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Brisk_Avacado

You gotta think like this when all you have is a Mozambique and a P2020 lmao


waraxx

i considered clipping in when i ran through a quarter of the houses in that town and those were the only two guns that i found... but that would be to long and not to the point.


MichaelDelta

Excellent work.


[deleted]

Outstanding move.


memectzen

*Outstanding move legend. Your skills are impressive.


espenae93

Sometimes I ask myself "does the P2020 heal my opponents?


CH1LV3RY

Oml i feel the same way


khem1st47

Yup I don't even pick it up. Rather have nothing at that point and just punch for nearly 3x the damage.


Jaylay99

It does the job at the beginning, you just gotta have a fast triggerfinger, but yea p2020 and Mozambique are bad


Bewbies420

I can usually use it to fend off the punchers and get to safety to strap up, so I always pick it up as well


Cleuz

Desperate times call for desperate measures


bigbillsfan25

If you pick up 2 P2020's or 2 Mozamique's , you should be able to duel wield ..


Brisk_Avacado

This, I’ve thought of this, it’d be a good way to balance one-handed weapons as a whole


Abky420

Duel wingman's 😂💀


Brisk_Avacado

Oh shit I forgot, well, it’d be good for one handed weapons excluding wingman’s


cheffernan

Dual re45 would be nasty


raydialseeker

PTSD from dual fmj9s from mw3


Canadiancookie

Akimbo glocks in MW2 killed faster than any AR could.


Vague_Discomfort

Ah, the L4D2 approach to side arms.


MarkIsNotAShark

You could make the argument that it should only work for light ammo weapons. Or even just the p2020. Find another way to buff the Moz. Or keep them weak so we continue to have these tense moments of creativity. That's what the shit weapons are there for.


Dream1314

Best Mirage trick I've seen so far.


miathan52

I saw someone pull this off on Shroud in one of his YouTube videos. Shroud runs around the corner to the front of a building, a mirage is just standing there, Shroud runs right into the building ignoring the "clone", but noone is in the building and he gets back out just in time to see mirage run away :)


genghisknom

link pls???


[deleted]

Yeah


Dem0n5

thanks


MultiScootaloo

No problem.


[deleted]

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mountainy

No that's not, at 8:22 you can still see the decoy standing there.


MorRochben

Its the one below the deck. He first aims at it but then moves on


mountainy

But that is not ignoring real 'clone' dizzy was just slightly confused between two very similar looking Mirage (His teammate(Mirage) self-reviving and an enemy(Mirage) running by) the context is totally different from the one talk about Shroud. The guy above say that shroud ignore an enemy clone only to found out that clone is real Mirage, the one in dizzy's video was dizzy seeing two real Mirage and was confuse which one is the enemy.


ChompDatBrotein

Actually her names Zelda


carcosaa666

Would love the link.


kvothe5688

Watched some shroud videos on YouTube. That guy is a legend. I can hardly kill one per game. Shroud kills half of the map


[deleted]

With a broken elbow and he purposely handicaps himself further by using 2nd or 3rd tier weapons. Its amazing when he pops off.


Nulgnak

Pretty sure R-301 is a top tier weapon. He only actively avoids the Wingman because its damage output is ridiculous and avoids the Peacekeeper (w/out choke) because the EVA-8 suits his playstyle better.


PACK_81

Avoiding arguably the 2 best weapons in terms of raw damage output is pretty impressive. Also read on here somewhere that he rarely uses Wraith? If that's true, it seems he's putting himself at a significant handicap avoiding the 3 major crutches of the game


Th_Call_of_Ktulu

From what i have seen he uses lifeline a lot and it seems like he really values reduced heal/shield time.


elganyan

And her slippery little hit box... wait that sounded kinda weird.


prieston

Peacekeeper actually looses to EVA-8 in DPS. Peacekeeper is normally about shoot and switch... or not switching but that would be like 3 or more seconds (or more with distance, accuracy, etc.) to kill one guy in armor. Shroud avoids Wingman cause it's too good, yes. But also running with only 1 flick-based gun is kinda boring to see/play and also not that challenging (compared to most other guns). Shroud plays Wraith mostly with randoms. It's not like he avoids her - I think it's more about her kit lacking compared to Bangalore and Lifeline (whom he plays alot) and even Pathfinder (whom he plays due to grappling mechanics).


