Elevate Your Apex Game

Aim, Movement, Positioning and More.. ULTIMATE Ranked Coaching Session

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Summary

In this ultimate ranked coaching session for "Apex Legends," hosted by District, viewers gain an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals required to excel in ranked matches. With emphasis on mechanics like aiming, movement, fight control, and positioning, the session focuses on practical strategies to consistently rank up. District works with a Platinum player, highlighting the importance of aggression, preemptive positioning, cover management, and using abilities creatively to maintain pressure and control of engagements. The session is rich with detailed advice on how to dominate fights and strategically maneuver within the game's dynamics.

Highlights

District coaches a Platinum player on mastering the basics of Apex Legends for ranked matches 🔥.
The session stresses the importance of being aggressive and keeping constant pressure on opponents 🚀.
Understanding how to use cover effectively can significantly improve survivability in fights ✨.
Creative use of abilities like Bangalore’s smoke can change fight dynamics and give strategic advantages 🎮.
Positioning and knowing when to move are key lessons in maintaining control in engagements 🌟.
The coach emphasizes managing health through smart cover usage and movement, showing how to minimize damage 💪.
By practicing shooting and poking strategically, players can improve their chances of swinging fights in their favor 🔥.

Key Takeaways

Apex Legends requires mastering fundamentals like aim, movement, and fight control to rank up consistently 🔥.
Aggression and proactive engagement are crucial; waiting to react can put you at a disadvantage 🚀.
Use cover smartly to manage health and maintain an upper hand during fights 🔥.
Creative use of legends' abilities can help control fights and keep opponents at bay 🎮.
Don't just fight for damage; aim for position and pressure to create opportunities 🌟.
Playing tight to cover and pre-firing helps maintain pressure and keeps engagement smooth 💥.
Consistent practice in modes like Control and TDM can improve skill without the risk of being knocked out 🎯.

Overview

In this coaching session with District, a seasoned Apex Legends coach, a Platinum-ranked player learns the essential skills needed to rank up in Apex Legends. District breaks down the game's complex mechanics into manageable parts, emphasizing the importance of mastering the fundamentals such as aiming, movement, and fight control. The session provides an insightful look into how small improvements in these areas can lead to significant gains in ranked play.

Throughout the session, the player is taught to adopt a more aggressive playstyle by constantly putting pressure on enemies and not waiting to react. District showcases how smart use of the game's mechanics and abilities, such as positioning and legend abilities, can shift the control of the fight in the player's favor. The focus is on creating opportunities, using cover wisely, and understanding when and how to engage opponents.

The coaching emphasizes consistent practice, advocating for the use of game modes like Control and TDM, where players can hone their skills without the pressure of ranked eliminations. By the end, the player gains a deeper understanding of how to maintain an upper hand in fights through strategic movement and pressure, setting the foundation for future competitive success.

Chapters

00:00 - 00:30: Introduction The introduction chapter explores the multi-faceted reasons why some players struggle to rank up in gaming. It questions whether the difficulties are due to mechanics like aiming and movement, the ability to control and avoid damage in a fight, positioning, zone priorities, or understanding match flow for a secure endgame. The chapter concludes that ranking up involves all these factors and more, setting the stage for a coaching session focused on a platinum-level player.
00:30 - 01:00: Coaching Session Overview In this chapter titled 'Coaching Session Overview', the transcript discusses a session from an Advanced ranked coaching class focused on the game Apex Legends. The session aimed to help a player enhance their fundamental understanding of the game. Though Apex Legends is often perceived as a challenging game, the coach asserts that once the basics are mastered, it becomes much simpler to play. To illustrate the effectiveness of the coaching, the chapter highlights an instance where a student successfully applied the teachings, achieving two successive 3K games the same night after the session.
01:30 - 02:00: Session Goals Discussion In this chapter titled 'Session Goals Discussion,' the speaker discusses their plan to provide a coaching session for improving skills in Apex Legends. They invite the audience to follow their content for more tips and suggest subscribing to their channel for ongoing gaming advice. Additionally, the speaker mentions streaming their coaching sessions live on YouTube and Twitch, offering followers multiple platforms to engage with the content. They also provide a call-to-action, directing interested viewers to a link in the video description to access personal coaching sessions.
02:00 - 04:00: Player's Main Concerns In this chapter, the main focus is on understanding and addressing the player's key areas for improvement in order to rank up consistently. The player identifies their primary challenges as mastering rotations and improving fight entry techniques. They admit to struggling with distance fighting and pinpoint their desire to become a more effective Fragger by initiating fights and dealing damage swiftly. The discussion sets the stage for developing specific strategies to address these concerns.
04:00 - 05:00: Warm Up and Mechanics The chapter discusses strategies for engaging in combat without being knocked down, emphasizing the challenge of retreating to safety while waiting for team support. The main character, who mains Bangalore, a Legend suited for such situations, seeks to improve in this area. The focus is on a training session to develop these skills, addressing the common issue of balancing aggression with tactical retreating.
05:00 - 06:00: Aggressive vs Passive Playstyle The chapter titled 'Aggressive vs Passive Playstyle' emphasizes understanding the fundamentals of a fight, including body movement, peaking, and health management. Initially, practice occurs in a controlled environment to address any minor issues. The chapter then transitions to ranked sessions, concentrating on strategic aspects such as rotations, initiating and recovering team fights, and teamwork.
06:00 - 07:40: Engagement Technique In this chapter titled 'Engagement Technique,' the focus is on a series of 1-on-1 exercises designed to analyze and improve raw mechanics without using healing or abilities. The process involves both participants signaling readiness, with the last to signal determining the start. The exercises are structured to progressively increase in difficulty, serving as a warm-up to identify and work on minor issues.
07:40 - 10:00: Using Cover Effectively This chapter focuses on the tactical use of cover during scenarios where one is under fire. It discusses effective strategies to minimize exposure and enhance safety when being shot at.
10:00 - 14:00: Importance of Pressure This chapter, titled 'Importance of Pressure,' discusses the different ways pressure impacts various aspects of life and work. It begins with an analysis of how pressure affects decision-making and performance, using examples from both personal experiences and professional scenarios. Furthermore, the chapter explores the physiological and psychological effects of pressure, emphasizing the significance of managing it effectively to maintain well-being and efficiency. Techniques and strategies for coping with pressure are also outlined, providing readers with practical tools to apply in stressful situations. Throughout, the narrative highlights the dual nature of pressure, as both a motivator and a potential source of stress, and underscores the importance of balancing these aspects.
14:00 - 17:00: Advanced Movement Techniques The chapter titled 'Advanced Movement Techniques' includes a scenario where the speaker is under attack as they mention being spotted and taking shots. This suggests a high-tension situation, possibly in a combat or stealth context, where advanced movement strategies are crucial for survival or success. Amidst the intensity, the chapter likely discusses various techniques or responses that could be employed in such a high-stakes environment.
