Souvenir SSG 08 | Sans Comic (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin reads as a muted, monochrome comic page wrapped around the rifle, with no bright colours to compete with the line art. Minimal Wear keeps that look almost intact: small marks may sit on edges, but the panels and silver highlights still look clean in game. It is a sensible step down from Factory New for anyone who wants a near-identical look.

Item type: sniper rifle. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The handguard, receiver and stock carry a grayscale hydrographic pattern of comic-style panels and line work, with some elements picked out in high-gloss silver paint. The scope body and mount use the same print, while the barrel and muzzle brake stay dark and plain.

Tiny scuffs can appear on the sharpest edges, such as the handguard rails and the scope rings. The silver gloss remains bright and the panels on the receiver and stock are untouched. In game these marks are practically invisible in first person. The look is very close to Factory New.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir SSG 08 | Sans Comic ranges from 0 to 0.5; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 16% 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 Achroma Collection with 20 skins in total. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

Price by quality

By price this skin is 4th of 8 skins Consumer Grade SSG 08 in this quality (the first being 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

Black, white, silver and holo stickers continue the monochrome comic look, while a single red sticker echoes the red recording light from the description. The flat sides of the handguard and receiver give the best surface for a clean row.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since copies near the cleaner end of a grade keep noticeably more silver gloss.
• Look at the handguard rails, scope rings and grip in the inspect view, as these parts lose the print first.
• On Souvenir copies, check which stickers are applied and whether they fit the grayscale artwork.
• If there is a name tag, make sure it suits the item, because it cannot be removed without losing it.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want an almost Factory New look in game.
• Crafters for whom tiny edge marks do not matter under stickers.
• A near-clean copy without paying for the top grade.