★ Talon Knife | Doppler (Minimal Wear) Phase 1

Skin overview

This wear of ★ Talon Knife | Doppler (Phase 1) keeps the deep marbled look that sets Phase 1 apart from the brighter phases. Black swirls dominate the blade, broken by bands of blue and a pink wash toward the tip and the ring. At Minimal Wear the colours stay saturated, and any light marks sit on the edge and tip, where they are hard to spot outside close inspection.

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.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The blade carries the Doppler candy coat over a marbled base: dark black swirls run across the whole surface, with blue in the middle of the blade and pink and violet toward the tip. The saw-tooth spine and the three round holes cut through the pattern and stand out against the dark marbling.

At Minimal Wear faint scratches can appear on the very tip and along the cutting edge, sometimes on the spine teeth. They are small and mostly hidden by the dark marbling, which masks light damage well. In game at normal distance the knife looks almost the same as Factory New. The middle of the blade, the ring and the handle remain clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.08

The float of ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 1 ranges from 0 to 0.08; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.08 — 12% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Prisma Case
• Prisma 2 Case

StatTrak™ version

There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills.

What to check before buying

• Look at the pattern on the inspect screen, because Phase 1 copies differ in how much of the blade is black versus blue and pink.
• Check the tip and the cutting edge closely, as these are the first places where scratches show.
• On Minimal Wear copies, compare the float position, since a low float looks closer to Factory New.
• Note whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag, as both change what you are buying.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want Phase 1 colours and can accept faint marks on the tip.
• Buyers looking to save compared with Factory New while keeping almost the same look in game.
• A sensible choice when the dark marbling matters more than a perfect edge.