Among CS2 gloves, Hand Wraps | Slaughter sits at Ancient rarity and leans hard into a fighter’s silhouette: layered straps and a dominant blood-red palette that reads aggressive before you even check the float. Valve’s flavor text frames the look—stained deep red, the wraps make it nearly impossible to tell where the fabric ends and where the stains begin—and the cheeky line about using your hands for the job reinforces a “your fists are the weapon” fantasy. If you gravitate toward rugged loadouts and combat-forward storytelling on the hands slot, this is one of the early glove-line pieces that still feels unmistakable.

Release Date

It arrived on November 28, 2016, bundled with the Brothers In Arms update and the debut of glove drops in Glove Case. That timing puts it among the first wave of hand cosmetics players still recognize instantly in inspect and in screenshots.

Designer

Valve handled the design in-house; it is not a Steam Workshop submission. That matches standard references on wiki-style databases and major skin catalogs.

Which Case

You can pull it from the Glove Case, tied to the same glove rollout. Within that case’s glove pool, it is one of the Hand Wraps outcomes.

Skin Features

Category: gloves. Display name: Hand Wraps | Slaughter. Internal ID: handwrap_red_slaughter. Float spans 0.06 to 0.80, so copies range from near-clean to heavily worn. Wear shifts how the crimson blocks read—brightness, edge sharpness, and how the strap grain shows through—so two “red” floats can feel quite different in hand. Before you buy, spin the wrists in inspect: confirm the red panels, strap direction, and whether left/right symmetry matches what you want around the knuckles and wraps.

Highlights

The Slaughter identity is cohesive: the red suggests fresh marks, while the bandaging reads like years of grip habit baked into the model. It pairs naturally with staple rifles—AK, M4 families—and darker agent models where the hands can anchor the whole color story. If finish matters to you, prioritize intersections where straps cross and check whether high-wear still keeps the red layers you like. Ancient rarity keeps it a steady conversation piece in glove collections—solid as a first serious Hand Wraps pick, a benchmark red glove, or the glue in a crimson knife-and-rifle set. Comparing several float tiers in-game inspect is the fastest way to land a pair whose pattern placement feels personal.