★ Karambit | Ultraviolet (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Karambit | Ultraviolet in Minimal Wear (MW) has a float in the narrow band of 0.07 to 0.15. Rank is Covert, with a ★ in front of the name. Chroma series cases are its source.

What the ★ Karambit | Ultraviolet looks like in Minimal Wear

The blade is gray metal with a two-tone bevel: the edge is lighter and the flat is darker. The handle and ring are black. Set into the handle are two purple inserts with fine knurling, a triangular one at the base of the blade and an elongated one along the grip. Valve's own description names separate parts in solid black and solid purple.

In Minimal Wear the paint holds almost entirely. Faint pale marks appear on the blade edge and on the raised parts of the handle, and the purple inserts keep their saturated color. After the drop this knife does not wear down further, and Minimal Wear stays Minimal Wear.

Phase and pattern

There is no pattern lottery on the ★ Karambit | Ultraviolet. The artwork is shared by the whole run, and listings differ in float and in the name tag.

What to check before buying

When choosing a copy, keep an eye on the following:

• float: within 0.07 to 0.15 the look does not change from listing to listing;


• purple inserts: they show how well the knurling and the color have survived;


• name tag: the knife can carry a name, and it stays after the purchase.

What the ★ Karambit | Ultraviolet costs in Minimal Wear

Between 0.07 and 0.15 this karambit looks the same from one listing to the next.

Count the Covert karambits in this wear and the finish falls in the lower half of thirty: ten cost less, nineteen cost more. Black Laminate is the nearest one above. Below it come Night, Damascus Steel and Stained, then Freehand. The top of the row belongs to Gamma Doppler Phase 3, Doppler Sapphire and Gamma Doppler Emerald.

The other wears of this karambit relate to it like this:

• Factory New: 3.3 times the price;


• Field-Tested: 1.3 times lower;


• Well-Worn: also 1.3 times lower;


• Battle-Scarred: 1.4 times lower.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Ultraviolet

Open a Chroma Case, a Chroma 2 Case or a Chroma 3 Case and Minimal Wear is among the possible outcomes. Crafting is the second way. Five Covert skins of one type, all normal or all StatTrak, yield one special rare item from the collections of the inputs, picked at random. You cannot set the model or the finish, so a Minimal Wear copy is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

The game also has a StatTrak version of the Karambit | Ultraviolet.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is a reasonable choice in these situations:

• you want a karambit with nearly intact paint but without the Factory New price, which is more than three times higher;


• in a CS2 loadout the purple accent sits on the handle, and it needs undamaged knurling;


• the lower wears cost 1.3 to 1.4 times less, and the difference in look matters more to you than that saving.