★ Specialist Gloves | Tiger Strike (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The tiger-stripe weave, bright orange palm and cream fingertips make these Specialist Gloves easy to spot in the first-person view. Minimal Wear keeps that contrast almost intact, with only a faint softening on the lightest panels. In normal play it reads very close to the cleanest grade.

Item type: gloves. Extraordinary is the gloves rarity: in cases they are the rare special item, above any weapon skin.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The back of the hand is covered in a dense orange and dark brown tiger-stripe weave, crossed by a dark strap with the word TORTUE on it. The knuckles and finger backs carry black padded guards with thin orange inlays, while the fingertips and side panels are cream with visible stitching.

Light marks appear on the cream fingertips and along the seams, which lose a little of their whiteness. The orange palm and the tiger-stripe back remain bright and sharp. At normal viewing distance the difference from Factory New is hard to notice. The black knuckle guards still look clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of ★ Specialist Gloves | Tiger Strike ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Operation Broken Fang Case
• Snakebite Case
• Recoil Case

Price by quality

Compared with the Minimal Wear quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 3.3× dearer
• Field-Tested — 2.1× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 2.5× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 3.3× cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 19 skins of the Specialist Gloves in the Extraordinary grade and this quality, this skin ranks 13th by price, counting from the dearest.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear range, since cleaner floats keep the cream fingertips noticeably lighter.
• Inspect the cream fingers and stitching first, as they show dirt earlier than any other part.
• Look at the orange palm in the inspect view, because its brightness drops steadily with wear and you see it often in game.
• Compare a few copies in the same grade, as a low float in a worn grade can look close to the cleaner grade above.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Buyers matching the gloves with bright orange weapon skins.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.