Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the most scuffed wear of the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love, with floats running from 0.45 to 1.00. That is 55% of the scale, more than half. The skin is Classified and belongs to the Recoil Collection. In this condition it is the shotgun for CS2 with an anime heroine on the receiver.

What the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love looks like in Battle-Scarred

The body is painted matte purple: forend, barrel, trigger guard and stock share one dark shade. On the side panel of the receiver is an anime-style heroine with large eyes, in pink and lilac tones. Valve describes her as a woman with stars in her eyes.

In Battle-Scarred the wear covers a visible share of the surface. The purple paint on the forend and stock rubs through. The artwork on the panel remains the main splash of color, the thing by which the gun is recognized.

Where the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love came from

The Recoil Collection opened on July 4, 2022, and the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love was there from day one. Valve released the Recoil Case at that time, with 17 finishes by community artists, and made the Broken Fang Case Gloves rare special items in it. No source names the author of the finish. Valve's tagline for it reads: "I won't take no for an answer; I have to have it!"

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love comes down to these points:

• float: here it runs from 0.45 to 1.00;


• any stickers on the body and a name tag, if present;


• item type: the finish has a StatTrak version, and such a listing is a separate entry.

The Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love has no pattern variants, so there is nothing to choose by there. Between 0.45 and 1.00 sits enough difference to make comparing several listings worthwhile.

What the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love costs in Battle-Scarred

• Factory New costs 3.87 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.59 times as much;


• Field-Tested costs 1.15 times as much;


• Well-Worn costs 1.10 times as much.

Battle-Scarred is the cheapest of the skin's five wears. The three nearest wears cost 10, 15 and 59 percent more, while Factory New lifts the price almost fourfold.

There are only three Classified Sawed-Offs, and in this wear Kiss♥Love is the cheapest. Sawed-Off | Devourer costs a bit over one and a half times as much, Sawed-Off | Wasteland Princess more than seven and a half times.

Getting the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love

The skin drops from the Recoil Case.

The second route is the trade-up. Ten Restricted skins go in, from anywhere, and the inputs decide which collection the result comes from. Ten Restricted skins of the Recoil Collection itself return one of its three Classified skins, and this shotgun is one of them.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love has a StatTrak version. The finish has no souvenir packages.

Stickers and craft on the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love

The forend and stock are filled with solid purple, which makes an even field for stickers. Light and pink stickers read well on it, dark ones blend in. It is better not to cover the artwork on the receiver panel: it is the main feature here, and stickers look good beside it.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is worth buying on the Sawed-Off | Kiss♥Love for reasons like these:

• you want a purple shotgun with an anime heroine at the lowest price of the finish;


• paying 3.87 times as much for clean paint does not appeal;


• a craft needs a solid purple background, and signs of wear are acceptable.

If the wear bothers you, the nearest step up is Well-Worn, at 1.10 times the price.