How to Peek Effectively in CS2 

Hi everyone, the response to this video has been shockingly positive! I really appreciate all the kind words that are being said here. *If you have any questions you want answered or subjects covered in follow up videos, please leave a comment!* I’m planning to make a few other similar videos to this one, and want to know what to prioritize. Again, thank you everyone! I did not expect my first video on this channel to reach so many people :) Cheers, matchbox ✌️🤠

Thanks Ben Shapiro.

why is ben shapiro teaching me how to peek on mirage

Do also consider shadows. A main on Mirage is a good example. Even though peeking from further back is faster, they see your shadow beforehand, negating the effectiveness of your fast peek.

You sound like a less nasally Ben Shapiro. Also you have a cool ak craft 🐐

Mate... that glove + knife + agent combo is unreal. You have amazing taste! I dream of having a loadout like this one day. Well done.

I'm blown away by the quality of this video of a channel with such few subs. Been playing CS for years and you explained what took me 5 years to learn by myself in just 7 minutes. Well done

Very nice, Subscribed! For someone who feels like something is missing when playing, don't get much kills these tutorials are great. Keep them coming!

I'm 41 and getting back into CS. I played since beta. Had to step away from the game entirely to raise my kids but now that they're older, I'm getting my feet wet again. This video has helped A LOT with getting back into the fundamentals. Subbed! Thanks you for this!

Crazy good video man. High quality, to the point, good examples. Real math (huge kudos). Very much subbed from here. Also, great thumbnail and cewl knife

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You've got a knack for explaining things. Thanks for this!

as a csgo sliver this is the best peeking video i’ve seen. great video❤️🔥 ik exactly how to improve my peeking big time now thank you

i think youre saying a lot of good things but your understanding of angle advantage is wrong. Whoever is farthest from the angle will see more than the person who is closer, this mean in your example of peeking triple they would still have way more angle advantage on you, no matter how far back you go you still will be at a disadvantage, so it would be better to peek closer to the wall to appear much faster and harder to hit. i think your way is still better but its because of positioning and how much of site you can see not because of angle advantage.

Very good explanation for the majority of new players! I will use it and translate it for my friends as well! Thank you.

bro i love the way how you're explaining this! respect!

This is super helpful! I'm just getting back into Counterstrike after, like, 5 years, and I was never that good when I did play anyways. I didn't even know about counterstrafing, and I'm super bad at peeking, so I'm glad I found this video :)

This is the best video I have ever seen regarding to peeking and counterstrafing. Thank you so much and you have earned yourself another sub :)

Awesome videos, no distracting music and straight to the point.

Good stuff, mate. Very well explained. It should be basic knowledge, but people still forget about it. There are still things like shadow (dis)advantage/situation/time and other aspects, where you can't afford to enter side clinical like that. But still very well explained. Gonna show it to my son, so he can improve. Thank you for the vid, keep it up, mate!

You explain things pretty good man, W video

Thank you for the good info, keep it up with the amazing content! 🔥

really good reminder video to come back and look on, thank you for that.

Dude, really nice guides. Keep it up!

Thank you for simplifying this game. I’m new and your videos are super helpful

Straight and to the point. subbed

i needed to hear this, have been wondering about this lately. Crazy the algorhythm gave me the answer.

I can tell that this channel will make quality content. Subscribed!

Sick tips, I just got back into the game. Helps a lot, big thanks!

This was so good please more.

I've played going on 10 years this next December, almost 6k hours. This was an awesome explanation. Even people at somewhat high-level cs miss key fundamentals like this. Earned a sub.

I LOVE YOUR KNIFE, GLOVE, GUN, PLAYER SKIN COMBO

Rlly like your explaining style :)

Fantastic video mate! Didnt realise I was peaking wrong until now honestly, will improve

Also with the A ramp peek, by standing further back on that ledge, you are not blocking anyone behind you who can cover tetris while you peek triple.

You also need to know what other peeks are, 1. Bait peek (hugging the wall close range, using A and D to bait awp shots or even to know their location), 2. Bait peek (jumping strafe) difficult to pull it off, 3. tight peek, 4. Wide peek. You need to know when these peeks are viable for different situations.

Hey bro, I have just started the game and can already say this is a game changer for me. Thanks so much!!

Good video. It's nice to listen to someone with a sharp, no-BS mind. Subscribed. How would you recommend that I practice counterstrafing? I need to really drill it in as a habit, because while I know the advice is to do it, I end up not doing it in most actual games.

Gold stuff right here. Gonna recommend this to anybody that wants to improve their fundamentals

4:02. This part was informative, thanks for the video!

You have quality content keep it up!

Thank you so much for the great video, absolutely class content! I will try my best to implement it into my game. Please keep it up, would be nice to get more advice on CS2.

Crazy its not explained this simply on other pro channels its all over complicated. Thank you alot

Bud I've never played this game until this week, been messing around in deathmatch being mid table the whole time. Just watched this and came 1st in 3 games in a row. I know it's just deathmatch but you made this extremely simple, it's so easy to implement. Thank you. Looking forward to more videos!

loved this got 10x better by watching this vid

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Amazing video. Would just like to add that sometimes situation calls for peeking close to wall for a super wide peek, because on the enemy's screen you will appear faster when peeking closer to the wall than away from the wall.....and so the enemy would have to flick more if you peek closer to the wall. Situations like when the enemy is holding a tight angle, you would peek closer to the wall to appear faster to the enemy so that he is unable to react in time. So peeking close to the wall should not be completely ignored, it's situational and with proper crosshair placement, you can easily get a kill even when peeking close to the wall.

