I just found out my mouse is 1200 dpi. I use 10 sens ingame, which worked fine for me until I started playing hitscan heros such as widow, mccree and even hanzo. That didn’t go so well. At first I thought it was just lack of experience, since I only have around 50 hours in this game. Now I think my sens is way too high. I also tried lowering it to 8 in-game for heros like widow and mccree. This went a little better. But should I lower it even more or should I get used to what I have now? Because if I lower it it will take me a while to adjust and I won’t be really comfortable and I won’t be able to find the best lower sens.
The average sens for pro players is around half of what you’re using now. That being said, use whatever you feel is comfortable. Your brain will naturally adjust to it.
But will such a high sens have a bad impact on my aim, even if I’m used to it?
It really depends on your setup. If you have a small mouse area then you will need higher sense to not lift the mouse as often. If you have a large desk area you can use a lower sensitivity without having to lift your arm and have better precision.
No. You can use anything you feel is comfortable. There are pro players who use even much faster than what you are using now. I am only saying the average pro prefers slower.
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The thing is I use my wrist to aim to in each case I will have to lift my arm at some point. I have a big mousepad tho.
Yea wrist aiming is good for flicks and favors high sense but aiming with your full arm gives you more precision and range of motion.
If you’re used to it, it’s perfectly fine. I play with much higher sensitivity than that and do well enough with hitscan. Your issues there are probably just needing practice on those characters, since it sounds like you didn’t play much of them before.
If you feel like you’re totally unable to aim precisely with that sensitivity, though, maybe you should try something lower.
Wrist aiming too much will kill your wrist FAST and give you arthritis. Most pros play between 2500 - 5000 eDPI. You can get this number by multiplying your ingame sensitivity by your dpi. Yours would be 12000. You can lower your sens or your dpi, and you can lower it in small increments or all at once. Of course do what’s comfortable for you though, just warning you of the dangers of wrist aiming. It’s very painful. Plus takes longer to warm up your aim and do flicks.
Ideally you want to both arm AND wrist aim depending on the situation. They say a good way to find a sensitivity for you is to test if you can do a 360degree turn by dragging your mouse across your mousepad from one end to the other
But there’s no perfect sensitivity 
Thanks for your reply! I’ve never had such issues with my wrist, but thanks for the warning.
From my experience, there is only so much a muscle meory can do to get good aim with a high sens.
10 years ago when i was starting my first online fps, counter strike, i was, for some unknown reason, unable to improve. It was super frustrating for me and I thought i was just not made for a shooter. Until a guy came along, listening to my rambling and telling me how to find my perfect sensitivity. The trick is simple. You start with the highest and the lowest sens setting, stand a few steps away from a wall anf aim at a marked point. Then you go wasd strafing and try to keep your crosshair exactly at the point on the wall.
Then you lower/raise your sens and do it again, step by step, so that the (for you) effective range of sens gets smaller until you find the setting that keeps your crosshair best where it should be.
Beware that each change in sens needs 5-10 minutes for your muscles to get used to, so i would recommend to strafe for a while before testing the next sens.
And then you are basically good to go.
Also, i would fine tune the sens for different heroes. My sens for widow is lower than my sens for tracer. The lower the sens, the easier it is to hit far away targets. The higher it is, the easier you hit close targets. Until it is too high that is.
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For hitscan 3000-5000 eDPI is sweetspot.
You can have different sens for different heroes but you should not alter it too much, like 10 in general and 6 for hitscans. That will destroy your muscle memory.
You should start lowering it like 0.5 per month if possible. Then use like 2-0.5 less for precision heroes.
Eveyone is different.
Find something where you can reliably hit shots in front of you while also being able to quickly turn around as fast as possible.
I had a problem where I thought i was doing well on Solider, 40% average on accuracy. But really I wasn’t reacting quick enough during clutch situations. Making it higher actually helped me rank up.
I personally use 6.2 sensitivity
In all games, my rule of thumb is:
Set sensitivity so if you move mouse from very left to very right of your mouse field, you will do 1.5 full spins in-game
It’s been proven that if you’re going to change sensitivity it’s farr more effective to just rip the band aid off rather then going in increments.
changing it by 20 or 0.2 is still changing it, so why relearn it over and over again?
Where has it been proven?
Take into account that a DRASTIC change might also carry a different grip, or switching from arm to wrist or vice versa. In that case, sure … if you still want to aim the same physical way then no, small increments work better.
Time and again by players and coaches all over, Small increments will not benefit you and will just make the process take longer. It takes the same amount of time to adjust to a change of 0.2 as it would 20. It i’d just far more visual.
A change is not the same as an adjustment dude.
I can also say the same. If you dont have any source with specific numbers and data, I am going to go with the basic logic:
Small changes are easier to adjust to, specially in physical exercises.
Unless OP wants to go from 1200 DPI 10 sens to 800 DPI 4 sens, and drastic changes, small increments are better.
I think you both have a point. I think making a huge change will drastically affect you, but making really small changes over time takes longer. I think you need to find the perfect balance in between.