Souvenir M4A1-S | Chantico's Fire (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Chantico's Fire in Battle-Scarred keeps its red-and-yellow identity, but large parts of the paint are flaked off down to grey metal. The silencer, magazine and receiver edges take the most damage, and the yellow ornament survives only in patches. It suits those who like the colours of the skin and want a heavily worn, rugged look.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

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: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Well-Worn. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Battle-Scarred

The whole rifle is painted red and covered with yellow ornamental linework and stylised motifs. The silencer and the handguard carry a pattern of yellow stripes over red, which makes the front of the weapon look ribbed, while a dark barrel section shows between them.

In Battle-Scarred the paint is heavily flaked across the silencer, handguard, magazine and receiver edges, leaving wide areas of grey metal. The yellow ornament remains only in fragments, and the smiley face area on the stock is also affected. In game the rifle reads as patchy red and grey with flecks of yellow. Small sheltered areas of the receiver hold the most paint.

Battle-Scarred wear: float 0.45–0.99

The whole float range of Souvenir M4A1-S | Chantico's Fire is 0–0.99; Battle-Scarred takes the 0.45–0.99 segment (55% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Chroma 3 Collection with 17 skins in total.

It drops from Chroma 3 Case.

What it costs in each quality

Among 5 skins of the M4A1-S in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin is the dearest.

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.

Which stickers suit it

Gold, yellow and red stickers blend with the artwork and keep the warm palette intact. Black or dark stickers create contrast on the busy ornament, especially when placed on the receiver side.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear grade, because the edges of the silencer and magazine show the difference first.
• Inspect the stock to see how well the smiley face and ornament have held up on worn copies.
• Look at applied stickers and their condition, as they change how the busy red-and-yellow pattern reads.
• Note whether the copy is StatTrak™ or Souvenir and whether it has a name tag.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Budget entry for those who want this skin at the lowest grade.
• Players who like a rugged, heavily chipped style.
• Conclusion: for buyers who value character over clean paint.