USP-S | Royal Guard (Minimal Wear)

This is the USP-S | Royal Guard in Minimal Wear (MW), the second-cleanest wear of the finish. The float range of the skin in this wear is 0.07 to 0.15. The rank is Restricted, and the collection is The Ascent Collection.

What the USP-S | Royal Guard looks like in Minimal Wear

All the color of this USP is on the slide: a flat blue plane with gold trim near the rear sight. The frame and grip stay dark gray, the trigger guard is stock, and the suppressor is entirely gray-black and unpainted. Less than a third of the visible area is painted, so the gold on the small frame parts stands out at once.

In Minimal Wear the gold on the small parts and the blue on the slide's edge are still visible, and the wear is slight. Wear takes the gold on the small details first: the slide's tail, the safety, the spring housing. The top edge and the front cut lose their blue second, and the flat blue side goes last. The suppressor is unpainted, so wear does not touch it.

Where the USP-S | Royal Guard came from

The USP-S | Royal Guard has no Workshop submission: the finish was drawn inside Valve. Its number in Valve's catalog is 1217.

It entered the game on March 31, 2025, together with The Ascent Collection. No case holds it. The Ascent is one of the collections Valve hands out as the weekly playtime reward.

What to check before buying

On a listing, check these parameters:

• float between 0.07 and 0.15;


• the gold parts on the slide's tail and the safety;


• stickers and a name tag: on this USP-S they pass to the buyer with the listing.

There is no pattern to draw on this skin, and all copies are alike.

You can take this USP-S almost blind here, because the 0.07 to 0.15 band is tight.

What the USP-S | Royal Guard costs in Minimal Wear

Compared with Factory New, this wear is half the price. Below it the scale drops away: Field-Tested is cheaper by almost five times, Well-Worn by four and Battle-Scarred by more than five.

Among Restricted USP-S finishes in this wear, two cost less and nine cost more. Flashback and Ticket to Hell are cheaper by three times or more, while Bleeding Edge, Guardian and Sleeping Potion are dearer. At the top of the rank stand Ancient Visions, Road Rash and Dark Water.

Getting the USP-S | Royal Guard

Ten skins from one rank down can be traded for the USP-S | Royal Guard. The contract accepts Mil-Spec skins from any collection, and the result comes from the collection of one of the inputs. The skin has no case. The Ascent is one of the collections given out as the weekly playtime reward.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The USP-S | Royal Guard has no StatTrak version, and no Souvenir packages exist for the finish either.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Royal Guard

The dark gray frame and grip are neutral, so stickers show up in contrast on them. Gold ones pick up the brass details of the slide, and white ones read on the blue.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is the right buy for this USP-S with these inputs:

• you want intact brass on the slide's tail without paying the Factory New price;


• you want a blue slide with small scuffs on the edge;


• a float of 0.07 to 0.15 is fine without precise selection.

In CS2 the difference between wears is purely visual.