One of the best players of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 unintentionally proves that the aim assist is way too strong.
Who is it about? Anthony “Shotzzy” Cuevas-Castro is a professional “Call of Duty” player who plays for Team OpTic.
With OpTic, Shotzzy became the world champion in Call of Duty in 2024 and was awarded MVP (most valuable player). Before his time with OpTic, Shotzzy was with the “Dallas Empire” team, with which he also became world champion in Call of Duty in 2020. In 2018, he was also world champion in Halo.
Shotzzy is currently considered one of the best CoD players and is distinguished by exceptionally good aim and movement – at least when he holds a controller in his hands.
CoD world champion is not as successful with mouse and keyboard as he thought
What happened to the world champion? Shotzzy played Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 with mouse and keyboard in a Twitch stream last weekend.
Normally, the eSports player primarily uses a controller, but he wanted to prove that aim is not the most important thing in CoD and boasted: “This will be the proof that game understanding is more important than anything else.”
However, things did not go well for the multi-time world champion, and he lost one gunfight after another. Shortly after, he remarked in surprise: “I feel like I only have one kill… I am not trolling.”
“Oh my God, this stuff is actually annoying, man,” the eSports player complained at the end of the round in an irritated tone.
After the stream, he also deleted the video recording of the broadcast from his channel. This is rather unusual for Shotzzy. Most of his stream recordings remain online days or weeks later and often have over 200,000 views (via Twitch).
However, that is not a problem at all, as you can see a clip that summarizes the whole situation on TikTok:
Shotzzy sparks new discussion about aim assist
What is the deal with the aim assist? The aim assist in Call of Duty has been a hot topic within the community for years. For controller players, it is nearly essential, but mouse and keyboard players hate it because it is very strong.
In the eSports scene of Call of Duty, the aim assist has been indispensable for years. Accordingly, the best players of the shooter play with a controller and use the aim assist in their daily routine, including Shotzzy.
However, when Shotzzy wanted to prove that game understanding is more important than good aim, he proved the opposite for part of the community. Once he played with mouse and keyboard and no longer had aim assist available, he lost all gunfights. And this, despite the fact that every shooter player knows that theoretically, it is easier to hit an opponent precisely with a mouse than with a stick on a controller.
There are many different videos on the internet about the strength of the aim assist in Call of Duty. For example, we reported on MeinMMO about a player whose aim assist showed him where an opponent was that he could not even see: Player shows how strong the aim assist is in CoD Warzone – Aims through the wall at opponents in the building
