★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade (Factory New)

★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade in Factory New (FN): the version with a kill counter, priced level with the normal one without StatTrak. The float band of 0.00 to 0.07 takes 88% of the finish's scale, and the only other wear is Minimal Wear. The rank is Covert, and the item carries the ★ mark. In CS2 this is a butterfly knife with a gradient from raspberry to gold.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade looks like in Factory New

The blade goes from raspberry-red at the tip through orange to golden-yellow at the base. The colors lie in a smooth gradient, with no streaks. The handle is black, with round holes, and raspberry-colored inserts sit in the lengthwise cutouts, echoing the color of the tip. The latch hook and the pin at the butt are dark. By Valve's description, the paint is applied with an airbrush.

The float range for the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade is 0.00 to 0.07. That band is short, and the difference between listings falls within the margin of error. The wear of each copy is decided when it drops, and it stays.

What to check before buying

On listings of the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade, these are the points to compare:

• counter reading: the number on the StatTrak passes to the buyer as it stands and cannot be reset, so the kill count is checked separately in each listing;


• float: from 0.00 to 0.07, and listings should be compared by the number itself;


• name tag on the blade: take it into account when choosing.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade costs in Factory New

The StatTrak version in Factory New costs almost the same as the normal one: the difference is two percent. Among the twenty-two Covert StatTrak butterfly knives with a price in this wear, Fade is in the middle: twelve cost less, nine cost more. Doppler Phase 3 is nineteen percent higher and Gamma Doppler Phase 2 seventeen, while Gamma Doppler Phase 4, Blue Steel and Gamma Doppler Phase 1 are lower. The priciest here are Doppler Sapphire, Gamma Doppler Emerald and Lore.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade

The butterfly knife drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, and the StatTrak version arrives as a separate drop variant. The second route is crafting: all five inputs must be StatTrak, because the game does not mix normal and StatTrak skins. The result is a random rare special item, and the model and finish cannot be chosen.

The plain ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade

If you do not need the counter, there is a normal knife without StatTrak, as a separate item. In this wear the two versions cost the same. The kill counter on the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade passes to the buyer as it stands and cannot be reset. The one official mechanic is the StatTrak Swap Tool, which trades the readings between two items of the same type without zeroing either.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Fade in this very wear makes sense when:

• you want a butterfly knife with a gradient from raspberry to gold and a kill counter;


• you value Factory New with a float of 0.00 to 0.07, where the differences between listings are insignificant;


• the StatTrak version matters for the collection, not the normal one.