Mirage

On an A execute: blocks the CT Stairs angle and the near side of Connector too, without spilling over into Sandwich. Throw it with the Jungle and CT smokes from the same spot.

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1. 01
   Where to stand The T-side exit onto A Ramp has a small wooden door with a metal grille in its right-hand wall. Stand outside the door frame, pressed against the right edge of the frame.
2. 02
   Where to aim Look steeply up at the tall pale tower ahead, with wires strung to it. Put the crosshair on its top-left corner (the “tip” of the tower); Tigerr aims a hair below that corner.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a manual left-click jump-throw.
4. 04
   Where it lands Lands on A Stairs (the top of the CT stairs coming up from Connector) and covers the near side of Connector too.

Note The flight is long (about 10 seconds), so don't move out before it lands. The spot is on a slight slope, but 2026 sources after April's Animgraph 2, including the video from 2026-10-01, showed it working. Practice server only: hold the smoke and press jump, and the preview camera shows the flight path. On the LAN practice server you can paste the setpos/setang (needs sv_cheats 1) to learn the exact view angle.

Difficulty

Medium

Confidence

High

On an A execute: blocks Jungle, so the CT there and anyone rotating in through Connector can't see the site. The smoke spreads towards the site, so a CT has to come well out to peek.

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1. 01
   Where to stand Same spot as the Stairs smoke: outside the wooden door with the grille in the A Ramp exit, pressed against the right edge of the frame.
2. 02
   Where to aim From the Stairs smoke aim, follow the left edge of the same tower straight down. Stop at the small metal clamp the wires are attached to. Put the crosshair directly to the right of that clamp, between the wires.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a manual left-click jump-throw.
4. 04
   Where it lands Jungle: bounces off the wall and lands next to the Stairs smoke.

Note Tigerr says this aim doesn't have to be pixel-perfect: aiming anywhere at the bundle of wires works. Two players can throw the Stairs and Jungle smokes one after the other from the same doorway.

Difficulty

Medium

Confidence

High

On an A execute: blocks the long sightline from CT Spawn / Ticket Booth to the site (a common AWP angle), so the Ts can plant on Default.

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1. 01
   Where to stand The same wooden door with the grille in the A Ramp exit, pressed against the right edge of the frame.
2. 02
   Where to aim Turn right and look up the Ramp, then raise the crosshair just a little — onto the sand-coloured brick wall straight ahead. There is a street lamp at the right end of that wall. Aim at the corner of the single dark brick near the middle of the wall.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a manual left-click jump-throw.
4. 04
   Where it lands Around CT / Ticket Booth, in front of the CT Spawn entrance onto A site.

Note Tigerr throws a different CT smoke from a spot slightly further up the Ramp (10:10 in the video); either works. With the Stairs + Jungle + CT smokes, 3 players can go into A through the same door.

Difficulty

Medium

Confidence

High

Pops right above the top of A Ramp and blinds the CTs holding the Ramp from Tetris, Triple, Firebox and the site, even a player back at CT. The team runs out of the Ramp as it pops. If you wait in the exit until it pops, you won't flash your own team.

1. 01
   Where to stand The same wooden door with the grille in the A Ramp exit, but this time stand on the left side of the frame (Tigerr stands in the middle of the doorway, lined up with the grille).
2. 02
   Where to aim Look up the Ramp at the street lamp mounted on top of the wall ahead and put the crosshair on top of the lamp.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a plain left-click throw. Don't jump.
4. 04
   Where it lands Pops in the air right above the top of A Ramp / Tetris.

Note A very forgiving throw. Inspect CS2 calls it the “alarm flash” and says “just look at the general area above the light and throw”; CS Tactics calls it the most popular flash on Mirage. This area is far from the Balcony building ledge. The Inspect CS2 video came out about 10 hours before the 2026-09-22 update; no video shows exactly this flash after the update, so no video link is given. Throw the flash — the entry player runs up the Ramp as soon as it pops.

Difficulty

Easy

Confidence

High

Burns the Default plant box and Ninja behind it, clearing out a CT hiding there as you enter A or before you plant.

