Support Player Role and Responsibilities

Support players enable their team through utility, info gathering, and trades. While entry fraggers engage directly, supports follow up, securing kills after entries. Supports manage utility usage, ensuring optimal nade placement and coordinated timing.

Support qualities: utility knowledge, positioning awareness, decision-making ability. Supports aren't secondary skilled players—they're strategically-minded players who enable team success through smart utility and positioning. Professional supports are highly skilled in their role.

Support positioning: play slightly behind entry fraggers, ready to trade kills. If entry dies, support engages following player. This trading system prevents snowballing enemy kills. Teams with strong support players lose fewer players per round.

Utility management: supports coordinate grenades with team. Smokes are deployed on schedule, flashes are timed with entries, HE grenades soften targets. Support players must communicate utility status—do you have utility for next execute? This informs team strategy.