SSG 08 | Blood in the Water (Field-Tested)

The SSG 08 offers economical long-range precision early in a match; modest damage is balanced by mobility and excellent value. For the Blood in the Water treatment, it has been airbrushed with the image of a shark.

The artwork is distributed across the body so that broad panels and smaller mechanical details read as parts of one treatment. The overall appearance remains expressive without hiding the weapon geometry or the purpose of its major components.

The Blood in the Water design joined the Counter-Strike catalog as a distinct work with its own family of variants.

The skin began its path inside the game, where it was treated as a distinct finish for this model from the outset. Across the SSG 08 family, Blood in the Water keeps one artistic foundation while condition changes only the individual surface.

The assigned rarity of SSG 08 | Blood in the Water is Covert. It marks the design’s place among items from the same release and does not change with surface wear.

The tier allows the work to be compared with other SSG 08 finishes at the same level. When variants are compared, rarity should be kept separate from edition and wear because each describes a different part of the item.

The Blood in the Water treatment works with that character instead of burying the item's form beneath decoration.

On the SSG 08, the Blood in the Water treatment uses the Custom Paint Job method, shaping the way the image meets its material and geometry. Condition determines the neatness of the surface, but the artistic foundation stays the same.

SSG 08 | Blood in the Water is easy to recognize through the pairing of a familiar silhouette with a distinct surface treatment. Its identity does not depend on inspecting tiny details.

The expression of Blood in the Water on the SSG 08 belongs to the whole composition, whose elements reinforce one another. Condition adds another visible distinction: cleaner examples preserve more of the original detail, while abrasion gives the same design a rougher, quieter character.

The available editions of SSG 08 | Blood in the Water are standard edition, StatTrak™ and Souvenir. Surface condition on the SSG 08 is represented by Factory New, Minimal Wear and Field-Tested, shaping each individual example.

No dedicated container is listed for Blood in the Water. Its available editions and conditions are still treated separately. Matching wear alone does not make two items the same version: edition comes first, followed by surface condition.

Edition divides SSG 08 | Blood in the Water into standard edition, StatTrak™ and Souvenir. The standard edition has no kill counter; StatTrak™ is fitted with a kill counter; the Souvenir edition is distinguished by its tournament-release origin.

Versions are separated first by edition and then by wear, so two visually close examples can still belong to different variants.