★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter (Factory New)

★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter in Factory New (FN) is a CS2 skeleton knife with a red blade crossed by dark zebra stripes. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case both hold it. The float scale runs from 0.01 to 0.26 and is trimmed at the bottom as well, which leaves three wears. This wear of the ★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter lies between 0.01 and 0.07.

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

The blade is covered in pink-red lacquer with dark red diagonal stripes, and a row of round holes breaks them off near the base. The finger ring and the guard are red, matching the blade. The handle is wrapped in black tape, and its butt is red. Valve describes the finish as a zebra pattern of aluminum and chrome paint under a tomato-colored coating.

Over 0.01 to 0.07 the listings of the ★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter are close to interchangeable, because the differences vanish into the margin of error. The float starts at 0.01, so this finish has no copies with a zero value.

Where the ★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter came from

The skeleton knife arrived with Operation Shattered Web, launched on November 19, 2019. In its post Valve names it as one of four new knives. Slaughter sits in the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case.

What to check before buying

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

• the listing title: Minimal Wear (MW) and Field-Tested are sold as separate items;


• a name tag: the skeleton knife takes one, and the inscription stays on the item;


• float: the 0.01 to 0.07 band is short, and the red lacquer is almost equally intact on every copy in it.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter costs in Factory New

Factory New costs 1.15 times as much as Minimal Wear and 1.18 times as much as Field-Tested. The top wear of this finish is dearer than both of its neighbors.

Of the twenty-three skeleton knife finishes in this wear, ten are cheaper and twelve cost more, which puts Slaughter mid-table. Case Hardened is 15 percent higher, Fade 7 and Night Stripe 6. Blue Steel is 2 percent lower and Urban Masked 11. The cheapest are Damascus Steel, Safari Mesh and Boreal Forest. The dearest are Crimson Web, Doppler Ruby and Doppler Black Pearl.

Getting the ★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter

The knife drops from the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case, and its wear is random at opening. A contract on five Covert skins of one collection yields a rare special item, but its model and finish cannot be ordered. A red skeleton knife is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

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

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Skeleton Knife | Slaughter in Factory New makes sense for a few reasons:

• you want a red skeleton knife with the lacquer intact along the whole blade;


• your CS2 loadout is built on red and black, and the wrapped handle repeats the black accents;


• the premium over Minimal Wear is small, and the top wear here costs 15 percent more.