What causes sudden attacks of potato aim?
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Cold hands.
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Worm crawled through your ear while you were sleeping and tunneled into your brain
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Inconsistent practice provides inconsistent aim. Also, sleep, food, way of life, mood, multiple stuff. But foremost is the lack of practice.
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No warm up
Cold hands
Breaks and muscle memory deteoriation
Smudgy mousepad
Accidentally hitting dpi buttons
Physical wellbeing
If you want consistent performance, you should aim for consistency in every other area
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State of mind… comes into play
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I can use this as an excuse when I can’t kill pharah as cassidy.
sorry, but i live in northern sweden, and my apartment is always cold, and my hands are always cold. try shooting down a pharah with freezing hands.
Panic is my main issue lmao
Especially ramps up when the enemy is at 1 hp and suddenly I can’t hit anything as if the enemy has plot armor.
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I find a habanero pepper suppository really helps to focus the mind 
As they say, there are many ways to skin a cat.
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Frame drops are usually it
Could be a dirty mousepad as well.
variance in the skill of the other team also hurts your aim a lot. their movement is better. especially in quickplay when you might be aiming at a plat one game and a grandmaster the next
No sleep, poor sleep, poor nutrition, anxiety, low RAM, being cold, being hot, fatigue, strained eyes, dry eyes…
I could continue but there are LOTS of things you might not be paying attention to that might be contributing.
Being human, also potato servers.
Sometimes, stuff just happens.
Another one. Lifting heavy weights.
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Maybe your mouse pad is getting dirty and needs to be cleaned. There’s a proper way to do it which you can find on Rocket Jump Ninja’s YouTube channel. For improving aim consistency, I recommend using aimlabs. I was skeptical of it at first but was surprised with the results. I also have kovaak 2.0 but I don’t really like using it as much.
Also, I disable fullscreen optimizations and enable high DPI scaling behavor by application for OW. I don’t know why but without running OW in exclusive fullscreen mode, the mouse feels a bit more floaty when I’m trying to aim leading to less precision. I checked for input lag by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N but I couldn’t find any input lag difference either.
This issue for some reason doesn’t seem to be as drastic in Valorant so I have no trouble aiming with precision with or without fullscreen optimization.
Pretty sure they changed something about aim assist. It feels very noticeable given I have been playing other games.
I mean are potatoes that bad at aiming? They have a lot of eyes after all, they must see everything!