Kitchen corner, top lock: Nighthaven Labs Kitchen defense strat

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What we changed: The three downstairs zones (Kitchen corner with Mute or Wamai, Break with Warden watching the knee holes, Games/90 with Castle barricading Storage, bottom Aqua, Cargo and the 90 window) and the two upstairs spots (Clash on the Mezzanine, Bandit on Connector) are R6Mint's higher-rank setup (Aug 2025). Fett (Aug 2026) confirms the Freezer holes, the Games rotate with its long angle on the breach and the top-of-Lobby-stairs shield as the only real power spot, and offers the bunker option for ranked. alyttleton (Aug 2025) adds the head holes for C4s onto the Lobby breach, the small Exo rotate and running out at the end of prep to reinforce the outside hatch. r6prep's current (Y11S3) summary says the same: Cafeteria corner against the window, knee-high Freezer holes, top of the Lobby stairs. The recordings from mid-2025 predate the Sept 2025 modernization, which Ubisoft describes as visuals and destructible ingredients rather than layout changes. SiegeGG's 48% (346 rounds) is historical pro data. Changes for the current patch: Mute only jams remote devices since Y10S4, so Kaid is the pick against Thermite; Clash's SPSMG9 buff (Y11S3), Castle's 10-hit panels and Maestro's 9 s battery (Y11S3.1) and Warden's SMG-12 nerf (Y11S3) shaped the picks. Operator slots and timings are ours.

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