AK-47 | Jaguar (Well-Worn)

Well-Worn (WW) on the AK-47 | Jaguar is the float band from 0.38 to 0.45, and in price it is barely distinguishable from its neighbors. Field-Tested costs the same, and Battle-Scarred is cheaper by only a few percent. The rifle is Covert and drops from the eSports 2014 Summer Case.

What the AK-47 | Jaguar looks like in Well-Worn

Valve speaks of a panther on tiger-stripe camouflage. The model itself carries swamp-green camouflage with sandy and dark swirls and a thin cat outline on the dark receiver cover. The camouflage lies on the handguard, the receiver sides, the pistol grip and the magazine. The stock and the guard underneath stay ginger, because there is no paint on the wood.

By Well-Worn the paint has visibly thinned. The green borders of the handguard pale before anything else, followed by the magazine ribs and the receiver corners. The cat outline is made of thin pale lines and loses stretches at the folds of the cover sooner than the rest of the artwork. The red dot by the front of the receiver, the figure's eye, stays the brightest spot on the dark cover.

Where the AK-47 | Jaguar came from

Nobody submitted this finish to the Steam Workshop; it was drawn inside Valve. The AK-47 | Jaguar entered the game on July 10, 2014, and its number in the Valve finish catalog is 316.

What to check before buying

Copies of the AK-47 | Jaguar come down to these differences:

• the float: the band from 0.38 to 0.45 covers 7% of the skin's scale, and there is no best copy to find inside it;


• stickers and a name tag already on this copy of the AK-47 | Jaguar;


• the state of the outline on the cover: the listing photo shows how many lines survive at the folds.

Copies of the AK-47 | Jaguar differ only in wear, because the artwork is shared.

What the AK-47 | Jaguar costs in Well-Worn

Priced against Well-Worn, the other wears stand like this:

• Factory New: 4.3 times as much;


• Minimal Wear: 1.35 times as much;


• Field-Tested: the same price;


• Battle-Scarred: a shade cheaper, by a factor of 1.04.

So among the three lowest wears Well-Worn offers no saving, and there is a noticeable step up to Minimal Wear. Among Covert AK-47 skins priced in this wear, the Jaguar splits a row of twenty-four almost in half: eleven cost less, twelve cost more. Right around it stand AK-47 | AUTOEXEC and AK-47 | Consequence of the Jinn, with AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel a little higher. AK-47 | Leet Museo and AK-47 | B the Monster sit lower. The cheapest skin of the rank is AK-47 | Aphrodite and the most expensive is AK-47 | Wild Lotus.

Getting the AK-47 | Jaguar

The AK-47 | Jaguar can come out of a case. The other route is a trade-up contract, which consumes ten skins of the rank below. Two Covert skins share that collection, so with ten from it the contract lands on one of the two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AK-47 | Jaguar has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were issued for this finish, because those were made only for tournament map collections. You can still build a Souvenir copy yourself: the Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from the inventory. That is why the odd Souvenir copy turns up even where no packages ever existed.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Jaguar

Wear makes the background busier still, and a sticker on the handguard or magazine looks like part of a scuffed body. Light and white stickers stand out best on the dark receiver cover, but they would hide the cat outline. A craft is therefore easier to build on the wooden stock: the surface is flat and there is no paint on it.

Who this wear suits

Well-Worn on the AK-47 | Jaguar is worth buying when:

• you want the rifle for playing CS2 and scuffed edges do not bother you;


• you are choosing among the three lowest wears, whose prices are nearly the same, so the listing photo decides;


• the skin is for stickers, since the worn background does not spoil them.