Souvenir USP-S | Black Lotus (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This skin keeps the whole design on the slide: a soft-toned lotus near the front and thin dark stems running back over violet paint. Minimal Wear adds only faint marks at the slide edges, so in hand it looks nearly the same as a fresh copy. It is the grade where the clean artwork comes at a lower float position than Factory New.

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.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

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.

Light scuffs may appear on the sharpest slide edges and at the rear corners. The lotus and branches are fully intact. At normal distance the pistol looks practically identical to Factory New, and the differences show mainly on close inspection. The rest of the weapon stays clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir USP-S | Black Lotus ranges from 0 to 0.9; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 9% 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

Souvenir USP-S | Black Lotus belongs to The Operation Riptide Collection, which holds 17 skins.

The source is Operation Riptide Case.

Price by quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 13× dearer
• Field-Tested — 2.1× cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 13 skins of the USP-S in the Mil-Spec Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 2nd by price, counting from 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 look at before you buy

• 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 Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a nearly fresh look without aiming for Factory New.
• Sticker crafters for whom faint edge marks do not matter.
• A balanced option: the artwork reads as clean in everyday play.