20:00 - 75:00: Practical Session in Ranked Game In this chapter, a player is being coached in ranked gaming. The session begins with the coach asking the player to describe their play style. The player identifies themselves as having an aggressive play style. However, the coach reveals a surprising observation, stating that the player is actually one of the more passive players they have coached. This revelation potentially challenges the player's self-perception and may lead to a deeper discussion or analysis of their gameplay strategies.
85:00 - 89:00: Reflecting on Performance This chapter titled 'Reflecting on Performance' focuses on the importance of being aggressive during 1v1 situations, particularly in gaming or similar scenarios. It highlights the concept of engagement, stressing that being aggressive involves actively trying to 'shoot your gun' or put pressure on the opponent. The speaker criticizes the listener for not being aggressive enough, noting how the listener often fails to shoot first or engage effectively. The example provided discusses how the speaker would often start shooting before the listener fully exposed themselves, indicating a lack of aggression on the listener's part, which made it difficult for them to focus on the speaker.

Aim, Movement, Positioning and More.. ULTIMATE Ranked Coaching Session Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 why are some players just unable to rank up is it their mechanics like their aiming and their movement is it their ability to control a fight and avoid taking damage is it their positioning in a fight to help them shoot their gun more or is it their rotations their Zone priority their overall understanding of how a match is supposed to be played out to secure a comfortable endgame fight truth is it is everything that we just said and even so much more which is why in today's video I'm coaching a platinum
00:30 - 01:00 player in one of my Advanced ranked coaching sessions where we talk about everything that we just listed and even more to help this player better understand how to play Apex at the fundamental level people think that Apex is such a difficult game and to some degree it's true but once you understand the basics guys it's really one of the most simplest games that you can play don't believe me the very same night after this session my students sent me two screenshots backto back 3K games that he dropped after understanding everything that we just taught him today
01:00 - 01:30 guys I'm going to do the same thing for you and I'm going to teach you how to rank up in Apex Legends through this coaching session that I had with my student so if you want to keep getting better at Apex and if you want to keep seeing this type of coaching content that I do here on YouTube with my students make sure that you like and you subscribe to this Channel or if you want to see this type of content live I do stream a lot of my coaching sessions here on YouTube and also over on Twitch whatever platform you'd like to see your streams on anyways if you want to get coaching by me you can do so by clicking the link in the description down below or stay tuned enjoy this video and I'll
01:30 - 02:00 see you guys in the session my friends all right sweet so obviously our goal is to kind of like learn how to rank up consistently did you have any other goals in mind like did you want to learn anything in specific before we kind of start diving into certain things so I know that my biggest issues are rotations um fight entry for instance because I'm not a person who can fight from distance like I don't poke well but trying to be a Fragger and running in to start the fight and get the damage off
02:00 - 02:30 of it without getting knocked that's a big thing because I'll be able to push in and get the damage but getting out and getting to safe while my team makes their way in has always been a problem for me okay that is definitely something that most people have an issue with um so yeah we we'll definitely work on that today especially like do you main Bangalore yeah she's like one of the best Legends for this type of situation we'll definitely have a really good really good session here this is what we're going to do um if that's the main concern that's basically what we're just going to be Focus like what we're going
02:30 - 03:00 to learn regardless throughout the day what we're going to focus on for maybe about the first 30 or so minutes is I want to make sure that you have like a good understanding of like the fundamentals of a fight how to move your body how to Peak manage your health we're going to work out any small Kinks right here in the range um and then obviously with that being a ranked session we're going to spend majority of the time in ranked focusing on like rotations Stones how to take team fights how to set up team fights um recover team fights all that good stuff so let's get you started off
03:00 - 03:30 right over there opposite side of the pit what we're going to do first is we're going to do a series of 1 V ones um no healing no abilities we're going to look at Raw mechanics here we'll both ping say hey I'm all ready to go and then whoever pings last we'll just go off their ping okay all right cool be I'm going to start off really easy I'm going to progressively get harder and harder and harder that way we can kind of start working out little things here and [Applause] there it's our warmup it's a warmup
03:30 - 04:00 getting shot at
04:00 - 04:30 controller or you mouse and keyboard by the way controller
04:30 - 05:00 they spotted me I'm taking shots [Applause]
05:00 - 05:30 all right so right away let me let me kind of start off by asking you this would you consider yourself to be a very aggressive or would you consider yourself to be a very passive type of player or like like how would you consider your play style to be I would say it's more aggressive you would you say aggressive okay would it surprise you to say that you are probably one of the more passive players that I've coached really yeah
05:30 - 06:00 100% so when we say aggressive aggressive really just means are you engaged and are you trying to shoot your gun are you are you putting pressure are you engaging with that person and 90% of the time in our 1 v1s right here you weren't even you weren't even shooting at me you notice how a lot of the time whenever you would kind of poke out like i' would already be shooting at you even though you weren't in the open yet uh-huh did it kind of feel like it was hard to look at me yeah that's aggressive that's
06:00 - 06:30 aggression that's engagement so when we were fighting each other you were looking so for instance right you would be peing mhm and you knew where I was you know that I'm playing this corner here but you're not actually keeping me from coming out and re-engaging you so your passivity your lack of trying to hold me back is what's allowing me to engaging with you and now that I'm
06:30 - 07:00 engaging you I'm doing something the more that I do the less that you can start doing and now that you're not doing anything and you've become passive I can be more aggressive with you and now that I'm doing more you're doing less and now I'm doing more and you have to do less and I use that to do more and you start doing less and it creates this really bad downward spiral effect so because you start off your fights already being very passive um it's
07:00 - 07:30 basically forcing you to be even more submissive once someone starts to do literally anything and it can be as simple as just shooting their gun on the corner that you're playing here's the root cause of what's going on from kind of you know what I've seen so far we establish a gunfight with each other you're doing already a fairly good job of establishing where I am you find a spot to look at me from where you are right so like for instance let's just do this I'm a toggle Friendly Fire do do me a favor Hing where I'm playing right
07:30 - 08:00 now yep spot on okay find an find a corner or find an angle that looks at where I'm playing there you go okay so cool this is maybe our engagement then this is what you do you wait you wait to see me so what I want to do right now we're going to do a test I want you to shoot me before I shoot you three 2 1 go
08:00 - 08:30 okay like wasn't that kind of hard to react to uh-huh you didn't know when I was going to push you didn't know how deep I would push you didn't know how I would push maybe I hit a wall jump on you and now I'm like in the air and not on the ground right maybe I stop short maybe I slide deep right like you just don't know so it's really hard to predict it's really hard to fight against so what we don't want to do as a player especially someone who's being proactive and being aggressive trying to control a fight we don't want to wait to see what happens we want to prevent
