Souvenir USP-S | Kill Confirmed (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The deep red base, the swirling flame trail and the shattered skull make this USP-S easy to spot from across the map. Minimal Wear keeps the artwork whole, with only faint scuffs at the muzzle and the slide edges that are hard to catch in game. It is a sensible step down for a buyer who wants the clean look at a lower grade.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

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

The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The silencer carries the main motif: a cream-and-gold bullet heading towards the muzzle, trailing a twisting ribbon of flame in orange, gold and red outlined in black. The trail continues onto the slide and ends at its rear, where a cracked white-grey skull sits above the grip, broken open by the shot.

Small scuffs may appear on the muzzle end of the silencer and along the top edges of the slide. The skull, the bullet and the trail stay complete, with no loss of detail. In game the difference from Factory New is barely noticeable even on inspect. The grip and frame look clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir USP-S | Kill Confirmed is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Shadow Collection with 16 skins in total.

The source is Shadow Case (on sale since Sep 15, 2015).

What it costs in each quality

Compared with the Minimal Wear quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 25% dearer
• Field-Tested — 1% dearer
• Well-Worn — 2% cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 14% cheaper

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

By price this skin is 2nd of 3 skins Covert USP-S 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

Red, gold and black stickers blend with the flame trail and the dark red base, while white or silver ones echo the skull. Placements on the slide work best when they do not cover the skull or the bullet on the silencer.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the low end of each grade keeps the silencer tip and skull noticeably cleaner.
• Inspect the skull at the rear of the slide and the bullet on the silencer, as these carry the main artwork and wear first.
• Look at applied stickers and any name tag, and decide whether they suit you or add nothing for you.
• Compare the StatTrak™ and regular versions if a kill counter matters to you.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want an almost clean look in game without paying for the top grade.
• Crafters for whom tiny edge scuffs do not matter under stickers.
• Conclusion: a balanced choice between condition and cost.