diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Preprocessing/OsuDifficultyHitObject.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Preprocessing/OsuDifficultyHitObject.cs
index 52f18539c4..126f5b86c3 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Preprocessing/OsuDifficultyHitObject.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Preprocessing/OsuDifficultyHitObject.cs
@@ -31,6 +31,16 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.Difficulty.Preprocessing
         /// </summary>
         public double TravelDistance { get; private set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Normalized Vector from the start position of the previous <see cref="OsuDifficultyHitObject"/> to the end position of the previous <see cref="OsuDifficultyHitObject"/>.
+        /// </summary>
+        public Vector2 TravelVector { get; private set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Milliseconds elapsed since the start time of the previous <see cref="OsuDifficultyHitObject"/>, with a minimum of 50ms.
+        /// </summary>
+        public readonly double TravelTime;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Angle the player has to take to hit this <see cref="OsuDifficultyHitObject"/>.
         /// Calculated as the angle between the circles (current-2, current-1, current).
@@ -71,6 +81,8 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.Difficulty.Preprocessing
             if (lastObject is Slider lastSlider)
             {
                 computeSliderCursorPosition(lastSlider);
+
+                TravelVector = Vector2.Multiply(Vector2.Subtract(lastSlider.TailCircle.Position, lastSlider.HeadCircle.Position), scalingFactor);
                 TravelDistance = lastSlider.LazyTravelDistance * scalingFactor;
             }
 
@@ -104,7 +116,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.Difficulty.Preprocessing
 
             slider.LazyEndPosition = slider.StackedPosition;
 
-            float approxFollowCircleRadius = (float)(slider.Radius * 3);
+            float approxFollowCircleRadius = (float)(slider.Radius * 2.4);
             var computeVertex = new Action<double>(t =>
             {
                 double progress = (t - slider.StartTime) / slider.SpanDuration;
diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Skills/Aim.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Skills/Aim.cs
index 9f30c00f39..b93dc52581 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Skills/Aim.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/Skills/Aim.cs
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.Difficulty.Skills
         private const double wide_angle_multiplier = 1.0;
         private const double acute_angle_multiplier = 1.0;
         private const double rhythm_variance_multiplier = 1.0;
-        private const double slider_multiplier = 6.5;
-        private const double slider_jump_multiplier = 0.875;
+        private const double slider_multiplier = 4.25;
 
         protected override double StrainValueOf(DifficultyHitObject current)
         {
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.Difficulty.Skills
 
             if (osuCurrObj.TravelDistance != 0)
             {
-                double sliderBonus = Math.Max(osuCurrObj.TravelDistance, slider_jump_multiplier * Math.Sqrt(osuCurrObj.TravelDistance * osuCurrObj.JumpDistance)) / osuCurrObj.StrainTime;
+                double sliderBonus = (Math.Max(0, Vector2.Subtract(osuCurrObj.TravelVector, osuCurrObj.JumpVector).Length - osuCurrObj.JumpDistance) + osuCurrObj.TravelDistance) / osuCurrObj.StrainTime;
 
                 // Add in slider velocity.
                 aimStrain += sliderBonus * slider_multiplier;