Interesting pattern indexes are not limited to famous finishes like Fade and Case Hardened. In CS2, collectors also pay attention to the layout on lesser-known skins: Glock-18 | High Beam, Desert Eagle | Hypnotic, CZ75-Auto | Polymer, MP5-SD | Lab Rats and SSG 08 | Abyss. Most of them cost under a dollar or a few dollars, so a rare pattern can noticeably lift the price of a single copy; the most expensive skin here, the Desert Eagle | Hypnotic, starts at around $160 on LIS-SKINS.
We explain why the pattern number changes both the look and the value in how the pattern index affects value, and our guide on how to check a skin pattern in CS2 shows how to find the index of your own copy. Below are the guns where certain indexes are considered especially desirable.
Glock-18 High Beam
The texture of this pistol is a set of concentric circles, but only a small part of it ends up on the weapon. The most valued copies of the Glock-18 High Beam are those where the stripes cover most of the surface and sit as close to the muzzle as possible, for example #511 or #550. The skin is Industrial Grade, comes only in Factory New and Minimal Wear and drops from Inferno Souvenir packages. A regular copy costs under a dollar, so even a few extra dollars for a good index is a meaningful premium.
Desert Eagle Hypnotic
Another striped design is the Desert Eagle Hypnotic. Its stripes cover not only the top of the gun but the entire body. The most popular copies are those where the center of the circles lands as close as possible to the center of the slide and the stripes spread evenly across the surface. This is a Classified skin from the very first CS:GO Weapon Case (the Arms Deal Collection, 2013). It exists only in Factory New and Minimal Wear and costs from around $160, with StatTrak at about $190.
CZ75 Auto Polymer
The slide of this pistol is covered with a geometric pattern that resembles a complex chemical structure: green and blue on a black and gray background. How the colored gradient is placed on the gun depends on the pattern index. The rarest version of the CZ75 Auto Polymer is the completely black one, since only four pattern indexes produce it. Another popular version keeps the whole pattern blue with no green (there are more than thirty such indexes). The skin comes from the Glove Case and costs from about a dollar in Minimal Wear and around $5 in Factory New, so a good index adds a noticeable premium.
MP5-SD Lab Rats
At first glance the MP5-SD Lab Rats looks rather plain: a surface in various shades of dark green covered with rats with glowing eyes. A lucky pattern index changes that, because red rats can appear among the dark ones. The skin belongs to the Blacksite Collection, exists only as a Souvenir and comes in Factory New, Minimal Wear and Field-Tested; a regular copy costs under a dollar.
SSG 08 Abyss
Finally, the SSG 08 Abyss is worth a mention: an old skin that has kept its popularity. It was added in 2014 with the Operation Breakout case. The texture paints the rifle in a black and blue pattern that resembles the deep sea. The pattern index rarely adds much to its price, but some players prefer copies where blue covers most of the body. It comes in all five wears: Field-Tested costs under a dollar, Factory New about $4.
