CS2 Knives - Tier Maker
CS2 Knives - Official Tier
Editorial placements for CS2 Knives, with the reasoning behind each list.
CS2 Knives - Blind Rank
The next character from CS2 Knives is drawn for you, so you never pick who comes next. Top 5 holds one per slot. The Tier List works like the regular board, with several characters in each row.
CS2 Knives - Versus
Run a fast elimination tournament for CS2 Knives and keep choosing winners until only one character remains.
CS2 Knives - Bracket
Build a championship bracket for CS2 Knives. Drag the seeds, or fill them at random. Click a fighter to send them through, or roll the match.
CS2 Knives - Alignment Chart
Arrange CS2 Knives in a grid or circle with up to 16 sections. Place characters freely, including between sections.
CS2 Knives - 0–10
Give each CS2 Knives character a score from 0 to 10. Same scores sit together, from 10 at the top down to 0.
Number keys set 0 to 9. Tap a character on the board to change that score.
Characters (21)
The CS2 Knives Players Chase Most
Every knife in CS2 swings with the same damage and the same timings — the model only changes the draw, the inspect animation and how the blade reads in the kill feed. This board ranks the 20 tradable ★ knives plus the stock knife by how often they show up in lobbies and trade offers: the curved blades and the balisong sit on top, the heavy military models fill the middle, and the knife every player starts with closes the list.
Karambit
Butterfly Knife
M9 Bayonet
Talon Knife
Bayonet
Flip Knife
Stiletto Knife
Skeleton Knife
Kukri Knife
Huntsman Knife
Classic Knife
Bowie Knife
Falchion Knife
Ursus Knife
Nomad Knife
Paracord Knife
Survival Knife
Navaja Knife
Gut Knife
Shadow Daggers
Stock Knife
Draw and Inspect Animations, Ranked
Animations are the whole point of a cosmetic knife: you see the draw at the start of every round and the inspect whenever the server lets you breathe. This board ranks the set by how good those two moments feel — the balisong flip, the karambit spin and the heavy M9 draw lead, the clean folders hold the middle, and the models with the least to look at stay at the bottom.
Butterfly Knife
Karambit
Talon Knife
M9 Bayonet
Bayonet
Flip Knife
Skeleton Knife
Stiletto Knife
Kukri Knife
Huntsman Knife
Classic Knife
Bowie Knife
Falchion Knife
Ursus Knife
Nomad Knife
Paracord Knife
Survival Knife
Navaja Knife
Shadow Daggers
Gut Knife
Stock Knife
Knives That Deserve More Attention
Trade servers push the same handful of models, which leaves a lot of good knives in the shadow. This board is for the player who wants something different: the Ursus, Nomad, Survival and Paracord carry real presence without the trade-server hype of a Karambit, the Falchion and Stiletto stay clean in vanilla, and the headline models sit lower simply because everyone already knows them.
Ursus Knife
Nomad Knife
Survival Knife
Paracord Knife
Falchion Knife
Stiletto Knife
Classic Knife
Flip Knife
Kukri Knife
Skeleton Knife
Huntsman Knife
Bowie Knife
Navaja Knife
Gut Knife
Shadow Daggers
Bayonet
Talon Knife
M9 Bayonet
Butterfly Knife
Karambit
Stock Knife
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