Valorant aim practice: what to drill and what carries over

Practise crosshair placement and stopping before you practise flicks, because they decide whether you need a flick at all. A crosshair at head height on the edge of cover turns a duel into a small correction. In Riot's playtests of evenly matched, highly skilled players, the difference between winning and losing a gunfight often came down to 20 to 50 ms.

Stopping matters because of how Valorant counts accuracy. A standing Vandal's first shot has 0.25° of spread. Running adds 6°, walking adds 3° and crouch-walking adds 0.8°. You only count as standing once you drop under 27.5% of your maximum speed. In Riot's 2020 test, counter-strafing a full run to a stop took 0.160 s and reached the then-25% deadzone in 0.104 s. The stop has to happen every time, not just when you remember it.

AimKata's Path follows that order: setup, crosshair placement, stopping, flicks and micro-adjustments, tap and spray, holding angles, peeking, then awareness.

Practise on the sensitivity you use in Valorant, and do not change it within a session. Your turn distance is 360 ÷ (0.07 × sensitivity × DPI) × 2.54 cm, which is 13,062.857 ÷ eDPI, where eDPI is sensitivity times DPI. A sensitivity of 0.35 at 800 DPI is eDPI 280 and 46.7 cm for a full turn.

There is no single right number, and published ones disagree. prosettings.net reports an average eDPI of 267 and a median of 240 across 705 pros (page modified 18 May 2026), and says the average pro needs about 45 cm for a full turn. By the formula above, eDPI 267 is 48.9 cm and eDPI 240 is 54.4 cm.

We counted the first 100 of the 679 players on its Valorant list on 10 November 2026. Their median was 60.5 cm, the middle half sat between 50.1 and 74.2 cm, and eight in ten sat between 35.9 and 81.6 cm. That is a wide band, and one site's list in the order it shows them, so read it as a range to stay inside, not as a target. If a guide prints a range of 200 to 400 eDPI next to a small cm figure, check it: at Valorant's 0.07, eDPI 200 is 65.3 cm and eDPI 400 is 32.7 cm.

On Pro, AimKata's sensitivity finder plays five rounds of Mixed Flicks, each at a different sensitivity, and shows which one you aimed best with.

We could not find a peer-reviewed study that tests aim-trainer practice against match results, so test it on yourself. The closest study we read, a 2024 pilot with 10 esports players, found that repeated KovaaK's scores were reliable (intraclass correlations of 0.947 to 0.995) and warned that "caution is required if extrapolating to in-game environments."

Treat any trainer score as a measure of the drill. To see whether it reaches your games, track a Valorant number you already have, such as first-bullet kills in Deathmatch, alongside your practice trend. If the drill number climbs and the game number does not, spend more time in Deathmatch and less in the trainer.