You won’t see a professional match without a crazy amount of utility in use, because most of the team’s tactics are from the use of their utility to either confuse or distract the opponent. Utility used correctly will give your teammate, or perhaps even yourself, an important upper hand in dire situations.
The “flashbang” is one of the most used utilities in CS:GO, and is the cheapest but also one of the most effective ways to overcome your opponent. If you flash your opponent, you have a few seconds where they can’t see or hear anything around them, which gives you or your teammate the opportunity to kill the opponent.
Whilst support players are very rarely praised as much as they deserve to be, we have found the five best players at using the effective “flashbang”. The best flashers from CS:GO – In the top 20 teams in 2023 are:
Opp flashed = Average time per round opponents were blinded by flashbangs by this player
“cadiaN” – Opp flashed: 2.83s
“tabseN” – Opp flashed: 2.73s
“Aleksib” – Opp flashed: 2.25s
“apEX” – Opp flashed: 2.18s
“broky” – Opp flashed: 2.14s
Take a look at just how deadly a flashbang can be if used correctly:
