[0:00] What's up, Goober? When I was trying to
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[1:25] description. If you don't know the
[1:27] timings of a map, then you're going to
[1:29] struggle on that map. So, let's talk
[1:31] about the important timings of Mirage.
[1:34] The best CT spawn will beat the best
[1:36] T-spawn to window for this midfight. But
[1:39] if the CT jumps out of window, then the
[1:41] best T-spawn will be able to spot
[1:44] them. In fact, the best T-spawn only
[1:47] beats the worst three CT spawns to
[1:49] window. With the best spawns, a CT
[1:52] player will beat a T player to swing
[1:56] underpass. When running up to short, a
[1:58] CT could have a T right up in their
[2:04] face. Insta smokes will plume and window
[2:07] just around 147, a couple seconds after
[2:10] the CT can make it to window.
[2:15] CTS with the best spawn for connector
[2:17] will get to con around 145. At this
[2:20] point, T's can already be boxes and even
[2:23] towards chair.
[2:27] Oh, okay. Yeah, you made it all the way.
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[2:37] Let's [ __ ] go, dude. Good flashes.
[2:39] Good flashes. as a CT swinging short
[2:41] with the best spawn. T's can't make it
[2:43] to chair even with their best spawn, but
[2:45] they can be quite close to
[2:48] it. Okay, a sight timings. Now, if you
[2:51] run ramp and a CT runs to underbalk,
[2:53] you'll hear each other right about when
[2:55] you get to bottom
[2:58] ramp. If you peak palace on CT side, T's
[3:01] can't cross to the cubby without being
[3:03] spotted. You also hear them if they try.
[3:10] A CT running to under Balk can hear a T
[3:13] in palace once they reach the top of the
[3:15] second flight of
[3:19] stairs. A T with the best spawn running
[3:22] up ramp won't be able to catch a CT with
[3:24] the best spawn crossing towards Khan.
[3:26] However, the best T spawn will always be
[3:29] able to spot the cross. The timing gets
[3:31] spookier the worse the spawn is for the
[3:33] CT. For B timings, the best spawn for
[3:36] short will hear a B- rush coming in
[3:37] before the T's get into
[3:43] apps. Lastly, a CT jumping on top of van
[3:46] will be able to peak T's before they get
[3:48] into close apps. Well, there are the
[3:51] timings for you. Now, let's talk about
[3:53] CT side Mirage. Before we jump into how
[3:56] to play each specific CT position, I'm
[3:59] going to give you just a brief overview
[4:00] of the CT side default. For some reason,
[4:03] I could only spawn T-bots, so please
[4:05] imagine that these are chunky CTs
[4:07] holding these angles. Uh, your first
[4:09] player is the A site anchor. Their job
[4:12] is to control A. Our second player is
[4:14] the connector player. They're going to
[4:16] be aggressing mid early and then also
[4:18] helping out this A player hold A. Our
[4:20] third player is the window player. This
[4:22] is typically the oper. This player could
[4:25] start window, but they also have the
[4:27] freedom to kind of go wherever they want
[4:28] on the map, wherever they think they're
[4:30] going to have impact. Our fourth player
[4:32] is the short player. This player is
[4:34] going to help out mid early, similar to
[4:36] the connector player and window player,
[4:38] but they're also responsible for helping
[4:39] out their B anchor with B executes and B
[4:42] rushes. Our last player is the good old
[4:44] B anchor. This player is going to be
[4:46] playing for info in apps, looking to see
[4:49] is there a lurk, are they rushing B? And
[4:51] they're going to try to stay alive as
[4:52] long as possible if the T's do come
[4:54] towards B. So, you've probably noticed
[4:56] the typical default on Mirage is very
[4:58] mid-heavy, and that's because this is
[5:00] the space to fight for. Outside of that,
[5:02] they're just choke points. And choke
[5:04] points, you can play for info, you can
[5:06] play retake on sights, but middle, this
[5:08] is where the timings really matter. This
[5:10] is the space that you want info on and
[5:12] you want to fight for on these defaults
[5:14] in your
[5:19] pugs. Let's start with how to play A. As
[5:21] an A player, your spawn doesn't really
[5:24] matter all too much. But what does
[5:25] matter is that on gun rounds, you are
[5:28] flashing mid from triple like this. I
[5:30] come around CT and I aim at this Woodbit
[5:32] and I run jump throw that flash. The
[5:34] reason why you throw that flash right as
[5:36] you get to triple at the beginning of
[5:37] the round is because the timing works
[5:39] out where this flash is going to pop
[5:42] right as T's are swinging top mid after
[5:44] you throw the mid flash. And you're
[5:45] going to throw that every single by
[5:46] round, right? And if you're not throwing
[5:48] it on a buy round, then you tell your
[5:49] team, I'm not flashing mid. Okay, very
[5:51] important. After you throw that flash,
[5:53] give ramp a purposeful peak. The reason
[5:55] why you want to do this is that a common
[5:57] play for TE's is to jump up and look for
[5:59] this pick early. Your con player should
[6:01] be mollying ramp for you. But one
[6:03] problem is that there's often a gap
[6:06] behind it like this. And you just need
[6:08] to be ready for this. So after you throw
[6:10] the mid flash, right, throw it, get
[6:12] ready, and then swing this hard and be
[6:14] ready for this fight. After you throw
[6:15] the mid flash and after you give ramp a
[6:17] purposeful peak, what now? Well, you can
[6:19] play a in three different solid ways.
[6:22] Number one is by playing for retick.
[6:24] When you play for retake, you're going
[6:25] to play ticket. Your job when you're
[6:27] playing ticket is number one, getting
[6:29] info, number two, staying alive, and
[6:31] number three, maintaining this CT space.
[6:34] This space is so important because this
[6:36] space is what allows us to retake the
[6:38] site after the bomb is down. When you're
[6:40] playing ticket, you can jump spot ramp
[6:41] like this and just get info on if
[6:44] anybody's walking out ramp or if there's
[6:45] util being thrown over ramp and the TE's
[6:47] are exeing. Be cautious jump spotting
[6:49] like this. This is not good. A te's
[6:51] going to walk out Palace and just
[6:52] destroy you. So jump spot like this. You
[6:54] only need like one frame of visibility,
[6:57] right? Every once in a while during your
[6:58] jump spotting, give Palace a purposeful
[7:00] peak because a Palace player on T-side
[7:02] can hear you jump spotting from front
[7:04] palace. So they might walk out and look
[7:06] for this pick. That's why you want to
[7:07] jump spot not exposed to Palace. So
[7:09] you're jump spotting like this and then
[7:11] give Palace a peak. Okay, nothing. Okay,
[7:13] keep jump spotting. Keep jump spotting.
[7:16] Okay, give Palace a peek. Now, if you
[7:18] see smokes, flashes coming over ramp,
[7:20] your immediate reaction should be
[7:23] throwing a defensive smoke in front of
[7:24] you. Ticket. There are two reasons why
[7:26] throwing the smoke is so good and why
[7:29] you should never throw a ramp smoke if
[7:31] you're playing CT. Reason number one,
[7:33] this smoke prevents T's from taking CT.
[7:36] Obviously, they can still push it and
[7:38] try to take it, but it makes it so much
[7:40] more awkward to push CT and take that
[7:42] space. Reason number two, it provides
[7:44] you with lurk opportunities now and
[7:47] creates ambiguity for the T's. Now with
[7:49] this smoke, even if they smoked UC, CT,
[7:52] they have to worry about you lurking
[7:53] through the the triple side, right?
[7:55] Right here. They have to worry about you
[7:56] lurking through this side. They also
[7:58] have to worry about you just sitting in
[7:59] the smoke and swinging off of sound,
[8:02] right? This is super spooky for TE's and
[8:03] it delays their executes. It delays
[8:05] their plants. It's so good. So stop
[8:07] smoking ramp when you're playing ticket
[8:08] and save your smoke for that defensive
[8:10] smoke. Now, if you're playing ticket,
[8:12] don't feel like you have to 1v5 right
[8:14] here, right? Use that defensive smoke.
[8:16] But also, if your teammates are super
[8:18] committed to mid and they're not
[8:19] fighting through the jungle smoke or the
[8:20] stair smoke, right? They're not really
[8:22] doing much to make make stuff happen,
[8:24] then you shouldn't be aggressive as
[8:26] well. If they're quiet on the jungle
[8:28] side, then you trying to do something
[8:30] from CT isn't going to work because the
[8:32] T's can just focus on you, right?
[8:33] They're not distracted by anything. So,
[8:35] in that case, you're going to play just
[8:36] like fully for retake back up to about
[8:39] here. play anti- flash, right? Don't
[8:41] look, don't just hold CT. You definitely
[8:43] can jiggle it and like time out peaks,
[8:45] but for the most part, you should play
[8:47] anti flash and then bang, if they flash
[8:49] CT, boom, you swing and you you get
[8:51] those kills. That way, you keep this
[8:53] space, right? And you're not like in a
[8:55] position where they can just 2v1 swing
[8:58] you, 3v1 swing you, flash you, and then
[8:59] swing you, right? You don't want to be
[9:01] vulnerable here in CT if your teammates
[9:03] aren't being aggressive jungle. So, you
[9:05] flashed mid, you peaked ramp, and then
[9:07] you went ticket. What else can you do?
[9:09] You can flash mid, you peak ramp, and
[9:11] now you're going to play sight. How do
[9:14] you play sight? Well, there's a few
[9:15] different ways. Number one, you can play
[9:17] off angles. This is one really common
[9:19] off angle here against this door is just
[9:21] holding this ramp walk out here. Another
[9:23] one is right here, holding this angle.
[9:25] Another decent off angle is jumping up
[9:27] firebox. Oops. And then holding this
[9:29] angle here. You can play top default.
[9:31] There's so many off angles on a site.
[9:33] The big thing is that if you play an off
[9:36] angle on a site that is designed to kill
[9:38] a lurk walking out ramp, then you are
[9:41] most likely going to be exposed to
[9:42] palace. So if you want to play an off
[9:45] angle on site, if you want to counter
[9:47] lurks walking out ramp, you kind of need
[9:49] your window player to support you from
[9:51] from jungle or you need your con player
[9:53] to support you from stairs or at least
[9:56] you need one of them to smoke palace for
[9:57] you. If neither are helping you, then a
[10:00] slightly safer way to play it is by
[10:02] timing out peaks. And typically what
[10:04] this looks like is that you're going to
[10:05] sit default. You're going to hold
[10:07] palace, hold palace, hold palace, come
[10:09] over, and then peak ramp. Okay, you're
[10:11] going to come back, hold palace, hold
[10:12] pal. Right, you get it. Come over, peak
[10:14] ramp. The goal here is that if somebody
[10:16] peaks palace, right, you're just ready
[10:17] for it. And then you time out a peak on
[10:19] ramp. So then if somebody's walked out
[10:21] ramp, you hit a nice timing on them
[10:22] where like they've already cleared
[10:24] default and they're aiming somewhere
[10:25] else and then bang, you swing in to kill
[10:26] them. You could also, of course, play
[10:28] under balk here. You also want to be
[10:30] timing out peaks, right? You don't want
[10:32] to just stand here and hold this angle.
[10:34] If somebody's walking out ramp, don't
[10:36] play just like a default angle. If
[10:37] they're half decent, they're going to
[10:38] clear these and just destroy you. Avoid
[10:41] playing on angles against lurks. Time
[10:43] out peaks or play off angles. When you
[10:45] see an execute coming in and you're
[10:47] playing a site or you're playing under
[10:48] balk, don't be afraid of throwing a
[10:50] defensive smoke just like if you were
[10:52] playing ticket. Defensive smokes on A
[10:54] are just so strong because they create
[10:56] so much ambiguity for TE's. If I run out
[10:59] ramp and the CT threw a smoke like this,
[11:01] now instead of being confident, oh, he's
[11:03] he's default, now he can be anywhere
[11:05] from default to triple to CT and I like
[11:08] have to swing him from this one angle.
[11:10] It's super awkward. And it allows the CT
[11:13] to isolate fights much more effectively
[11:15] and to stay alive and delay, delay,
[11:18] delay. You can see all that impact from
[11:20] that one smoke. It is so much better
[11:22] than just smoking ramp. TE's are going
[11:24] to lurk through the ramp smoke. They're
[11:25] going to execute through it. They don't
[11:27] care. Everybody in their mother knows a
[11:28] lamp flash, right? They're just going to
[11:30] exec anyways if you smoke ramp. So use
[11:32] smokes defensively on a site. Use them
[11:34] to find little, you know, isolated
[11:36] fights. Stay alive. Delay, delay, delay.
[11:39] The third way to play a that I'm going
[11:40] to tell you about is by being aggressive
[11:42] and taking ramp or taking palace. Real
[11:44] quick, how you take palace, you just
[11:45] jump up default. All right, we're going.
[11:47] We're going. We're going. It's good to
[11:49] shift after you land. Otherwise, a T
[11:51] could hear you if you make a step peek
[11:53] in here. And then you're going to peek
[11:54] this angle. You're going to hold it. I
[11:56] don't like to hold on angles while
[11:58] standing still. So, I do these little
[12:00] silent strafe movements. And then if
[12:02] nobody peaks me, I'm going to scale on
[12:04] this left side. Peek this angle. Okay,
[12:06] nobody. Peek this angle. Okay, nobody.
[12:09] And then um peak this one. And then I'm
[12:11] good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm clearing.
[12:12] Okay, now I have palace. Right now to
[12:14] take a fight ramp and to try to take
[12:16] ramp. I'll come out CT. You can throw
[12:17] mid flashes like that, too, on the run
[12:19] if you're in a hurry. Um, I'll get to
[12:21] default, gun out, go under, and then
[12:23] peek like this, right? Because I'm
[12:25] worried about a T walking out ramp
[12:27] early. I'm not going to just hold W at
[12:29] ramp and give them a free pick. I'm
[12:31] still going to be ready for a fight as
[12:32] I'm scaling towards ramp. Once I'm here,
[12:34] I like to get mad close to the wall and
[12:36] just wide swing. The reason why I do
[12:38] that is because T's who are sitting here
[12:40] ramp will either be holding jungle low
[12:43] like this or stairs high up like this,
[12:45] right? And if they're holding the
[12:47] stairs, they're typically over towards
[12:48] this side. For both of those crosshair
[12:50] placements, if I get close to this wall
[12:51] and wide swing, they're going to take
[12:52] the fight way out here, which is like
[12:55] really awkward for both of them, right?
[12:57] So, for that reason, close to the wall,
[12:58] bang, wide swing, ramp. Okay, nothing.
[13:01] You can see people's feet from here,
[13:03] right? Some people come here and hold
[13:04] ramp like this. It's actually a terrible
[13:06] spot because if you swing ramp, you can
[13:09] see their feet right here and you can
[13:10] shoot their little toes. Once you're
[13:12] scaling ramp, just be careful of off
[13:14] angles along here and of people on the
[13:16] top, right? You don't want to get caught
[13:17] off guard. And then you can make the
[13:19] decision. Do I want to scale and push T
[13:21] or do I want to stay ramp? If you want
[13:23] to stay ramp, I recommend you play an
[13:25] off angle like this. Sit right here,
[13:27] right? They're going to pre-im ramp
[13:29] right here and then bang, you're right
[13:30] here. Free kill for you, right? And then
[13:32] if the T's do end up coming A, you have
[13:34] a very fast flank. Or even if they know
[13:36] your ramp, this still makes the
[13:38] situation super awkward for the T's
[13:40] taking A. Also, please do if you play
[13:42] for ramp or you play for palace, right?
[13:44] You take one of the two, then tell your
[13:46] teammates that the TE's could lurk out
[13:48] the other, right? If I take ramp, I have
[13:50] to tell my team, hey, palace is open.
[13:52] They could walk out palace. Please do
[13:54] that. Okay, now let's move on to how to
[13:56] play connector. The connector player is
[13:58] a very important part of your CT setup,
[14:01] and that's because they're going to have
[14:03] a hand in the midfights and in the A
[14:06] fights. So, the two most active parts of
[14:09] the map, the con player is going to be
[14:12] aggressing and taking these fights. And
[14:14] if they're winning those fights, then
[14:15] you're probably going to have a really
[14:17] good CT half. As a con player, when
[14:19] you're in spawn, you have a decision to
[14:20] make, and that is if you're going to get
[14:22] to con via window or via a site. This
[14:25] decision should be made by essentially
[14:28] the spawn that you have. There are five
[14:29] spawns. One, two, three, four, five.
[14:33] There's two that are really bad for
[14:35] going A. this back one and this one
[14:37] right here. These two you should just go
[14:39] window. Don't risk going A, otherwise
[14:41] your timing is super bad and somebody
[14:43] can be top ramp fighting you by the time
[14:45] you're crossing. When you're running to
[14:46] con from A, then you should be throwing
[14:48] some util for your A player and that
[14:50] consists of a ramped molly. Now I come
[14:53] around the corner and I aim at the tip
[14:55] of this kind of chimney or whatever that
[14:58] is and just run through the molly. I
[15:00] like this one because it blooms in the
[15:02] far back and it gets kind of deeper
[15:04] ramp. And so T's who are looking for
[15:05] that pick that we talked about when we
[15:07] were talking about the aside player,
[15:08] they can't jump up and fight behind
[15:10] here. They can't fight behind the molly,
[15:11] right? They they're forced to stay down
[15:13] here and only look for the cross. So
[15:15] you're going to come up CT. You're going
[15:16] to throw this molly into ramp and then
[15:17] you're going to cross towards jungle.
[15:19] Make sure you look towards ramp as you
[15:20] cross just so that you get the info. Is
[15:22] somebody there? Is somebody not there?
