Souvenir SG 553 | Pulse (Field-Tested)

Skin overview

The skin is built on contrast: hot pink on the handguard, lower receiver and grip, broken up by grey shards. In Field-Tested the pink still dominates the silhouette, while the edges and raised parts start showing scuffs. It keeps the recognisable look at a lower entry point than the cleanest grade.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

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

The remaining qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Field-Tested

The handguard and rails are painted fuchsia with dark grey shard-like fragments running along their length. The upper receiver and scope stay dark grey, while the lower receiver, trigger guard and pistol grip carry solid hot pink.

Scuffs spread along the rail ridges, the magazine edges and the front of the handguard. The pink starts to look slightly matte in places, and small grey patches show at the corners of the stock. In game the contrast between fuchsia and grey still stands out. The pistol grip and the centre of the lower receiver usually stay clean.

Field-Tested quality — float range 0.15–0.38

The float of Souvenir SG 553 | Pulse ranges from 0.1 to 0.6; the Field-Tested quality covers 0.15–0.38 — 46% 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

The skin’s collection is The Phoenix Collection with 13 skins in total.

It drops from Operation Phoenix Weapon Case (on sale since Feb 19, 2014).

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

Pink, magenta and holo stickers blend with the fuchsia fragments, while black, grey or white stickers echo the dark base. Placing them on the grey upper receiver keeps the pink handguard pattern uncovered.

What to check before buying

• Minimal Wear is the cleanest grade available, so compare floats within it if you want the brightest pink.
• Look at the rail ridges and magazine edges, since they show wear first.
• Check the stock corners and muzzle area on Field-Tested and worse copies.
• Review applied stickers and any name tag, as they affect how the pink-and-grey scheme reads.

Who should buy Field-Tested

• Players who want the bold pink look without paying for the cleanest grade.
• Owners who do not mind light scuffs on the edges.
• Conclusion: a balanced pick for everyday play.