While they’re certainly good players, neither were anywhere near the top 5 brazilian players in the CSGO scene. You can list at least 10 better players than them that are from Brazil (FalleN, coldzera, fer, kscerato, yuurih, arT, honda, kNgV, felps, HEN1, LUCAS1, VINI, boltz, yel, just off the top of my head)

CREA seems to only be able to carry against lower level teams who have not "studied" him. He plays an extremely risky omen that was effective in the early game when people weren't "wise to his tricks", but often just throws the round nowadays.

1. Phantom and Vandal are the main rifles. Phantom appears to be better in most situations unless your aim is extremly good, in which case you may feel comfortable using the vandal (see phantom as M4 and vandal as AK). In 2nd round (if you won first), halfbuys or force rounds you'll want to buy spectres or bulldogs (spectre = MP5, bulldog = FAMAS). In terms of pistols, ghost is probably the best gun all around, its a mix between usp and p250, classic is pretty trash though its right click is quite potent at close range. Sheriff is deagle equivalent but hard to use imo. The AWPerator is super meta right now and hard to shut down so if you're good with it you'll climb.

2. Watch pro teams or indeed what the guy above said.

3. Youtube vids I'm sure. The classes of agents are "initiator" = sets people up for fights (sova, breach), "controller"= changes the field of the map/influences sight lines (omen, brimstone, viper), "sentinels" = Basically cs anchors (killjoy, cypher, sage), "duelists" = entryfraggers/self-sufficient kits (jett, phoenix, raze, reyna). You basically always want a good mix of these on your team.

4. Some discords. Find a local one

5. Youtube + watch pro teams

6. It depends on your agent. The abilities don't cost the same for different agents so you see people buy stuff based on the agent and map. For example, Omen can buy a ghost, a flash and 1 of his teleports, making his kit nearly complete on pistol round. on raze, most people will buy more utility since it is fairly strong, and then buy armor and stick with classic. Think about what utility you want and then see how much you have left for pistols and whether sacrificing utility is worth it to get a ghost (which is much stronger than a classic).

I like the sage heal and slow nerf, however the wall nerf is overkill IMO. I see almost not viable situations to use the wall now except to boost people up pre-round

BIG news. He would be a good IGL addition to any team imo. We already know he can be adaptive (did the switch to OW at its early days)