[15:23] Once you've crossed, you can throw a
[15:25] flash for mid like this. Avoid jump
[15:27] throwing this flash. If you jump through
[15:29] that flash, then it can just hop over
[15:31] people's heads and like not do much like
[15:33] that. Essentially, right as you cross
[15:35] past this wall, you can aim up just in
[15:37] the air here and as you're running, uh,
[15:39] let that flash go. And that's going to
[15:41] blind T's running out mid. Bang. That
[15:44] should help you with whatever you want
[15:45] to do next, whether you want to be
[15:46] aggressive or not. If you don't want to
[15:48] throw that first flash, you feel like
[15:49] the T's aren't insta swinging mid, then
[15:51] you can throw your bottom con smoke and
[15:53] then throw a flash like this and then
[15:55] fight up middle with this flash and look
[15:57] for fights here. Your bread and butter
[16:00] as a connector player is a bottom con
[16:02] smoke. The reason for this is that it
[16:05] makes your life so much easier and you
[16:07] can do a lot of aggressive things with
[16:09] it. For one thing, holding con is
[16:10] naturally difficult because you have a
[16:12] high low situation here, right? If a T
[16:14] peaks down here at the same time as a T
[16:17] peeking up here, you're a dunzo. There's
[16:19] no world where you win that fight. So
[16:21] having a smoke bottom con just isolates
[16:23] this this fight on short for you. This
[16:26] smoke also enables you to do a bunch of
[16:29] aggressive plays and to get really
[16:31] active in mid. When you throw this
[16:33] smoke, it now allows you to lurk out
[16:35] behind it, be safe from top mid, and
[16:37] hold under if you want. Or you can just
[16:39] use the smoke to try to isolate fights
[16:41] towards top mid or towards valley. Or
[16:44] you can jump up on the bench and hold
[16:45] cat like this. And if you hear somebody
[16:47] like spamming top mid, right, they're
[16:48] shooting their their AK, then you can
[16:50] spam through the smoke, get a kill, and
[16:52] then fall back into it. It also gives
[16:53] you this fight here towards top mid. If
[16:56] the T's have an OP, I would generally
[16:58] avoid this fight because this is just an
[17:00] easy angle for an oper, right? You're
[17:02] probably going to lose that fight.
[17:04] Otherwise, if you're feeling confident
[17:05] and you have a window player who's
[17:07] fighting people running out top mid or
[17:09] you have a cat player who's fighting,
[17:10] then I would say go for it and go swing
[17:12] and go fight with them, you can also try
[17:14] to overswing this angle, right?
[17:16] Overswing it and then take a fight here
[17:18] and then swing back and over swing it
[17:20] again. That way you just avoid that that
[17:22] isolated fight that T's have against you
[17:24] right here. Now, sometimes the T's are
[17:26] going to mollycon at the beginning of
[17:28] the round. Sometimes they're going to
[17:29] nade it. Sometimes they're going to
[17:30] smoke it like this. and you're just not
[17:32] going to be able to get active like how
[17:34] you want. I still recommend you throw
[17:36] the bottom midm smoke. That way at the
[17:38] least like you have the option to be
[17:40] aggressive through it. Even if they
[17:42] threw stuff con, still having the smoke
[17:44] down allows you to be aggressive and
[17:45] forces the TE's to respect the fact that
[17:48] you can be aggressive. So it'll slow
[17:50] down kind of whatever they're trying to
[17:52] do mid. In terms of utility as a con
[17:54] player, you can go flash or you can go
[17:57] nade flash. It's kind of a tricky
[17:59] decision. If the T's are smoking
[18:01] connector consistently like every single
[18:03] round, I would buy a grenade every
[18:05] single round. That way you can nade it
[18:07] and if they're running up short, you can
[18:09] actually take those fights and help your
[18:11] short player. Another good use of your H
[18:13] grenade is to nade top mid at the very
[18:15] beginning of the round. If they leave
[18:17] con open and you can get to bottom con
[18:19] and you're not worried about them insta-
[18:21] swinging you, right, we know that the
[18:23] timing, they can already be here by the
[18:25] time you swing bottom con. So, don't do
[18:27] this if you feel like they're insta like
[18:29] dry swinging mid. Do this if they throw
[18:31] a window smoke and they wait for the
[18:33] window smoke, right? If they wait for
[18:35] the window smoke, then you're going to
[18:36] beat their timing to bottom con um
[18:39] before they swing mid. So, that enables
[18:40] you to then come out bottom mid and
[18:42] throw nade like this that'll just nuke
[18:44] them. If they're all sitting here
[18:46] waiting for that window smoke to land,
[18:47] you could do a ton of chunk damage.
[18:50] Also, if the TE's are throwing a top mid
[18:52] smoke quite often, then having an H can
[18:54] be quite good because then you can nade
[18:56] the top mid smoke and fight like that,
[18:59] right? And this can also help your oper.
[19:01] If you come con and your your oper
[19:03] sitting window holding the smoke, then
[19:05] you can n it for them. Um, that landed
[19:08] weird, but still worked. You can n it
[19:09] for them and the oper can just get a
[19:11] pick through the smoke. You might be
[19:12] wondering when should I fight mid versus
[19:14] when should I not fight mid. Now, your
[19:16] default should be fighting for a mid.
[19:18] Mirage middle is incredibly important.
[19:21] This is the space that the T's want to
[19:23] fight for. This is the space that the
[19:24] CTS want to prevent the TE's from
[19:26] taking. But some rounds you're just not
[19:28] going to be able to do that. When your
[19:29] window player has an MP9 and they're
[19:32] just sitting behind the window smoke,
[19:33] not doing anything, your cat
[19:35] player/short player is playing mega
[19:38] passive to sitting here. Then you
[19:40] swinging out mid being aggressive is
[19:43] super risky cuz you're just full solo,
[19:45] right? You're going to be taking like a
[19:46] 1v3, 1v4. So try to prioritize fighting
[19:49] for mid being aggressive when you know
[19:51] that your window player or when you know
[19:53] that your short player is going to do
[19:55] something aggressive with you. You have
[19:56] to be kind of vocal. Say, "Hey, let's
[19:58] fight up mid this round." Ask your
[20:00] window player to nade the window smoke
[20:02] as you fight top mid. Ask your A player
[20:04] to throw a second flash uh so that you
[20:07] can fight mid once you're out bottom
[20:09] con. Now, if your team is just, you
[20:11] know, demuted, they're not saying
[20:12] anything, they're not helping at all,
[20:14] then you will kind of be forced into a
[20:17] more passive play style of just playing
[20:19] for info at con and you're more so going
[20:21] to be playing for the mid round rather
[20:23] than early aggression. You can
[20:25] absolutely still get away with being
[20:26] aggressive early. It's just against good
[20:28] players. Like, if the T's are swinging
[20:30] top mid together, then if you push up
[20:32] mid, you shouldn't be getting that many
[20:34] kills, right? You should probably just
[20:36] die. So, here's a couple things you can
[20:37] do to like make aggressive stuff happen
[20:40] or make fights happen. Number one, if
[20:42] they're not smoking window and they're
[20:43] just insta- swinging window, tell your
[20:45] window player to come double window with
[20:47] you and you guys play high low, right?
[20:48] They go here, you go here, and you just
[20:50] bite them as they swing out mid. Another
[20:52] coordinated aggressive thing you can do
[20:54] to ask your teammates is, hey, let's
[20:55] push mid this round, right? This is good
[20:57] to do when you know that the T's aren't
[20:59] insta swinging mid. As you saw in the
[21:01] timing section, if the if the T's insta
[21:03] swing mid, they'll spot you jumping out
[21:05] window like this. So, if they're
[21:07] throwing like a top mid smoke or they're
[21:08] just waiting for the window smoke to
[21:10] land and you guys have decent mid
[21:12] spawns, then that's a good time for you
[21:13] to push up mid, right? Run out, play
[21:15] ante, and then hard swing. Another thing
[21:17] for you to do is just go double cat,
[21:19] right? In this setup, we can play one
[21:20] window player, one A player playing
[21:22] passive, and you're going to come double
[21:24] cat with your cat rifler short, sorry,
[21:26] cat short, interchangeable NA versus EU
[21:29] lingo. Come double cat. You can throw a
[21:30] flash like this or you can just left and
[21:32] right click a flash behind you and then
[21:34] just, you know, wide swing and just
[21:36] double fight together. And then lastly,
[21:38] if the teeth aren't throwing anything
[21:41] con early and they're just swinging mid,
[21:43] they can also ask your window player or
[21:45] your cap player or a anybody, right?
[21:47] Come double con with you and just double
[21:48] swing high low here and look for fights
[21:51] like that. You will, if you swing high,
[21:53] like be isolated right here, right? So
[21:55] keep that in mind. But you want to be
[21:56] aggressive. You want to get kills. You
[21:57] want to fight for mid. Those are some
[21:59] options for you to do with your
[22:00] teammates that are easy and easy to
[22:01] communicate. Now, in the mid round, your
[22:03] decision-making is going to highly
[22:05] depend on the info you have. Let's say
[22:07] the TE's have taken mid and you haven't
[22:09] really a really been able to be
[22:11] aggressive or fight through con. Then
[22:13] what can you do? Option number one is to
[22:15] reagro mid with your teammates. This
[22:17] could be like your window player
[22:19] swinging window and you flash over
[22:20] window for them from stairs like this.
[22:22] Or this could be you guys doubling con.
[22:24] They just throw a flash towards bottom
[22:25] con. Bang. And you guys go out and clear
[22:27] mid again. Um you can also ask for your
[22:29] A player to throw their oops to throw
[22:32] their right their second flash over mid
[22:34] like that. If you don't feel like you
[22:36] can coordinate like a reagression into
[22:38] middle. One option that's not that bad
[22:39] is getting back into A. This is good if
[22:42] the T's are like four or five middle and
[22:44] you don't want to just be isolated right
[22:46] here. Right? How we talked about how
[22:48] this fight is really bad for you because
[22:49] they can high low swing you. If you
[22:51] don't want to just stand here and take
[22:53] these really bad fights, then you can
[22:55] just leave. Don't play Topcon. Commit
[22:57] back into A and then get into a setup
[22:59] with your A player. If you are able to
[23:01] get over towards ramp and take ramp,
[23:04] then you being ramp and your A player
[23:05] being default is actually a pretty good
[23:07] setup because your A player can just sit
[23:09] here and hold palace while you're
[23:10] holding the jungle cross for your A
[23:13] player. And then once you take contact
[23:15] on this cross from ramp, then your A
[23:16] player from default can swing. they
[23:18] should be getting, you know, at least a
[23:20] double kill if the T's are running up
[23:21] jungle onto a site. The third way you
[23:23] can play around con the mid round is
[23:25] more so from
[23:27] jungle/topcon and just getting info,
[23:29] right? You can jiggle here, see if any
[23:31] T's are going to push you con. If not,
[23:33] okay, good. That's good info to have. If
[23:35] yes, maybe dropping a Molly Topcon if it
[23:37] feels like they're going to rush you
[23:38] after you see them. That can be good.
[23:40] And then after that, you're more so
[23:42] going to be playing from jungle. So back
[23:43] here's not a bad fight. You just have to
[23:45] be worried about your crosshair
[23:46] placement here because if you hold this
[23:48] angle, then if they wide swing con, your
[23:50] crosser is going to be mega far away. So
[23:52] holding an angle like this can be kind
[23:53] of better. That way you're not stuck
[23:55] between two different angles. You can
[23:57] also play off angles kind of up here
[23:59] too. These are okay for catching
[24:01] somebody just lurking up con. But if
[24:03] there's multiple T's pushing you con,
[24:05] then you're very tradable here. So I
[24:07] like this if you just think that there's
[24:08] one con who's going to walk up and
[24:10] you're just going to take an isolated
[24:11] fight. Now, let's say instead of the T's
[24:12] having taken mid early, you guys as CTs
[24:15] took mid early from these T's, there's
[24:17] not a soul here. What do you do? Well, a
[24:20] good thing for you to do is come back
[24:21] towards A and become a second A player.
[24:24] If mid is empty, then that means it's
[24:26] probably going to be a B exec or an A
[24:28] exec. And in pugs and games with
[24:30] randoms, people much prefer going A.
[24:33] Now, how do you counter an A exec from
[24:36] jungle? We're expecting a stair smoke.
[24:38] We're expecting a jungle smoke. So, our
[24:41] plays through jungle are going to be
[24:43] surrounding these two smokes. One thing
[24:45] you can do is if you come to this corner
[24:47] here and you see this wood bit right
[24:48] here, you just left click a molly and
[24:50] you can shift walk, left click, throw a
[24:52] nade. If the TE's are running out ramp,
[24:55] this is going to do a [ __ ] ton of damage
[24:56] to them through this jungle smoke. You
[24:58] can make a ton of plays. Number one, you
[25:00] can nade the smoke, right? And this is
[25:02] especially good if you have your window
[25:03] player here with you and you're just
[25:04] fighting these TE's who are crossing for
[25:06] sight. Number two, you can lurk through
[25:08] the edge of the smoke and play around
[25:10] here. Even if they throw a molly towards
[25:13] here, benches, you can edge the smoke
[25:15] and not burn from the molly. I took one
[25:17] tick, that's unfortunate, but you can
[25:18] sit here and look for a kill and then
[25:20] fall back into the smoke. If you want to
[25:22] be really aggressive, and this is
[25:23] especially good if your A player is
[25:25] playing on site, right, they need help.
[25:27] You can do a flash over the palm trees
[25:29] here. You can left click it or left and
[25:31] right click it. And you can just push
[25:32] this jungle smoke and just go and just
[25:34] fight while your A player is fighting
[25:35] from under default or wherever they are.
[25:37] Another cheeky play you can make is
[25:39] dropping sandwich while these smokes are
[25:41] up. This is good to do if your A player
[25:44] is on site fighting and you want to drop
[25:46] and help them fight, right? You drop
[25:48] sandwich and then you take these fights
[25:49] as they're fighting from default or
[25:51] under. And now you guys have a little
[25:52] crossfire. If you're playing mid early
[25:54] and you notice like, okay, the smokes
[25:56] are coming in. One option you have too
[25:58] is just to full clear under or full
[26:01] clear top mid or do both. If you know
[26:03] that your A player is playing really
[26:04] passive and they're not going to fight
[26:06] the A execute, they're going to play
[26:08] fully for retake. Then you just full
[26:11] clearing these lurks is really effective
[26:13] because you're going to catch a T down
[26:14] here just walking under or you could
[26:16] catch a T trying to lurk out mid early.
[26:18] That way once you clear both of those
[26:20] then you can full focus on the retake
[26:22] and not have to worry about a T walking
[26:24] up con late. One util set you can throw
[26:26] from jungle if you're playing for retake
[26:28] or you're trying to contest the bomb
[26:29] plant is you come into this corner. You
[26:31] see this right window right here. Bottom
[26:33] right you throw your molly. Top right
[26:35] you throw your nade. Bang. This is going
[26:37] to absolutely nuke default and kill
[26:39] anybody who's planting right here in
[26:41] this corner. If you aren't smoked stairs
[26:43] or jungle and the T's are coming out
[26:45] ramp and they're fighting your A player,
[26:47] you can throw a flash like this just
[26:48] against the wall and then swing with
[26:50] that and that'll pop down here. You can
[26:51] also do the same from jungle, right?
[26:53] just run through your flash there and
[26:54] then swing with that and that's going to
[26:55] be really hard for the TE's to react to.
[26:57] Also with your flashes, just flashing
[26:59] behind your A player is really good. Or
[27:02] flashing for ramp just around here,
[27:04] right? Just flashes in front of them.
[27:05] Those are really solid as well. Just
[27:07] communicate them and tell them, "Hey,
[27:08] I'm flashing for you. Tuck. Okay,
[27:10] flashing. Bang." And then tell them to
[27:12] swing. So flashing for your A player.
[27:13] Really solid as a con player. Let's move
[27:15] on to how to play window. Window is the
[27:18] oper position. And the title for this
[27:21] position being window is a bit
[27:22] misleading because if your window player
[27:24] is playing window every single round,
[27:26] then they're doing something wrong. What
[27:28] I mean by that is that the oper should
[27:30] be going where they feel like they're
[27:32] going to have impact where they're going
[27:34] to go get a kill. It's not key that you
[27:36] have a player in window every single
[27:38] round, right? I'm not defending a bomb
[27:41] site here. I'm just defending space.
[27:43] However, window is just a very powerful
[27:46] position and it's the best timing to mid
[27:48] that the CTs have. So, starting your
[27:50] half by defaulting towards window and
[27:53] playing in window is good. And then once
[27:55] you recognize what the T's are doing,
[27:57] then you branch out and you mix it up
[27:58] and you do stuff that you think is going
[28:00] to work against what the T's are doing.
[28:02] So, let's start with plays that you can
[28:04] make from window. Let's look at early
[28:06] round spawns, right? We have middle
[28:07] spawn, we have this spawn, and then we
[28:09] have this spawn. these two spawns on the
[28:10] against this wall that are closest to
[28:12] window, they're going to beat every
[28:13] single T-spawn. But this middle spawn is
[28:16] going to lose to the best T-spawn
[28:18] window. So if I use that middle spawn
[28:20] and I peak window, the T could already
[28:22] be out in this space and that's quite
[28:24] spooky. So if you don't have one of the
[28:26] good spawns, either A just don't peak
[28:29] window, right? I don't want to swing
[28:30] window with my OP if I think an oper
[28:32] could already be posted on me, right?
[28:34] They're just most likely going to win
[28:35] that fight. They should. or B, ask your
[28:38] A player to flash mid. As this window
[28:40] player, you have to be very conscious
[28:42] about is my short player fighting mid.
[28:44] Is my con player fighting mid? Is my A
[28:46] player flashing over mid for me at the
[28:48] beginning of the round? Your job when
[28:49] you're sitting window is not to 1v5 T's
[28:52] running out mid. It's impossible with an
[28:54] OP. You can just get one and then fall
[28:56] off, right? But re- peaking into four
[28:59] more people, you're probably just going
[29:00] to die. You need help. Middle on Mirage
[29:02] is a group effort. It's not the window
[29:05] players job to hold mid. That's
[29:07] ridiculous. So, your reaction if your
[29:09] team is not helping you mid early,
[29:11] right? They're not flashing mid, they're
[29:12] not fighting mid, and you have an OP and
[29:14] you have a good spawn, absolutely come
[29:15] up and hold for the peak and try to get
[29:17] one. Uh depending on what you see, you
[29:20] can repeat peak, right? If you get one
[29:21] and then like you see another one swing
[29:23] and you're feeling good, then totally go
[29:24] for the rep. In general, you're probably
[29:26] going to get one and then have to fall
[29:28] off. And this is assuming they're not
[29:30] even smoking window early. If they are
[29:31] smoking window early, sometimes you will
[29:33] just be able to catch them swinging
[29:35] before the smoke pops. Otherwise, this
[29:37] is the must know util as a window
[29:39] player. You're going to come into this
[29:41] corner right here. Crouch. I aim at the
[29:44] corner of this splot right here. Right
[29:46] there. And then right click, jump
[29:48] through. And this is going to explode
[29:51] any window smoke and let you peek
[29:54] middle. Bang. And then I'm peeking
[29:56] middle. What you can also do is the same
[29:58] lineup with a flash. This is
[30:00] significantly better in the mid round
[30:02] when you think that T's are going to be
[30:03] scaled down towards bottom con valley,
[30:05] right? They're going to be in this area.
