PUBG Mobile Warm Up Routine: Training Ground and TDM Drills

A PUBG Mobile warm up routine that works is short: about six minutes of drills in the Training Ground for recoil, tracking, target switching and throwables, then one Team Deathmatch for real fights. It does not make you a better player in a day. It makes your first ranked match feel like your third, and the first match is where most players lose points they did not need to lose.

Why warm up at all

Your first match of the day is usually your worst. Your thumbs are slow, your spray climbs over heads and you throw the first grenade short. All of that comes back after a few fights, but in a ranked match those fights cost you rating.

A warm-up moves those bad minutes to a place where they cost nothing. It is not a training session: you only wake up what you already know. That is why it stays short: a long session tires your hands and your focus before the matches that count.

Before you start: use your real setup

• The same sensitivity. If you still change it every day, settle that first with the sensitivity settings guide.
• The same guns. If you carry an M416 and a UMP45 in most matches, warm up with those, not with an airdrop weapon you rarely see.
• The attachments you usually find. A fully equipped rifle teaches your hands a recoil you will not have early in a match.

Open the mode selection and enter the Training Ground. Weapons, attachments, ammo and scopes are laid out on tables, and targets stand at different distances. Take your main rifle, a red dot, the scope you use most and a few throwables.

PUBG Mobile Training Ground drills: six minutes

Drill 1: recoil, two minutes

Stand at a medium distance from a target and fire a full magazine without stopping, pulling down to keep the bullets on it. Look at where the last ten bullets went, not the first ten. Repeat with the red dot, then with your usual scope, first standing and then crouched.

The goal is not a perfect pattern, only that by the third magazine your thumb pulls down by itself.

Drill 2: tracking, a minute and a half

Tracking means keeping the crosshair on something that moves. Use a moving target and follow it with short bursts, trying to stay on the body the whole time.

Then reverse it. Pick a fixed target, strafe left and right yourself, and keep the crosshair on its head while you move.

Drill 3: switching targets, a minute and a half

Choose three targets at different distances. Put two or three bullets into the first, move to the second, then the third, then back. Use hip fire on the near one and open the scope for the far one.

Speed comes second. Stop the crosshair on each target before you fire.

Drill 4: throwables, one minute

Throw three or four frag grenades at one spot, such as a window or the base of a target, until they land where you want. Try both the high throw and the low, rolling one. A frag held too long goes off in your hand, so get used to counting.

Finish with one smoke grenade and one Molotov, only to remind yourself how far each flies and how long the smoke takes to spread.

One Team Deathmatch to finish

Targets do not shoot back. For that, play one match of Team Deathmatch in the Arena modes. The map is small, you respawn after every death and you can change your weapons between lives, so a single match gives you dozens of fights.

Ignore the score. Use the match for three things:

1. Crosshair placement. Before every corner, put the crosshair at head height where an enemy would stand.
2. Peek, fire, return. Lean out, fire a short burst, go back behind cover. Do not stand in the open exchanging bullets.
3. Movement while shooting. Strafe during every spray, and crouch in the middle of some of them.

Play the first half with your assault rifle and the second with your SMG or whatever you carry in the second slot. When you die, take one breath and ask what killed you: your position, your aim or your timing. Then go again.

Do not judge the warm-up by your kills in Team Deathmatch. Judge it by the first fight of your ranked match.

When the routine does not seem to work

• You warm up with different gear. Every attachment in the Training Ground, then a bare rifle in the match.
• You only shoot targets that stand still. Real enemies move, so the tracking drill and the Team Deathmatch are the parts you must not skip.
• You turn it into an hour. After a long session you start the ranked match tired.
• You expect it to improve your aim. Warming up brings you to your normal level. Raising that level is separate practice.

If you ask how to practice PUBG Mobile beyond a warm-up, the answer is longer sessions on one skill at a time: one gun's recoil with one scope, or only tracking, a few times a week. If you play with the gyroscope, warm up with it switched on. The gyroscope guide has a practice plan of its own.

Frequent questions

How long should a PUBG Mobile warm-up be?

Ten to fifteen minutes is enough for most players. If your hands still feel slow after that, add a second Team Deathmatch, not more time on still targets.

How do I practice recoil in PUBG Mobile?

In the Training Ground, with one gun and one scope at a time. Fire full magazines at a fixed target from a medium distance and pull down until the bullets stay together, then step further back.

Is the Training Ground or Team Deathmatch better for practice?

They train different things. The Training Ground isolates one skill with no pressure. Team Deathmatch puts the skills together against real players. Use both, in that order.

UC is for the look, the routine is for the aim

Nothing you buy replaces these fifteen minutes. UC pays for the Royale Pass, outfits and weapon skins, and it changes nothing about how you shoot. If you want it for your account, PUBG Mobile UC on Mas4Games comes as a top-up by ID for global accounts, where only your player ID is asked and never your password, or as a UC code that is shown on the order's page in your account and sent by e-mail.