You dropped the spaghetti here... I've been playing valorant since January
2021. My peak rank has been Gold despite my lack of dedicated practice I still
learned the basics of the game such as game sense, man-advantage, movement error,
and economy--all skills that help me climb from Iron to Silver. My aim and my
mechanics were still lacking, and I really wanted to change that, so I
decided [that] I was going to hire three coaches for a month.
I was taking this seriously since I was putting money into this.
I created a daily schedule to maximize my time and effort. I wanted to balance
work while also the rest of my life and then on top of that Valorant. So here's
what the schedule looks like: And yes, that schedule has a total time
of 44 and a 1/2 hours of dedicated Valorant per week. Here are the coaches I
found: I met the 1ZK in a deathmatch once and asked for the aim routine,
and he was kind enough to give it to me for free. I picked Goonzer and Atlas on
Fiverr since they had some solid reviews, and they were reasonably priced. And last,
I picked Woohoojin since I've been a long-time fan, and he offers free VOD
reviews. So we start on January 10th: the rank reset took place, and I started
fresh to determine my true rank I refrained from any coaching or aim
training for the very first week as suggested by Riot senior competitive
designer Jonathan Evermore Walker who states that it takes 20 to 40 ranked
games to reveal a player's true rank. At the end of the week, I had played over
well over 40 games, and placed Gold 2, and recorded several vods to review. Let me tell you right now, Week One was intense my coaching began early in the
week, so I could practice it for the rest of the week.
I focused on one of my worst vods, which was a tied game. I was playing Brimstone
on Ascent, and I wanted to see what I could have done differently to win us
that match. Both radiant coaches immediately flame me for how I was using
my comms. "No Cap, you think this guy comms too much? Yeah, I agree.
It's not- okay, okay, it's not the volume of the comms that's the problem, it's the
content of the comms. comming this often is fine, as long as
there's important things to comm. However, what we're comming
is generally not high quality." "Even I have an ego, and if you're- if I'm playing, and the guy's like 'Yo guys I'm
gonna 'blah blah blah' I'm gonna say what the [ __ ], bro? like I'll just do this. INSTAMUTE. Done.
Okay, can you pause, can you pause, can you pause? - Yeah, yeah, I know I have a gap here.
- Okay, okay, bro. Okay you know that's not okay, yeah?" "That smoke is kind of shitty I think."
- Which one? "The one in door, yeah"
- Oh? - "The one in the door in the door- oh no, it's okay, it's okay. I think there's a
gap on the left side, to side be careful." - Oh okay - "and, and this one on Heaven is pretty bad." - This needs to be deeper, right?
- "Yeah, this one is pretty bad." I was too tilted and I was just telling
my teammates what to do. It was already difficult to see people I respected
telling me that I was not being helpful with my comms, and I unfortunately could
see it, but that's okay I am learning and I am absorbing everything that they were
telling me. So they gave me some specific feedback on improving my smokes, my mechanics, and my communication with my teammates. Week Two was the most challenging one
for me. Despite feeling like I had improved, my rank games were showing
minimal progress, resulting in a drop from Gold 2 all the way to the brink of
Silver 3. This led me to question if I was actually getting worse at the game
and if my initial placement was just based on luck. I turned to my coaches for advice and
encouragement this is what they said [Music] I knew there was a lot of work to be done. My mechanics weren't good enough
yet and neither was my utility usage. "Would I be able to hit Plat by the end
of the week?" I thought. Despite the stress, I refused to give up, and I kept
practicing pushing myself to improve and never losing sight of my goal.
I was determined to make it to Plat by the end of the week no matter what it
took that was the moment that I thought, "Maybe
I can just hit Plat... right now. Maybe if I just queue five
more games and win all of them, I will be Plat. And it
was in that moment I fully disregarded the schedule. I was only
queuing competitive games without any breaks in between. Aim training, VOD
reviewing? Out the freaking window. It was comp or coaching and that's when I
dropped all the way down to Gold One from Gold Three. I definitely wasn't respecting myself at this point. I was like Icarus and I was
blinded by the sun. I was flying way too close to it. All I could think about was
hitting Plat, and I wasn't appreciating the small gains I was making. I wasn't
even having fun anymore. I realized that if I wanted to climb the
ranks I couldn't let external factors such as smurfs, trolls or e-daters affect
my mental state. I took a step back and decided to stop tilt queuing and
instead, take a full day off to reset. I spent the day off playing Sifu. It's a Kung Fu
rogue-like. Basically it's a game where you're trying to avenge the death of
your father and every time you die years are added onto your character. You become
older with less Health, but you gain more experience and you do increased damage
every time you die. Something about this mechanic reminded me that's kind of the
whole point of life and the whole reason why I'm doing this climb is to learn and
to get better and to know more. "Then something snapped!"
I realized that maybe I should just treat Valorant like Sifu and that every
time, I lose I get to learn something about the game and I get to
eventually get better. Week Three, my day off definitely helped
me reset. My mentality was growth minded and I was ready to continue improving my
skills I practiced in Aim Labs in Kovaaks, and I was thrilled to see my mechanics
getting better each day. I was hitting new records, and I was even able to
counter-strafe I quickly climbed back into Gold 2 early in the week and
just days later I hit Gold 3. Week Four, I returned to my original plan of warming
up before competitive games. I was aiming to hit 2 to 4 high-quality games
instead of playing large numbers of mediocre ones. Because I was one win
away from Plat, three times, the frustration was building and on my first
attempt to rank up one player went AFK for about a third of the game and my
team was yelling at each other, but we still managed to find our way into
overtime, and we almost won. "Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up..." (in unison) Oh my God. but even though we lost,
I knew I had what it [takes] to hit Plat. I was just
gonna take a break for the night and not play anymore because I didn't want
to tilt queue all the way back to Gold One again. So, I went to bed, and I promised myself
I was gonna hit Plat tomorrow. on Saturday February 11th,
I finally hit my goal. The moment was a relief this is what it looked like "Yohahoo! All right!"
Yet, I still thirsted for more wins. My new desire was to reach Diamond or even
Immortal, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why. If you're interested in [getting] coaching yourself,
check out the links in the description for the coaches that I used. I highly
recommend each of them. If you enjoyed this video, please consider subscribing,
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Great video! You got a sub from me
I feel like you could've gotten out of elo hell regardless of coaching because you didn't consistently practice before but it's good for a youtube video ig