[30:07] If you throw this at the very beginning
[30:08] of the round, it's not going to blind
[30:10] top mid people really at all. It doesn't
[30:13] do anything, right? If they're boxes and
[30:14] you throw this flash, it's just not
[30:16] going to blind them. So, save it for the
[30:18] mid round, right? Use the nade early.
[30:20] Save your flash with that lineup for
[30:21] later on. Another way you can counter
[30:23] the window smoke is by coming against
[30:25] this pillar, right clicking, and then
[30:27] jumping onto the pallet here in the
[30:29] corner. It blows the smoke open, and it
[30:31] gives you an opportunity to get a pick
[30:33] top it. If the TE's are smoking window,
[30:35] and they're not swinging mid until the
[30:37] smoke lands and plumes, and you don't
[30:39] get any opportunity for a pick, then
[30:41] here's a couple things you can do to
[30:43] counter that. Number one is going for
[30:45] the cat jump or the short jump for you
[30:47] EU folk. This is really good when you
[30:50] think that the T's aren't going to insta
[30:52] swing mid. If you watch the timing
[30:54] section at the beginning, best CT spawn
[30:56] versus best T-spawn, the best T-spawns
[30:59] are going to be able to catch you
[31:00] jumping in the air and you're just going
[31:02] to be dead. Never do this against a team
[31:04] that is just dry swinging, insta
[31:06] swinging mid. It's super spooky. Once
[31:08] you're here, you can either stay here
[31:10] and hold above a top mid smoke. That is
[31:13] a really nice play and an easy way to
[31:14] get a pick. Right. If you're here, you
[31:16] can look here and look against the back
[31:17] wall, get a kill, fall. If they're not
[31:19] throwing a top mid smoke and they're
[31:21] just waiting for window smoke to land,
[31:22] then I would recommend instead of
[31:24] staying up here and holding this, then
[31:26] you make the jump, you fall off, and you
[31:28] get onto this angle here on short. This
[31:29] is so strong because your timing here is
[31:32] so much faster than any short player
[31:34] could ever make it here. So, as they're
[31:36] swinging, they're going to be looking
[31:37] con. Nobody's going to be looking at you
[31:39] because it's just impossible for you to
[31:41] be here unless you did the exact play
[31:43] that you just did. The other movement
[31:44] play that you can make is jumping into
[31:46] ladder room. Now, I'm not going to go
[31:48] into like how to make these jumps. I
[31:50] think that'd be a little bit of a waste
[31:51] of time because there's a lot of videos
[31:53] about how to make these cat jump, the
[31:54] ladder room jump. I'm sure CS2 Kitchen
[31:56] has some good ones. If you make this
[31:58] jump and once you're here on short, your
[32:00] timing once again is so good, especially
[32:02] if the TE's are delaying their midtake.
[32:05] That would kind of be the only time that
[32:06] you're making this play that you're here
[32:08] on short peaking way faster than they're
[32:10] ready for. And if you're, you know,
[32:12] scared to go for this jump or you don't
[32:14] feel confident in it, you can have
[32:15] somebody crouch right here and then just
[32:17] boost you up into ladder. It's not as
[32:19] fast, but you still get there on a
[32:21] timing that the T's won't expect. Aside
[32:23] from the short jump and the ladder room
[32:25] jump, you can just jump out window
[32:26] towards bottom mid. And there's a few
[32:28] things you can do. Number one, you can
[32:30] jump out and then you can just play
[32:31] towards under, right? You can play here,
[32:33] hold this angle or you can just play
[32:34] here and hold this right side angle.
[32:36] It's risky because of course somebody
[32:38] could be under. So either you have a
[32:40] hard read, right? I don't think they're
[32:41] playing under at all. Or you just smoke
[32:43] under and then you be ready for somebody
[32:46] to nade this or to run through it or to
[32:48] try to fight you through it after you
[32:49] get a kill. If you don't want to go
[32:50] under, then your plays should kind of
[32:52] center around going towards con. So if
[32:54] you're jumping out window and you want
[32:55] to do a play towards con, ask your con
[32:57] player to throw a bottom con smoke. That
[32:59] way you can play around it, right? You
[33:00] can hold this cross here. You can also
[33:02] push mid off rip and play in front of
[33:04] the smoke here. play this angle and then
[33:06] bang, you get a kill and then you
[33:07] immediately fall back into the connector
[33:09] smoke. It's just key that if you're
[33:10] jumping out bottom mid with an OP, your
[33:12] con player throws a smoke. That way you
[33:15] have an out. You can't be stuck bottom
[33:17] middle, no con smoke, bang, and then
[33:20] you're just going to get traded, right?
[33:22] You're just going to die. So, make sure
[33:23] they're throwing a bottom con smoke or
[33:24] just ask them to very politely and
[33:26] purposefully, can you please throw
[33:27] bottom con smoke for B? One play that
[33:29] you wouldn't want your con player
[33:30] throwing a bottom con smoke for would be
[33:32] if you want to do the bench peak. This
[33:34] is kind of best if the TE's are smoking
[33:36] in connector like this. Some teams, some
[33:39] players you play against will just throw
[33:41] the smoke every single round. And if
[33:42] they throw that and window, then one
[33:44] thing you can do is jump out window,
[33:45] jump on top of bench and hold this
[33:47] angle. And once the T swings, bang, you
[33:50] get your kill and you just fall back
[33:51] into, you know, the smoke that the T's
[33:53] through and you use that as cover. The
[33:55] reason you don't want your con throw
[33:57] player throwing a smoke is because then
[33:58] it'll just cover the angle and you won't
[34:00] be able to see this cross here.
[34:02] Sometimes as a window player, you're not
[34:04] going to want to just throw your body
[34:06] out at mid, right? You're going to be in
[34:08] a more of a info supportive trying to
[34:11] help your team type role. So when you
[34:12] come window and you hold early and
[34:14] nobody swings, then maybe you get smoked
[34:16] window. If your team wants to still
[34:17] aggro mid or you still want to have a
[34:19] little bit of impact mid, you want to
[34:20] scare the TE's, you can come here into
[34:21] this corner, aim at this line where the
[34:24] roof meets the wall, and then shift.
[34:27] Don't move your mouse. Once you get to
[34:29] the middle window, run and left click
[34:31] throw. Come here. Right here. Don't
[34:34] move. I don't have my mini map, so I
[34:36] might screw that up a little bit, but
[34:37] yeah, there you go. So, if you tell your
[34:39] team you're doing that and you molly top
[34:41] mid boxes and then, you know, you have
[34:43] two people swinging out con or your con
[34:45] player swings and your cap player swings
[34:46] at the same time, right? Everybody's
[34:47] just trying to fight mid at the same
[34:49] time. Your a player flashes. That's kind
[34:51] of the dream scenario, right? In a pug,
[34:53] people are actually fighting mid and
[34:54] you're mollying boxes. You know, I I
[34:56] wouldn't throw this every round. I
[34:57] wouldn't fully trust your teammates to
[34:58] make use of it, but it's definitely a
[35:00] good one to know when you're playing
[35:01] with a good team or a coordinated team
[35:03] on middle outside of window. Dude, the
[35:05] world is your oyster. The Mirage is your
[35:07] oyster as an oper. There's so many plays
[35:10] you can make. So, I I can't talk through
[35:11] every single one, but I'm just going to
[35:12] like rapid fire just spit off some plays
[35:15] just so that maybe there's stuff you
[35:16] haven't thought of. So, number one, Peak
[35:18] Palace. Hold this peak. Bang. Get your
[35:20] kill. Number two, just play ticket. If
[35:22] you play ticket, this is a really
[35:24] effective way to play retake A, right?
[35:25] because you get your one and then you
[35:27] can fall and you can stay alive and now
[35:28] you're playing retake and now you can
[35:30] enable two rifers to go towards Khan and
[35:32] fight mid. It's very valuable for you to
[35:34] be taken on some of these rounds. You
[35:35] can go for a ramp peak. So this is
[35:37] typically if you have the best a spawn,
[35:38] you want to come here and you can just
[35:40] double zoom and look for the head of the
[35:42] person who's crossing. You can also open
[35:44] the angle up for yourself by as you come
[35:46] this way, you jump on the bench, twist
[35:47] your OP and then double peak double zoom
[35:49] from up here. Um that makes the shot a
[35:51] little bit easier to hit. It just takes
[35:53] slightly longer to do that. Of course,
[35:54] you can just start connector with your
[35:56] OP, right? You can just double con
[35:58] early. Either you can smoke bottom con
[36:00] and peak top con. You want to make sure
[36:02] your A player is flashing for you when
[36:03] you do this peak because this is just a
[36:05] fully isolated fight. So, sometimes
[36:06] you're going to have somebody with an OP
[36:08] just holding you here and you don't want
[36:09] to take this dry. Their timing is always
[36:12] going to be better to this spot than
[36:13] your timing to top con. So, kind of
[36:15] disadvantageous if you don't have a
[36:17] flash coming in from A to take that
[36:18] peak. You can also just peak bottom con
[36:20] without that smoke, right? Or you can
[36:22] throw that smoke and then peek in front
[36:24] of it like how you did when you're in
[36:26] windows, right? Similar play, but this
[36:28] time you're just coming through con, you
[36:29] get your one and then you fall back
[36:30] through the smoke, get back into con.
[36:32] You can also just get into a bunch of
[36:33] double A setups with your teammate,
[36:35] right? So if you come towards A and you
[36:38] start at triple and you hold ramp and
[36:39] then your A player gets close to ramp,
[36:41] you can flash them into ramp by aiming
[36:43] at this bit of wood. Flash, bang, and
[36:46] then the rifler here is just swinging
[36:48] into ramp and taking the space. And that
[36:50] way if the T's do like insta run out A,
[36:52] you have two players here, right? You're
[36:53] triple, your A players scaling up
[36:55] towards ramp and you're helping them
[36:57] take space ramp with that flash. Coming
[37:00] towards B with your OP can be really
[37:02] strong because if you know that the T's
[37:04] are lurking one in apps a lot, then you
[37:08] coming apps with your OP is just
[37:10] essentially a free kill, right? They're
[37:11] not expecting the OP to hold apps. So
[37:13] you can either make this van jump, which
[37:15] uh can be quite tricky. I still mess it
[37:17] up sometimes. Um, or you can have
[37:19] somebody boost you, right? They can
[37:21] crouch here and then you jump on top of
[37:22] their head and you go on top. Or if they
[37:24] stand right here, just past this line,
[37:27] you can jump onto their head from here,
[37:29] right? So they'll be standing there, you
[37:31] jump onto their head and then boom,
[37:32] you're up. Alternatives, if you don't
[37:33] want to get into apps, if that feels
[37:35] kind of spooky, then you can just play
[37:36] this angle right on bottom van. You can
[37:38] play on top van. I wouldn't recommend
[37:41] playing this angle. This angle just kind
[37:43] of sucks. I would avoid coming towards
[37:45] apps when you know your opponents are on
[37:47] an eco, right? You don't want to get ran
[37:49] over by tech 9 smack 10's. You also
[37:52] don't want to give a deagle this kind of
[37:54] opportunity to just 1v one you on a
[37:56] headshot angle. So if it's an eco and
[37:58] you really think it's going to be BB,
[38:00] then I would play, you know, further
[38:01] back towards sight and just hold window
[38:03] or even just start short early, right?
[38:05] Start double short and then if it is B,
[38:07] you have these nice long range angles
[38:09] that you can take for a B rush. Coming
[38:11] short with your OP can be quite strong,
[38:13] especially if you do something to get a
[38:15] good timing out here, right? either the
[38:17] window jump to short or the ladder jump
[38:19] to short. But if you're coming through B
[38:21] over to short, getting towards ladder is
[38:24] still kind of ideal. The reason for that
[38:26] is being around this area with an OP,
[38:28] it's really restricting because these
[38:30] fights for you if you look towards con
[38:32] or bench are really bad. These headshot
[38:34] angles are awful for you and then you
[38:36] also have the possibility of somebody
[38:38] swinging here. So that's kind of mid
[38:40] round short is better for a rifler.
[38:42] Early round, your your focus should be
[38:44] getting picks towards top mid from
[38:46] ladder or from a good timing and you're
[38:48] peeking up this way. When you're rifling
[38:50] window, you don't have the ability to
[38:52] just sit here and just hold it dry and
[38:55] get one and fall off with minimal risk.
[38:58] Right? If you come here early and the
[39:00] TE's swing four out mid without smoking
[39:02] window, flashing anything, you're maybe
[39:04] going to get one. Like maybe if you
[39:06] really destroy one person fast,
[39:08] otherwise you're just going to die. you
[39:10] don't have that luxury that you do with
[39:11] an OP to to take that fight. Um,
[39:14] instead, as this window player, you got
[39:16] to get a bit more creative. So, if you
[39:18] want to hold the mid swing dry, it's
[39:20] better to ask your connector player or
[39:23] your short player to come window early
[39:25] with you and you guys double hold it
[39:27] with rifles, right? And then you guys
[39:28] take those fights together. If the TE's
[39:30] aren't into swinging, instead they're
[39:32] throwing the window smoke and they're
[39:33] waiting for it and then they swing, then
[39:34] getting up mid with your rifle is really
[39:37] strong. This is I mean you see Donk make
[39:39] this play so much in his pugs. He just
[39:41] runs up mid and kills people. This is
[39:43] really good to do again together with a
[39:46] teammate, right? Have somebody come with
[39:47] you. You guys double swing and your A
[39:48] player's flashing for you guys from A to
[39:51] go for that peak. Coming double short
[39:53] early too is good. Coming short with
[39:55] your short player and then you guys
[39:56] swing. You can left and right click a
[39:57] flash like that above window to swing.
[39:59] You can also bounce a flash just against
[40:01] the blue bit right there. Bang. And then
[40:03] you guys are double swing off short
[40:04] together. That's really good to do if
[40:06] you have a connector player who will
[40:07] come window and throw the the boxes
[40:09] molly, right? That'll make that play
[40:11] even better. But the molly is kind of a
[40:13] luxury and pugs, you can't really expect
[40:14] people to do that. So even if it's not
[40:16] there, still doing that double swing off
[40:18] short can help you guys control mid. If
[40:20] you don't want to do anything early,
[40:22] then if you're rifling in window,
[40:24] playing more so for the mid round is
[40:26] better. And the reason for that is
[40:28] because you can't take these early
[40:30] fights. Once the T's are scaled up down
[40:32] bottom valley up short, right? We're
[40:35] we're in the mid round. Then they're
[40:36] more vulnerable to more things. Right?
[40:38] If I'm up here short, I'm exposed to
[40:41] con, I'm exposed to window, and somebody
[40:44] who's close short could just swing me
[40:45] here. But early round, if I'm sitting
[40:47] here, right, I'm only exposed to
[40:49] connector. If I'm sitting here, I'm only
[40:50] exposed to short. If I'm sitting here,
[40:52] I'm only exposed to bottom con, right?
[40:54] So, as the T's scale further down mid,
[40:57] they become more and more vulnerable to
[41:00] CT aggression, which means you want to
[41:02] hit that timing where, okay, the T
[41:04] smoked window, they took mid, they were
[41:05] at boxes, and now they're scaling down,
[41:07] and now they're trying to do something
[41:09] mid. Right now, they're trying to push
[41:10] short or they're trying to get up con,
[41:11] whatever, but they're sitting in valley,
[41:13] and they're figuring out what they're
[41:14] going to do. That's when it's a really
[41:16] good time to throw this nade and have
[41:18] your connector player swing at the same
[41:20] time and have your short player swing at
[41:22] the same time. or you go double con and
[41:24] let's say bottom con is smoked. That's a
[41:26] good time for you guys to nate it or to
[41:28] flash through and to get really
[41:30] aggressive in retaking mid with your
[41:32] rifles. Regardless of if you're opting
[41:34] or if you're rifling, your positioning
[41:36] in the mid round is incredibly important
[41:38] because you are the rotate player,
[41:40] right? You should be rotating towards A
[41:42] or you should be rotating towards B
[41:43] depending on what's happening on the
[41:45] map. because of how frequent a hits are
[41:48] or a splits are, you should typically be
[41:51] rotating towards ticket instead of
[41:53] rotating towards market. Now, if the T's
[41:55] are in a really bad buy, then the
[41:57] chances of them going towards B goes up
[41:59] and then maybe okay, market's a better
[42:01] decision. On full buy rounds, I would
[42:03] kind of default towards rotating towards
[42:05] ticket if you don't want to stay window.
[42:06] Now, you would want to rotate off of
[42:08] window if let's say you get one and then
[42:11] bang, you're smoked window. Okay, now
[42:13] it's a 5v4. You guys don't need to fight
[42:16] for mid to win this round, right? The
[42:18] T's are at a man disadvantage now.
[42:20] Coming towards ticket, reinforcing A and
[42:22] we kind of give space mid. That's really
[42:24] strong. Another reason you'd want to
[42:26] rotate is because you're sitting window
[42:28] and nothing is happening. It's super
[42:29] boring, right? Nobody's swinging. It's
[42:31] starting to feel like a sight hit is
[42:33] going to come in. Then you should rotate
[42:34] to where you think that sight hit is
[42:36] going to happen. If you think it's a
[42:38] then rotating jungle is okay. The reason
[42:42] why it's not great is because you're
[42:43] going to be facing right side smokes,
[42:45] right? And you can't do a whole lot
[42:47] through these as an offer unless you
[42:48] have a nade and you get a good timing
[42:50] where you nade it, bang, and then you
[42:51] catch some crossing, you get a kill, and
[42:53] then you tuck. Otherwise, you're going
[42:54] to have you're going to have more
[42:55] options to make plays via CT. The last
[42:58] two things I'll say about window just in
[43:00] general, number one, and you probably
[43:01] picked up on it so far, you should OP.
[43:03] You need you should be comfortable
[43:04] opting if you're going to play window.
[43:06] If you don't op as a window player,
[43:07] you're kind of wasting the uh the role.
[43:10] you're wasting the position in a way
[43:11] because it's just you're limited by
[43:13] rifling. Number two is that as this
[43:16] window player and just in general as an
[43:18] oper, you need to be very vocal about
[43:20] what you're doing and what you expect
[43:22] your teammates to do. So, if I'm making
[43:24] a play where I'm jumping out window, I
[43:26] need to tell my team that I need to ask
[43:28] my con player to throw that bottom con
[43:31] smoke if I want it. Otherwise, I might
[43:33] just die out bottom mid. Right? When
[43:34] you're making plays as an oper, you're
[43:36] going to have to rely on your teammates
[43:38] at times. And if you can't rely on your
[43:40] teammates, then you're going to have to
[43:41] play in kind of a bit more of a of a
[43:44] passive way. You could still get away
[43:46] with some aggressive stuff for sure, but
[43:48] certain things just aren't going to work
[43:49] without your teammates help. So, be
[43:51] vocal. Ask for things. Ask for flashes.
