Souvenir MP9 | Hydra (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The finish pairs a loud lime-green body with black coiling shapes and a scaled grip, so it is easy to spot even at a glance. Minimal Wear keeps that contrast almost intact, with only faint marks on the outer edges. For most players it looks the same as the cleanest grade.

Item type: smg. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

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, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver is painted bright acid green with dark streaks, and thick black serpentine coils wrap over its top and sides toward the muzzle. The pistol grip shows a green scaled texture fading into dark grey, while the front grip is mostly dark with green patches.

Tiny marks may appear on the sharpest edges of the receiver and the base of the magazine. The coils, the scaled grip and the main green areas remain clean. At normal distance in game the difference from Factory New is practically invisible. Only close inspection reveals the small scuffs.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir MP9 | Hydra is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% 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 CS20 Collection with 17 skins in total.

The source is CS20 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.

Stickers and crafts

Stickers in green, black or dark holo tones blend with the acid green and the black coils. Placements on the side of the receiver work best when they do not cover the coils, while a single bright accent can contrast well against the green.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear range, since the edges and magazine show the difference first.
• Look at the magazine and the top of the receiver on the inspect screen, where the green wears off earliest.
• On worn grades compare several copies, as the amount of remaining green varies widely.
• Check applied stickers and name tag, and whether they match the green-and-black scheme.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want an almost clean look without aiming for the top grade.
• Crafters who accept tiny edge marks that are hidden in game.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.