★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) on the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 is the pink-and-violet phase of Doppler, on the CS2 talon. Covert rank, with the ★ mark; the knife drops from the Prisma Case and the Prisma 2 Case. The ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 can be bought with a float from 0.00 to 0.07: the finish ends at 0.08, and Minimal Wear (MW) gets the remainder.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 looks like in Factory New

The blade is flooded with pink-magenta and dark violet swirls, and near the cutting edge the tone lightens to raspberry. The spine has serrations and three round holes. The ivory handle sits on brass rivets, and the ring at the butt repeats the pink of the blade. Valve writes that the knife cuts going in and tears coming out.

Factory New shows the least wear of any grade.

Phase and pattern

On Doppler the phase is part of the listing name: Phase 2 is picked right in the listing. Valve's data names seven phases for the talon: Phases 1 to 4 and three gems, Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl. The gems are listed as separate items and cost several times more than the regular phases.

The pattern on this finish varies: Valve's data names the phases as separate variants. How a particular copy looks is judged from the listing image, not from the name.

What to check before buying

What separates one ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 listing from another:

• phase in the listing name: Phase 2 and the gems are sold as different items;


• listing image: the color and pattern of the blade are checked against it, not the name;


• inscription on the knife: a name tag can be applied to Doppler Phase 2, and there are no stickers;


• StatTrak: look for the Doppler Phase 2 knife with this feature as a separate catalog entry;


• float: the 0.00 to 0.07 band is short, and the number barely separates listings; the pattern does.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs 1.09 times as much as Factory New, with only a hundredth of the scale to its name.

Among Covert talon finishes in Factory New, Phase 2 stands above the middle of a ladder of 21: sixteen cost less and four cost more. Case Hardened is higher by an eighth. Further down in descending order come Ultraviolet, Doppler Phase 4, Night Stripe and Doppler Phase 3, the last cheaper by an eighth. Among the gems, Doppler Sapphire costs almost double, Doppler Ruby more than three times as much, and Doppler Black Pearl a little higher still.

Getting the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2

The ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 comes from the Prisma Case and the Prisma 2 Case: the float of a Factory New listing is assigned on opening.

A craft from five Covert skins of one type cannot be steered toward this knife. The rare special item that comes out is random.

Is there a StatTrak version

You can also get this talon with StatTrak.

Who this wear suits

The ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Phase 2 in Factory New is worth buying for these reasons:

• you want a pink talon, and the Doppler gems are out of budget;


• your CS2 loadout is built on purple and light tones, and the ivory handle goes with the blade;


• Minimal Wear costs 9% more and gives no advantage on float.