[43:53] Ask for smokes. Tell your teammates,
[43:55] "I'm rotating here. Let's go do this,
[43:57] right?" Come up with ideas. Be a vocal
[43:58] player. It's going to help out
[43:59] tremendously. Next, let's talk about how
[44:01] to play short. Short is kind of similar
[44:03] to connector where early round you're
[44:05] going to be focused on mid and helping
[44:07] your teammates with the midfight or just
[44:08] taking these midfights and then more so
[44:10] in the mid round or late round. Then you
[44:12] become a bit more concerned about B or
[44:14] you're concerned about lurks depending
[44:16] on what's going on. But you're going to
[44:17] have a hand in the B fights and a hand
[44:19] in the middle fights. As a connector
[44:21] player, unless you're making the window
[44:23] to short jump or you're doing the ladder
[44:26] jump, you have the worst timing to mid
[44:29] compared to the connector player and the
[44:31] window player. This means that unless
[44:32] your team like has a plan for this
[44:34] round, you need to be running up here
[44:36] towards short staring at the mini map
[44:38] looking at what is my con player doing?
[44:39] What is my window player doing? Are they
[44:41] fighting? Are they passive? What's up
[44:43] with that? Because that's going to
[44:44] inform you on how you should start this
[44:45] round. If you see that your window
[44:47] player is fighting, then you can come
[44:49] around to this left side and throw a
[44:50] flash like this that'll pop above window
[44:52] and it won't blind your window player if
[44:54] they're fighting right here. If they're
[44:55] not fighting, but window isn't smoked
[44:58] and you want them to fight and you say,
[44:59] "Hey guys, let's go fight." Then you can
[45:01] just throw a flash like this above the
[45:02] blue building, bang, and swing with
[45:04] that. And then that one your teammates
[45:05] can swing off of. It's just these
[45:07] flashes that are thrown deeper can blind
[45:09] your window player. So make sure that
[45:11] they're not just like holding it with an
[45:13] OP and then you throw that. You're going
[45:14] to full blind them. If the T's are being
[45:15] really aggressive and like you can hear
[45:17] your con player fighting, you want to
[45:18] get out and you want to help as fast as
[45:20] possible, then come up short, throw a
[45:22] flash like this, and then just bang and
[45:23] just insta swing off of this and look
[45:25] for a fight. You can also just left and
[45:27] right click a flash behind you like
[45:28] this. That works totally fine, too. And
[45:30] neither of those are going to blind your
[45:31] window player. Now, in the timing
[45:33] section, we saw that the short player,
[45:35] even with a really good spawn, can get
[45:37] up and then the TE's will be really
[45:38] close short if they fullon rush it. So,
[45:41] again, stare at the mini map. Think
[45:43] about, is that a possibility for me
[45:45] here, right? Do I hear a window smoke
[45:47] land? Sometimes your window player is
[45:48] going to get smoked off or not peek and
[45:50] just not tell you. What do you know
[45:51] about the round? If you know nothing and
[45:53] you get up short and you hear some
[45:55] footsteps up short, might be better just
[45:56] to block. Just smoke close short. Don't
[45:59] even mess around with that because you
[46:00] could just be swinging short into a 1v5.
[46:02] This is one of those positions where
[46:04] it's just you really kind of depend on
[46:05] your teammates's info because you're so
[46:07] late to the party that if they don't
[46:09] give you info, you kind of have to play
[46:10] the role in a little bit more of a
[46:12] passive way. Now, if the T's aren't
[46:14] going out mid super fast and you have
[46:16] the timing to get towards ladder, then
[46:18] getting towards ladder is really strong
[46:20] if the other team is a mid-heavy team.
[46:23] if the other team is just lurking mid or
[46:25] not really touching mid and they're just
[46:27] going towards sights. Being in ladder is
[46:29] really not that good because if they
[46:31] throw an A execute, you're just going to
[46:33] rotate, right? But if they go B, you're
[46:35] leaving your B player just fully on an
[46:37] island and that's a lot of trust to have
[46:39] in a random random teammate as a B
[46:41] player, right? If you're duoed with them
[46:43] and you trust them more, then committing
[46:45] harder into mid and getting into ladder
[46:46] can be quite good. If you don't really
[46:48] trust them to hold B, then you will want
[46:50] to lean a bit more towards B. some pugs
[46:53] like some games like the other team's
[46:54] just never going to go B and you could
[46:55] just full focus mid. So again, similar
[46:58] to window, similar to con, it's one of
[46:59] those roles where you really have to
[47:00] analyze like what are the T's doing?
[47:02] Where can I put myself where I'm going
[47:03] to have a lot of impact? As a short
[47:05] player, you're often going to be
[47:06] reacting to fights or reacting to sound
[47:09] that your teammates are making. One
[47:11] example is sometimes you're going to be
[47:13] playing close short like this and you're
[47:14] going to be holding bottom con or
[47:16] looking towards bench. And the reason
[47:17] why it can be good to be up close like
[47:19] this is because if somebody's being
[47:21] loud, short, bang, you're just insta
[47:22] swinging and you just kill them here if
[47:24] they're fighting towards Khan. Of
[47:25] course, you have to be worried about
[47:27] chair, right? But you can also throw
[47:30] util towards chair by coming here, just
[47:32] lining it up kind of like this, like the
[47:34] lamp is in the red and just shift walk
[47:36] throw util towards the lamp or a little
[47:38] bit above it. And then that's going to
[47:40] land in chair and molly out chair. So
[47:41] you can throw that and then if you want
[47:42] to aggro up cat, you can just take like
[47:44] a fight here. If you know there's
[47:46] somebody chair, they're going to be here
[47:47] or they're going to be dropped valley
[47:48] and then that allows you to aggress
[47:49] without somebody swinging you from
[47:50] chair. As a short player, you can throw
[47:52] a ton of really useful util for your
[47:55] teammates and just in general. Firstly,
[47:58] you have a really easy way to throw util
[48:01] towards underpass, right? You just throw
[48:02] them over the sign, bang, bang, and
[48:04] you're going to do a [ __ ] ton of damage
[48:06] to people who are close under. You can
[48:08] also resmoke bottom con for your
[48:10] teammate. There's this lineup that's an
[48:11] old CSGO lineup where you come here and
[48:13] you aim like imagine this is a box, you
[48:15] just aim in the middle of it, left click
[48:16] throw. I prefer just coming back here
[48:18] and then at the bottom of this you just
[48:19] left and right click jump throw. Um,
[48:22] this one is much faster and kind of
[48:24] plumes outwards more, which is what you
[48:26] want from a bottom con smoke in CS2. So
[48:28] if you want to respoke bottom con for
[48:30] your teammate, come here, left and right
[48:31] click jump throw at this dark spot.
[48:33] That's the perfect bottom con smoke for
[48:35] for con. If you have a teammate in duo
[48:37] and you want to help them out, you can
[48:38] get into this corner, aim at the left
[48:40] side of this wood thing here and just
[48:42] run left click throw. And this is going
[48:44] to nade the window smoke out so your
[48:46] window player can peek. You can also
[48:47] throw a flash that pops right above
[48:49] window. That's really effective. If you
[48:51] just get back here, right close to this
[48:53] door, you're not exposed to cat. You're
[48:55] going to line it up where this line
[48:57] you're aiming about in the bricks where
[48:59] this line would meet it. Then you're
[49:01] going to run, left click, jump throw,
[49:03] and that flash is going to pop right
[49:04] above window. and anybody that's
[49:06] chilling in valley is going to get full
[49:07] blinded from this. Okay, let's talk
[49:09] about smokes that land on short. One
[49:11] smoke that you're going to be throwing
[49:13] occasionally will be this smoke here.
[49:16] This smoke is really effective. I would
[49:17] say not at the beginning of the round,
[49:19] but more so when the TE's are going to
[49:21] be going up con or they're going to be
[49:23] going up short. At the beginning of the
[49:25] round, it blocks your window player off
[49:27] from getting info short. Somebody can
[49:28] sneak up behind the smoke and kind of
[49:30] use it to isolate fights towards Khan.
[49:31] It just kind of restricts info mid when
[49:33] if we want to take mid, we don't want to
[49:35] restrict info mid, right? It's better in
[49:36] the mid round where let's say T's are
[49:39] grouping short. They just smoked Khan.
[49:41] They want to go up short and then you
[49:42] throw this smoke, right? And then this
[49:43] is really spooky for them to push. Or
[49:45] they do the opposite. They smoke you off
[49:47] short. In reaction, you throw that smoke
[49:50] and now if they want to go up con, they
[49:52] have to worry about you pushing the
[49:53] short smoke because nobody can hold that
[49:55] that smoke from chair anymore, right?
[49:57] You could just push it here and isolate
[49:59] these fights towards con. It's better as
[50:01] kind of a a stuffing tool or as like a
[50:03] scary like, you know, oh [ __ ] now we
[50:05] can't push con or now we can't push
[50:06] short because of the short player threw
[50:08] this smoke. The other smoke that you can
[50:10] kind of make plays around is a top mid
[50:12] smoke. If the TE's are consistently
[50:13] throwing a top mid smoke, then sometimes
[50:16] disrespecting it and getting up this way
[50:18] can be really effective. This is just
[50:20] like a cheeky sneaky little play. In CS
[50:22] GO, people used to push this smoke all
[50:23] the time. I feel like I haven't seen
[50:25] somebody push a top mid smoke in CS2 in
[50:27] like months. I don't know. people just
[50:29] never do it for some reason. So, this
[50:30] can be a cheeky way if they're super
[50:32] heavy mid, right? Push up here. You can
[50:34] even get into the smoke and then walk
[50:35] out this way and just find a couple free
[50:37] kills. Cheeky little play for you to do.
[50:39] One thing to be cautious about when
[50:40] you're swinging mid from short is that
[50:41] you are just exposed to everything,
[50:43] right? The connector player has the
[50:45] luxury of swinging and not being exposed
[50:47] to top left. So, they can isolate fights
[50:49] a bit easier, especially if they have
[50:51] their their smoke down bottom bid. On
[50:53] short, when you swing, you have a
[50:54] terrible timing to short and it's just
[50:57] everything's open. So, if you're being
[50:58] really aggressive short, try to either
[51:00] get somebody to come with you or make
[51:02] sure you're swinging like off somebody
[51:04] else's info. Cuz if you swing and you
[51:06] over swing, you take a fight here and
[51:08] somebody swings here, you should just
[51:10] die, right? You should just lose that
[51:11] fight. So, what you can do if you have
[51:13] teammates who are down to coordinate a
[51:15] little something, uh, if you feel like
[51:17] you're confident swinging off short, you
[51:19] can ask your window player, "Hey, Molly
[51:20] boxes once we get up to short, have a
[51:22] teammate come with you short, and then
[51:23] you guys just flash against the wall and
[51:25] then double swing." And hopefully your A
[51:27] player flashes as well and you guys
[51:28] swing out and you take these fights once
[51:30] boxes is mollyed. When you're being
[51:31] aggressive, if you're confident that
[51:32] you're going to take a fight in this
[51:34] area, then you can throw just a flash
[51:36] valley like that and then swing off of
[51:38] that. It won't blind you and anybody
[51:40] who's left side boxes or playing Dell
[51:42] Plan or just out in the open, right?
[51:44] They're going to be full blinded by this
[51:45] flash and they can't really do anything
[51:47] about it aside from run away and turn.
[51:49] When you do have to turn back and focus
[51:51] on B, don't feel like you have to 1v5
[51:53] T's running out of apps. This is a
[51:55] repeating theme on Mirage I want you to
[51:57] think about is that you don't have to
[51:58] 1v5 people as they're swinging out and
[52:01] taking space. Your job as a cat player
[52:03] is more so to be the person who kills
[52:06] people, but that means that you can be a
[52:08] little bit more bity and a little bit
[52:09] more picky choosy about how you take
[52:11] fights, right? Your B player should be
[52:12] the one who's jump spotting. They get
[52:14] the info, they throw their smoke, and
[52:16] they just try to stay alive, right? They
[52:18] force the TE's to try to go find them.
[52:20] you as this short player get to picky
[52:22] choosy which fights do I want to take
[52:24] and one way you can effectively do that
[52:26] is if the T's are throwing good flashes
[52:28] they're blinding you they're getting out
[52:29] apps is to not fight them in apps but
[52:31] instead fight them as they jump out
[52:33] right you're going to catch T's swinging
[52:35] this way who are trying to clear bench
[52:37] try to find your B player once they're
[52:38] out apps they're going to be more spread
[52:40] out and you're going to be able to
[52:41] isolate fights easier so if you're
[52:42] playing around this right this is a
[52:44] really strong place to play to hold apps
[52:46] from if you're if you're a short player
[52:48] when you play around this Right. Maybe
[52:49] take one fight apps and then let them
[52:51] drop and isolate fights from there. Make
[52:53] them come get you and find you and make
[52:55] them go chase the B anchor as well. If
[52:58] you stand here and let them just fourman
[53:00] swing apps with their Mac 10s, AKs out,
[53:02] right? You're probably just going to get
[53:04] traded. The other thing is that you can
[53:06] throw really good util into apps from
[53:08] short, right? You can throw that nade
[53:09] that's just going to nuke everybody. You
[53:10] can throw a molly from there. So early
[53:12] on in the round, you're going to get B
[53:14] info before your B player does because
[53:16] you're coming up this way towards short,
[53:18] right? you're going to default towards
[53:19] mid early if you hear all those
[53:21] footsteps in apps and make sure please
[53:22] if you play short and you hear people
[53:24] running in apps tell your B player so
[53:26] you hear those footsteps okay you can
[53:27] immediately come back and you can drop
[53:29] you can just util dump it into apps
[53:31] right like that and you can either tuck
[53:33] or you can play towards here this is
[53:35] really effective as well you can also of
[53:37] course play back here this is better to
[53:38] do if the T's are on an eco right you
[53:41] know they're on pistols they're on Mac
[53:42] 10s whatever and you want to maintain
[53:44] that range advantage it's just if you do
[53:46] this and they're on a fullby they're not
[53:48] great fights and you're also super
[53:50] separated from sight. So, it's a bit
[53:52] tricky and sometimes you're going to get
[53:53] smoked off short right here. The last
[53:54] thing I'll mention is that as a short
[53:56] player, your job isn't only to be
[53:58] concerned about short and to be
[53:59] concerned about B, but you're also um
[54:02] responsible for helping your connector
[54:03] player control. That's why T's always
[54:06] have to throw util towards short, right?
[54:08] They have to molly it or they have to
[54:09] smoke it or they have to do something
[54:10] when they want to go up connector. So,
[54:12] however you can make it uncomfortable
[54:14] for the TE's to go up con, whether it be
[54:16] right, they smoke you short and then you
[54:18] molly into con, you drop a nade bottom
[54:20] con, or you throw this this smoke and
[54:22] then you lurk out behind it and you push
[54:24] and you try to, you know, catch them.
[54:26] Whatever you can do to either get info
[54:28] con or just make tease uncomfortable in
[54:30] con is really strong. I don't want you
[54:32] to think that short player, your job is
[54:34] only short. That's all you have to be
[54:35] worried about. You should be worried
[54:37] about con 2 and help your con player
[54:38] control that space. And that's why
[54:39] having smokes ready to be able to
[54:41] resmoke bottom con can be really strong
[54:43] as well. The last CT position we're
[54:44] going to talk about is the B anchor. The
[54:47] most boring but also the easiest
[54:50] position on Mirage is the Banker
[54:52] position. And the reason for that is
[54:54] because the floor of being a Banker is
[54:57] really high when you know the utility
[54:59] and you know how to jump spot correctly.
[55:01] You can be like a really bad player or
[55:04] just not really but you could be a
[55:06] really bad player and still be a good
[55:07] beanker. You can be at a lobby that's
[55:09] significantly higher elo than you,
[55:11] everybody's better than you, and still
[55:12] be a good banker. One way you can make
[55:14] efficient use of your molly is by coming
[55:16] here early round like right off of
[55:17] spawn. You're going to aim about here
[55:19] and then you're going to run and left
[55:20] click throw. It's a loosey goosey
[55:21] lineup, but the goal is to get the molly
[55:23] deep into apps. This denies TE's from
[55:25] getting into apps early and it threatens
[55:28] that, hey, now you could be on Balk, you
[55:30] could be in apps. It's very spooky for
[55:32] the TE's. What it also does is that if
[55:34] they're just trying to lurk, maybe it'll
[55:36] make a tick sound. Maybe you get info
[55:37] off of it and your short player will be
[55:39] able to hear that. And then if the T's
[55:40] aren't rushing, then you want to play B
[55:42] for info. The way you do that is by jump
[55:44] spotting, right? Play for info and then
[55:46] use your utility in an efficient way. So
[55:48] there's a couple of different ways you
[55:50] want to jump spot. And the reason I'm
[55:51] talking about this, I know it's boring,
[55:52] jump spotting, but you don't want to get
[55:54] owned while you're jump spotting. If you
[55:55] jump spot incorrectly, people can come
[55:56] here, look for a pick, and just kill
[55:58] you. The two ways you want to jump spot
[55:59] is number one, jumping like this. Uh
[56:01] when you do these side to side jump
[56:03] spots, you want to make sure that when
[56:05] you're coming from this way to that way
[56:07] that you're jumping early enough where
[56:09] you're just getting a glimpse of it. You
[56:11] don't need full visibility for a really
[56:13] long time. This is super unnecessary.
[56:15] You just want a little glimpse. The
[56:16] other way you can jump spot is by being
[56:18] in this corner and then as you come
[56:20] down, right, you're going to jump. As
[56:22] you fall down, you're going to strafe to
[56:23] the right towards the bottom of your
[56:24] jump. And then that gives you a brief uh
[56:27] lookie who into that angle right there.
[56:30] You don't want to jump like this. You're
[56:32] going to die. Jump and then strafe. Jump
[56:34] and then strafe. Jump and then strafe.
