How it works
From your match to a game plan
Coach pulls apart every moment of your match, grades what you did, and hands you the few things worth working on next. Here is what happens between the end of a match and your coaching report.
Setup
First, get connected
Setting up your account takes a few minutes. After that, every ranked match you play is downloaded and coached automatically.
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Create your account
Sign up for free, verify your email, then connect Steam so Coach knows who you are in each match. Link your match history so new matches download on their own, and link FACEIT too if you play there. The site walks you through each step on your first login.
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Play Counter-Strike
Coach can only analyze matches played after your account is set up, so go play. It downloads the match recording (the demo) once the match ends and analyzes it while you queue the next one. Nothing runs on your PC and nothing touches the game.
Good to know: Valve keeps match recordings for about a week, so check in with Coach at least weekly and nothing gets lost.
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Open your coaching report
Each match gets a report. The first card is the most important thing to work on, with the reason, a score out of ten, the resources to fix it, and links to the exact moments in the 2D viewer. Work down the list at your own pace.
Then: play more, and watch each assessment trend from red to green.
How Coach decides what to tell you
Coach looks at a lot in every match: more than 30 assessments, round after round. All of it at once would be overwhelming, so Coach does not dump it on you. It ranks everything it found by four things and leads with what matters most, the way a human coach would.
How well you did
Each assessment scores you out of ten, calibrated against the ratings real coaches give when they review matches.
How hard it is to fix
Quick wins come first. Deep habits come later, once the easy points are in the bag.
How much it changes winning
Some mistakes cost rounds every match. Others barely matter. Coach knows the difference from the data.
How relevant it is to you
Advice fits your playstyle. An entry fragger and a lurker do not get the same list.
Detecting individual mistakes is a much better way to improve than comparing your numbers to some benchmark. A benchmark tells you that you are below average. Coach tells you that you bought a kit with no bomb on the map in round 7, and shows you the round.
What Coach can detect
A few of the specific mistakes Coach finds: forgetting to buy armor, moving while shooting, missing trade kill opportunities, and moving towards opponents when you engage. Your results are grouped by the categories below, and we add more every month. Join the Discord to stay up to date or to ask for one.
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Economy
How you spend your money: first-round buys, save or buy decisions, pistol and rifle upgrades, kevlar, kits, the Zeus, and dropping for teammates.
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Grenades
Using utility well is tough. Coach can tell whether a smoke landed, whether a flash blinded enemies or teammates, and how much damage your HE grenades and molotovs did. No stats website can do that.
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Shooting
See enemy, shoot enemy. Is CS really that simple? Coach grades headshots, initial shots, spray length, recoil resets, stopping before you shoot, and shooting teammates.
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Teamwork
Helping your team is a crucial skill that the game never tracks. Coach detects trade kills, missed trade opportunities, whether your deaths got traded, and throwing utility together.
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Movement
Good movement brings your play to the next level. Coach can tell whether you counter-strafe properly, which way you move before you engage, and how fast you leave spawn.
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Other mistakes
Anything that does not fit a category yet. New detections often start here.
Growing -
Coming soon
Crosshair placement
Quick headshots are common at high ranks because of good crosshair placement. Not having to adjust makes for easy kills.
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Coming soon
Decision making
Rotate through cat or underpass? Throw a nade or reload? Peek or hide? So many choices to make.
Verify it
Every call, on the replay
When Coach says you made a mistake, you do not have to take its word for it. Each detail links to the exact tick in the 2D match viewer, so you can watch the round, see the mistake, and decide for yourself. Being able to verify the Coach has been part of the design from day one.
- Full-match replay with every player, weapon, and grenade
- Jump straight from an assessment to the moment it happened
- Share any match with a link
Resources picked for the mistake
Under every assessment sits a How to Improve tab with videos, explanations, and training exercises chosen for that exact problem. Watch the guide, run the drill, play, and see the score move. If you know a better resource, suggest it in Discord and we will add it.
Do the work and you rank up. Pro comes with a rank-up guarantee that says exactly that.
Common questions
- Will I be VAC banned?
- No. Coach analyzes your match after you have finished playing, and you do not install any programs. We give no advice while you play, because that would be cheating.
- Which matches count?
- Premier and competitive matchmaking, FACEIT, and any match recording you upload from your computer, from ESEA to your own server. Wingman works with reduced accuracy. Casual and Unranked have no recordings to analyze.
- How long does analysis take?
- We squeeze every bit of information out of each match, so analysis takes a few minutes: typically 2 to 4. Queue the next one; the report is waiting when you get back.
Ready to rank up?
Create a free account, connect your matches, and get your first coaching report after your next game.
Pro is covered by the rank-up guarantee.