Rifles CS2 Skins

The defining T-side rifle and the reason CS2's economy revolves around $2,700. The AK-47 kills any opponent with a single headshot — helmet or not — something no CT rifle can match at range. In exchange it demands recoil discipline: a hard vertical kick for the first few bullets, then a drifting left-right wander that punishes anyone who holds the trigger without practice.

The CT rifle for players who value volume of fire: 30 rounds, 666 RPM, and one of the smoothest spray patterns in the game. Its trade-off is lethality — a helmet headshot deals ~92 damage, leaving opponents alive at single-digit HP, so the M4A4 wins fights with a dink plus one follow-up rather than a single click.

The silenced CT rifle that rewards precision over volume. Each bullet hits harder than the M4A4's (38 vs 33 damage), the spray is the tightest of any assault rifle, and suppressed shots hide your tracers and muzzle flash. The costs: a 20-round magazine and a 0.94 range modifier that softens body damage at very long distances.

Counter-Strike's ultimate space-control weapon. One scoped shot to the chest, stomach, or head kills instantly at any range, and the mere knowledge that an AWP is watching a sightline changes how five enemies play the map. It costs $4,750, slows you to 200 units/second, and pays only $100 per kill — power priced accordingly.

The Scout is CS2's budget sniper and its most mobile rifle. At $1,700 it one-shot headshots through helmets at any range, moves at 230 units/second — faster than every assault rifle — and is uniquely accurate at the apex of a jump. It is the thinking player's force-buy: all the angle-holding threat of a sniper for a third of the AWP's price.

The Galil AR is T-side's discount rifle — $900 cheaper than the AK-47 while keeping a 30-round magazine, a fast 666 RPM fire rate, and the same 77.5% armor penetration. It can't one-tap helmets and its spray gets ragged at range, but on force-buy rounds it turns a broken economy into a genuine site-take threat.

The FAMAS is the CT force-buy rifle, cut to $1,950 and given an accuracy buff in early 2025 that quietly turned it from a meme into a respectable weapon. It fires at the M4A4's 666 RPM, carries a 25-round magazine, and hides a unique trick: a right-click three-round burst mode that fires faster than full-auto.

The AUG is the CT's scoped rifle: a $3,300 premium over the M4s buys a zoom optic, 90% armor penetration, and a first shot accurate enough to win cross-map duels a normal rifle shouldn't take. Its 2019 reign over pro play ended with price hikes, but the weapon itself never stopped being strong — just expensive.

The SG 553 — the "Krieg" — is the T-side scoped rifle with a stat line that reads like a cheat sheet: 100% armor penetration, a one-shot headshot through helmets at essentially any range, and a zoom optic, all for $300 more than the AK-47. Its price hikes after the 2019–2020 pro-play takeover are the only thing keeping it niche.

The SCAR-20 is the CT auto-sniper: a $5,000 semi-automatic rifle that deletes anyone crossing a long sightline with two quick 80-damage body shots. Universally resented and situationally excellent, it trades the AWP's one-shot certainty for follow-up speed, wall-bang power, and a standard $300 kill reward.

The G3SG1 is the T-side auto-sniper — statistically the SCAR-20's twin at $5,000, with the same two-body-shot kill and 240 RPM spam potential, but saddled with a brutal 4.67-second reload. Rarer than its CT mirror because T-side's attacking role rarely wants a static lane-camper.