Counter-Strike 2 or CS2 has been a hub of negative feedback for the most part with many bugs and glitches plaguing the hyper-competitive game. It’s still a massive upgrade from its predecessor, CSGO, and deserves to find its place in the Hall of Fame of Counter Strike games. What made CSGO blow up was gun skins and almost all the skins in CSGO have been moved to CS2.
Thanks to the graphics upgrades, these skins are now much more pleasant to look at. The new variants of old skins are the best in the game right now and are judged based on their price-to-design ratio and are strictly opinionated since every player has different preferences.
10 Desert Eagle Kumicho Dragon
The Desert Eagle is a widely used gun in CS2 especially during eco rounds. Everyone loves One Deags, a single shot in the head that has a satisfying punch to it and to do it in style with a beautiful skin is a must. Kumicho Dragon is a classic classified skin with an intricate engraving of a dragon that makes it stand out.
The color scheme of a bluish silver with a purple handgrip goes really well together, and it’s all neatly packaged at a somewhat affordable price for skin connoisseurs. The Field-Tested version goes for around $20 and the minimal wear is around $30 and comes in StatTrak as well.
9 USP-S Cortex
The USP-S Cortex is a fan-favorite super cheap and cool design for a skin for the CT side default pistol. Since the USP is the preferred pistol instead of the P2000 it tends to get more love in terms of good skins than its counterpart.
The Cortex is evidence of exactly that, with a pleasing design that signifies the iconic headshots that you get during pistol rounds. With an extremely affordable price of $2.93 for a field-tested version, you’ll find this skin in almost every other inventory for players who love to dabble in skins.
8 P250 Visions
The P250 Visions skin is characterized by its abstract and vibrant design. It features a mix of shapes, patterns, and colors that give it a psychedelic and artistic appearance. It was introduced in the recoil case as a classified skin and is one of the best P250 skins around.
The colorful and intricate design of Visions makes it stand out among P250 skins and its price tag for minimal wear is a mere $7.30 and the field-tested version is even more affordable. Psychedelic skins like this one are always a treat to the eyes.
7 M4A1-S Player Two
The M4A1-S Player Two skin is a nod to comic art, inspired by colorful aesthetics. It features a unique style and a character that’s surrounded by colorful pixel patterns. The skin’s playful design offers a nostalgic and lighthearted touch to the M4A1-S rifle.
For some reason, the M4A1-S gets much better covert and classified skins compared to its counterpart, the M4A4, with skins like the Hyper Beast or the Decimator, both of which are exceptional. This one wins because of its creativity though as well as being more recent and slightly more affordable.
6 Desert Eagle Ocean Drive
The Desert Eagle Ocean Drive is another vibrant and colorful skin that finds its place in many players’ loadouts. The colors really pop with this one and a lot of people love the design. It was released in Operation Riptide and matches the theme of the case.
The skin is known for its tasteful palette, featuring hues of blue, purple, and orange. It provides a sense of serenity and relaxation, which is a unique departure from the typically gritty and battle-worn designs in most Desert Eagle skins in CS2.
5 AK-47 Redline
The AK-47 Redline is a classic and straightforward skin. It features a predominantly black color scheme with red accents. The skin has a clean and minimalist design, making it easily recognizable and the contrast between the red and black colors gives it a bold appearance, making it a popular choice among players.
The redline has been around for a long time and is still a skin you see the most in competitive CS2, usually adorned with stickers that compliment the colors. Though it has gotten expensive over the years, it’s still relatively affordable compared to Covert Skins and deserves a high ranking for being a classic.
4 AK-47 Nightwish
Somehow AK-47 skins are the most popular skins for the guns in the game next to the knives. The Nightwish was another super colorful and vibrant AK-47 skin that’s a much more recent addition to the games, featured in the Dreams and Nightmares case.
As a covert skin, it’s definitely expensive but worth the price. A lot of people compare it to the M4A1-S Hyper Beast since the designs are similar but since we never got a Hyper Beast variant for the AK, the Nightwish is the next best thing and one of the best modern covert AK-47 skins.
3 Glock Vogue
The Glock Vogue is a stylish and classified pistol skin in CS2 that features an abstract and contemporary design with eyes that seem to stare into your soul. The skin’s design is reminiscent of a high-fashion magazine cover, with vibrant hues of red, pink, and orange.
The Glock Vogue offers a trendy and fashionable appearance that appeals to players who appreciate a more avant-garde and artistic aesthetic for their sidearm. It’s also extremely cheap for a classified skin, so it finds its way near the top of the list for being great to look at and extremely affordable.
2 AWP Duality
The AWP Duality has a real story behind it, replacing an old skin, the AWP Doodle Lore after it was found to be plagiarized work. With this extra piece of real-life lore behind it, owners of the AWP Duality always have a story to tell about this skin.
But besides that, it’s a really good-looking skin with a unique design that is surprisingly affordable for a classified AWP skin. The design is minimalist and pleasing with an intricate snake covering the base of the gun along with color combinations that go really well together, packaged at an affordable price.
1 AK-47 Ice Coaled
This skin is a love letter to fans who loved the AK-47 Vulcan and the Case Hardened, being a mashup of the two in terms of design. The greenish-blue gradient is very pleasing, especially in CS2 with the upgraded graphics and the Vulcan-inspired graphics scattered across the body of the gun are very reminiscent of the classics.
The Case-Hardened aspect of this skin is the somewhat similar design of the Blue Gem but with some extra color that makes it really stand out. Being cheap also does it huge favors and is one of the best skins for the AK-47 out right now.