for me, counterstrafing is a lot more consistent. pressing a key makes it easier to hit the timing, because i know i shoot after i hit the key. letting go of a key is really awkward for me. it might just be because i've played cs for years and always counterstrafed.

I heard Shroud mention that you can shoot almost instantly after you let go of the movement key. I didn't understand this untill recently and this has been a major benefit for me and my gameplay

I think counterstrafing is still useful though, but just don't fully stop. It's useful on a quick jiggle for a 1-tap attempt to immediately hide after the shot. I know you kinda covered it with the jiggling part, but just wanna point that out as well.

As a very consistent Immortal player myself, who doesn’t play anymore, I find myself watching these videos mainly out of curiosity rather than to learn. I believe all these tips are useful! I subconsciously stopped doing this a few episodes ago and realize I mainly do it when I’m tilting. I don’t think it has a huge impact but the discipline you build off of tips such as these will all come together and make you an overall better player. Keep trying, but don’t make your overall playstyle about the shit you’ve seen on KZfaq. Valorant is the most fun when you can be yourself and play how you want, and still succeed.

nice content bro my main issue in valorant for sure it's counter-strafe I always get too nervous from care to much in hit counter-strafe accurate and I just forgot to aim or to pay attention in others game aspects, so I run some dm's just letting the button and I feel my aim way more confident and I feel that I was really aiming and hitting heads, I'll try it out for sure. Hope u stay with ur content it's really good and have helped me a lot!

Oh that's actually really informative, and also good to see that u made the text have an outline in the thumbnail :D

i noticed beforehand i was doing this unintentionally without knowing. It actually explains why some days when i tend to drone out i do better but when i’m more focused i do worse

So ive been jiggling for 2 years in valorant?

Counter-strafing is a mechanic useful in CS:GO and other 'pure' (using Source physics as-is) Source games because player characters in the Source engine have a significant deceleration period when you release movement keys. Counter-strafing cuts this time very quickly by starting movement in the opposite direction. The Source Engine is also specifically coded to stop your momentum immediately if you press an input opposing your current velocity (See: accidentally stopping mid-air as scout tf2). Valorant is not a Source Engine game (it's Unreal Engine). The physics are not the same. Player characters lack that long deceleration period that makes counter-strafing useful. Counter-strafing has anywhere between no impact to a very, very small impact on this stopping time. Most players will find this difference basically negligible. Some players find that timing their shots for 0 movement error is easier when counter-strafing as a result of muscle memory. These players are free to continue counter-strafing as they wish. Some players find that timing their shots for 0 movement error is harder when counter-strafing as a result of extra inputs and timings (even compared to jiggling-- releasing the counter-strafe is also a learned timing). These players should not counter-strafe. Just do the thing that gets you comfortably shooting bullets near the location of your crosshair

thnx bro!! it really helps to see another perspective of the mechanics

Hey yo, this was really usefull, I had no ideia! Thank you for the tips

I've been unintentionally using both depending on the situation, you should master both so your movement is a lot more diverse.

i started following u a week ago.. now i feel my aim is smoother now. Thanks for u advice 💕

i think for some ppl who are already used to counter strafing they're still gonna do it. i like to think of it as the stride in a baseball swing; a lot of ppl think the stride is for power, but its actually for timing (if you stride in baseball for power and shift your wait during the stride you'll become unbalanced and be unable to hit the ball, your weight shift comes moreso from your pivot). in that sense its a fairly meaningless action, as you can technically just time the pitch in your head and swing normally (as the stride adds no strength or speed to your swing). similarly, i think for a lot of ppl counterstrafing is not for stopping faster, but for timing your shots when you stop. especially since letting go of a key to stop strafing is more of a passive act, so its harder to process it as a timing mechanism.

thanks for this vid ive been trying to learn counter strafing for quite some time, but I never achieved perfection. so this vid gave me hope that i might just did it the wrong way and now ima just try this technique :) thanks very much

Thanks for this video I hope it helps me

thanks for telling us about the graph, it single handly changes the learning curve, without it you'll never assume that your doing it correctly, but with the graph you can see you are jigglign at max speed without failing a shot

I've heard for a while ppl say counterstrafing was pointless in val but until I actually learned how to counter strafe, getting those first contact kills were 50/50. Yes I see it's LESS USEFUL then when used in CSGO but to say it's useless is a understatement imo. Whenever I get my timing down with my counterstrafes and hop in ranked, my accuracy is much more consistent and this is largely why I was able to rank up. Jiggling is something Ive always tried to do and can do it's just not as effective from what I've seen in my gameplay

For me personally, I aim by how the bullets/recoil feel and movement coordination. I practice A LOT in The Range, and I tend to warm up by trying to feel where the bullets are going and how to move to be accurate and evasive. But my playstyle is more of prediction, trapping, and lurking. So I play controllers and initiators more than Duelists.

after following the tips you gave, now I'm always on top of the frag, thanks bro

counter strafe is a extra bonus i think, good video bro!

