[0:00] hey what's up guys welcome back today
[0:01] we're going to be talking about tside
[0:03] Mirage so to kick things off I'm going
[0:05] to Yap here a little bit basically I
[0:07] just want to talk about what I like to
[0:09] do if I solo CU on any map it doesn't
[0:12] matter if it's Mirage Anubis dust who
[0:14] Whatever It Is My Philosophy is I want
[0:17] an entry and that's really what I try to
[0:20] focus on is finding a sequence finding a
[0:23] pattern where like a routine that I'm
[0:24] comfortable with that I'm
[0:25] self-sufficient in to ideally find a
[0:29] pick set my team up for a 5v4 call me
[0:31] crazy but there is definitely a
[0:32] psychological part of it where if your
[0:34] teammates see you go get a pick I feel
[0:36] like Things fall into place a lot of
[0:38] times and more often than not you win
[0:39] the round by just getting that singular
[0:41] kill in living first thing is kind of
[0:43] realizing what spawns you have and we'll
[0:45] just talk about the ideas of the spawns
[0:47] and give you like little very generic
[0:49] things that you can do and my philosophy
[0:52] and how i' approach certain spawn
[0:54] situations whatever this is spawn one on
[0:57] Mirage you're really close to a this is
[0:59] kind of I'm talking about is recognizing
[1:01] like hey I got a really good spawn for a
[1:03] I know that this a guy or this connector
[1:05] player is crossed every single round so
[1:07] maybe on a single round you can either
[1:10] one do it by yourself depending on what
[1:12] rank you're at or two just ask don't be
[1:15] afraid if somebody is a prick to you
[1:17] that's on them but you should ask like
[1:20] hey can you just flash over a for me and
[1:21] call it and you can try to challenge a
[1:23] guy Crossing connector and this is a
[1:24] pretty safe pick because you have the
[1:26] best spawn one two you know what this
[1:29] spawn that nobody's going to be coming
[1:31] from Jungle quite yet and the only
[1:33] position they can be in to Peak you is
[1:35] directly in front of you and as long as
[1:36] you don't go too far out you're not even
[1:38] going to expose yourself to the player
[1:40] that's in a sight or you might get
[1:41] really lucky and you're actually finding
[1:43] the a sight player while his teammate's
[1:44] coming through jungle and this is going
[1:45] to be a sequence of events that you got
[1:47] to think about with every spawn every
[1:49] position everything you're going for I'm
[1:51] using this as an example to hopefully
[1:53] help you understand of little things
[1:55] that you can do to give yourself a
[1:57] massive Advantage so yeah when you have
[1:58] the good spawn ask teammate to throw a
[2:00] flash or if you don't have a teammate
[2:03] this still is a very good duel to go for
[2:05] this isn't like a troll or grief now if
[2:07] they're intelligent and watch my
[2:09] incredible Mirage video they might have
[2:10] a Molly and if they got a Molly that's
[2:13] where you get a little bit more advanced
[2:14] you get used to throwing a smoke on top
[2:16] of their Molotov when you come out the
[2:18] ramp and your teammate throws a flash
[2:19] for you and same concept you're still
[2:21] isolating that duel on a timing and with
[2:24] your teammate's flash you would be
[2:25] really setting yourself up for a lot of
[2:27] success to get a pick now every spawn
[2:30] that you get on Mirage is not going to
[2:32] be necessarily something similar to that
[2:34] Aram spawn you don't always need to just
[2:35] like run it down at people I'm going to
[2:37] go through a couple basic pieces of
[2:39] utility for the tside just to show you
[2:41] ways that you can maneuver get some
[2:42] space and hopefully set yourself up for
[2:44] a pick so starting with the most
[2:46] important a lot of people will tell you
[2:47] it's the window smoke it really is not
[2:50] the most important smoke especially when
[2:51] you're like solo cued is the top midm
[2:54] smoke and to do the top midm smoke you
[2:55] just come to the side of this Barrel
[2:57] right here or trash can rather and you
[2:58] just aim at the top of this antenna no
[3:00] jump throw nothing fancy you just left
[3:02] click and let it go what this smoke does
[3:04] is allows you to come out mid pretty
[3:05] safely from window it also protects you
[3:07] from anybody that makes a cat jump also
[3:10] a little fun fact that a lot of people
[3:12] don't realize is if you're playing some
[3:13] people that actually know how to shoot
[3:15] back if they Molly behind the box you
[3:17] can use the edge of the smoke to look
[3:19] for fights in front of the window so
[3:20] you're probably wondering why I'm
[3:22] telling you about a top mid smoke when I
[3:23] just told you you got to go get entries
[3:25] because this is going to leave you in
[3:26] spawn reason you need this is one it's
[3:28] going to protect your stupid teammate
