★ Karambit | Slaughter (Factory New)

For the ★ Karambit | Slaughter, Factory New (FN) covers floats from 0.01 to 0.07. The finish's minimum is 0.01, so a zero float does not exist for it. The finish has three wears in all, and Factory New costs 1.23 times as much as Minimal Wear and 1.25 times as much as Field-Tested. The knife has Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and in CS2 it is a red-and-white karambit.

What the ★ Karambit | Slaughter looks like in Factory New

The blade is covered in red-and-white swirls: scarlet and pink stripes run across a light metal base like brushstrokes. The ring at the end of the handle is red, and the handle itself is dark gray, with fine knurling and ridges for the fingers. Valve describes the finish as a zebra-striped coating of aluminum and chrome paint.

The wear of the ★ Karambit | Slaughter in this wear lies between 0.01 and 0.07. The whole wear fits into 0.01 to 0.07, so the listings look the same. The finish's scale is cut off at both ends, from 0.01 to 0.26. That is why there is no zero float here, and why Battle-Scarred and Well-Worn do not exist at all.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular ★ Karambit | Slaughter comes down to these points:

• float: from 0.01 to 0.07, and near the lower bound the knife is cleaner;


• name tag: check the name in the listing;


• StatTrak: a listing with a counter is a separate item.

What the ★ Karambit | Slaughter costs in Factory New

Of thirty-two Covert karambits priced in Factory New, Slaughter stands below the middle: ten finishes cost less and twenty-one cost more. Lore is higher by eight percent, Black Laminate is level, and Marble Fade, Forest DDPAT and Stained are cheaper. At the very bottom are Bright Water, Freehand and Damascus Steel, and the ceiling is set by Gamma Doppler Emerald, Doppler Ruby and Doppler Black Pearl.

Between wears the prices diverge like this:

• Minimal Wear is 1.23 times cheaper;


• Field-Tested is 1.25 times cheaper.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Slaughter

The karambit drops from eleven cases, among them the CS:GO Weapon Case, the eSports 2013 Case, the Operation Bravo Case and the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case. The alternative is a craft: take five Covert skins of one type, and do not mix regular with StatTrak. The result is a random rare special item. Neither the model nor the finish can be set.

Is there a StatTrak version

The game also has a StatTrak edition of the ★ Karambit | Slaughter.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Karambit | Slaughter in this exact wear makes sense when:

• you want the cleanest red-and-white karambit of the three possible wears;


• untouched paint matters for your loadout, and below Factory New the price drops by a fifth;


• you want a float near the 0.01 minimum, which the lower wears lack.