★ Paracord Knife | Stained (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Battle-Scarred is the roughest take on ★ Paracord Knife | Stained: the patina survives in fragments over heavily scratched steel. For a finish built around a deliberately messy surface, this grade looks like a knife that has done real field work. It is the most affordable way into this knife model with a non-plain blade.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Patina: an aged metal surface; wear is part of the design, so the gap between qualities is less visible.

Appearance in Battle-Scarred

The whole blade is covered with a mottled patina in pale blue, grey and white tones, crossed by thin darker blue veins that give it a marbled, stained look. The spine area, including the long slot and the notched section near the guard, has a darker grey steel tone.

Heavy scratching covers most of the blade, and the patina survives only in fragments, mainly away from the edge. The tip and spine are worn down to plain steel. In game the marbled pattern is hard to make out, and the knife reads as scratched metal with traces of blue-grey colour. The paracord handle still keeps its look.

Battle-Scarred wear: float 0.45–1

The whole float range of ★ Paracord Knife | Stained is 0–1; Battle-Scarred takes the 0.45–1 segment (55% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Shattered Web Case
• Fracture Case

What it costs in each quality

Taking Battle-Scarred as the baseline:

• Factory New — 2.1× dearer
• Minimal Wear — 9% dearer
• Field-Tested — 2% cheaper
• Well-Worn — 1% cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

By price this skin is 6th of 13 skins Covert Paracord Knife in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 42% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the float position within the wear range, since copies near the cleaner end keep noticeably more patina on the edge and tip.
• The arrangement of stains differs between copies, so check the inspect image to see how the pattern sits on the visible side of the blade.
• On worn grades check the tip and spine, as these lose the patina first and set the overall impression.
• Check whether the knife carries a name tag and whether it is the StatTrak™ version.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Buyers looking for the cheapest entry into ★ Paracord Knife | Stained.
• Players who mostly care about the knife model and the corded handle.
• A budget knife where heavy wear is part of the look.