Souvenir SG 553 | Pulse (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

SG 553 | Pulse covers the rifle in bold fuchsia fragments set against dark grey, giving it a sharp, broken-glass look. Minimal Wear is the cleanest grade this skin comes in, so the pink stays saturated and the fragment edges look crisp. Any marks at this level are small and sit mostly on the edges.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

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.

The pink is fully saturated and the grey fragments have sharp outlines. Light specks may appear on the rail ridges or the magazine edge. In game the rifle looks practically clean at normal distance. The grip and lower receiver remain untouched.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.1–0.15

The float of Souvenir SG 553 | Pulse ranges from 0.1 to 0.6; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.1–0.15 — 10% 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.

The source is 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 the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Collectors who want the cleanest version of this skin.
• Sticker crafters who need the pink at full saturation.
• Conclusion: the choice for the brightest look.