Lair — Lab / Lab Support (B)
Operator picks, callouts, utility, and bans for Lab / Lab Support on Lair. Both attack and defense covered.
Open interactive Lab / Lab Support strat →B — Lab / Lab Support
attack
Map control first: Finka and Iana clear Lab Support side while Sledge sets up vertical pressure. Sledge opens 1F soft floors above Lab to deny basement defender setup. Once site is droned and roamers are pressured, Twitch clears the wall and Ace opens. Open hatches with Sledge from 1F — vertical from above is the cleanest B exec.
defense
Kaid denies the hard-breach on Lab with electrified walls. Mira places a Black Mirror between Lab and Lab Support for sightlines on incoming pushes. Aruni ADS protect anchors from grenades. Vigil roams to delay the push; Thunderbird provides sustain or last-second plant denial. Reinforce all 1F hatches — basement is exposed to vertical otherwise.
Map-wide ban recommendations (Lair)
- Thatcher (attack ban) — Lair's basement Vault walls and 1F Workshop reinforcements rely on electronic denial. Without Thatcher, attackers must use slow Twitch or Kali plays to clear Kaid and Bandit setups.
- Maverick (attack ban) — Maverick silently opens reinforced walls in Vault and Workshop with zero counter-play. Banning him removes the only uncounterable hard breach option on Lair's tightest sites.
- Mira (defense ban) — Black Mirrors on Workshop connector and Surveillance hallway walls give defenders dominant intel and deny safe attacker pushes on Lair's strongest sites.
- Smoke (defense ban) — Lair's narrow corridors and chokepoints leading into every site make Smoke's canisters devastating for denying late-round plant attempts.
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