I stick near walls, or sharp corners and use smokes to get knife and "surprise ganks" to say. Anywhere where there's a depression in the wall, you can use and abuse it for your benefit. As long as you have a smoke and know when to use it, you're pretty much guaranteed to be safe and get a few picks, as long as it's not terribly overused, or there's not someone from the enemy team trying to get into the same spot as you lmao.
"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine" - A. A. Milne