AK-47 | Slate (Factory New)

In Factory New (FN) the AK-47 | Slate is a Restricted rifle from the Snakebite Case, and its finish carries not one colored patch. The float runs from 0.00 to 0.07, which is 7% of the skin's scale.

What the AK-47 | Slate looks like in Factory New

Valve describes the finish as black on black on slate-black. It has no colored details: only shades of black can be told apart. In Factory New there is almost no sign of wear, so the design shows as it was intended.

Wear is fixed at the drop, and in this wear it is minimal: the float is capped at 0.07.

Where the AK-47 | Slate came from

The skin is part of the Snakebite Case and the Snakebite Collection of the same name, both released on May 4, 2021. In its post Valve called the case a set of 17 community finishes and said that Broken Fang gloves were also included as rare special items. The finish's catalog number in Valve's system is 1035.

What to check before buying

When choosing an AK-47 | Slate, pay attention to the following:

• float: the band from 0.00 to 0.07 is narrow, and listings inside it are almost equal;


• the name tag and stickers this AK-47 | Slate already carries.

The pattern is fixed, so the price does not depend on it, and with a band this narrow the copies hardly differ from one another.

What the AK-47 | Slate costs in Factory New

The other wears, relative to this one:

• Minimal Wear costs 2.2 times less;


• Field-Tested costs 3.6 times less;


• Well-Worn costs 4.2 times less;


• Battle-Scarred costs 4.3 times less.

Among Restricted AK-47 skins, the Slate in this wear sits in the middle of the list. It costs about a fifth more than AK-47 | Midnight Laminate and about two fifths less than AK-47 | Blue Laminate.

Getting the AK-47 | Slate

The AK-47 | Slate is part of the Snakebite Case.

In a trade-up contract, ten skins of the rank below from this collection can come out as the AK-47 | Slate. The collection has seven Mil-Spec skins and five Restricted ones, so the chance of this skin is one in five.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AK-47 | Slate has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were released with this skin, but an ordinary copy can be turned into a souvenir through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Slate

The finish is built entirely from shades of black, so colored stickers do not fight the design, while dark and black ones hardly read on it. Bright and light stickers suit a build here.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AK-47 | Slate in this wear makes sense when:

• you need a black AK-47 for CS2 with no signs of wear;


• you need a base for light stickers: on black they give maximum contrast;


• a clean design matters: Minimal Wear costs 2.2 times less, but the wear is already there.