Inferno: how pros play it
68 pro matches and 1,388 rounds on Inferno: 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% | 696 of 1369 |
| Pistol rounds won by the CT side | 44% | 51 of 117 |
| The pistol winner also wins the next round | 80% | 94 of 117 |
| The team with the opening kill wins the round | 69% | 945 of 1368 |
Where pros plant
Ts get the bomb down in 59% of rounds (810 of 1369). They win 78% of the rounds where they plant and 7% of those where they don't.
| Site | Plants | Ts win after it | Median plant |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 50% (476) | 79% | 0:34 left |
| B | 50% (484) | 76% | 0:37 left |
The CT side's default
Spots someone holds at 0:20 in at least 70% of a team's rounds, out of 53 pro CT sides:
- Bombsite B: 9 of 53
Grenades a team throws in the first 30 seconds of at least 60% of its rounds, out of 53 pro CT sides:
- smoke at Banana: 40 of 53
- molotov at Banana: 19 of 53
- HE grenade at Barrels: 15 of 53
- HE grenade at Banana: 14 of 53
- flash at Car: 13 of 53
- molotov at Top Mid: 7 of 53
The T side's early grenades
Grenades a team throws in the first 30 seconds of at least 60% of its rounds, out of 53 pro T sides:
- molotov at Half Wall: 34 of 53
- molotov at Apps: 12 of 53
- smoke at Top Mid: 12 of 53
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 | 51% (750) | 49% (750) |
| Full buy vs force buy | 66% (112) | 71% (107) |
| Force buy vs full buy | 29% (107) | 34% (112) |
| Eco vs full buy | 13% (107) | 9% (155) |
Players alive
Rounds won from each count of players alive.
| As CT | As T | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 vs 4 | 67% (795) | 72% (561) |
| 4 vs 5 | 28% (561) | 33% (795) |
| 3 vs 2 | 69% (383) | 87% (305) |
| 2 vs 3 | 13% (305) | 31% (383) |
| 2 vs 1 | 80% (236) | 92% (210) |
1-vs-N clutches won: 1v1 50% (164 of 328), 1v2 14% (63 of 446), 1v3 5% (24 of 470).
Rotations
Once the Ts hit a site, how long until the first CT from elsewhere on the map is on it:
- A site: 19.1 s (median; half of them in 12.9-24.2 s). In 37% of these rounds no CT from elsewhere got there at all.
- B site: 20.5 s (median; half of them in 11.8-27.8 s). In 42% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bombsite A | 87 | 63% |
| Top Mid | 44 | 59% |
| Long | 32 | 75% |
| Coffins | 27 | 59% |
| Short | 27 | 78% |
| Apps | 26 | 73% |
| Pit | 23 | 65% |
| Car | 22 | 77% |
The most-thrown pro lineups on Inferno
Paste the line into the console on a local server (sv_cheats 1) to stand exactly where the pro stood, looking where they looked.
- CT smoke: CT Spawn to Banana (jump), thrown 419 times
setpos 2035.97 1914.94 183.20; setang -38.68 -158.36 0 - T flash: T Ramp to Banana (jump), thrown 208 times
setpos -376.24 750.60 27.33; setang -25.48 43.97 0 - T smoke: T Spawn to Banana (jump), thrown 163 times
setpos -1359.62 143.24 -33.98; setang -48.07 40.00 0 - T smoke: T Spawn to Top Mid (jump), thrown 162 times
setpos -1005.97 574.34 -15.77; setang -5.92 -1.04 0 - T molly: Bridge to Apps (jump), thrown 151 times
setpos -339.58 -95.27 65.83; setang 2.07 4.22 0 - T smoke: Banana to Boost (jump), thrown 137 times
setpos 371.30 1667.89 169.72; setang -12.60 65.19 0 - T smoke: Lower Mid to Barrels (jump), thrown 124 times
setpos -858.95 450.67 17.77; setang 0.95 33.10 0 - CT HE grenade: Boost to Half Wall (jump), thrown 123 times
setpos 934.29 2720.19 176.23; setang 4.86 -118.92 0 - T smoke: Half Wall to Coffins (jump), thrown 109 times
setpos 479.02 2016.97 168.30; setang -43.07 86.21 0 - CT molly: Boost to Half Wall (standing), thrown 108 times
setpos 881.70 2648.06 140.08; setang -9.77 -111.27 0
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Round, buy, setup, rotation and AWP numbers: the 68 pro matches on Inferno measured on 2026-11-01. Plants and lineups: all 82 pro matches on Inferno in RetakeHQ's pro library now. How each number is counted: how the analysis works.