CS2 Mirage Utility Guide – All Essential Smokes, Mollys, Flashes, HEs

[00:00] Hey guys, what's going on? Today I'm

[00:01] going to be going over all the essential

[00:02] needs you need for Mirage. This video

[00:04] will cover everything you need for mid A

[00:06] or B on T-side and CT side. And real

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[00:15] get right into it. Probably the most

[00:16] important smoke you need to know in

[00:17] Mirage is the top mid smoke. There is a

[00:19] newer version of this that is better

[00:20] than the one from CSGO. You just come to

[00:22] this side of the trash can, aim at the

[00:23] top of this antenna right here, and left

[00:25] click throw. The smoke will bounce here

[00:26] and land like this, so you can get out

[00:27] top mid whenever you want. the CTs won't

[00:29] be able to see you. Cross out the boxes,

[00:30] even if they're playing from con. So,

[00:32] you're able to get out to boxes whenever

[00:33] you want. If you want to smoke window,

[00:34] you can stand in the same corner, look

[00:36] for this square at the top of the door,

[00:37] aim in the top middle, and then press D

[00:39] and jump throw. The smoke will land like

[00:40] this and block off window. You can also

[00:42] smoke connector from the same spot. So,

[00:43] just stand here, look for this point on

[00:45] the rug, and then jump throw. This smoke

[00:47] will block off connector, and any of the

[00:48] CTs will not be able to help fight

[00:49] towards mid. So, technically, you could

[00:51] have two teammates drop you a smoke. You

[00:52] can throw all three mid smokes like

[00:55] this, but throwing all three of these

[00:57] smokes at the start of the round might

[00:58] be overkill. Now, as for the fast window

[01:00] smokes, it is pretty important that you

[01:01] learn all the lineups, or at least just

[01:03] some of them, because the faster you get

[01:04] a smoke down a window, the faster you

[01:06] can take mid. So, I'm quickly just going

[01:07] to show all the lineups, and you can

[01:08] pause or slow down the video to see

[01:09] them.

[01:19] and the rest of the spawns are too close

[01:21] to the wall for you to have an instant

[01:22] window smoke. I think there are lineups

[01:24] where you can like aim at a point and

[01:25] then back up and then throw, but that's

[01:27] not really needed as long as someone on

[01:28] your team knows some of the smokes.

[01:30] Someone's going to have it basically

[01:31] every round, so don't worry about that.

[01:33] When you're flashing your teammates out

[01:34] top mid, you're going to want to throw a

[01:35] flash that gets the window player. So,

[01:37] just run up here at the start of the

[01:38] round, aim for this black mark right

[01:39] here on the wall, and then just run

[01:40] forward and jump through. This flash

[01:42] will land here in the middle of mid and

[01:43] blind anyone playing within window and

[01:44] trying to hold top mid. If they are

[01:46] playing up on this railing though, they

[01:47] won't get blind. But there really isn't

[01:48] any flash that will get that from over

[01:49] there. That's why when you're running

[01:50] towards top mid, you want to throw a

[01:52] flash off the wall into valley so that

[01:53] anyone on the ledge might get blind and

[01:54] then people towards con will get blind

[01:56] as well. Another flash that is useful

[01:57] when you're running out top mid is a

[01:58] flash behind the boxes. So as you're

[02:00] running out, you can just throw a flash

[02:01] like this. It'll land behind the boxes

[02:02] and then anyone trying to run up valley

[02:04] will get blinded by that as well. And of

[02:05] course, your teammates running out mid

[02:06] will not get blind. If you're not

[02:08] throwing a connector smoke at the start

[02:09] of the round, an important Molly that

[02:10] you might be throwing is a molly into

[02:11] connector. This basically just stops any

[02:13] of the CTs from being able to fight

[02:14] early mid from con. But most of the time

[02:16] CTS will just premote con anyway. So

[02:18] this molly might be pretty useless. So

[02:20] instead of just throwing our molly on

[02:21] top of a smoke and wasting it, something

[02:22] we can do is just molly underpass. Since

[02:24] a really common play for the CTS is to

[02:25] just sneak around the smoke and peek

[02:27] towards under, we can just stop that

[02:28] entirely by coming here aiming towards

[02:29] the A and left click throwing our Molly.