Thank you man this is the way!

bro just got teaching me on math. nice video thank you

nice content bro you deserve more subs

This was very helpful. Now I just need to work on the last of those 3 points

Awesome man 🔥❤

Nice guide will use it!

There is also another fact that you didn't talk about. The reason why people crouch peek is that they're scared to make noise or something. BUT, there is a mechanic in Counter-Strike which allows you to make any noise, by just not being in movement just some seconds before peeking. Like : take your position and place your crosshair through the wall, wait around one big second, and peek. You'd see that you absolutely didn't make any noise because of your foot. So everybody can check a site without making noise AND by being fast and quick. Now go remove some heads Oh and ultra useful tutorial btw

the fact that you can see your own leg now so you can show how its peeking when you have angle disadvantage is great lmao

This video is like an efficient public service: I never thought it would exist, but it does...

Ben shapiro giving me cs2 tips is crazy

bro after the video i just 3 insta peek hs in 3 rounds you are the best

Im 67 and this helped a lot. Thank you

Mans was about to pull out the pythagorean theorem

Awesome content!

Wow. This is gonna help! Thanks

Keep up the good work! +1sub

thank you ben shapeeko for your advice

ty so much for this video

thank you for easy guide video😊

Tbh A ramp was the worst example you could show peeking as far as possible, the shadow would give you away.

Great video transitioned to cs from cod and i lack in this area sm

amazing man!!!

great job!!!

Knife/glove combo is CRISPY

Amazing video

Hey just want to say this helped me out a lot. I only have 90 hours on csgo so thank you

great knife gloves combo

bro taught about velocity components aswell lmao W vid

yoo, thats crazy. i thought i made an original combo with big game, tiger tooth bayonet and bloody darryl. But then i scrolled on YT and i saw your thumbnail with this combo XD.

this helped me so much

holy shit, right into it at the start, clear voice, and useful, actually a good video lmao thank you

Older millennial here getting back into CS since like high school (early 2000’s). Your straight to the point videos are highly appreciated. Like, commenting, and subscribing, bro. I rarely do one of those things, much less do all three.

I have a 1,000 hours and i just figured out all you have to do is hold opposite key while holding the key in the direction you are going and you stop. Mind is blown

Great video!

Gotta appreciate your skin set lol, really good especially those golden bracelets on hand!!

good shit matchbox, better than 99% of videos

Thats why i die when close peek corners. Great video helps alot.

you wanna peek closer to the wall as you will move faster for them, holding angles is when you wanna be further away from the wall

I played counter strike when it first released the very first beta. way before 1.0 , 1.3 and 1.6 which all people favor differently. I remember when bunny jumping was at it's peak which i will admit was kind of fun to hop around getting headshots! But great point for those who don't understand, and even I till this day can do silver mistakes just because i'm not focused. Having map knowledge is one thing but if you can't peek or know your nades on each map then you're done for in cs2. Nades are so important because every map has sweet spots for safe smoking, good flashes and plases for HE and molly's.

Thank you.

I like the way you articulate yourself in a technical explanation. Would you mind sharing the reddit post/comment this originated from?

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great videos, thx

Generally this is good advice but I think it’s good to add that once you get to a point with your side to side counter strafing you need to work on more advanced strafing. You can’t move around the whole map with an and d and you also can’t count on enemies only being behind angles that only require a or d to peek. Dust long doors to mid is a good example of this. After you lock down side to side strafing your next step is actually to practice counter strafing w’s and w + a / w + d. ~ someone with 90+ strafing on leetify

"I'm not gonna do Pythagorean theorem live" LMAOOOOOO

Hi, great video man. I wonder when you peek on 30th second do you move your mouse or just holding your mouse poisition?

probably the first time I've seen math in a CS guide video.

Pretty sure on the close vs far explanation you got it backwards but only one part. Now if you peek farther away from the ang you'll see them sooner/first depending on where they're standing. fl0m does a good explanation of this on his channel. But wide swinging fast is better closer. Overall peeking is better farther away from the ang. If this doesn't make sense think of it this way. People standing right in front of you moving left to right seem to be moving faster (even though they're moving the same speed) vs people standing across the map moving left to right. I shouldn't have to explain this any further. Anyways good vid hope this helped both parties

if you peek wide, hes going to miss your actual character, but get your hitbox because it lags behind with subtick trololo! Seen guys headshot the box while the model is 2ft in front, and according to valve, "where your tracers go is where your bullets are" so Its all true ;)

Moving diagonally doesnt move as u would predict but keeps the same speed vectors magnitude, effectively halfing the speed, otherwise diagonal movement will be faster than horizontal and vertical alone, (pythagoras), as a game dev, hope it helps

great video I liked some of your analysis. The only thing i’m curious about is your opinion on peeking an awp. In my mind you would never peek an awp from the furthest back position of ramp, because even though you decrease the exposure time of your player model you also take a super unfavorable fight. If you instead swing the awp from close to the wall you can fake them out with a jiggle or swing across with a closer distance.

FYI excluding the angle between near or far u will peek fastest when closest to wall.

I hope my future teammates can learn from this ❤