★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife without a skin is the butterfly knife with a kill counter in CS2, with no skin on it: the listing reads "Not Painted". Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Such a knife has no wear, float, pattern or phase.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife looks like

A curved blade and two black handle halves: that is the butterfly knife in its factory form. The blade is light, with grinding marks, and small teeth show at the base.

The handles have oval cutouts and light gray inserts, a steel latch sits near the pivot, and a pin sticks out at the end. All the knife carries is metal and plain black handles.

How the plain ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife differs from a skinned one

On a skinned butterfly knife, buyers look at the phase and the float. Here the picture is different:

• there is no wear grade, and with it no float;


• there are no phases or gems; those exist only on Doppler and Gamma Doppler;


• a name tag can be added, and the text stays on the knife;


• knives take no stickers.

The only thing left to check in a listing is the counter reading.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife costs

Among the butterfly knife's skins, the counter version sits in the lower part of the ladder by starting price: nineteen skins cost less, fifteen cost more. Below it are Damascus Steel and Blue Steel (both about two fifths cheaper) and Tiger Tooth (a few percent cheaper).

Above it, Slaughter is level, Marble Fade costs a fifth more, and Gamma Doppler Phase 4 costs one and a half times as much. At the top, Gamma Doppler Emerald costs nearly seven times as much, Doppler Ruby nine and a half times, Doppler Black Pearl more than fifteen.

The plain ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife

The normal ★ Butterfly Knife without a skin is a separate item on its own page. It costs slightly more than the counter version, by a few percent, so the counter adds nothing to the price here.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife

The StatTrak™ version drops from the same case as the normal one, the Operation Breakout Weapon Case. It is the model's only case. The butterfly knife is built into it, and whether you get bare steel or a skin is down to chance, since the rare special item pool holds both.

The trade-up contract takes five Covert StatTrak™ skins as input, and normal ones cannot be mixed in. The output is a rare special item of a random model. The only sure way to get a StatTrak™ butterfly knife without a skin is a ready-made listing on LIS-SKINS.

Who it suits

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife without a skin fits if:

• you want a butterfly knife with a counter and no colored skin;


• you want a listing with no phase and no float;


• you like the model more than any skin on it.