I have a really bad aim. Ironically, I have a decent or quiet good aim when I practice (in Training Range, Ana Bots & Aim Hero) unlike what I do in real games. I think the problem is that I’m a pretty panicky being when I got damaged. When practicing, I usually focus on the enemy so my aim is decent but in real games, I can’t always focus on the enemy & I need to focus on my survivability & something else. I’m freaking out when I got burst damaged & I can’t focus on the enemy well. I tried to not freaking out & focus on the enemy more & the result is that I keep dying a lot probably because I’m not focusing my movements & positionings. Another thing why my aim is bad because my hand can’t get used to vertical aiming. I hardly do a 180 degree vertical turn. Help me how to aim! 
P.S. My DPI is 1600 & my sens 2.5 for most heroes & 3 for high-reaction heroes like Genji, Doomfist, etc. I aim with my arm & wrist. Also I want to be good at Genji & McCree.
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Play free for all death match.
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maybe it’s time to experiment with mouse sensitivity 
yea go play deathmatch and try other sens
Experience, experience, experience. It’s the only thing that really makes you improve and you need a ton of it just to improve a little bit I’m afraid. What I also do as well is spend 15 minutes in the practice range when I log on before going into any actual games.
1. Awareness and focus during chaos
Try out Ana Paintball or Widow HS.
Spoilers: blood thristy women, flying french ladies, brutal fisting time with grandma and a sh*t tons of defeat.
I know, I know you are not aiming to be a sniper like I do, but these will at least teach you how to watch your back & keep yourself a cool head. The reason is simple, they will punish you almost INSTANTLY if you freaked out. There are no mercy once you are in the snipe zone. There’s only bloodshed.
2. You want a more realistic scenario?
I gotchu mate. I suggest you to play McCree Only FFA.
Spoilers: lots of high noon-ing and god*mn nasty cowboys from above.
McCree only games are not that popular if you compared it to Widow HS or Ana PB (in my region at least), so most of the time you will have to make a game by yourself. If you wanna be successful with McCree this is the mode to go, cuz’ only the cowboys can teach the cowboys how to be a true cowboy.
3. Aiming Settings
And lastly, your vertical aim. This is Overwatch, not CSGO. People doesn’t come out from the right or the left anymore, they can come out from the sky and literally anywhere. Your low a** sens won’t catch up with the game flow, so crank it up.
If you don’t know where to start, this is a basic tip: If you can not do a 180 turn in a single arm flick, that’s not a good sens.
Here is some pro Genji & McCree sens if you wanted to start somewhere:
- Mendokusaii - 450 DPI - 7 sens - 3,150 eDPI
- iddpd - 400 DPI - 7 sens - 2,800 eDPI
- Danteh - 800 DPI - 6 sens - 4,800 eDPI
- Pine - 500 DPI - 15 sens - 7,500 eDPI
Good luck on your journey to achieve godlike aim!
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honestly ull get better by just practicing but practice in like qp or deathmatch so you get better at really aiming at people trying to dodge rather then boths who either stand still or take a set path also try to find a sensitivity ur comfortable with rather then just copying one a pro uses everyone has their own unique settings there is no real thing called "pro settings"that will auto make you good
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My DPI is 1600 & my sens 2.5 for most heroes & 3 for high-reaction heroes like Genji, Doomfist, etc.
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Go to FFA and keep playing McCree.
It will help a lot, trust me.
You can also turn the crosshair off, it’ll help with your muscle memory.
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after experimenting over 100 hours with the same problem i had with you i found the solution. it was that i wasnt completley using my arm, if you have a low sens you need to almost ONLY rely on your arm, almost never your wrist, so go practise and try using ut arm only think of your whole arm as a stick and flick while not flinching your wrist. only in very few situations u use ur wrist. this is vice versa when you have a higher sens
That’s a hell of a necro, but, remember that the wrist is still important.
Don’t bother making tiny, precise movements with your arm, with WIdow for example. It’s doable, but your wrist will work better.
But, tracking, flicks and basically everything esle, should be done with your arm.
true, i agree that sometimes you need to use ur wrist for example if your crosshair is a tiny bit off of your target. also i have to disagree with people saying that low sensitivity is bad because once your arm gets used to it its the same anyways, it doesnt feel as if you need to move a lot your arm just naturally gets used to it. this means that what the youtubers say “low sensitivity gets rid of shaky aim” is not true, while it is true if you were using like 1600 with 20 sens . most of the times changing sens is just to adjust to your flicking muscle memory not to make it easier to look around etc. aimbotcalvin, iddqd, birdring all have super low sens and they are pro
Hmm, I’m yet to see people argue that low sens is bad.
I have seen people call low sens “slow”, which is not true at all.
I’ll look just as fast with 2/1600 while flicking as the person with 10/1600.
Hmm, it is true but only for people that don’t have proper aiming muscle memory.
You’re more likely to have shaky aim with high sens than you are with low, because a tiny, unintentional move will be much more noticable when you need like 3cm to do a 360.
Try 6800 dpi and 1 in game sens
read the sentence i said right after. within a certain gap it is not true, im talking like (when usibg 800dpi) between the OW sens of 3.5 to 5 ur not gonna see a difference but if the difference is big like using 800 and 7. ur gonna get shaky aim even if ur hands get used to it