AK-47 | Panthera onca (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) is the neatest wear of the AK-47 | Panthera onca you can get without paying factory prices: only light scuffing on the camouflage and the wood. Classified rank, The Ancient Collection; the finish has no regular case.

What the AK-47 | Panthera onca looks like in Minimal Wear

The base of the finish is camouflage of gold-sand and olive blotches on the metal. The wood of the stock and handguard is brown and carries a carved pattern. A yellow jaguar with black spots lies on the receiver, and the eye goes to it first, even though Valve itself stresses that the carving distracts from it.

In Minimal Wear the metal camouflage keeps almost all of its color. Small light scratches appear on the edges of the receiver and the magazine, and the wood loses a little of its gloss. The float in this wear runs from 0.07 to 0.15, a narrow band, and the copies are almost indistinguishable.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular AK-47 | Panthera onca comes down to these points:

• float: at 0.07 the scuffs are barely visible, and toward 0.15 they show more on the edges;


• listing type: regular or Souvenir, with gold team stickers;


• stickers and a name tag: on the AK-47 | Panthera onca they move with the listing.

Choosing by artwork does not exist for the AK-47 | Panthera onca at all.

What the AK-47 | Panthera onca costs in Minimal Wear

The neighboring wears against this one:

• Factory New costs about 1.3 times more;


• Field-Tested is roughly one and a half times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is almost half the price;


• Battle-Scarred is almost half the price.

Minimal Wear takes up 0.08 of the 1.00 float scale. The main drop in price lies further down the scale, between this wear and Field-Tested.

Among fifteen Classified AK-47s, the Panthera onca in this wear stands fourth from the top: eleven cost less and three cost more. AK-47 | Case Hardened is a little higher, while AK-47 | Jet Set and AK-47 | Hydroponic are well above. AK-47 | Redline costs about half as much. AK-47 | Red Laminate costs a third as much, and AK-47 | Frontside Misty and AK-47 | Crane Flight eight to ten times less.

Getting the AK-47 | Panthera onca

The skin has no regular case: tournament souvenir packages for the Ancient map hand it out. The route that avoids buying it outright is the trade-up contract. Ten skins of the rank below from the same collection go in, and the AK-47 | Panthera onca comes out. The Ancient Collection appeared in the game in December 2020.

The Covert rank comes next: ten Classified skins of the collection lead to the M4A1-S | Welcome to the Jungle.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AK-47 | Panthera onca has no StatTrak version, but it has a Souvenir edition from packages for the Ancient map. Those copies carry gold team stickers.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Panthera onca

Warm stickers in gold and brown sit calmly against the camouflage, while cold colors catch the eye. Large graphics go best on the wooden stock and handguard, because on the camouflage small stickers get lost among the blotches. Light scuffs hardly interfere with a craft.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AK-47 | Panthera onca in Minimal Wear makes sense for three reasons:

• nearly intact camouflage and carving without the factory markup;


• an AK with a jaguar that stands out at first glance in CS2;


• a base for a craft where the stickers do not argue with scuffs.