Tec-9 | Decimator (Field-Tested)

The Tec-9 | Decimator in Field-Tested (FT) is a neon build of light blue and pink on the Terrorist-side Tec-9 pistol in CS2. Classified rank, and the skin belongs to The Shattered Web Collection. The finish comes in all five wears, and its float runs from 0.00 to 0.75. The band for this wear of the Tec-9 | Decimator lies between 0.15 and 0.38.

What the Tec-9 | Decimator looks like in Field-Tested

The barrel shroud is raspberry, with round perforations, and the slide is dark purple with a light blue trim along its top edge. The receiver is gray, crossed by thin light blue lines. The magazine is black: light blue and pink facets fan out across it like a mesh of polygons, and pink spreads from the base. Valve describes the finish as light blue and pink accents.

In Field-Tested the wear marks are already there, settling on the edges of the slide and the receiver. The wear is recorded at the moment of the drop and stays the same afterward. On the Tec-9 | Decimator the float number counts for more than the label, since the 0.15 to 0.38 stretch holds different looks.

Where the Tec-9 | Decimator came from

The Tec-9 | Decimator has belonged to The Shattered Web Collection since the collection's very release on November 19, 2019. Valve launched the collection together with Operation Shattered Web and the case of the same name.

What to check before buying

A few points are worth checking before buying the Tec-9 | Decimator:

• float: inside 0.15 to 0.38 the look of the parts varies noticeably;


• stickers and a name tag already on this particular Tec-9 | Decimator;


• version: a StatTrak lot is listed as its own item.

Hunting for the Tec-9 | Decimator by pattern index is pointless, because the design does not change.

What the Tec-9 | Decimator costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs about six times as much, Minimal Wear (MW) a little over twice as much, and Well-Worn a quarter more. Battle-Scarred is level with Field-Tested.

The Well-Worn band, 0.38 to 0.45, takes 0.07 of the scale, and Battle-Scarred, 0.45 to 0.75, takes 0.30. Among the Classified Tec-9s in Field-Tested the Decimator is the most expensive: the Fuel Injector is almost a quarter lower, and the Remote Control costs more than five times less.

Getting the Tec-9 | Decimator

The Tec-9 | Decimator drops from the Shattered Web Case, and no other case carries this finish. A contract for the Tec-9 | Decimator takes ten skins of the next rank down. If they come from the same collection, the chance of getting exactly this skin is one in three.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Tec-9 | Decimator has a StatTrak version. No souvenir packages were ever issued for this finish, but you can build a souvenir copy yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the Tec-9 | Decimator

The pattern on the pistol is dense: the shroud and the magazine are covered in lines and mesh, so a sticker easily gets lost. The gray receiver is the calmest spot, and a sticker reads clearly there.

The light blue and pink palette takes cool white and light blue stickers best. Colorful stickers on neon lines fight the pattern, and the craft ends up noisy.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Tec-9 | Decimator in Field-Tested makes sense if at least one of these holds:

• you want a neon Tec-9 in light blue and pink, and Factory New costs about six times as much;


• price matters more than a slide and receiver free of marks;


• you need the Terrorist-side pistol in CS2 matches, and you want a finish that stands out with a bright palette.