[0:00] In this video, I'm going to show you the
[0:01] only utility that actually matters at
[0:03] high level CS on Mirage. I'll show you
[0:06] what to throw, when to throw it, and why
[0:08] it will win you rounds. So, master these
[0:11] pieces of utility, and you'll be
[0:13] dominating Mirage like a pro. Let's
[0:15] start with T-side and taking control of
[0:18] mid. The first set of smokes we want for
[0:20] mid are phase one, so establishing
[0:23] presence. This involves the window smoke
[0:26] and the top mid smoke. The first thing
[0:28] you want to learn is the window smokes.
[0:30] So these are the instant smokes. We have
[0:32] 1 2 3 four and five. They are the back
[0:35] smokes that align with this or these
[0:37] back corners. For this smoke here,
[0:40] you're going to come in this corner and
[0:41] you're just going to W jump throw while
[0:43] staring at the corner of this pit. Wow.
[0:46] This smoke here is lining up with the
[0:50] bottom of this railing here. Wow. This
[0:53] smoke here is with the second one down.
[0:57] W jump through with this corner one
[1:00] here. This bit here. We see see the
[1:01] white here. W jump through. And this one
[1:04] here, a little bit harder. You kind of
[1:06] see there's like a mark here. Again, W
[1:09] jump throw to aid this. The second smoke
[1:12] you want to throw lands top mid. So to
[1:14] do that, you get the right hand side of
[1:16] the trash can. Once you're aimed at the
[1:17] end of the antenna, just left click
[1:19] throw.
[1:21] Now that you've done the top mid smoke,
[1:23] if the CTS decide to blow open the
[1:25] window smoke to peek into mid, you can
[1:28] still cross the boxes safely. The other
[1:30] smoke you can throw for here is the con
[1:32] smoke. So to do that, you line up with
[1:35] just the first step here and just jump
[1:37] throw. This lands incon and allows you
[1:40] to get aggressive towards short or close
[1:43] con if you feel so. The only thing I
[1:45] would say is if you are getting
[1:46] aggressive short, do not spam the smoke.
[1:49] That leaves you a sitting duck. Leave it
[1:52] and play for short. With those smokes,
[1:55] the first player into mid should flash
[1:57] into valley like so. And the second
[2:01] player will want to flash over boxes.
[2:03] The reason for that is the first player
[2:05] can get out as that pops. And then the
[2:08] second flash will not blind anybody
[2:10] getting aggressive. If you want to throw
[2:12] a molly as well, I wouldn't recommend
[2:14] throwing a molly towards con because
[2:16] most of the time a CT will smoke this.
[2:19] What you might want to do instead is
[2:21] bounce a molly off this wall here. This
[2:24] will molly under which means that the
[2:26] CTs cannot peek into it. And just a
[2:29] couple of pro tips from me. If you are
[2:31] an A player that tends to play towards
[2:33] palace or ramp, I'd recommend they
[2:35] either drop the smoke for the person
[2:37] doing the insta or do one of the smokes
[2:40] themselves. And if you're not planning a
[2:42] fast round, only do two of the three
[2:45] smokes and save your smokes for phase
[2:47] two. Phase two is about applying
[2:50] pressure at mid. So at this point, you
[2:53] probably have a player behind boxes, you
[2:55] might have a player towards underpass,
[2:56] and you might have a player in valley.
[2:58] So once you have this, the setup is
[3:01] simple. A window smoke as the other one
[3:04] is disappearing. So aim with this, run
[3:07] forward, and just left click throw.
[3:09] Gives you a nice smoke there. Now you
[3:10] want to smoke top con. Some people like
[3:13] to do it from here. So you just bounce
[3:15] off this wall here like so. But I would
[3:19] recommend doing it from underpass. The
[3:21] reason for this is you are more covered
[3:23] rather than in the open in valley. This
[3:25] one's simple as well. Just here run
[3:27] forward and just left click throw. Same
[3:30] as before. With this you want to molly
[3:33] short. So simply just pop a molly as you
[3:36] will. Just force the rifler back. And if
[3:39] you want, you can also pair it with a
[3:41] ladder molly. So if there's no smoke,
[3:44] just simply aim here. But if the smoke
[3:46] is up, come to the corner of this bench,
[3:49] aim with this black dot, move over, and
[3:52] just left click. This pops the top and
[3:54] the bottom and forces any player out
[3:57] into short. And a pro tip here. If
[3:59] you've got to this point where you've
[4:01] applied phase two smokes and you've
[4:02] applied the pressure, do not hesitate.
