★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 (Factory New)

The ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 in Factory New (FN) is the first phase of Doppler on the curved Karambit in CS2. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The knife drops from the Chroma cases. This wear of the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 carries a float of 0.00 to 0.07. For the whole finish the scale ends at 0.08, so there are two wears: Factory New and Minimal Wear (MW).

What the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 looks like in Factory New

The blade curves like a claw. Blue-violet marble with white clouds spreads across it, and near the base, by the handle, a raspberry tone comes through. The ring at the butt is blue-violet as well. The gray handle is ribbed and cut with finger grooves. Valve's description says the blade is covered with black and silver metallic paint with a marble effect, and then with a colored lacquer.

In Factory New the lacquer is intact on the edge and along the border of the blade, and the ring is not rubbed. A copy's wear is fixed at the drop and does not add up afterward.

Where the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 came from

Valve drew the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1, and there is no Steam Workshop submission for the finish. Doppler came out on January 8, 2015, with the Chroma Case and is recorded in Valve's catalog as number 418. The finish is also in Chroma 2 Case and Chroma 3 Case.

Phase and pattern

The item name carries a phase: the buyer chooses Phase 1 and does not receive it from a case. Phases 1 to 4 are regular. The gems are Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl, the rare variants of Doppler. Within a phase, copies differ by pattern index, which changes the ratio of colors and where they sit on the blade.

On the neighboring phases such copies have earned nicknames. On Phase 4 the mostly blue ones are "BTA Blue", and on Phase 2 they are "BTA Pink" and "Max Pink". On gems the index changes only how the texture is laid over. Sources disagree on whether copies of a gem carry a separate price, so this page says nothing about a premium within a gem.

What to check before buying

Before taking the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1, look at these points:

• the phase in the lot title: gems and regular phases are separate items, and their prices differ by multiples;


• the lot image: the pattern of different Phase 1 copies is not the same, and the comparison goes by the blade;


• an applied name: a name tag is possible on the Karambit and stays on the item after purchase.

Between 0.00 and 0.07 the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 leaves little to separate one lot from another.

What the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs a little more than the top wear, about a tenth. The choice between the two wears is decided here not by wear but by the price of the particular listing.

Among the Karambit's phases, Phase 3 stands level with Phase 1, and Phase 4 is a few percent higher. Phase 2 is about two fifths higher. Sapphire is four times Phase 1, Ruby six times, and Black Pearl stands above the other gems.

Of the thirty-two Karambit finishes, twelve are cheaper than Phase 1 and nineteen dearer. Blue Steel and Doppler Phase 3 stand level with it, Lore is a few percent lower, and Slaughter a sixth. The cheapest are Bright Water, Freehand and Damascus Steel, which cost less than half.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1

The ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 drops from the Chroma cases: the Chroma Case, Chroma 2 Case and Chroma 3 Case, and the phase is random. A ★ item can also be assembled by a trade-up contract of five Covert skins of one collection, but the contract chooses neither the model nor the phase. A particular Phase 1 is taken as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

The StatTrak™ version of the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Karambit | Doppler Phase 1 in Factory New is reasonable in these cases:

• you want a Doppler phase without paying extra for a gem;


• your CS2 loadout is built in blue and violet, and the gray handle does not fight the blade;


• you want an edge without marks and will pick the specific copy from the listing image.