★ Skeleton Knife | Stained (Battle-Scarred)

★ Skeleton Knife | Stained in Battle-Scarred (BS): a CS2 skeleton knife with cloudy patina streaks along the blade. This is the most affordable version of the finish among its five wears. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Stained on the skeleton knife sits in two cases, the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case. This wear of the ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained lies between 0.45 and 1.00 and takes up 55% of the finish's whole scale.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained looks like in Battle-Scarred

It is a dagger with a round finger hole in the guard and four holes in the blade near the point. The steel is light and silvery, with blurred bluish-white patches, like cirrus clouds. The handle is built from a ribbed, dark gray wrap. By Valve's description, the patina on the blade was made artificially: the metal was dripped with lemon and mustard.

Wear on the knife is fixed at drop, and in Battle-Scarred it is the most visible of the five wears. Scratches fall on the edge, the tip and the ribs of the wrap.

Where the ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained came from

The model appeared in the game on November 19, 2019. In the update with Operation Shattered Web, Valve added four new knives, and the skeleton knife was one of them. The Stained finish comes from two cases, Shattered Web and Fracture. The skeleton knife has no collection: rare special items sit in cases as a separate pool.

What to check before buying

On a ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained listing, these are the parameters to check:

• float: in Battle-Scarred it runs from 0.45 to 1.00, and the number on the listing shows how worn the knife is;


• applied name: the knife takes a name tag but no stickers, so the name stays on the listing and after the purchase;


• the edge and the tip of the blade: wear settles on them first.

The 0.45 to 1.00 band of the ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained leaves a choice: copies nearer 0.45 are cleaner.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained costs in Battle-Scarred

Every other wear of the finish costs more: Well-Worn 1.08 times as much, Field-Tested 1.13 times, Minimal Wear 1.31 times, and Factory New 2.19 times.

Among Covert skeleton knife finishes, the ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained stands in the middle in this wear: seven finishes cost less and five cost more. Ultraviolet goes almost level with it, and Damascus Steel stands a little higher. Below are Night Stripe, Rust Coat and Urban Masked. Crimson Web, Case Hardened and Blue Steel are the dearest, and Safari Mesh, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT the cheapest.

Getting the ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained

Stained on the skeleton knife comes from the Shattered Web and Fracture Cases. The other road is a craft: five Covert skins of one collection are exchanged for a rare special item, and the game assigns the model and the finish. A specific skeleton knife in Battle-Scarred can be had only as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

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

Who this wear suits

The ★ Skeleton Knife | Stained in Battle-Scarred is a reasonable buy if:

• a Covert knife at the lowest price among the finish's wears is wanted, and Factory New costs 2.19 times as much;


• the shape of a blade with a finger hole matters more than perfectly intact steel;


• the CS2 loadout is built on cold grays and blues.