Five-SeveN | Monkey Business (Field-Tested)

The Five-SeveN | Monkey Business in Field-Tested (FT) puts a yellow banana on the slide and carries the lowest price among Classified Five-SeveN pistols in this wear. Floats for this wear run from 0.15 to 0.38. The skin belongs to The Chroma 2 Collection, and the pistol drops from the Chroma 2 Case.

What the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business looks like in Field-Tested

Valve describes the finish in a single line: it's a banana. A yellow stripe runs along the slide almost from the muzzle, curves downward like a peel, drops down the front wall of the grip and ends in an orange-brown tip. The muzzle itself stays steel.

The rear part of the slide, the frame and the grip are dark, a steel gray. The trigger and a small lever are blue, and a round blue emblem sits on the peel near the grip. There are no other inscriptions.

The design is a smooth fill with one colored detail, so the scuffs of Field-Tested lie on an even background. The pattern is the same across the whole run.

Where the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business came from

The skin appeared on April 15, 2015, when The Chroma 2 Collection was added to the game.

What to check before buying

Before buying the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business, run through a few points:

• float: within 0.15 to 0.38, the scuffs on the yellow fill differ noticeably;


• the tip of the peel on the grip and the edges of the slide;


• any stickers or name tag already fitted to this copy.

No lucky pattern exists to hunt for on this pistol: there is always the same one. The finish's scale runs from 0.10 to 0.90, so Factory New does not exist for it, and there are four wears. The 0.15 to 0.38 band is long, 29% of the scale, and copies at its extremes differ noticeably.

What the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business costs in Field-Tested

The other wears against this one:

• Minimal Wear costs about 2.2 times as much;


• Well-Worn is level;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by about 6%.

The three lowest wears barely differ in price, so there is no reason to drop below FT to save money.

Among Classified Five-SeveN pistols in this wear, this finish is the cheapest. Five-SeveN | Fowl Play costs 1.6 times as much, Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale 1.7 times, and Five-SeveN | Fall Hazard seventeen times.

Getting the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business

The pistol drops from the Chroma 2 Case, and no other case holds the finish.

A contract for it takes ten skins one rank lower from a single collection. The set has three Classified skins, so the chance is one in three. The skin itself goes into the contract for Covert skins, which yields M4A1-S | Hyper Beast or MAC-10 | Neon Rider.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business exists. Souvenir copies of the finish turn up as well, although no packages were ever issued for it: those were made only for the tournament map collections. Such copies are built through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a regular skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business

The slide is a smooth yellow fill with a single stripe of peel, so there is more room for a sticker than on busier finishes. Dark stickers read better on the yellow than light ones. Blue ones clash with the emblem on the grip, and in a CS2 craft they are best kept away from it.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested suits the Five-SeveN | Monkey Business under these conditions:

• you want a recognizable Classified Five-SeveN for CS2 at the bottom price of the rank;


• Minimal Wear costs 2.2 times as much, and you do not want that extra charge;


• you choose the copy by float within a long band.

There is no saving below FT: Well-Worn costs the same, and Battle-Scarred is cheaper by only a few percent.