This is my first legend skill train, looking for advice. What’s the best way to finish these skills? I’m thinking 6-8-5 or 5-8-7.

So I think ground baller is good but not sure if it’s better than finesse, what are the early results?

20k (before the Overpass incident..)
Some Advice for an easier climb in Counter Strike.
Skip ahead to 1. if you dont care about a little intro, I believe its important though to share where i am coming from to understand why i have some strong opinions on some things and why they worked out for me.
Ive climbed about 4 times in csgo from decay after a long break back to Global Elite,In CS2 I got placed in 1500 premiere points and am now over 20000 Elo, (but probably already decayed sincethe cheaters made me switch back to faceit lol)
I dont believe at all that the ranking system is broken. (only the AC) I have a 20k a 17k and a 15k account. On 15kI put in PP-Bizon, Scar20 and M249 and will go for more than 30 Frags in 9/10 games.On 17k I will need to make an effort to go for 30 Frags and on 20k games, Im finally where I belong andcant pop off every game anymore. Mistakes and Bad Weapon Choice will get punished and even when my aim is crispI will mostly die off to a Trade and go something like 20/18 or 18/20 in the end of the game.I know you are tilted because of teammates and search someone to blame, Ive been there a million times withthousands of play hours in dota, league, Overwatch, cs, valorant and all other kind of competetive games.The good thing for me about CS was always: Its a shooter. And its a no hero shooter. YOU alone can turn a game (given there is no cheater) into a win. There is no paper scicor rock role bs that screws you if your teammate cant play their role. You dont need your teammates in SoloQ. Not. At. All.Yes, there are roles like lurker, Entry Fragger, someone to trade you off and so on, but i will get to that in the advice part and you will see its not that much of a problem. My most kill game back in CSGO turned out as a draw so I know well enough that you cant carry every SINGLE game.But as long as you play above your elos average you will climb, the more out of your average you play, the faster thats going to happen."But I loose more Points than I win!" - Thats because you lost a lot recently or have been stuck at the same rank for eternity.Both are good reasons for the system to "punish" you. It works the same way whenever you go on a winning streak. (And its very common! All of the games mentioned above handle the rating system the SAME way!)My friend gets +450 -100 on average, but if you check his leetify he has a 62% winrate, while ive never seem someone complain about the elosystem with a winrate better than 52%. If you have about 100 games and a 52% winrate, im sorry to say but you are where you currently belong. You cant make enough of a difference by yourself - against enemies that are at the same elo, to win more games than to loose. So what, you won 2 more games out of 100?You see, thats not really doing anything. Therefore you deserve the elo you play on = the system works.
Now please have a cup of coffee, lean back and let me tell you what you can do to increase your winrate and climb.
And yes, CS2 is full of cheaters. Counter Strike always was. This is a big problem that you cant really do anything about. I collected more than 80 clips of differnt cheaters on my climb andI even made a Montage for my channel from the most blatant ones. Yet Im still on 20k. So dont let them give you an excuse. If you want to climb, you will just need to live with the fact that some peopleare spineless whimps. AFKIng out on cheaters always worked best for me, get them bored, dont let them have fun. Oh and if you are a 5-Stack you can always try to report the account as stolen, worked ONCE out of maybe 10-20 times to ban an enemy cheater midgame.

1. Learn the most important role.

So, Ive learned literally more than 500 lineups before realizing one simple truth:
Best thing you can do in SoloQ is to barely use your utility. Sounds really stupid right? But it isnt.
Hear me out on this example:
You want to take Ancient B, so you stay behind, ask for a smoke drop and get it. You smoke away long and short, maybe molotov cubby or pillar and give a support flashbang for your teammate pushing up ramp.
Where is the mistake in this?
This depends on your teammates, doing as you tell them and that they can win the gunfight with favored odds (because of your grenades)
So yes, for high elo games or more tryhard enviorements like faceit or 99dmg this is for sure the better play. But in SoloQ you need a mentality that YOU alone win the game.
You dont want to stay behind your team, you need to step up. I recommend you learn how to entry frag and lurk and switch between these two things depending on your spawn.
To stay at the Ancient Example: You have one of the best spawn for B and your team wants to go B? You will go entry frag. Thats your whole porpuse, Open the site, take and win the duels, go win.
Your team wants to go B and your spawn is terrible? Go lurk! Its SoloQ, they will end up making a lot of noise even if you would ask for a contact play. USE that!
Dont play against your team, use them. Lurk maybe around mid and wait for someone to jump up the boxes or try to sneak through A for a Backstack through CT on B.
You take the advantage by abusing your teams mistake. Same goes for trading, you cant expect good trades from SoloQ Teammates so be the change! You have second best spawn and the best spawn teammate actually goes where they belong to
act as an entry fragger? Be there, be the one to trade them off. You want to be the flexible one, you cant command your randoms, but you can see what they do and try to fill in the role that the team needs the most and that EVERY Single round anew.

