You forgot one huge benefit of the Navaja which is if you kill someone with it you can mock the enemy and say "bro died to a navaja knife lul" Joking aside, the Gut and Huntsman knives are exceptional value for their prices.
Should probably have mentioned there’s a small con with Karambits where the corners can be scuffed even with really low floats. Otherwise 100% agree with all your takes
And when it comes to dropping a cool couple thou on a knife, for it not to be perfect is kinda a no go for me. Rather just spend a little more on a flawless bf.
The Falchion honestly became my favourite, not only is it rather cheap, it gets amazing finishes with the same color handle, the inspects are clean and fun to spam and the sound of the normal inspect is just beyond satisfying!
For nomads I would point out, that if you're the type of person to immediately press inspect after pulling out your knife, it cuts the pulling out animation which for me personally was a big turnoff
Naw plebian opinion. I spam inspects on all my knives and the nomad pull out to immediate inspect has this specific weird juggle animation that is pretty cool and unique. Horrible pullout to inspect knives would be the flip knives imo
@@zomloader Yeah I tested it later and turns out they've smoothened the animation getting skipped. Before it used to just straight up cut from one animation to the next which looked awful.
This. Also, if you have a high tier finish, it feels wasted (even in native resolution), because it's on the side of the screen. Meanwhile M9 in top tier finishes is like "BOOM MOTHERFKER RIGHT IN YOUR FACE WITH ALL THAT COLOR!"
I play 4:3 with a phase one Kara Doppler and I face this issue. I just had to get used to it lmao. With most of the view models it ain’t too egregious.
I don’t hate the shadow daggers because of any of the cons you mentioned, I just hate them because they look like something a mallgoth with a pocket knife collection and $400 “nightvision” goggles would buy at a renaissance festival
8:43 "Jenna Ortega's Wand" on a gunginir is hilarious. Hardest thing sometimes when editing is continuity shot....that nomad edit. cleanest shit ever. Also all the other ones through out are a 10/10. well done
Not sure if I should be more impressed by the editing or the fact that you got 2 rare skeleton animations in a row. I can't exactly say I disagree with any of your takes. Great video!
One small feature that you forgot about the survival that not many people know is that it does have a unique idle animation. Hard to describe, but the off hand will move its fingers. Subtle, but gives the knife a lot more personality imo.
This guy. Slaid is the man. Love your opinions, especially about the Huntsman :) Made me cherish my Marble Fade Huntsman more lol keep them coming my bro
Kukri is actually secretly goated, hoping the price stays low Just rebind your hotkey that switches between left/right hold to something easy to press like Q or a mouse button and spam the pull out animation by swapping back and forth Its a poor mans butterfly
I am a huge ursus enjoyer and its having only one con that doesnt effect the blade that much made me happy (i will buy one asap when i have enough money saved up for it)
imo con for all rare inspects - inconsistency. I just don't like when my knife randomly does different stuff, I'd rather have one consistent inspect/pullout that I enjoy
M9 all the way. Consistent animations, massive blade (works in every finish) and fits a lot of different gloves. BFK comes second because it's fancy, but its blade gets lost for example when using Motor Gloves.
This video proofs that there is no perfect knife and every skin has its pros and cons depending on the combo. Hating a Gut Knife for example because it's a Gut Knife seems unfair if you only correlate to the price of it.
Haven’t owned one yet using Gamma phase 4 huntsman but Gut knife is criminally underrated I swear. The cheaper finishes look terrible but bright water, fade, and Doppler finishes look so good on gut knives. Underrated af
Shadow Dagger hate is so weird ever since they fixed the crosshair shake. For less than a completely scuffed Bayo black laminate I bought Fase 2 Doppler Shadow Daggers and can enjoy constant zoomer adhd inspect spam while having the best finish in the game.
Idk why a lot of ppl dont like the bowie, they say "eww big ahh blade" but its pretty good, ive seen high tier bowies and the blade make the skins more eye catching
One small con for the KARAMBIT : if you play 4:3 the blade will get cut off when running with it. You have to tweak your viewmodel a bit so it fits in the screen. In csgo you could minimize bobbing while running but you cant do this in CS2.
