Valorant aim drills: what to play and why
Start these Valorant aim drills with Clear the Angles for crosshair placement, Peek Duel for stopping before you shoot, and Spray Control for recoil. Add Grid Flick to warm up and Micro Flick to finish shots. AimKata has 21 drills in seven categories, and 16 of them are free in your browser.
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| If this keeps happening | Start with |
|---|---|
| Enemies appear and your crosshair is nowhere near them | Clear the Angles, then Site Hold |
| You peek and lose fights you thought you had | Peek Duel, then The Climb |
| Your sprays climb over their heads | Spray Control, then Spray Transfer |
| You lose long-range rifle fights | Burst & Tap |
| You land next to the head, not on it | Micro Flick, then Headshot Range |
| You overshoot, or undershoot, and blame your sensitivity | Mixed Flicks |
| You get surprised from sides you could have heard | Sound Locate |
| Two enemies show and you shoot the wrong one first | Threat Priority |
How should you put a session together?
AimKata’s daily routine follows this order, and it works just as well if you choose the drills yourself.
Warm up
Grid Flick and Strafe Track, at Medium, to get your hand moving.
Work on your weak spots
Two drills from each of your two weakest categories, at a difficulty you succeed at most of the time.
Train game sense
One awareness drill, once your hands are ready and your head can take over.
Take one ranked run
One ranked run in your weakest category, to measure the work at Standard difficulty.
Flick drills
Moving your crosshair to a target quickly, and landing on it. Good for warming up and for finding out whether your sensitivity suits you.
Grid Flick
Three targets on a grid. Clear them as fast as you can.
60 sGhostRanked
Spider Flick
Centre, flick out, back to centre.
60 sGhostRanked
Wide Flick
Big turns to targets far off your crosshair.
40 targetsSheriff
Mixed Flicks
Small, medium and wide flicks, one target at a time.
24 targetsGhost
Clutch Streak
Three lives. Every kill gives the next target less time.
Until out of livesGhostLeaderboard
Precision drills
Small targets, head-only rules and guns that fire one shot at a time, where a near miss counts for nothing.
Micro Flick
Tiny targets, tiny corrections.
60 sGhostRanked
Headshot Range
Bots at 10–25 m. Only headshots count.
30 botsVandalRanked
Sheriff One-Taps
One bullet, one kill.
25 botsSheriff
Operator Flicks
Catch peekers with the Operator.
20 botsOperatorPro
Tracking drills
Staying on a moving target. Valorant rewards this less than most shooters do, so one drill covers it.
Strafe Track
Stay on a strafing bot.
45 sVandalRanked
Spray drills
What happens after the first bullet: recoil, bursts at range and moving a spray between targets.
Spray Control
Empty the magazine into one target.
8 repsVandalRanked
Burst & Tap
Long-range kills with taps and short bursts.
20 botsVandalRanked
Spray Transfer
Three bots, one magazine.
10 repsVandalPro
Placement drills
The drills closest to real rounds, about where your crosshair waits and how you take a fight. Enemies here shoot back.
Site Hold
Hold A site. Enemies peek from every angle.
25 enemiesVandalRanked
Clear the Angles
Walk the route and pre-aim every corner.
One routeVandalRanked
Peek Duel
Peek, stop, shoot first.
20 duelsVandalRanked
The Climb
Duel every rank, Iron 1 to Radiant. Three lives.
25 ranksVandalPro
Reaction drills
Answering something you did not expect, and deciding whether to shoot at all.
Reflex
React to a target that appears without warning.
30 targetsGhostRanked
Friend or Foe
Shoot red, hold fire on blue.
30 targetsGhostPro
Awareness drills
Using sound and judgement to know where to aim before you need to.
Sound Locate
Hear them coming, aim before they appear.
20 roundsVandalRanked
Threat Priority
Several enemies at once. Kill the dangerous one first.
15 wavesVandalPro
Questions about choosing drills
What is the difference between ranked and training runs?
A ranked AimKata run uses Standard difficulty, and your best three on a drill set your rank there. A training run lets you pick a difficulty and never changes your rank.
Which AimKata drills are free?
16 of AimKata’s 21 drills are free, including every ranked drill. The 5 Pro drills are Friend or Foe, Operator Flicks, Spray Transfer, The Climb and Threat Priority.
Do aim drills replace playing Valorant?
No. Aim drills isolate one skill so you can repeat it far more often than a match allows, but they cannot teach utility, rotations or reading the other team. Use them to warm up and to fix a specific weakness, then play.
Try one now
Every drill runs in your browser, with nothing to install.
Keep going
- Valorant aim practice: what to drill and what carries overA 15-minute Valorant routine with minutes per drill, how to adjust it by rank or time, sensitivity figures with sources, and a table of what transfers to the game.
- Aim practice online, for any mouse shooterGeneral aim practice for people who have not picked a game: the skills, Fitts difficulty, a first sensitivity by turn distance, and a 10-minute routine.
- A Valorant aim tracker that defines every numberWhat AimKata records per run, how each metric and the aim analysis are defined, the score table for every rank, and how to read progress.