MP9 | Mount Fuji (Battle-Scarred)

The MP9 | Mount Fuji in Battle-Scarred (BS) is the most scuffed wear of the finish. The scale is cut off at the top, since the skin's float ceiling is 0.55, so Battle-Scarred takes only 0.45 to 0.55, or 18% of the scale. It is a Restricted skin from The Operation Riptide Collection, and in CS2 it is a submachine gun with a mountain view that you can buy in this state.

What the MP9 | Mount Fuji looks like in Battle-Scarred

The body is painted like a dawn sky: pink at the top, shading to blue toward the grip and the magazine well. A red disc of the sun stands on the receiver, with the silhouette of a mountain with a white peak beside it. The grip and handguard are covered in wavy lines. The magazine and stock are gray, with no paint, and the barrel shroud is black.

Valve writes that the acrylic painting is used as a pattern, so a weapon can look different from another copy. On Battle-Scarred, wear takes a noticeable share of the surface, and it reads better on the light pink field than on the blue.

Where the MP9 | Mount Fuji came from

The MP9 | Mount Fuji entered the game on September 22, 2021, the day Operation Riptide launched. Valve's greeting to players was "Dive into Operation Riptide, available now!" The sources do not name the finish's author. A line from the item description reads "The red sun rises."

What to check before buying

On an MP9 | Mount Fuji listing, look at these things before paying:

• float: in this wear the band is 0.45 to 0.55;


• stickers and a name tag: on the MP9 | Mount Fuji they stay with the listing;


• placement of the mountain and the sun on the receiver: by Valve's account, it can differ between copies.

Within 0.45 to 0.55 there is no best copy to hunt for, and the drawing of the particular listing decides.

What the MP9 | Mount Fuji costs in Battle-Scarred

• Factory New costs 2.80 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.85 times as much;


• Well-Worn costs 1.39 times as much;


• Field-Tested costs 1.10 times what this wear does.

This is the cheapest wear of the finish, and Field-Tested costs only ten percent more. There are just six Restricted MP9 skins, and in this wear Mount Fuji is second from the top: only Bulldozer is above it, at more than twenty times the price.

Cheaper are Arctic Tri-Tone, Ruby Poison Dart, Goo and Urban Sovereign.

Getting the MP9 | Mount Fuji

The Operation Riptide Case is the direct source of this skin.

A trade-up contract leads here too. It takes ten Mil-Spec skins, whatever their origin. A player who takes the ten only from The Operation Riptide Collection picks among five Restricted skins of the set, so this submachine gun comes up one time in five.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The MP9 | Mount Fuji has a StatTrak version; there is no Souvenir version of the finish.

Stickers and craft on the MP9 | Mount Fuji

The pink-to-blue gradient makes an uneven backdrop: bright stickers get lost on it, while white and dark ones read. The gray magazine and stock give neutral areas for a craft. The sun disc and the mountain are better left uncovered.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred on the MP9 | Mount Fuji suits these purposes:

• you want an MP9 with a mountain view at the lowest price of the finish;


• paying 2.80 times as much for Factory New is not justified;


• a craft needs neutral gray parts rather than clean paint.

If you need less wear, the nearest step up is Field-Tested.