He had Karambit, butterflies, m9s and a few skeleton knifes. I recently got a falchion and was shocked at how nice the animations feel. If you don’t have a big budget I can’t recognise falchion enough
I have always appreciated you championing the Shadow Daggers, they really do get too much hate. Unique audio, animations, hand positions, and it drives people up the wall to be killed by "butt plugs". they even moved the Stattrak counter up onto the handle to keep the actual blade itself clean, for those who like ST knives. Though I will say, one con I've never seen anyone talk about is the fact they don't seem to have backstab animations, or if they do, they're so close to normal attacks that you can't tell in normal gameplay. That, and they moved the nametag from bottom of the right blade to top of the left blade, meaning you can't read the nametag in idle cause it's covered by your hand, and it's hidden in inspect. Never understood that change tbh.
bowie is the best for low price. it has unique animations, cool blade and for me it functions as a cheap alternative for the m9. The pull out animation is pretty much the same with the m9 but the hand tilts it horizontally instead of vertically
How is that even a question? I'm gonna be honest but some high float M9/Butterfly Boreal Forest just looks like ass and knowing it still costs more than lots of Dopplers on other knives makes it outright sad to see.
Get a huntsman, I was about to get one but ended up getting a butterfly. The pull out animation is clean, and you can actually get a good finish instead of getting a bad finish on an expensive knife. It sounds like your price range is around 800-1k so a bayonet gama dopler would be even better if that's the case. Honestly thinking of getting one myself, the pull out animation is to clean.
I feel like the Bowie and karambit have basically the exact same left hand pullout animation. Definitely close enough to where if you're bothered by one you're almost certainly bothered by the other. So I'd either put that as a con for both or neither
I bought Butterfly Stained (I was going for black n' white inventory), and I love it, idc what people say about Stained finish, it's honestly overhated.
The video was great and the channel is by the far the best glove/knife/combo channel on yt, but i feel like you couldve just named the video, "Pros and Cons of Every Knife in CS2". Your title seems a little clickbaity. Reminds me of something like, "I bought every knife in CS2 and I youll never believe what I found out". No hate, just a thought. I think the Kukri would have been insane if they gave it a different inspect animation and I dont really like the left and right clicks on it much at all. I kind of love the blade shape and the pull outs are so sick. Also I got a mango fade bfk thanks to your combo video, way too clean I had to. 😎 Picking up the Pows in a few days 🚨🦔
Kukri blocks your screen on headshot level. You think the Bowie is big but the Kukri is huge. At least the Bowie lets you see enemies when you're moving.
Shadow Daggers I agree are overhated Plus if you’re a glove enthusiast it’s the only thing in the game other than maybe the duelies that will inspect both gloves
I’ve always disliked the Talon and Karambit. They both seem like they would be very impractical. Where all knives are used to stab or slice, these two just don’t seem to work unless you use them like a claw.
honestly I think it highly depends on if you have/plan on getting gloves, if its black gloves I would go with huntsman and for brown I would go with stiletto👍
cant decide which knife honestly, im stuck between the huntsman marble fade/ lore or a bowie lore, I love marble fade skinline and the doppler phase 4, my budget is around $300 can someone help please
My M9 bayonet doppler P2 that i bought for $500 a fee years back is now worth like $2000, im seriously debating selling it for a butterfly tigertooth and sport gloves big game since currently i dont even have gloves, just a stupidly expensive M9, the bmw of cs2 knives
You forgot one huge benefit of the Navaja which is if you kill someone with it you can mock the enemy and say "bro died to a navaja knife lul"
Joking aside, the Gut and Huntsman knives are exceptional value for their prices.
i agree
@@flaminwheels6739 most of the people just like the comment if they agree
yo, don't do my boys Bowie and Ursus like that
Should probably have mentioned there’s a small con with Karambits where the corners can be scuffed even with really low floats. Otherwise 100% agree with all your takes
and then u can get certain agents and have their sleeve cover it
And when it comes to dropping a cool couple thou on a knife, for it not to be perfect is kinda a no go for me. Rather just spend a little more on a flawless bf.
I hate valve for doing that it ruins the knife for me
The Falchion honestly became my favourite, not only is it rather cheap, it gets amazing finishes with the same color handle, the inspects are clean and fun to spam and the sound of the normal inspect is just beyond satisfying!
Falchion Marble Fade is a hidden S tier knife.
It cut off half of your gloves
On left and right hand...
Not worth it
Used to have the falchion, everything was amazing but the only issue I had with it was that the hands are just too close to the camera it’s annoying
@@Dan1-lp8xu u know u can adjust the FOV to your preferences?
@@kresztof4013 how
Dang I've never seen such a comprehensive knife video, such a banger.