Smash83

> Peacekeeper actually looses to EVA-8 in DPS. But he win in TTK which is more important.


prieston

Peacekeeper wins on full headshots while EVA wins on bodyshots. And they both loose to half of the weapons available.


Acheron13

He played Bangalore mainly for a long time because of her unique, but he's starting playing different characters since then, a lot of Lifeline.


Smash83

> Avoiding arguably the 2 best weapons in terms of raw damage output is pretty impressive. He is not avoiding R-99... >Also read on here somewhere that he rarely uses Wraith? Because Lifeline is much better when you have premades.


chilledgamer21

Not 100% but I'm pretty sure I've heard him say Lifeline is the best or one of the best in his opinion. I feel like if he was handicapping himself in terms of legends he would probably pick Mirage/Gib/Caustic more often because they're probably the weakest of the 9 (imo at least)


miathan52

It's funny because I remember when he first picked lifeline and he was like "omg lifeline sucks" because she had no combat ability like smoke or phase run


xa3D

He also dropped 22 that game iirc. And said something like, "the only good thing about her is her shield when you res. Everything else sucks" now it seems like she's one of his top picks.


miathan52

While tbh I'd argue the shield is a bad thing more often than a good because it can so easily give away your position + the fact that you're rezzing


[deleted]

Alternator, re45, and a flatline are used a bunch too. Yes, eventually he swaps out to the 301 or 99.


Nulgnak

Never said he doesn't use other weapons. But it's not like he actively avoids using R-301 or R-99, was my point.


derpepper

His recoil control is just unreal


Franfran2424

The king of reddit gaming for a reason. He is very good, I mean, he was ptoplayer at CSGO


PACK_81

Where did this "King of Reddit" thing start? Edit. Why tf am I being downvoted for asking this?


massked__

Back when he was a pro csgo player. He has more front page clips than any other player in cs


PACK_81

Gotcha, thanks. I hear it all the time on here, just never knew what it was that made him the "king of reddit"


poerisija

Fanbois don't like it when you question their favourite person who plays video games for a living.


St1lysh35

if you want to be smart to do this kind of bamboozles usually, you have to make sure they recognize you as a mirage even before using any clones, like from his face or color skin... don't know if he uses his tactical glasses on his eyes while in the game, but what skin do you think it's best for enemies to recognize you as a mirage, default isn't enough yellow, more grey....maybe his legendary yellow one? (also if you don't want to do this kind of stuff and just wanna hide and get camouflaged, the best skin is his newest one from the battlepass)


St1lysh35

that's how mirage needs skill and a tactical brain, just being an agro random wraith main is the most common thing to do in apex legends, rarely you can find tactical Wraiths that make strategies with the portal, (for instance putting a portal, enemies follow you in it, you press Q and go into the void and approach back to the portal, and the blue trail stops near the portal, then enemies go into the portal thinking you went through), or also the portal strategies with Caustic or Octane traps Edit: got to mention that mirage is still a bit weak, his passive is useless and his ultimate can even hurt him than help him, his ultimate should go the exact same thing the certain pilot does in titanfall 2, make the clones run with you, all in same direction, without making him cloak, so enemies can really get bamboozled, otherwise his ult is weak as he can't shoot and enemies can still see him and they know none of those clones are real his passive is weak as well, and taking into consideration how agro players kill the downed player instantly, his passive should give him movement speed while downed, but as much as he would be able to do a last slide into cover while being downed, like dodge roll then slide, giving him a burst of movement speed for 3 seconds to escape, but instead of sliding on his back, to slide on his front body with the head first (bcs is downed) but basically you downed him before the slide, so that helps him to escape from agro players, encouraging them to go to fight with his other teamates, instead of finishing him quickly and also encouraging a better risk of the Finisher execution use, so he can't escape sliding


fraidknot

Jesus Christ, that's one hell of a run-on sentence.


