Permenantly suck at mirage...

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I have no clue why I suck at mirage. Im LE-LEM, and I am pretty good at the game in general. Mirage is the map I spend the most time practicing. I know most of the smokes and flashes and how to play it. I've watched many pro games of it. But in MM I have to take it off the list sometimes because I always do awful on it. I almost always get over 20 or even 30 kills on all other active duty maps (I queue for all active duty +dust2 -nuke) but I don't remeber the last time I did decent on mirage. My last game I won but went 4-19 and felt kinda nooby for getting "carried". Any tips or help?

[Drephen]

Im new to the game ish but i notice mirage has a lot of rounds run out of time and for the ts i find its hard to push.

[FaYaY]

try to play different. If you play for example B car as a CT try to play on side. Don't forget to also use nades and stuff and just play different. Sometimes you can rush if you barely do that and sometimes extra safe

[BluRayyy]

really ? i find mirage is easy to push you jsut paly for a pick in the begging then you play off that, just rush onto the site, smoke everything and flash then you win

[Tedmouse]

Don't you boost people alot? Anyhow I always feel as if it's CT sided, so it's mostly guns blazing when I play it with friends and we almost always have to go all together as Terrorists. For CT side 3 on A 2 on b then rotate to which ever side terrorists are going to.

[FaYaY]

Mirage is actually really easy. Dust 2, Cache and Mirage all have a 2x2 grid path. Which makes it a very nice competitive map and it's easier to play

[oldirty`]

Let the Ts push. I know its a weird statement at first, but srsly, let em push. This is true for all maps but much more important on mirage, especially on A site.
Dont try to stop them before they push, give them middle if they fight hard for it.
Too many people think middle needs to be hold at any cost, this is false. Just give it to them at the highest price possible, if thats only a smoke and a flash, okey then.

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Originally posted by oldirty`:

Let the Ts push. I know its a weird statement at first, but srsly, let em push. This is true for all maps but much more important on mirage, especially on A site.
Dont try to stop them before they push, give them middle if they fight hard for it.
Too many people think middle needs to be hold at any cost, this is false. Just give it to them at the highest price possible, if thats only a smoke and a flash, okey then.

But then they can take sites way easier (such as pushing short on a B take or connector on an A take) or even boost into sniper

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Originally posted by Tedmouse:

Don't you boost people alot? Anyhow I always feel as if it's CT sided, so it's mostly guns blazing when I play it with friends and we almost always have to go all together as Terrorists. For CT side 3 on A 2 on b then rotate to which ever side terrorists are going to.

It is CT sided as Ts have to push from 1 or 2 narrow entrances on each site and the angles heavily favor CTs and plus there are many spots CTs can play that Ts have to react to.

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Most of my deaths on T side are dying from a flank, looking wrong direction or not cheacking the right spot, or dying to stuff like a triple nade into A main.
On CT I usually play A and I switch it up from triplebox to firebox to under palace but I sometimes do weird things like rushing palace or standing hard left of A main with a shotgun. I usually die to getting naded or mollied out and having to play uncomfortably, or because I get wide peeked by 3 of them at the same. I have no problems on any other maps. I just dropped 31 kills on overpass which I barely practice and dont play often since it rarely comes up in MM or gets voted for in pugs.

[BluRayyy]

i feel like mirage is ct sided because of the easy retakes

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Originally posted by mean = ?:

i feel like mirage is ct sided because of the easy retakes

retaking B is actually hard since many spots, market can be easily guarded by an awp, lots of places to hide and coordinate peek timing, and also easy to stall out time as the last T in short or apps

[Sir Psycho]

The secret to mirage is rush underpass every round

[Hii Power]

glad i'm not alone

[the stache]

I find that learning smoke spots helps slightly. Also mid control/ underpass control. If you can 1 mid 1 underpass 3 apps. That seems to always work. Underpass man covers connector while the guy top mid watched window. After your team gets on site flank through jungle kill ct-s in market. For a take smoke off things. Molotov under balcony . Push palace and Tetris at the same time so you can evenly clear

[BIG TOBACCO]

I suck at mirage, my secret is not playing that map and grinding cache and cobblestone because they are clearly superior kappa