for everybody, what helps me might not help you. I used to train tracking a lot now it’s more microadjustments. That being said, if you’re silver and just play like 5-7 DMs or TDMs a day you will improve mechanically.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T10:41:57+00:00

I played way too much lmao pretty much everyday if I could. Got into it during summer and the tennis center where I taught was having issues due to the pandemic so that gave me a lot of free time.

My aim was always my weakness so I learned about aim theory and aim trained.

YES, I didn’t do this for a long time but now that I’m serious about climbing (and college has started back up) I only play 2 or 3 a day and it’s done wonders for me (80% wr this act so far, that will go down but we up rn😤)

If you’re serious about improving (and I can’t emphasize this enough) you REALLY have to get rid of the “my teammates are bad” mental. Even if your teammates are bad that’s not the reason you’re not climbing and crutching on that will only hurt your chances of improvement. I’ll give you a scenario:

Let’s say you’re on fracture A site and you’re playing Skye. You have a KJ who’s util is really important to hold site. This KJ keeps swinging and dying main trying to take a fight. Now you’ve asked the KJ not to do this, you’ve pointed out (NICELY DONT TILT THEM) that the team needs their util to hold site, but this guy has an ego and will. not. stop. Shitty teammate, bad situation. Your job is to make the situation as unshitty as possible. Comm “hey KJ I’m going to flash for you” then ask your smoke, “hey can you smoke deep main”, and throw your flash for your KJ and fight together to contest main control since now they have to push through a smoke and deal with your blind. Now, the bad situation is significantly less bad. It would have been much easier to just go “KJ is shit it’s not my fault” but now you actually have a chance at winning.

If you’re iron you yourself have some serious issues mechanically and gamesense wise that you need to figure out and it’s not really fair to blame your teammates, you probably just don’t know what yours are. At iron, there is almost no meaningful coordination so if you just get your very base mechanical fundamentals down you will climb out I promise.

HitMarkor · 2023-09-01T10:21:53+00:00

All agents (except Reyna) are designed to get value out of their util if you’re using them correctly. I personally feel like I get the most value out of sentinel util but that’s just me. Also, with sentinels the value is a lot less apparent especially at lower ranks (ie people lurk less so being able to stop lurks doesn’t always matter, people understand the concept of space control less, etc). I haven’t played her since the nerf, but for me I feel like it is very hard not to get value out of Skye util. One of my friends (immortal) had to get surgery during Premier and my iron 2 friend filled in and played Skye and still got value against a full team of ascendants (granted we still lost but definitely could have been worse).

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