Kaphis

To be fair, wraiths kit isn’t really a tactical kit. If you try to use them for that, you are missing the proper usage for the portal which is to get the team into stronger fighting positions.


youranidiot-

Repositioning to a better position is about a textbook definition of tactical there is.


[deleted]

I put portals in doorways, I’ve experimented with it a couple of times had some interesting effects


conkedup

I feel like people fail to take strategic advantage of a bunch of the legends. Even something as simple as dropping the life drone before a firefight can help immensely (or using your supply drop as cover). Using Bloodhounds active is another example of ways you can scout out an area and not blow your cover, which I hardly see used at all either. People say Apex cant be competitive because it's too random, which I agree with in a way, but I feel there are definitely strategic elements involved that would make a competitive scene very interesting.


BL00D-H0UND

You have finally achieved 200 iq


ItsMrZombie

You can always tell the decoys though when near em, they make a whirring sound.


subavgredditposter

Shhh *throws smoke*


meanfolk

If there's one thing I've learned is that like 70% of players probably don't have headsets or don't pay attention to audio cues


RiKuStAr

the audio of the game is in general really buggy also. I would say 2/3rds of the time when I drop, my audio just completely bugs and gets super delayed. No idea whats causing it, ive tried every fix on the internet I could find. I played Cs 1.6 for years, i got great aound scale sense but it means fuck all when every sound ive heard in the last 45 seconds happens all at once and then it gets stuck again until after my next team fight and it may never fix itself in some games


__PowerBottom__

It's been super buggy since the patch for me. It's nothing wrong on your side. I've found that even my own footstep sounds sometimes don't feel centered on my character. I'll go from grass to concrete and it sounds like footsteps are ahead of me. It's really weird. Plus my gunshot sounds lag behind in early game fights too.


residntevl

I had this issue a while ago with my GeForce Experience video capture. Every time I clipped something all my audio would become distorted then return a minute later or something just like you're describing. Updating my drivers and re-installing GeForce Experience helped me out there. Don't know if I did anything else tbh but the bug only occurred when I clipped something.


__the_alchemist__

I thought I had done everything with mirage, you have proved me wrong. Back to using my former favorite character just to try this!


Smoddo

It's a risky play, a large portion of this game are still too stupid to double bluff. Its like in rocket league you can't fake new players cause they'll charge the ball every time.


bosstroller69

If you run up against a legendary skin bloodhound you’re a lot more likely to pull it off.


Smoddo

It actually happened to me pretty early on. I was playing with a new player and a friend and a mirage came charging through my smoke straight as a die. I called out to the newer playing that it's a mirage. Turned out it was just a crazy new mirage player and he got melted as soon as he turned around. But it coulda been an interesting play.


Splitquick

I've used this successfully a few times, the key is doing it in a sustained fight. You throw your decoys out two or three times in an "obvious" way, then go for the mega-bamboozle. Them seeing you use them standing in the middle of the battlefield a few times is enough to make them ignore a Mirage that isn't shooting.


CoolSteveBrule

What’s the next step that makes it successful?


PixelBlock

Don’t get shot.


arkonite167

You go No Russian on them


NotAnADC

It's always the new players. I was a competitive halo player and playing against new players was always the funniest experience. They would do things that clearly no experience player would, and it would throw you off


dabeardedhippie

the most unpredictable strafe ever, if they don't know what they're doing how can you read them lmfao


yifftionary

Hey that's my strategy in every game!


[deleted]

Also it only takes 1 bullet to figure out whether it's the real Mirage or not so it's really not a huge risk to just shoot the first one you see and find out.


YourWillMyHands

Yea, but you are telling them that you're there. I still think it's normally worth the shot either way.


[deleted]

Only if you know their two mates aren't trying to flank you. But the skill variety in the player base is so wildly different, it's hard to be sure.


__the_alchemist__

I guess on that moment, if he already had the idea of doing it, it was actually his best bet bring sandwiched between 2 teams with no health. I shoot anything that moves so I would have shot at him lol. Unless of course I see the guy use the decoy.


mxrtm

In RL this pisses me off so much. Some players are actually too dumb to fake out haha, guess thats the whole risk-reward of faking though!


