Galil AR | Cerberus (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the most worn of the five wears for the Galil AR | Cerberus, and also the longest one on the scale. It covers the band from 0.45 to 0.90: the finish tops out at a float of 0.90, so the band is cut off at the top. The skin is Restricted rank, belongs to The Cache Collection and is made for the Terrorist side. A Battle-Scarred copy of this Galil for CS2 costs almost the same as Well-Worn.

What the Galil AR | Cerberus looks like in Battle-Scarred

The base is dark green paint with a black pattern, and the bright spot comes from lemon yellow, which fills the handguard, gas tube, magazine and the stock's buttplate. Yellow also shows through on the receiver in patches. Valve describes the finish as a picture of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the underworld.

Wear is at its maximum in Battle-Scarred, and the paint is scuffed across the whole rifle. Within 0.45 to 0.90 the skin changes visibly, so choose a lot by its number. Near the bottom the finish still reads, and near the top the scuffs take up more of the surface.

What to check before buying

Lots of this skin are compared on the following points:

• the float: the band takes 50% of the finish scale, 0.45 out of 0.90, and two lots of the same wear can look quite different;


• stickers from a previous owner, and any rename;


• where the copy comes from: a Souvenir carries gold tournament stickers and a player autograph, a regular one does not.

Because the artwork never varies, pattern does not enter the choice.

What the Galil AR | Cerberus costs in Battle-Scarred

Other wears, relative to Battle-Scarred:

• Factory New is five times the price;


• Minimal Wear costs a little over double;


• Field-Tested is dearer by a few percent;


• Well-Worn is about 7% dearer.

The three lowest wears lie next to each other, and the noticeable jumps start higher up: before Minimal Wear and especially before Factory New.

Among Restricted Galil finishes in this wear, the skin is second from the top of ten: only Galil AR | Phoenix Blacklight is above it. Galil AR | Orange DDPAT is almost half the price, and Stone Cold, Crimson Tsunami, Firefight and Signal are 14 times cheaper or more.

Getting the Galil AR | Cerberus

There is no regular case for this finish. It is handed out by tournament Souvenir packages tied to the Cache collection: twelve of them, from ESL One Cologne 2014 to Katowice 2019. The alternative to buying is a trade-up: ten skins one rank lower give a Galil AR | Cerberus when they come from the same collection. The collection has two Restricted skins, so the odds in such a trade-up are one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is no StatTrak edition of this skin. Souvenir copies do exist: they came in the Cache tournament packages and can also be created with the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the Galil AR | Cerberus

On scuffed dark green paint a sticker changes the look of the weapon more than on a new one, because the pattern underneath is already partly worn away. Light and red stickers read clearly, yellow ones continue the color of the handguard and magazine, and dark ones merge into the base.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred makes sense on this Galil in the following cases:

• you want a Restricted Galil for CS2 at the price of the lower group of wears, and wear does not bother you;


• the skin itself matters, yellow and green with Cerberus, rather than clean paint;


• you are building a loadout around The Cache Collection and need copies from the Souvenir packages.