Souvenir AWP | Pit Viper (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

AWP | Pit Viper is a hydrographic finish that covers the AWP body in a green snakeskin pattern of scales and darker blotches. In Minimal Wear the scale texture stays sharp and the greens look saturated against the dark barrel and scope. This is the cleanest condition this skin comes in.

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.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The snakeskin hydrographic covers the stock, grip area and receiver housing with small green scales, mixing light lime tones with darker olive and near-black blotches. The long barrel and the scope stay dark grey and black, which frames the green body.

The scale pattern is crisp and the green tones keep full contrast. Wear, if any, is limited to faint marks on the sharpest stock edges. In game the rifle reads as a bright green AWP with a clear snakeskin texture. The muzzle brake and bipod accents look clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.08–0.15

The float of Souvenir AWP | Pit Viper ranges from 0.08 to 0.5; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.08–0.15 — 17% 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

The skin’s collection is The Italy Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package

Price by quality

Among 9 skins of the AWP in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin ranks 8th by price, counting from 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

Green, black and gold stickers blend with the snakeskin print, while holo or foil stickers in green tones keep the theme. Placing them on the stock near the scale pattern works better than on the dark barrel, where bright colours stand out sharply.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear, since low floats keep noticeably more green on the stock edges.
• Look at the muzzle brake and the thumbhole edges, as these lose the print first.
• Inspect stickers and name tag, since souvenir copies come with stickers already applied.
• Compare Battle-Scarred and Well-Worn copies side by side, as the difference here is smaller than on many skins.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want the cleanest available version of the green snakeskin.
• Collectors and crafters who need a sharp pattern under stickers.
• Conclusion: the top choice if the look matters most.