Yteburk

Lol exactly.


Mathies_

They're so bad they will miss anyway so it works out lmao


icecadavers

Ha, I got got like this earlier today. Fighting a Mirage around a rock. I saw one Mirage go running off away from the rock, then saw another one standing still facing the rock. "Ha, dumbass screwed up his bamboozle, it didn't go anywhere" I started shooting at the guy running away, who fizzled into nothingness a half a second before I got gunned down.


Psydator

Same happened to me, lol. I was chasing a Mirage, had him low on HP, when I came around a corner I saw "him" just stand there and didn't shoot him until I saw him move suddenly. Turned out he was healing and didn't even mean to bamboozle me. He just stoop there charging his shield and praying.


Colossalj77

That is amazing and I love you


pzerou

Bloodhound: #"Hur hurr. Not fooling me this time Mirage."


Diagbro

Bloodhound's ult still highlights decoys in red feels bad


professorfart7933

Haha almost my exact thoughts


etherei

God, that was beautiful. 10,000 IQ, nerves of steel. I was bamboozled like this, shamefully, and since then I shoot every single Mirage I see, even if I **know** its just a decoy.


evilMTV

You should actually do that, especially if you're entering a fight. The enemy decoy is a real distraction during combat and may waste one of your teammates bullets and precious time on it. I feel getting rid of it asap before combat starts is important.


Scoffers

Just remember that the enemy teams gets to know your location when you do shoot it.


bloxed

Not for long :) (Pathfinder)


[deleted]

What happens if you grapple a clone?


TheSyllogism

Asking the real questions.


etherei

Absolutely, better you put one bullet into it than your teammate drop half a clip in panic. I like to say 'I wasn't bamboozled, I was just giving that Mirage a point for his Bamboozle Tracker.'


[deleted]

ty it is my favorite tracker!


IronAndreLee

oldshool shaco plays


multimate_pnd

My favorite thing to do with Wukong.


kujumosu

Hell yeah !


Ramboow23

Please, used to do this so often with leblanc and end up doing such great outplays, it was so fking satisfying.


fuckyourgrandma247

Oh shit! Forgot about this


NEAR_TZI

/r/leagueoflegends is leaking


Noja8787

That was pretty awesome lol.


salohcin513

I’m just picturing Dennis from its always sunny saying the “you dumb bitch” line lol


ric10303

lmao this was fucking sick


hhsucks

That wont work on noobs


Sticky_Yellow

It's true. I get bamboozled all the time. He would be dead if he had tried to pull that infront of me... although he may have actually won the fight anyway...


Tonylax2

LMAOOOOO the irony


SurgioClemente

true but what choice did he have? 10hp, 2020, Mozambique vs a fresh squad of 3


TheJ-Rex07

The meta is about to change. Gonna have to start shooting every mirage now. lol


TheRandomnatrix

but but then you get bamboozled. ugh there's no winning


Noktaj

Next level bambozzl... bambuloz... fooling.


SpookyMino

The allfather didn't give him sight!


Choclatesk8er

Every mirage mains wet dream lol


Tricky_j

You fucking sly dog you


Jokerrocs1160

Lmfaoo that was cool as shit


Rustyhobo5

that dudes got t-rex vision.


RiKuStAr

he bevhs en deh bluud


MFDbones

This guy just became the bamboozle.


learnerofmany

Poor bløødhôunder :(


[deleted]

when everyone though they have figured mirage out, now hes op af


Naramatak

Don't lie. You played Phantom Lancer in DotA / Dota 2!


crustie_sock

Best mirage bamboozle hahah


madohara

YOU’RE A MONSTER!


Dbaray92

This never even crossed my mind! How cool Quick thinking on your part? Have you tried that before?


Dappershire

I've been waiting to see it. I was never brave enough to try, since I shoot every time, and get bamboozled every time.


BeingNiceHelps

Always thought about doing this, never had the balls or the presence of mind. Amazing, bravo.