It's easier to do a mix between the two rather then completely switching to one or the other. I counter-strafe simply because of muscle memory and it doesn't falter my gameplay. I don't counter-strafe when I jiggle peak or peak CERTAIN angles in the game, so I can do both just fine. I think it's personal preference though and whatever you're more comfortable with. A lot of pros have mastered counter-strafing so counter-strafing hasn't been rendered completely useless & unnecessary as most of these videos state.

i wish i knew this before from the monment i started playing CSGO and even when i started playing valorant i used counter strafe and it makes sense why i whiff my first shot most of the time... altho its the most accurate shot and with counter strafe too... this is gonna take ALOT OF TIME to get used to, anyways thanks for the advice!!!!! LOVE YOU

Easy fix for the counter strafe timing: Wooting 60HE. It's equipped with analog switches which can be adjusted in 0.1mm steps. You can also enable a feature which allows to turn off a switch by releasing the key by only 0.1mm so if you let go of let's say A or D, you will instantly stop moving. It helped me alot. W keyboard hands down

That is very true, as a csgo player I still have the habit of counter strafing when it isn’t necessary. It is also much harder due to your character immediately stoping after releasing your movement key which would end up making you move the other way when missing a counter strafe, and the reward is only a few frames of advantage. It is not worth investing time on counter strafing when there is so much more to learn and work on to improve in the game

Great tip, thanks!

I believe that this the only thing that's been hindering me to high elo. Because since I was bronze to diamond, I religiously practiced counterstrafing and i still dont hit shots, critical shots that i need to high in my games.... Thanks Sondo!!!!!!!

Facts bro🔥sick video

Tysm bro u tole us and explain what exactly we face and mistake that we all understood wrong

greate video ! im not a very good player but sometimes im using A/D keys to correct my aim idk 🤔what it called but ig im doing great job xd

instead of releasing the other key, does holding both key also work? for example if im holding a to move, then i hold both a and d together to stop then release one

bro i did all these drills once or twice and when i got on i wasnt missing. ty

I got so used to counter strafing in cs I keep doing it in valorant. Thanks for sharing this info, that's why I see my bullets go to the side of the head haha.

instead of letting they key go i m trying to hold the opp key so like pressing both A and D at the same time it stops me completely normally and then i let go one depending on where i want to move and dodge next.

Another silly question, how to pratice jiggling, I try but there are about 2 or 3 of the 10 will shift (blue in shooting error), but counterstrafing or just stop is more percise(almost no blue bar in shooting error) but slower then jiggling

Holy shit, this is actually a helpful video

no joke, this information helped me headshot a lot!

I've always counter strafed for years. It's not something I can really stop doing. I mean, I suppose it barely affects me. But since the movement is definitely more sensitive, I have messed my strafe up before, but not often.

Yeah it's true it doesn't change much xd but i come from csgo and i have habit of counter strafing and i can't stop lmao underrated channel btw 👍+1 sub

Thanks for the tip, I'm now signed to global eSports tournaments

It has been researched by od26 counterstrafing can give you at most 6ms on a timing window that pros never hit for example zekken was asked to show keyboard overlay by od and he let go and counterstrafed but never hit the window if it feels more natural do it if it doesnt your not gonna lose anything its useful in csgo I hit top 100 faceit and I had counterstrafing then huge difference but val nothing changes

We shouldn't counter strafe while 'slicing the pie' too? I was always confused on that part coz while A-D peeking we do press the opposite key.

I've compared the two, and counter strafe seems to reset the crosshair movement slightly faster, (if u want to know like basically, when i was counter strafing my crosshair was moving from let's say phase 1 to phase 3 instantly, like phase 1 = i'm running so my crosshair isn't precise and phase 3 = standing still and completly precise) i did exactly the same without counter strafe and my crosshair was moving from phase 1 to phase 2 and finally phase 3. So i think there is a difference but u think it's completly negligeable right ?

what if ur already used to counterstrafing from cs and its just muscle memory, is it a hinderance or can i do it just for muscle memory?

my issue is that counter strafing has became a habit for me since i played csgo before valorant and i found it very difficult to get rid off

I always thought counter strafing with either pressing opposite key or letting go off the key was the same thing but ive been just letting go my entire life lol

this guy underatted af

I still do this till now unconsciously, I tried to stop it off. But then, I realized I was using an optical keyboard instead of mechanical one. The key is so sensitive that a bit press will trigger an action. So, when my finger is on its way to let go of my key, the key is still registered, basically it needs my finger to not stressing the key at all. So yeah, I am still using counter strafing to counter my own keyboard sensitivity.

