Five-SeveN | Hybrid (Battle-Scarred)

In Battle-Scarred (BS) the Five-SeveN | Hybrid takes up more than half of the wear scale: 55% of the whole float range. It is a Restricted finish that drops from the Kilowatt Case. Of the seven Restricted Five-SeveN skins in this wear, the Hybrid costs the least, so here it can be had at the floor of the rank.

What the Five-SeveN | Hybrid looks like in Battle-Scarred

A pearlescent white-silver ground, with saturated violet stripes, lilac in places, running across the slide and frame. The strokes are uneven and thicken toward the middle, with ragged edges and thin drips. At the back the slide is left dark gray; silver is kept for the magazine and the bottom of the grip. Factory markings can be seen on the frame beneath the paint. Valve describes the finish just as briefly: a silver base and bright violet stripes.

The white ground gets dirty first, and the violet stripes on the rim of the slide wear down to gray. The wear is locked in at the moment the item drops and never changes after that. Battle-Scarred is a finished state for this pistol, with the darkest slide rim of all the wears.

Where the Five-SeveN | Hybrid came from

The finish is the work of Pet3d, on the Steam Workshop. The Five-SeveN | Hybrid appeared in the game on February 6, 2024, together with the Kilowatt Case. Valve's note puts seventeen community finishes in it, with the Kukri knife as the rare special item. The Valve catalog lists the finish under number 1168.

What to check before buying

What to compare when choosing a Five-SeveN | Hybrid:

• the float: the band is 0.45 to 1.00, and near its upper edge the frame shows more gray than white;


• the state of the stripes on the rim of the slide;


• an applied name tag and stickers, if this Five-SeveN | Hybrid already has them.

By float, this wear of the Five-SeveN | Hybrid spans 0.45 to 1.00. Listings within that stretch differ noticeably by eye. What tells copies apart is wear alone, as they all carry one artwork.

What the Five-SeveN | Hybrid costs in Battle-Scarred

The price ladder of this finish does not follow wear. Factory New costs more than six times as much as Battle-Scarred, and Minimal Wear almost twice as much. Field-Tested costs about a tenth more, while Well-Worn is a few percent cheaper.

Here the Hybrid is the lowest-priced Restricted Five-SeveN. Above it, in order, come Five-SeveN | Buddy, Five-SeveN | Retrobution and Five-SeveN | Triumvirate. Then comes Five-SeveN | Case Hardened, and Five-SeveN | Neon Kimono holds the top of the row.

Getting the Five-SeveN | Hybrid

Mostly it comes out of the Kilowatt Case. A contract is the other route: ten Mil-Spec skins from any collections go in, and the result comes from the collection of one of them. Taking all ten from the Kilowatt is the player's choice that steers the outcome, not a requirement; with such a ten the pool holds the five Restricted finishes of the set, and this pistol gets one chance in five.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak is available on the Five-SeveN | Hybrid; Souvenir packages for this finish are not.

Stickers and craft on the Five-SeveN | Hybrid

The light, pearlescent frame accepts any sticker: dark and colored artwork reads on it without a backing. The violet stripes on the slide compete with a sticker for color, so level spots for one are few. In CS2 the frame, not the slide, is where a sticker belongs on this pistol.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Five-SeveN | Hybrid in Battle-Scarred makes sense when:

• you want a Restricted pistol in CS2 at the lowest price in the row;


• wear is no obstacle and the violet stripes are wanted as a color accent;


• the skin is going into a contract, not a display case.