AWP | Chrome Cannon (Minimal Wear)

The AWP | Chrome Cannon in Minimal Wear (MW) is a mirrored rifle with light wear, where the colored stripes on the panels remain the main thing in the artwork. This wear covers floats 0.07 to 0.15. It is a Covert skin from The Kilowatt Collection, sourced from the Kilowatt Case. In CS2, Minimal Wear costs about half as much as Factory New.

What the AWP | Chrome Cannon looks like in Minimal Wear

The rifle starts from a black barrel with a muzzle brake. The scope above it is dark red, ringed in red. Glossy panels on the receiver and stock carry purple, copper-gold and blue-turquoise stripes. Valve's description calls this mirror paint with multicolored accents.

In Minimal Wear the wear is already recorded in the copy, but it is small. The paintwork reads as a whole, and the stripes on the panels are easy to make out. Wear is fixed at the moment of the drop, so a listing at 0.08 will not reach 0.15 in a month or in a year.

Where the AWP | Chrome Cannon came from

The author is Strenson. In the Steam Workshop the submission carried the name "AWP | Tempered" and went up on July 2, 2023. He described the work as a rifle with custom metal panels. Valve's catalog number for the finish is 1170.

The Kilowatt Collection, with this skin in it, arrived on February 6, 2024, and the AWP | Chrome Cannon came with the same update. Valve announced the case as seventeen finishes made by the community and added the Kukri Knife to them as a rare special item.

What to check before buying

What to verify when choosing an AWP | Chrome Cannon:

• float within 0.07 to 0.15: the closer to the lower bound, the less wear on the edges of the panels;


• whether the AWP | Chrome Cannon carries stickers and a name tag;


• version: regular, StatTrak or Souvenir.

The pattern does not vary on the AWP | Chrome Cannon, so there is nothing to pick by there. Float offers little to choose from either: the stretch from 0.07 to 0.15 is short.

What the AWP | Chrome Cannon costs in Minimal Wear

The neighboring wears, measured from this one:

• Factory New is almost twice as expensive;


• Field-Tested is about a sixth cheaper;


• Well-Worn is almost a quarter cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is a quarter cheaper.

The bottom three wears lie close together, and the one big break sits between Minimal Wear and Factory New.

Among Covert AWP skins in Minimal Wear, this is the cheapest of twenty. Closest to it is AWP | Chromatic Aberration, a tenth more expensive. AWP | Neo-Noir and AWP | Hyper Beast cost 1.4 to 1.5 times more, and AWP | Printstream and AWP | Wildfire almost twice as much or more. At the top are AWP | Medusa, AWP | Dragon Lore and AWP | Gungnir.

Getting the AWP | Chrome Cannon

The skin drops from the Kilowatt Case. It is also available through a contract: ten skins from the rank below. Beyond that, a Covert skin goes into the craft for the Kukri Knife.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AWP | Chrome Cannon has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages carry this finish, but a Souvenir copy can be built through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Chrome Cannon

The stripes on the panels are bright and the barrel is black, and that shapes the choice: neutral stickers read on the body, light ones on the dark barrel. Purple and copper stickers repeat the colors of the stripes and blend into them. In Minimal Wear the mirror is still lively, and stickers with a metallic sheen do not fight it.

Who this wear suits

The AWP | Chrome Cannon in Minimal Wear is worth buying if:

• you want a mirrored AWP for CS2 and do not want to pay twice as much for Factory New;


• it matters that the stripes on the panels read in full, even with light wear;


• you choose the listing by condition: the lower bound of 0.07 gives the cleanest look in this wear.