[02:31] Now the CTs cannot peek towards

[02:32] underpass. And if we have any teammates

[02:33] walking up under, they will be safe and

[02:35] we also won't have to worry about it if

[02:36] we're trying to take out mid. Then once

[02:37] you actually have mid control, a nade

[02:38] that is really important is a re smoke

[02:40] on window. So if you're ever out boxes

[02:41] with the smoke, you can just run against

[02:42] the back wall like this. Aim here at the

[02:44] bottom of the antenna, then just run

[02:45] forward and left click throw. This will

[02:47] resoke window. And if you're ever top

[02:48] mid and you want to respoke connector,

[02:50] just come into this corner, aim in the

[02:51] middle of this satellite, and left click

[02:52] throw your smoke. So this will resoke

[02:54] con. And if you want to throw a nice

[02:55] window molly, you can aim at the bottom

[02:56] of this curb right here, run until

[02:58] you're almost hitting it, and then jump

[02:59] throw. This will molly off window. So

[03:00] you can throw a nice net like this to

[03:02] try and run up cat. Then if you're ever

[03:03] scaling towards valley, an important net

[03:04] is the top con net. So what you want to

[03:06] do is just bounce a smoke off this wall

[03:08] like this. This will smoke top con,

[03:09] blocking the CTs from being able to

[03:10] fight into connector. And then after you

[03:12] throw that smoke, you can bounce a molly

[03:13] off the wall like this, mollying out

[03:15] anyone playing in these left cubbies.

[03:16] You can throw the same nade set from

[03:17] underpass if you just come here and

[03:18] bounce a smoke like this. And then just

[03:20] simply throw your molly like this on the

[03:22] floor to the left. A less known nade set

[03:24] that is still really important is a

[03:26] ladder molotov and a flash. So if your

[03:27] team is trying to take up towards

[03:28] ladder, you can throw a nade set like

[03:29] this. Obviously, if there's no window

[03:31] smoke, you can just throw a mlly into

[03:32] ladder like this. But this is risky and

[03:33] usually you want to do this when there

[03:34] is a window smoke up. So, if there is a

[03:36] window smoke up, you just want to come

[03:37] here against this wall, look for this

[03:38] black dot right here, aim a little bit

[03:39] to the left, and then just run backwards

[03:40] and left click throw your molly like

[03:41] this. You run backwards until you're

[03:43] touching the bench. This molly clears

[03:44] out ladder entirely, and then after you

[03:46] throw your molly, stand in the same

[03:47] spot, aim a little bit to the left of

[03:48] this light, and then just take a step

[03:49] forward and left click throw. This flash

[03:50] will blind anyone trying to run out of

[03:52] ladder. And if you have a teammate

[03:53] close, they will just have a very free

[03:54] time taking ladder control. Sorry for

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[04:30] we're done with mid, let's go over nades

[04:31] towards A. The most important smokes to

[04:33] know towards A are the right side

[04:34] smokes. So the jungle smoke and the

[04:36] stair smoke. You're going to have one

[04:37] person throwing these. So you just want

[04:38] to come into this corner, get dropped a

[04:39] smoke. Look for this black line on the

[04:41] wall right here. Left and right click

[04:42] jump throw. That will be our stair

[04:43] smoke. And for the jungle smoke, just

[04:45] aimed a little bit to the left of the

[04:46] top of this pillar. Left click throw

[04:47] that smoke and it will land towards the

[04:48] jungle like this. As for flashes, some

[04:51] of the best flashes for your team going

[04:52] out ramp are the lamp flashes. So just

[04:54] have someone stand around here and left

[04:55] click throw a flash like this at the

[04:56] lamp. This will blind anyone close or on

[04:58] site, and none of the teammates that are

[04:59] running out of ramp will get blind.

[05:02] Another smoke you can't throw that is

[05:03] less useful is the CT smoke. So you can

[05:05] just come to this line on the wall, aim

[05:06] right here, and then jump throw. This

[05:07] will smoke CT, but I don't recommend

[05:09] throwing this as much as you just throw

[05:10] the right side smokes. Because if we

[05:12] throw the right side smokes and the CT

[05:13] smoke, we're not really going to have

[05:14] any map control that we can take.

