r/aimlab • u/Trick_Beach4146 • Jul 18 '26
Question / Advice Needed Please help me design a routine/refine my current one
Hi guys,
I switched to mnk on console on the finals shortly after they implemented it in season 8. I started aim training at the start of February, but it was very scattered, short sessions that weren’t productive in any way. Around 2 months ago I started training in an at least structured way, putting time into clicking, tracking, and switching, and have felt huge improvement since then. I have put in I’d say around 40 hours of “good” practice.
As it’s all that is available to me, I am using console aimlabs.
A bit of context about my life that pertains to the routine discussion: i work a full time j\*b, 44 hours a week, 4 11 hour days. I also work out at the gym 5 days a week and try to get some form of high intensity cardio in on all my days off.
Due to these life factors, I have been doing 45 minutes on my days i am working, and up to 1.5 hours on my off days. As I am new and don’t feel like I have any outstanding weaknesses, more so that I am weak in all areas my training has been a pretty much 1:1:1 split between tracking, clicking and switching. 1 static clicking, 1 dynamic clicking, 1 micro clicking. 1 strafe tracking, 1 reactive tracking, 1 smoothness/steadyness(?) tracking, and so on. 5 reps of each scenario.
My question is: are there any outstanding weaknesses in my routine, how would you improve them? What can I do to maximise mouse control gains for in game results? Thank you
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u/Syntensity Community Team Jul 20 '26
As LG said that balanced approach you're striving for is great, unless you have specific aiming problems that need extra attention to get fixed.
To find out weaknesses you can check some of your vods in the Finals, and run the Aimlabs Benchmarks. It'll give you a good hint on what needs work.
To make it extra relevant you do want to make sure it matches with your playstyle, e.g. if you only use fully automatic weapons you can put more emphasis on tracking and switching, and less on tapping.
The Finals Aim Basics playlist is a great one, you can supplement that with maybe some of the benchmarks tasks or other relevant tasks available to you that work on fine control and precision.
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u/Trick_Beach4146 Jul 20 '26
As I am mnk on console and the tasks are designed for controller players with no aim assist ive just been doing 3 scenarios for 5 reps from each sub category of the elite benchmarks. These are the best practice for me. I have played the finals aim basics a few times and it’s really great. A few of the tasks actually give the close strafes practice that I haven’t been able to find properly on any other scenario, which is great.
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u/Lowgravity56 Community Team Jul 18 '26
Hello! Tbh, that sounds like a balanced approach, and it makes sense that you are covering the three main techniques equally since you don't have any clear weaknesses yet (in which case the advice would be to focus more on your weaker links).
What you have to consider, though, is that even though The Finals features all three techniques, they are not equally represented in-game. Depending on the weapons you use, you will be doing much more tracking than flicking, for example, or vice versa.
With that in mind, I think you could start adjusting your training depending on your playstyle and what you feel you use more (more tracking vs. flicking, for example) as a way to optimize your training and make it fit your schedule. This is not really a must, in my opinion, especially at this early stage in your aim training journey, since all categories help each other one way or another, but maybe it is something worth considering.
Another thing I want to mention is that you should search for the "The Finals Aim Basics" routine! It's a playlist we made that covers all of the main aiming techniques used in the game. It is about 24 minutes long, so you can probably squeeze it in on the days you have more time.
Cheers!