hey guys! it's me
today we are going to talk about peaker's advantage. the most annoying thing ever in counter strike.


so what is it? you know that little number beside ur scoreboard that gets updated constantly?
that's called network ping. network ping is basically the time delay that a packet of information takes to reach the server plus the time a new information that the server sends takes to reach the client after the old information reached the server. this delay is always greater than 0 unless ur the server itself ie ur running the server. this creates an issue. now take this for example. if the opponent ur playing
against has 300 ms ping. it would take 150ms for his coordinates to reach the server. now say ur ping is 5ms which is quite common in many internet networks. it takes 2.5 ms for that new information to reach u. what does this mean? the enemy's position is received by your computer 152.5 ms late. this isn't good. in case of awp battles and 1v1s this is baddddd. the delay needs to be as minimal as possible. now, say u are the 300 ms dude. lets take this situation in consideration, a classic dust 2 short hold from
goose. let the goose guy have 50 ms ping and the short guy have 100 ms ping. this means information about the short player is received by the goose player 75 ms late. right? if the short guy peaks first. will the goose guy see him right away? NO. NO NO NO.... that's the issue. u see right when the short guy peaks, the goose guy still can't see the short guy. this gives a 75 ms edge advantage to the short guy and this is not good in higher ranks or in the pro scene. this my friends is called the peaker's advantage where the ping of the peaker can give him an edge over the defender. to prevent this in pro levels, they are made to play on lan so the ping is as small as possible. a 10ms advantage is very negligible and hence we consider this setup to be fair. so the lesson learnt here.. but if the high ping person turns out to be the defender.. the same case happens. the peaker with low ping has an edge over the defender since the defender gets the information very late. this exists in every single online multiplayer game and not much can be done about it. if u have an enemy who has high ping, make sure ur mobile and if u are the one having high ping, try peaking and rushing more than others. hope this guide was useful... like comment and sub for more! cya!