Review Your Deaths, Not Your Kills

Highlights make you feel good. Deaths show where you lose games. A player who reviews even three deaths a day improves faster than one who plays ten more matches without looking back.

What to look for

Rewind to five seconds before the fight started, not the moment you died. The mistake is usually earlier.

Sort the cause into one of four buckets:

1. Position: you were in the open, had no cover, or had no exit.
2. Timing: you pushed too early or waited too long.
3. Information: you did not know where the enemy was, or ignored a callout.
4. Mechanics: you missed shots, misjudged recoil, or panicked.

Keep a tally

For a week, mark each death with its bucket. Patterns appear fast. If most deaths are position, practise cover discipline. If mostly information, work on audio and radar checks.

Rules for a good review

• Be specific. "Bad play" is not a cause. "Pushed the building without checking the second window" is.
• One fix at a time. Choose the most common cause and focus on it next session.
• Stay neutral. The goal is not to blame yourself or teammates, only to find what to change.

After a few weeks, check whether your most common bucket has shrunk. That is real progress, even when the rank has not moved yet.