invite.blitz.gg/vooCSGO it doesn't look like it, but i've been working on this video for literally like a month and a half. idk why, but it was just insanely hard to make. pistol rounds are complicated i guess. next video will release in less than 3 months i promise.
Your vid already stands out bc I think it's clear you want to explain into that topic and how important Pistol round is. I like that you discussed many different perspectives connected to PRs, from strats to data comparisons, examples, suggestions (and that it's all segmented). The significance of Pistol rounds can't really be understated
Just ask an AI to do it for you. Also, ask it how it is to be outside, I also want to know this! I heard there is grass and people off the opposite sex.. can't be true, can it?😮
Agree on the dualies being meta. For CT's, you can now have the standard one tap long range USP, and the perfect compliment in the short range spray and pray dualies. I remember you preaching the dualies being good for a long time now!
Another really, really subtle thing: Dualies are the only pistol, aside from the USP-S, that DONT HAVE ANY TRACERS. This makes them an extremely effective spamming tool, especially through smokes. Edit: No longer works in CS2, proven in Voo's first CS2 mythbusting video :)
@@davidmoisa8359tracers are bullets that leave a trail you can see, in csgo these are the light trails you see when someone is spamming a smoke for example, you can follow the bullet trail and know where to shoot back. Silenced weapons, and the dualies, do not have tracers so you can safely spam a smoke without the enemies knowing exactly where you are on the other side
@@davidmoisa8359 tracers are the streaks of light that show the trajectory of the bullet. Most guns in cs have them, except for the suppressed ct weapons, and some weird exceptions
Zywoo is basically using his strafe like controller users are (mouse/right stick for large area coverage, wasd/left stick for tiny distances). Minor aim adjustments horizontally. It works really well when trained to do so.
I was kinda hoping you'd show G2's CT pistol round against Heroic at IEM Dallas, where Niko is solo holding B with like a nade and a smoke, and he just lets them into the site, kills Cadien as he jumps through the smoke, smokes off church, baits another player to come through the smoke, kill him, and then its a 5v3 retake on Bombsite B.
One of my players getting their tweet featured in this video talking about how they don't buy in pistol rounds, when I have spent approximately 600 hours explaining to him why he needs to FUCKING BUY ARMOUR, really grinds my face
obviously the reason G2 is winning on pistol rounds isn't their strats, it's because monesy is using a USP no S. It's louder so it does more damage, but no-one else has realized it yet. Monesy is really ahead of his time
The thing I hate the most about not buying armor in pistol rounds is the aim punch. I find myself constantly getting in situations where I miss what would be a headshot just because the enemy shot me first in the stomach.
Interestingly, ZywOo has apparently mostly stopped using the Dualies. Watching the pro games it feels like they are starting to figure out how to most effectively counter Dualies. And as soon as they're only marginally better than USPs - they become a liability as you have another player with a smoke or two flashes instead of armor because of it. Very interesting to see this meta development.
i think regardless, having one ct have dualies on a b-hold where a majority of b-sites are close quarters oriented is gonna be a demand, and gonna keep dualies as a factor for first round buys
The underlying message is that whoever is the best entry fragger on your team should do it and your whole team should work around that one player, he is your best elements and you should play around him to support his entries
I just realized I've used strafe walking as an aim assisting tool since forever. Only for small flaws that I make if I flick too much to one side. And obviously works best for distant enemies.
Dont buy a kit one pistol round may be good for Pro teams who can retake a site efficiently and with speed. But in a PUG in general, youre just not going to retake like a pro team. PUG and lower level team play, i'd say buy at least 1. Kits win rounds. Hard to tell people to do what the Pros do when they arent on a pro team. That's like telling your wide receivers to just catch the ball with one hand because Randy Moss does it.
my T side pistol strats for Pugs and soloqueue: run as a group, never stop moving, don't reload. just keep shooting. and on mirage - don't go connector or short with zero smokes ffs
"If you win both pistols you have a 70% chance of winning the game." Something is a bit off about this statement. The better team will more likely win both pistol rounds anyway.
The reason headshot kill % is so high in pistol rounds is that if you don't shoot them in the head, you can't kill them due to armour. So you either headshot them or die, hence headshot % is high. That doesn't mean armour is useless, because those people will just eat aim punch and die in a few chest shots.
