My point is that each rank bracket will have appropriate nomod, dt, hr maps. And there are numerous of nomod maps (scarlet rose/big black e.g.) which might as well be able to mess up a lot if you play them too early.
I am kinda this guy who was "abusing" mods at low rank (~600-700pp), playing a lot of HR/HDHR becouse i was thinking "it will make me better". This ended up on screwing my progression rate which is slow now, slow as fuck becouse i still need to get rid with some bad habits and IT'S FUCKIN HARD.
Since i started spamming nomod only and stay with nomod, magicaly after removing primary bad habit which was button mashing i started progressing, my consistency went skyhigh into point where insteed of spamming map over and over to actualy pass it, i can sightread with good acc and very low amount of misses (in 90% cases just becouse i cannot stream and misses happens becouse i am too slow for them) / actualy FC on first try when map doesn't have any streams / completly weird patterns what are new to me.
By my own experience i can just say - nomod makes you better at low rank, teach you how to game works, teach you how to play and control patterns.
Oh wait, i even heared Azer recommending playing nomod only and progressing with nomod at low rank. Dunno if i can find this now in his past broadcast / it's muted becouse of twitch policy.
Till 4-digit every single HR/DT playable map is just shitty pp farm what gives you literaly zero experience and zero progress exept pp. No exeption. Everything what you need till 4-digit is ability to read AR8/AR9, being accurate on OD7/OD8. Nothing else.
You can even hit high 3-digit with nomod.
Counteradvising against mods in general is retarded. Period.
Not alerting newbs about bad habits and posibility to be skillless and complain later on becouse "3,5* ar8 od8 map too hard, cannot play it" is retarded.
People who keep preaching one shouldn't touch mods until rank x to me are nothing but lazy and make it too obvious they need stupid excuses to feel better about themselves.
You wat dude?
Dude, if you don't want to invest some real effort into learning something exceptionally hard don't project and force this attitude onto new players.
AIM - You don't need mods to train your aim, there is more than enough CS5 maps in range of 2-5* with moderate difficulty to do this. There is more than enough maps with tornado jumps / rabbit jumps / anti-jumps / squares / stars etc. to train aim. You don't need mods for this.
SPEED - Play faster maps? Simple.... After spamming a lot 180 bpm 4*+ maps and improving my scores on them into point where i started fcing them, i went into "let's try DT some ar7 becouse i am bored and want to try DT", took setting sail and fced it with 99% acc with first try becouse "this doesn't require skill, it's retardly easy, wtf, this map doesnt deserve 90pp what it gives". Reading AR7 Hard+DT 4* and reading AR9 Insane 4* is completly diffrent.
90pp for nothing, literaly for nothing = #balanced, truly skillbased map, i feel so skilled becouse i fced it.... - it was sarcasm if you didn't notice.
3.9/4* "&Z" / "Hikaru Nara" was way more difficult than this and gives same pp. I mentioned this once becouse in my opinion they are like entrance point into AR9 insane and 4* range.
ACC - Play OD7/OD8, maps on your skill level. As above, in both cases, mods gives you nothing here.
Developing bad habits will happen no matter what you do. Especially if you play a lot.
No. No. No.
There is no arguments here becouse this statment is plain idiotic.
But at the end of the day you'll at least know how to approach these habits and fix them instead of worrying all day about doing something wrong in the first place.
Took me over 5k pc to fix mashing buttons bad habit, i am still left with wrong reading technique habit which will take way more time to fix.
At least i am proud that IF i cannot hit circle becouse i am too slow, i dont hit it, simple.
If i click circle, it's accurate and planned move, not brainless mashing and hope for "lucky 300/100/50".
With 12 circles stream, i hit 6 times each button, not more and move to another circle.
With 6 kickslider stream pattern i hit both keys 3 times, no more.
By not having bad habits, it's way easier for you to see where you make mistakes, what's your main problem and what you should improve to be better.
