Souvenir USP-S | Black Lotus (Factory New)

Skin overview

USP-S | Black Lotus is a Mil-Spec Grade pistol finish with a lotus flower and dark branches painted over a deep violet slide. In Factory New the violet is even and saturated, and the pale petals stand out sharply against it. The fine branch lines stay crisp along the whole slide.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

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

How the skin looks in Factory New

The custom paint covers the slide only: a deep violet base with a pale pink and peach lotus near the front and dark, thin branches stretching towards the rear. The frame and trigger guard stay in gunmetal grey, the grip is dark grey with a slight violet tint at the base, and the perforated silencer is left in plain grey.

The slide paint is intact from front to rear, with no visible marks on edges or corners. The lotus petals keep their soft gradients and the branch lines are sharp. In game the violet reads deep and uniform, and the flower is easy to spot when inspecting. The frame, grip and silencer look clean as well.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir USP-S | Black Lotus is 0–0.9; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (8% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Operation Riptide Collection with 17 skins in total.

It drops from Operation Riptide Case.

What it costs in each quality

Taking Factory New as the baseline:

• Minimal Wear — 13× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 27× cheaper

Based on the cheapest SkinOut.gg listing of each quality, otherwise on the market reference.

Among 13 skins of the USP-S in the Mil-Spec Grade grade and this quality, this skin is 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.

Which stickers suit it

Stickers in violet, lilac, pale pink or silver tones match the slide and the lotus. Placing them on the grey frame or near the grip keeps the flower on the slide uncovered. Holographic or muted dark stickers suit the calm look better than bright saturated colours.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the wear range, since the whole design sits on the slide and wear there is easy to see.
• Inspect the slide edges, top and ejection port area, as these lose paint first.
• On worn copies, see how much of the lotus remains, because it is the main element of the artwork.
• Look at any applied stickers and name tag to make sure they suit the violet slide.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the lotus and branches with no marks at all.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean violet slide as a base.
• The choice for buyers who value a flawless slide above everything else.