Among CS2 gloves, Specialist silhouettes stand out for segmented panels and a tactical read from the back of the hand. Tiger Strike (specialist_tiger_orange) sits at ancient—top shelf in the glove line. Before you bid on C5GAME or Steam, know when it dropped, who made it, and how wear actually behaves; listing price alone is a gamble.

Release context

The finish went live 2020-12-03 with Operation Broken Fang—a wave that bulked up gloves and agents. Tiger Strike is a official pipeline skin, not a named community creator drop.

Designer

Credit goes to Valve. Treat it like other official ancients: scarcity and prestige are baked in, not “someone’s workshop hit.”

What you’re buying

| Fact | Detail |
|------|--------|
| Item | Specialist Gloves |
| Finish | Tiger Strike / specialist_tiger_orange |
| Rarity | Ancient |
| Wear | 0.06 – 0.80 |

The in-game blurb is minimal (“Tiger Strike”), but the read is clear: tiger-stripe cues and warm orange over the Specialist layout. Ancients don’t flood the market—float and pattern placement move money.

Wear note: Factory New does not start at 0.00 here; floor is 0.06. Ceiling 0.80 means Battle-Scarred can still show orange instead of mud—if you pick the right pair.

Knuckles, thumb web, and joints wear unevenly and dominate the inspect cam. Treat float as a hard filter, then judge the photo you’ll stare at in menu.

Inspect checklist (do this before checkout)

1. Left vs right — panel orange balanced or one hand washed out?
2. High wear — does orange go flat/gray or stay readable?
3. Loadout — knife and agent sleeve: complementary warm stack or clash?

Same wear tier on C5GAME and Steam can diverge a lot—that’s usually inspect delta, not platform magic.

Shop verdict

Buy if: you want a Broken Fang-era official tiger Specialist and you’ll inspect-first (0.06–0.12 for clean knuckles, or a curated BS that still pops orange).

Pass or wait if: you’re chasing “cheapest ancient Specialist” without opening the inspect—you’re paying someone else’s good roll or inheriting gray knuckles.

Warm-loadout players get the most mileage: the glove shape already reads aggressive; orange rewards matching metals and sleeves.

Collectors: lock float band + knuckle screenshots; that’s the anchor, not hype text.

Expert mutterings

Broken Fang dropped a lot of glove noise at once—Tiger Strike aged into the “I know that orange” tier without needing a paragraph of lore. Valve keeping design in-house matches how ancients feel in trade chat: official, scarce, float-sensitive. The 0.06 floor trips up newcomers who assume every FN starts at zero; it doesn’t. And please—never cart-blind an ancient glove because the float looked fair in a table. The game sells you geometry and color blocks; the market sells you the one screenshot that survived three trade-ups. Same wear, two listings, different knuckles—that’s normal. C5 or Steam, the workflow is identical: inspect, screenshot, then pay.