USP-S | Monster Mashup (Battle-Scarred)

This is the USP-S | Monster Mashup in Battle-Scarred (BS), and for an acid-green USP it is the cheapest of the five wears. It is Classified, and the Operation Broken Fang Case is its source. The float band for this wear is 0.45 to 0.70. The skin's scale ends at 0.70, so the top of the band is cut off, and it takes 36% of the scale.

What the USP-S | Monster Mashup looks like in Battle-Scarred

Along the underside of the slide sits a row of white triangular teeth that give the pistol a mouth from end to end. The slide itself is light green and lime, marked with dark teal blotches and a yellow-green stripe running along the top. Dark teal with green covers the frame and grip, and the grip has a colorful scene in yellow, orange, blue and green. The trigger is iridescent, orange-pink.

The suppressor is dark blue-green with blotches and pale teal stripes, its end left as bare metal. Green letters on the slide spell a word resembling "MONSTER", with a black cross beside it. On the suppressor is a green square icon with X-shaped eyes.

At this wear, the first things to go are the teeth on the lower edge of the slide, the front cut and the serrations. Next the stripes on the suppressor rings lighten. The wide light-green planes and the scene on the grip hold out longest.

Where the USP-S | Monster Mashup came from

The skin was drawn by Nextgenz, and the Workshop entry was titled "USP-S | Krokos" and posted on March 6, 2020. The author called his work a 360 Flip-mod with a pearlescent effect and added that he was inspired by the artist Kaws. The Operation Broken Fang collection was released on December 3, 2020, and the USP-S | Monster Mashup has been part of the set since its release. Valve's catalog numbers it 991.

What to check before buying

What changes from listing to listing:

• float: between 0.45 and 0.70 the condition of the teeth on the slide varies visibly;


• the suppressor rings, where the light stripes wear second;


• stickers and an applied name, which pass to the buyer with the listing.

The artwork is identical across copies, and there is no specific one to track down. Between 0.45 and 0.70 sits enough difference to justify comparing several listings.

What the USP-S | Monster Mashup costs in Battle-Scarred

Factory New costs 3.2 times as much, Minimal Wear 1.6 times and Well-Worn 1.15 times. Field-Tested costs the same as Battle-Scarred.

Of the six Classified USP-S skins with a price in this wear, this one stands third from the bottom, with two cheaper and three dearer. USP-S | Spiral Glitch is practically level, USP-S | Whiteout costs twice as much, and USP-S | Orion more than eleven times as much. USP-S | Cortex and USP-S | Jawbreaker are the two cheaper ones.

Getting the USP-S | Monster Mashup

Only the Operation Broken Fang Case drops the USP-S | Monster Mashup.

In a contract, ten skins of the rank below can turn into the USP-S | Monster Mashup. When the ten are all from this collection, it has three Classified skins, so the odds of getting the USP are one in three.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The USP-S | Monster Mashup is available with StatTrak. This finish had no Souvenir packages of its own, since those were made only for tournament map collections. Even so, a Souvenir copy can be put together by hand: the Souvenir-O-Matic adds gold tournament stickers and a player's autograph to a regular skin in the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Monster Mashup

The slide is taken by teeth and lettering and the grip by the colored scene, so free room is left on the suppressor. Its dark plane works as a backdrop. Black and white stickers with dense fill read, while green ones vanish into the base.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is worth it for the USP-S | Monster Mashup for three reasons:

• you want the cheapest acid-green USP for CS2;


• for a craft you take a base where the artwork is still recognizable without whole teeth;


• the wide 0.45 to 0.70 band lets you pick a listing by float.

If the teeth along the edge must be whole, Factory New costs 3.2 times as much.