[05:16] Whereas if we just throw the right side

[05:17] smokes, we can take spawn without the CT

[05:18] smoke up and then play the retake from

[05:20] spawn. Otherwise, we're just giving the

[05:21] CTs all the control and it's pretty hard

[05:23] to play the retake. If you're in palace

[05:24] and you're a executing, you're going to

[05:25] want to know the underbalm. So just come

[05:27] to this pillar right here on the left

[05:28] side. Aim a little bit below the top of

[05:29] this wall like this. Run forward and

[05:31] left click throw the molly. And this

[05:32] will mlly under bel. And if you ever get

[05:34] smoked palace and you can't see your

[05:35] lineup, just come into this corner here.

[05:36] Aim at the left of this mark like this.

[05:38] Run until you're in the back wall. Then

[05:39] just left click throw the molly. A nice

[05:42] lur smoke you can throw from palace is

[05:43] coming to the pillar right here. Looking

[05:45] for this line right here. Aim at the top

[05:46] and then crouch. Left click throw your

[05:48] smoke. The smoke will bounce like this

[05:49] and poof out covering underbulk and top

[05:51] bal. And you might be able to walk out

[05:52] and get some pretty free kills. And it

[05:54] just applies a lot of pressure to the

[05:55] CTS. And if you're ever out Tetris and

[05:57] you want to light it, just come here,

[05:58] aim at this square, and then jump throw.

[06:00] This will land here and force anyone

[06:01] playing ticket to run out or fall back.

[06:03] You can also smoke jungle from here. So

[06:04] just aim in the middle of these two

[06:05] points right here. Left click throw.

[06:06] This will smoke off deep jungle if

[06:08] you're trying to take towards top con.

[06:09] And if you want to smoke top con from

[06:10] here, come into this corner and then

[06:11] just look for this pillar right here.

[06:13] Aim a little bit to the right and then

[06:14] left click throw. And this will smoke

[06:15] top con, but it will be a little poofy

[06:16] for the CTs to be able to lurk out. A

[06:18] better version of the conades is coming

[06:20] here. If you're safe, look for this

[06:21] white mark on the wall right here. Just

[06:23] aim at that mark and then jump through

[06:24] your smoke. And then you can also throw

[06:25] a molly into deep jungle like this. That

[06:27] way, you're smoking top con and mulling

[06:29] deep jungle at the same time. Now, as

[06:30] for beads, there's not really too much

[06:31] you need to know. For the market window

[06:33] smoke, you just want to come here, aim

[06:34] at the corner of this roof, but just a

[06:35] little bit higher than you used to in

[06:36] CS:GO. That way, when the smoke lands,

[06:37] it will land further in a market and not

[06:39] poof out so much, but it still does poof

[06:41] out quite a bit. Another nice smoke you

[06:42] can throw from the same spot is the cat

[06:44] smoke. So, just stand in the same spot,

[06:45] but aim here at the corner of the roof.

[06:47] Left click, throw this smoke, and this

[06:49] will land cat and block any of the CTs

[06:50] from trying to rotate in and help their

[06:52] B teammate. Now, as for flashes, there

[06:53] is a certain way you want to throw them.

[06:55] For your first flash, you want to aim a

[06:56] little bit more to the left and throw it

[06:58] over like this. That way, anyone playing

[06:59] under the window and on site will be

[07:01] getting blinded. But if you throw this

[07:02] flash every time you flash over B,

[07:04] you're going to be blinding your

[07:05] teammates because it lands around here.

[07:06] That's why you want it only to be the

[07:07] first flash while they're scaling out

[07:08] because they will not get blinded. And

[07:10] then for your next flashes, you want to

[07:11] flash higher to the right. So once you

[07:13] throw your first flash to blind anyone

[07:14] playing under the window, you aim

[07:15] further to the right and then run and

[07:16] throw the flash like this. That way,

[07:18] it's landing above the roof behind them

[07:19] and they won't be getting blind while

[07:20] they're scaling out. If you want to

[07:21] throw a flash out the window, you can

[07:23] just stand in this corner here, aim at

[07:24] this dot, and then left click throw.

