Your CT Side Mirage is BAD.. here's how to fix it

[00:00] today we're going to be looking at CT

[00:01] side Mirage I'm just going to give you a

[00:03] nice little basic overview of each

[00:05] position and how the start round should

[00:07] look for every single round CT side

[00:09] Mirage to give yourself the best

[00:11] possible chance to win the round so

[00:12] overall in CT side Mirage the first

[00:14] thing you're going to want to see is a

[00:16] Molly towards a ramp you're probably

[00:17] going to want to have some sort of

[00:19] connector smoke early on in the round

[00:21] with a player flashing over mid

[00:22] supporting for that player to Peak

[00:24] window early and then simultaneously

[00:26] having one player running off cat and

[00:28] one person jump spotting upper B this is

[00:30] kind of what it should look like so

[00:32] first I'm breaking down CT side Mirage

[00:34] we're going to start with the hardest

[00:35] roll first the hardest roll don't care

[00:37] what anybody says is anchoring a your

[00:39] mid player is probably going to die

[00:41] you're going to get lurked from Palace

[00:42] some weenie is going to run out a ramp

[00:44] in the first 15 seconds and try to run

[00:46] you down through a Molly so as the

[00:47] dedicated a player on Mirage the first

[00:49] thing you want to do is always have a

[00:52] Molotov always always always just start

[00:54] the round dump a Molly you could figure

[00:57] out a couple different ones that land

[00:59] differently maybe that you can play

[01:00] around especially with the CT Molly

[01:02] changes they can always be on the back

[01:05] side of the wall and peing you towards

[01:07] triple you need to be aware of this as

[01:09] the CT player you can try to manipulate

[01:11] your Molly so it gets further back on

[01:13] the wall but then it's going to leave

[01:14] gaps on the other side where it's thin

[01:16] close to the wall and they can run out

[01:17] on you you have to be very careful the

[01:19] Molly is still incredibly good to throw

[01:20] at the start because one if somebody

[01:22] runs through it you're going to have the

[01:24] advantage of them running through a

[01:25] Molotov ideally taking some damage you

[01:27] get the audio Q if you can't afford a

[01:29] Molotov and a gun round you're an idiot

[01:31] and you need to buy a Molotov so figure

[01:33] it out now after you Molly ramp if

[01:35] you're a really good teammate and you're

[01:37] playing with people the next thing you

[01:38] want to do is Flash for Middle flashing

[01:40] for Mid you have to be careful cuz once

[01:42] again when you're flashing mid if you

[01:44] hear somebody run out your Molotov or

[01:46] they extinguish it you're going to be in

[01:48] a little bit of a compromised spot so be

[01:49] very careful of where you throw these

[01:51] flashers from so at the start of rounds

[01:53] you want to flash over and mid to late

[01:55] round you want to flash over connector

[01:57] instead and through connector

[01:59] positioning genuinely I don't really

[02:01] want to tell you too many spots because

[02:02] there are so many different positions

[02:04] that you can play you can play off angle

[02:06] you can play Under balk you can play

[02:08] default you can play triple you can play

[02:09] sandwich it really comes down to

[02:11] personal preference realize that if

[02:13] they're not rushing you you're playing a

[02:15] game of hide-and seek so you need to

[02:17] become the hideand-seek champion and

[02:18] make sure that you're never in a

[02:19] position where when that one weenie that

[02:21] decides to walk out on you doesn't know

[02:23] exactly where you're at to get a free

[02:25] kill if your teammates are going mid

[02:27] dying every round fighting in mid and

[02:29] just leaving you on an island a really

[02:31] great option in general is just playing

[02:32] ticket people are nasty and they're

[02:34] going to One Tap you from time to time

[02:36] in this position either coming out

[02:37] Palace or coming out ramp just be ready

[02:38] for that so be mobile play this box get

[02:41] comfortable with it this is your home

[02:42] now connector player the a connector

[02:44] player is the Chad of the site he

[02:47] basically ignores his teammate in the a

[02:48] bomb site but ideally if you're playing

[02:50] it well you want to be the guy that

[02:52] actually helps your teammate in a a

[02:54] little bit while simultaneously fighting

[02:56] mid and that starts with your spawns if

[02:58] you are all the way in the back and then

[03:00] you try to cross a ramp at the start

[03:04] just keep in mind there's a good chance

