Souvenir AWP | Exothermic (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin pairs a dark metal barrel with a body painted in red, crossed by darker radiating streaks that read like a blast frozen in place. At Minimal Wear the contrast between the bright and dark reds holds up, and any marks are small enough to stay out of view during play. It keeps the full look of the finish at a lower grade than Factory New.

Item type: sniper rifle. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The stock, grip area, receiver and handguard are painted bright red with a hydrographic burst pattern of darker red streaks that fan out in different directions. The scope tube and its mounts carry the same red pattern, while the barrel, muzzle brake and bipod stay in dark grey metal.

Tiny scuffs may appear on the scope and the sharpest edges of the stock. The rest of the body and the pattern look the same as on a Factory New copy. At normal viewing distance in game the difference is hard to spot.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AWP | Exothermic is 0–0.7; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Harlequin Collection with 19 skins in total. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

What it costs in each quality

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

• Factory New — 1.7× dearer
• Field-Tested — 2.2× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 2.4× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 4.4× cheaper

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

By price this skin is 4th of 9 skins Restricted AWP in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Red, black and gold stickers fit the burst pattern without clashing with it. Darker stickers placed along the flat side of the stock stand out well against the busy red texture, while bright colours away from red can look out of place.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low float in the middle grades keeps much more red on the scope.
• Look at the scope and stock edges in the inspect view, as these parts lose paint first.
• Check applied stickers and any name tag, because they change how the red body reads.
• Compare a few copies side by side, since the hydrographic pattern sits slightly differently on each one.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look and are fine with tiny scuffs.
• Sticker crafts where small differences from Factory New will not show.
• A sensible balance between look and cost.