Basically its dragging recoil where you pull down in a upside down reversed 7 outline, then it starts swaying randomly from side to side. You could try to go into the range and practice the first bit of the recoil pattern, or watch the barrel when it reaches max recoil height.

I’m going to give a brief and bad example explanation as I don’t play much.

Stand still and crouch for small spray pattern. Pulling down is how you control it but leaning the pattern is useful. Burst firing can be a good idea in some situations and tap firing is good for longer ranges but you have to find your distance as skill can affect this

I think the first 7-9 bullets generally go more or less straight up. After that, the bullets will either go left or right randomly. It's different from CS where the spray pattern is predetermined

There's a general pattern to it but it has randomness added to it because Riot doesn't want this game to be CS:GO.

The recoil is some what random it has a pattern but that pattern does change.

When the recoil kicks in the bullets will up and go left to right or right to left. You just have to look where your bullets or gun is swaying and counter that with your mouse movement's.

Head to the range and shoot at a wall at different distances to practice your recoil control.

Easiest thing to do it pay attention to the barrel of your rifle while shooting as well, the barrel pulls to the angle your bullets fire.

Tap or burst fire with most weapons. Stinger just ADS at range, spectre do maybe 8 bullet sprays while pulling down slightly, vandal do 1-3 round bursts, phantom you can drag down and to the left fairly effectively I believe but that could be wrong as I do it by muscle memory. The phantom is actually fairly easy to land medium range sprays, although they'll probably be body shots unless you have it down pretty well. For the most part this game benefits from tap firing more on all weapons, even the ghost and classic need to be shot slowly.

Praying for a miracle is what I do

Practice countering recoil against a wall in the practice range. First hold mouse 1 and don’t move your mouse. That’s the spray pattern. You need to do the exact opposite. I recommend practicing and perfecting a 10 bullet spray before you move on beyond that.

Okay, so. I've been playing this game since episode 5 act 1. Not a long time but I managed to peak d2. What I've found is that the most efficient way to learn is to simply play. To elaborate, it's like learning how to ride a bike. Everyone learns at a different speed but you can only do so by actually attempting to ride a bike. Only through repeated attempts at getting on and pedalling the bike will you actually learn how to do it.

The best exercise for recoil control is to play some music and do deathmatches where it's a requirement to turn off your in-game audio (if you want to get better aim). Also, do simple tracking, strafing, bursting and flicking exercises in the practice range.

What's more, each weapon has a preferred way of being used, for example, you want to tap and strafe with a vandal and burst and strafe with a phantom. There are countless videos which you may find on youtube but it all boils down to consistent practice. Jollztv has examples and if you ever need I we can hop on a discord call and I can show you some stuff I did, let me know.

Hope some of this helps.

Try listen more to the bullets. You should first be able to just know how long a vandal can spray for at full ammo. So just shoot spray a few times until you think you remember. Then once you know, basically put like mental markers on the time interval when major things happen like direction turning.

Eg. 1 second of pulling down, 0.75 seconds to the left or right etc.

Obviously I don’t know the actual time values wouldn’t be this exact but once you’ve done it enough, you sorta can just feel when to adjust. Also focus on the tracers hitting the wall at first, they help a lot on showing when to change direction.

To an extent you can but for some reason the devs wanted to make spray patterns random. For the most part just tap or burst

if your using vandal do 4 shots. phantom 5. go to the range shoot at the wall and pull down at different speeds. when the bullets are tightly grouped that's the pace your looking for. then just spray in that burst against the wall every day for like 10 minutes until it becomes second nature

It’s probably not your recoil control, but your shooting mechanics.

Don’t spray at 20+ meters, maybe even 10, and instead be bursting and strafing, aiming for the head. You can practice this in the range.

If you really do need recoil control at 15-0 meters, just do some practice in the range and deathmatches.

Try your hardest to get out of the habit of spray + crouching.

Try to burst fire and reset via strafing

I think burst fire is the way for this game. 6-9 bullets max, so all you have to do is pull down on your mouse.

Your first bullet should always be for the head standing up, the second and so on should be followed by a crouch to secure the body shot if you sponge the head. Hope that helps

Dont spray long distances. Tap or burst. Spray is for mid to close range, but with vandal, its good mainly for close range only. Tapping and bursting is much more efficient.

Look at the pattern when shooting against a wall, it is random but only after a certain amount of shots, you can also just try counter the direction of the shots.

