[0:00] today we're going to be looking at CT
[0:01] side Mirage I'm just going to give you a
[0:03] nice little basic overview of each
[0:05] position and how the start round should
[0:07] look for every single round CT side
[0:09] Mirage to give yourself the best
[0:11] possible chance to win the round so
[0:12] overall in CT side Mirage the first
[0:14] thing you're going to want to see is a
[0:16] Molly towards a ramp you're probably
[0:17] going to want to have some sort of
[0:19] connector smoke early on in the round
[0:21] with a player flashing over mid
[0:22] supporting for that player to Peak
[0:24] window early and then simultaneously
[0:26] having one player running off cat and
[0:28] one person jump spotting upper B this is
[0:30] kind of what it should look like so
[0:32] first I'm breaking down CT side Mirage
[0:34] we're going to start with the hardest
[0:35] roll first the hardest roll don't care
[0:37] what anybody says is anchoring a your
[0:39] mid player is probably going to die
[0:41] you're going to get lurked from Palace
[0:42] some weenie is going to run out a ramp
[0:44] in the first 15 seconds and try to run
[0:46] you down through a Molly so as the
[0:47] dedicated a player on Mirage the first
[0:49] thing you want to do is always have a
[0:52] Molotov always always always just start
[0:54] the round dump a Molly you could figure
[0:57] out a couple different ones that land
[0:59] differently maybe that you can play
[1:00] around especially with the CT Molly
[1:02] changes they can always be on the back
[1:05] side of the wall and peing you towards
[1:07] triple you need to be aware of this as
[1:09] the CT player you can try to manipulate
[1:11] your Molly so it gets further back on
[1:13] the wall but then it's going to leave
[1:14] gaps on the other side where it's thin
[1:16] close to the wall and they can run out
[1:17] on you you have to be very careful the
[1:19] Molly is still incredibly good to throw
[1:20] at the start because one if somebody
[1:22] runs through it you're going to have the
[1:24] advantage of them running through a
[1:25] Molotov ideally taking some damage you
[1:27] get the audio Q if you can't afford a
[1:29] Molotov and a gun round you're an idiot
[1:31] and you need to buy a Molotov so figure
[1:33] it out now after you Molly ramp if
[1:35] you're a really good teammate and you're
[1:37] playing with people the next thing you
[1:38] want to do is Flash for Middle flashing
[1:40] for Mid you have to be careful cuz once
[1:42] again when you're flashing mid if you
[1:44] hear somebody run out your Molotov or
[1:46] they extinguish it you're going to be in
[1:48] a little bit of a compromised spot so be
[1:49] very careful of where you throw these
[1:51] flashers from so at the start of rounds
[1:53] you want to flash over and mid to late
[1:55] round you want to flash over connector
[1:57] instead and through connector
[1:59] positioning genuinely I don't really
[2:01] want to tell you too many spots because
[2:02] there are so many different positions
[2:04] that you can play you can play off angle
[2:06] you can play Under balk you can play
[2:08] default you can play triple you can play
[2:09] sandwich it really comes down to
[2:11] personal preference realize that if
[2:13] they're not rushing you you're playing a
[2:15] game of hide-and seek so you need to
[2:17] become the hideand-seek champion and
[2:18] make sure that you're never in a
[2:19] position where when that one weenie that
[2:21] decides to walk out on you doesn't know
[2:23] exactly where you're at to get a free
[2:25] kill if your teammates are going mid
[2:27] dying every round fighting in mid and
[2:29] just leaving you on an island a really
[2:31] great option in general is just playing
[2:32] ticket people are nasty and they're
[2:34] going to One Tap you from time to time
[2:36] in this position either coming out
[2:37] Palace or coming out ramp just be ready
[2:38] for that so be mobile play this box get
[2:41] comfortable with it this is your home
[2:42] now connector player the a connector
[2:44] player is the Chad of the site he
[2:47] basically ignores his teammate in the a
[2:48] bomb site but ideally if you're playing
[2:50] it well you want to be the guy that
[2:52] actually helps your teammate in a a
[2:54] little bit while simultaneously fighting
[2:56] mid and that starts with your spawns if
[2:58] you are all the way in the back and then
[3:00] you try to cross a ramp at the start
[3:04] just keep in mind there's a good chance
[3:06] that you're going to die and it's
[3:07] completely your fault don't be afraid to
[3:09] path through window later behind your
[3:11] mid mid window player come through the
[3:14] vent and enter connector this way in the
[3:16] mid round for the connector player
[3:18] things that you can do throwing smokes
[3:20] bottom Con in different ways and getting
[3:22] comfortable with how I to play around
[3:23] them is really strong sometimes you
[3:25] could throw one at the bottom and this
[3:27] one like that I just threw bleeds out a
[3:29] little bit right so you can come out
[3:30] here you can look for a guy walking up
[3:32] underpass there's little cheeky plays
