AWP | Atheris (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) on the AWP | Atheris is the far end of the wear scale: its float band takes up 55 percent of the skin's scale. The rank is Restricted, and the skin sits in the Prisma Case and belongs to The Prisma Collection. In Battle-Scarred the AWP costs many times less than the Factory New version.

What the AWP | Atheris looks like in Battle-Scarred

The base is dark, blue-black with cool highlights. A bright green snake with drawn scales lies across the stock and receiver, and the rings at the muzzle and around the front lens of the scope glow green. This is the very atheris viper of Valve's description: hand-drawn in green and blue over black.

The float lies between 0.45 and 1.00, so two listings with the same label can differ a great deal. The value is set at drop and does not increase later.

Where the AWP | Atheris came from

Graff drew the finish. In Valve's catalog it carries number 838. The Prisma Collection was released on March 13, 2019, and the skin has been in the set since launch.

What to check before buying

The differences between listings of the AWP | Atheris come from these things:

• float: the 0.45 to 1.00 band is wide, the wear label is the same, the condition is not;


• stickers and a name tag that the AWP | Atheris got from a previous owner;


• whether it is a Souvenir copy, which carries gold tournament stickers on the body.

The AWP | Atheris has no two different artworks, so there is no special pattern index to look for.

What the AWP | Atheris costs in Battle-Scarred

Next to Battle-Scarred, the remaining wears price out as follows:

• Factory New costs 8.54 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 2.21 times as much;


• Field-Tested costs 1.25 times as much;


• Well-Worn is priced almost level, within three percent.

Among Restricted AWPs in this wear, the Atheris is third from the top of seven. Above it stand the AWP | Exoskeleton (by roughly a seventh) and the AWP | Pink DDPAT. Below come the AWP | Black Box, AWP | Exothermic, AWP | PAW and AWP | Pit Viper.

Getting the AWP | Atheris

The skin drops from the Prisma Case. A trade-up contract yields it as well: ten skins one rank down go in. Assemble ten from the Prisma set and the result comes from the same set. It holds five Restricted skins, so the chance of this AWP is one in five.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AWP | Atheris has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were released for this finish, but you can make a Souvenir copy yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Atheris

The dark base holds any color. Green and blue stickers merge into the snake, while white and red give contrast. The snake takes up the stock and receiver, and a sticker over it would cover the artwork; the barrel and bipod are freer.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is worth buying in these cases:

• you want a bright AWP for CS2 at the lowest price among the skin's wears;


• the snake matters more than clean paint, and wear on a dark base does not bother you;


• you are ready to compare listings by float, because the band for this wear is wide.

If you want cleaner paint, the nearest step up is Field-Tested, which costs 1.25 times as much.