08:30 - 09:00 something from happening instead so you know where I'm playing instead of just waiting to see me you should be consistently and conscientiously trying to hold me in my cover trying to pre-fire where I'm playing so right now imagine there's an imaginary hit box in this area that I'm moving in and out of this is where I'm going to peek you from right so now just start pre-firing start pressuring me and just keep pre-firing me here every time I come out and and shoot
09:00 - 09:30 you're already engaging that spot so you're walking into it right so one of two things that's going to start happening when you just normally start engaging where you see someone playing one of two things is going to happen one you're going to hit that player because well they're strafing into your shots and they're going to be forced to look away or two you're going to be pressuring and they're not going to look at you and they're going to still want to look away cuz they don't want to get hit so let's try to put something into perspective here let's put you on that piece of cover right there
09:30 - 10:00 I'm going to play way on over here when we're taking a gunfight with each other are we poking in and out of our cover or we just standing here and just poking in and out of cover I mean why would I do that though I mean what if I just one mag you here like what would be the benefit if any of just poking in and out of my cover um so I don't get one magged so you can I can take less damage and hopefully apply damage to you so I can move forward yeah exactly right moral the story basically what you just said manage your health right cover lets you
10:00 - 10:30 actually manage that [ __ ] well here's the deal when we start getting into like high plat Diamond especially Master PR guys like they just don't get broke like [ __ ] will not take damage because they know how to play that piece of [ __ ] like they know how to play cover like a stripper pole like they can dance around this like so easily so because poking right is mostly like jiggle peaking managing our health it's so hard to get that opportunity that he's broke
10:30 - 11:00 he's broke he's broke walk off this walk off this it's really hard to get those opportunities to start pushing so what we want to think about here shooting our gun or rather poking and peeking it's less of a tool to get damage it's more of a tool to create opportunities or a better way to work this it's more of a way to create passivity so right now if you start shooting at me what am I going to do am I going to stand here going to go into cover I'm going to go into cover so you shooting your gun naturally whether it be holding my angle start pre-firing in my corner oh [ __ ] I can't
11:00 - 11:30 look at you right or if you just hold hold me here I won't look at you right you shooting your gun creates passivity so now that you've made me passive and I'm in cover can you shoot me no why not you literally shot me a second ago like what what would you have to do if you wanted to shoot me now yeah what would you want to do you'd have to force that angle so what are what we need to understand is poking and peing it's very hard to get knocks and to get breaks right so we need to use this as a chance
11:30 - 12:00 to start Crossing up through the open we're not using it as a way to get damage that's just a side effect of shooting your gun right it's really just to get these guys to look away and now that we can start inching closer um let's just can you just play right here for a sec we transition we transition from a situation where we react to if they're in the open I can shoot you you can't shoot me we can shoot each other no one can shoot each other and we transition from a reactive standpoint to a proactive standpoint where I don't even need to wait to see you I can just
12:00 - 12:30 make me see you and I can force that fight which was what happened in that one game that we played together right so basically to recap that we are being Ultra aggressive by poking and holding that angle don't look at me don't look at me or I actually hit you and I use that to inch my way up I'm not full sending that now that I'm in a a distance that is comfortable to swing right and this could be something like a jump pad an ash portal a slide jump a
12:30 - 13:00 wall jump whatever is comfortable for the situation that you're in now that we're in the within this range the next time I can create passivity from this team he has to look away I use that to cross up and I force this fight make sense okay yeah it makes total sense now what you're going to do your goal remember the way that we're the way that we're like angling people or rather the way that we're peing people don't shoot me shoot the area that I should be standing in in so now
13:00 - 13:30 it's less about tracking it's less about reactiveness it's more about just controlling recoil into a imaginary hit box that I stand in that I move in and out of you're just going to start naturally hitting shots like you're not even going to try other than controlling your recoil you're just going to hit me no matter what I promise you all right whenever you're [Applause] ready I got to look away that's a chance for you to cross up
13:30 - 14:00 and now you're in front of me if I just kind of wait for to see what happens like how much faster was that fight right there a lot faster right you notice how you weren't even really like shooting at me you were just like pre-firing and you were just making me constantly Look Away you're just instantly always hitting me right that is what Pro players are doing that is why their gameplay looks so smooth and seamless it's because they're not really even fighting they're just holding you and they use the fact that you can't look at them has a chance to get close
14:00 - 14:30 and now that they're close they just swing you because they don't like me I didn't know that you were going to climb up and get behind me right I heard you go in the cover and then before I knew it I looked up and you were already like breaking my ankle how are we going to go from like we're poking we're peeking what is going to allow us to actually just poke and deal damage to actually make damage happen what do we have to do close the distance close the distance so we just talked about we're closing Distance by putting pressure right how are we putting pressure right now just pre-firing you yeah we're physically
14:30 - 15:00 putting pressure right we're making sure that we're trying to hold that team down so let's think for a second because pressure doesn't just have to be physical with your gun how what's another way that we could force a team to be passive or basically keep them from looking at us my smoke your smoke put a smoke on me all right I can't engage you so now you kind of get to cross up through the open for free and now that you're close now you can start swinging me and putting that pressure on me uhhuh right what's another way that you could do it
15:00 - 15:30 grenades grenades right you throw aade on me I have to look away you use that as a chance to cross up a little bit what's another way you right I would say old but that's a big waste no no it's not I guess B old cuz it's going to hold you in that spot yeah everything's a tool right so a lot of people they they hold on to everything I don't want to throw my spoke until I need to well every single situ every single situation you're in you need to be doing something so why would you just not use that tool right that's like saying like you have a
15:30 - 16:00 hammer you need to hit a nail and you're like well I don't know cuz maybe I'll find something else to to use instead of my brand new Hammer like what the [ __ ] like why why do you why do you have it then so everything you have is a tool as long as you're using it for a purpose it's not wasted I can throw Horizon all on you but if I just throw it and then don't follow up off of it why the [ __ ] did I throw it right so as long as you're doing something for a reason it's not wasteful just do it now what we're going to do I'm going to get really tough on you with these Peaks I'm going to manage my health more and I'm
16:00 - 16:30 actually going to shoot back at you more and now we're going to start tweaking how we work our way up because this is the hardest part like I said for most players that's my problem that Miss so in our notes I already have this written down oaking too far out of our cover swinging out of our cover to Peak people staying too long in the peak with what you're doing here something that a
