Maintain a gap
Even the longer slash reaches only 48 units.
Weapon 25Melee
Knife
Fast movement, a 65-damage stab, and triple backstab damage.
The knife reaches 48 units on a slash and 32 on a stab. Slashes deal 20 base damage on the first swing and 15 on rapid follow-ups; a stab deals 65. Hits from behind multiply damage by three for a 195-damage stab.
- Fast movement
- Silent close finishes
- Backstab opportunities
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Counter-Strike 1.6 values
Weapon statistics
Base damage is before hitgroup, distance, armor, and material modifiers. Armored damage is the percentage retained while armor covers the hitgroup.
- Base damage
- 15/20 slash · 65 stab
- Armored damage
- 85%
- Fire rate
- Manual
- Shot interval
- 0.35–0.40 s slash · 1.0–1.1 s stab
- Range behavior
- 32 u stab · 48 u slash
- Wall penetration
- None
- Price
- Free / default
- Buy side
- Both
- Magazine
- Unlimited
- Reserve
- Unlimited
- Reload
- Not applicable
- Move speed
- 250 u/s
Percentage-based range retention applies once per 500 game units. Penetration count is the maximum penetration stages passed to the CS 1.6 bullet simulation; material and thickness still determine whether a shot exits a surface.
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Core techniques
- 01
Choose reach or damage
Slash reaches 48 units; stab reaches only 32 but deals 65 base damage.
- 02
Confirm the back angle
Align behind the target before committing to the long stab recovery.
How to counter it
Watch flanks and sound
Crossfires and regular flank checks remove the surprise approach.