Response Curves & Aim Assist

Response curve is the setting nobody experiments with — because the league solved it. Here's what it does and why every pro page on this site says the same thing.

What a response curve is

The curve maps physical stick movement to turn speed. Linear is one-to-one: 40% stick = 40% speed, honest but twitchy, because your first few millimeters of movement already swing your aim. Standard eases in slowly and ramps late — forgiving near center, sluggish when you commit. Dynamic flips that: it front-loads response so your initial movement translates fast, then flattens so you keep fine control near full deflection. On the graph, that's the orange curve rising steep and early.

Why the league is unanimous

Competitive CoD is won in the first tenth of a second of a gunfight, and Dynamic is simply the fastest curve to first response without giving up micro-adjustment. The result is on every page of this site: Dynamic response curve, Default aim assist, essentially without exception. There's no galaxy-brain alternative the pros are hiding — this is one of the rare settings with an actual right answer, and everyone converged on it years ago.

Aim assist, briefly

Default aim assist gives the standard slowdown bubble as your crosshair crosses a target. The alternative types trade that behavior for rotation styles that sound stronger on paper and test worse under pressure — which is why the league treats this the same as the curve: set it to Default and never think about it again. Spend your experimentation budget on sens and FOV, where preference actually exists; take the free answer here.