[3:29] that's trying to run out top mid and die
[3:31] instantly and two utility is important
[3:33] you got to be able to throw a little bit
[3:34] and do some basic things to be able to
[3:35] get into key positions throwing this top
[3:37] mid smokes is going to allow you to get
[3:38] out mid if somebody else does a smoke
[3:40] great use it go behind the box and you
[3:42] can also smoke behind window so in a
[3:44] perfect world where you have teammates
[3:46] that know how to smoke top mid or maybe
[3:47] you're smoking top mid or maybe you're
[3:49] smoking window if you can get two of
[3:50] these smokes this is great in general
[3:52] coming out mid aing at the top of this
[3:54] line is a great way to Molly connector
[3:56] that way you can isolate your duels come
[3:59] out top mid with the smoke and a great
[4:01] way to path early is especially with
[4:03] this window smoke up is on this head
[4:05] shot angle right here anybody that
[4:07] decided to go ladder with an op and
[4:08] thought they were really funny you're
[4:09] going to have a really nice angle and
[4:11] headshot angle to fight any oper that
[4:13] goes in the ladder and in general if
[4:15] somebody decides to get a little crazy
[4:16] and swing off cat on you it's a good
[4:18] position to be in you just got to worry
[4:19] about getting flashed the places that
[4:21] you're most likely to get picks on
[4:23] Mirage are going to be in mid if you're
[4:25] playing solo and if you're able to kind
[4:27] of coordinate or Wrangle up you know
[4:29] your your cats get them in mid create a
[4:31] little bit of space get in this bottom
[4:33] mid area and start looking for pix
[4:35] window or cat if you can ideally if you
[4:38] can take connector in most of your games
[4:41] especially while you're still learning
[4:42] the game connector is going to be so
[4:44] important because one a lot of people
[4:46] like to hang out in connector entirely
[4:48] way too long and two once you get
[4:50] connector and you kill that guy or you
[4:52] take the space for it the amount of
[4:53] options you have on this map even if you
[4:55] don't find a kill is incredible you have
[4:58] the ability to go up con and split a you
[5:00] have the option to maybe potentially
[5:02] challenge the guy on catwalk if you
[5:04] force them out of connector they don't
[5:05] really have good support and you might
[5:07] even have a longer rotation to b or
[5:09] towards a it's a really good position to
[5:11] get control of if you had to focus on
[5:13] getting one area of the map it would
[5:15] always be connector over ladder but
[5:17] ladder is still really nice too the area
[5:19] is really powerful to hold the jungle
[5:20] area which is what CTS rely on to fight
[5:23] that connector player and two you can
[5:25] really be a rat in here and just find
[5:27] some great timings to take some fights
[5:28] into B now let's go talk about B here
[5:31] real quick similar to the a spawn that I
[5:33] was talking about earlier where you
[5:34] could really just take that spawn maybe
[5:36] go out ramp and look for that isolated
[5:37] pick on the player Crossing connector
[5:39] you can also go B and when going B one
[5:43] of the strongest things you can do
[5:45] especially if you're by yourself is just
[5:47] listen just listen hang out mind your
[5:49] own business try your best to avoid
[5:51] anybody throwing a Molly here maybe they
[5:53] toss it deep early you don't want to get
[5:55] touched by that maybe they throw a nade
[5:57] you don't want to just be really sneaky
[5:59] you you don't want to be Singin in the
[6:00] Mal you don't want really anybody to
[6:02] know you're up here you're just hanging
[6:03] out to be a rat listen listen listen
[6:06] listen you hear that guy run up catwalk
[6:08] guess what you got a 1 V one now now
[6:11] it's a little bit of a hide-and-seek
[6:12] game but once you get comfortable on how
[6:15] you like to work the area I'm telling
[6:16] you right now a player that goes up or B
[6:18] and knows how to work this area is a
[6:21] menace even at the highest level you'll
[6:23] see players do this all the time where
[6:24] if they just create pressure up here it
[6:26] pulls that c player back maybe your
[6:28] teammate will finally do something and
[6:29] get a pick in mid because you're drawing
[6:31] the cat player back initially start the
[6:33] round be quiet you are a rat listen to
[6:36] the player when he runs up catwalk like
[6:38] so when you hear that player commit off
[6:41] cat that's basically you know it's on
[6:43] you know you get you get to do whatever
[6:44] you want you have a one V one versus guy
[6:46] more than likely he's not crutching it
[6:48] up if he is that's where you just call
[6:50] him a noob because he brought it up and
[6:52] then you move on with your day you know
[6:54] maybe you want to be less sneaky about
[6:57] it and you want to Molly out van and