16:30 - 17:00 concept that we want to think about everything that we do to someone they can do back to us if you strafe out of your cover by basically doing this you strafe all the way out here you strafe all the way back in watch this you gave me so much time to shoot my whole magazine right because you're shooting your whole magazine so what we want to think to oursel is my goal is still to shoot the whole mag but I have to break it up into portions so that I can add Health Management so now instead of strafing instead what we're doing is we're peeking in and out of our cover a
17:00 - 17:30 lot of the time what you do is this you slide out and then you fight in the open or you strafe out into the open so let's aim down the side of our gun and basically what we're going to do we're going to put the we're going to put the bracket of our sight touching what's giving us covers we're taking our left thumb stick and we're flicking it into the cover so now it's less strafing and it's more of a flick in flick out to control recoil flick in flick out to control recoil so we're trying to engage disengage engage
17:30 - 18:00 disengage engage [ __ ] engage disengage engage disengage so as you're moving out that's also aim smoothing here here's the thing the hardest part of an aim smooth is the initial adjustment to find how far you need to pull your stick to keep it level so if you're constantly adjusting you're constantly giving yourself that hardest part of finding the right like portion to pull your stick and you're you basically have all these these moments where your your stick kind of like flicks and just isn't
18:00 - 18:30 on target you're fighting in and out of your cover here trying to aim smooth is going to kind of flick your [ __ ] all over so what I'm doing here is I think about flicking out and then I put a burst of recoil into where I'm shooting step in Bur step in step in burst SE okay it's more of like a it's more of like a static way of shooting you can kind of think of it like if I'm just going to look at this target here I'm going to
18:30 - 19:00 take a step out control recoil step in Step control recoil step in Step control recoil step in and then when I do that off of a piece of cover it looks like step recoil in Step recoil in and now that we're shooting when do we move up this is something that I see you have a little bit of an issue with when you're moving you typically shoot pause for a couple seconds and then move and that pause is basically
19:00 - 19:30 allowing your opponent to look away and then start watching because they're going to re-engage you and they catch you making the beginning of your move all the way to the very end and you're getting shot that whole time so what we want to do is we want to think of it like this like do you watch any sports just UFC boxing if I want to throw some crazy like uppercut or you know like I don't know like big overhand swing on you right can I just throw that or do I
19:30 - 20:00 need to set myself up for it you have to be in the right position to throw it why though like why I don't I I mean this a I'm going to knock you out why don't I just throw this big hook on you because your opponent can also counter react or be in a better position to you or you won't be able to actually land that shot because you're just throwing it into the open when your opponent's not even there right basically they can see it happening cuz it's such a big move right like it takes a big setup for it you it has to be set up to be to throw something without getting countered
20:00 - 20:30 that's the same concept here right if I just go for this move forward whether it be like a physical like step forward or even if it be like a swing on you to hit that big roundhouse kick you're going to see that [ __ ] coming and you're simply just going to go into cover or take a step back and it's just not going to land on you right so I need to make sure that I'm setting myself up right I'm throwing my Jabs I'm making you block by coming into cover but if I make you block and I don't move up right
20:30 - 21:00 away you're going to recover and then you're going to see that I'm now thring that big hook so what we need to do is we need to follow through off of it now here's the thing a lot of the time when you're setting yourself up for let's just say a big kick or something are you going to throw your Jabs and see if the person's set up no I'm just going to throw my out right you're you're basically going to understand when I do this that's how he'll have to react which means it's going to automatically
21:00 - 21:30 be set up right it's the same concept here if I'm if I'm jabbing at you I know you're going to look away and I'm just going to move off that if I'm hitting you right if I'm physically connecting shots I know guaranteed you're going to look away if I'm not connecting shots I know that you're probably going to look away so what I'm just trying to do is I'm just trying to set myself up okay yeah he can't look I'm moving up a little bit I know he's going to disengage that and now that I'm closer I'm just rinsing repeating keep that pressure keep that pressure keep that pressure pressure and I can move up off of this and if they don't block if they
21:30 - 22:00 don't look away I'm just going to I'm just going to punish them for free it's like them staying close and letting me just keep punching them over and over and over again right if they don't take that step back and give me space so that my kick can reach right and connect in the right distant well then they're just going to keep getting hit by Jabs make sense yeah all right so let's say you try that here perfect I only saw you get into the cover there not the whole move so now you're back to putting pressure
22:00 - 22:30 as soon as you get into your spot you're back to putting [Applause] pressure you see you're stepping really far off your cover it's making it easy to hit you height to your corner flick out and pressure flick out and pressure all way out in the
22:30 - 23:00 open okay so you're still straping out it it has to be so intentional that you're constantly putting yourself like on the tightest head glitches and you have to be so intentional with playing so tight to your corner cuz like dude trust me like I've been making that mistake all all this new season where I play Just slightly off and I'm not consciously thinking about being tight and I just get [ __ ] la are beamed by Pro players
23:00 - 23:30 24/7 as soon as I started like forcing myself to be very tight like people just weren't touching me as much and because they weren't touching me as much I could just do so much more in my gunfights nice there you go right oh my dude like how much smoother was that fight right there and I took a lot less
23:30 - 24:00 damage for that fight also yeah that was that was so incredibly smooth dude that was perfect so that right there that's what we're talking about that's what that other guy wasn't doing in that one match that guy was just standing in the open getting [ __ ] on 24/7 all right so play your cover tightly as your teammate as the person you're fighting is taken damage and they look away from you that use that opportunity to move forward and apply more pressure just keep applying pressure but while also managing your health exactly yeah here's the thing the
24:00 - 24:30 moment you stop putting pressure the fight can shift there's an opening pretty much where nothing's happening the next person to put pressure is now the one holding so I could be losing like let's just hit me for like 50 damage okay I could be losing go into your cover you stop putting pressure for a second I'm going to say 3 2 1 go and we're going to start putting pressure on each other all right and you're going to see how easy it is to like lose control of this fight 3 2 1
24:30 - 25:00 go oh right you immedi you immediately lost because I started putting pressure first right right so it's it's very easy to lose that so that's why it's important when we're moving our way up and we can't keep putting pressure we need to either find a way around it so for instance let's just say I can't shoot my gun right now how could you put like you can't shoot your gun right now cuz maybe
25:00 - 25:30 you have to reload or maybe you have to pop a cell before you make another move what could you do right now to guarantee I keep looking away in the meantime smoke you he put a smoke on me so now put a smoke on me so now I can't I can't really see exactly where you're playing you can keep you can reset really quick and then get back to putting that pressure on me right right or you throw a nade hey I got to reload one sec throw a nade finish your reload and now as that n's going off you're walking up through the open okay right so again it's that goes back to using your tools comes right get back to using your tools dude this is like the most basic [ __ ]