1. Please play the afterplant.

I would bet my knife that most close games are lost because they were more afterplants thrown away than won.
4v3 Bomb down, yet you will see most people peak out from an advanteaugous spot to try and take another kill.
I feel you! Its nice having much kills and even if it works 2/3 times, wouldnt you prefer winning 3/3 rounds for a kill less?!
The goal of the afterplant is to have the bomb go off. If you take a good position and use your teammates as a bait, its almost impossible to loose the afterplant on the current maps.
Yet Retakes keep happening because people try to boost their stats.
2.1. Not only the enemies Economy takes damage.
As addition to point 2. a lot of people try to justify their throws by "wanting to damage the enemies economics"
This is a huge missconsumption. I also thought so and peaked and hunted people in or after the afterplant to hurt the enemies economy until a friend of mine,
(shoutout to dmitry <3 top 300 faceit) analyzed my replays and asked me to stop hunting people after the round. He went out of his way and actually calculated the numbers.
If you dont believe me, try it for yourself! analyze some of your demos and look for the moments after a round or when its close to finish.
make a list and on one site you will add all money you lost in weapons, util and equipment because you died to someone you were hunting and on the other site you write all numbers you TOOK from the enemies by hunting.
You will realize one thing that should be obvious in the first place (but wasnt to me either): you will loose more because obviously the one hiding and holding an angle is more often than not at an advantage.
So unless you are REALLY stacked out on economics, please just stop and start saving your weapons. Go with and behind your team, move with them so no one gets isolated finding the saving enemy on accident. be there to trade
and dont be the dick that goes hunting for the kill on their own.

1. A kill is not equal to a kill.

We all have this one friend who tends to frag out in our matches but doesnt want to play with us or just generally we loose more often with them than without them.
Thats for a simple reason. a kill does not equal a kill. Winning a 1v1 that allows your team to enter a site or winning a 1v1 in a clutch will win you the round.
a 5 man eco spraydown will also win you the round. But they are not equal at all. If that one guy didnt spray the 5 eco clowns with usp and p2000 down, the second one couldve done it.
If you didnt win the 1v1 clutch, the rounds over. Lost. So what does that mean? You need to value your own life. Yes, maybe if you chase the low HP enemy behind the corner, you get a freekill. Maybe your aim is insane and you will flick over
and also kill their backup, turning the game into a 5v3. Now you get traded because a third stacked their. its a 4v3, seems fine, youve done the work and if every round goes like this you should win and be bound to climb because
you are sooo good... Not. Sadly if you think like this you are missing out on the importance that the enemy that picked up your gun now, is as much of a human as you are. They could now get the drop on your teammates and win the round.
Because you are not there anymore to stop them and remember? YOU are the most important member of your team, speaking chess you are the queen and you left your pawns to play against unknown figures.
You need to value your life, you need to be there in the clutches but you cant do that when you greed for kills. This can be especially hard when you are (tip 1) the entry fragger, but you can work around it with movement.
Jiggle peak corners, dont repeak into angles that the enemy knows you are behind off and leave it be if you cant get the kill immediatly and try again from another angle. You. Need. to. be. alive.