[56:36] That way you just get a brief glimpse
[56:37] and you get the info and you're not
[56:39] exposed for very long. When you're jump
[56:40] spotting, you need to be aware of kind
[56:42] of two things. Similar to a where either
[56:44] you're worried about a execute or you're
[56:47] worried about a lurk. If you see a lurk,
[56:49] right, you're jump spotting and you just
[56:51] see one person just walking up, then you
[56:53] don't have to go full panic mode,
[56:54] especially if there's no util coming in,
[56:56] right? If you see one person and util
[56:58] comes in, then you can expect it to be
[56:59] an execute. If you see one person and
[57:01] there's no util, then maybe it's just
[57:02] one lurk and your reaction to that could
[57:04] be a deep nade. Your reaction could be a
[57:06] deep molly and then you want to take the
[57:08] fight, right? Deep molly, jump up, look
[57:09] for the fight. Okay, they fell back
[57:10] behind the molly. Now you kind of
[57:12] reclaimed that app space. You can smoke
[57:14] it if you want. Jump balcony, be
[57:16] aggressive, or if you don't want to be
[57:18] as aggressive and you don't want to use
[57:19] your util, you can fall back and just
[57:20] get into an off angle either towards
[57:22] bench. You can play up here. Oops. It's
[57:25] right on the tip of this right here. And
[57:27] hold this. This is a half decent off
[57:29] angle too right here. As people walk out
[57:31] this way, they're going to be clearing
[57:32] this. They're going to be clearing
[57:33] window and then they expose themselves
[57:34] to you right there. There's a lot of
[57:36] different off angles you can play. So,
[57:38] it's kind of the decision between do I
[57:40] want to, you know, use my util to block
[57:42] them from taking apps or lurking in apps
[57:44] and then I can get into apps or I can
[57:45] just hold it from here, right? Hold the
[57:46] smoke from here or would I rather save
[57:48] my util and hold it expecting them to
[57:51] lurk out. Now, if the T's are executing
[57:53] B, you're jump spotting, you see three
[57:55] people, utils coming over, then your
[57:58] instant reaction should be smoking right
[58:00] here and getting out and staying alive.
[58:02] The reason why the smoke is so good is
[58:04] because if T's are coming out, right,
[58:06] they can't see Jail, which is right
[58:07] here. They can't see bench, they can't
[58:09] see back sight. If they want to take the
[58:11] space, they have to push the smoke or
[58:12] they have to funnel themselves through
[58:14] midsight, which exposes themselves to
[58:16] both short and to bench, which is a
[58:18] really tricky crossfire for them to
[58:20] push. So once you throw the smoke, there
[58:21] are many different ways you can play it,
[58:23] right? You can throw it. You can come
[58:24] here towards jail and just hold the
[58:25] smoke push. You can play bench and hold
[58:27] the van jump. You can get into sight and
[58:29] play a crossfire right here with your
[58:31] short player. You can get really cheeky,
[58:33] throw the smoke, fake the runaway, and
[58:34] then walk back and play towards van. You
[58:37] don't want to do this if the TE's
[58:38] mollied van, right? This smoke I don't
[58:41] think really ever extinguishes the molly
[58:43] unless it's like a really bad van molly.
[58:45] So if they don't molly van, you can fake
[58:46] it and do that and that could get you a
[58:48] couple pretty sweet kills. Otherwise,
[58:50] right, your job as a be anchor, stay
[58:52] alive. If you didn't use your molly
[58:54] earlier, you can drop the smoke and then
[58:56] you can molly midsight like that and
[58:58] then bang, you're staying alive. You're
[59:00] delaying the TE's for an insane amount
[59:02] of time. You're chilling. As a banker,
[59:04] the longer you stay alive and the more
[59:06] space you're able to control and keep as
[59:09] CT space, the easier it is going to be
[59:11] to retake this site or for your team
[59:13] just to win this round. So what I mean
[59:14] by that is that if you stay alive,
[59:16] right, you spot somebody, okay, you
[59:18] throw the smoke, you get out, maybe even
[59:20] run all the way towards empty right
[59:22] here. But if you can control this space,
[59:25] right, this rectangle here, then your
[59:28] retake is so significantly easier.
[59:30] Retaking B is incredibly difficult when
[59:33] T's are able to get up here towards
[59:34] Ebox. When they're able to get up here,
[59:36] right here close door, or even if
[59:38] they're able to get into market, then
[59:40] that retake is like almost impossible.
[59:41] If you can keep this space and allow
[59:43] your team to get out of market and
[59:45] retake the site from the space that
[59:47] you're going to win the round. So,
[59:48] similar to the short player, that means
[59:51] that you don't need to 1v5 spray them
[59:53] down, go for a hero play. That means
[59:55] that if you get back here, you stay
[59:56] alive and you find ones, right? Find
[59:59] one-on-one fights where you can isolate
[60:01] them, kill them, stay alive, right? That
[60:03] way you maintain the space, you take one
[60:06] or two fights that aren't super risky.
[60:08] If I just swing this while the TE's are
[60:09] running out Balk, I could be taken 1v3,
[60:11] right? That's a terrible fight for me.
[60:13] So instead, maybe I drop my molly
[60:15] default and then I stay alive here in
[60:17] empty. And if my short player takes
[60:19] contact with a guy midsight right there,
[60:22] then bang, I'm going to swing off that.
[60:23] I'm going to try to kill them and I'm
[60:24] going to try to stay alive. And I'm
[60:25] listening, okay, listening if they push
[60:27] this smoke. I'm trying to keep a mental
[60:29] image of where the TE's are on site so
[60:31] that I can try to isolate these fights
[60:33] as easy as possible and to stay alive.
[60:35] One piece of utility you can use from
[60:36] empty that's like surprisingly effective
[60:38] is you just aim about straight up maybe
[60:40] a little bit more behind you left and
[60:42] right click through a flash. This is so
[60:44] strong because TE's won't really be able
[60:47] to see this. Like obviously a guy
[60:48] default could kind of see it but
[60:50] somebody over here won't be able to see
[60:51] it because it's just covered by the
[60:52] green. It's really difficult to react to
[60:54] and it doesn't make any bouncing sounds
[60:56] and in the flurry of a rush right T's
[60:58] are running out like all of them get
[61:00] blinded by it and they aren't likely to
[61:02] be looking there or noticing a flash
[61:05] coming out from empty pillar. Now that
[61:06] we know how to play CT side Mirage let's
[61:08] talk about the T-side and we're going to
[61:10] start just again with a brief overview
[61:12] of the T-side default. T-side defaults
[61:15] are kind of less talked about in pugs
[61:17] and games with randoms, right? You join
[61:19] CT, everybody kind of says their
[61:20] position hopefully like I'll play
[61:22] window, I'll play con. That doesn't
[61:23] happen on T-side. It's a bit more flowy,
[61:26] less structured. But having a good idea
[61:28] for what a T-side default looks like is
[61:30] still a really good thing because then
[61:32] it allows you to fill the gaps to know
[61:34] where to play when you're not sure of
[61:36] where you should put yourself. Also,
[61:38] again, I was only able to spawn CT bots,
[61:40] so imagine that they're they're T's. All
[61:42] right, let's start with middle. On your
[61:44] typical T-side default, you're going to
[61:45] have three players towards mid. Two of
[61:47] them are going to be aggressing while
[61:48] one is often throwing supporting flashes
[61:50] for them. Over towards A, you have your
[61:52] A lurk. This player is trying to walk
[61:54] out A and get a pick onto the A player
[61:56] after these middle players are able to
[61:58] take some space down mid. This player
[62:00] can rotate, you know, either go ramp or
[62:02] they can come through palace and try to
[62:03] get a pick here. Either way, it's just
[62:05] kind of up to them of which one they
[62:07] think they're going to have more success
[62:09] lurking at. Our fifth player is the be
[62:11] lurk. they get to decide whether they
[62:12] want to go underpass and help with mid
[62:14] or if they want to go into apps. I'll
[62:16] talk more about that decision in the
[62:18] role specific sections. The first role
[62:20] in the T-side default/ just a general
[62:22] concept that's good to know how to do is
[62:25] lurking towards a as this a lurk early
[62:27] round. You don't really need your smoke.
[62:29] Your job as an A lurk is to control ramp
[62:31] or control palace and then walk out in
[62:33] the mid round and try to get a kill or
[62:34] in early round. We'll talk about it
[62:36] more, but your smoke isn't super
[62:37] important. Your mid players are going to
[62:39] need your smoke more. So, if you know
[62:40] how to do the instant window smokes,
[62:42] it's best that you throw a window smoke
[62:44] for your teammates or you just throw a
[62:46] topment smoke for them or you throw a
[62:49] connector smoke for them, right? If you
[62:50] use your smoke for them or like you just
[62:52] drop it to them, right? Somebody else
[62:53] throws a smoke, you drop it to them, you
[62:54] buy double flash, it's better that they
[62:56] have those smokes to resoke stuff in
[62:58] middle than it is for you to have that
[63:00] smoke. Early round as an alert, you're
[63:03] going to be doing like one of kind of
[63:05] three different things. Number one,
[63:06] you're just going to be chilling, right?
[63:07] You're going to be just holding the push
[63:09] and you're going to be waiting to
[63:10] activate in the mid round. Number two,
[63:12] if you have a good spawn, then you can
[63:13] look for the ramp cross. You can run up,
[63:15] come here, be loud, and then just hold
[63:17] this cross. See if you can catch
[63:18] somebody jumping towards jungle. Number
[63:20] three, again, if you also have a good
[63:21] spawn, then you can look for a pick ramp
[63:23] early by jumping up and just looking for
[63:25] this fight. Like we talked about on CT,
[63:27] maybe you didn't see it, maybe you did.
[63:28] A really effective play that you can
[63:29] make is CT's molly ramp. Maybe they
[63:32] don't throw a very good molly. So, it
[63:34] can be good early on to like see how
[63:35] they're throwing their mollies because
[63:37] lots of times there's going to be a gap
[63:38] here that you can jump on and you can
[63:39] look for a fight right here. If you've
[63:41] been taking the lurk pretty slow, then
[63:43] what you can also do is just immediately
[63:44] at the beginning of the round and look
[63:46] for this fight. Come out and try to kill
[63:47] them. This is especially good if they
[63:49] are throwing those mid flashes early and
[63:52] then they're resetting and going
[63:53] somewhere else. You have a really good
[63:54] time. You can just come out and just try
[63:55] to take that fight while they triple.
[63:57] when you're lurking A and you're playing
[63:58] for the mid round, right? You're trying
[64:00] to walk out after your teammates have
[64:02] done some stuff middle after the CTs,
[64:04] you know, one or two of them have died,
[64:05] their focus is more so towards mid than
[64:07] it is on A. It's really all about timing
[64:10] for you. And how you get good timings
[64:12] coming out of A is one of two ways.
[64:15] Number one, the CT just tells you where
[64:17] they are and you swing off that info.
[64:19] Sometimes a CT will jump top ticket and
[64:21] they'll look towards con like this. This
[64:23] is especially common if their con player
[64:25] dies and they'll look for this fight
[64:26] because they think everybody's middle
[64:28] and then you can just instantly swing
[64:29] off that or you just hear footstep on
[64:31] site and you just activate off of that.
[64:32] If the CT isn't giving you any info but
[64:35] your teammates are scaling up through
[64:36] con, right? The Aplit is happening, you
[64:38] need to activate, you need to do
[64:39] something, then just dry walking out and
[64:41] just searching for this player can be
[64:43] really effective. You just have to be
[64:44] worried about if you're walking out ramp
[64:46] in the mid round and the oper still
[64:47] alive, they could just be ticket holding
[64:49] you right here. So give this a really
[64:50] purposeful peak. Make sure if they are
[64:52] opting. Okay, I'm just going to destroy
[64:54] this guy if they're just standing there.
[64:55] One thing you have to think about as
[64:57] this a lurk is that you can't be uber
[64:59] scared. If you want to have impact as
[65:02] this lurk, you're going to have to take
[65:03] risks. And one risk you're going to have
[65:05] to take is you're going to have to walk
[65:07] through smokes. You're going to get
[65:08] smoked palace. Sometimes you're going to
[65:10] get smoked ramp. And if your teammates
[65:11] are being active, they're going up con
[65:13] or you feel like you just have a timing
[65:15] for a pick, then you should walk through
[65:16] these smokes and not give not worry
[65:19] about it, right? The goal here is that
[65:20] you just catch a timing where they smoke
[65:22] ramp and then they think, "Okay, because
[65:24] I smoke ramp, I don't have to look at
[65:25] ramp anymore and they feel really
[65:26] comfortable with that. You walk through
[65:27] the smoke, you get the kill, bang, you
[65:29] guys just win the round because you got
[65:30] that that entry." If you're lurking
[65:32] towards A and your mid players run out
[65:33] of util and you want to throw a
[65:36] something to help them, then throwing a
[65:38] top connector smoke can be really
[65:39] effective. You're just going to get into
[65:40] this corner. You're going to aim for the
[65:42] tip of this palm tree right here in the
[65:45] green and just left click jump throw.
[65:46] This is going to land Topcon and Topcon
[65:48] smokes. We'll talk about it more when we
[65:50] talk about mid defaulting. But the
[65:51] topcon smoke is the perfect smoke for
[65:54] the mid round on T-side. It blocks these
[65:57] angles from A so then A players can't
[65:59] see if you're going up short and it also
[66:01] lets your con players sneak out and
[66:03] pressure A through these two lurks. In
[66:06] your Mirage games, filling this role as
[66:08] the A lurk can be really effective when
[66:10] your team is able to take mid, but then
[66:12] we just get fully stuck mid. If you go
[66:14] mid with your teammate and we're like
[66:15] teammates and we're like four out mid,
[66:17] five out mid, we take mid and then we're
[66:19] just we don't know where to go. We don't
[66:20] know what to do. Then it's better for
[66:22] you to go towards A and be a lurk
[66:24] instead of being one of those mid
[66:25] defaulters. That's because if you're A
[66:27] and you're lurking out, you can be a
[66:29] voice. You could say, "Hey, I'm walking
[66:30] out A. You guys should pinch. You guys
[66:31] should go through con." Or if you just
[66:33] get to pick on A, bang, that's a really
[66:35] good incentive for your teammates to
[66:36] speed up con and to actually do
[66:38] something from mid. So filling this gap
[66:40] can be really effective, but it kind of
[66:43] hinges on the fact that your team is
[66:45] able to do something mid, right? They're
[66:46] able to pressure mid, they're able to
[66:48] get kills. If the rest of your team is
[66:50] super passive and not taking any space,
[66:52] then you lurking A isn't going to be
[66:54] very effective because the CTs will take
[66:57] mid, see nobody's here, and then just
[66:58] come towards A and just hold you. That's
[67:00] when lurks aren't going to be good
[67:01] towards A. If another person is lurking
[67:03] A or somebody else comes with you, then
[67:06] you guys should try to do something
[67:07] together. It's useless for you to sit
[67:09] ramp and hold ramp while your teammate
[67:11] is walking out palace. You guys should
[67:13] try to double. Either you come ramp,
[67:15] they go palace, and you walk out at the
[67:16] same time, or you go double together.
[67:18] Double palace typically isn't that
[67:20] great. If you're doubling, like, you
[67:22] know, your teammates's right next to
[67:23] you, you guys should come double ramp
[67:24] and walk out ramp and contact it like
[67:26] this. That's much more effective than
[67:27] double palace. Next, let's talk about
[67:29] the three mid defaulters. Sash, just in
[67:31] general, how to take middle on Mirage.
[67:33] Your mid tank starts in spawn. And what
[67:35] I mean by that is that you're going to
[67:37] throw all the smokes you need to take
[67:38] mid from spawn. And so you need to
[67:40] coordinate with your teammates who's
[67:42] throwing what? And also what's our pace
[67:44] going to be when we go out mid. There
[67:46] are instant window smokes you can learn
[67:48] from a handful of spawns. And I would
[67:50] highly recommend that you do. They're so
[67:51] strong and they're actually surprisingly
[67:53] easy to learn. If you don't want to do
[67:55] that or you just want to know how to
[67:56] smoke window, you come here against this
[67:58] bin and then you aim. You see, I think
[68:01] of this as a square where this meets
[68:02] this. And then I aim for the bottom kind
[68:05] of left of it right there. And I hold D,
[68:07] jump throw. The instant smokes are
[68:09] better because they land significantly
[68:11] faster. And they're also faster to
[68:13] throw. The other two smokes you should
[68:15] know from spawn is a top mid smoke. So
[68:17] you're just going to go to this other
[68:18] side of the bin for that. And then
[68:20] you're going to aim at the tip of this
[68:21] antenna right here. Just a left click
[68:23] throw that plumes out far enough left
[68:26] where it's going to cover you entirely
[68:28] from bottom con on your cross towards
[68:30] boxes. The third smoke you should know
[68:32] is a connector smoke. And one consistent
[68:34] way to throw it is you jump on top of
[68:35] the bin. You crouch, you aim at where
[68:37] the rug meets this point where the
[68:40] orange and tan meet. So right here. And
[68:42] then while you're crouch, left click,
[68:44] jump throw. That's going to land inside
[68:47] connector and smoke fully smoke it off
[68:50] if you want to cross towards short. So,
[68:52] what smokes should you throw mid and
[68:54] why? I would say on most of your
[68:56] defaults, you should have either a top
[68:59] mid smoke and a window smoke. This
[69:01] combination is really solid. Or you
[69:04] should have a window smoke and a
[69:05] connector smoke. If your team is only
[69:07] throwing a window smoke, then you're
[69:09] giving the CTs a lot of space in
[69:12] connector and in short to swing you and
[69:14] fight you guys out mid, right? Coming
[69:16] out mid without a con smoke or without a
[69:17] top midm smoke, very spooky. So, if you
[69:20] are on a team like that and nobody's
[69:21] throwing, let's say you're throwing
[69:23] window and nobody else is throwing a
[69:24] smoke mid, either ask somebody to drop
[69:27] you a smoke mid, so you can throw both,
[69:28] or ask somebody to molly con at the very
[69:31] beginning, or you could molly con at the
[69:33] very beginning, right? That way, if you
[69:34] molly bottom con, that gives you some
[69:36] space to get out mid and relieves some
[69:38] pressure from being swung on from both
[69:40] short and connector. Another way you can
[69:42] take mid is just by dry swinging it. If
[69:44] you have a good spawn for mid and some
[69:45] of your teammates have good spawns, then
[69:47] just tell them, "Hey, let's go dry swing
[69:49] mid, right? Let's just go fight it."
[69:50] When you guys dry swing, it's typically
[69:52] best to do this if you don't think that
[69:54] they're OP. If they're OP, like we
[69:56] talked about on CT side and you dry
[69:58] swing this, they can get one and fall
[70:00] off and it's really hard to trade that.
[70:01] But if you think that their rifles or
[70:03] their eco, then just dry swinging mid
[70:05] with numbers is really effective. Now,
[70:07] let's say you're not dry swinging and
[70:09] you want to get out mid, you have a top
[70:10] mid smoke and you have a window smoke.
[70:12] What util should you be throwing from
[70:14] top mid? There's quite a few different
[70:15] things that you can throw that will be
[70:17] really effective at stopping CT
[70:19] aggression or getting CTs off of angles.
