★ StatTrak™ Talon Knife | Fade (Factory New)

The ★ StatTrak™ Talon Knife | Fade in Factory New (FN) is a Talon Knife with a kill counter. Its blade shifts from purple through pink to orange. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. In CS2 the knife drops from the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case. The finish's scale stops at 0.08, so it has two wears. In this one the float runs from 0.00 to 0.07.

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

The sickle-shaped blade shifts color: purple along the spine, pink and crimson in the middle, orange at the heel. The edge is silver, and the spine has serrations and three round cutouts. The handle is a pale ivory with brass rivets, and the ring is metal. Valve describes the handle as bone with brass rivets, and says the serrations along the spine cut on the way in and tear on the way out.

In Factory New the color shift and the silver edge are untouched. The wear is set when the knife drops, and it never grows.

What to check before buying

Listings of the ★ StatTrak™ Talon Knife | Fade differ in these respects:

• the kill counter: look at the number in the listing separately, because it cannot be reset after purchase;


• float: the stretch of 0.00 to 0.07 is short, and the difference between listings falls within the margin of error;


• the color shift on the blade: compare from the listing image where the pink lies and where the orange does;


• a name tag fits the Talon Knife, which has no sticker slots.

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

The counter adds to the price here: StatTrak™ comes to 1.12 times the normal version.

Among twelve StatTrak Talon Knives in Factory New, Fade is in the middle: six cost less and five cost more. Just above it are Doppler Phase 3, Doppler Phase 4 and Doppler Phase 1. Below it are Safari Mesh and Slaughter. The bottom of the ladder is Patina, Damascus Steel and Tiger Tooth.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Talon Knife | Fade

Both the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case carry this finish on the Talon Knife, and the wear is random. In a craft, StatTrak output needs five StatTrak Covert inputs, since the game refuses a mix with normal skins. What comes out is a random item.

StatTrak and the normal version

Without a counter, the normal Talon Knife | Fade is 1.12 times cheaper. The counter value travels to the buyer unchanged, and the StatTrak Swap Tool only trades the readings of two items of one type. No Souvenir versions exist for knives.

Who this wear suits

Factory New on the ★ StatTrak™ Talon Knife | Fade is worth buying when:

• you want a Talon Knife with a kill counter and an untouched color shift;


• your CS2 setup needs a multicolor blade on a light handle;


• float is not a factor, because the short band makes copies identical.