25:30 - 26:00 ever this is what separates highle players from lowlevel players and this is what really makes Apex one of the easiest most simplest games in the world how can you keep pressure that's the only thing that matters how can I just make sure that you're not comfortable looking at me or you're unable to look at me that's the only thing that's important now with that in mind here's a massive thing that you've already been missing it's how you swing up really quick come on here come up on here with me or rather the distance that you used to swing up I've been watching you make a lot of tiny moves and you're really
26:00 - 26:30 you're basically dragging this fight out even longer than it could be so for instance let's just say this you and me we're in a gunfight what do you think is a range that you could swing people it can be a movement mechanic as a metric or it can be like um like a number as a metric like meters what do you think is a metric that that is swingable um I would say in this distance at 7 m three seven to like 3 to 7 m yeah three 3 m let's like more than double that really yeah do do it do it for give me give me like give me a bigger number um 20 M
26:30 - 27:00 even more than that dude 50 you you had it first it was it's like 30 m 30 30 m is swingable like in literally a second and a half so check this out this box right here this is about 13 M from me right just over 10 so if I'm fighting you right here I'm pressuring I'm pressuring pressuring in one move look at how far I just went that right there is 16 M from where I started oh okay in one slide jump once
27:00 - 27:30 the easiest mechanic in the game a slide jump can put you 16 M now check this this for Cliff here it's about 20 M from me right so if I'm putting pressure right here this probably the second easiest mechanic in the game a wall a wall jump puts me 23 M from someone now you can even extend this even further by just adding a a a very simple bunny hop right and now you're going 30 plus meters so in literally a second and a half 2 seconds
27:30 - 28:00 you can cover such a big distance off of something so small like you you hit 50 damage on someone and that's letting you make a massive move through the open so here's the idea that you need to keep in your mind pressure becomes significantly more important the closer that we get to people and as soon as we find ourselves within a 10 to 30 m range if you are not the one keeping pressure and there becomes a PA in that gunfight there is a
28:00 - 28:30 big opening for that team to make a play and cross up I'm going to have you just sit in your cover I'm going to say 3 2 1 go and off of go I'm going to push you you're going to see how hard it is to react to something it's 13ish MERS away ready 3 2 1 go oh okay take that another step back we even again we're going to highlight even just still how difficult it is to to
28:30 - 29:00 keep something that far away all right three 2 1 go right you just get stuck there it's so hard to leave it's so hard to be out of that fight right and again like you're still seeing you're seeing me move through the open from the from start to finish so imagine you don't even get to see half the move because he made you look away for like half of a second it's going to completely ruin your gunfight so with this in mind you
29:00 - 29:30 ready to go hop into some R and kind of put this all to the test uh let's just do one more little firing range One V one and then I think I'm I should be good let's do it I want to practice what you were saying height to your corner pressure off the corner not in the open ohy there good effort there you just
29:30 - 30:00 lost a that that last push would have been probably decent if you had managed your health better on the move forward to begin with okay so yeah you totally butchered that so we'll definitely teach you this so that you can be moving around a little bit better so everyone knows when your gun is in your hand you run a little bit slower compared to when your gun is put away right you get that movement speed boost awesome so right away like something that you just need to be doing if your goal is to move that gun goes down like I don't give a [ __ ] like holster your gun go from A to B quicker it's boom bada bing bada boom
30:00 - 30:30 instantly you're you're a better player now not only do you just run faster but if your gun's in your hand and you want to slide you have to take a minimum of 1 2 three steps if you go shorter than that one two you got a dead slide you're moving slow you're not sliding you're [ __ ] you're stuck in the open you're dead but if you Holst your gun you run fast and one step slide so this instantly gives you the ability to start pushing off of cover way more aggressive
30:30 - 31:00 watch this so I'm fighting you on cover shoot 1 2 3 versus check this out I holster my gun and cover right that's a massive visual difference so I want you to hit your swap weapon input and tell me how long does it take for that dot to change from a from a DOT a holster Crosshair to a weapon Crosshair how long half a second it takes roughly half of a second for your weapon to transition now depending
31:00 - 31:30 on the gun you're using an lmg versus a pistol it could be longer or it could be shorter but roughly yeah it takes half of a second to transition keyword transition so here's the thing if my gun's in my hand and I holster it takes half of a second before I can start moving fast and if my gun's put away and I hit swap weapon it takes half of a second before I start moving slow again so with this in mind this is what we're going to do we're going to shoot holster wait half of of a second and then when I hit swap weapon I have
31:30 - 32:00 half of a second where I can input an instant slide because the game still is treating my body like it's moving fast so what it looks like slow paced is this I'm going to peek holster pause half second swap step Crouch jump so I'm going to shoot holster half second swap that starts the half second countdown and within that half Second Step Crouch jump full speed it looks
32:00 - 32:30 like this shoot holster push bolster in wait a half second don't be afraid to wait it's just it's just half second from there swap step Crouch that you're getting stuck on the corner which you are what we're going to do is this so here's a cool concept you can Sprint moving forward you can't Sprint moving sideways or backwards but you can Sprint moving on a 45° forward so if I'm on a piece of cover what I'm
32:30 - 33:00 going to do if I try to slide forward I'm going to run into the wall I don't want to slide moving away from my Target and then look at him or I don't want to run around the corner and then turn and slide forwards instead what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a step back off the wall and I'm going to slide or I'm going to sprint on a 45° that's going to help me slide outward so what it looks like if you want to stand right here what it looks like on a piece of cover like this I'm going to peek
33:00 - 33:30 holster and I hook around the corner and I air strafe my body back around so your stick is basically your left stick is basically going to go 45 straight 45 45 straight 4 and now what's happening is you're always looking forward so my Crosshair is let's just say I'm fighting this piece of cover here right I'm always oh I'm always
33:30 - 34:00 looking at my target all right let's do a couple more 1 V ones and let's go hop into some ranked D do you aim with your arm I aim like my flicks are with my arm and my shoulder um my recoil control and a lot of my tracking unless it's like very close face to face most of my tracking is with my wrist and my fingers I play like a medium high sense so I can't really like look if I this is
34:00 - 34:30 all this is the range of motion of my wrist the odds that someone goes like this across my screen is very low so I'm doing a lot of this that's all my wrist if I try to do that with my arm like I'm barely moving my arm I can move my wrist more than I can move my arm doing that so this this is all flicking with my shoulder and with my um my elbow and then all my tracking and my minor flicking and my adjustments is on my wrist I'm I'm going to land on the energy lstar oh I just
34:30 - 35:00 disconnected that's two teams and they're beating us or one team I'm landing here [ __ ] me bro I had an awful drop so we know where this team is right this team wants to fight us especially if they start getting loot first they got loot they're going to start walking up we need to get ready hold angles that look at where they're going to be moving through
35:00 - 35:30 close to the ring he split over here split on the left let's start looking left for this guy if we can cck that ass above me Lifeline pressure so that you can walk up off that pressure right teammate got a huge knock here I [ __ ] on one he's going to have to look away doesn't I'm going to keep him in the open here he's dead cuz he stayed in
