Best Ways To Warm Up And Improve In Valorant Using The Range

Warming up before your ranked sessions is essential to improve in Valorant. Here is how you can use The Range to warm up effectively!

In this article, we’ll discuss six best practices to perform on The Range. You can perform this routine for 10 to 15 minutes before queuing for a ranked match.

Exercise 1: Micro Adjustments

For the first exercise, spawn some bots and jump on top of this little platform, as shown in the image below. 

Getting a bit of high ground is crucial to help you warm up your aim effectively, as jumping on top will give you more mouse movement. 

Then, stand still and proceed to start getting headshots on the bots. Try using one bullet for each bot only. At first, start slowly and take your time to ensure precision. Then, gradually start ramping up the pace.

After feeling your micro adjustments and flicks, the next step is to do the same thing, but this time, start strafing left and right. This practice will help you get used to your movement, as strafing in the middle of gunfights is exceptionally crucial in Valorant. 

Exercise 2: Peeking Behind Walls

The second exercise is my personal favorite. First, change your Agent to Sage by pressing the “F2” key.

The next step is to create a wall perpendicular to where the bots are spawned. Now, you will have a wall in front, covering you from the bots.

In this exercise, you will be strafing left and right past the wall and shooting these bots. This will help you practice your strafing and peeking. Peeking enemies behind walls is crucial in a real game of Valorant, so drilling this exercise will most definitely help you in a game.

Work on aspects such as prefiring and crosshair adjustment, and even mix in some wide peeks here and there. Performing this routine for a few minutes daily will help you build muscle memory of shooting players and falling back to cover when available. 

Exercise 3: One-Tapping Easy Or Medium Bots

It’s time to get your aim crispy and ready for a Valorant game. We will use Valorant’s training “Speed” feature, where thirty bots would spawn at different adjustable speeds, and our goal is to kill as many of them as possible.

However, using either the Sheriff or the Guardian is important, as these two weapons heavily rely on headshots and first-bullet accuracy. Playing this practice mode on Easy or Medium difficulty is recommended, but you can always try the Hard difficulty, too. 

To apply the settings for this practice run, hit your “F3” key. Under the “Speed” category, select the difficulty of your choice. For this example, I’ll select Medium.

Once you’re ready to go, shoot the “START” button on the menu in front of you. Then, proceed to shoot the bots, aiming at their head only.

This exercise will help you improve your raw aim and first-bullet accuracy, which are essential to making you a better Valorant player. 

Exercise 4: Strafing And Tracking

In the fourth exercise, we’ll summon 50 to 100 bots and kill them individually. This activity can be done using The Range’s “Streak” feature. 

To set up this warm-up routine, hit your “F3” key to open the settings menu. Then, under the “Streak” category, select 50 or 100 bots, depending on how intense you want this warm-up routine to be. 

Now that everything is ready, it’s important to note that we won’t be killing these bots normally. The first thing to do is stand on the side of The Range. Being on the side will increase the area visible to you. 

Then, before getting headshots on these bots, it is vital to strafe for a second, tracking your enemies while pressing “A D A D” and then going for the killing blow. 

This exercise will help you warm up and practice your movement during gunfights while maintaining tracking accuracy. In a typical Valorant game, you don’t want to be an easy target, so moving left and right during aim duels will significantly help you become more challenging to hit. 

Exercise 5: Shooting Moving Targets

For the final exercise, we’ll focus on aiming at moving targets and occasional flicking. 

Here, we’ll go to the outside area of The Range, where you will notice flying targets and moving objects. There are no specific measures for this final exercise.

All you need to do is shoot the targets and objects accurately and try your best to flick on these targets from time to time. Doing this for a few minutes will train your target switching and quick adjustments, another critical factor in improving as a Valorant player.

You can also focus on spraying between targets to train your recoil control. 

Exercise 6: Hop In A Deathmatch

The final exercise is optional, but getting some warm-up against real players is always good instead of bots and moving targets. 

Like the previous step, there is nothing you particularly need to add. Just play a regular Deathmatch and try getting as many kills and headshots as possible. However, you can apply some of these suggestions to your Deathmatch game:

• Avoid crouch-spraying
• Try getting clean headshots aside from messy sprays
• Strafe left and right during long-range aim duels
• Do not pick a position and camp
• Practice wide swinging and prefiring

Shooting real, moving players is entirely different from shooting stationary bots, so this warm-up, in my opinion, is highly required.