Top 5 Skins to Get Via Item Upgrading: Prices, Visuals, and More!

Item upgrading revamps your CS2 inventory. How exactly? Farmskins skin upgrade allows you to turn several of your skins into a single (sometimes even more expensive) item you want. 

When you upgrade items, their price doesn’t necessarily have to match the price of the item you opt for. Your items can cost less. However, it will decrease the chance of a successful item upgrade, risking that your items will go to waste.

What if your items are more expensive than a desired item? You receive compensation. Most case-opening sites credit it as bonus currency; Farmskins, for example, provides you with its “Bullets.”

Top 5 Skins to Upgrade Your Items Into 

When you upgrade items, sites allow you to pick a skin that is close in price to your upgraded items. Thus, you can hunt for specific skins. Let’s look at some of the most beautiful CS2 items that will definitely find a spot in your inventory through upgrading. 

M4A1-S | Nightmare

If you lack a remarkable skin for CT’s main weapon, Nightmare pattern might be a perfect choice. This skin embraces a dark aesthetic. Its central element is an epic beast painted in vivid blue color. His head is above a trigger. However, the rest of his body spreads across the weapon, and you can see crystals from the beast’s body on the buttstock, silencer, etc.

The skin’s prices range from $5 to $37. So you can pick items of different prices for upgrading, depending on what wear state you’re okay with. M4A1-S | Nightmare is available in all wear states.

MP9 | Food Chain

Indeed, farm guns like MP9 don’t often get into our hands. Still, if our team loses, we need those SMGs for several rounds in our matches. Therefore, farm guns also require skins.

Based on our research, MP9 Food Chain is one of the most beautiful skins you can pick in this category. It’s very colorful. Starting from the buttstock and finishing with the beginning of the gun’s body, there’s a red beast. He eats an orange beast. The orange beast eats a yellow one, while the yellow one eats a green one. It turns into a beautifully arranged spectacle of colors and creatures that both look amazing on your MP9.

Food Chain is available from battle-scarred to factory new conditions. Their prices range from $1.1 to $8.2.

Sawed-Off | Apocalypto

Do you like shotgun gameplay? Then, you need an Apocalypto for close-quarter combat. This skin depicts an apocalypse. Closer to the barrel, there’s a space in which our planet is floating (a bit further from the trigger). Near the buttstock, you see an apocalypse initiator: a giant hand. Its fingers are coming closer to our planet, signifying that the end is close. 

Sawed-Off | Apocalypto is rather affordable. Its cheapest, battle-scarred version costs $0.20, while the most expensive, factory-new version costs $1.3. Thus, you can get a skin with just a few upgraded items. 

AK-47 | The Empress

If you need an AK skin, look no further than The Empress. The best way to describe it is to say that it looks like an AK-47 stored in the royal family’s armoury. It’s full of rich colours. The shades of golden yellow and burgundy depict an empress residing in the middle of the gun. She radiates a circular aura. Around it, you see 4 crests on the hand guard and various particles on the magazine.

AK – 47 The Empress costs from $22 to $130. You can pick up this skin in battle-scarred – factory-new wear states.

Glock-18 | Neo-Noir

We don’t forget about pistols. The one we suggest is worth your attention is the Glock 18 Neo-Noir. Its predominant colours are white and black. The former serves as the background for a woman shaped out of black. She’s also filled with pink and purple colours to create dynamics in this skin.

Neo Noir costs from $5 to $47. Within this price range, the skin is available from battle-scarred to factory-new wear states.