Dust2: how pros play it
101 pro matches and 2,171 rounds on Dust2: where pros plant, the CT setup at 0:20, early grenades, who wins each buy, retake times, AWP spots and the most-thrown lineups with setpos commands.
The round
| Rounds won by the CT side | 51% | 1106 of 2151 |
| Pistol rounds won by the CT side | 57% | 99 of 173 |
| The pistol winner also wins the next round | 83% | 143 of 173 |
| The team with the opening kill wins the round | 73% | 1558 of 2144 |
Where pros plant
Ts get the bomb down in 53% of rounds (1135 of 2151). They win 78% of the rounds where they plant and 15% of those where they don't.
| Site | Plants | Ts win after it | Median plant |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 56% (699) | 74% | 0:34 left |
| B | 44% (544) | 81% | 0:43 left |
The CT side's default
Grenades a team throws in the first 30 seconds of at least 60% of its rounds, out of 95 pro CT sides:
- smoke at Long Doors: 79 of 95
- flash at Long Corner: 33 of 95
- molotov at Long Doors: 28 of 95
- HE grenade at Mid Doors: 23 of 95
- molotov at Upper Tunnel: 23 of 95
- smoke at Upper Tunnel: 16 of 95
- flash at Blue: 10 of 95
The T side's early grenades
Grenades a team throws in the first 30 seconds of at least 60% of its rounds, out of 95 pro T sides:
- flash at Long Doors: 25 of 95
- smoke at Mid Doors: 11 of 95
Rounds won by buy
The first buy is the side's own; rounds played in brackets.
| As CT | As T | |
|---|---|---|
| Full buy vs full buy | 50% (1168) | 49% (1168) |
| Full buy vs force buy | 65% (153) | 69% (159) |
| Force buy vs full buy | 31% (159) | 35% (153) |
| Eco vs full buy | 10% (200) | 13% (268) |
Players alive
Rounds won from each count of players alive.
| As CT | As T | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 vs 4 | 71% (1230) | 75% (905) |
| 4 vs 5 | 25% (905) | 29% (1230) |
| 3 vs 2 | 73% (575) | 82% (497) |
| 2 vs 3 | 18% (497) | 26% (575) |
| 2 vs 1 | 81% (370) | 86% (337) |
1-vs-N clutches won: 1v1 50% (267 of 534), 1v2 17% (117 of 707), 1v3 4% (29 of 745).
Rotations
Once the Ts hit a site, how long until the first CT from elsewhere on the map is on it:
- A site: 15.9 s (median; half of them in 10.0-22.2 s). In 47% of these rounds no CT from elsewhere got there at all.
- B site: 13.5 s (median; half of them in 8.4-19.2 s). In 46% of these rounds no CT from elsewhere got there at all.
Where pro CT AWPs fight
AWP duels by where the CT AWPer stood, most fought first.
| Spot | Duels | Won |
|---|---|---|
| CT Mid | 140 | 69% |
| Bombsite A | 124 | 67% |
| Long A | 116 | 72% |
| CT Spawn | 95 | 64% |
| Cross | 38 | 55% |
| B Doors | 33 | 67% |
| Window | 33 | 58% |
| Bombsite B | 31 | 58% |
The most-thrown pro lineups on Dust2
Paste the line into the console on a local server (sv_cheats 1) to stand exactly where the pro stood, looking where they looked.
- T flash: Outside Long to Long Doors (jump), thrown 416 times
setpos 363.91 -382.67 35.34; setang -6.07 52.36 0 - CT flash: Cross to Long Corner (standing), thrown 408 times
setpos 1250.70 2038.05 2.01; setang -42.58 -81.72 0 - T smoke: Xbox to CT Mid (jump), thrown 396 times
setpos -275.04 1345.33 -77.36; setang -11.91 129.40 0 - T smoke: Suicide to Mid Doors (standing), thrown 373 times
setpos -491.97 -228.06 0.44; setang -25.67 86.84 0 - T smoke: T Spawn to Mid Doors (jump), thrown 276 times
setpos 363.95 -625.07 89.03; setang -25.40 110.10 0 - T smoke: Upper Tunnel to Bombsite B (standing), thrown 262 times
setpos -1712.94 1029.80 31.88; setang -13.31 120.85 0 - CT smoke: Bombsite A to Long Doors (jump), thrown 234 times
setpos 1004.97 2379.94 58.23; setang -24.29 -101.91 0 - T molly: Suicide to Xbox (running), thrown 231 times
setpos -482.62 -269.45 0.41; setang -16.06 79.16 0 - CT smoke: Boost to Long Doors (jump), thrown 174 times
setpos 769.75 2379.97 -6.88; setang -52.74 -91.94 0 - T smoke: Outside Long to Mid Doors (jump), thrown 145 times
setpos 375.94 -464.05 36.52; setang -17.33 111.63 0
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