[07:26] This flash will blind here and blind

[07:27] anyone playing within get right as well

[07:28] as anyone standing in jail. If you're

[07:30] entering and you have a flash, you can

[07:31] also throw a flash into midsight like

[07:32] this as you're running out. This flash

[07:34] is really strong because it will blind

[07:35] anyone trying to run back from cat,

[07:36] whereas you running out of apps will not

[07:38] get blinded by the

[07:39] flash. Some basic mollies you need are

[07:42] the top bal molly that can easily be

[07:43] thrown by just mulling onto top balcon.

[07:45] If anyone's playing up here, they will

[07:46] get burned out and have to fall back.

[07:47] You can also molly van very easily. You

[07:49] just bounce it off the back wall. If you

[07:51] want to molly bench, just throw it

[07:52] through this window like so. Anyone

[07:54] bench or jail will get mollied out. You

[07:55] can also molly empty pillar by throwing

[07:57] off the wall like this. This will land

[07:58] empty and molly anyone trying to play it

[08:00] back here. If you're outside and you

[08:02] want to respoke mark window, just come

[08:03] into this corner at default plan. Aim at

[08:05] this mark on the wall and then jump

[08:06] throw. The smoke will bounce off the

[08:08] wall and land in mark it and res it.

[08:10] There's also a really nice flash for

[08:11] mark door. You can throw from here. If

[08:12] you're in the same spot, just aim at the

[08:13] corner of empty like so. Left, right

[08:15] click, jump throw, and then you can peek

[08:16] door with this flash and anyone playing

[08:17] within door will be blind. So anyone

[08:19] trying to scale out will be completely

[08:20] blind. All right. Now, as for CT side,

[08:22] let's start with mid. If you want to

[08:23] molly boxes on CT side, then you need to

[08:25] know the lineup through the window

[08:26] smoke. So just jump up here on the

[08:27] railing, aim at this corner, run until

[08:29] you're in the back of the window, and

[08:30] then run forward and left click throw.

[08:31] This will land here and molly out boxes.

[08:33] If you want to throw this faster as

[08:34] you're coming through the rat hole, aim

[08:35] at this line right here, and then just

[08:37] go to the same lineup as before. And

[08:38] then you're going to be able to throw

[08:39] the molly the same way. It was a little

[08:40] bit more to the left, but as you can

[08:42] see, it's still a good molly. And of

[08:43] course, you would only throw it like

[08:44] that if the window smoke is getting

[08:45] thrown fast. If you want to H the window

[08:47] smoke, all you have to do is come here

[08:48] to this wall, right click the nade like

[08:49] this in the air and then jump up on the

[08:50] railing, then you can peek window

[08:52] without being able to be seen from the

[08:53] T-side. This makes kind of like a

[08:54] one-way for you and it's harder for them

[08:56] to see you than it is for you to see

[08:57] them. If your connector player is ever

[08:58] trying to peek underpass, if you stand

[08:59] against this bench right here and then

[09:01] throw a flash like this, aiming right

[09:02] here on the wall, it will bounce into

[09:03] underpass and blind anyone trying to

[09:04] walk up. If you don't know how to smoke

[09:06] bottom con, just stand against this

[09:07] wall, look for the bottom of this broom

[09:08] right here, and then just left click.

[09:09] This is the type of connector smoke that

[09:11] you can use to lurk out and peek towards

[09:12] underpass because you're going to be

[09:13] very safe from mid. But if you want the

[09:14] smoke to put out the tease Molly, you

[09:15] have to bounce it further off the wall

[09:16] like this so it lands bottom con. That

[09:18] way if the TE's Molly con, it'll smoke

[09:19] it and you can peek towards top mid. As

[09:21] the cat player, all you really need to

[09:22] know is how to flash over mid to peak

[09:23] for yourself. So just any sort of over

[09:25] mid flash like this is all you really

[09:26] need. Just flash over and then peek off

[09:27] cat. This flash will blind anyone in

[09:28] mid. You can throw a lurk smoke for

[09:30] yourself, but this is less common.

[09:31] There's not really a lineup for this.

[09:32] You can just throw it off the wall like

[09:33] this and block off any of the TE's from

[09:34] trying to run up cat. And then of

[09:35] course, make sure you know how to molly

[09:36] underpass if you're trying to fight for

[09:38] mid. That way you just block the T's

[09:39] from trying to take it and you can peek

[09:40] off cat without having to worry about

[09:41] them coming here and killing you. You

[09:42] can also throw a nade the same way and

[09:44] this will chunk anyone walking up under.