[3:34] that you can do and dropping your smoke
[3:36] early in the round in mid especially if
[3:38] you know the other team likes to come
[3:39] out mid can be really powerful
[3:41] especially combined with your teammates
[3:43] Flash from a or your teammates Flash
[3:45] from cat you really want to try to keep
[3:47] track of your a player's Palace for them
[3:49] whether that's maybe you don't want to
[3:51] use it for Mid maybe there's no pressure
[3:53] in mid you can smoke his Palace to
[3:55] prevent the lurk and hold it and jiggle
[3:57] around here and then also maybe try to
[3:59] get a little cheeky kill and hit a
[4:01] timing on the a ramp fight if you Peak
[4:02] this and die though this is your fault
[4:05] but this is kind of the life of the
[4:06] connector player you really get to move
[4:09] relatively freely it's just all decision
[4:11] making and the only way you're going to
[4:12] develop that decision- making is by
[4:14] trying different things and dying a lot
[4:16] and getting yelled at by your teammates
[4:18] because that's the real Counter-Strike
[4:19] experience mid window player the star
[4:22] first off if you're the window player
[4:23] and you're not confident what you're
[4:24] doing or you're really not that great at
[4:26] it stop playing it go play B the mid
[4:29] window player Mirage is probably the
[4:31] single most impactful player on the
[4:33] entire CT side if you are playing versus
[4:35] players that have watched many Austin CS
[4:38] videos the nade guy and they have
[4:40] instant window smokes first thing you
[4:42] need to know is different nade lineups
[4:44] for how you want to n window to pop the
[4:46] smoke I'm sure you can find one lineup
[4:48] that's quote unquote better than others
[4:50] at the end of the day you need to know
[4:52] as the window guy how to n the window
[4:54] smoke your spawns matter probably the
[4:56] most being the window guy I'm talking
[4:58] about cat jump ladder jump underpass
[5:01] jump and connector jump and when you
[5:03] come up here you just want to make sure
[5:05] you communicate to your teammates that
[5:06] you need mid flashes and you hold right
[5:09] here and anybody coming out is basically
[5:11] a freebie if you get even closer to this
[5:13] it becomes incredibly hard for them to
[5:15] flash you because they have to throw
[5:16] them over or anything they throw out mid
[5:19] will come across your scope so you can
[5:20] duck out of the view and then rep peek
[5:22] your next option which is a little bit
[5:24] trickier is the ladder
[5:26] jump you can come here and you can come
[5:29] out post here now if you're oping please
[5:32] understand this angle is awful and you
[5:35] should only be here if you are
[5:36] absolutely certain they will not go
[5:38] underneath if you sit here with an op
[5:41] the mid guy with a rifle will just walk
[5:43] down here and pop you in the head like
[5:45] an idiot I prefer to come out with this
[5:47] and then hold further out so that way
[5:49] people can't transition into the midr
[5:50] ramp once again you need to have a good
[5:52] spawn because well yeah you can jump
[5:54] underpass if I jump underpass and I
[5:56] don't have a good spawn they're going to
[5:57] see me and I'm going to feel like an
[5:59] idiot as a Molotov and H flashes come
[6:02] out and I just get absolutely bombarded
[6:04] underneath one more option and the
[6:06] easiest one that you can do make sure
[6:07] you have your teammates flashing a jump
[6:09] out window and come out and path to
[6:11] connector this way you're catching
[6:13] anybody coming out early that's going to
[6:15] be crossing the boxes this is a very
[6:17] safe pick however the higher up in like
[6:20] ELO or matchmaking rating you go this
[6:23] will be harder to do people will start
[6:25] to Molly this a lot of annoying people
[6:28] will just double n this off the bat and
[6:31] you're just going to fall over like a
[6:32] pylon to start the round so to kind of
[6:34] wrap up the window position on Mirage
[6:36] you really are just the rotate King you
[6:38] are trying to predict where the other
[6:41] team is going and always be supporting
[6:43] your teammates and allowing your
[6:46] connector player and your C player to to
[6:49] just kind of be free because a lot of
[6:52] times you're going to be smoked in the
[6:53] mid rounds if you don't have good spawns
[6:55] what I would call your default boring
[6:57] rotation that is always powerful to do
[7:00] when you get smoked off or you feel like
[7:02] there's no more value you can get out of
[7:04] the window position leave window come CT
[7:07] spawn and go ticket ticket offers mid to
[7:09] late round are the most
[7:11] obnoxious people to play against and it
[7:14] is so hard to deal with one you're in a
[7:16] very difficult position for them to deal
[7:18] with two you have access to Palace you
[7:20] have access to a ramp you have access to
[7:23] connector and you have access to cat you
[7:25] can potentially basically look
[7:27] everywhere except for upper B in the mid
[7:30] toate round and if they make any mistake
[7:32] with their util and you make the correct
