u/LokiDaTrickster

hello,

weeks ago I wrote here about my difficulties improving at the game especially on the mechanics side of things. I received many helpful answers and especially one from someone who offered me a free coaching session to check more in detail what was wrong with my training routine as well as a demo review. It helped me a lot, as I wrote this post I was referring to may leetify aim score as an indicator of current form - although it's imperfect I think it still is a great tool to evaluate said form.

I began practicing new simple exercices and couple weeks later I went to 55 avg. aim score to quickly almost 80.. I was feeling the game once again, and could clearly tell that I was playing way better like I should be, and it turned out that my mechanics weren't bad in the first place, I just had to rearrange some things in my routine, focus more on kill confirmation, and maybe adjust a few things on my setup. I even managed to rank up to level 10.

And suddenly I started playing like total shit again ! since last week, maybe a bit more, I just can manage to play a proper game like 1 time out of 15. I ranked down to level 8 and I think most game I have like 10 kills. Aim score went down to 55. My counter strafes are shit. My decision making is terrible. Crosshair placement still good but somehow I can't hit my shots. And I think most importantly even if I do my best to stay calm, it's kinda obvious that I'm very tilted.

I'm trying to be the most honest with myself here and I think I am burnt out from playing the game, which I still want to play because I like it so much, I'm sure you guys can understand this feeling. But I find enjoyment in this game when I play well - even if the game is lost, if I know I played well I still consider I had fun.

So basically I'm writing this post to discuss a few points

• if you ever found yourself in this situation in the past, how did you get over it ?
• are mental resets a thing ? if so how do you achieve it ?
• how do you deal / prevent being tilted ?

Thanks for reading !

Hey guys,

I mainly play faceit with friends but sometimes none of them are available and since I still want to play the game, I just launch a solo Q on faceit aswell, but I just fucking suck when I play solo. Like this game I just had, I've won my team 2 important rounds with 3ks and the rest of the game was total dogshit. Bad aim, bad movement, bad decisions, bad gamesense.. feels like everything is completely off. When I play in stacks I don't feel like that at all.

I don't think it's about skill level being higher when I play solo (I'm the highest elo in my friends group, I'm lvl9 and my friends are in the 7 to 9 range) because in the past I / We have played against stacks made up of higher elo players especially during the recent placement games and I didn't feel like I was behind at all

I have two guesses that could partly explain this, first one is solo Q is a whole different game and I just don't / haven't played it enough to really adapt to it, second is maybe I play better with friends because I'm actively communicating on discord while playing and in Solo Q I'm too silent, which maybe causes me to not be able to express my gameplay on its full extent

What do you guys think about this ? Maybe some of you guys experience the same thing, how can I make it better, etc.