★ Skeleton Knife | Fade (Factory New)

The ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade in Factory New (FN) is a CS2 skeleton knife with a rainbow gradient along the blade. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The finish sits in the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case. It comes in two wears: its float ceiling is 0.08, and Minimal Wear (MW) takes only the 0.07 to 0.08 segment. This wear of the ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade is assigned float 0.00 to 0.07.

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

The blade is symmetrical and leaf-shaped, with a row of round holes down its length. The gradient runs from a purple tip through raspberry and orange to yellow at the base. Valve writes that transparent paints were airbrushed over a chrome base, so the metal shines through beneath them. The guard is shaped like a finger ring and stays silver. The handle is wrapped in black tape, with one more hole at its end.

In Factory New the paint is intact along the whole length of the blade. Wear is set at drop, so a listing with a float near zero stays that way.

Where the ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade came from

The skeleton knife model arrived in the game on November 19, 2019. That day Valve launched Operation Shattered Web and showed a case with four new knives: the Paracord Knife, Survival Knife, Nomad Knife and Skeleton Knife. The Fade is in that case, and the finish's second case is the Fracture Case.

What to check before buying

When choosing the ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade, pay attention to the following:

• the applied name: someone else's name tag on a skeleton knife stays on the item after you buy it;


• the tip and edge of the blade: they show whether the paint is intact;


• the handle and guard: the black tape and the silver ring should look even.

The 0.00 to 0.07 band of the ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade is tight, and listings at its extremes differ only by the number.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs 1.4 times as much, even though it takes only one hundredth of the scale. The top wear, meanwhile, costs less than its neighbor: the narrowness of the 0.07 to 0.08 segment explains the premium for Minimal Wear.

Among the 23 Covert skeleton knife finishes in Factory New, Fade stands in the middle of the row. Night Stripe is level with it, Slaughter is six percent lower, and Ultraviolet is a seventh higher. The bottom of the row is held by Damascus Steel, the top by Crimson Web and the Doppler gems.

Getting the ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade

The knife can be had from the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case, with a random wear. A contract is the second route: five Covert skins from one collection give one rare special item, and you choose neither the model nor the finish in it. A specific Fade is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

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

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Skeleton Knife | Fade in this wear makes sense when:

• you want an untouched gradient, and the top wear costs less than Minimal Wear;


• your CS2 loadout is built from bright colors, and the black handle with a silver guard gives the blade a calm setting.