1. 01
   Where to stand At the top of A Ramp, stand just inside the stone archway leading out onto A site, with your back against the wall.
2. 02
   Where to aim Look through the archway at the tall Palace tower ahead (below it is the Default box with the red “A” marking). Line up the small hole in the tower wall with its top frame (csnades: “line up the wall hole and the top frame”). GettClutch describes it as the middle of the tower's small windows.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a plain left-click throw. Don't jump.
4. 04
   Where it lands Lands on the Default box, and the fire spreads onto Ninja and the area behind it.

Note The latest evidence is from 12 days before the 2026-09-22 change to the building ledge next to the A site Balcony. The flight from the Ramp to the Default box shouldn't reach Balcony, but that hasn't been re-confirmed. Test it once on a practice server.

Difficulty

Easy

Confidence

Medium

On a B execute: the CT in the Market (Kitchen) window can no longer see the site or the usual plant spot. Throw it with the Market Door smoke from the same corner.

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1. 01
   Where to stand Back Alley — the open street on the T side, right in front of the B Apartments entrance (outside the room called “TV room”). Tuck into the corner there.
2. 02
   Where to aim Look up at the tall stone minaret far off beyond the orange house on the right. Put the crosshair on the corner of the decorative frame near the top of the minaret (csnades: “aim at the corner of the lower frame”). To push the smoke deeper into the window, Tigerr aims directly to the right of the peak of that corner.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a manual left-click jump-throw.
4. 04
   Where it lands The Market (Kitchen) window on B site.

Note B site is far away from the only change since April (the building ledge on A site). You can also throw the Catwalk/B Short smoke from the same corner: aim at the tip of the building and throw with a plain left-click, no jump (csnades' “B Short from Back Alley”).

Difficulty

Medium

Confidence

High

On a B execute: blocks the Market (Kitchen) door, so a CT rotating in from CT Spawn or the Market side can't peek the site.

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1. 01
   Where to stand The same Back Alley corner as the Market Window smoke.
2. 02
   Where to aim From the Market Window smoke aim, move the crosshair down and slightly to the right (roughly 8° down, 5° right), and put it on the tip of the tree there (csnades: “aim at the tip of the tree”). Tigerr describes it as the point where you follow the building corner down until it meets the second edge.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a manual left-click jump-throw.
4. 04
   Where it lands In the Market (Kitchen) doorway on B site.

Note The “down, right” shift was worked out by comparing the two csnades setang values, and it matches Tigerr's description. With both Window and Door smoked, the CT holding B site is left on their own.

Difficulty

Medium

Confidence

High

Burns any CT hiding behind and around the Van on B site as the Ts come out of Apartments.

1. 01
   Where to stand Inside B Apartments, in the room with the green carpet: stand near the sofa and look down the corridor towards the window/exit that leads out to B site.
2. 02
   Where to aim Aim almost level at the opening (window) at the very end of the corridor: about a third in from the left, at ledge height (csnades: “1/3 of the window, on the ledge”). Check the exact view angle with the setpos.
3. 03
   How to throw Run-throw: hold W to run forward and left-click to throw. Don't jump.
4. 04
   Where it lands On and around the Van on B site.

Note GettClutch: the most-thrown molotov is this run-throw Van molotov, but it doesn't reach the tight corner on the far side of the Van. The 2026-09-22 update did not change B site.

Difficulty

Easy

Confidence

High

At the start of the round, blocks the AWPer or rifler in Window (Sniper's Nest) in Mid. That lets the Ts cross Mid and take Top Mid and Connector. You walk to one fixed spot, so it works from any spawn.

1. 01
   Where to stand T Spawn: find the short stone steps facing the orange house with a patterned carpet hanging from its balcony (below it, on the wall, there is graffiti with a red “A” and an arrow pointing left). Tuck fully into the corner beside the steps and keep pushing until you can't move any further.
2. 02
   Where to aim Look up at the carpet on the orange house's balcony. The carpet's pattern has small arches in a row. Put the crosshair on the exact centre of the second arch, not the first.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a manual left-click jump-throw. Don't press W or run.
4. 04
   Where it lands Window (Sniper's Nest) in Mid — blocks the window opening.

