AverageJonas Teaches Mastering Your Agent
AverageJonas
Mentality
Lesson 11
Jonas explores an often overlooked aspect of Valorant by helping you understand:
How to identify and plan improvement around specific subskills
How to recycle concepts and lineups when playing new agents to speed up learning
Tips for identifying and addressing tilt to make sure you’re always playing your top game
Aimlabs Challenge
Following Jonas’ above advice, try to identify an aspect of your play that is a potential weakness. Spend 15-20 minutes each day practicing that skill before getting into your ranked games. Examples include:
Deathmatch or studying angles to address aim and crosshair placement related issues.
Custom lobbies to practice lineups and ability usage
Watching POV VODs of your favorite player to identify and incorporate strong aspects of their play into your own.
Lessons
Learn more about AverageJonas' claim to fame and how he built a die-hard community of agent enthusiasts, including:
How he built his brand alongside the development of the esports industry
Jonas’s previous experience in other esport titles
His dedication to becoming a Sova specialist and approach to unlocking the agent’s true potential
His unique use of lineups within his content creation
AverageJonas teaches you various aspects of agent mastery by outlining:
Everything that goes into achieving “Mastery” of an agent
The relationship between ability usage and gunplay in Valorant
His approach on learning creative ways to use agent abilities
Learn secrets behind Jonas’ feared Sova lineups including:
The framework he uses to evaluate ability usage
An example of the 3 levels of mastery that many agent abilities have
A play by play breakdown of one of Jonas’ 1v3 clutches focusing on ability usage
The importance of developing effective ability "mixups" particularly in higher level play
In this team-orientated lesson, AverageJonas goes over:
The different types of roles that exist during each round of Valorant
Factors that dictate the most effective use of your abilities
The relationship between communication and ability usage
How information can be converted into either aggressive or defensive plays depending on the situation
In this lesson, AverageJonas discusses the importance of adapting to an ever changing game, including:
How and why the meta can shift with some examples
The importance of flexibility in contributing to your team
The viability of 1-tricking at a high level and competitive play
AverageJonas gives you his advice and wisdom on proper communication, including:
The different styles of communication that players bring to the table in high level games
The different types of important decisions that require good communication to address
What types of information are most important to communicate as a round develops
Several examples of effective communication and how to avoid common mistakes
AverageJonas gives you an inside look into the world of high-level Valorant by breaking down:
Economy management and its in-game applications
How to evaluate the relative importance of purchasing abilities, armor, and weapons
Several types of buys and how they connect to round strategy and opponent economy
AverageJonas demystifies a commonly heard but often misunderstood concept in Valorant by covering:
What defaulting is and why it has become a dominant strategy at high levels of play
The general goal of defaulting and how to transition your defaults into developing the round
Common mistakes players make while playing default on either side
In-depth breakdowns of Jonas's attacker and defender defaults on Haven
AverageJonas teaches you:
What coordination is and how it contributes to winning a round
How to improve round consistency by coordinating crossfires and other setups
A breakdown of some high value plays Jonas sets up with his teammates on Sova
In this lesson, learn how AverageJonas converts experimentation in custom games to ranked game line ups by:
Understanding the goal of how line-ups and other preplanned ability usages interact with the Valorant meta
Utilizing the same thought process Jonas takes when evaluating his current ability line-ups and coming up with new ones
Knowing how to mix-up abilities and using them in ways that will surprise enemies
Jonas explores an often overlooked aspect of Valorant by helping you understand:
How to identify and plan improvement around specific subskills
How to recycle concepts and lineups when playing new agents to speed up learning
Tips for identifying and addressing tilt to make sure you’re always playing your top game