[70:21] The first one is this, just a flash over
[70:23] top mid boxes. This is going to blind
[70:25] any CTs who are pushing up mid like
[70:27] that. The second one is a flash towards
[70:29] connector. This is going to pop bottom
[70:32] mid right here. And if anybody's running
[70:34] up con and they're going to go for a
[70:35] peak, this flash is going to fullblind
[70:38] them. If you feel like the CTs could be
[70:40] bottom mid, could be valley right right
[70:43] here, and you're worried about swinging
[70:44] this dry, you can throw flashes towards
[70:46] valley just like that. And that's going
[70:48] to full blind them as you're swinging,
[70:49] especially if they're sitting here or if
[70:51] they're sitting under, they have to full
[70:52] dodge that. And bottom con, of course,
[70:54] from stairs, you can throw some really
[70:56] good supporting flashes. One is called
[70:58] the uh what is this called? The big
[71:00] flash. Uh I got made fun of by
[71:02] Freakazoid by asking him for this flash
[71:04] because he said it's such an old flash,
[71:06] but it's still so effective. It's going
[71:07] to blind an oper who's sitting window
[71:09] and lets you just swing out mid if if
[71:11] window's not smoked. Less aggressive
[71:13] flashes, but flashes that are meant to
[71:15] deal with aggression. You're going to
[71:17] throw from around here. And you could
[71:18] just throw these towards uh towards
[71:20] Valley, right? Your teammates are going
[71:22] to have to turn them. But you just tell
[71:23] them that, hey, turn the flash. Bang.
[71:25] And then they swing. And if anybody's
[71:26] chilling valley or being aggressive,
[71:28] they should just kill them because
[71:29] they're going to be full blind. When you
[71:30] have a decent spawn towards top mid,
[71:32] then throwing some sort of piece of util
[71:34] towards Khan, especially if we're not
[71:36] smoking conh is really good. You don't
[71:38] want the con player on CT to feel really
[71:41] confident with just running out mid and
[71:43] fighting you guys. So throw a nade into
[71:45] con or throw a molly. If somebody's here
[71:47] with you, ask them to double nade it
[71:48] with you. That can be really effective
[71:50] as well. Once you're scaling out mid,
[71:52] you want to get away from boxes. Being
[71:54] boxes feels very safe and it's good to
[71:57] be boxes if the CTs are being really
[71:59] aggressive, right? If they're swinging
[72:00] short, if they're swinging con, then
[72:02] being here is really solid. But the
[72:04] longer the round goes on, the more
[72:06] useless you are sitting boxes, right?
[72:09] So, if you cross mid at the very
[72:11] beginning of the round and you get
[72:12] towards boxes, cool. Definitely like
[72:14] hang out here for a little bit. Look for
[72:16] a fight. If your team is defaulting, you
[72:18] don't have to be super speedy. see if
[72:20] the CTs are going to readress into you.
[72:22] And then you can throw a window smoke
[72:24] from behind boxes right here. Just aim.
[72:26] I typically aim just a bit to the right
[72:27] of this uh antenna and just run left
[72:30] click throw and that's going to be a
[72:31] nice window smoke for you. You can throw
[72:34] that same lineup for window with your
[72:35] molly if you don't have a smoke. You can
[72:37] also smoke short from here. This cubby
[72:40] just aim for the tip of this antenna.
[72:41] Left click throw. You can flash
[72:43] connector by coming into this corner,
[72:46] this other corner. You see this kind of
[72:48] X right here? just on the right side.
[72:50] Left click and bang. This is gonna pop
[72:53] right in front of con. So tell your
[72:54] teammate turn it. Bang. And then they
[72:55] swing off of it. Another way you can
[72:57] flash con is from right here. You're
[72:58] just going to come against this wall and
[73:00] then aim above the middle of connector
[73:03] right here. So I see this, you know,
[73:05] little vague tan line top of that where
[73:07] the where it meets the roof and left
[73:09] click throw and boom. That's your con
[73:11] flash. And that's going to get any oper
[73:13] or rifler who's sitting here off of the
[73:15] angle. The typical kind of way you're
[73:17] going to scale out mid with your
[73:18] teammates is one person is going to play
[73:21] towards chair. They're going to get out
[73:22] here and hold the short aggress. Another
[73:24] player is going to get down in valley
[73:26] and look towards con and they're often
[73:28] going to throw a topcon smoke like that.
[73:30] I'll talk more about that in a moment.
[73:32] And the third player will either stay
[73:33] top mid and hold towards window or hold
[73:35] towards short or hold a con peak or
[73:38] they're going to get up short. And these
[73:40] two, right, once one guy's up short and
[73:42] this guy's down to here in valley, these
[73:43] two can double swing con in a high low
[73:46] and make this fight super awkward for a
[73:48] con player. So, if you feel like you go
[73:50] out mid and then you're constantly being
[73:51] surprised by CT swinging stuff and
[73:54] you're not holding it and you die, then
[73:56] you probably should take a look at how
[73:58] you're positioned compared to where your
[74:00] teammates are. Right? If your teammate
[74:02] comes short and then you double up short
[74:04] with them and nobody's here towards
[74:05] chair, well, if a short player swings,
[74:08] right, bang. That's just an easy double
[74:09] for them and they're not in a position
[74:11] to get traded by anybody because we
[74:13] don't have anybody who could kill them.
[74:14] So, back to the top con smoke. The
[74:16] reason why this smoke is so so strong
[74:18] and why more people should be throwing
[74:20] it on their defaults, you'll see it a
[74:21] ton in proplay and I barely ever see it
[74:24] in pugs, especially lower elo pugs.
[74:26] Nobody throws a top smoke. It's so good
[74:28] because it gives you access to con,
[74:29] right? If a CT wants to fight con, they
[74:31] just have to commit in front of the
[74:32] smoke and they have no help from their
[74:33] teammates. Super awkward. Most of the
[74:35] time a CT just won't play in con when
[74:37] this top con smoke lands. They'll just
[74:39] get out of con and then from a CT
[74:42] perspective the smoke is super awkward
[74:43] because they can push, you know, TE's
[74:45] could push this side, they can push this
[74:47] side, they can just push through the
[74:48] smoke, they can flash into the smoke and
[74:50] I wouldn't be able to see the flash,
[74:51] right? I can show you one just right
[74:53] click, just drop a flash in. Bang. And
[74:56] then as a CT, I just can't react to
[74:58] that. I'm holding I'm holding. Bang. I'm
[74:59] blind. Right? If you're a T and you're
[75:01] getting up con and you throw a top con
[75:03] smoke, it also allows you to throw util
[75:05] towards jungle, right? Whether you want
[75:07] to smoke jungle off or whether you want
[75:08] to molly deep jungle off and then flash
[75:10] through and take it and get out. Bang.
[75:13] It's just suffocating for CTs throwing
[75:16] the smoke. So, please throw top smoke
[75:17] more. And the way you can throw it is
[75:19] left side. You just aim at this like
[75:20] electrical box here and just shift walk,
[75:22] left click, throw. That's going to land
[75:24] top. If you're coming from this side,
[75:27] then you aim just to the left of this
[75:28] lamp, this light right here, shift walk,
[75:30] left click, throw, and both of those are
[75:32] going to land nicely into topcon. So,
[75:34] use the smoke as a lurk smoke, walk
[75:36] through it, get upstairs, and look for
[75:37] this fight against jungle, walk through
[75:39] the right side. Or you can do a split
[75:41] where like one teammate goes there, you
[75:43] go stairs, right? Coordinate that with a
[75:45] teammate. That's really effective as
[75:46] well because if a CT is holding one and
[75:48] they kill them, then the other teammate
[75:49] can just trade them from the other side.
[75:51] I talked about all the ways it helps
[75:52] with your A take, right? But it also
[75:54] helps with your short take. You throw a
[75:56] Topcon smoke, this smoke doesn't
[75:58] indicate, hey, we're going up short
[76:00] right now. But a smoke towards bottomcon
[76:02] does. If I throw this smoke in the mid
[76:05] round, uh, this tells the CTs they're
[76:08] probably not coming. A, right? And so
[76:09] because I throw that smoke, it's more
[76:11] likely that once we're going up short, a
[76:13] CT is going to sit here really
[76:14] confidently and just spam through the
[76:16] smoke and just try to kill all of us as
[76:17] we're going up short. But I can get a CT
[76:20] out of position by throwing a Topcon
[76:22] smoke. They play around here, jungle,
[76:24] right? They're worried about the push.
[76:25] They also have to worry about a window
[76:26] lurk. And then bang, we're running up
[76:28] short. They're not in a position to
[76:29] really action off of that sound or that
[76:31] info and boom, our short take is much
[76:33] easier. When you're in doubt with what
[76:35] to do with your smoke mid, right, window
[76:37] is always the place where you should be
[76:39] resmoking. You pretty much never want to
[76:41] leave window open. So, smoke window or
[76:44] smoke top con. Smoking short is good for
[76:47] like set like we are going up con this
[76:50] round, right? But it also acts as a
[76:52] smoke against us because if I throw this
[76:54] smoke in the mid round, then we just
[76:57] can't go short for 20 seconds, right?
[76:59] We're kind of forced into making a
[77:01] connector or window play. Let's talk
[77:02] about some solo plays/ just some
[77:04] aggressive plays you can make towards
[77:06] middle. This one you do need a little
[77:07] help from a teammate. Ask a teammate to
[77:09] throw a top mid smoke for you. It
[77:11] doesn't even have to be a very good top
[77:13] mid smoke as long as it blocks window,
[77:14] which that one somehow didn't. Throw a
[77:16] top mid smoke for you. You're going to
[77:17] come up. You're going to flash con and
[77:19] then you're going to molly window and
[77:20] then you're going to jump through the
[77:21] midm smoke. You're going to hold window.
[77:23] Okay, nothing. And then you're going to
[77:24] insta swing con. This you're so fast and
[77:26] you're here bottom con is such an
[77:28] unexpected timing. Lots of times you're
[77:30] just going to kill somebody top con
[77:31] who's just not ready for you. Once
[77:32] you're towards bottom mid, a really
[77:34] cheeky play you can make is if you stand
[77:36] here against the bench and you aim at
[77:37] this red dot and then right click jump
[77:40] throw and then jump up window, this
[77:42] flash is going to pop here and it's not
[77:44] going to blind you. So, even if a CT
[77:46] hears you running on the bench and knows
[77:48] you're about to peak this, they're just
[77:50] going to eat this flash and die for it.
[77:52] If you're able to lurk into ladder at
[77:55] some point in the round, then you just
[77:57] chilling here is really strong. I don't
[77:59] want you to go ladder when your team is
[78:02] being loud up short and they're trying
[78:04] to split B. There's no reason to get
[78:06] into ladder unless you're really just
[78:08] hardcore. I'm going to hold the rotate.
[78:10] But if you don't have sight yet, then
[78:11] why are you holding rotates? You should
[78:12] just go B and clear out sight with your
[78:14] teammates. But if as a solo player, you
[78:16] come out mid. Maybe the CT weird smoke
[78:18] that allows you to lurk into ladder and
[78:20] then bang, you get in here just chilling
[78:22] here and listening right from ladder,
[78:24] you can hear a beep anchor rotate. You
[78:27] can hear the short player rotate. You
[78:28] can hear the window player rotate. Being
[78:30] in this spot, even if you don't get a
[78:32] kill, will just give you so much info.
[78:34] And then, of course, from here, you're
[78:36] the ultimate rotate holder. If your team
[78:39] goes out A, then you can hold the short
[78:40] rotate right here, and you can hold the
[78:42] jungle rotate right here. And this is so
[78:44] good if the CTs aren't expecting you to
[78:46] be in ladder. Last on our T-side
[78:47] default, let's talk about the B lurk.
[78:50] The B lurk is quite a flexible position.
[78:52] You don't see a ton of action because
[78:55] you're not taking really early fights
[78:57] for the most part, but you do kind of
[78:59] get to pick and choose what you do.
[79:01] Sometimes you can go four mid and that's
[79:03] totally fine, right? Four outdid.
[79:04] Sometimes you're going to go into apps
[79:06] and you're going to lurk apps and you're
[79:07] going to see if the T's are or if the
[79:09] CTs are pushing apps. And sometimes
[79:11] you're going to go underpass and you're
[79:12] going to work underpass and you're going
[79:14] to help your mid players take mid from
[79:16] underpass. So when should you do what
[79:19] and when should you go try to be a beer?
[79:21] I often beer if I'm running towards
[79:24] middle and I see okay three other people
[79:26] have already gone towards mid. I'll just
[79:27] go towards B. I think having four top
[79:30] mid can be quite strong if you're using
[79:32] the fact that you have four top mid,
[79:34] right? You're being really aggressive.
[79:35] You're all swinging together. But if
[79:37] we're defaulting people aren't really
[79:39] calming, then I think it's better to
[79:41] have a be lurk. So I will fill that role
[79:43] when it's needed. Early on in games, I
[79:46] think it's most effective if you do lurk
[79:48] towards apps. Being a lurk towards apps
[79:51] can be pretty useless because if the B
[79:53] player is playing it well, right,
[79:54] they're jump spotting. They're just
[79:55] seeing if you're there or not. Then
[79:56] there's not a whole lot you can do. But
[79:58] by lurking in apps early in games, you
[80:01] can try to find gaps. You can try to get
[80:02] a read on the B player, right? Are they
[80:04] pushing every round? What are they
[80:06] doing? And you can see if like they're
[80:08] just giving you a ton of space and
[80:09] letting you lurk up. And if they're not
[80:10] jump spotting, they're not taking info.
[80:12] That's really good info for you and for
[80:14] your team because that allows you to
[80:16] say, "Hey, we should just do a contact
[80:17] play B. We should all just silently walk
[80:19] up apps together and just look for this
[80:22] this guy, right? And then once we take
[80:24] contact with backside, boom, we shoot.
[80:25] And then now we're being loud now that
[80:27] we got the kill." Getting idea of how
[80:28] the biers playing the site on CT side um
[80:32] is really effective as a T-side beer.
[80:34] So, let's say you do that and you spot
[80:35] them just jump spotting you over and
[80:37] over again and okay, obviously I'm not
[80:39] really going to do much in apps if I try
[80:41] to do that because they're just going to
[80:42] jump spot, get info, and then not give
[80:44] me a good fight. Then I'm going to start
[80:45] most of my rounds by going towards
[80:47] underpass. Now, if you want to go fast
[80:49] towards underpass, you can come out from
[80:50] TV, scale towards this left side, and
[80:52] then once you're about here, just right
[80:54] click a flash directly in front of you,
[80:56] just like 90° upwards, right? Just full
[80:59] hor uh straight in front of you. I'm
[81:02] sorry, I recorded so much, dude. My
[81:03] brain is fried. Uh, bang. This flash is
[81:06] going to pop lower. So, CT who's running
[81:07] up. Boom. They get blinded. They either
[81:10] have to fall or just swing into you
[81:11] blind and you should get that kill. Easy
[81:13] peasy. Now, one thing is after you throw
[81:14] this flash, right? Throw it and then
[81:17] turn. Turn and then swing. The reason
[81:18] for that is as a CT, you can throw this.
[81:21] You come under, then you throw a flash
[81:23] like that. Bang. And then you swing with
[81:25] that, right? So, if both of you do a
[81:27] fast underpass play and both of you are
[81:29] flashing, then you want to be the one
[81:32] who plays anti. If you're not going
[81:33] underpass fast, like you're not throwing
[81:35] that flash, you're not going to play
[81:36] ante. Then you should spot it like this.
[81:39] If you immediately start walking down
[81:41] and hold like this, then you're just
[81:43] going to get blinded and a CT is going
[81:44] to swing you and they're going to
[81:45] destroy you if they're a decent player
[81:46] and they're pushing under. So play it
[81:48] more passive if you're not going to go
[81:50] fast, right? Play up here, spot it, time
[81:52] out peak, see if they're going to push,
[81:54] and then once you feel confident, okay,
[81:55] they're not taking underpass fast, then
[81:57] speed up towards under and start taking
[81:59] it. Being in underpass is an awful place
[82:02] to be if your teammates aren't
[82:04] pressuring top mid. If your teammates
[82:06] aren't out top mid and like they don't
[82:08] have smokes down, they're not doing
[82:09] anything. Mid is empty and you're
[82:11] walking up under, you're just begging
[82:13] for a CT to swing you here and this is a
[82:16] super favorable fight for the CT because
[82:18] there's such little space here. Their
[82:20] crosser placement is just so easy. They
[82:21] should just destroy you every time and
[82:23] you just have to hold W into them when
[82:24] walking this way. It's super awkward.
[82:26] But when you're scaling under, don't
[82:27] just shift and just hold W. go in
[82:30] diagonals like this. And you can crouch,
[82:33] hold W and A uh and W and D. Crouch and
[82:36] go in diagonals. And just make sure that
[82:38] if a CT peaks you, you're not going just
[82:40] straight at them. They're going to
[82:42] destroy you. You're going in diagonals
[82:44] and you can fight back. Once you're up
[82:46] under pass, if you're worried about a CT
[82:48] holding you on this angle, you can just
[82:50] bounce a flash like this. Bang. And just
[82:52] get them off of that angle. That's
[82:53] pretty annoying as a CT. They can just
[82:55] try to edge the flash out barely like
[82:58] that. But if they do that, I mean, you
[83:00] know exactly where they're playing. You
[83:01] should just [ __ ] on them with your
[83:02] crosshair placement. Um, and then it
[83:04] goes the same if somebody's holding you
[83:05] here. Bottom con, they're going to be
[83:07] forced to turn this or get full blinded
[83:09] by it. Once you've pushed up underpass,
[83:11] there are generally two things that you
[83:13] can do that will kind of speed up the
[83:15] round and allow you guys to take some
[83:17] space. Number one is boost somebody into
[83:19] window. Window should be smoked. You
[83:21] come here, you boost somebody into
[83:23] window. This is good because if
[83:24] somebody's like being loud jumping into
[83:26] window, then the CDs know, okay,
[83:27] somebody's in window. Boost somebody
[83:29] silently into window or you get boosted,
[83:30] ask somebody else to boost you. Or the
[83:32] second option is to throw a topcon
[83:34] smoke. Like we talked about in our mid
[83:36] default, this topcon smoke allows you
[83:38] guys to do something, right? You can
[83:40] lurk through it, you can push a, you can
[83:41] go up short, whatever. If you're going
[83:42] up short, if your teammates are going up
[83:44] short, then either you getting boosted
[83:45] into window and you hold the rotates,
[83:47] you're chilling here, you're playing
[83:48] sound, or you walk back towards apps and
[83:50] then you go towards B. That's efficient,
[83:52] too. You can also smoke short from under
[83:54] just loosey goosey. You just run it
[83:56] against run through it against the right
[83:58] side of that. I uh never do this to be
[84:01] honest with you. I will always prefer to
[84:03] throw a topcon smoke than a short smoke.
