AverageJonas Teaches Mastering Your Agent

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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

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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

Introduction
Lesson 1

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

Mastering  Your Agent
Lesson 2

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

Optimal Ability Usage
Lesson 3

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

Understanding Your Role
Lesson 4

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

Adapting To The Meta
Lesson 5

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

Communication
Lesson 6

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

Resource & Economy Management
Lesson 7

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

Do's and Don'ts of Defaulting
Lesson 8

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

Team Coordination
Lesson 9

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

Practice & Preparation
Lesson 10

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

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