Graveyard Smoke from Second Mid

Steps

1. From second mid, walk toward the A short corridor but stop before entering. Position yourself against the right-side wall next to the wooden barrel that sits in the corner near the archway.
2. Look up and to the right. Find the church tower visible above the rooftops. Focus on the tower’s stone facade where you can see a small decorative ledge running horizontally.
3. Place your crosshair on the right edge of the decorative ledge, roughly where the ledge meets the vertical corner of the tower. This is your aim point.
4. Use your jump throw bind (hold left click, then press your jump throw key). The bind is critical for this lineup since even small timing differences change where the smoke lands.
5. The smoke flies over the rooftops and lands in graveyard, blocking all CT vision from that position toward A site, short, and the apartments exit.

Tips

• Graveyard is a powerful CT rotation spot that gives defenders a clear angle on players pushing through apartments and short. Smoking it is essential for any coordinated A execute.
• Always throw this in combination with the pit smoke from A short. Together, they eliminate the two most dangerous CT angles on A site.
• If the smoke lands too far right (near the library wall instead of inside graveyard), you were aimed too far right on the tower. Shift your crosshair slightly left along the ledge.
• If the smoke lands too short (on the ground between mid and graveyard), your crosshair was too low. Aim higher on the tower facade.
• Call “graveyard smoked” to your team so the apartments players know they can exit without being shot from that angle.
• Practice in an offline server with sv_cheats 1; sv_infinite_ammo 1; sv_grenade_trajectory 1; sv_grenade_trajectory_time 10; mp_roundtime_defuse 60 to nail the lineup.

When to Use

This smoke is a critical piece of A site executes on Inferno. Deploy it when:

• Full A executes where you need graveyard and pit smoked before your team commits to the site
• Split A attacks where players push from both apartments and short while mid players throw utility
• Late round A hits when you need to isolate the site quickly and cannot afford to clear graveyard manually
• Post-plant retake denial where you re-smoke graveyard to prevent CTs from pushing through during the defuse window
• Default mid control rounds where smoking graveyard lets a lurker safely hold the short area for information