Valorant tracking aim: train precise and reactive

What tracking measures

Tracking groups two benchmark subcategories: precise, where you follow a target with little margin, and reactive, where the target changes direction. A common definition: continuously following a moving enemy, bullets well placed.^[1] Another guide separates smooth tracking, on predictable paths, from reactive tracking.^[2]

Each level has four tracking scenarios.^[3] At Novice you play VT Smoothbot Novice and VT PreciseOrb Novice for precise, VT Plaza Novice and VT Air Novice for reactive. The same names come back at Intermediate and Advanced, with higher thresholds.^[4]

For Smoothbot, the Celestial threshold at Advanced climbs to 4300.^[4] Each subcategory's energy is the average of its two scenarios, at 90 points per rank.^[5]

Other sources name SphereTrack and SwitchTrack in Aim Lab, or Cata IC Long Strafes in KovaaK's.^[6] Here you work on the routine and benchmark scenarios, all in KovaaK's.^[7]

What it takes and what you get

Tracking reads over time. One guide speaks of several weeks of focused practice, with settings that stay put.^[8] That is why the benchmark is weekly: one number a week, comparable with the last one.

You get the energy of precise and reactive, kept apart. If either one trails more than 15% below your best subcategory, the routine moves your tracking exercises up, and hybrid exercises follow at medium priority.^[9]

One detail specific to this skill: in all three routines, every tracking exercise is marked optional. That keeps them out of the quick warm-up. They stay in your daily program.^[10]

Three common mistakes

Overshooting the target. Overtracking means moving the crosshair farther than necessary.^[11] The precise scenarios punish it: PreciseOrb and Smoothbot reward a crosshair that stays put. The note on Thin Gauntlet and Centering talks about smoothness, crosshair glued to the target.^[12]

Clenching your hand. Excessive tension destroys smoothness, because tight muscles reduce fine control.^[13] If your score drops in the last ten minutes of a session, lower the intensity instead of forcing it.

Changing sensitivity after every bad session. Constantly changing settings prevents muscle adaptation.^[8] Lock your sensitivity for the week. The routines are played at an FOV of 103, keep that too.^[14]

A week focused on tracking

Calculated example, not a real result. An Intermediate player has these energies: dynamic 560, static 540, strafe-click 520, precise 430, reactive 410, strafe-track 500, speed 550, evasive 530.^[9] The best is dynamic at 560. Precise sits 23% below it, reactive 27%: both get medium priority, so tracking becomes the skill to work on.^[9]

Overall energy comes to 499, between 400 and 700: the proposed routine is Elite.^[15][5] Its two tracking exercises are SmoothBot Invincible Goated and Centering I, both optional.^[10]

This player first picks Challenger: 1 high-priority slot and 1 normal slot per day, so 1 tracking exercise a day.^[16] The rotation alternates between the two over the 7 days: four times SmoothBot, three times Centering.^[17]

At Elite, the high-priority pool holds only these two exercises: they come back every day, and the hybrid exercise Floating Heads Timing 400% takes the medium slot.^[17][9] It is a steep jump: move to Elite only after two weeks of Challenger that you held.

Settings that matter

• Sensitivity. One guide recommends a moderate eDPI range for tracking.^[8] The converter's pro reference points give a median of 240 eDPI, with about 3 pros in 4 between 150 and 300.^[18] Check yours in the tools, then leave it alone.
• Intensity. Start at the level where you hold seven days in a row, not the one you wish you could hold.
• Order. Track a bot for five seconds before firing, as one Range drill suggests.^[19]
• Outside KovaaK's. After each session, a deathmatch to check that your following holds under pressure.

How to start

1. Sign in with your Google account, it is free.
2. Play the 4 tracking scenarios of the Novice benchmark in KovaaK's, along with the others, and enter your scores.^[3]
3. Compare precise and reactive with the other subcategories: if one is more than 15% below the best, that is your priority.^[9]
4. Pick your intensity and follow the daily routine, then redo the benchmark the following week.

See also clicking, target switching and strafe. For the test, the benchmark; for the plan, the routine.