35:30 - 36:00 the open last one we're at nice good stuff fighting close to us we can look for that all right so when you know that there's fighting close to you and you want to initially engage it how do you go about it so I'm not swinging it just cuz they're fighting I'm poking at it and just like a normal fight I work my way in so I'm not remember it's two teams I can't just be in there right I have to pick people off and I have to play on the outside so that I'm not getting wrapped on and I'm not getting swung big fight right
36:00 - 36:30 [Applause] here so it's still two teams is very crazy right I have to play very cautiously on the outside
36:30 - 37:00 all right crazy [ __ ] happening right let's take a step back there's so much happening right now I have no idea what's even going on so I'm going to play on the outside here I see some knocks over here there's a Gibby in the open over here kill I think the giby solo and the gib's on Blue so I'm going to keep the pressure on this
37:00 - 37:30 guy like a onean army again I'm not putting myself in a situation to get looked at right I'm just I'm maintaining outside angles think of it when we're in the range what was I constantly saying when we started our fights in the range you hear where I am what are you doing shooting at where you you are they hold them there yeah but what was you
37:30 - 38:00 remember what I was saying in specific find a corner that looks at where you hear me so when I'm constantly doing is I'm finding Corners I'm finding angles I'm finding head glitches that just look in the direction that I'm hearing sound I'm constantly shooting but I'm always able to just boom instantly go back into cover you can't touch me anymore so that's what we're doing there we're just shooting shooting shooting cover cover cover and I'm thinking to myself what I do to people they have to look away swing that and then I leave right so I'm
38:00 - 38:30 creating that play making them look away moving in securing my kill moving away right pressure they look away swing up knock move away pressure swing in get a knock move away and now I'm always dealing damage but I'm never getting [ __ ] on I'm not staying long enough to get [ __ ] on the hardest part for people is breaking that bad habit of like like [ __ ] on people and then wanting to stay everyone is like oh my God I'm popping off like ah ah they have like a like an orgasm because it's like so cool
38:30 - 39:00 and it's like so addicting to feel you have to break that habit and you have to focus on thinking like what are the consequences if you if you stay here it's no different than staying in uh an ego challenge right if I peek you really far away and I just shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot I'm going to get one magged right what rank am I on the main account my main account is um currently Masters right on the edge of PR I hit Masters last night recorded it so we'll upload a video off
39:00 - 39:30 um in the coming days recommend control freaks 100% control freaks give you extra leverage over your thumb stick it gives you more range of motion so for things like aiming and recoil control it can be actually a little bit easier to um do those things but for movement I wouldn't recommend it all right so remember what I said earlier what what was the goal with our rank matches are we trying to just kill teams or what are we trying to do what's the goal here we're trying to practice what we were
39:30 - 40:00 doing getting position and being prepared for end game so main thing that I said was we're setting our yeah we're setting oursel up for the end game so right now if we're playing over here look at everyone that's rotating into us right let's instead go play Relic we're going to hold Relic and we we'll try to get a top five most important thing with ranked is top five streaks when you hit um a five out of five top five streak you get an extra 50 points by just loading into the
40:00 - 40:30 game damn I didn't even know that a lot of people don't right so in ranked especially when you're in Masters and PR you take 90 by logging in right CU that's the points of just like getting into the match negative 90 so you definitely want to have a top five streak going otherwise if you get knocked off drop it's game over right like you just lose so much imagine you get a 100 like a a 200 Point second place or like 100 Point second place you have a top five streak going that's 150 extra points right that's that's an
40:30 - 41:00 extra like 50 50 points right there so it adds up especially over the course of like uh a really long top five streak so right now people are going to start rotating in there's still seven other teams right like look at your mini map for a second just look at think of it like this one team two team three team four team five team 16 Team 1 team that looks like a lot on the map especially when start wrapping in so if we chill right here no one's in our back right we
41:00 - 41:30 are the back really soon [ __ ] is going to start happening people Rush the bid game for no reason Rush the [ __ ] out of the mid game for no reason really soon things are about to start happening on the Edge Let's Play Edge looking at that fight let's play Edge and look over at this fight Lobo so again we're not swinging in oh who's this I'm on this I'm helping out Loba Loba just already R
41:30 - 42:00 now what you looking at here I'm I'm looking at where what's looking at there's a Pathfinder behind us in the building so team team walking up on P I'm going to get an angle I want to keep pressure on them and if I'm holding the same angle as you I'm not keeping pressure well you see we're all holding the same thing so all they have to do is look
42:00 - 42:30 right here okay well I'm [ __ ] back up you see how bad had that got so
42:30 - 43:00 quick you see how we instantly lost pressure I'll see if I can help you but no promises on your head I'm [ __ ] dead L key yeah I mean
43:00 - 43:30 okay I ta out nice they all died okay you see how quickly that went to [ __ ] right there right you stopped putting pressure you rotated to me and you not shooting your gun let that team look at us more now not only did you rotating take pressure off but you're holding the same angle as me I'm putting
43:30 - 44:00 pressure so the fact that they only have to look at one spot makes their job like a above us 100 times easier if we can hold different spots they're getting pressured from all angles right and now it's impossible for them to look and it's easy for us to walk up here come grab this gold come grab this gold helmet on me
44:00 - 44:30 all right I'm going to hold on in the open here I'm going to craft I'm going to come back to you okay okay so stay zone right now I'm going to make sure that I'm putting pressure on where I'm hearing people
44:30 - 45:00 play there's a solo like lurking over here somewhere if you want to look for that got you everyone has to come to Zone oh that sucked so there's still loads of fighting happening right now let's make sure we're engaging with what we're hearing somebody on me somewhere okay right
45:00 - 45:30 there okay let's wipe that let's get them out of our back and let's start rotating the Zone okay let's wipe this let's wipe this behind us
45:30 - 46:00 he's like two shot we got to rotate a Zone we might need to smoke and hold these teams back we might need to take the pressure off so right let's think to ourselves who's putting pressure us or them if it's them how do we take that pressure off smoke them off and then apply pressure after yeah there we go perfect so let's look team right here let's move a little bit further
46:00 - 46:30 let's move a little bit further back here so that we we have um some space between us and Them remember it's multiple teams right so we don't want to be congested and then have a team wrap up on us again also hold multiple angles when you when you guys play right up against me and I need to move you guys can't right look at me yeah fuar you have an angle on that te one te
46:30 - 47:00 one purple so deception is trying to play really close you have your alt here can you push them back right Al like Al this rock right here you aled us
47:00 - 47:30 other door we have one knock play in cover deception oh he guys going to get one n I'm going to back up and try and play some Zone here try to place some cover remember Zone Zone Zone let's make sure we're in zone holding we got to back up here we need to have a spot that we can play from they're not looking at us so I'm going to take this as a chance to start
47:30 - 48:00 walking up for free with my pressure they're going to start looking back in away if we can let's see if we can like wipe this [ __ ] right here oh he's got a peacekeeper I'm trying to get out of the open put a smoke right give us cover close spot him one's below you yeah I'm