I notice that people gaf about the pistol round. For me its like a ritual to win that round, if you win pistol round you probably win the second and if you win the second you probably win the third
I used to play a really crappy fps that when zoomed in you would get awful pixel jumping of 5+ pixels when trying to aim, so maybe I should go back to aiming with movement
Sorry but im playing in gold, and I always buy defuser on pistol cause 90% of the time the round boils down to the plant retake after my B site players decided to both push and gift Ts the site
I always go all out with duelies, a flash and HE. HE is thrown early (im usually against this) in hoped that i deal a bit of damage to a few players. Spray and pray with duelies and the flash is just in case for 1v1s and i want to make a guy look away for half a sec
Train that at the warmups before each map. If you're on MM this is easier to do. Tip, you always spawn with the perfect height for a headshot. So you'll need to strafe or correct it horizontally perfect (without too much strength on the mouse to keep that height) and you'll start feeling it.
ok the graph on 4:37 is extremely misleading, the base line is not 0 but 1.25 which makes the .35 difference seems like double or triple the performance.
??? the baseline is 1.25 when it should be 1. It's not showing Zywoo against all pistols, it's showing Zywoo against the best pistols each year, which means he's even further ahead of everyone else this year than the graph suggests
i gotta ask now, i'm around silver elite gold nova 1, i don't mind the rank, i play on and off when i feel like it but... how do you deal with enemy teams that simply do not give a damn about your nades, molotovs and smokes at different parts of the games? i've had countless games where you'd think a smoke or molo would stop them but they would rather take the 40-50 hp loss on the molotov than stop before it, or they would come like a flock of indians through a smoke but they're not even lined up so you can spray them, they are just at different angles, not sure if due to luck or pre-planned to do that, and at best you kill 1 and get traded on the other side i face so many ct's playing like t's that i have no idea how to stop them or at least delay them, i tried on inferno to molotov banana, or smoke it or throw nades, they don't care there's just (for whatever reason) 3-4 ct's running at you through everything
4 months late, but better than never. Do not think of grenades as an ultimate solution that keeps enemies away. Until you are playing in a semi-professional match against the same people over and over again to the point you know how they act, it is pointless to assume. Very often your grenades won't stop your enemies because they don't care or won't do shit, because enemies aren't following the timings because they were afk on spawn. Grenades do help, but at a certain point you just have to start aiming better to progress, which is currently borderline impossivble, because CS2 doesn't know on how yo decide if you were standing or moving when you start shooting.
VOO! YOUR TIME IS NOW TO MAKE CONTENT. COUNTER STRIKE 2 is OUT IN 2 DAYS (thursday) according to the cryptic tweet by valve that said what are you doing next thursda
ahh the strafing technique is a common aiming skill. It's called strafing/mirror strafing, an everyday occurrence in arena shooters like apex/overwatch.
I don’t play much cs but using your movement to fix your aim and walking your crosshair without moving the mouse works a lot in val so I assume it’s the same for cs a lot of people need to get used to it. It’s gonna take getting used to but trust it’s good
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it doesn't look like it, but i've been working on this video for literally like a month and a half. idk why, but it was just insanely hard to make. pistol rounds are complicated i guess.
next video will release in less than 3 months i promise.
No wonder it takes so long. Still though, it's good to see your presence again.
Your vid already stands out bc I think it's clear you want to explain into that topic and how important Pistol round is. I like that you discussed many different perspectives connected to PRs, from strats to data comparisons, examples, suggestions (and that it's all segmented). The significance of Pistol rounds can't really be understated
good to see you
Just ask an AI to do it for you. Also, ask it how it is to be outside, I also want to know this! I heard there is grass and people off the opposite sex.. can't be true, can it?😮
Blitz vs Leetify, which is the better and why?
Agree on the dualies being meta. For CT's, you can now have the standard one tap long range USP, and the perfect compliment in the short range spray and pray dualies. I remember you preaching the dualies being good for a long time now!
Yeah you van see it in pro meta, there is almost always one or two dualis on ct
Another really, really subtle thing: Dualies are the only pistol, aside from the USP-S, that DONT HAVE ANY TRACERS. This makes them an extremely effective spamming tool, especially through smokes.
