Sponsored: The Best Ways to Improve at CS2 Today, Featuring Refrag

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Counter-Strike is one of the most difficult FPS games to be proficient at. Its gunplay is revered as some of the most difficult among tactical shooters today. Thankfully, the methods available to improve one’s ability to hit headshots are plentiful, but which method is truly the most effective?

Deathmatching often

Deathmatching is a timeless FPS activity to improve your aim ability, and it’s no different in CS2. Most people looking to quickly get warm and reacclimated to their setup will often reach for a DM server. It’s the most tried and true method for getting in as many aim duels as possible, as quickly as possible.

The primary downside to this approach is the quality of aim duels is often low. Most frags you get will be on opponents not looking at you, in uncommon areas of the map. You’d also be hard-pressed to find any populated servers that aren’t on Dust2 or Mirage.

Third-party aim trainers

If Deathmatch isn’t really your speed, external third-party aim trainers can be a great way to improve. Many of these trainers offer a variety of modes for training different parts of your aim, such as tracking, or flicking. Unlike deathmatch, aim trainers also give you a score that corresponds directly to your performance, allowing you to see exactly how you stack up.

While aim trainers are great at improving general ability and aim “fitness,” their application to improving specifically at Counter-Strike 2 will vary depending on the player. Aim trainers aren’t able to fully replicate the same angles you’d see while playing the Active Duty maps, not to mention the feeling of playing an aim trainer might be very different to playing CS2 in a match environment. Replicating these factors 1:1 is not possible with the aim trainers available today.

Using Refrag Coach + modes

What if you wanted the best of both worlds: a training platform that kept everything in-game, as you’d see it in real matches, but also tracked your performance metrics so you know exactly where you need improvement?

Enter Refrag: The ultimate training platform for CS2. Refrag’s training modes make it easy to train all aspects of your game—especially with Refrag Coach—which allows you to focus on the parts of your game that are holding you back.

After every game, Refrag Coach will automatically import your match history and analyze your gameplay. With a basic understanding of your strengths and weaknesses as a player, Coach will recommend specific Refrag training modes to maximize your improvement. It’ll automatically generate a custom Routine for you, so you don’t have to waste a second wondering what you should work on.

Additionally, we’ve developed a large variety of custom training modes that target different facets of your game, like Defender, which tasks the player with defending realistic positions from incoming enemies, complete with utility sets that must be dodged. Defender scenarios are as close as you can get to playing against a real execute, but with Refrag, you can practice them as many times as you need.

If you’re struggling with your crosshair placement, Coach will often recommend Prefire, which is a tried and true training mode for improving your pre-aim. Refrag’s Prefire 2.0 isn’t like your average Workshop map prefire mode: on every map, in every arena, Refrag randomizes the spawns that the bots occupy. Not only that, but their exact location is displaced at random with each run, ensuring that you’re not just acclimating to the exact spawns of the bots.

Refrag isn’t just a collection of training modes behind a paywall- it’s a training platform designed to not just give you the tools you need to improve, but also gives you useful features outside of the server that you will actually use.

Join thousands of players who've transformed their game with Refrag's advanced training platform. While others practice aimlessly, you'll have a personalized Coach analyzing your matches and creating custom routines that target your specific weaknesses.

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