Note It was seen working in two 2026 videos, and the 2026-09-22 change did not reach Mid. But no video shows exactly this variant after that change, and the spot is explained through the video's narration, so check it once on a practice server. It is slower than the instant smokes thrown straight from each spawn, and a fast CT sometimes peeks before the smoke has bloomed, so throw it right away. Since 2026-09-30, pressing the throw button with the grenade in hand during pre-round freeze time shows the grenade crosshair. A reliable variant once the Ts have taken Top Mid: crouch behind the cart/box at Top Mid, aim at the corner of the box, then stand up and throw with left-click, no jump (Inspect CS2, Tigerr).

Difficulty

Medium

Confidence

Medium

CT delay molotov: at the start of the round, lays the biggest fire right in front of the doorway at the top of A Ramp. It slows down Ts pushing up the Ramp and blocks the T side's view while the CTs cross over to Connector/Stairs.

1. 01
   Where to stand From CT Spawn, head out towards A site and go to the wooden box near the spawn exit. Stand on the right side of that box.
2. 02
   Where to aim Aim at the TV antenna on the roof above the Ramp — the molotov should arc over the box.
3. 03
   How to throw Run-throw: hold W and left-click to throw, releasing the grenade while still running. Don't jump.
4. 04
   Where it lands The top of A Ramp, right in front of the Ramp doorway; the fire blocks the line of sight through the doorway.

Note Two 2026 sources show it working, and the Ramp is far from the Balcony building ledge. The Inspect CS2 video came out before the 2026-09-22 update. The starting spot is described only in words (“the right side of the box”), so test it once on a practice server. Backup version with an exact position (csnades' “A Ramp from Triple Box”): stand on the stairs next to Triple Box and aim at the windows on the right, then run-throw with left-click (setpos -897.986 -2331.135 -104.993; setang -16.47 43.68 0).

Difficulty

Easy

Confidence

Medium

For a retake or a mid-round delay: blocks Palace from CT Spawn without going out onto the site. That way the retaking CTs only have to clear Ramp, Tetris, Firebox and Default.

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1. 01
   Where to stand CT Spawn: on the way out of spawn towards A, tuck into the corner on the left, next to the potted plant.
2. 02
   Where to aim Look at the two-storey blue house with the big wooden door. Its upper floor has a small window set inside a deep frame. Put the crosshair on the top-left corner of that inner window.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a manual left-click jump-throw.
4. 04
   Where it lands Palace exit / around the Palace balcony.

Note The flight is long. The smoke lands near the Palace balcony — the 2026-09-22 change was made right there. Tigerr's video, released 2 days after the update, throws a Palace smoke from the same corner but explains the aim differently (the top-right corner of the middle one of the three windows), and its recording date is unknown. Check it once on a practice server. The spot is on a slope (Animgraph 2), but both 2026 videos were released after that.

Difficulty

Medium

Confidence

Medium

CT delay on B: smokes the Apartments exit so the Ts can't get out onto B site, buying time for the other CTs to rotate in. Also useful when retaking B.

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1. 01
   Where to stand Deep on the CT side of B site (csnades calls this spot “Trash”): stand in the corner next to the rubbish bin and turn to face the Apartments exit.
2. 02
   Where to aim Look up at the shed covered with a green tarp in front of Apartments (a street lamp on the pillar on the left, a minaret far off on the right). Put the crosshair on the brightly lit tip of the green tarp — directly above the near corner of the brick shed.
3. 03
   How to throw Stand still and do a plain left-click throw. Don't jump.
4. 04
   Where it lands Lands in the B Apartments exit room (the room with the green carpet) and blocks the way out onto B site.

Note Confirmed by a post-update video, but only by matching small frames from the video (the video has no narration), and csnades gives no console position either. Check the corner by the bin on a practice server with the grenade preview camera. The 2026-09-22 update did not change B site.

Difficulty

Easy

Confidence

Medium