★ StatTrak™ Talon Knife | Doppler (Minimal Wear) Phase 3

Skin overview

This is the same Phase 3 Doppler, a blue and violet marbled finish on the curved Talon blade, here in its narrow Minimal Wear band. Any marks are faint and gather near the tip and the serrated spine, while the colour across the blade stays intact. In hand and in play it reads almost the same as a Factory New copy, and the main difference is the grade on paper.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The blade carries a deep blue to violet anodized base with lighter blue marbled swirls that drift across its face, darkening toward the spine and the cutting edge. The spine has saw-tooth ridges and a row of round cut-outs that break up the colour field.

In Minimal Wear small light scuffs can appear on the very tip and on the edges of the spine teeth. The marbling across the middle of the blade and the colour of the finger ring remain clean. In game these marks are hard to spot during inspect animations and disappear entirely at normal distance. The handle looks the same as on a Factory New copy.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.08

The whole float range of ★ StatTrak™ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 3 is 0–0.08; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.08 segment (12% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Prisma Case
• Prisma 2 Case

StatTrak™ version

This is the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon shows confirmed kills. There is also the regular version without the counter.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float position within the range, since copies near the upper end of Factory New and Minimal Wear read almost identically.
• Compare the pattern on the screenshot, because the balance of light swirls and dark blue areas differs from copy to copy.
• Inspect the tip and the spine teeth, as these are the first places where the anodizing shows wear.
• Check whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag if either matters to you.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want the same look in game and are fine with faint marks at the tip.
• Buyers who prefer to save on the grade rather than on the visual result.
• Conclusion: a practical way to own this knife with almost no visible compromise.