★ Talon Knife | Fade (Factory New)

The ★ Talon Knife | Fade in Factory New (FN) has a curved blade with a transition from purple to pink and orange, and a light handle. The knife is Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and both the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case can give it. The finish comes in two wears: the scale breaks off at 0.08, which makes Minimal Wear (MW) the last one here. Factory New carries a float of 0.00 to 0.07.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Fade looks like in Factory New

The blade is sickle-shaped, with a row of serrations and three round holes in the spine. The color moves along it: violet-blue at the point, then crimson-pink, and orange toward the base of the blade. The cutting edge is light and silvery. The handle is ivory-colored with brass rivets, and the ring at the end is chrome. Valve describes the finish as translucent paints airbrushed over a chrome-plated base and running into one another.

In Factory New the color layer is intact on the edge and along the protruding rims of the blade. Wear was set at the drop, so the color of the blade does not change afterward.

Where the ★ Talon Knife | Fade came from

The Talon Knife belongs to the Horizon knife set. A note from Valve dated December 7, 2018 called these knives rare special items of the Danger Zone Case. So the finish has two cases: the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case.

What to check before buying

The differences between listings of the ★ Talon Knife | Fade come down to these:

• float: the 0.00 to 0.07 stretch is short for a talon, and differences in wear between listings vanish into the margin of error;


• the color transition on the blade, which you compare against the listing screenshot;


• name tag: a name on a talon, if there is one, stays with the new owner.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Fade costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs 1.2 times as much as Factory New. The scale of the finish ends at 0.08, and that wear takes up only the sliver from 0.07 to 0.08.

Among Covert talons, Fade in Factory New lies almost in the middle: nine finishes are cheaper and eleven are dearer. The nearest above are Night Stripe, Doppler Phase 4, Doppler Phase 3 and Doppler Phase 1, while Slaughter is below. Crimson Web, Doppler Ruby and Doppler Black Pearl take the top of the range.

Getting the ★ Talon Knife | Fade

The Talon Knife | Fade drops from the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case, with random wear. Five Covert skins from one collection go into a contract, and out comes a special item whose model and finish are decided by chance. A particular talon is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Talon Knife | Fade exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Talon Knife | Fade here, in Factory New, makes sense under these conditions:

• you want a colored talon with a transition from purple to orange and an intact edge;


• a bright CS2 loadout gets a colored blade, and the light handle sets it apart from the hands;


• of the finish's two wears you need the top one, since Minimal Wear costs 1.2 times as much.