Edit: No longer works in CS2, proven in Voo's first CS2 mythbusting video :)
woooh I didn't realize this
Whats a tracer (im new to CSGO)
css dual elites were the best weapon in the game
@@davidmoisa8359tracers are bullets that leave a trail you can see, in csgo these are the light trails you see when someone is spamming a smoke for example, you can follow the bullet trail and know where to shoot back.
Silenced weapons, and the dualies, do not have tracers so you can safely spam a smoke without the enemies knowing exactly where you are on the other side
@@davidmoisa8359 tracers are the streaks of light that show the trajectory of the bullet. Most guns in cs have them, except for the suppressed ct weapons, and some weird exceptions
Zywoo is basically using his strafe like controller users are (mouse/right stick for large area coverage, wasd/left stick for tiny distances). Minor aim adjustments horizontally. It works really well when trained to do so.
Yep this is how I learned to play Halo back in the day and it set me up well for CS later on.
It's an amazing strategy that unfortunately I don't see on PCs other than on TF2
The production quality, the clarity of topic points, and the slight humor is pretty well made in your videos! You deserve more subs!
+1
I was kinda hoping you'd show G2's CT pistol round against Heroic at IEM Dallas, where Niko is solo holding B with like a nade and a smoke, and he just lets them into the site, kills Cadien as he jumps through the smoke, smokes off church, baits another player to come through the smoke, kill him, and then its a 5v3 retake on Bombsite B.
I feel like that is more of a specific play rather than a general strat that will help you improve.
Giving a free bomb plant guarantees a good round 2 buy though
One of my players getting their tweet featured in this video talking about how they don't buy in pistol rounds, when I have spent approximately 600 hours explaining to him why he needs to FUCKING BUY ARMOUR, really grinds my face
obviously the reason G2 is winning on pistol rounds isn't their strats, it's because monesy is using a USP no S. It's louder so it does more damage, but no-one else has realized it yet. Monesy is really ahead of his time
I thought usp no s gonna make your bullet speed faster, i never seen a evidence about remove your silence is increase your damage
It's a joke. USP without silencer has higher recoil, lower accuracy and louder noise. It's just a worse p2000 at that point@@anghoangpham512
it doesn't make the bullet speed faster, and hes joking about it doing more damage. monesy just does it for the meme@@anghoangpham512
it's a joke@@anghoangpham512
Ah yes the less ammo p2000 strat
The thing I hate the most about not buying armor in pistol rounds is the aim punch. I find myself constantly getting in situations where I miss what would be a headshot just because the enemy shot me first in the stomach.
video audio: buy armor on pistol round!
video clips: 9 minutes of armor being virtually useless over and over
The key on pistole rounds is just do not try be a hero and go alone, giving some position to the enemy is better than facing 5 ts running to u.
Interestingly, ZywOo has apparently mostly stopped using the Dualies. Watching the pro games it feels like they are starting to figure out how to most effectively counter Dualies. And as soon as they're only marginally better than USPs - they become a liability as you have another player with a smoke or two flashes instead of armor because of it.
Very interesting to see this meta development.
i think regardless, having one ct have dualies on a b-hold where a majority of b-sites are close quarters oriented is gonna be a demand, and gonna keep dualies as a factor for first round buys
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So you're saying I just have to have Zywoo or Niko on my team... thanks for the tip.
funnily enough, the top 5 teams on pistols (sorting by top 20, 2023) rn are
1. forze 62%
2. g2 60%
3. BIG 57%
4. Astralis 55%
5. NIP 53%
So Jerry it is@@vooCSGO
The underlying message is that whoever is the best entry fragger on your team should do it and your whole team should work around that one player, he is your best elements and you should play around him to support his entries
I just realized I've used strafe walking as an aim assisting tool since forever. Only for small flaws that I make if I flick too much to one side. And obviously works best for distant enemies.
Played a game with voo on my team a couple weeks ago. Happy to see he's back making videos.❤
Was he that bad?
This release was more anticipated than CS2
I appreciate the time you spend on these videos and there are enjoyable and high quality. First time to catch a video this soon. ❤
Zywoo is an AD movement genius and I've literally seen all his POVs that have been uploaded on YT
looking forwards to next year's upload
actually i would expect Buzz on that list because i hardly remember a map where he hasn't 3 kills on pistol round
How to win pistol?
