Read

Where pre-fire is "the execution of placing a line of fire first", Read is "the predictive judgment of why you place it there". Reading the enemy's rhythm — the timing of stepping in and out, the direction of the regroup, dribble habits — and pre-placing on it is rated as high-level decision making. In VOD review and casting it draws praise as "that is a complete read", but that is inseparable from the risk that a missed read turns you into the greedy/ego one. Concretely, where Read pays off: pre-reading the route of an opponent who dribbles frequently and preparing a line of fire for it, reading the movement out of a regroup and entering the engage first, reading habits in the enemy's Ult timing and preparing a counter — these are the typical cases. Whether you can move on prediction rather than reaction is one of the biggest gaps between the top and everyone below.

When you have the enemy's behavioral patterns mapped from VOD or scrims, punish the moment they go for the same habit again by pre-placing for it. Any situation where you move on prediction rather than reaction: anticipating dribble, regroup, and engage timings.