You showed stutter stepping no? Jiggling uses counter strafing with alternating repetition that is not defined to require click timing. Stutter stepping uses counter strafing with random sideway but defined to be timed to shot timings. Both are strafing techniques. Releasing one key vs holding both keys to stop is the technique to achieve counter strafing, I coin it sideway vs inverted sideway movement aka press vs release. There is also the complication of movement mirror strafing or "counter" movement mirror strafing shortened to counter strafing. This form of counter strafing is a term in games without movement based bloom to refer to reacting to an enemy strafe (usually when trying to movement mirror for easier shots) and countering that movement to increase the difficulty of landing shots. Leading the strafing dance in this way gives you an edge in aim vs movement tradeoff as you have the control and therefore the anticipation in the strafing.

Counterstrafe give your tiny extra timing to hit the shot accurate and fast. Sometimes you just no need that to fight against not strong- enough enemies, but in tournament where players'skills are nearly similar, you will see the differences if you do not counterstrafe against your enemy team, even low tier than you and your team.

Say i play alot of cod and apex legends, will this helps with me not able to counter strafe because my habit of hold and release ? I can consistently aim head because apex n cod tracking is much harder than valorant but they also doesn’t mess you up for moving n shooting

@Sondo301 If we're just used to doing it its like a inconscient way of moving (its like this for me, and Im talking about counter strafe) so I don't bother 2 things but just 1 in the end so is it really worth it for me to leave counter strafe and go for jiggle ?

So directly releaseing key is better than counterstrafing to stop character moving for precise shooting?

bro this whole time i been doing the csgo strafing i switch to this n it changed my whole skill level

I kinda got used to counter-strafing playing tf2 of all places, but I don't quite do it like in all counter-strafing guides. I don't let got of the initial strafe key, I just press the opposite one so it stops me. Is it still counter-straifing, am I just doing the worse version of not so good mechanic?

I'm so used to counterstrafing that even if it doesn't make a difference, it's still a thing I do

ive been counterstrafing ever since playing this game but now i'm starting to learn to jiggle and it feels better ngl i wouldnt say counterstrafing is useless but jiggling vs counterstrafing is just a preference

i jiggle and i dont counter strafe but i still have both keys pressed down to stop as my bullets always land because i stopped on time, however when i let go off a key i still cant understand when i can shoot because i do it at the same time and my shots are off more often. btw i havent played much cs

Totally agree with the accuracy of shots while counterstrafing isn't high despite the acceleration is literally zero and while I start to jiggling the shots suddenly destroy enemy head , actually I tried the game when it released and it wasn't the same after I tried yesterday this game mechanics is totally difference from counter strike

1:13 u said if we don't perfectly hit counter key we'll throw off our recoil , how? If i don't hit counter key but released the key i was moving with , its same as not counter strafing , so what's diff if i counter strafe or not

i used to just let go of the key but now i learned to counter strafe and letting go feels weird now

my roommate is ex radiant and current immortal and it’s weird seeing him not counter-strafe often i thought it was common

Counter strafing is so ingrained into my brain i cant shoot without constantly counter strafing and crouching

i used to play csgo back in the day, so im kinda used to counter strafing, should i keep doing it or just move to tht jiggling thingy? cuz i still use jiggle when i peek close corner... but i counter strafe when i commit a fight

When playing, I don't use both of these mechanics, instead I turned on the dynamics for the sight, and shoot when the sight shows the minimum spread, it's much easier for me than catching timings when strafing

Also not counter strafing can also increase better habits among having peakers adv when you counter strafe the network of the shot for other people is getting further apart a youtuber explains this amazingly but when you swing out without counterstrafing the shots are more frequent also makes it harder to be hit

I think it would be better to learn it because when your in the higher rank the quicker you stop the earlier you can shoot even if it is 0.05 or 0.5 it is still a big diff when it comes to higher rank. Counterstrafing is the same with jiggle picking thats why I think it is better to learn it and its not that hard to learn it you can even learn it just one day of playing with counterstrafe try doing it in dm

Humans are creatures of habbits and at some days i just dont get over not to counterstrafe. But yeah its true i felt that before i watching your video as well , i just stobled up on it today Release the key -> aim -> shot the target ; is really more beneficial than counterstrafing. And i am saying this after playing many many years in counterstrike.