[4:05] You do not want to be stuck in no man's
[4:07] land with the smokes disappearing. Make
[4:10] a decision quick. And the default
[4:12] decision is an A split. So Molly short
[4:16] and fight for the A split together. And
[4:18] now talking about an A hit or an A
[4:20] execute. The idea of a good execute is
[4:23] you want to isolate the players on the
[4:25] site. What you want to do is get a
[4:26] teammate to drop a smoke for you here so
[4:28] that you are ready to do both smokes. So
[4:31] the first smoke you aim with the black
[4:33] dot here. Left and right click, jump
[4:35] throw. The second smoke, this little
[4:37] brick here, and just left click throw.
[4:40] This smokes jungle and stairs. And in a
[4:43] normal execute, that is enough. You can
[4:47] add a CT smoke if you would like, which
[4:49] you can do from here. Go to the corner
[4:51] here, jump throw, but it boxes you in.
[4:54] So, what I would suggest is just stick
[4:58] to these two. Now, you could be
[5:00] wondering about the CT player. Well, the
[5:03] way to get rid of that is to have this
[5:04] player flash above palace. So, come
[5:07] back, aim with this, just jump through.
[5:10] That puts a flash nice and high and
[5:12] forces the CT player back. The other
[5:15] flash you or your teammates might want
[5:17] to throw is to come into this part of
[5:19] the doorway here, aim at the top of the
[5:21] lamp. It's called lamp flash,
[5:23] >> and just pop it here.
[5:25] >> What it will do is it will blind anybody
[5:27] close and will not blind your entries.
[5:30] If you are in palace, you might want to
[5:32] help out. So, line up here on this
[5:35] pillar. Aim just slightly down, run
[5:38] forward, and throw. This throws a molly
[5:40] into under balcony, forcing the player
[5:42] out into the fight. Once you have done
[5:44] the molly, and no one has forced forced
[5:46] the fight, you can follow up with a
[5:48] flash that again pops down here,
[5:51] blinding anybody default. And then, as
[5:53] the palace player, it's your job to
[5:54] clear top balcony and be ready to assist
[5:57] on the site. Now, if you're doing an
[5:58] Aplit and you're in palace, a molly that
[6:01] Youngstar suggests from heroic is to
[6:03] molly Tetris. And that forces any CT
[6:06] player being a nuisance over here. And
[6:09] now that you have sight, do not over
[6:11] complicate it. You only need one area
[6:14] when you have A. It's either CT or it's
[6:18] jungle. Pick one, communicate it, and
[6:21] play for the space as a team. What I
[6:23] would recommend if you're doing an A
[6:24] execute is take CT. However, if you do
[6:27] an A split, take jungle and play for
[6:30] jungle. And for those rare B executes,
[6:33] make sure you have this right or your B
[6:36] hits will look like a bull in a china
[6:38] shop. First, we want to smoke market
[6:41] window. So, with this line here, find
[6:43] this black dot and jump through. You
[6:46] want to pair this with the smoke just
[6:48] off the side here with just a left
[6:51] click. This smokes market and smokes
[6:54] deep short with a second. This doesn't
[6:57] allow any rotator to help. And this
[6:59] smoke cuts off any short player that's
[7:00] gone aggressive mid. And as we talked
[7:02] about before, that isolates the banker.
[7:05] Now, paired with this, the flashes you
[7:07] want to throw are these. You want your
[7:10] first flash or high flash as I call them
[7:12] to go the left side of this building.
[7:14] So, jump throw with running forward. The
[7:18] reason you do it left on the first one
[7:20] is because it comes out and blinds
[7:22] anyone close. However, you don't want
[7:24] this to be the second one as you don't
[7:26] want to blind your teammates. So, for
[7:28] the second one, you want to come and
[7:30] flash the right hand side. That pops
[7:32] over the building and doesn't blind your
[7:34] entries. And for the entries that are
[7:37] running in, the flashes you want to
[7:39] throw are these. You might want the
[7:40] first or second player to flash like
[7:42] this. Come across here. Aim with this
[7:44] side of the wall. Run forward and left
[7:46] click throw. The reason you want to do
[7:48] that is it bounces into sight. You can
[7:53] adjust this slightly yourself for how
[7:55] far you want to run forward and how much
[7:57] it will pop down. But don't get it
[8:00] wrong, otherwise you'll be doing this
[8:03] and flashing your whole team. The first
[8:05] or second player might want to do this
[8:07] flash here.
[8:09] And the reason for that is it doesn't
[8:11] blind you as you jump down. So pathing
[8:14] is you want to come up here, flash, jump
[8:17] down, and take the fight across here.
