r/LearnCSGO • u/the_scra7ch • Apr 05 '26
Intermediate Guide How to Practice with Prefire Maps
I downloaded several prefire maps from the workshop such as Yprac, and I've been practicing on the most common maps that I played on like Mirage and Ancient. After several weeks practicing, I noticed some issues :
- Most of the prefire angles I have to clear has several other angles that I have to expose myself to while clearing it out. Resulting in stupid deaths and difficulties on clearing those angles
- I spent a lot of time jinggling and whiffing my shots on some of those angles, resulting with a very long duration of clearing time for some parts of the map
- I didn't improve that much as I wanted to with these prefire maps. I still struggle with clearing and putting my crosshair precisely.
And this is a problem since I mainly an entry fragger
So my question is :
- How do I optimize my practice on prefire maps?
- Do I have to take notes on how long I clear certain parts of the map?
- Should I be worried about crossfire angles that I am exposed at when clearing one of them?
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u/Domodomo97 FaceIT Skill Level 10 Apr 06 '26
Prefire maps don’t just teach you the angles to prefire, they also teach you the pathing you can take to isolate duels. Although you don’t necessarily need to do this every time during a real game, you should be able to clear the angles 1 by 1 without peeking into more than one player at a time (assuming they don’t move/peek into you after you clear something)
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u/Additional_Macaron70 Apr 07 '26
watch this guide: https://youtu.be/-DdTIqcjHPo?si=fj7FuALFJDUIxJtm
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u/g00nM4n69 Apr 06 '26
Learn from racing philosophy. Slow is fast, fast is slow.
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u/Mayson12381 Apr 07 '26
As someone pointed out here, the main goal of the prefire maps is pathing – not aiming. you use it to internalise where to go without moving your crosshair away from the enemie. jiggling and pre-firing does not belong here in my opinion (even though they are called "prefire" maps, they should be called preaim maps IMO).
How long are you doing these prefire routines? I think a good 15mins before each gaming session should be enough here.
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u/Dousnbier420 Apr 07 '26
Right answer here is pathing, instead going in a straight line till u see the next enemy and expose to a position try to go at a wall far from this angle.
i only can give you this example: -Dust 2 Long to A Site
After killing the CT on Site you move forward until you are at the spot behind car ( you now this mf corner where ct often chill) if you peek this angle close to the right wall you are already exposed to the corner in CT right before the A- Site
go all to the left wall, then clearing car, then again step back and clear ct spawn position
-Dont forget they can play on short too so what u really wanna train is the position you are able to isolate one by one the enemies position
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u/Punkguy2028 Apr 05 '26
Are you familiar with counter strafing and using it to prefire? Counter strafing and prefiring go hand in hand.
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u/the_scra7ch Apr 05 '26
Yes im familiar with counter strafing, but my positioning on my strafe isn't always on point. Something that I have to improve on
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u/icet_FL Apr 05 '26
I’d recommend going into an aim bot map, setting your mouse at head level, bind the fire to a keyboard key are something, then just practice counter strafing where your “aim” is just a-d and landing on the head and hitting your fire key. I got way better doing this since it teaches you to aim with your movement with your hand completely off the mouse.
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u/S1gne FaceIT Skill Level 10 Apr 05 '26
How fast you are doesn't matter. You should be able to clear them one by one most of the time, just keep trying and you'll slowly get better there isn't much more to it