[7:33] choice there's a high probability that
[7:35] you're going to take people out in the
[7:37] mid round and you are very hard to deal
[7:39] with especially if you tell your
[7:40] teammate and yell at them to go play
[7:42] somewhere close a ramp so you can sit
[7:44] top ticket all right next up we're going
[7:45] to talk about the cat player so similar
[7:47] to the window player as a cat player if
[7:50] you have good spawns you should feel
[7:52] pretty confident in being able to one
[7:53] make the cat jump and two the more
[7:55] effective one for you as the cat player
[7:57] the ladder jump you can get in here
[7:59] early without them seeing and if you
[8:01] stay in here one you have cat very
[8:03] safely you you avoid all the youtil
[8:05] early and two if they were to go out mid
[8:08] quickly and try to do any sort of cheeky
[8:10] cat split they have no info that you're
[8:12] here and the chances of them expecting
[8:15] you are really low and clearing you
[8:18] could be really low as well depending on
[8:20] how fast they come out mid I try to make
[8:21] sure that the person that I randomly am
[8:24] playing with in these pickup games is
[8:26] set up for success as much as possible
[8:28] and that means I start every single
[8:30] round I just burn my Molly upper B it's
[8:32] not the best Molly in the world you just
[8:34] Chuck it up there Bounce It Off the Wall
[8:36] it just helps with the B- rush so much
[8:39] if they decide to do a crazy Rush you're
[8:41] going to hear them but also on top of
[8:44] that they're going to have to smoke the
[8:46] molotov which is a great indicator for
[8:49] your anchor that's on be with you to
[8:51] then Molly and then if you're ready for
[8:53] it and what what I'll get into next is
[8:55] when they smoke that Molly and you are
[8:57] over here you can just bounce this and I
[8:59] guarantee you you will need at least two
[9:02] players for 50 damage every single time
[9:04] they do a b rush now we kind of focus
[9:06] more on Mid if your connector player and
[9:08] your window player are not fighting you
[9:11] need to be mindful of that and
[9:13] understand where you can and can't be
[9:15] and where the enemies can and can't be
[9:17] for whatever reason window is smoked and
[9:19] your connector player cannot see middle
[9:21] te's can rush you immediately and meet
[9:23] you at bricks when you get around here
[9:26] you can hear everything you can hear the
[9:28] guy rushing underpass you can hear the
[9:29] people rushing up or B and most
[9:31] importantly when you get closer to
[9:32] Bricks you're going to hear anybody
[9:34] scaling up cat right here if you look at
[9:36] my radar you can see the audio queue and
[9:39] how far it goes anybody that is trying
[9:41] to scale up cat quickly you will hear
[9:43] them later in the rounds you're not
[9:45] going to have your Molly because like I
[9:46] said I like to use it for my upper
[9:48] player so really all you're going to
[9:50] have at your disposal is an H grenade
[9:52] and flashes and what I like to do is
[9:55] early on I like to flash over like this
[9:58] and maybe take a peek and a if I feel
[9:59] really ambitious or I'm feeling I might
[10:01] come out a little bit wider another
[10:02] version of this flash especially if you
[10:04] hear them coming up cat is you can
[10:06] bounce a flash here off this wall and it
[10:09] lands closer so that way anybody coming
[10:12] up cat is actually going to catch it
[10:14] just a little bit and if they try to
[10:15] swing you bricks they'll be fully blind
[10:17] but as rounds settle down you can one
[10:20] play Closer to the bomb site if your B
[10:22] player's been having a rough time you
[10:23] might want to be there more to support
[10:25] him or option two the other team just
[10:28] likes to kind of play in mid and this is
[10:30] the more popular option if you are
[10:32] playing and like you know just pick up
[10:35] games because everybody just sits in mid
[10:37] for 40 seconds and if you get inside
[10:40] ladder with those flashes and they don't
[10:41] know you're here it's really hard to
[10:43] clear you out most people drop a Molly
[10:45] it only burns the bottom you're an
[10:47] absolute menace to deal with just keep
[10:49] in mind if you put your back against the
[10:50] wall here they can see you underneath
[10:52] the window so kind of always stay close
[10:54] to this wall but in general playing in
[10:56] ladder if the team likes to go heavy mid
[10:58] is very powerful if your teammate B has
[11:00] been struggling maybe choose not to do
[11:02] that so that way you can be in a closer
[11:03] position to help them so last and very
[11:06] much the least the position pretty much
[11:08] nobody ever wants to play B you can't
[11:10] really like win the rounds for your team
[11:13] all you could do is not lose them
[11:15] hopefully your cat player is mauling for
[11:17] you if you're in a low ELO game or any
[11:20] sort of game maybe just ask your cat
[11:22] player to do that for you if he says no
[11:25] I guess you're out of luck so some
[11:26] things that you should be mindful of is
[11:28] the B players one is somebody lurking