0:15 Kukri Knife
0:34 Skeleton Knife
0:57 Nomad Knife
1:17 Paracord Knife
2:04 Survival Knife
2:25 Classic Knife
2:49 Talon Knife
3:20 Stiletto Knife
3:49 Ursus Knife
4:09 Navaja Knife
4:33 Bowie Knife
4:58 Shadow Daggers
5:24 Falchion Knife
5:50 Butterfly Knife
6:16 Huntsman Knife
6:44 Karambit
7:12 M9 Bayonet
7:42 Bayonet
8:01 Flip Knife
8:18 Gut Knife
i didnt know cs has this much knifes
hey hey, im gonna point out, the seamless skin transitions during the inspect shall not go un noticed my friend, good job :)
That editing at 1:10 is sick😮
For nomads I would point out, that if you're the type of person to immediately press inspect after pulling out your knife, it cuts the pulling out animation which for me personally was a big turnoff
Naw plebian opinion. I spam inspects on all my knives and the nomad pull out to immediate inspect has this specific weird juggle animation that is pretty cool and unique. Horrible pullout to inspect knives would be the flip knives imo
@@zomloader Yeah I tested it later and turns out they've smoothened the animation getting skipped. Before it used to just straight up cut from one animation to the next which looked awful.
YO! That nomad finish change as you inspect the knife was the highlight for me 😀Amazing content as always Slaid.
A major con I have for the karambit is that if you play in 4:3 with certain view models, the knife is literally halfway off your screen when you run.
This. Also, if you have a high tier finish, it feels wasted (even in native resolution), because it's on the side of the screen. Meanwhile M9 in top tier finishes is like "BOOM MOTHERFKER RIGHT IN YOUR FACE WITH ALL THAT COLOR!"
I play 4:3 with a phase one Kara Doppler and I face this issue. I just had to get used to it lmao. With most of the view models it ain’t too egregious.
I don’t hate the shadow daggers because of any of the cons you mentioned, I just hate them because they look like something a mallgoth with a pocket knife collection and $400 “nightvision” goggles would buy at a renaissance festival
8:43 "Jenna Ortega's Wand" on a gunginir is hilarious. Hardest thing sometimes when editing is continuity shot....that nomad edit. cleanest shit ever. Also all the other ones through out are a 10/10. well done
I Really appreciate it🙌 doing all those edits took a while haha, especially getting two rare animations in a row on something like the skeleton
nomad is slept on. inspect is so clean and the rare animation gives me a chuckle every time i see it
Not sure if I should be more impressed by the editing or the fact that you got 2 rare skeleton animations in a row. I can't exactly say I disagree with any of your takes. Great video!
One small feature that you forgot about the survival that not many people know is that it does have a unique idle animation. Hard to describe, but the off hand will move its fingers. Subtle, but gives the knife a lot more personality imo.
This guy. Slaid is the man. Love your opinions, especially about the Huntsman :) Made me cherish my Marble Fade Huntsman more lol keep them coming my bro
Kukri is actually secretly goated, hoping the price stays low
Just rebind your hotkey that switches between left/right hold to something easy to press like Q or a mouse button and spam the pull out animation by swapping back and forth
Its a poor mans butterfly
I absolutely love the bowie, Dont know why but easily my favourite knife in my game, just somthing about it i guess lol
Stiletto and flip are underrated
I am a huge ursus enjoyer and its having only one con that doesnt effect the blade that much made me happy (i will buy one asap when i have enough money saved up for it)
imo con for all rare inspects - inconsistency. I just don't like when my knife randomly does different stuff, I'd rather have one consistent inspect/pullout that I enjoy
yes fr
Recently bought myself a butterfly slaughter, loving it.
M9 all the way. Consistent animations, massive blade (works in every finish) and fits a lot of different gloves. BFK comes second because it's fancy, but its blade gets lost for example when using Motor Gloves.
the paracord knife skin transition is so clean wow
maybe one small negative of the Karambit is the corners of some finishes. some 0.01s and lower have disgusting corners which is ridiculous lol
All 3 in the thumbnail look flawless
Right on time man thank you so much
This video proofs that there is no perfect knife and every skin has its pros and cons depending on the combo. Hating a Gut Knife for example because it's a Gut Knife seems unfair if you only correlate to the price of it.
Haven’t owned one yet using Gamma phase 4 huntsman but Gut knife is criminally underrated I swear. The cheaper finishes look terrible but bright water, fade, and Doppler finishes look so good on gut knives. Underrated af
Common Slaid W, Huntsman is definitely the best budget knife in the game.
Shadow Dagger hate is so weird ever since they fixed the crosshair shake.
