Sticker | Hydro Wave

The Sticker | Hydro Wave is a High Grade sticker from the Elemental Craft Sticker Pack. It is paper, with no lettering or frames: a single curl of water that adds a cold blue accent to a weapon.

What the Sticker | Hydro Wave looks like

The design is one large wave. A turquoise-blue crest arcs from left to right and downward, with light highlights and dark blue veins inside it. Splashes and drops of different sizes scatter around it, and some fly far from the main mass.

There is no background, so the design sits on the metal by itself. On a dark weapon the water glows, while on light camouflage the nearly white edges get lost and only the blue mass of the crest remains.

The finish is regular paper: matte print with no hologram or shine. The arc matches the shape of the red lenticular wave from the same pack, though that one is red and made in the lenticular finish.

Where the Sticker | Hydro Wave came from

The Elemental Craft Sticker Pack came out on October 2, 2024, with The Armory update. The pack's theme is the elements, and Hydro Wave represents water.

It never dropped from capsules. The pack was bought with Armory credits, where one credit gave a random item from the chosen collection.

On July 8, 2026, Valve removed Elemental Craft from the Armory. New copies no longer appear, and the number of stickers in the game is fixed.

How the sticker works

The Hydro Wave can go on any firearm. A weapon has five sticker slots, and the player sets position and rotation: the wave works well run along the receiver or turned on the handguard. Knives and gloves take no stickers, since they have no slots.

The sticker gets wear only by hand, and it can never get its earlier look back. On its final step the sticker vanishes from the weapon. Sticker wear and the weapon's own wear are unrelated, so the weapon's float does not change.

Stickers have no StatTrak, no Souvenir version and no trade-up contract.

What the Sticker | Hydro Wave costs

This design has no other finishes, so the comparison has to happen within the pack. By price the Hydro Wave ranks 25th of 26, almost at the very bottom of Elemental Craft.

Twelve other stickers in the pack are priced exactly the same. The top of the list belongs to the red lenticular wave, and the gap between them is huge: the same curl in a completely different finish.

Issuance is closed, so the supply only stays where it is.

In CS2 a sticker gives no gameplay advantage, so people pay for the look and for a place in a collection.

Who it suits

• You want a blue accent on a dark weapon.


• You are building a water-themed craft: the wave pairs well with the fire and lightning from the same pack.


• You need a sticker for testing position and wear that you will not mind scraping away.


• You are completing the Elemental Craft Sticker Pack collection and still lack the paper water.