'Aim better, shoot slower, aim for headshot, don't ever spam with USPS, only spam in short range for glock'
Dont buy a kit one pistol round may be good for Pro teams who can retake a site efficiently and with speed. But in a PUG in general, youre just not going to retake like a pro team. PUG and lower level team play, i'd say buy at least 1. Kits win rounds. Hard to tell people to do what the Pros do when they arent on a pro team. That's like telling your wide receivers to just catch the ball with one hand because Randy Moss does it.
Always good to see TH-camrs doing serious analyitics on Proffesional scene .
very useful
recently i've also noticed that G2 would sometimes have 1 person drop 2 sets of dualies for people that bought armor, and then a flashbang
Voo please never stop brother your vids are so entertaining yet super insightful
my T side pistol strats for Pugs and soloqueue: run as a group, never stop moving, don't reload. just keep shooting.
and on mirage - don't go connector or short with zero smokes ffs
I just started playing CS so a lot of this went over my head, but this is still a very well produced video! Cheers
best pistol for ct in pistol round is glock that ct pick from ground
really high win rate if that happen
So should I buy armor or Dualies?
What's best for CT and what's best for T?
"If you win both pistols you have a 70% chance of winning the game." Something is a bit off about this statement. The better team will more likely win both pistol rounds anyway.
sending this to all my friends thank you mr voo
I remember seangares having a video about pistols, saying that 5 players on armor isn’t worth it in pro-play because 70+% of kills were headshots.
The reason headshot kill % is so high in pistol rounds is that if you don't shoot them in the head, you can't kill them due to armour. So you either headshot them or die, hence headshot % is high. That doesn't mean armour is useless, because those people will just eat aim punch and die in a few chest shots.
I notice that people gaf about the pistol round. For me its like a ritual to win that round, if you win pistol round you probably win the second and if you win the second you probably win the third
Where do you draw the line from “probing for info” but not over pushing? Is it just patience/timing? Or is there a secret sauce
8:01quick maffs
What an excellent video, first great strategic explanation for elements of this game that I have seen in a long time.
I always buy on pistol rounds.
I always buy a r8
0:04 all 10 Players regular Cheaters. U can found them every day grinding on casual games.
Lol nobody got ur joke thats unfortunate😂
4:55
i can literally feel this clip stabbing into my soul
Now, you've said that word "implication" a couple times, what implication?
Omg Zywoo using that controller player aim technique of "right stick hard, lemme just use my movement to aim for me" like a G
I used to play a really crappy fps that when zoomed in you would get awful pixel jumping of 5+ pixels when trying to aim, so maybe I should go back to aiming with movement
Sorry but im playing in gold, and I always buy defuser on pistol cause 90% of the time the round boils down to the plant retake after my B site players decided to both push and gift Ts the site
it feels like you've made this exact video like 3 times. Anyways happy to see you come back and hope to see your videos regularly
Awesome vid voo, so many things in here I didn't know
Your videos have really improved in quality!
I ALWAYS buy a kit. it has come in clutch way too often to justify not having it, especially on pistol rounds.
I've played in nova for a long time, which I believe is below lv4 and i've never seen the whole not buying in pistol rounds. Guess i'm lucky
Great video, please make a video on different strats for pistol round on de_giran!
If all teams do have 50% win rate, none of then knows how to play pistol round.
highest quality voodio yet
Before watching.
My buy for t side is
Armor and teamate drops me dualies
Or
Dualies nade and flash
CT Side its usually Nade and Smoke
I always go all out with duelies, a flash and HE. HE is thrown early (im usually against this) in hoped that i deal a bit of damage to a few players. Spray and pray with duelies and the flash is just in case for 1v1s and i want to make a guy look away for half a sec
Amazing Analysis
I’ve tried using my movement like that zywoo kill but it’s super weird. Idk when to do it and when not to, and it’s far from comfortable
Train that at the warmups before each map. If you're on MM this is easier to do. Tip, you always spawn with the perfect height for a headshot. So you'll need to strafe or correct it horizontally perfect (without too much strength on the mouse to keep that height) and you'll start feeling it.