[84:05] So it is an option, but I would say you
[84:08] should prioritize your smoke for top. B
[84:10] isn't really like A where when you lurk
[84:13] in B apps, it's pretty tricky to get a
[84:16] pick on the B player, right? either
[84:18] they're going to be jump spotting or
[84:19] they're going to be playing one of the a
[84:22] billion different off angles that can
[84:24] catch you walking out B, right? So, as a
[84:27] B lurk, don't feel like you have to be
[84:28] walking out apps and finding this B
[84:30] pick. That's super hard to do. Instead,
[84:32] get a read on what the B player is doing
[84:33] and help your teammates take mid, go
[84:35] underpass, have some impact there. So,
[84:38] that's how you play each position. Let's
[84:39] talk about now how to execute a site.
[84:42] The two most important smokes on a site
[84:44] execute is your jungle smoke and your
[84:47] stair smoke. The reason why you wouldn't
[84:49] want to smoke CT is because you want to
[84:51] take CT. If US come out a you plant bomb
[84:54] and you're able to take CT control, you
[84:56] should just win that round. You having
[84:58] this space, having ramp, having palace,
[85:00] bomb is planted for everything, that's a
[85:02] super difficult retake for CTs. So,
[85:04] here's two different ways you can throw
[85:06] right side smokes on your own. If you
[85:08] get up to this door and somebody drops
[85:10] you a smoke, you can stand here on the
[85:12] right side of it. For the first smoke,
[85:13] you're going to aim just in the jumble
[85:14] of these wires. Left click, jump throw.
[85:16] Second smoke, you're going to aim at the
[85:18] corner of this roof, just off into the
[85:20] blue a little bit, and left click, jump
[85:21] throw. You should throw this one first,
[85:23] actually, the stair smoke, and then
[85:24] throw the jungle smoke because the stair
[85:26] smoke takes longer to land. But this is
[85:28] what they look like. Boom. Jungle smoke
[85:30] and stairs are smoked. The disadvantage
[85:32] to these is that they go super high in
[85:35] the sky. So if an A player sees them,
[85:38] they can call the smokes, tell their
[85:39] team, "Hey, the T's are smoking A really
[85:42] far in advance, right? Because they take
[85:43] so long to land. So it's better to throw
[85:45] these when you can, if you can get up on
[85:47] top of this bit, have somebody drop you
[85:49] a smoke up here, they can drop you a
[85:51] smoke here, right? They just jump and
[85:52] toss the smoke there. You come up, you
[85:54] drop one smoke there, and then you go
[85:56] grab the smoke that they dropped. Once
[85:57] you're up here with both smokes, you're
[85:59] going to get into this corner with the
[86:01] wood plank. For your jungle smoke,
[86:03] you're going to aim up above the middle
[86:05] of this bit, just right in the middle.
[86:07] Left click, throw. Stair smoke, there's
[86:09] this like kind of hook right here, and
[86:11] you're going to left and right click,
[86:12] jump throw your smoke at the tip of this
[86:14] hook, this splotch right here. Left and
[86:16] right click, jump throw. These are going
[86:17] to land much faster than those other
[86:19] smokes that I showed you. It's just a
[86:21] bit more of a pain to get up and get
[86:23] into this corner than it is to be at the
[86:25] door. If you do want to throw CT smoke,
[86:27] the best way you can do it is come
[86:28] against this corner. It's kind of weird
[86:30] clipping, but I get all the way
[86:32] horizontal. And then once you start to
[86:33] go forward, you back up and you just
[86:34] stay on this horizontal edge right here.
[86:36] And then you're going to aim for the
[86:37] middle of this stick that sticks out.
[86:40] Left click, jump throw. The great thing
[86:41] about this CT smoke, why it's better
[86:43] than others, is it's going to land on
[86:45] ticket. Boom. And it's going to plume
[86:47] upwards heavily. So CTS can still jump
[86:50] up all the way up here, but they can't
[86:52] make plays on top of this middle bit.
[86:54] It's a really nice CT smoke. If you just
[86:55] threw these smokes, these right side
[86:57] smokes, then you can flash for your team
[86:59] by sending one flash deep and then
[87:01] sending one lamp flash. The deep flash
[87:03] is intended to push any oper off of CT,
[87:06] right? If there's an opering here, then
[87:08] bang, the flash pops, they're blinded,
[87:09] they have to run away, and then you send
[87:11] one lamp flash to blind anybody that's
[87:14] close to ring. Bang, boom, they're
[87:16] swinging. Anybody here would be blind.
[87:17] Anybody close would be blind by this
[87:19] lamp flash. If you just threw the right
[87:21] side smokes from up here, wait for them
[87:23] to land and then you can throw one deep
[87:24] flash towards CT and then you're going
[87:26] to right click a flash, hold it, shift
[87:28] walk, and then jump throw right when you
[87:30] get to the end of this. And this flash
[87:31] is going to pop right here and blind
[87:33] anybody who's playing very close and it
[87:35] won't blind your teammates. Now, my best
[87:36] tip for you as the person who's throwing
[87:39] smokes or throwing flashes on a execs or
[87:41] on any exec ever on any map is that you
[87:44] kind of need to turn into an IGL. You
[87:46] need to dictate the timing. You need to
[87:47] tell your team what to do. If you come
[87:49] up and you throw the smokes and then you
[87:51] don't say anything, you don't tell your
[87:52] team what smokes you're throwing. You
[87:54] don't say anything. You just throw a
[87:55] flash and then you run out. Don't be
[87:57] shocked if your team isn't going. You
[87:59] haven't told them anything. You haven't
[88:01] told them when the flash is going. You
[88:03] haven't told them what you're smoking,
[88:04] when is when it's going to be smoked,
[88:05] right? So, you need to communicate when
[88:07] you're throwing these execs, right? Tell
[88:09] your team, "Hey, okay, shift walk, shift
[88:10] walk." All right, smoking jungle now.
[88:12] I'm smoking stairs. Let's wait. I'll
[88:13] flash for you. Just wait, wait, wait.
[88:15] And then we listen for them to pop.
[88:16] Bloom bloom. Okay, I'm flashing CT. I'm
[88:19] going to flash close. Ready, go, go, go,
[88:20] go, go, go, go, go. Right. Like, be
[88:22] active. Be vocal. Tell your team what to
[88:24] do. So many people get upset that their
[88:26] team like doesn't go on execs or I Oh, I
[88:28] threw util, but nobody went out. It's
[88:30] because you didn't tell them to go out
[88:32] and you also didn't give them like a
[88:34] reason why it's okay to go out, right?
[88:35] With your flashbangs, use your flashbang
[88:38] as a way to make people go, right? If I
[88:41] say, "I'm flashing for you. Ready?
[88:42] Ready? Flashing now. Here we go." Bang.
[88:45] If I'm like enthusiastic telling them,
[88:47] "Bang, here we go." You know, it makes
[88:48] them want to go because they feel like
[88:50] they're going to get a kill off the
[88:51] flash. Sure, sometimes people are still
[88:53] going to bait. Sometimes they're still
[88:54] not going to want to entry, but try to
[88:56] be proactive like that. Try to get
[88:57] people to go do [ __ ] because you can't
[89:00] do everything for them. Right now, when
[89:01] you're coming out a let's say somebody
[89:03] else threw smokes for you and you're
[89:04] entrying or you're just one of the
[89:06] rifers up front, don't get stuck Tetris,
[89:08] right? You threw smokes. Don't just get
[89:10] stuck around here. You want to path out
[89:12] to the left. Clear CT. clear under. You
[89:15] want to get active, get out. So, if
[89:17] you're the very first person, be okay
[89:19] turning your back towards jungle,
[89:20] turning your back towards CT, hard
[89:22] clearing under, hard clearing CT, right?
[89:24] You should have somebody next to you
[89:25] just following you, ready to trade you
[89:27] or holding stuff that you're not
[89:28] holding. And if you see somebody else
[89:30] entering in this path, then you should
[89:33] follow them. Be the trader. What I see a
[89:35] lot of people do is that instead of
[89:36] scaling towards the left, they scale out
[89:38] towards the right towards sandwich. And
[89:40] then they get close to this jungle
[89:41] smoke. They're not able to take CT.
[89:43] Rotates come in and then finally by the
[89:45] time they get up here to try to take CT,
[89:47] there's two people CT. These jungle
[89:48] smokes are gone, right? When you swing
[89:50] out to the right, you're not really
[89:52] clearing all too much. Of course, you're
[89:54] clearing kind of ninja, but you're not
[89:55] clearing under. Somebody could still be
[89:57] default. You want to get out into sight
[89:59] and hard clear stuff and take the space
[90:01] as fast as possible because you don't
[90:03] want to waste the timing on these right
[90:05] side smokes. Once these right side
[90:07] smokes are gone, A is really scary.
[90:09] There's a ton of space open CT and
[90:11] jungle. We want to make use of those
[90:12] right side smokes and take CT while
[90:15] they're still up. So then boom, we take
[90:17] CT. Okay, now that we have CT, these
[90:19] smokes are starting to fade and we're in
[90:21] a really comfortable spot from Tetris.
[90:23] If you know like you have info,
[90:25] somebody's default or somebody's under
[90:27] balk, then it's totally okay to pause
[90:29] for a second and throw some util to
[90:31] clear him out. If you're Tetris, you're
[90:33] coming out ramp, you just bank mollies
[90:35] against the left side of the sign. Those
[90:37] are going to land under Balk and flush
[90:39] out any CT plane there. You can also, of
[90:41] course, just like jiggle this and the
[90:42] molly default like that. If you're one
[90:44] of the people who is late to the party,
[90:47] right, you're like fourth or fifth out
[90:49] and your teammates are scaling up sight,
[90:50] throwing flashes into CT is always good.
[90:54] You want to delay these CT retakes. And
[90:57] you should also tell your team when
[90:58] you're doing this. That way, if the
[91:00] opponents are playing retake, right,
[91:01] there's a CT just chilling here holding
[91:03] this. Bang, this flash pops, and then
[91:05] your teammates swing and kill them. They
[91:07] might even turn that, but hopefully your
[91:08] teammates just swing as it pops, so then
[91:10] they kill them while they're turned. For
[91:11] the most part, you're going to be
[91:12] planting default. If the if you have the
[91:15] opportunity to, planting back triple is
[91:17] significantly better than planting
[91:18] default because now it's planted for
[91:20] ramp. If you plant back triple, this
[91:22] crossfire between CT and ramp is brutal
[91:25] trying to diffuse the spawn. It's so
[91:26] difficult. Planting default totally
[91:28] fine. But if you can try to get towards
[91:30] back triple and plant here. One thing
[91:32] you have to be worried about when you're
[91:33] executing A and you're scaling out is a
[91:35] CT playing through the jungle smoke
[91:37] here. So in reaction you can molly it
[91:39] like that. Molly their swing. This
[91:41] prevents them from being aggressive.
[91:43] They can't just hard swing out. But they
[91:45] can edge the smoke here and play like
[91:46] this. That is a concern. They won't take
[91:48] from the molly. So be mindful of that.
[91:50] Be ready for that. Right. There's some
[91:51] really important things you need to know
[91:52] if you're palace during an A execute.
[91:55] One thing that is key is that you're not
[91:58] scared. is that you're going to swing
[91:59] when your teammates are taking sight.
[92:01] And the reason for that is that if your
[92:02] teammates are running out ramp, they're
[92:04] being aggressive. You need to kill this
[92:06] default player. If somebody's default
[92:07] and they're just staying alive, you you
[92:09] can't give them the timing where they
[92:11] can throw a flash, they can throw a
[92:12] defensive smoke, they can do something
[92:13] to delay, delay, delay. Your job is to
[92:15] swing and just kill this player. You can
[92:17] throw some pretty good utility from
[92:19] palace. One is the underbali. You come
[92:21] to this second pillar, the close second
[92:23] pillar closest to the balk just on the
[92:24] edge of it. You aim where the roof meets
[92:27] the wall right here or the the tiling
[92:29] and then you run run run run run run run
[92:30] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:30] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:30] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:30] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:31] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:31] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:31] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:31] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:31] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:31] run run run run run run run run run run
[92:31] run run run run run run run and then
[92:32] about when your crosshair meets like the
[92:34] the top of this light that's when you
[92:35] let go and that's going to molly under
[92:36] balcon you can also throw a pretty nifty
[92:39] flash from the middle of this pillar you
[92:41] come here this is the closest pillar to
[92:42] the balcony you see on the wall there's
[92:45] this crack right here and there's a dark
[92:47] line like this line that separates a
[92:48] lighter bit from a darker bit you go uh
[92:51] where this crack meets that line and
[92:52] left click throw this flash is going to
[92:54] bounce and pop right here. So, anybody
[92:57] playing default is going to eat this
[92:59] flash. Anybody playing on top of Balk
[93:02] can definitely react to it, but if they
[93:04] don't, they're also going to get blinded
[93:05] by it. If the CTs are smoking Palace at
[93:08] the beginning of every single round and
[93:10] you're getting ready for an A execute,
[93:12] then get this lineup ready because this
[93:14] is an excellent flash to push the smoke
[93:16] with. One thing you do have to be
[93:18] concerned about is that it could blind
[93:19] your teammates if they're already swung
[93:22] super far out. I mean, that one didn't,
[93:23] but if they're already really far out,
[93:24] it will blind them. So, throw it like as
[93:27] your teammates are throwing lamp flashes
[93:29] as they're coming out ramp. That's a
[93:30] good timing to throw it. If you get up
[93:31] to close palace like this, then you can
[93:33] just throw util towards under balk for
[93:36] free, right? Throwing a flash is
[93:37] surprisingly really good when you throw
[93:39] it under because if a player's default,
[93:41] you throw this flash, they have to turn
[93:43] it or else they're just going to eat it
[93:44] or even if they're looking at you, this
[93:46] is still just going to blind them. It
[93:47] puts a lot of pressure on this player.
[93:49] Last thing I'll say about the palace
[93:50] player is that you don't have to commit
[93:52] out of palace. Palace is a super strong
[93:54] postplant spot and a really strong spot
[93:57] to hold CT aggression on CT. We went
[93:59] over ways that you can make plays
[94:01] through the jungle smoke through the
[94:02] stair smoke. A lot of those ways, a lot
[94:04] of those plays is countered by a patient
[94:07] palace player, right? So if you do as a
[94:09] CT, if you make the sandwich drop, a
[94:11] palace player will just punish you for
[94:13] that. If you swing through the jungle
[94:14] smoke, a palace player should be ready
[94:16] for this, too. they can easily see
[94:18] flashbangs thrown from jungle so they
[94:20] can react off of it. Tell their
[94:21] teammates, "Hey, they're they're
[94:22] flashing jungle care." If you really
[94:23] need numbers to take CT, then okay, go
[94:26] help your team take CT. You can also
[94:28] flash CT from palace for your teammates,
[94:30] too. Otherwise, I would recommend
[94:32] staying palace regardless of where the
[94:34] bomb is planted. You're in a really good
[94:35] postplot, and it's not really worth
[94:37] giving that up unless you really have
[94:39] to. One thing I need to mention is that
[94:41] if you've been going mid every round,
[94:43] right, your teammates have been
[94:44] pressuring mid and then all of a sudden
[94:45] you guys don't do anything mid, it might
[94:47] be kind of obvious that you're executing
[94:49] A. So, it can be good for you or a
[94:51] teammate to throw a top mid smoke and
[94:53] even to come up and throw a couple
[94:55] flashes towards mid and then come back
[94:56] towards A. That way, the CTs don't get
[94:59] full info mid and they still have to
[95:01] worry about T's being top mid being
[95:03] boxes and they're not going to come back
[95:05] and stack a site based off of that mid
[95:07] info. Next, let's talk about how to do a
[95:09] good B- rush. B- rushes are good to do
[95:11] on lowbys, of course, because you're
[95:13] going to close distance. You're going to
[95:15] take a lot of close-range fights when
[95:16] you get out B. They're also good to do
[95:18] when you know that their B anchor is
[95:19] just bad, right? If they're not playing
[95:21] well, then just abusing that can be
[95:23] really, really strong. One thing I see
[95:25] in lower elos is that people will play
[95:27] two A, one con, one window, and then one
[95:29] towards B. And a lot of low elo mirage
[95:32] games are super winnable if you just go
[95:34] B every round until you force the CTs to
[95:36] actually play two players towards B. So
[95:38] if you recognize like every time we go A
[95:40] there's like four [ __ ] people there,
[95:42] just go B. Just send a B. Here's how a B
[95:45] rush works. And this is incredibly
[95:47] important because what I'm about to talk
[95:48] about applies to pretty much every rush
[95:50] ever. So you know, lock in. Your
[95:53] responsibility in a rush is going to be
[95:55] based on your spawn. If you have the
[95:58] best spawn, then you need to use it. If
[96:00] you have the best spawn, you can't be
[96:02] the person who stops and throws a window
[96:04] smoke. You're wasting your spawn, right?
[96:06] We rush so that we can exploit that
[96:08] early timing. When we exploit early
[96:10] timings, we have a better idea of where
[96:12] CTS are going to play and we're going to
[96:14] get there sometimes before they expect
[96:16] us to be there. So, you have best spawn,
[96:18] you're going to be the entry, you're
[96:20] going first. You need to be aggressive
[96:22] and you need to take space on Bite
[96:24] Mirage. You can come out, you can throw
[96:25] a flash like this. That's going to
[96:27] bounce through the window. You can also
[96:28] throw one just against here on the
[96:31] bottom of this bit. This flash is going
[96:33] to pop out here and blind any short
[96:34] player playing like this. Bang, they're
[96:36] blind. So, first spawn, you can focus on
[96:38] a flash. You can throw that one. You can
[96:40] also throw this one. And then you are
[96:41] jumping out window. Okay, you're jumping
[96:45] out the window. If you're first spawn on
[96:46] a B- rush on Mirage, you're jumping out
[96:48] the window. No ifs, ands, or buts about
[96:50] it. All right, the second spawn, the
[96:52] second closest player to wherever we're
[96:54] rushing is following the entry and
[96:57] playing firefight. Firefight means, like
[96:59] I said, you're going to extinguish
[97:00] whatever molly the CTs throw. As this
[97:02] firefight player, I'm going to have my
[97:03] smoke out ready before the CTs even
[97:06] throw the molly, right? I'm going to
[97:08] expect this molly. So, I'm following my
[97:09] entry. The molly comes out. I molly
[97:11] this. I smoke the molly and then I
[97:14] screwed up the movement, but and then
[97:16] I'm going to follow the entry wherever
[97:18] they go. The reason for that is because
[97:20] if my entry runs out window, right,
[97:23] they're taking space, they get out here
[97:24] and they hit the short player for 99
[97:26] damage and then they die. If we don't
[97:28] have somebody to trade them, then what
[97:30] are we doing, right? If I'm with my
[97:32] entry, I'm on their ass and I follow
[97:34] them and then I trade that kill. Huge.
