Operator Flicks: a Valorant Operator drill

The one where somebody appears on the angle you are holding, and you have under a second to fire. An Operator does 150 to the body, a kill on a fully armoured player, so a clean body shot is all you need.

Because it adds risk and buys almost nothing. A head one-shot pays 400 instead of 200, but chasing it is the mistake this drill exposes most: you drag the crosshair up, the bot crosses, and a kill turns into nothing. Take the body. With a bolt time of about 1.67 seconds, a miss usually means the bot gets away.

Try both, and notice which one loses less. Holding scoped just off the edge they come from is the safer read: bots either step out and stand for about 1.5 seconds at Medium, or run across at 4.5 m/s, and you only get the shot if you are already there. A flick-and-scope is for the moments when you were not.

Before any session where you plan to play the Operator, and not otherwise. The Operator is expensive and special-purpose in Valorant, so it only pays to train it if you actually buy it.