[03:06] that you're going to die and it's

[03:07] completely your fault don't be afraid to

[03:09] path through window later behind your

[03:11] mid mid window player come through the

[03:14] vent and enter connector this way in the

[03:16] mid round for the connector player

[03:18] things that you can do throwing smokes

[03:20] bottom Con in different ways and getting

[03:22] comfortable with how I to play around

[03:23] them is really strong sometimes you

[03:25] could throw one at the bottom and this

[03:27] one like that I just threw bleeds out a

[03:29] little bit right so you can come out

[03:30] here you can look for a guy walking up

[03:32] underpass there's little cheeky plays

[03:34] that you can do and dropping your smoke

[03:36] early in the round in mid especially if

[03:38] you know the other team likes to come

[03:39] out mid can be really powerful

[03:41] especially combined with your teammates

[03:43] Flash from a or your teammates Flash

[03:45] from cat you really want to try to keep

[03:47] track of your a player's Palace for them

[03:49] whether that's maybe you don't want to

[03:51] use it for Mid maybe there's no pressure

[03:53] in mid you can smoke his Palace to

[03:55] prevent the lurk and hold it and jiggle

[03:57] around here and then also maybe try to

[03:59] get a little cheeky kill and hit a

[04:01] timing on the a ramp fight if you Peak

[04:02] this and die though this is your fault

[04:05] but this is kind of the life of the

[04:06] connector player you really get to move

[04:09] relatively freely it's just all decision

[04:11] making and the only way you're going to

[04:12] develop that decision- making is by

[04:14] trying different things and dying a lot

[04:16] and getting yelled at by your teammates

[04:18] because that's the real Counter-Strike

[04:19] experience mid window player the star

[04:22] first off if you're the window player

[04:23] and you're not confident what you're

[04:24] doing or you're really not that great at

[04:26] it stop playing it go play B the mid

[04:29] window player Mirage is probably the

[04:31] single most impactful player on the

[04:33] entire CT side if you are playing versus

[04:35] players that have watched many Austin CS

[04:38] videos the nade guy and they have

[04:40] instant window smokes first thing you

[04:42] need to know is different nade lineups

[04:44] for how you want to n window to pop the

[04:46] smoke I'm sure you can find one lineup

[04:48] that's quote unquote better than others

[04:50] at the end of the day you need to know

[04:52] as the window guy how to n the window

[04:54] smoke your spawns matter probably the

[04:56] most being the window guy I'm talking

[04:58] about cat jump ladder jump underpass

[05:01] jump and connector jump and when you

[05:03] come up here you just want to make sure

[05:05] you communicate to your teammates that

[05:06] you need mid flashes and you hold right

[05:09] here and anybody coming out is basically

[05:11] a freebie if you get even closer to this

[05:13] it becomes incredibly hard for them to

[05:15] flash you because they have to throw

[05:16] them over or anything they throw out mid

[05:19] will come across your scope so you can

[05:20] duck out of the view and then rep peek

[05:22] your next option which is a little bit

[05:24] trickier is the ladder

[05:26] jump you can come here and you can come

[05:29] out post here now if you're oping please

[05:32] understand this angle is awful and you

[05:35] should only be here if you are

[05:36] absolutely certain they will not go

[05:38] underneath if you sit here with an op

[05:41] the mid guy with a rifle will just walk

[05:43] down here and pop you in the head like

[05:45] an idiot I prefer to come out with this

[05:47] and then hold further out so that way

[05:49] people can't transition into the midr

[05:50] ramp once again you need to have a good

[05:52] spawn because well yeah you can jump

[05:54] underpass if I jump underpass and I

[05:56] don't have a good spawn they're going to

[05:57] see me and I'm going to feel like an

[05:59] idiot as a Molotov and H flashes come

[06:02] out and I just get absolutely bombarded

[06:04] underneath one more option and the

[06:06] easiest one that you can do make sure

[06:07] you have your teammates flashing a jump

[06:09] out window and come out and path to

[06:11] connector this way you're catching

[06:13] anybody coming out early that's going to

[06:15] be crossing the boxes this is a very

[06:17] safe pick however the higher up in like

[06:20] ELO or matchmaking rating you go this

[06:23] will be harder to do people will start

[06:25] to Molly this a lot of annoying people