[09:46] As for molly ramp on CT side, all you

[09:47] have to do is throw it like this. This

[09:48] way the T's can't jump up on the back

[09:50] wall and also it's hard for them to see

[09:51] over the molly. You just run until you

[09:53] hit the end of the missiles. Aim a

[09:54] little bit above this part of the roof

[09:55] like so. And the mole should land like

[09:57] this. As the A player, you need to know

[09:59] how to flash over at the start of the

[10:00] round. At the start of every single

[10:01] round, someone has to be flashing mid

[10:02] from A. So just throw your flash through

[10:04] the trees like this over the roof. That

[10:05] way anyone top mid will be getting blind

[10:06] while they're trying to swing out mid.

[10:08] Please, please, please, just make sure

[10:09] you're throwing this flash every round

[10:10] if you're starting towards A. If you

[10:11] want to smoke off ramp from CT, there is

[10:13] a couple of ways you can do it. One way

[10:14] is just standing here at ticket and then

[10:15] just making a rectangle with these spots

[10:17] like this and left click throwing your

[10:18] smoke in the middle. This will land here

[10:19] and smoke off ramp. You can also come

[10:21] into the front of missiles and then look

[10:22] for these two points on the roof. Then

[10:23] just aim in the middle and left click

[10:24] throw. And this will smoke off ramp as

[10:26] well. Now, as for retake towards A, if

[10:27] you're towards top con, you can smoke

[10:29] off palace like this. Just come against

[10:30] this wall and then aim right here on

[10:31] this part of the roof. Left click throw.

[10:33] This will smoke off palace perfectly.

[10:34] And you can also molly firebox from the

[10:36] same spot. If you just aim here between

[10:37] these two parts of the wall, this will

[10:39] molly anyone playing within firebox. And

[10:40] if you just aim a little bit lower from

[10:42] the same spot, you can molly default and

[10:43] it will land like this. If you're

[10:44] towards jungle and you want to smoke

[10:46] ramp, just stand in this corner. Aim a

[10:47] little bit below this corner of the

[10:48] plank and then crouch. Left click throw

[10:50] your smoke. This will land towards ramp.

[10:51] Then if you throw your molly from the

[10:52] same lineup, it will molly Tetris,

[10:54] forcing anyone up here to fall back and

[10:55] play on the floor. And that will just

[10:56] make your retake a lot easier. As for

[10:58] the B player, the most important nade

[10:59] that you need to know is how to mole up

[11:01] B at the start of the round. So you can

[11:02] run to site like this and throw the

[11:03] molly through the window like so. This

[11:04] will molly deep upper B, but if a T has

[11:06] the best spawn and you have a worse

[11:07] spawn, the T might be able to come

[11:08] through and fight you. So you could just

[11:09] bounce the molly close like this, but I

[11:11] don't really like throwing it this way.

[11:12] So what I do is just come to empty

[11:13] pillar, aim right here on the default

[11:15] box, and then jump throw. The molly will

[11:16] land closer to us, but still deep enough

[11:17] to push the T's back from being able to

[11:19] get so close. And then you can just

[11:20] combine this molly with this nade if any

[11:22] of the T's are trying to play behind the

[11:23] molly. If you're ever playing sight and

[11:24] you want to respoke upper B, you can

[11:25] just aim at this part of the door right

[11:26] here, run forward a little bit, and then

[11:28] left click, throw the smoke. This will

[11:29] smoke them off upper B. But more

[11:31] importantly, you just need to know how

[11:31] to drop this smoke right here if the

[11:33] TE's are trying to come to B. That way

[11:34] you can play around it and play your

[11:35] life. All right, those are all the nades

[11:36] I wanted to go over today. Obviously,

[11:38] it's not every single Nam Mirage, but

[11:39] that would be a super long video and

[11:40] honestly not even worth it. It's just

[11:42] important you get these essential nades

[11:43] down if you want to play this map at a

[11:44] high level. If you have any questions,

[11:46] you can leave a comment down below,

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[11:51] reviews, I have a metaphy and that is

[11:52] linked in the description below. But

[11:53] yeah, thanks for watching. I hope these

[11:54] needs can help you in your games. See

[11:56] you.