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How to retake without dying

Retakes are about breaking trades, not winning every duel.

In a retake, you're typically outnumbered or outpositioned. The Ts have time, position, and likely utility. The math says you lose individual duels.

Solution: don't fight individual duels. Make sure every CT death produces a trade. If T1 kills CT1, T1 should be dying to CT2 within 2 seconds. The 1-for-1 trade chain is the only way retake math works.

Practical: peek angles your teammates can see. If you're going alone into a 4-T bomb stack, you're already dead. Wait, smoke off, push together with utility.

Common retake mistake: pushing the most-distant angle alone. The trade chain breaks because no one can hear / see / shoot the trader.

Takeaways

  • Always have a trade-frag teammate within 2 seconds
  • Don't solo-peek a known utility advantage
  • Smoke off corners you can't clear instead of pre-firing them
  • A 1-for-2 retake (you trade and lose) still gives you 2 kills of economic damage

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