For less than a completely scuffed Bayo black laminate I bought Fase 2 Doppler Shadow Daggers and can enjoy constant zoomer adhd inspect spam while having the best finish in the game.
got phase 2 shadow daggers and boom gloves as my first combo and I'm loving it, the pink on the gloves matches the handles perfectly
Idk why a lot of ppl dont like the bowie, they say "eww big ahh blade" but its pretty good, ive seen high tier bowies and the blade make the skins more eye catching
Update: The thumb clipping on the M9 is fixed now. Thank Gaben!
W video idea 🎉
All the points you made,
I agree with!
One small con for the KARAMBIT : if you play 4:3 the blade will get cut off when running with it. You have to tweak your viewmodel a bit so it fits in the screen. In csgo you could minimize bobbing while running but you cant do this in CS2.
I Play Karambit Doppler Phase 4 on CT Side and Navaja Marble Fade on T Side..love both of my knives❤️
the transisions on the knifes where clean when you dide the inspect thing !
He had Karambit, butterflies, m9s and a few skeleton knifes. I recently got a falchion and was shocked at how nice the animations feel. If you don’t have a big budget I can’t recognise falchion enough
one thing you missed is that skeleton/butterflyknives make you feel like a movementgod if you know just the movement basics
The nomad inspect animation editing is superb Slaid🤌
Huntsman big W. The blade shape is absolute sex.
i dont even play the game anymore but i still watch your every video❤❤
I have my shadow dagger in autotronic and love them. It's for me the best cheap red knife that fits my red themed inventory for only 110€
The falchion knife toss up animation when right clicking was already in GO. it was rare right click animation but consistent if right clicking a wall.
W transitions and edits slaid
bowie best knife in the game animations are insanely clean and the blade is so big i love it
Bowie is lower than mid
@@thenotoriousmatebojadze7484 bro bowie is good
I have used all of them and ended up using a Flip knife. Its a cleanest knife in CS!🔥
I have always appreciated you championing the Shadow Daggers, they really do get too much hate. Unique audio, animations, hand positions, and it drives people up the wall to be killed by "butt plugs". they even moved the Stattrak counter up onto the handle to keep the actual blade itself clean, for those who like ST knives. Though I will say, one con I've never seen anyone talk about is the fact they don't seem to have backstab animations, or if they do, they're so close to normal attacks that you can't tell in normal gameplay. That, and they moved the nametag from bottom of the right blade to top of the left blade, meaning you can't read the nametag in idle cause it's covered by your hand, and it's hidden in inspect. Never understood that change tbh.
Yep my biggest gripe with my buttplugs is definitely the lack of stabbing animations. Every other knife seem to have one except for them.
The Bowie Knife has to be the best one in the game rn, after the buff you can see 2 gloves and its also like a sword while being very cheap
"bowie to najlepsza kosa w grze" XDDDDD
bowie is the best for low price. it has unique animations, cool blade and for me it functions as a cheap alternative for the m9. The pull out animation is pretty much the same with the m9 but the hand tilts it horizontally instead of vertically
Every day I can't decide what to buy. The cheapest butterfly, M9 or another but beautiful finish knife
How is that even a question? I'm gonna be honest but some high float M9/Butterfly Boreal Forest just looks like ass and knowing it still costs more than lots of Dopplers on other knives makes it outright sad to see.
I personally vote finish over animations all day.
But its up to you what you value more. Are you an animation guy or more finish guy
Get a huntsman, I was about to get one but ended up getting a butterfly. The pull out animation is clean, and you can actually get a good finish instead of getting a bad finish on an expensive knife. It sounds like your price range is around 800-1k so a bayonet gama dopler would be even better if that's the case. Honestly thinking of getting one myself, the pull out animation is to clean.
@@orcristghost3204 1k buys you an M9 vanilla which tops every Huntsman.
I feel like the Bowie and karambit have basically the exact same left hand pullout animation. Definitely close enough to where if you're bothered by one you're almost certainly bothered by the other. So I'd either put that as a con for both or neither
Bro cooked on this video 🔥
nice video, i got my kara doppler phase 1 and the animation is so nice
For the butterfly cons you really shouldve mentionned the sound, the only reason i sold mine.
Best video I saw in the knife topic!!!
I bought Butterfly Stained (I was going for black n' white inventory), and I love it, idc what people say about Stained finish, it's honestly overhated.
Yeah idk why people hate it so much
i want to buy a survival knife stained. I like it.
I love the small accent of blue it gives the knife. Unhinged gloves go great with it and would fit your black and white theme.
