AWP | Medusa (Well-Worn)

The AWP | Medusa in Well-Worn (WW) is a narrow slice of the scale, between Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred. By float, this wear of the AWP | Medusa takes up 0.38 to 0.45. Covert rank, and the AWP is from The Gods and Monsters Collection. The AWP | Medusa for CS2 was released in each of the five wears.

What the AWP | Medusa looks like in Well-Worn

The gorgon takes up the rear half of the rifle. The face, with its light eyes, lies on the stock, and snakes run from it along the side of the receiver in thin loops. The artwork is a pearlescent green shading into turquoise, and it throws a glint on the raised spots. The ground color is a dark navy, close to black.

Valve's own description says the rifle is painted with an image of a gorgon. Bare gray metal shows on the bolt, the guard and the magazine well, and the barrel and scope stay dark gray. In Well-Worn the pearl along the edges is already gray-blue and matte, while the face on the flat of the stock reads whole. This state is fixed at drop and does not change.

Where the AWP | Medusa came from

Valve itself is the author of the AWP | Medusa, and the finish has no outside artist. The skin was released on May 26, 2015. Its Valve catalog number is 446.

What to check before buying

Before paying for the AWP | Medusa, go through these points:

• float: the 0.38 to 0.45 band takes up 7% of the skin's scale;


• the pearl on the receiver rib and the cheek rest, where wear shows first;


• what a previous owner left on the AWP | Medusa: stickers and an applied name.

The 0.38 to 0.45 band is tight, and lots at its two ends differ only by the number.

What the AWP | Medusa costs in Well-Worn

The other wears, relative to Well-Worn:

• Factory New costs 2.98 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.70 times as much;


• Field-Tested costs 1.14 times as much;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by 1.07 times.

There is almost no difference between Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred, and the main step lies higher. Among Covert AWPs priced in this wear, the skin is third of seventeen: only AWP | Dragon Lore and AWP | Gungnir cost more. Next in line, AWP | Desert Hydra is almost half the price, and AWP | Oni Taiji seven times less.

Getting the AWP | Medusa

The AWP | Medusa is not part of any case: it was never put in one.

A trade-up also gets you the AWP | Medusa: it takes ten skins of the rank below from the set. The collection has one such skin, M4A4 | Poseidon, so the result of the contract is always the same.

StatTrak and Souvenir

No StatTrak version of the AWP | Medusa was ever made. There were no Souvenir packages for the finish; a souvenir copy is built by the owner through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which transfers gold tournament stickers and a player autograph onto a normal skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Medusa

Only the stock and the side of the receiver are painted, so a craft is usually moved to the unpainted half. Pearl under a sticker loses its glint, so there a sticker visibly mutes the artwork. Warm gold and red stickers read better than green ones on the dark blue.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AWP | Medusa in Well-Worn is reasonable in these situations:

• you want the gorgon drawing as a whole, not edges in factory condition;


• the skin is for CS2, where the state of the edges has no effect on shooting;


• Battle-Scarred saves only a few percent, so the price difference is nearly nothing.