Welcome back Voo!
always works for me in silver and gold nova, im the guy who buys flash in T pistol rounds and HE on CT
Call out to Austin! Nice video, Voo. I learned something
"Don't not buy on pistol round", but I get so many triple and quad kills with my P2000 tho
"Armor on pistol is a necessity" -- "dualies on pistol is OP and they can't stop you" WHICH ONE DO I BUY CMON GIVE ME SCENARIOS BRUDDDDA
You buy armour, a friend drops you Berettas
@@EntropyKC lol I hope this is a joke
Just shoot them in the head? Idk lol
using strafing as a means to aim on pistol is also a lazy way to improve you evasiveness when dualing so its less predictable and harder get 1tapped
Godamn people get legit af.. ive just been getting drunk and playing dust 2 for 2 decades....
imo the most important buy is molotov.
I love watching these videos. Humans playing chess is interesting and informative. Computers playing chess is art.
Based off your upload frequency, Happy Thanksgiving!
YEAH A VOO VIDEO
CS2 is coming with mr12
Hi Voo thanks for the video
He's back!
Isnt The second round win More important or If u win pistol and lose 2nd then u Will lose next 2 also to get some money again
ok the graph on 4:37 is extremely misleading, the base line is not 0 but 1.25 which makes the .35 difference seems like double or triple the performance.
the baseline should probs be 1 in this case.
??? the baseline is 1.25 when it should be 1. It's not showing Zywoo against all pistols, it's showing Zywoo against the best pistols each year, which means he's even further ahead of everyone else this year than the graph suggests
good comeback
i gotta ask now, i'm around silver elite gold nova 1, i don't mind the rank, i play on and off when i feel like it but... how do you deal with enemy teams that simply do not give a damn about your nades, molotovs and smokes at different parts of the games?
i've had countless games where you'd think a smoke or molo would stop them but they would rather take the 40-50 hp loss on the molotov than stop before it, or they would come like a flock of indians through a smoke but they're not even lined up so you can spray them, they are just at different angles, not sure if due to luck or pre-planned to do that, and at best you kill 1 and get traded
on the other side i face so many ct's playing like t's that i have no idea how to stop them or at least delay them, i tried on inferno to molotov banana, or smoke it or throw nades, they don't care there's just (for whatever reason) 3-4 ct's running at you through everything
4 months late, but better than never. Do not think of grenades as an ultimate solution that keeps enemies away. Until you are playing in a semi-professional match against the same people over and over again to the point you know how they act, it is pointless to assume. Very often your grenades won't stop your enemies because they don't care or won't do shit, because enemies aren't following the timings because they were afk on spawn. Grenades do help, but at a certain point you just have to start aiming better to progress, which is currently borderline impossivble, because CS2 doesn't know on how yo decide if you were standing or moving when you start shooting.
VOO! YOUR TIME IS NOW TO MAKE CONTENT. COUNTER STRIKE 2 is OUT IN 2 DAYS (thursday) according to the cryptic tweet by valve that said what are you doing next thursda
We need videos to their is no one making good tutorials yet
We missed you
Voo is back!!!!!!
So we should be stacking and buying not just armor?
This release was more anticipated than CS2. The amount we won a pistol because of a kit is insane.
vooksgo is finally back
Hey good analytics and points, ez sub.
Vooooooooo!! Missed you bro!
another smart video, gj boo)
I'm rather new so this is very nice
Wow 275 Grats brotha
2:39 Groovy
The key to win on ct side: hold long range off-angle with usp and you win
Wake up babe new voo video
zywoo proves electronic panics alot
U say no defuse, yet show g2 retake with dfuse
In S1 everyone buys Deags in pistol rounds 😂
Getting ready for cs2
ahh the strafing technique is a common aiming skill.
It's called strafing/mirror strafing, an everyday occurrence in arena shooters like apex/overwatch.
I enjoyed this!
i like to buy a nade to punish no armor/chunk down hp and upgrade my pistol to a p250 or dual beretta
I don’t play much cs but using your movement to fix your aim and walking your crosshair without moving the mouse works a lot in val so I assume it’s the same for cs a lot of people need to get used to it. It’s gonna take getting used to but trust it’s good
AD aiming has been a thing since before 1.6 bro don't try to imply valorant players invented this shit
The amount we won a pistol because of a kit is insane
Or you wouldn't have lost the defender because of armor and not have even needed the kit.
Strafe aiming is like, Aiming102. Its good to mention but it blows my mind so many commenters are amazed by it.
valid video
I’m lvl 5 faceit and even when I play with 3-4 they all buy something. Maybe 1 person doesn’t and that’s most
and if you do buy a kit 1st round go frickin mid so the rotaters can pick it back up xD