[06:28] will just double n this off the bat and

[06:31] you're just going to fall over like a

[06:32] pylon to start the round so to kind of

[06:34] wrap up the window position on Mirage

[06:36] you really are just the rotate King you

[06:38] are trying to predict where the other

[06:41] team is going and always be supporting

[06:43] your teammates and allowing your

[06:46] connector player and your C player to to

[06:49] just kind of be free because a lot of

[06:52] times you're going to be smoked in the

[06:53] mid rounds if you don't have good spawns

[06:55] what I would call your default boring

[06:57] rotation that is always powerful to do

[07:00] when you get smoked off or you feel like

[07:02] there's no more value you can get out of

[07:04] the window position leave window come CT

[07:07] spawn and go ticket ticket offers mid to

[07:09] late round are the most

[07:11] obnoxious people to play against and it

[07:14] is so hard to deal with one you're in a

[07:16] very difficult position for them to deal

[07:18] with two you have access to Palace you

[07:20] have access to a ramp you have access to

[07:23] connector and you have access to cat you

[07:25] can potentially basically look

[07:27] everywhere except for upper B in the mid

[07:30] toate round and if they make any mistake

[07:32] with their util and you make the correct

[07:33] choice there's a high probability that

[07:35] you're going to take people out in the

[07:37] mid round and you are very hard to deal

[07:39] with especially if you tell your

[07:40] teammate and yell at them to go play

[07:42] somewhere close a ramp so you can sit

[07:44] top ticket all right next up we're going

[07:45] to talk about the cat player so similar

[07:47] to the window player as a cat player if

[07:50] you have good spawns you should feel

[07:52] pretty confident in being able to one

[07:53] make the cat jump and two the more

[07:55] effective one for you as the cat player

[07:57] the ladder jump you can get in here

[07:59] early without them seeing and if you

[08:01] stay in here one you have cat very

[08:03] safely you you avoid all the youtil

[08:05] early and two if they were to go out mid

[08:08] quickly and try to do any sort of cheeky

[08:10] cat split they have no info that you're

[08:12] here and the chances of them expecting

[08:15] you are really low and clearing you

[08:18] could be really low as well depending on

[08:20] how fast they come out mid I try to make

[08:21] sure that the person that I randomly am

[08:24] playing with in these pickup games is

[08:26] set up for success as much as possible

[08:28] and that means I start every single

[08:30] round I just burn my Molly upper B it's

[08:32] not the best Molly in the world you just

[08:34] Chuck it up there Bounce It Off the Wall

[08:36] it just helps with the B- rush so much

[08:39] if they decide to do a crazy Rush you're

[08:41] going to hear them but also on top of

[08:44] that they're going to have to smoke the

[08:46] molotov which is a great indicator for

[08:49] your anchor that's on be with you to

[08:51] then Molly and then if you're ready for

[08:53] it and what what I'll get into next is

[08:55] when they smoke that Molly and you are

[08:57] over here you can just bounce this and I

[08:59] guarantee you you will need at least two

[09:02] players for 50 damage every single time

[09:04] they do a b rush now we kind of focus

[09:06] more on Mid if your connector player and

[09:08] your window player are not fighting you

[09:11] need to be mindful of that and

[09:13] understand where you can and can't be

[09:15] and where the enemies can and can't be

[09:17] for whatever reason window is smoked and

[09:19] your connector player cannot see middle

[09:21] te's can rush you immediately and meet

[09:23] you at bricks when you get around here

[09:26] you can hear everything you can hear the

[09:28] guy rushing underpass you can hear the

[09:29] people rushing up or B and most

[09:31] importantly when you get closer to

[09:32] Bricks you're going to hear anybody

[09:34] scaling up cat right here if you look at

[09:36] my radar you can see the audio queue and

[09:39] how far it goes anybody that is trying

[09:41] to scale up cat quickly you will hear

[09:43] them later in the rounds you're not

[09:45] going to have your Molly because like I

[09:46] said I like to use it for my upper

[09:48] player so really all you're going to

[09:50] have at your disposal is an H grenade

[09:52] and flashes and what I like to do is

[09:55] early on I like to flash over like this

[09:58] and maybe take a peek and a if I feel

[09:59] 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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