48:00 - 48:30 [ __ ] you don't have bangal do you no careful just play slow and heal up here have an Al just come up right here
48:30 - 49:00 they're big fighting this is a wipe for us it's a it's a one V one here can you kill that guy yeah uh okay I think I'm thinking just way too much and waiting for you to tell me to do something and I'm not being proactive at all yeah that's the thing with like most people when they're not
49:00 - 49:30 like IG Ling they feel like they have to like wait for direction the end of the day something that every player needs to realize and I see this a lot with people who are like Masters even um and they're trying to get PR like I I play with a lot of people who are like mechanically a 100 times better than me they could beat me 10 out of times in a one V1 but when it comes to rank I drop more damage than them like how the [ __ ] does that happen and it's because even though they're Shooters they don't know how to gets to shoot and it simply
49:30 - 50:00 comes down to you just have to play your Legend right off of the things that we talked about in the range the fundamentals of how to take a fight how can you use your Legend to put yourself into those positions how can I an ash put myself into the next Corner that looks at the audio that I'm trying to fight I can Dash into that position and I can start playing really hard off of that angle it's not working I can Al back right I can use my alt and I can
50:00 - 50:30 move our team to a big off angle on the outside of a fight and now we're not in the middle of the fight but we're constantly looking into the fight us Bangalore right okay [ __ ] we have PRS in our lobby for one but um okay [ __ ] you know we're taking this gunfight as a team and um you know the PRS that we're fighting right now they're putting all this pressure on us how do we get them off of our back well if we put a smoke on them they keep that pressure we have a second to breathe recover now we can work our
50:30 - 51:00 way into them so okay this is going to be it's it's going to come down to you you have to play Creative in the sense that you're playing your Legend how can I use my abilities to just do [ __ ] right there's no such thing as a wasted ability as long as it has a purpose hey guys District here if you guys are enjoying this video make sure that you're liked and you're subscribed so that YouTube knows you want to keep seeing this type of content here ontu YouTube more often whether it be from me or other creators in the community I do
51:00 - 51:30 sessions like this every single day so if you want to get your own personalized session to figure out where you're falling short how you need to improve and where you should be working on make sure you book a session with me with the link in the description down below let's get back into today's video one shot so I figured if I was able to swing on him and get off that damage like that minimal amount of damage we'd be able to kill him and reset here's here's the thing you're saying to just stay up here's the thing that's not the wrong thought process you just made you did that just super sloppy you didn't swing
51:30 - 52:00 him you went wide on him you got an angle so it's like if someone's if someone's playing a circle and you step right he steps left he's back in cover it's the same [ __ ] right there you didn't go to him you went around him I swung out of the angle giving him more time to get away and take my position yeah okay land the allstar [Applause]
52:00 - 52:30 so they're Landing [Applause] building actually they want that eler I'm letting charge s I'm going charge s you got a play off of what you're seeing so if someone's not letting you do what you want like
52:30 - 53:00 Char nothing I just grabbed the M no gu underneath me [ __ ] idiot get off me
53:00 - 53:30 on my right I heard something like they might be trying to grab their homies Banner on Me Maybe not oh maybe they're gone they're right there right you can't here's the thing dude you can't play off of me when like we're Landing right like you got to remember I I don't know what teams are going to do right I'm not I can't read their emotions I can't hear their their CS to
53:30 - 54:00 each other so I have a plan I want lstar that's going to give me an advantage but that doesn't mean that they're not going to go for it also a lot of the time you're going to have to call an audible and if you are waiting for me to tell you what's happening when you are very capable of looking for yourself you're always going to be the last one to kind of realize what's actually going down which is exactly what happened right there right right you weren't pay paying attention to what they were doing and then you were just kind of
54:00 - 54:30 left in the dust there yo what up Chris dude did I just absolutely clappy with that Sentinel right there my bad bro where where's your Bock is this actually you wers oh it's a master player Oh GG bro H it and ship it sorry bro much love dog appreciate the support appreciate you not being a toxic [ __ ] imine get me clipped on the coaching session yikes
54:30 - 55:00 yeah Chris bro you scared me man I heard you climbing up on me and I'm like [ __ ] I only got a SEL F I'm kind of screwed as soon as I hit that first shot on you I'm like okay GG I win these no way I miss this next one so just remember right our the only thing that we've been kind of like working on today is making sure that we're able to basically shoot our gun right so everything comes back to that right am I Landing so that I can loot to shoot right am
55:00 - 55:30 I avoiding you do I want the Sentinel uh no how about the R9 am I um looting to set myself up to shoot am I Landing to be able to loot so I can shoot right am I taking the pressure off of me so I can get back to shooting it's all super simple stuff you just need to kind of think to yourself am I doing something to let me shoot and if the answer is no then you know that you need to make a correction
55:30 - 56:00 somewhere yeah over here set myself tons of damage using this to walk up there's two in front of you and one is side building here yeah I'm pushing I'm pushing Ash
56:00 - 56:30 over here no I'm not he's on my height crack the ash Valkyrie all right can you keep pressure there yep to the next cover remember they're going to hold you I don't have and I don't have a pad I don't have pad if they ashed away right then they're no longer playing there that's a chance to walk up uh
56:30 - 57:00 GG no as soon as I jump down I'm really far I can't help so here I don't know if you know about this climb up check this out I'm up right here oh yeah yeah climb up climb
57:00 - 57:30 up that's that's that's a different team they see us so I'm going to get myself here to a spot that I can shoot my gun they're super split I'm pushing that solo right there I find a place to look I fell oh my God I'm [ __ ] trying to make my
57:30 - 58:00 way okay maybe I'm not [ __ ] I don't have a pad I'm going to climb up I want to be on the height right I don't want to play low ground when they have a Pathfinder she went inside she went inside yes on the opposite side where y okay
58:00 - 58:30 where's pathy so there might be teams over here there is there's a Mythic B let's get this Mythic bin over here might be a team so I'm going to try to walk up to the height might be a team here playing for this they did res over here not long ago damn no one wants anything that's in here no my Lo's really good gold gold Peacekeeper massive Eva like there's some like loot in here guys God
58:30 - 59:00 damn you have a ash inside where ping where I'm going to look for stuff here she just went to the other building there full team in there I can't do anything about that I have a knock right let's see we can we put pressure and walk up they're repositioning en let's get that
59:00 - 59:30 thirst all so they're off the scene all good oh yeah they might be crafting they might try to no they can't cuz they they ran super far right so they wouldn't be able to do that what we're going to do we're again right we hold Edge we like to be we like to be hard to push
59:30 - 60:00 right so we want to keep oursel on the back we don't want to beatable again like I know maybe we're not taking tons and tons and tons of fights in this I just hear someone no it's my headset my bad I tripped my headset sounds like you guys are enemies uh yeah right we're playing The Edge we're not going to take tons of fights right now but we're basically Bally setting oursel up so that come the end of this match top five especially
60:00 - 60:30 it's going to be a lot easier to like avoid thirds control where people play there's a team over here I almost have pad I hear some someone yeah they're like on the back side over here where are you hearing them under us here let's look for this team they're going to be to our left right so let's wipe this team to the left of us I almost have my pad so if it's like te up here we can pressure them then we can Pat up into them probably playing height right here or they're on the low
