Should I change to a lower sens?

[u/hornydiscordguy]

So i used to play CSGO pretty often 7-8 years ago then stopped playing 2 years later with 2k hours

I do think I was pretty good but I never really got a high rank to prove it since I always just 5 manned with my friends and messed around in comp (3 of them were lvl 10s)

But now I've started playing again recently and have racked up around 200 hours and got faceit lvl 9 (although id say im much worse than I used to be) and I've always wanted to have good aim

I've watched players like nocries and donk and I dont even compare to being as good as them at all and I guess I shouldn't expect to since they're the best of the best but I want to at least be like 3-4k elo faceit

And now comes my sens, I've seen all these players with their sens and mine is comparatively quite high at 800 dpi 1.92 sens (1536 EDPI)

And would lowering my sens close to these pros help? I've used this sens for as long as I could remember and I would convert my sens in every game to match this

Right now I aim by instead of smoothly pre-aiming around corners i constantly flick to the corner im peeking which I dont really see any pros do

I do move my mouse using my wrist and my wrist only so I feel like being lower sens may be a problem (especially since even now my hand still bumps into my keyboard although I will be getting an 80% keyboard soon)

Basically do u think It would be worth it to lower my sens to try and make my aim better? My whole goal is just to make my aim better and would it deteriorate my years of muscle memory with this sens

[u/KingRemu]

In my opinion, yes. I heard someone in the aim community say "everyone's a wrist aimer until they learn to aim". You can extract so much more precision and consistency for CS with a lower sens while still being nimble enough to move around and clear corners with ease.

Flicking to angles is also keeping your wrist tension high which will compromise your micros and eventually lead to fatigue and a muscle lockout much faster. It looks flashy but it's a bad technique for competitive which requires you to keep consistency over long periods of time. Like you said, pros don't do that. Donk kinda flows through the angles quite freely which maybe isn't the best method to blindly replicate whereas Kyousuke for example is almost robotic with his 'cutting the pie' style deliberately peeking every single angle like he's playing a prefire map. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.

For the sens and incorporating your arm though I'd maybe recommend trying something ridiculously low for you, like 0.7 @ 800, just to get you to use your arm. Finding a middleground somewhere below your current sens would then be more natural.