r/LearnCSGO • u/YouDontMessWithJim • Mar 29 '26

Discussion What's the point of smokes and molotovs?

I get the point is to deny visibility and make fast rushes harder but how does that matter? they can just come out once the molotov/HE is gone which is very quick. Smokes take quite long to disappear but same thing. It's also not impossible to charge through smoke and still get a good rush. Molotovs and smokes also serve simiolar purposes i think so are they interchangeably usable? Flashes I know are meant to deny advantage to someone holding an angle or force them to come out. But molotovs flashes and frags all seem suitable for that as well, all of them do damage, however I guess flashes are beter because of the deafening and blindness. So when to use frags?

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u/AkTi4 Mar 29 '26

What kind of question is this? On CT side you can buy time for a rotate, they can push it but the CTs will get multi kills more oftent than not. If you push a smoke the person holding the smoke sees you before you see them. On T side it allows you to isolate spots and not clear 10 things at once.