My fav knife is gut knife its clean simple and it suits me the best
You should have mentioned how some floats .37~ classic knives have a unique pattern which in my opinion makes it a lot cooler with some finishes
I've actually covered .31 float classic knives in a dedicated video, and how finishes look with that specific float👍
Navaja ultraviolet is a completely fine first knife tbh
you need to do the same video for finishes to knives
The video was great and the channel is by the far the best glove/knife/combo channel on yt, but i feel like you couldve just named the video, "Pros and Cons of Every Knife in CS2". Your title seems a little clickbaity. Reminds me of something like, "I bought every knife in CS2 and I youll never believe what I found out". No hate, just a thought.
I think the Kukri would have been insane if they gave it a different inspect animation and I dont really like the left and right clicks on it much at all. I kind of love the blade shape and the pull outs are so sick.
Also I got a mango fade bfk thanks to your combo video, way too clean I had to. 😎 Picking up the Pows in a few days 🚨🦔
I wish the ursus didn’t have the green handle
Goated vid again brote
I would add competetive addon - kukri covers ur screen, same talon in pullout animation.
How do you get this view model on official servers?
Kukri blocks your screen on headshot level. You think the Bowie is big but the Kukri is huge. At least the Bowie lets you see enemies when you're moving.
gut knife marble fade+broken fang needle point
Karambit has a floating thumb too though lol
Just picked up an Ursus blue gem, it goes so hard with my gloves
which gloves?
The best knife skin is the Huntsman Tiger Tooth 🔥
The gut knife has a veri nice pullout animation in my opinion
Huntsman has the same one and looks soo much better
Shadow Daggers I agree are overhated
Plus if you’re a glove enthusiast it’s the only thing in the game other than maybe the duelies that will inspect both gloves
M9 animation got fixed after 10 years 🙌
this is a good video helped me out
😄
W video 🤠 glove vid next
i hit a gut knife forest ddpat on some gambling site and i’m keeping that shit no matter how ass it is because im poor asf
Don’t get shadow daggers you will get bullied. Navaja is a very good budget option.
navaja knife looks good btw
The simplest and most elegant knife in appearance is the Ursus knife.
I’ve always disliked the Talon and Karambit. They both seem like they would be very impractical. Where all knives are used to stab or slice, these two just don’t seem to work unless you use them like a claw.
dude toomorow i am tradeing my knives and cant decide which one to get this video has the best timing
bfk vanilla with supers or bfk fade 98% fade whithout gloves?
@@mubagienny4246vanilla with supers
@@mubagienny4246 you will not regret the fade, and you can always get gloves later
BEST GUT KNIFE IS THE GUT KNIFE AUTOTRONIC. CHEAP BUT LOOKS BADASS IN ANY FLOAT
I love my doppler gut knife, very pink and purple but i 'might' upgrade to a falchion gamma doppler
HUNTSMAN MENTIONED
I am a big Huntsman fan. I have a SUPER high float Black Laminate, but CS2 nerfed it.
Its not pitch black anymore :(
Con of th e Karambit: 3rd person view model holding the karambit looks weird
the only cons for any knife that isnt the navaja, the paracord or the survival knife is the price
why am i watching this when i cant even afford a covert skin
cant decide between a doppler ph1 stiletto or huntsman :/ can anybody help pls?
honestly I think it highly depends on if you have/plan on getting gloves, if its black gloves I would go with huntsman and for brown I would go with stiletto👍
@@TheSlaid ive already bought imperial plaids... the phase 1 really looks decent with them because im not a big fan of freehand/ultraviolet knives
Honestly stiletto p1 with imperials is super nice🔥
cant decide which knife honestly, im stuck between the huntsman marble fade/ lore or a bowie lore, I love marble fade skinline and the doppler phase 4, my budget is around $300 can someone help please
Funny how I'm watching the video and knowing i'll never buy one
My M9 bayonet doppler P2 that i bought for $500 a fee years back is now worth like $2000, im seriously debating selling it for a butterfly tigertooth and sport gloves big game since currently i dont even have gloves, just a stupidly expensive M9, the bmw of cs2 knives
m9 thumb clip got fixed now, maybe they change huntsman too?
how do you spin shadow daggers
tf you gon do with price to blade size ratio
The blade size makes a $1100 difference between Navajas and m9s, so to answer your question, a lot
If they fix the m9 with the thumb the price is going to rise even more, so i am going to hold on to my m9 for a while
Bro do u have a video on how float and pattern interact with different type of finishes
I LOVE TURTLE GLOVES WITH GAMMA DOPPLERS!!!!
I have butterfly doppler phase 4 should i sell it? Or keep it?
What viewmodel do you use? Im playing on 1280 x 1024 if that makes any difference but my viewmodel kinda makes the shadow daggers harder to see