★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 (Factory New)

On the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1, Factory New (FN) takes almost the whole scale: 88% of a finish that breaks off at 0.08. In CS2 this Covert butterfly knife, with the star ★ and a kill counter, drops from the Spectrum Case and the Spectrum 2 Case. The stretch of the scale here is 0.00 to 0.07. The finish's second and last wear is Minimal Wear (MW).

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 looks like in Factory New

The blade shifts from dark violet to purple, with blue blotches near the heel and pink streaks toward the tip. The handles are black, and a red insert runs along each half.

The wear on the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 fits within 0.00 to 0.07, so listings look alike in terms of wear. What differs is something else: the ratio and placement of colors on the blade inside the phase do not match from copy to copy.

Phase and pattern

The phase is built into the item name: on Doppler it is one of seven, and the buyer chooses it. Inside Phase 1 the pattern index moves the share and placement of colors on the blade, so two copies of one phase look unalike. The gems (Ruby, Sapphire, Black Pearl) are separate variants with prices of their own.

Where the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 came from

The author of the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 is Valve itself, with no outside artist behind the finish. Doppler came to the butterfly knife on March 15, 2017, together with the Spectrum Case, and the Valve catalog lists it as number 418.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1, a few points deserve a look:

• phase in the name: Phase 1 is distinct from Phases 2 to 4 and from the gems;


• colors of the blade in the listing picture: inside one phase the share of colors varies;


• float within 0.00 to 0.07: by wear the listings are equal;


• the kill counter reading: it passes to the buyer as it is, and cannot be reset;


• name tag: a name on the blade is allowed, while stickers cannot be put on knives.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 costs in Factory New

The version with the counter is cheaper than the normal one here by about five percent. Minimal Wear costs 1.18 times as much as Factory New.

Among Covert StatTrak butterfly knives in Factory New, this finish stands above the middle: of twenty-two, sixteen cost less and five cost more. The nearest above is Doppler Phase 4, while Gamma Doppler Phase 3, Doppler Phase 3, Gamma Doppler Phase 2 and Fade cost less. The top of the ladder is Doppler Sapphire, Gamma Doppler Emerald and Lore, the bottom Bright Water, Freehand and Stained.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1

The knife drops from the Spectrum Case and the Spectrum 2 Case; the phase cannot be picked at opening. A craft yields a StatTrak knife only from five StatTrak skins of Covert rank and one type, and the result is random.

StatTrak and the normal version

For those who don't need the counter, there is the normal Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1, which costs more than the StatTrak version. Knives never get a Souvenir edition.

Who this wear suits

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 in Factory New makes sense here under these conditions:

• you want a StatTrak knife in Phase 1, and the normal version costs five percent more;


• it matters to take a knife in Factory New, where the blade has no wear yet;


• your CS2 loadout is built in violet and red, and the blade should play with color.