Fade Patterns

There are many ways of categorizing fade patterns. The normal one is to categorize fade skins in percentages. These percentages stand for how much of the blade is faded. The more faded it is the bigger the pattern percentage. 

Usually, these percentages go from 80-100% faded. It is however not that simple on all knives. Some people, for example, say that the Falchion Knife For goes from 85% to 110% fade because the fade goes beyond the blade and unto the handle of the knife. Therefore they think that the knife is more than a 100% fade. 

The Karambit and Talon knives are also different. These two can be both categorized in percentages like the other knives but also the percentages of each color on the knife. 

For example, one Karambit pattern is called 70/29/1, this stands for 70% of the blade is pink, 29% is purple, and 1% is yellow. This pattern could also be called a 90% fade. 

Fade Pattern Index

Every skin in CS:GO has a 1001 pattern index. This is the number of pattern versions of the skins that exist. So every skin has a number between 1 and 1000 that decides how it will look. 

The pattern index decides the pattern on the skin, in the case of fade – how much of each color you get on the knife/skin. Sometimes two of the same fade skins can have different pattern index but still look identical. 

This is because, in the case of fade, there are not 1001 different variations possible. Therefore, many patterns overlap and are identical.

Why Are Pattern Index Important?

Pattern index is a foolproof way of checking the knife pattern, so you know you get what you are paying for. This is because the difference between a Full Fade and a fake Full Fade is very hard to see for most. 

Therefore, you can check the pattern index of the knife. Then crosscheck it to see if it is one of the Full Fade patterns or not. 

How To Know Which Pattern is Good

The Float and the pattern are together deciding the price for the skin and thus is very good to know which patterns are good and which are not. 

This is why I put together this guide, press the skin above to learn which pattern index is Full Fades and which ones are not. As well as how the different percentages of fade on the knife look compared to each other. 

How To check Pattern Index

To check if the skin you own or are planning to acquire is Full Fade or fake Full Fade do this. 

1. Inspect the skin you want to know more about in the game. 
2. Hover over the info image
3. There you will see the Pattern Template, this is the same as the pattern index
4. Compare this pattern index to the numbers listed as full fade on the knife’s fade info page. If the number you saw in the game is the same as one of the numbers listed as Full Fade – then it is Full Fade. 

 

Floats

The float decides how worn out your skin will be. How many scratches and where they are. Floats are not like patterns that only have 1001 variations. 

Floats have millions and millions of variations. These values lie within 0-1. 0 is the perfect float (impossible to get) where the skin is flawless and 1 being a completely worn-out skin. 

This is what decides the condition a skin will have.

• 0 – 0.07 Factory New

• 0.07 – 0.15 Minimal Wear

• 0.15 – 0.38 Field-Tested

• 0.38 – 0.45 Well-Worn

• 0.45 – 1 Battle-Scarred

Fade skins, however, only come in the floats between 0.00 and 0.08. This is the reason they only exist in factory new or minimal wear.

7 out of 8 fades have factory new as their condition and only 1 out of 8 have minimal wear.

The reason for this is because every fade skin gets a random float between 0.00 and 0.08 If the float is between 0.00 and 0.07 the skin is factory new, while if it’s more than 0.07 and less than 0.08 it is minimal wear.

Some faded skins with a very low float will sell for a lot more than normal versions of those skins. 

This is because low floats are rare and make the skin look better. Many collectors are thus very interested in getting them.

Duplication

If you are looking to get yourself a very rare version and expensive Fade Knife, you might want to check so the items aren’t duplicated. 

This is something that happened before where people either pretended to get scammed or got scammed. To then contact steam who would give them a copy of the item. 

This created two versions of the same skin – one at the scammer and one at the “scammed”. This is something steam has stopped doing after the abuse. 

If the skin has one or more copies it will make the skin less valuable. You can check if the skin is a copy by comparing the float and pattern with each other. 

If both are identical, for a very rare skin, you can be 100% it is a copy. To learn more about duping/duplications and how to check if an item has been duped click here. 

Summary

So to summarize shortly, every fade skins have a pattern index that will decide how much of each color the skin has and a float that decides its condition. 

The lower the float is the newer and less damaged the skin will look. Two factory-new skins can however look differently worn out. 

This is because one skin might have a lower float than the other even if both are between 0-0.07. To know if a Fade skin is a Full Fade compare the pattern index to the list of Full Fade pattern numbers I have given to each skin above. 

Pattern Resources

Here are some other Pattern Resources for other skins and their patterns, if you want to learn more about CS:GO skins.