★ Karambit | Black Laminate (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) on the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate is the deepest wear of the five. The float runs from 0.45 to 1.00 and takes more than half the scale. This is a Covert rank karambit with the ★ mark for CS2 (the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case give it out).

What the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate looks like in Battle-Scarred

The blade resembles stone-washed metal: dark gray steel with a silver roughness over the whole flat, and a tiny yellow-green mark at the base of the blade. The handle is built from layered scales, with light beige-gray laminate alternating with dark gray-green inserts in the finger rests. The ring is steel. Valve describes the finish as stonewash with laminate on the handle.

The band of this wear on the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate lies between 0.45 and 1.00. The wear is fixed at drop and never changes after. The band is long, so knives at about 0.50 and at about 1.00 differ visibly: on the second one the metal and the laminate are beaten up more.

Phase and pattern

The pattern index does not matter for the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate. The laminate artwork and the tone of the blade are the same on all copies, so listings differ by float, name tag and price.

What to check before buying

In a listing of the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate, check these parameters:

• float: in this wear it runs from 0.45 to 1.00, and the look of the blade depends on the number more than in the neighboring wears;


• applied name: a name tag fits this knife, but stickers do not;


• kill counter: a plain knife has none, and the StatTrak version is a separate product.

What the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate costs in Battle-Scarred

It is the lowest-priced wear of the finish. Factory New costs 1.72 times more, Minimal Wear 1.09 times and Field-Tested 1.07 times, while Well-Worn costs the same.

Among Covert karambits the finish stands above the middle in this wear: thirteen are cheaper and four are dearer. Above it are Blue Steel (by 7 percent), Damascus Steel (by 5) and Case Hardened (by 2). Below it are Crimson Web and Freehand. The bottom of the row is Boreal Forest, Safari Mesh and Forest DDPAT, and the top is Autotronic.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate

The ★ Karambit | Black Laminate drops from the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case, and the wear is random. The second road is a trade-up for a special rare item. Five Covert skins of one type go in, and a random knife or gloves from the collections of the inputs come out. The knife you want is taken as a ready listing on LIS-SKINS.

Is there a StatTrak version

StatTrak is available on the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate: that version exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is worth taking on the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate if:

• you want the most accessible karambit of this finish and the scuffs on the blade do not bother you;


• your CS2 loadout values gray stone-washed metal and light laminate;


• you want a knife from the middle of the Covert karambit row without overpaying for Factory New.