Souvenir AWP | Oni Taiji (Well-Worn)

Skin overview

This AWP is defined by its painted Japanese motif: a samurai, demon masks and swirling warm colours over a dark base. Well-Worn copies show clear scratching across the stock and receiver, where bare grey metal begins to cut through the illustration. From a distance the colour palette still identifies the skin even though fine detail is lost.

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

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Well-Worn

The receiver is covered with the main scene: a samurai figure and Oni demon faces drawn in orange, gold and red with blue accents and dark outlines. The stock continues the artwork in a strong red with demon imagery around the thumbhole and grip, while the long barrel is finished in plain dark purple, which makes the painted section stand out.

Grey metal shows through in patches on the stock and the receiver flanks, and the scope rings lose their paint. The demon faces become partly obscured by scratches. In game the warm palette remains visible, but the image loses its definition. The purple barrel holds up better than the painted sections.

Well-Worn wear: float 0.38–0.45

The float of Souvenir AWP | Oni Taiji ranges from 0 to 0.5; the Well-Worn quality covers 0.38–0.45 — 14% 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

Souvenir AWP | Oni Taiji belongs to The Operation Hydra Collection, which holds 17 skins.

It drops from Operation Hydra Case.

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.

Which stickers suit it

Gold, red and orange stickers blend with the receiver art, while dark purple or black ones tie into the barrel colour. Placements toward the barrel side keep the samurai scene visible; holographic or foil gold stickers echo the gold accents of the painting.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since copies near the cleaner end look noticeably better.
• Inspect the stock edges, the thumbhole area and the receiver corners, as these lose paint first.
• Look at whether the demon faces on the receiver are scratched, since they carry the identity of the design.
• Check applied stickers and name tags, and whether they suit the warm palette or cover the main artwork.

Who the Well-Worn quality suits

• Budget-minded players who care mostly about the palette seen through the scope.
• Fans of a used, weathered look on their sniper rifle.
• A low-cost way to carry the design.