AK-47 | Fire Serpent (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the cheapest of the five wears of the AK-47 | Fire Serpent. Float runs from 0.45 to 0.76, which is 44% of the finish's scale. It is Covert rank, drops from the Operation Bravo Case and belongs to The Bravo Collection.

What the AK-47 | Fire Serpent looks like in Battle-Scarred

The wooden parts, meaning the stock, the grip and the handguard, are painted an even orange to look like lacquered wood, with no artwork. Everything else belongs to the serpent. Its green body runs along the receiver and the dust cover. The head, with an open mouth, white fangs and a yellow eye, sits where the handguard meets the receiver. Yellow-gold marks that look like hieroglyphs lie on the dust cover. The magazine is dark turquoise with a gray-green pattern.

Battle-Scarred is where the most has worn away. The raised plate carrying the serpent's head lightens first, together with the edges of the dust cover, and then the corners of the orange stock give way. The dark magazine hides scuffs longer than the other parts, so the artwork reads better there than on the receiver.

Where the AK-47 | Fire Serpent came from

The Steam Workshop has nothing to do with the AK-47 | Fire Serpent: Valve made the artwork. In the skin catalog it is number 180.

The Bravo Collection was added to the game on September 19, 2013, and the AK-47 | Fire Serpent appeared in the same update.

What to check before buying

Points that matter at purchase:

• float. Copies in this wear come from the 0.45 to 0.76 range;


• the serpent's head and the dust cover, where wear shows first;


• stickers and a name tag, both of which go with the rifle.

There is no choosing by pattern, since it is the same on every listing. The pick here is within a 0.45 to 0.76 band, and the look differs at its two ends.

What the AK-47 | Fire Serpent costs in Battle-Scarred

The other four wears all cost more:

• Factory New, about four times as much;


• Minimal Wear, almost twice as much;


• Field-Tested, about a third more;


• Well-Worn, about one and a half times as much.

Among Covert AK-47 skins in this wear, the finish is third by price out of twenty-three: only AK-47 | Gold Arabesque and AK-47 | Wild Lotus are above it. The nearest below, AK-47 | X-Ray, is about a third cheaper. After that the drop is sharp. AK-47 | Neon Revolution, AK-47 | The Empress and AK-47 | Vulcan cost about a fifth of its price. AK-47 | Aphrodite is more than fifty times cheaper.

Getting the AK-47 | Fire Serpent

The AK-47 | Fire Serpent drops from the Operation Bravo Case. The finish has no other cases.

To get it through a contract, you hand in ten skins of the rank below. AWP | Graphite, P2000 | Ocean Foam and P90 | Emerald Dragon will all do. With all ten from the Bravo Collection, which has two Covert skins, the odds are one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

An AK-47 | Fire Serpent with StatTrak exists. Souvenir copies of the finish turn up as well, but no souvenir packages were released for it: those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are assembled through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Fire Serpent

There are two even fields here: the stock and the wooden part of the handguard, both orange and plain. The green receiver is taken by the serpent's body, and the magazine by its gray-green pattern. Gold and turquoise stickers pick up the palette of the finish, and red ones echo the ornament near the head. In CS2 on a Battle-Scarred copy, choose a spot away from the plate with the head, since the scuffing starts there.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred on the AK-47 | Fire Serpent makes sense when:

• you want the most accessible way into the skin, since the other wears cost more;


• the serpent itself and the green and gold palette matter for a CS2 loadout, more than a clean body;


• a wide float band suits you, so you can pick a copy for the look you need.

Near the upper bound of 0.76 the orange wood and the gold are noticeably duller than at 0.45.