NaVi’s CT setups are less about who holds the widest angle and more about vision order, footprint-only roles, and delayed utility. One player anchors outside while two inside players avoid early trades; smokes and flashes land half a beat late on purpose.
Lead-in When you review NaVi on CT, skip the kill highlight reel first. Their default is a script: who takes vision first, who only leaves a footprint, who waits for the second beat before throwing. One player anchors outside; two inside do not rush to trade; utility always trails positioning by half a beat. Below is the same idea split into anchor → relay → seal, so you can mirror it in your own default reviews.
Outside anchor: sell silhouette, not space
The usual frame is B long or one side of mid: one player hugs wall or a shallow off-angle, crosshair not on the widest choke but on the spot where Ts must peek to confirm presence. The job is not the opening pick—it is forcing a flash or smoke tax for information. NaVi rarely chase a second body from that anchor; stepping out breaks the inside rotation chain.
When you VOD your own defaults, log three checks: after footsteps, does the anchor hold the same spot for more than three seconds; does the backup parallel the site or layer from behind; does the first utility help the anchor fall back or seal an inside line for the site pair. All three aligned means their default, not a solo aim highlight.
Utility on the second beat: one line smoke, one-angle flash
NaVi CT utility rarely blankets five grenades at once. More often the first smoke or molotov closes one mandatory sightline—Inferno banana fire, mid window smoke—leaving an inside gap Ts must guess. The second beat is the flash, and it usually serves one re-peek angle, not a full site whiteout.
That only works if positions were written first. One of the two inside players is busy-waiting: looks like a fidget or a one-step shuffle, actually listening for the outside call that Ts burned utility before committing. Pros call it trading stance for cooldown; in pugs it gets misread as “why no smoke yet.”
Same discipline after the side swap
On T side NaVi still lives on default spacing plus offset utility timing. First contact is often a light touch for reactions; second body carries flash or smoke. If minute one buys no free info, they reset to default and re-stack utility instead of ego swinging. That mirrors CT outside anchor, no chase: the default pays off next round when the full utility pipeline is intact.
Self-check After the default phase, can you state: did the outside anchor finish its round job, who the second-beat utility was for, and which inside player owned the dead window? If not, fix the setup sheet before you touch sensitivity.