★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 (Factory New)

The ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 (Factory New) is a dark blue Doppler phase on a CS2 flip knife with a curved blade. It is Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and the knife drops from the Chroma cases: the Chroma Case, the Chroma 2 Case and the Chroma 3 Case. There are two wears, because the float of the finish reaches only 0.08: Factory New (FN) and Minimal Wear (MW).

What the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 looks like in Factory New

The blade bends back, like Persian knives: that is how Valve describes it. The lacquer is dark blue with indigo, lightening toward the tip to something closer to cornflower, with black marbled swirls across the flat. A serrated cutout shows at the base of the blade. The handle scales are olive, with lengthwise ribs, and at the hinge a blue element shines to match the blade.

This wear of the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 has a float of 0.00 to 0.07. In Factory New the lacquer is intact along the whole curve of the blade. The tip takes wear first, and Valve itself notes that the tip of this shape is fragile.

Where the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 came from

Valve created the Doppler finish, and there was no Steam Workshop submission for it. In the catalog it is number 420. Doppler came out on January 8, 2015, with the Chroma Case, and the flip knife is already in that case. Later it also appeared in the Chroma 2 Case and the Chroma 3 Case.

Phase and pattern

The phase is part of the item name: the buyer picks "Phase 3" in the listing itself. Phases 1 to 4 are regular, while Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl are gems, the rare variants of Doppler.

Phases 3 and 4 are both blue and look alike in a small preview, and only the listing name tells them apart. Within Phase 3 the copies are not identical either: the pattern index moves the colors across the blade, and the layout of one copy does not repeat another.

What to check before buying

When choosing the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3, pay attention to the following:

• the phase in the listing name: Phase 3 and Phase 4 hardly differ in the image, yet their prices are not the same;


• the front face of the blade, which is what copies of one phase are compared by;


• an applied name: a flip knife takes a name tag, and it stays on the item after purchase.

The band for this wear of the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 is just 0.00 to 0.07, and copies inside it are almost impossible to tell apart.

What the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear is priced 1.33 times above Factory New, so the lower wear costs more here.

Of the regular phases of the flip knife, Phase 3 is second cheapest. Phase 1 is three percent lower, Phase 4 six percent higher, and Phase 2 about a third more. The gems lie much higher: Sapphire is 3.2 times Phase 3, Ruby 4.5 times, and Black Pearl five times.

Across the model's finishes, 13 cost less than Phase 3 and 17 cost more. Autotronic is three percent higher, and Fade and Slaughter are eight percent lower. At the bottom, Bright Water, Damascus Steel and Freehand cost half as much or less.

Getting the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3

From the Chroma cases the flip knife drops as a rare ★ item, and the phase is random. The contract is the same lottery: five Covert skins from one collection give one rare special item, and chance assigns the model and the phase. Phase 3 comes as a finished listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

The ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Phase 3 in this wear is worth buying if:

• you want a dark blue flip knife, and Sapphire and the other gems cost too much;


• your CS2 loadout is put together in blue and olive tones, and the handle complements the blade;


• the price of a regular phase matters: Phase 2 costs about a third more, and only Phase 1 is cheaper than Phase 3.