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How to play post-plant

Hold angles your teammates trade, deny defuse with utility, force a fight.

After plant, the 40-second bomb timer ticks. Your job as Ts: prevent CT from defusing for 40 seconds. Your job as CTs: defuse OR kill all Ts.

T-side post-plant: spread to angles that cover the bomb from multiple distances. One in close (immediate trade), one mid-range (trade-frag setup), one back-distance (anti-flank).

CT-side post-plant: don't walk onto the bomb without info. The Ts are watching. Take a step at a time, listen for footsteps / drop sounds, smoke off close angles before defusing.

Both sides: nade utility matters more than aim post-plant. A flash before a peek is worth 2x your aim level.

Takeaways

  • T-side: cover the bomb from 3 different distances
  • CT-side: don't walk onto the bomb without information
  • Use utility before pure aim duels in post-plant
  • A defuse cancel is a free re-take attempt — abuse it

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