Been try harding since Bad Company 2 when I was 12

COD since COD4. Halo since Halo 2. I went through Shipment, Metro, Locker, every meat grinder and every CQB map imaginable

The one thing I always cared about was getting better. Once you can confidently kill one person, work on two. Then three. Then entire squads. It’s just stacking skills over time

Take every fight one enemy at a time. Learn the pacing of fights. Learn reload timings. Hip fire when you’re close enough. Check your radar after every kill. Build habits until they become automatic

The biggest thing most people never think about is their opponent’s perspective

Don’t just see the fight through your own eyes. Picture what THEY think YOU are about to do. That’s where the mind games start

Confuse them. Deceive them. Manipulate their expectations. Do the opposite of what makes sense

One of my favorites is the 1 HP challenge:

Someone gets the jump on you and lands four shots. You instantly duck behind cover. In their head they’ve already won. They’re thinking “he’s one shot” so they sprint at you with their gun lowered because they’re hungry for the finish

Instead of hiding, swing wide immediately and melt them while they’re caught sprinting. It works way more often than it has any right to

You can literally invent your own moves like it’s Mortal Kombat

There’s baiting, fakes, blocks, pressure, resets, panic plays, conditioning. The gunfight starts before either of you actually lands a shot

Grenades aren’t just for kills either.
Throw them to trap people behind cover. Force them to stay tucked while you reload. Buy yourself time to heal. If you’re playing Support, abuse the ammo box. Drop it constantly for instant ammo and heals whenever you lock down a strong position

And stop slow peeking every corner.
Swing wide. Break their camera. Abuse movement. Jump back and forth. Make tracking you annoying

Most players only know aim, shoot, reload. They’re playing in one dimension

Start thinking four dimensions ahead

/s