I'm Immortal 2 so I'm not chatting bubbles. It does have some RNG but not as bad as you think.

they did not change anything with the recoil since yesterday.. if you are spraying you have to pull down when in full spray and actually aim at the opponents feet area depending how close you are to them when fully spraying just like csgo

With having 4000+ hours in CS and playing a lot of VALORANT recently I have come to the conclusion that tap fire is going to be the most useful instead of trying to gauge somewhat of a spray pattern. There is no 30 bullet pattern. If you learn to avoid aiming at the ground and training it in the practice mode and having a tight tap fire this should prove as a beneficial method. Hope this could help.

you go into a practice and play,

most guns are essentially left to right with a bit of upward recoil

And this is why they have the shooting range

so idk if you know this but its not just recoil its spray, so when you hold down the trigger the first couple shots will hit where your crosshair is but then the bullets will start hitting above where your crosshair is going upwards more and more above the crosshair so you have to inturn move the crosshair downwards so it gets to a point where your crosshair is WAAY below where your bullets are going, it also moves left to right as well that you have to account for when it stops moving upwards, a good place to practice this is the shooting test in practice, you spawn looking at the challenge where you can spawn bots, turn completely around and then take your first left right behind where you spawned and theres basically a target thats specifically for recording the different spray partterns and a stationary bot that dosent die next to it that displays damage numbers above its head, theres a close up of the spray patterns on the big target on a little one right infront of you because you can move the distance of the big target up to 50 meters so at that point you cant really even see what the spray is, thats THE BEST place (i think) to really get a good handle on the spray patterns ive spent a few hours atleast in here screwing around so i definatley recommend it, then once you get your spray down a bit with that big target and stationary bot, go back to the bot challenge and practice on them, very cool how they have such a well thought out practice range in a beta haha

thank you! i’ll be sure to check later 🙏

Generally it's only for weapons with easy recoil like Fennec or Oden. The hard part of a weapon's recoil is the hor pattern like with Peacekeeper or Cordite.

Bruh, even the gun with the second hardest recoil in the game - peacekeeper, it only takes 3-4 hours before you know basically everything, and can control recoil like 90% of the time

I thought that was a setting for vehicles only?

Thanks for the advice man I’ll check it out

I mean NO I can’t do that with my ps5 controller BUT I do not have close to 3000 + hours. But with the limited amount I do have I can partially control recoil. The fact people are dming you in chat is crazy. So many losers sitting behind a screen say way to much👎.

If it helps I don’t think your cheating

Given enough time, anyone can have perfect recoil on any gun, the actual flicking and tracking part is where most of it comes into play.

People actually struggle with recoil??

Thats wild bro, where can i get em? Kidding, then explain me shooting at the wall while controlling the recoil 🥲

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Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_vGEoGh5U

From this recent thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gw3rqx/this_very_basic_spray_guide_is_a_must_watch_for/

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After your first couple shots, you need to pull down a lot more and keep it down than other FPS games to actually control the recoil. In other games you can just slowly pull the mouse down to maintain the accuracy, but in Valorant, it is a lot more aggressive, so you have to just aim really low of you're trying to control the recoil.

But your best bet is to try to get the kill with in the first 1-3 bullets from the gun depending on which one you're using. If you need to control recoil in every or even most gunfights you're doing it wrong and building a bad habit of spraying when it's a lot more beneficial to just use a couple bullets. Its not always the best thing to have to reload constantly because you used half your clip on one guy. That can get you killed.

I don’t know about console but in PC, you can only control the vertical recoil, horizontal is just random. So yeah spray and prey is real

The spray patterns in Valorant are completely RNG (I'm not joking about that they are random), so its better that you work more on strafing and tapping. Go into the range and work on tapping the trigger once and then strafing, then tapping again. It will be harder on console, because the threshold in the joysticks, but just keep working at it.

1st bullet is as close to your crosshair as it gets 2 is a little off but still close, 3-7 are up with a little horizontal deviance, the rest go left right

I played valo since beta and still don't know how to spray control, sure it has its moments for usage but I think focusing on tap strafing is better, tap could go 1-3 shots then change ur position or ig u spray I usually spray for 10 bullets, because of I miss all 10 then the rng won't kick in and make it even worse. If U want to continue to spray U would do a tap strafe maybe for a second and for now activate shooting error on crosshair to know the timing of spray reset.

Go into the range and find out for yourself. Someone telling you its a second or whatever isn't going to do anything, you need to get the game sense to know yourself