Unraveling the Best CS:GO Cases to open in 2025: A Collector’s Guide
As of September 2025, around forty cases have been released in CS2, each offering a diverse selection of weapon skins, gloves, and knives. While some cases feature items with market values significantly exceeding their cost, profitability depends largely on chance. Therefore, it's essential to approach skin purchases cautiously and consider the cost of keys when calculating potential profit.
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How to get CSGO cases (CS2 Update)
Firstly, let’s go over the odds for each rarity drop once the case is opened:
Skin Rarities | Drop % Probabilities |
---|---|
Mil-Spec (Blue) | 79.92% |
Restricted (Purple) | 15.98% |
Classified (Pink) | 3.2% |
Covert (Red) | 0.64% |
Rare Special Item (Gold) | 0.26% |
The Operation Hydra Case has saw a huge surge in price with the new CS2 drop pools valve has made on September 17th. This discontinued and scarce CS2 case has since taken the #1 spot in terms of profitability as you can expect an average of 69.81% ROI meaning if you spend 100$ on this case you can expect to get 69.81$ back with average luck.
Keep in mind that the ROI is highly inflated by the gold drops meaning you will have to open a lot of cases in order to get closer to the theoretical ROI. The skins dropped from this case include some of the most sought after gloves like the Pandora's Box Gloves and Superconductors.
With an ROI of 68.71%, this case takes the #2 spot. The case features the Kukri knife as the Gold Item and has the M4A1-S Vaporwave and Glock-18 Gold Toof as red items. This case is part of the Armory Pass collection available for only 2 stars.
With an ROI of 67.90%, this case takes the #3 in the most profitable cases, since you can expect to get on average 67.90% of your money back when opening it. Its drop pool contains the Bowie Knife in Fade, Slaughter, Case Hardened and more.
This case takes the #4 spot in the most profitable cases, since you can expect to get on average 67.92% of your money back when opening it. Its drop pool contains the Karambit, M9 Bayonnet, Bayonnet Flip Knife and Gut knife.
With an ROI of 64.58%, the CS:GO Weapon Case 3 takes the final spot at the #5 position. The knives dropped from the case are similar to the ones from the Weapon Case 2. In fact, this case it a cheaper version of the Weapon Case 2 due to the fact that its lower tier skins are less expensive, making it slightly less profitable.
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Trade Protection Update