Anchor
What the anchor does:
- Delays the attack. When the Ts hit the site, the anchor uses grenades and careful angles to buy time, even if they cannot win the fight alone.
- Gives information. The anchor calls how many Ts are coming and what they are using, so the team knows whether to rotate.
- Survives when possible. A living anchor who falls back can help the retake instead of dying for nothing.
A good anchor is calm and patient. Their stats rarely look spectacular, but a site that holds for ten extra seconds often decides the round.
The opposite approach is a stack: extra players on one site, leaving the other weaker.
Learn more in CT Side vs T Side.
Related guides
CT Side vs T Side: How Sides and Halftime Work in CS2In CS2, Terrorists attack and Counter-Terrorists defend. How each side wins a round, when teams switch at halftime and which maps favor CT or T side.
RotateTo rotate in CS2 is to move from one bombsite to another, usually on the CT side, after reading where the Ts are going.
StackA stack in CS2 is when a team puts more players than usual in one place, such as four CTs on one bombsite.
RetakeA retake in CS2 is when CTs move back into a bombsite after the bomb is planted, kill the defenders and defuse within 40 seconds.
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