[6:58] look for this player running out of Van
[7:00] you'll find you'll get players like this
[7:02] all the time where they just kind of
[7:03] panic they just instantly fall back to
[7:05] bench like this and they just cross
[7:07] right into you you'd be very surprised
[7:09] at how many players just give up a kill
[7:11] like that because everybody just thinks
[7:12] you're supposed to jump spot B and they
[7:14] do the guys never played there before
[7:16] you threw One Singular Molly at him he's
[7:17] like oh my God it's be I finally saw
[7:19] someone he panics and he runs out and
[7:21] kills him maybe you like the more
[7:22] stealth approach maybe you like to get a
[7:24] little bit closer and he makes a misstep
[7:26] where he's just jump spotting and you
[7:27] want to try to time his jump spot maybe
[7:29] you know he's jump spotting you want to
[7:30] bounce the Nate off this to slow him
[7:32] down break his hearing so he can't hear
[7:34] you run him down and you just get to
[7:36] kill him take the bomb site and now you
[7:37] get a 1 V one versus teammate cat or you
[7:39] could be even more annoying and just
[7:41] hide and then that way they have to know
[7:42] you're and be the entire round you're
[7:44] just doing a lot to create a lot of
[7:46] chaos these little things are like what
[7:48] you should be doing in all your
[7:49] positions this video is less about like
[7:52] you know do this one simple trick and
[7:54] you're going to be so sick it's more
[7:56] about the mindset of what you should be
[7:58] looking for you know perfect world this
[8:00] is what's going on but in most of your
[8:01] games this isn't what's going on so you
[8:03] got to figure out how to make the most
[8:04] out of your situations maybe you're a
[8:07] more patient player and by more patient
[8:08] I mean you're just a biter and that's
[8:10] okay because if you're a biter and you
[8:11] still find ways to get picks based off
[8:13] of what your teammates need and what you
[8:15] can provide you know that's great too
[8:17] players that come into a palace and you
[8:19] wait for your teammates to go out mid
[8:21] maybe create an absolute round of Chaos
[8:24] in middle and it's just a brawl you can
[8:25] try to find your timing for this guy on
[8:27] the a site and he thinks he's the hide
[8:29] and seat Champion but really you're the
[8:30] number one and you just kill him and
[8:32] you're going to be surprised at how much
[8:33] more success you have in these games
[8:36] when you're thinking this way when
[8:37] you're attacking rounds in this way and
[8:39] you're just kind of always looking for
[8:41] that slight Edge and moment where you
[8:43] can capitalize and create a 5v4 for your
[8:46] team so to wrap this up though I will
[8:47] show you guys like if you do got a five
[8:49] stack or just in general something that
[8:51] like you want to like understand a
[8:53] philosophy of at least how I would
[8:55] approach most Mirage pugs and what I
[8:56] would come to expect you want to have
[8:58] three players going going towards mid
[9:00] one player towards like upper B maybe
[9:02] handling underpass that can fluctuate a
[9:04] little bit based on the game and then
[9:06] one person always being a menace towards
[9:08] a that's how I would break it down and
[9:10] what I would think just some standard
[9:12] things you can do is just always smoking
[9:13] top mid always smoking window if you
[9:16] watch that Austin CS guy my teammate
[9:18] he's going to have a bunch of instant
[9:20] lineups Molly connector getting mid
[9:23] control early with like three players
[9:25] and then allowing these two other
[9:26] players on the edges of the map to
[9:28] isolate look for DS and find opportunity
[9:31] to get picks once you get out top mid
[9:33] what do you do next if you're in a five
[9:35] stack get that connector control baby
[9:37] smoke top con maybe remoke window that's
[9:41] a thing that everybody sucks at just
[9:43] remoke the window so you have more time
[9:45] to move around in mid without getting
[9:47] shot from three different places maybe
[9:49] you want to split cat that round maybe
[9:50] you want to split con maybe you got some
[9:52] picks early in mid and you just
[9:54] regrouped at a you know you did
[9:56] something really simple or maybe you
[9:57] regrouped at B cuz you killed the C
[9:59] player and you know everybody's stuck
[10:02] these are very basic things that you can
[10:05] pretty much apply to most of your games
[10:07] and if you're not playing with a group
[10:08] of friends and you got some people that
[10:09] are just you found a good stack of
[10:11] players and they're sweating I would
[10:12] hope that they're having a similar
[10:14] mindset and this is how they're kind of
[10:15] attacking and planning the rounds as
[10:17] well so this is the first tside video
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