The Most Powerful Aiming Technique in Existence

Strangely enough, the most potent aiming technique has nothing to do with your mouse or settings. I dive into the power of visual focus and how you can use it to take your aim to the next level.

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[StruthGaming]

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[laeioun]

Pro tip: When you're feeling too lazy to play well or focus, count backwards (out loud or in your head) from 5 to 1. This requires mental focus and activates a part of your brain that sometimes shuts off when you go into automatic mode. It's perfect for getting yourself out of bed in the morning and overcoming procrastination.

[od_avenon]

Fun fact: Struth actually plays the game without a mouse. Instead, he psychically thrusts opponents into view with his mind alone.

[aguy]

"True focus makes you feel like you're playing in slow motion"
I have ALWAYS said that. There are times, which happens very rarely where I can *see* what the enemies are doing. There's no blur of the mind, or time to process. What I see on the screen directly goes to my brain, without any sort of thing between those two actions...hard to explain properly in my words.

[Fatmagic]

Meditating regularly really helps with keeping me focused. I also do that fan technique that you show in my day to day life by tracking cars going by with my eyes or swapping my perspective between random objects. I find that training techniques that you want to improve in-game irl helps a ton. And it's cool to see someone else who thinks quite similarly. Great aiming tips video!

[SwedishSword]

Something I've noticed during the years as a pretty good fps player is that the few occasions I needed to take a phone call or otherwise mute my game audio I would do very well. One time a teammate for my comp games played a whole siege game without audio and top fragged. There's truly a lot of distractions when you aren't immersed in the important visual cues in front of you

[TheMineCraftIris]

Fun story of mine: I've always been pretty bad at shooters, and often relegated myself to a support/distraction/intel role for my much better teammates. This doesn't bother me, and acknowledging this early has made me essentially immune to raging at my lack of skill.

I never really bothered to fix my aim because it never troubled me, so I never thought to examine how I fought. Then, one day on Destiny I decided to get the Ace of Spades and play around in 3v3. And I found myself dominating these matches. I was baffled. I made sure to record one of the games and watched it back. And it was then that I realized:

I had been shooting at their heads. And they were dying.

I mean, obviously right? But it occurred to me in that moment that I had spent the last 10 years NOT doing that. When I walk around I stare at the ground (something that I've gotten flak from before in CSGO) and I didn't correct my aim when facing an enemy, so I would only hit their legs.

This revelation made Crucible much more fun, and I stopped avoiding PVP whenever possible. I was even on par with some of my friends.

But now my friends include Masters and a guy who could absolutely be a Pred if he tried. So I'm dragged into matches against people who far outclassed me. And I'm back to playing support.

However, the knowledge that I had missed something so simple for so long has opened my eyes, and a few days ago realized that, although I have fixed my ground staring issue, I was still missing because I wasn't focusing on my targets, just kinda shooting at them hoping to hit. But I struggled to put the problem into words.

Until this video showed up in my recommendations anyway. Weird how that works. Sorry for the length, just thought it was worth sharing, maybe it might helps someone else.

[GarBageGhosteeE]

I always used to try to bring my crosshair over the enemy even at 600 hours in kovaaks but recently i shifted my awareness and found out i was actually doing a rookie mistake (focusing on the xhair), ever since i started focusing on the bot i noticed that i no longer needed to micro correct intentionally every time my hands automatically moved towards where my eyes were looking

[khalilal-bukhari]

I remember this being called "owl eyes" or "sniper eyes" by my survival trainer, never connected the concept to this before now. Broadening your field of vision does a lot to increasing effectiveness in visually stimulating environments

[skullkrusher]

Earned a sub from me! This aspect of aiming doesn't get talked about enough and is the main difficulty that most people have with games like Apex that have a lot of visual clutter. You know instantly when you're focused vs. Not focused because one second you'll be smoothly and calm moving your crosshair with the target and the next you'll be flicking frantically trying to hit a shot as they strafe around.

[Saesto]

this is by far the BEST video about how aiming works and how you should play any game! huge respect for sharing this techniques Struth!🤙

[GerryLo]

This video was a banger bro! I find myself being a victim to sensory overload when I’m playing Apex. There’s so many audio cues that throw off my focus when I should be just worrying about what’s in front of me. When I’m locked in, I can hang with Preds and Masters. When I’m not, I play like a borderline Gold, not even joking. Great advice, gonna try to play Control or TDM with no audio, sounds like wonderful exercise to help stay locked in.

[RemnTheteth]

Without even watch the full video I knew this was a treasure. Because using focus on the target, and remaining calm in the moment, has helped me go from a gold player to a diamond player pretty rapidly.

That comes with experience in the game, too. But my raw aim is far better than it used to be by realizing how over-reactive I was, and often times how small the crosshair adjustments needed to be. When you're focused on a target, not just seeing a blob on a screen, it's no longer about being reactive to their movement, it's about anticipating what they'll do. Enemies that try to escape through the air or follow an arcing pattern while falling/launching are easy to beam if you pay attention. players who jitter back and forth can be annoying, but oftentimes it's better to keep your crosshair centered on where they're crossing back and forth over your crosshair (anticipating vs reacting).

Great video, and great analogies (the fan analogy is perfect).

[OliverCaldwell]

Earned a sub! I've watched a few of your videos now and although it's not always absolutely new to me it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for bringing me back to the fundamentals that actually matter. Building a habit of "focus" after certain actions is a good idea, I also like something I heard from Woohoojin in the valorant coaching space:

Pre round, every round, build a habit. Like tracing paths around boxes, tracking your team mates heads, doing 180 flicks between two points. It can be anything but do it every round without fail, that's your action to signal "I am now dialled in and focussed on this round, nothing else matters". Over time you build up that association of "tracing lines with my crosshair means it's Morbin time", and then you naturally get in the zone each time more consistently.

Similar to your "focus" after manual reload but for round based games that require extreme focus especially in the early round.

[codsniperdrinkscofee]

Your superb editing and explanations (and godlike flicking and tracking) made understanding these concepts so much easier. Subbed. Keep up the great work

[zedus]

This thing about staying in *focus* and not letting yourself go into autopilot mode is probably one of the most important things in multiplayer games in general. Being aware of yourself allows you to concentrate much better.

[seasonalgoods]

wow the explanation was really concise and helped me to realise how my playstyle is sometimes good or bad because i wasnt able to have a continuous focus but mostly autopiloting

[hannas]

Been working on this for months always awesome to to see people happen upon the same solutions, another key to it for me was presence of mind. Not concentrating if I miss this shots before or if I’m whiffing

[treeqsters]

This is so true, i learnt about focus aiming when i was playing COD, now i play Apex and the same principles apply. I didn't really apply my peripheral vision much tho, i used to tunnel vision a lot, that's one thing i would work on now. Thanks for this informative masterpiece

[zrudu]

“focusing” on my enemy is something i’ve done a lot in the fighting games i play, predicting what my opponent will do next and when to stop and block or counter when i enter their threat range. i’ve never thought to apply this to my fps experience.