I’m fairly good at McCree or Ashe because my flicking is pretty decent, but as soon as I get on Ball or Soldier, I turn into a fish out of water. I can’t track a target to save my life. It’s scary just how bad my aim is.
Anybody got tips for how to work on my tracking? i’ve played a lot of AimLab, but the tracking tests do nothing for me, and I never improve doing it. It just starts out so above my skill level that I can’t improve because of how low my skill is.
Try kovaak’s tracking training (not custom).
Adjust your edpi way down to like 800x1/1600x0.5 and start working your way up. You want the lowest possible sens that still allows you to keep up with the target. Forget the 360 no scope crap. Also look into upgrading mousepad & feet.
Also, you’ll be more consistent with arm aiming but you can wrist aim too but your sens will need to be higher.
my dpi is set at 350 and my in game sens is 8.00. I felt like these were to the point where any lower and my arm would explode. Should I try even lower? I feel like my flick shots would suffer MASSIVELY. Also Kovaak asking for 5 bucks for the tracking addon is evil. They really know how to get the cash monies.
I’m not an expert on anything, but perhaps it’s the abuse of the flicking. Overshooting your target probably doesn’t translate well into needing to track your target consistently.
Dont play 3rd party game trainers and keep playing Overwatch.
Soldier Soldier Soldier 24h/7d
my dpi is set at 350 and my in game sens is 8.00. I felt like these were to the point where any lower and my arm would explode. Should I try even lower?
No, thats adequate setting. You only need to play play play and play
You see, you cant get better by doing random aim trainer for 1 hour.
Good aim takes practice and experience, years of those.
The best you can do, is to make sure you dont have g-sync and other buffering stuff enabled. Then play non-stop with Soldier
Take it as low as possible. Your arm feeling like it wanting to explode is probably because you have weak forearms but you’ll adjust to it over time. The main issue with going too low would be desk space.
Also your dpi isn’t low. I play at 1360 edpi or using YOUR dpi 350x3.8 and I don’t consider that to be low.
Also you can play at 2 different sens for tracking and flicking? But I image once you go back to flicking after playing at a low sens your muscle memory will need to be built back up. I never had an issue but you’re not me.
And I wasn’t referring to the DLC, I don’t own that. Just don’t use the custom modes.
The best thing to do from my experience is practice in custom games while qing. I think the best start would be playing the lijiang aerial tracker custom game, I found that really helpful for my tracking on zarya. As you improve you can start to more to more difficult challenges such as aim arena where you fight real people.
Maybe your flicking has developed some bad habits? I used to be a decent Widowmaker, but as time went on I began to abuse the flick constantly and now every time I play that hero, my wrist flicks automatically even if I didn’t need to and it ends up ruining what would have otherwise been a perfect shot. I do the same with heroes like Ashe, Ana, Hanzo, and McCree…so now I can’t play them. The flicking is ingrained into my muscle memory it seems.
I do the same with other heroes to a lesser extent; just flick my wrist like mad if my target starts moving around, and I legitimately cannot help it. So perhaps you’re doing something similar and you just don’t realise it while you’re playing? I’m afraid I have no advice as my aim has gotten considerably worse over time, but maybe discovering the cause of your problems might be of some use.
Kovaak’s is good. Some of the benchmarks(Voltaic is good. Aimer7 sometimes feel a little basic but they’re useful, too) are good to grind and work on control. Quake is free and good to work on that(just play a few hundred games of AaaAaaAAAaAaa and you’ll feel like a beast). There are a few techniques to use that can help as well(using keyboard aiming instead of pure mouse and positioning). After that, getting a new monitor can help a lot.
I feel like OW has a lot of downtime for working on your aim.
Workshops
48701 basic tracking practice
RM4GA predictable pattern bots in chamber
A9FBX hard mode of the previous one, hard to hit those (more of strafe pracc.)
VAXTA Also the chamber but here you can adjust some settings on walls.
Mercy main talking about aim 
Lock your wrist and try to have a good grip on the mouse.
It usually works for me.
If going for the perfect tracking aim isn’t working for you, you can instead lean into an aiming style that’s reliant on you making lots of quick micro-adjustments as you’re shooting someone. I know of at least one former OWL player who relied on this aiming style.
Invest in a good gaming mice and mousepad. Sadly part of having a good aim is pay to win. If you have a crappy mice and mousepad, no amount of practice will help you reach your potential. Even if you get good at aiming with a crappy mice, you’ll learn bad habits from that bad mice and constantly get sore hand/arms.
Simply put, stop aiming for the head. This is an issue I had when I was starting out, aiming for the head. Most of the time you cannot actually aim for the head as it is just too difficult for how much dmg tracking actually does (2x).
While “flicking” (really it is click-timing and croshair placement, the best players do not really flick) is not too bad to click the head, tracking is not the same. Only track the head on 76/tracer when you can totally predict their movement (they are in the air or are moving in a straight line. If they are AD spamming NEVER aim for the head.
To practice tracking the head when you CAN totally predict their movement, use the IDDQD popcorn aim trainer. Otherwise use aim arena and deathmatch. If you want to be a good hitscan it goes without saying you should practice aim in queue.
I know, it’s such an abstract concept that I could have possibly played any other hero throughout my Overwatch “career”…
Genuinely though, I do think practically one-tricking Mercy for almost two years has contributed to my permanently damaged aim lmao. I used to be legitimately decent.
You’ve got that right. I find I can barely hit the broad side of a barn unless I flick to the target.
The way I imagine how flicking and practicing that skill goes is that, it doesn’t matter how long your cursor is over the target so long as it does cross them and you time the shot for when it does.
That’s basically the exact opposite of how automatic weapons need to be used. I’d suggest maybe practicing on Baptiste before Soldier since he’s the inbetween from McCree and Soldier as far as tracking is concerned.
Wait I thought you were a doomfist main???
#1 most best advice you will ever get
It is important to adjust your mindset when practicing to take into account the following
Almost all of actual motor learning and skill development occurs WHEN YOU MAKE A MISTAKE
Learning does NOT occur when you do it right most of the time
Did you get that?
Before you do ANYTHING else you need to re-adjust your expectations and adopt a different approach towards practice
LEARNING DOES *NOT* OCCUR WHEN YOU DO IT CORRECTLY *OVER AND OVER*
Fine motor development is the consequence of “trial and error” selection of the correct neurons to activate when performing a given movement.
Learning what NOT to do, which neurons NOT to activate, is the major driving force in the development of precise motor movements.
If you want to quickly improve something you are not good at you have to practice a task that results in roughly a 50% success rate to start with.
The point is that it should be difficult enough that you can’t come close to doing it correctly >90% of the time, but not so difficult that you make more errors than the number of times you can do it correctly.
If something like aimlab is too hard, you can start out by jumping into the practice room, going over to the area at the right, and just spend about 5-10 minutes following the bots with your crosshairs as close as possible while they glide back and forth into the little room.
For initially developing a skill like this, it doesn’t even matter that the movement is predictable or doesn’t reflect how any actual player would move. You want to build the precise control of that kind of movement before you can apply it to a real situation.
As long as you are doing it with focus and a deliberate intention to improve, even something that sounds as trivial as this will help build the relevant connections to improve your response. Simple tasks like this once a day are really all it takes, as long as you are intensely focused, and can result in a large improvement in a couple weeks.