★ Butterfly Knife | Fade (Factory New)

★ Butterfly Knife | Fade in Factory New (FN): a CS2 butterfly knife with an airbrushed transition from crimson to yellow-orange over a chrome base. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. It drops from a single case, the Operation Breakout Weapon Case. The float scale reaches only 0.08, so the finish has two wears: Factory New at 0.00 to 0.07, and Minimal Wear (MW).

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade looks like in Factory New

The color changes along the length of the blade: crimson-red at the tip, orange in the middle, yellow-amber at the heel. Valve describes the finish as translucent paints airbrushed over a chrome base, so the tones are clean and have a metallic shine. The handles are black, with a crimson-pink stripe running along each half.

In Factory New the transition is intact along the whole blade. Signs of wear settle first on the tip and the raised ribs of the handles. Wear is fixed at drop, so the knife stays as it dropped.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade came from

Fade arrived on the butterfly knife in 2014, when the model itself entered the game. The source was the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, and the finish has no other cases.

Phase and pattern

Fade has no phases, so there is nothing to pick in the listing title, and the finish has one variant. Copies are still told apart by the picture: how far the color reaches toward the tip shows in the listing image but not in its caption. How much that difference affects price cannot be said from our data.

What to check before buying

Before taking a ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade, look at these points:

• the transition percentage in the listing image, which decides how much color has reached the tip;


• a name tag is possible on the knife, but stickers cannot be applied to it;


• the StatTrak version, which is a separate item with a separate price;


• float: between 0.00 and 0.07 the look does not change.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs about a ninth more than the top wear here. On a finish whose scale ends at 0.08, Factory New earns no premium.

Among butterfly finishes, Fade is ninth by price from the top. Ahead of it are four gems, Crimson Web and three plain Doppler phases: Phase 2, 4 and 1. Ultraviolet, Gamma Doppler Phase 2 and Doppler Phase 3 cost about the same. Lore is cheaper by about a seventh.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, where finish, wear and transition percentage all come out at random. The second route is a trade-up contract. Five Covert skins from one collection turn into one rare special item, and the model and finish are not chosen there. A Fade with the percentage you want is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version?

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Fade in this wear is worth it if:

• you want a warm transition from crimson to orange, and Doppler gems are beyond the budget;


• your CS2 loadout is built in a red-and-orange palette;


• you want an edge without marks and see no point in paying extra over Minimal Wear.