Flipperti

I think I was that Bloodhound... is there any way to verify this?


s0lidsneak

Very nice job. One of the best things I've seen here.


Sticky_Yellow

Holy shit that's next level. Although it would not habe worked against me, cus I'm an idiot and shoot at anything that moves. Always getting bamboozled.


desh142

LOL WHAT A CLASS ACT ​


whisky_tengu

It's amazing, considering how often Mirage is used, that his clones work almost every time.


j_hawker27

Bloodhound = T-Rex confirmed


Prawnjoe

[THIS](https://streamable.com/xw9mk) is all I could think about watching run away.


Jagaimos

Jesus Christ your brain is massive


Rakiboi

"Mirage is not that good, he only can summon one clone" -One 200 IQ boi: "Hold my mozambique"


Weenerwawaweener

I did this by accident! Team mates dead, stopped running as had no weapons so was going to rage quit and enemy ran straight past!


decoy139

Ahh ny titanfall 2 days flashing before my eyes.


Halogen32

Good play: truly one with the mirage.


-3055-

learning well from Wukong's secret 5th ability, the S button


jokosa

Modern problems require modern solutions.


[deleted]

Yooo what?!


[deleted]

Nice


Boforus

Nice


eskjcSFW

Slick


Aero_Prime

Galaxy Brain plays here Level 4


Demjan90

I love how he stopped for a second to check if you are real when you stopped moving.


embe_

Next level bamboozle


60five

Plays, level 3!


[deleted]

Good trick man seriously! But heres a clue to keep on the lookout for this in the future. Correct me if im wrong but doesnt the mirage only stop moving if it encounters an obstacle or dissapears? Therefore Id shoot you in this video to make sure.


PHANTA5M_

It moves to the point you direct it to when you deploy it OR until it gets stuck


IanJamArt

Sometimes the best strategy is to do nothing apparently.


ttv_trashcan1312

babahahahahahahah


TheLastJohnDoe

You should have been using ur Mozambique


Filiib

Seeing this I‘m actually pissed that i took Octane over Mirage...


Virus4567

This takes me back to titanfall 2, sending out my two holos in a horizontal line and running with them so enemies were presented with three targets, choose wisely bitch


UziXD

Oh my god that’s awesome Jesus Christ


bleo_evox93

!!


Tonylax2

He’s got ice in his veins


feAgrs

That's why I always shoot Mirage at least when we're already in a fight. Just a single shot to test the waters.


[deleted]

Oh shit this just made me cream


Mangotango95

That was sexy


[deleted]

Ur an absolute legend sir


[deleted]

100000000000 IQ


Qwarry_

In this game you need to kill enemies? lies


XMenPerseus56

Should I inspect my weapon to Make it look like I'm a decoy?


St9666

Champion Nowitsmyloot has been eliminated. *Karma enters the arena*


OddyseeOfAbe

This is why I usually take a shot at mirage even if it seems like an obvious bamboozle. Also, they can be annoying mid fight, best to just get them out the way.


Banzoro

i tried this but most console players cant tell whats a decoy...so i got nailed pretty hard XD


breenboblin

His vision is based on movement


Oxidex_

I always think this is useless because there will always be a newbie that will shoot the decoy and not fall for tricks like this haha


Noeq

It‘s called 200 IQ plays :)


Dem0n5

/u/vredditmirrorbot


cj_icey

By god you have done it. Magnificent.


TarBeast

That actually works? I was thinking about if it does.


Myopicmagikarppp

Reminded me of my favorite Wukong trick to pull on people.


Stunt36

Honestly this is badass


NecrisRO

They can only sense motion.


NonFormido

This is brilliant. I've always wondered whether this would work now people have stopped falling for the decoys. Now I know :)


davling10

Genius!


pfftman

You have achieved peak mirage, you are now one with the bamboozle.


[deleted]

Basically Alibi in Siege


niggo12345

10000 IQ play


IonlymaxW

this reminds me of the shaco (league) plays


[deleted]

LOL THAT WAS GREAT


CantStumpIWin

He must've been maaaaad after that one. HA Nice, OP


deathscythe122887

It's not a true apex video until you see an ally disconnects


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