1. Stop looking.

I literally mean it. I started to feel like I play worse whenever I look at a teammate while dead and see they have very sloppy movement or potatoe farmer crosshair placement.
I thought its just that, that they influence my way of playing because i see how its done wrong and adapt wrong, but actually ive stumbled accros an interview with a sport psychologist recently.
He asked how much time do you spend thinking about what the others around you do?
Can you influence that while playing?
No you cant, so you need to take that energy and brain capacity to think about what they are doing wrong.
What i do by now, I tap out the game when I die, I dont need to see my teammate failing, I dont need to think lower of them after seeing them choke, its not my business anymore, because i already died.
I need to think about myself and what i can do different to win that situation, so next time I wont die again.
I cant recommend this enough, you cant change your randoms, only yourself. So start doing that in your games and you will see that you learn and grow way faster than before.

1. Stop changing shit.

I know for things like the crosshair this has been a very split minded topic. Some like Niko of G2 say they change it every time they feel off and are not hitting as much and others like the aim legend shroud himself
once said: find the right one but just make sure to stick it and stop changing it once youve found it.
While I dont want to be absolute on the crosshair, i think this is insanely important for your mouse sensitivity and probably even res (4:3 / 16:9 / 21:9)
Your muscle memory learns specific patterns, if you just change your sens because you couldnt flick fast enough the entire week, you wont fix the problem, you will just relocate it.
Learn to be better with the setup you use instead of replacing it with other settings. There are insane good workshop maps, third party trainers and community servers that can help you train the ingame part.
As for Hardware, yes for the first time in my life i believe you have a small advantage with a higher hz monitor in CS2, but remember one thing: the first time i reached global i had 21-25 fps on my laptop on 4:3 800x600, a 5 euro cabel
mouse and couldnt play Mirage because the smokes would crash my PC. Good hardware is for sure an improvement on your gameplay. But its not a necessity and for sure you cant just buy your way up in skill by getting a more expensive setup.
In fact i would bet, if you could have whatever setup you wish for right now in your hands, you would play better on your old setup. "I just need to get used to it" yea great, while you take some weeks of getting used to it, others
keep training their skills on what they are already used on and therefore will improve while you get back to where you already where.

1. Manipulate the Queue.

Why? You will notice one thing from 18-22k. Its 10x more cheaters than on 15k and below.
If you invite someone from the "wants to play" tab with 2k less elo than you, they will probably do a little worse than anyone else, but you want to climb, you are responsible to carry the game!
They will allow you to play 1k underneath your current elo to dodge away from the cheaters and give you the potential to play against clean players and therefore boost your winrate.
Just be aware that if you invite "too low" players you will earn less points for a win and loose more for a loss. But if you are a good player who claims to win more games against clean opponents, than this should be totally worth it.

1. "The Gambling Effect"

I know, in the end even competive games are just games. So you shouldnt take advice on when you should play the game, but if you seriously want to give a lot of effort into climbing the ranks, consider this:
You know the feeling of playing all the way through the night. For me it often started like this: "I dont want to end up on a loose" - then I win a game and imagine that i could make a lot of + now that its back on.
Since i lost before i got nowhere anyway, another win would give me + for the day! Then i can stop! But if i win im on a streak and try to keep it going, if i loose i cant accept it and queue again. This is what i call the "gambling effect"
Setup a rule for yourself, for example: I end it after 2 losses in a row. and try your best to stick to it. Rage Queuing is something probably anyone did before.
My worst in CS2 was: 17k -> 14k (22:00 - 4:00) THEN I decided to keep going, to get the 17k back. And i did. (4:00 - 17:00) back to 17k. Literally 0 points progress in any direction. almost 20 fucking hours of counter strike on one go.
Seriously, try to find something to stop your rage queue because i bet if i just went to sleep after the first 2 losses, i wouldve gotten it all back and way more if i just waited for the next day when im refreshed and full focused again.
I hope these advices help you out on the ladder. Always remember to take it easy, in the end the climb is supposed to be a fun and tough challenge that we try to complete our own set of goals in.
I left out stuff like "learn this our that lineup/skill/movement/aim" stuff because its literally anywhere. Same for communication and so on. These are just insights that i noticed myself while climbing and i couldnt find anywhere else. Maybe
not everything here works as good for you, but I bet everyone can pickup or already does a point or two out of these.
Thats all ive got for now! BE safe, good luck and fk cheaters!

original skill point is 333. is this a good skills for a ss?

I am trading genned/cloned/hacked (the shiny keldeo) mons.