[97:36] That kill grants us a ton of space. You
[97:38] win rushes through trading. So, as a
[97:42] second player, follow your entry.
[97:43] Wherever they go, you go. Your job is to
[97:46] trade them and to smoke the molly early.
[97:47] The third and the fourth spawn are going
[97:50] to just look for kills, right? They're
[97:52] going to come out apps. They don't need
[97:54] to jump through the window. If you're on
[97:55] low by like Tech 9 Mac 10, you
[97:57] definitely can. But if you're on a
[97:58] fullby, then these two players can just
[98:00] search. You could think of it as like
[98:01] two pairs of twos, right? The entry and
[98:03] the trader are going out. They're taking
[98:05] space. The other two are clearing the
[98:07] rest of the space, and they're more so
[98:09] looking for fights. They're more so
[98:11] looking for the kill. They're not
[98:12] necessarily being relentless like going,
[98:14] going, going. they can be a bit more
[98:16] patient with how they take the fights.
[98:17] That means that as this third or fourth
[98:18] spawn, if you have util, right, you have
[98:21] a molly, you have nade, you can molly
[98:23] towards van, you can come up, you can
[98:24] molly jail like that. That's really
[98:26] effective. Molly jail, molly bench.
[98:27] Sometimes this doesn't spread all the
[98:28] way, but that one did. Another really
[98:30] good molly to throw is a backite molly.
[98:32] You throw this and it mollies empty
[98:34] pillar right here. That, you know, if
[98:36] you watch the banker bit, that flushes a
[98:37] banker out and forces them to fight you
[98:39] guys, which is really good. You want to
[98:41] kill that guy as fast as possible. The
[98:43] fifth player is typically the util
[98:45] thrower, the support player. They're
[98:46] going to come here. Most often on
[98:48] Mirage, they're going to throw a window
[98:49] smoke. I aim at this corner and just
[98:51] slightly to the right right here. That
[98:53] way, the smoke consistently lands within
[98:56] the window. Boom. There we go. And then
[98:58] I'm going to throw supporting flashes
[99:00] for my teammates. And to do that, I'm
[99:01] just going to come top underpass. I'm
[99:03] going to aim around the top of the
[99:04] window and just run jump throw these
[99:06] flashes. If I'm worried about a short
[99:07] player, I can throw one deep flash
[99:09] there. And then I can shift walk a flash
[99:10] throwing it like that. That way that
[99:12] shorter flash is going to blind any
[99:14] short player sitting around here. Let's
[99:16] talk about some solo plays you can make
[99:18] on T-side to get picks and open the
[99:20] round up towards middle. Having the best
[99:22] mid spawn, go dry swing it. If you don't
[99:25] think that the CTs have an OP, then you
[99:28] should pretty much always just dry swing
[99:29] mid with your best spawn and take this
[99:31] duel against the window player. As we
[99:33] looked at in the timing section, only
[99:35] two of the five CT spawns beat the best
[99:37] CT spawn, which means there's only a 40%
[99:41] chance that the window player will be
[99:43] window before you swing mid. So, you
[99:45] have an advantage. Just fight. Go take
[99:47] it. Go take that 1v one. With a good
[99:49] mid/b spawn, going fast underpass can be
[99:52] really effective as well. You're just
[99:53] going to come into apps. You're going to
[99:54] aim like this with your flash, right
[99:56] click it, jump out, and then turn it.
[99:58] It's going to pop right there. And then
[100:00] you're going to swing the CTu standing
[100:01] here full blind and just kill them for
[100:03] free. If their B player sucks or is jump
[100:05] spotting in a really terrible way, then
[100:07] coming into apps early and holding for
[100:09] the jump spot can be a free way to get a
[100:11] pick. You can also jump on top of this
[100:13] couch. And then this gives you a higher
[100:15] angle, which means that they're going to
[100:16] be in the air for longer, you know,
[100:18] relative to you. And this can make
[100:20] getting this kill even easier. If you
[100:22] have a good A spawn, then you have some
[100:23] options of what you can do. The first
[100:25] thing you can do is just spot the jungle
[100:27] cross. And look here. This is a a
[100:29] lowrisk, you know, highreward play, but
[100:32] it's not super likely that you're going
[100:34] to hit this shot. Instead, what you can
[100:36] do is get up into ramp and play like
[100:38] this. That way, you open the angle up,
[100:40] and if you have a really good spawn and
[100:41] they try to cross with a bad spawn, you
[100:43] could be taking the fight out here, and
[100:45] that's just a free pick. Another play
[100:46] that you can make is that if the CTs are
[100:48] throwing a ramp molly, but the ramp
[100:50] molly really isn't that good, then you
[100:52] can jump up behind it, like right here,
[100:54] and look for this fight right here. The
[100:56] last thing you can do is just go out a
[100:58] and try to get a pick and try to like if
[101:00] you get traded it's fine but you're just
[101:02] going to be aggressive and you're going
[101:03] to try to go get a kill. What you're
[101:04] going to do is you're going to run up to
[101:05] ramp. You're going to smoke it like that
[101:06] and then you're going to flash it like
[101:07] that. Bang. And then you're swinging
[101:09] with this flash and you're trying to get
[101:10] this kill on the A player. That way
[101:12] you're smoking the molly and then you're
[101:13] sending a flash to so if they are close
[101:15] they will get blinded by this bang. Free
[101:18] pick. You typically shouldn't go fast
[101:20] palace, but if you have a read that the
[101:22] CTs are never really peing palace or
[101:24] they're never playing on top of Balk, if
[101:25] they're playing default or triple a lot
[101:27] and the other CT, the other A player is
[101:30] committing towards connector a lot, then
[101:31] you can go fast palace and just really
[101:34] quickly try to find this pick on the A
[101:36] player. This is even better if you have
[101:37] somebody towards ramp who can throw
[101:39] either above palace flash like that or a
[101:41] lamp flash like that. The above palace
[101:43] is slightly better, but risky play,
[101:46] right? but can work out a lot. If you're
[101:48] coming towards mid and your teammates
[101:49] through throw a top mid smoke, then one
[101:51] kind of risky, silly little play you can
[101:53] make is by walking through the right
[101:55] side of it and looking for this pick
[101:56] against the window player or against a
[101:58] connector player is not looking at you.
[101:59] Another way you can use that top midm
[102:00] smoke is that if your teammate threw it
[102:02] quick, you can immediately run out, gun
[102:04] out, and just swing window from this
[102:05] side of it. A lot of window players,
[102:07] opers, they're going to sit here and
[102:09] hold right side boxes, and while they're
[102:10] scoped, if you swing right here, they're
[102:12] just going to die. Welcome to the must
[102:14] know utility section for T-side. I'm
[102:17] going to run through the smokes,
[102:18] flashes, mollies that I think every
[102:20] level 10 should know on Mirage. And if
[102:22] you're not level 10, then you knowing
[102:24] this util just raises your floor as a
[102:27] player on Mirage significantly. Now,
[102:29] I've shown a lot of this util already in
[102:31] the position specific segments, but I'm
[102:33] assuming people are going to bounce
[102:34] around this video a ton, and this is the
[102:37] part where if you need to know the util,
[102:39] this is the util you need to know. I'm
[102:40] going to sort of go left to right on the
[102:42] map. So, we're going to start with
[102:43] palace. I don't really expect my
[102:45] teammates to know util from palace.
[102:47] There's not really all that much that
[102:48] you can throw. The one thing that like
[102:50] maybe I'm hoping people know is how to
[102:52] molly under bal, but this is kind of a
[102:54] luxury and not a super necessary piece
[102:56] of util to know. So, to throw it, all
[102:58] you're going to do is you're going to
[102:59] come to the second pillar that's closest
[103:00] to the balcony, line up with the edge of
[103:02] it, aim where this tile meets the wall,
[103:06] and then you're going to hold W until
[103:07] you reach the top of that light and left
[103:09] click throw. And that's going to land
[103:10] under balcony. the good CT smoke. You're
[103:12] going to get against this wall. Go all
[103:14] the way until you start going forward.
[103:16] Okay, go back and then just get towards
[103:18] the tip of this weird kind of clipping.
[103:20] Aim at the middle of this wood plank.
[103:23] Left click. Jump throw. This is going to
[103:25] land on top of ticket. This is the best
[103:27] ticket smoke you can throw because it
[103:29] plumes upwards. Beautiful. Right side
[103:31] smokes. Two ways to throw them. One from
[103:33] here on the right side of this door.
[103:34] You're going to left click jump through
[103:36] at the wires. And then you're going to
[103:37] left click jump throw at this corner
[103:38] right here. This is your jungle smoke
[103:40] and your stair smoke. These do take
[103:42] quite a long time to land. And this
[103:45] jungle smoke blooms out quite a lot. You
[103:47] can also throw these from up here.
[103:49] You're going to get somebody to drop you
[103:50] a smoke here. For your jungle smoke,
[103:52] you're going to aim at the top middle of
[103:54] this square. Stair smoke, you're going
[103:56] to aim at this black splot straight
[103:58] ahead of you. And you're going to left
[104:00] and right click jump throw. That was a
[104:01] flash. You're going to left and right
[104:02] click jump throw that smoke. These are
[104:04] going to land much faster and they're
[104:06] going to be a bit more tucked in. So,
[104:08] they're just generally better than the
[104:09] other ones I just showed you. Once
[104:11] you're out Tetris, you can throw some
[104:12] pretty decent utility from here. If you
[104:14] get into this corner and you aim at the
[104:16] tip of this wooden bit, left click
[104:18] throw. That's a CT smoke. You can also
[104:20] smoke jungle by aiming in the middle of
[104:22] this. I imagine this is square. Aim in
[104:24] the middle of it. Left click throw.
[104:25] That's going to be a jungle smoke. Boom.
[104:27] CT smoked. And then jungle. Bang. Bang.
[104:30] Bang. Is now smoked. You can also smoke
[104:32] Topcon. Not from this corner, but from
[104:34] this corner here. You look at this wood
[104:36] plank sticking out just to the right of
[104:38] it and then left click throw. There it
[104:40] is. Boom. Your top connector smoke. If
[104:42] your team doesn't have a smoke for
[104:43] stairs or you just want to molly stairs
[104:44] for some reason from ramp, this is a
[104:46] good molly to know. As you run up ramp,
[104:48] you're going to aim. You see where this
[104:49] line is? Just a little bit below it,
[104:50] just in this area. And you're going to
[104:52] left click throw that molly. This molly
[104:54] is going to land right on stairs. It's
[104:55] going to go downwards a ton for some
[104:57] reason. And it's going to prevent CTS
[104:59] from fighting you stairs. So if your
[105:00] teammate throws a jungle smoke and your
[105:01] team realizes, oh no, we don't have a
[105:03] stair smoke. that you could throw that
[105:04] molly on the run as you come out ramp.
[105:06] How to flash from ramp. Your first flash
[105:08] typically should be a deep flash. You're
[105:10] trying to get an oper off of the ticket
[105:12] angle, right? So, you're going to run
[105:14] jump throw that flash. If your teammates
[105:16] run out ramp with it, they're going to
[105:17] get blinded by it. But the purpose is
[105:19] you throw it before your teammates run
[105:20] out and then you follow that flash up
[105:22] with a lamp flash. This lamp flash bang
[105:26] pops here and blinds anybody playing
[105:27] close. The thing with the lane flash is
[105:29] a lot of people throw it when they know
[105:30] that somebody's playing ticket or they
[105:32] know that, you know, nobody's playing
[105:33] close ramp and it's just not going to
[105:34] blind anybody ticket. So that's why you
[105:36] throw the deep flash first and then you
[105:38] throw a lane flash to clear out those
[105:39] close angles. If you're doing a palace
[105:40] pop and your team is coming out palace,
[105:42] then you want to flash above palace by
[105:44] just aiming up in this area and run jump
[105:47] throwing your flash. That way somebody
[105:49] who's sitting default holding here,
[105:50] they're not even going to see the flash.
[105:51] Bang. And they're going to get blinded
[105:52] by it and then boom, your team is
[105:54] jumping out palace. If you're rushing A
[105:55] and you're entering, one util set you
[105:57] should know is you bounce to smoke
[105:58] against here and you bounce to flash and
[106:00] then bang, you're going, you throw the
[106:02] smoke, so then you pre-m smoke the
[106:03] molly. You don't have to purposely like
[106:05] look down and do it. You just throw
[106:06] that, you throw the flash, and then
[106:08] you're already swinging with your gun
[106:09] out and you're blinding anybody who's
[106:10] playing close because the flash pops
[106:11] right here. Window smoke, top mid smoke,
[106:13] and con smoke all from T-spawn. Your
[106:15] window smoke, you're going to come into
[106:16] this corner. You're going to aim where
[106:18] like this line meets this line, this box
[106:20] right here. I am on the left side of it.
[106:22] Hold D. Jump throw. Your top mid smoke.
[106:24] You're going to get into this side of
[106:25] the bin. Tip of the antenna. Left click.
[106:28] Throw. Your connector smoke. You're
[106:29] going to get on top of the bin. Crouch.
[106:31] Aim where the rug meets the orange meets
[106:33] the tan. So, right here. And then left
[106:36] click. Jump throw while you're still
[106:38] crouched. Here is our top mid smoke.
[106:40] Here is our window smoke. And here is
[106:42] our connector smoke. From top mid, you
[106:44] should be able to throw util into
[106:46] connector without being able to see it.
[106:48] You look for this line right here. that
[106:51] gray line. And if you have a top mid
[106:54] smoke down, you look at that line. Oh,
[106:55] you just aim below it and then boom,
[106:56] you're throwing util into con. So, rapid
[106:59] fire top mid util, you should know you
[107:01] should be able to throw a molly into con
[107:03] through that smoke. Same with same thing
[107:05] with a nade. These flashes are really
[107:06] good. Just flashing behind you as you
[107:08] swing. Throwing this flash to deny a
[107:11] connector peak. Flashing into valley or
[107:13] even mollying into valley can be quite
[107:15] good if the CTs are being really
[107:17] aggressive. If the CTs are smoking
[107:19] bottom con consistently and nating it
[107:21] against that wall, bang, and then you
[107:23] blow open the smoke, that can be really
[107:25] solid as well. From top mid boxes, you
[107:27] can smoke window just by aiming towards
[107:28] the bottom of this antenna where it
[107:30] meets the roof. Run and leftclick throw.
[107:33] That's going to land right in window.
[107:34] You can do that very same lineup with a
[107:36] molly. That's going to land in window as
[107:37] well. To smoke short, get into this
[107:39] cubby. Aim at the tip of this antenna.
[107:41] Left click throw. To smoke top, look at
[107:43] this gap right here in the palm tree
[107:45] towards the top of it. Left click throw.
[107:47] This is going to land towards Topcon.
[107:49] Bounce. Bounce. And then it's going to
[107:51] come down here and land right there.
[107:53] Beautiful. From bottom mid. Stop
[107:56] runthrowing the smoke into window. I see
[107:58] so many people miss this stupid smoke
[108:00] because they run through it and it just
[108:01] bounces against the wall. Just a left
[108:03] click throw it. Let it bounce deep and
[108:05] then it's going to plume out and get
[108:06] window. Stop missing your your window
[108:09] smokes from bottom. It is silly. Topcon
[108:10] smoke from left side. You just aim
[108:12] towards this E box as you're playing
[108:14] safe, right? You're not exposed to top
[108:15] con. You shift and you left click throw.
[108:17] Boom. There's a top con smoke from this
[108:19] left side. You open yourself up and you
[108:21] see this light. Aim to the left side.
[108:24] Shift walk. Left click throw again.
[108:25] There's another top con smoke. Flashes
[108:27] into con one from here. You're going to
[108:29] get against this corner. Aim up here
[108:31] where this line meets the roof. Left
[108:33] click throw. Bang. There's a top con
[108:35] flash. The second one. This corner. Uh
[108:37] where this X is just to the right of it
[108:39] right here. Left click throw. There's
[108:41] another con flash. Bite util. You can
[108:43] smoke window coming into this corner.
[108:45] Aim at this left tip of the roof. Left
[108:48] click jump throw. You can also smoke
[108:50] short this corner just slightly to the
[108:52] left of it. Left click throw. That's a
[108:54] deep short smoke. It's going to bounce
[108:56] and then land about here. So boom. We
[108:58] have window smoked. And then we have
[109:00] short smoked right there. A more
[109:02] annoying short smoke to line up, but a
[109:03] better one that you can throw is you
[109:05] come here, you line up with this block,
[109:06] this rock right here. There's a crack in
[109:08] it right there. You line up with that
[109:09] while you crouch. Stand up. this gray
[109:11] line to the left of it, a little bit on
[109:13] the bottom side of bottom edge of it and
[109:15] a left click throw. This smoke is going
[109:17] to land deeper and short. So, it's
[109:19] better than that first one I showed you
[109:20] because players playing here, they don't
[109:22] get any visibility, whereas a deeper one
[109:24] does allow them to be able to see a bit
[109:27] of balcon, a bit of the window.
[109:28] Everybody should know how to flash B
[109:30] just like that. If you're level 10, you
[109:32] should probably know how to throw that
[109:34] flash. And then also missiles flashes. I
[109:38] actually missed that one. That's funny.
[109:39] Throw it towards the bottom. Bang. And
[109:41] then it lands there. Blinds anybody
[109:42] short. These flashes are incredibly
[109:44] strong for entry and
[109:46] upbeat. Well, there you go. There's the
[109:49] video. Thanks for coming along on this
[109:51] Mirage journey with me. I know that took
[109:53] a while, but dude, you made it to the
[109:55] end. That's insane. Thank you. If you're
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[110:13] Thank you. Again, if you found this
[110:15] video helpful, please leave me a comment
[110:17] and let me know. I'm debating between
[110:19] doing this for every single map. So,
[110:21] this is kind of my tester feeler. See if
[110:23] it's good, see if it's not, whatever.
[110:25] Let me know what you think. Give me some
[110:26] feedback if you thought there was stuff
[110:27] I could do better. Thank you for being
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[110:31] of your future