Could you showcase an effective ~15 min aim routine?

I feel this only applies to people who dont already have CS experience. If you have to think about the counter strafe before shooting you shouldn't be doing it, but if you have the muscle memory already I don't see why it's worth trying to unlearn the mechanic.

Whenever I try to jiggle I get a headshot by the random bullets my enemy is spraying so I don't get it, is it my movement or is it my enemy which is good at controlling his spray or is it me being unlucky af.

Pros play this game for hours on end and practice specifically their first bullet accuracy. So they know how time their bullets without counter strafing. Most of us don't. I think counter strafing is good because it tells you instantly that you shoot after pressing the counter key(A or D). Maybe it's me but my first bullet accuracy has gotten better since I do this. But at the end of the day, crosshair placement is king.

Oh wow I never knew about the graph thing

As an ascendant player, I predominantly use counter-strafing(But is actually called jiggling) in my gameplay. When I'm taking fights in open with no cover, I'd be nonstop strafing left and right and shooting one bullet with guardian(I never buy vandal) between every strafe and if i have a wall as cover id be ghost peaking aka jiggle peaking with counter strafe back and forth. I do not remember that last time I stood still letting go of wasd key for more than 1 to headshot someone. If you master this movement technique, you should have impeccable movement so it's almost impossible for enemies to one tap and also be cool and when hit heads at the same time.

1:05 its even more useful when u hold d and then press a and you stop instantly :)

okay i have 4.2k hours in cs. lvl 9 in faceit. and a- in esea. havent played cs in a while but just got into valorant, but my movment is pretty good since cs. and i have masterd counterstryfing. do i need to stop?

i personally still counterstrafe i still thinks its very viable and helpful+its so ingrained into my mind

its muscle memory at this point and I still click on heads, my point is if you already know how to do it theres no need to switch and make it harder for people who have that mechanic drilled into their head.

When i counterstrafe i do not release any key. If i am moving to right and want to counterstrafe i just press A. So it's like i am pressing A and D to keep my character in position. It works for me, i even tried it out on counter strike and it felt comfortable since day one.

I think keyboard makes a difference. I use an office one but I got a chance to play on my brother's rk keyboard...and oh boy, the experience was something else. The movement was so smooth

i find that when i don't counter strafe i end up shooting too soon 90% of the time which is obviously placebo but it's easier to keep doing it than to relearn how to shoot imo.

I don't think i will ever be able to get the habit of counter strafing out of my system. I played CSGO for wayy too long haha

what's the name of this amazing song ?! (best would be reply with the correct youtube link ty)

some people find it easier to time their stop by pressing a key rather than releasing one

thanks for video but like, CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE ME THE BACKGROUND MUSIC? this is perfect for gaming

Well I'm in Bronze and I had no idea what counter strafing was in the first place. This coooould help me??

is deadzoning the same as jiggling? i saw woojins video on deadzoning and i realised i was already kinda doing something like that thanks to my habit of counter strafing

My muscle memory is already used to counterstrafing that i need to learn NOT to counterstrafe when i need to stop making it feel a little weird

idk if it actually works but I have a trick that is equall to counter straifing.. the thing is.. just make your normal movement to walk instead of run.. and then instead of counter straifing.. just release the run key... and your aim will be smooth as hell

Idk abt this one but il try it

what if I hold both a and d to stop my movement?

what is the name of this song in the backround?

what chroma for ion is that?

I stopped doing counter strafe when I realized it doesn't affect much to the much like in CS months ago, good video tho

jiggling is so much easier in val that its harder for me cuz im so used to cs movement

What ur setting graphic and color in video

I feel like you would need more discipline to completely stop instead of counter strafe if you're peeking someone. It's easy to swing too wide by a little bit and counter strafing is kinda like a safety net for that

Maybe, but you can hit immo3 with counter strafing. I had immortal like in 6 acts without this new mechanic. I just play like in CSGO= counter strafe then crouch and spray. 90% of your win games it's all about having good teammates. 5 stuck is the way if you have good teammates especially from irl.

After playing cs for years counterstrafing is so baked into my muscle memory it's hard to not do it

wat you said was useful for someone who never played cs and for someone wo has spent substancial amount of time in cs that guy is perfect in both jiggle and counter straifing. but nonetheless counterstraifing is useful too