[11:30] vers you all the time sometimes you have
[11:33] those games where there's a guy up or B
[11:35] every single round and that dude just
[11:37] loves being up there and honestly if he
[11:40] wants to be up there just let him be up
[11:42] there this is so important they cannot
[11:45] take the bomb site on the plat they have
[11:47] to jump down and when they jump down
[11:50] there's always an audio cue fighting the
[11:53] guy in Upper if you're feeling it go for
[11:55] it but if you're having a rough game
[11:57] there's no reason for you to have to
[11:58] give thisy guy kill if you're in one of
[12:00] those games where everybody just runs
[12:02] mid death balls and there's very few
[12:04] players up here get comfortable with
[12:07] pushing one let's say your homie Molly
[12:09] is for you early and then you that could
[12:11] set up you just bouncing a Molly off
[12:13] this wall here you don't need to get
[12:14] super fancy and while that Molly's up
[12:16] you can just come up here safely know
[12:19] that you can access this upper area and
[12:21] you have two options you can just let it
[12:24] burn and fizzle out and maybe you play
[12:25] up here or maybe you try to walk up
[12:27] further but what I like like to do is
[12:29] when I'm forced to play this spot cuz I
[12:31] would never willingly play here is Molly
[12:33] deep upper you come up here and you just
[12:35] get up here and drop a smoke now once
[12:37] you drop this smoke you've kind of cut
[12:39] it all off right you can do a lot more
[12:41] than just like sit and you know me
[12:44] telling you to jump spot up or B and you
[12:46] know try to make sure you're moving and
[12:48] not just going hey shoot me you do have
[12:50] options you are going to have to
[12:51] practice it you will probably die if
[12:54] you're doing stuff like this this is
[12:55] really powerful when your teammates lose
[12:58] mid if your cat player comes back and
[13:01] can even just do something as stupid as
[13:03] just toss a flash right here I'm going
[13:05] to tell you right now if your team loses
[13:07] mid but you get into this position right
[13:10] here and you just hold them coming into
[13:11] the doorway you are so valuable to your
[13:13] team because your cat player can maybe
[13:16] lean towards window your players can
[13:18] stack towards a you give your team so
[13:21] much map control by you being up here
[13:23] because they just don't have to worry
[13:24] about anybody coming up or B and two if
[13:26] they decide to split cat well great news
[13:28] if they put anybody up or B you're more
[13:30] than likely going to kill them and
[13:32] second when they take the bomb site now
[13:34] you have them Consolidated into the B
[13:36] bomb site and they don't have upper b
[13:39] control so last but not least the famous
[13:41] B- Rush your teammate's moling this for
[13:43] you and is a great person okay when you
[13:45] hear the other team smoke or you just
[13:47] hear a rush in general some really good
[13:50] things to do the first and foremost is
[13:53] Lally just dropping a smoke in this
[13:55] area there's some set ones and you can
[13:58] find different way to throw it so maybe
[14:00] you get a little bit more value out of
[14:01] the smoke so you can like look over it
[14:03] but throwing this smoke and then playing
[14:05] anywhere back of sight is really
[14:07] powerful don't run around though after
[14:08] you throw the smoke remember this is
[14:10] hide and seek you got to be the
[14:11] hideand-seek champion either hiding
[14:13] bench maybe you could come over here and
[14:16] you can wait for them to swing you on
[14:18] default you could back up and play like
[14:20] an off angle for them jumping down that
[14:23] you could do a lot of different things
[14:24] it's just to cut off the site and then
[14:27] the only way they can see you right is
[14:29] if they come up over which then if
[14:32] somebody's rotating they can clean them
[14:34] up easily and last but not least a very
[14:37] common spot when you throw the smoke is
[14:38] just sitting in this corner but you got
[14:40] to be careful even in this corner
[14:42] because decent players and decent teams
[14:44] will scale quickly and might wrap you so
[14:46] maybe even be really close to the smoke
[14:48] while you're blind so that way while
[14:50] you're getting flashed you're not just
[14:51] sitting in a corner while they run
[14:52] through it and getting killed if you
[14:54] have enough time because your teammate
[14:55] was really cool and you got the early
[14:57] warning system off dropping this smoke
[15:00] like this and then maybe dropping a
[15:02] Molly either on Plat or dropping it
[15:04] underneath the window are both very good
[15:07] options dropping on Plat forces them to
[15:10] jump out the window which means you're
[15:12] isolating where the te's can be for your
[15:14] team in the rotates and then dropping it
[15:16] on the ground means that anybody trying
[15:18] to jump out the window fast and move is
[15:20] going to tick and burn and you're going
[15:21] to know that as well I appreciate you
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