Souvenir Five-SeveN | Monkey Business (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Here the Five-SeveN wears a heavily bruised banana: the yellow peel over the slide and grip front is broken up by wide patches of dark metal. Battle-Scarred suits the joke of the design, since the skin now looks like overripe fruit. The blue trigger and the dark frame stay largely as they are.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

Other qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Well-Worn. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Battle-Scarred

The slide is painted as a banana: a saturated yellow peel with thin darker seams runs from a brown tip at the muzzle back along the top and sides. At the rear the peel bends down and follows the front strap of the grip, ending in a second brown tip at the base.

Large areas of the peel are worn off at the muzzle, along the top of the slide and down the grip curve, leaving dark grey metal. The seams and brown tips are partly lost. From a distance the pistol reads as a yellow and grey mix rather than a clean banana. The yellow holds best in the middle of the slide sides.

Battle-Scarred quality — float range 0.45–0.9

The float of Souvenir Five-SeveN | Monkey Business ranges from 0.1 to 0.9; the Battle-Scarred quality covers 0.45–0.9 — 56% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

The skin’s collection is The Chroma 2 Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from Chroma 2 Case (on sale since Apr 15, 2015).

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Blue stickers echo the trigger and the fruit label and stand out well against the yellow slide. Dark or holo stickers fit the grey frame below the peel, and banana or monkey themed stickers suit the joke of the design.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float within the chosen grade, since wear starts at the muzzle and the top edges of the slide.
• Check the curve of the peel on the grip front, which shows wear early on worn copies.
• Check stickers and name tags, as yellow-heavy stickers can blend into the peel.
• Decide between StatTrak™ and Souvenir versions, as both exist for this skin.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Fans of an overripe, worn-out banana look.
• The cheapest way to own this skin.
• Suits those who value the joke over condition.