Discuss. (Don't flame or flame bait)

My opinion: AWP is better, a skilled player will rarely be caught off guard and will be able to stop and shoot, it isn't like it takes too long to pause and shoot with the AWP anyway. The scout isn't as accurate as you'd like to think while running neither. Nor is it all that much faster at shooting. The scouts rate of fire is regardless anyway, one awp shot will take down anybody with a scout. You could argue a skilled scout player can aim for the head, but that does not matter, that would mean, for the argument to be fair, the awper would have to be just as skilled. So it'd end up with two players shooting each other in the head simultaneously. In which case the awp would win as the bullet travels faster in CS:S. (Yes bullets have a speed in-game). The AWP can also wall-bang through thick surfaces that the scout cannot penetrate.

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The running speed hardly matters, most pro players will know when to have a pistol out. And any pistol only runs 10 units slower than the scout. And out of an entire professional game you wont see any rushes that rely on where you spawn and how fast you get to the bomb site.