Valorant
Retakes
Valorant retakes are a utility puzzle. If you dry peek the planter with no flash, you donated the round. Isolate one, trade, then touch.
Smoke the planter off their help
Cut the trade. Then swing the isolated player. A retake into a full stack with no util is a death timer.
Molly and slow orb exist to make time. Use them on the bomb, not on a random hallway for style.
Numbers first
A 2v3 retake can wait for a rotate. A 1v3 after two teammates died on the same angle cannot. Play the clock if you must.
Post-plant is the inverse
If you are attacking, the retake rules are now theirs. Hold the angles you opened. Do not all hide in the same smoke.
If you want extra reading after this guide, you can also open this overview.