60:30 - 61:00 ground maybe maybe solo maybe solo yeah I think they're in the very bottom might be like ship maybe yep oh hello oh my God he's in he's in the wall let's focus on our rotation here for Zone yeah we ly we kind of [ __ ] up um
61:00 - 61:30 our Zone priority but we should be fine let's let's think right what's going to be zone for us this building right here so that's what we're trying to fight for zone so we're going to have to try and push this team out if there's a team in there there's no one in it so whoever's playing here is actually stupid so this is what we're trying to hold
61:30 - 62:00 doesn't mean that we have to play inside of it but we need to be looking so that people don't want to come for it behind me I'm Blue Shield behind me I'm pushing this guy there's a full team back there oh sorry why are you sorry H wrong call sh Kobe three two one oh too short let's
62:00 - 62:30 let's see where this next Zone pulls we're going to have really good info here in a sec well we have to be back right so let's start working oursel back right here we can actually come completely around right here like like creep this in creep this
62:30 - 63:00 in creeping with that one's like close right over here oh they're running so we can play I think that's a Duo maybe that's an awful spot to be we don't even want to be there they just low key [ __ ] themselves up we're we're playing to hold here Al right here Ash Al right
63:00 - 63:30 here so think right now right who's putting pressure on us take that pressure off of us that left team we want the off of that so I'm going to ult it so we can push in they're trying to swing us on our left on our left we just got swung on our left close on us right here pushing you yeah like right in front of us we're not pring ing us at all they're just trying to walk up on
63:30 - 64:00 us nice I got to pop that I got to pop that stay up stay up stay up I'm going to push this I don't have shields I only have Reds like put smoke on us right keep us safe yeah I got it on us yeah let's try and take that pad to the height if we can to the building not for
64:00 - 64:30 me all right so you see right there right you're we need we can't just be shooting to shoot our gun if we're shooting just to shoot we're just poking you you have to think when we're in the range do we just poke just to poke or are we poking to swing poking to swing
64:30 - 65:00 poking to swing so right now you need to complete you need to completely rethink about what we're doing or you need to kind of try to readjust how you think about taking a gunfight with people especially in these crazy big team fights right there's a team off on the right team off on the left team in front of us maybe there's a team behind us team above us team below us if we aren't interested in fighting that team then we don't fight that team now how can we as how can we as for instance
65:00 - 65:30 let's just think of someone that you don't play how can we as Ash not fight two different teams but instead one what is something that we could do it's Ash you can you can be ballsy and port on the team that you want to fight or port behind the team that you want to fight within cover yeah that's one right there's not a team at your back yeah we can basically just take like one fight directly right another thing that we could do is we could alt or rather
65:30 - 66:00 reposition so that the line of sight basically determines that we only fight one team right if you think of it like a triangle right we're at the bottom of the triangle we're getting hit by two different teams right two different sides so if we alt off to the left well now we almost create like a straight line now we're only fighting one team in the middle the other team on on the other side well they're not doing [ __ ] right they can't see us anymore right
66:00 - 66:30 now if we're fighting as Bangalore how can we guarantee that we only fight the team that we want let's think of it in this situation we didn't we already said that team on that right side they had no cover playing that wall right bunker had literally no cover if they played High Ground they would be stuck in the open so if we don't want to fight a spot that has an awful position but we want to fight a spot that has a good position how could we fight the left team but not the right team as Bangalore we can smoke we can ult that
66:30 - 67:00 team so they have to move themselves from where they are and we can focus on the other team that we want to fight well here's the thing we don't want to move that team they're they're already in a bad spot right let them stay there let them be in that awful situation don't make them leave a bad spot and possibly into a good one so what could we do instead just smoke them we could smoke between us and them so that they just don't engage us and now we can focus on our main priority this team that's actually in
67:00 - 67:30 the midst of swinging us we can take this 33 we can pressure we can swing we can wipe right now when we were taking that fight with that team on that left that team that actually swung us I kept saying there's a team right here on our left right here on my ping I broke one the other guys one shot but nobody played off of it you guys kept poking you kept peeking and because of that nothing was forced things dragged out they actually reset and then when they got us they actually swung us
67:30 - 68:00 instead so we need to constantly be trying to make sure that everything we do results in a swing or leads up to forcing damage cuz if we just poke and we just Peak nothing's ever going to come out of it ever it's very rare especially once we start hitting Diamond Plus that you can engage someone from 100 met and knock them without them going back into coverage doesn't happen right all right so we're about an hour
68:00 - 68:30 and 25 in I think we went actually a little bit over than that I think we're like an hour and a half hour 40 in um do you have any questions before we wrap up our session today no I think you've drilled it into me pretty well about PA about how to take cover good playing cover and resetting off of everything but also ensuring that they can't push you so I think I just need to more so practice on doing that so that I'm actually actively doing it like muscle
68:30 - 69:00 memory without having to think about it constantly yeah perfect all right so this is what you're going to do for practice whether um I think a really good way for you to practice is put yourself into tons of crazy situations the best way for you to do that is going to be control and TDM gun run is kind of a waste of time low key so especially control what you can do is practice playing zones that are constantly getting pushed the best way to do that don't go for B play
69:00 - 69:30 for their Zone the enemies they're their spawn is when you're on it they're forced to spawn there to make sure that they can get that back um they're actually not even able to spawn on B anymore if someone is taking their Zone which means you're going to constantly have people coming to you this means you're going to have to practice changing line of sights so that you're taking 1 V ones and it's going to also force you to practice not committing to fights right that is your biggest issue
69:30 - 70:00 is taking yourself out of something that you're trying to make happen Okay okay so T contr control of TDM practice playing zones they're constantly being pushed and practice not committing the fights yeah and being able to get out of it when you're in a bad situation yeah your goal is to have a match where you do the most amount of damage on your team but you've never got knocked okay if you can have a perfect
70:00 - 70:30 game where you don't get knocked but you're doing tons of damage when you go and you hop into an actual match it's going to start training you to always look for players but never to commit enough to the point that you die and the more that you get better at that you're going to start finding that you're always shooting you're never dying because you're never dying you're always shooting because you're always shooting you're practicing not dying because you're never dying you keep shooting and again just like how we talked about the more pressure you do the less they do you you start training yourself to kind of cycle up instead of cycle down okay
70:30 - 71:00 okay I'm just noting all this yeah I mean I'm recording it so I'll just send you the VOD um when I'm done streaming later today okay you can and you can go back and you can rewatch the whole thing gotcha just to poke poke to make to poke to swing