Have you ever struggled to have chemistry or to identify when the terrorist side is faking site takes against your pugs? Then this blog will help you with proper set-ups and how to identify the information and react statically without having to over-communicate. Inferno is one of the most popular and balanced maps in counter-strike: global offensive. It’s also widely considered to be a counter-terrorist sided map. With that being said, if the terrorist side starts to win rounds and forces the counter-terrorist into eco’s, it can make winning this map very difficult.

One of the keys of inferno is middle control and using your A players to probe for information. Having two counter-terrorist players positioned on both sides of mid and a third apartment is the typical setup for this bombsite. It can be played in different ways considering the information you have and the educated guesses your acting in-game leader decides to make.

Basic static setup

This is a very basic setup for Inferno but can be extremely effective in matchmaking. Sticking your awper on player 3 or 4’s positions will allow you to get a lot of information down middle at the beginning of the round, giving your B players a heads up If they make their way into banana.

One of the standard things the Terrorist side team will do when attacking bombsite A on this map is smoking off one of the sides of ct mid and isolating the other counter-terrorist. In this hypothetical situation, let’s say that the terrorist team has smoked off player 3. A few of the things that player 3 can still do to assist player 4 and 5 will be counter flashing and spamming through the smoke. Now in the moment that this execute happens, or if you have identified that they will definitely hit the A bombsite, player 2 should rotate to arches near player 3’s position. With all that said, if you don’t feel like you can hold these positions effectively, you and the rest of the A players can fall back into the site and play very passively while player 1 will probe banana for information and player 2 rotates. This is sort of an educated gamble, but if executed properly it can help throw the terrorist side off.

Aggressive banana hold and A site stack.

The trick with this set-up is learning the smoke from counter-terrorist spawn to the bottom of banana. With this smoke you can cut off the terrorist players from banana for a majority of the round while stacking A. Putting them in the position where they are having to push through smoke to attack B or run into a stack at the A bomb site. With this set-up you will want player 3 or 4 to smoke over spawn at the beginning of the round. While player 5 watches banana, he/she will also call for player 1 to smoke, than player 2 will smoke banana too.

Once those smokes are gone, player 5 will finally smoke the same spot. This can be really hard for average players to deal with. You can also switch it up and have player 4 play a little aggressive and try to gain information. Another variant would be to stick player 1 or 2 at bombsite B. If you have done the strat multiple rounds, they might try to push through the smoke. It’s always good to be flexible and to always adapt when you recognize that they are trying different ways of countering what you are doing.

Standard passive setup

This set-up can help your team regain some confidence if you struggle to hold middle or the terrorist team are hitting mid aggressively and you are having problems holding the angles in middle. One of the big downfalls to this set-up is the lack of information. For those quick rotation situations, player 3 will be the player that will rotate to B if the terrorist team decides to commit. The key to a passive set-up like this is good and decent crossfires. You can always adjust positions to keep the terrorist guessing while delaying with smokes and counter flashes to give your team time to rotate.

In Conclusion

These set-ups, when played properly, will greatly improve your success on this map. Practice makes perfect. You can also experiment yourself and switch up parts of the set-up with different crossfires. It is always good to try to keep the enemy team guessing what angles you are actually holding. Remember these setups take time to execute properly.I hope that this guide has been helpful; happy fragging! :]