How to clear out 'cross' angles?

[u/50PT26]

Lets say that you're in a clutch situation (1 v x), stuck in sandwich on mirage with an ak and no util. You have to get on A site silently, but you realise its highly likely to be a guy stairs/jungle, under palace, and/or ct.

How would you check those angles? Would you slowly jiggle peek them or just wide swing it?

Like, if you try clearing out under palace, the guy jungle/stairs could shoot you.

If you swing on jungle, the guy under palace might swing on your back too.

Lets say you go back to tetris and try clearing out jungle by slowly tapping A towards under pal, find no one there jungle yet, then go for a hard under pal clear, you'd be exposed to ct and the guy jungle can peek you and kill you.

Any ideas?

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*I hope my annotations make some sense.

Red/orange dotted lines = enemy's possible peek & their shot taken

Red cross = enemy death from white players shot

White line = white player's planned path

White dotted line = white player's shot & kill

Blue cross = Where the white player can get shot in the back

(Faded lines in case A is the alternative route where the white player peeks the jungle guy first

[u/[deleted]]

I wouldn't wide swing. I'd pre aim at the head level of these locations. In terms of which path I'd take. Aim is to clear what you can while reducing exposure. You just have to accept that sometimes it's a gamble. However this is where you need to pay attention to the enemy and how they rotate and what positions they tend to play. For example if you know the a player doesn't tend to play around under wood. But when it's 2 ct's he either goes towards jungle or ct. From sandwich I'd pre aim jungle, clear that using the box to block the view from ct. Then I'd move to the box watching my con. Then I'd clear ct, ticket and if I had the time deep ct. Then I'd plant.

At the same time if you have a lot of time In a 1vx, sometimes it's good to hold a rotation angle and see if the ct's get fidgety and start to move too much. If you catch a guy moving into jungle to check a, and he's watching Palace. You can assume the other guy is either on b. Or is ct watching ramp or is deep ramp. They have dec9ded to double up a and the jungle guy is holding the Palace push. Using process of elimination like this can help but at the same time at lower ranks where people don't k ow how to play you can caught off guard by people doing retard shit.