[8:19] With this area smoked, you want your
[8:22] pathing to be towards sight. So you're
[8:24] clearing here and then clearing towards
[8:26] back sight. However, remember on a B
[8:28] execute, keep it simple because you
[8:30] don't want to be blinding your
[8:31] teammates. And now for mollies, you want
[8:34] to keep it simple as well. So you might
[8:36] want to bounce a molly off the back wall
[8:38] there and force any B anchor or player
[8:41] that is close and stops that awkward
[8:44] downward fight. The second molly that
[8:46] might want to be thrown is towards
[8:48] bench. So come across and just aim in
[8:51] the middle of this window and run
[8:53] forward. This will bounce and clear off
[8:56] bench. And if you're feeling confident
[8:58] and you're one of the last players, you
[8:59] can even molly back sight. So to do
[9:02] this, what you want to do is you want to
[9:04] come out, see the corner of this window,
[9:06] and just left click throw. This will
[9:08] bounce off the wall and molly this back
[9:10] corner. And again, my pro tip for the B
[9:12] hit is don't over complicate it. If you
[9:15] can keep control of short and apps, you
[9:18] have the round. B is a very hard site to
[9:21] retake. So don't over peak and don't
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[10:08] Now, as a window player, you might get
[10:10] smoked off window a lot. So, if you've
[10:12] got an orb or you're just feeling
[10:14] confident with the rifle, you can just
[10:16] Nate go onto this part of the wall, aim
[10:19] high, right click, and then jump onto
[10:21] the panel here. This blows up the smoke
[10:24] and gives you full vision. The second
[10:26] thing you might want to do is you might
[10:27] want to molly top boxes. But if you're
[10:30] smoked off, you won't be able to see. So
[10:33] to do this, if you're smoked off, come
[10:35] into the corner here, line up with this
[10:37] white dot here, and just run forward and
[10:41] throw. This will molly behind the boxes
[10:44] and prevent the TE's from getting that
[10:47] sort of space and establishing presence.
[10:49] If you're a con player, you might want
[10:51] to know how to smoke out con. The
[10:54] default one is to come here, line up
[10:56] with the bottom of this brim, and just
[10:58] left click through. This blooms nicely
[11:01] so that you can come out and fight
[11:02] underpass and gives you a lot of space
[11:04] to play around. However, as the com
[11:06] player, you might want to do this with
[11:08] speed. So, what I do is align with the
[11:10] top of this bit here, left and right
[11:12] click and throw. As I'm going forward,
[11:14] wait a second for it to pop, come out,
[11:16] and fight for under. And then you can
[11:18] have that room again. As the A player or
[11:21] con player, whoever has the first spawn,
[11:24] you will want to be mollying ramp. You
[11:26] want to be running up here. Get yourself
[11:28] aligned with this and as you hit the
[11:30] edge here, try and aim for this sort of
[11:32] bit of wood here. Then you just want to
[11:34] run forward and left click throw. The
[11:37] reason you want to do this is so that
[11:38] one, it pops nicely here. But the second
[11:41] thing is as it pops, which if I just do
[11:44] rethrow, the big part of the molly goes
[11:46] up here and you can't see if anyone's
[11:47] crossing. Then the second player or the
[11:50] a anchor wants to flash into mid. So,
[11:52] what I do is I usually aim between the
[11:54] two trees and just run forward and just
[11:57] left click jump throw. This pops nicely
[12:00] between the two trees and won't blind
[12:02] your teammates running out for the
[12:03] fight. And as an a anchor, you might
[12:05] still have a smoke. If you're playing
[12:07] CT, the default is to usually do this if
[12:09] pressured. However, you might want to
[12:12] smoke ramp. So, to do this, come here,
[12:14] aim between these two chimneys, pillars,
[12:17] and just smoke here. This pops nicely on
[12:20] ramp.
[12:22] As the short player, you only need to
[12:24] know how to flash for yourself. So,
[12:26] simply as you're running up, aim roughly
[12:29] here and just jump throw. That will pop
[12:31] nicely in mid and give you some space to
[12:34] breathe. You might also want to molly
[12:35] under, which I usually line up with this
[12:37] dot here. Run through that pops nice and
[12:40] deep and pair it with an aid after the
[12:42] molly's gone to get some nice damage. As
[12:45] the B anchor, you want to know this set.
[12:47] So,
[12:49] >> molly like this to get a deep molly so
[12:51] that you can hear a tick and you can
[12:53] even pair it with a nade as it clears.
[12:56] Then it's your job to stay alive and you
[12:59] might want to just drop a smoke here if
[13:01] pushed. That way you can play around it
[13:04] and live a bit longer. Those are the
[13:07] essential smokes for Mirage. Or at least
[13:09] that's what I believe. I think you can
[13:11] get to level 10 and above with just
[13:14] knowing those simple nades. But if
[13:16] there's anything you think I missed,
[13:17] please let me know in the comments and
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[13:21] next. Also, if you're like me and you
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[13:32] database of the lineups that you will
[13:33] need. And thanks for watching. YouTube
[13:36] believes this video is something you'll
[13:38] enjoy. And I'll see you next week.
[13:41] Peace.