★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby (Factory New)

This is the ★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby in Factory New (FN), the red Doppler gem in CS2 on a knife with a finger hole. The knife sits in Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The knife drops from the Fever Case. The finish has two wears, because the scale breaks off at 0.08. The float runs from 0.00 to 0.07 in Factory New.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby looks like in Factory New

The dagger-like blade is flooded with red, with pink and dark burgundy swirls that resemble marble. The red paint continues onto the guard with its finger hole and along the edges of the handle. The handle itself is wrapped in black cord, with red stripes showing from beneath. Valve says the knife is painted with black and silver metallic paint with a marbled medium and covered with a candy coat, and that the handle is wrapped for grip.

In Factory New the red layer is intact on the blade, guard and ribs, with no scuffs. Wear is locked in when the knife drops, and it stays that way.

Phase and pattern

The phase is part of the item name: you pick the Ruby right in the listing. Phases 1 to 4 on Doppler are regular, while Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl are gems. Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl exist only on Doppler and not on Gamma Doppler, and Emerald exists only on Gamma Doppler.

What to check before buying

Before paying for the ★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby, it helps to check:

• the phase in the listing title: the gems are listed apart from the regular phases and are hard to tell apart in a preview;


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


• the float: the spread of 0.00 to 0.07 is so small that picking by float is pointless.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear (MW) is 1.29 times cheaper than Factory New: this finish has only the one second wear.

Among the twenty-two Skeleton Knife finishes in Factory New, the Ruby is the highest: none costs more. Crimson Web is 2.4 times lower, Doppler Sapphire 3.2 times, and the regular Phase 2, Phase 4 and Phase 1 more than five times. The bottom of the row is Damascus Steel, Safari Mesh and Boreal Forest.

Getting the ★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby

The Skeleton Knife in Doppler drops from the Fever Case, and the phase is decided at random. The Valve update with this case came out on March 31, 2025. A craft of five Covert skins of one type gives a random rare special item, and neither model nor phase can be chosen in it. The Ruby is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby exists in the game. Knives have no Souvenir version.

Who this wear suits

The ★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Ruby in this wear makes sense if:

• you want the dearest Skeleton Knife finish: nothing in Factory New is above the Ruby;


• you want a red blade with a finger hole, and the phase has to be a gem;


• your CS2 loadout needs a bright red detail with dark wrapping.