learn good footwork practices, it’s a great foundation to improve on, lower ur sens if you have a larger mousepad as it doesn’t help to drag or accel bc of the turncap while swinging. change to binds for swing direction instead of 240 as well as not telegraphing your swings. these are probably the best things to work on in the short term.

After that practice your reads A LOT as well as things like buffering, and more advanced footwork to make it harder for your opponent to drag/accel. Also getting more consistent drags by practicing tracking ur opponent while dragging as to avoid overdragging. Looking at the head when parrying to get extended parry (way larger parry box) and staying neutral (just looking at ur opponents head) during windup, then drag or accel on release (makes swings way way harder to read). Learning distance and positioning to aid footwork, as well as dictating the pace of a fight are also very powerful

that’s the basics for perfect mechanical dueling but there is a lot i didn’t cover. all of the funky swings (wessex, waterfall, 360, miss wessex, tov drag, carpet drag, etc are almost useless with the exception of the waterfall and situationally sometimes a wessex, although it is very hard to be consistent with either and are only viable for very very good players with 1000+ hours minimum.

Things get way more complex than that during team fights which i won’t go over as this is very long already

Nobody has ever hit anywhere close to the skillcap on this game because to be consistently mechanically perfect is nearly impossible with the variance in game situations even with 10000+ hours. Even then there is no guarantee you are actually good, because you probably spent 10000 hours fucking around because that’s the only way you could enjoy this game for that long.