★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 (Factory New)

The ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 in Factory New (FN) is an M9 Bayonet for CS2 with a pink-purple blade and a black handle. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. It drops from the Chroma Case, the Chroma 2 Case and the Chroma 3 Case. The finish has two wears because its float scale ends at 0.08: no copies exist beyond Minimal Wear (MW). The Factory New band of the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 lies between 0.00 and 0.07.

What the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 looks like in Factory New

The blade is flooded with purple-pink lacquer, and dark smoky patches of a brownish shade show through its depth. The guard and the ring at the base are pink, and the handle is dark gray and ribbed. The saw teeth run along the top edge, and the hole is cut right at the point. Valve describes black and silver metallic laid over a marbled base and sealed under a clear colored lacquer.

In Factory New the lacquer is intact across the whole blade, and the edge near the point is clean. Wear is set at drop and never changes.

Where the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 came from

Valve drew the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2, and there is no Steam Workshop submission for this finish. In the company’s finish catalog Doppler is number 419. It came to the M9 Bayonet on January 8, 2015, with the Chroma Case and the Full Spectrum update.

Phase and pattern

Doppler is a family, and the phase is built right into the item name: Phase 2 is taken as its own listing instead of being pulled from a case. Phases 1 to 4 are regular, and Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl count as gems. Doppler has no Emerald; that one exists only in Gamma Doppler.

Within one phase the copies still differ: the pattern index changes the ratio of colors and where they land on the face of the blade. On Phase 2, copies that lean pink are called “BTA Pink”, and a blade that is pink all over goes by “Max Pink” or “Pink Galaxy”.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2, a few points deserve a look:

• the phase in the listing title: gems and regular phases are separate listings and are hard to tell apart in a preview;


• the ratio of pink to dark patches in the listing image, which shows which copy the blade is closest to;


• the name on the blade: a name tag is allowed on an M9 Bayonet, and the text stays on the item;


• float: between 0.00 and 0.07 the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 looks the same.

What the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear takes only the strip 0.07 to 0.08 of this finish, one hundredth of the scale. Price is therefore compared not between wears but between phases and finishes of the model.

Among Covert M9 Bayonet finishes, Phase 2 sits above the middle of the row: twenty-three finishes cost less and seven cost more. Gamma Doppler Phases 1, 3 and 4 are lower by three to four percent, and Case Hardened by seven. The top is held by Gamma Doppler Emerald, Doppler Black Pearl and Doppler Ruby. The bottom of the row is Bright Water, Freehand and Damascus Steel.

Getting the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2

This knife drops from three cases of the Chroma series, and the phase that comes out is random. Another route is a contract: five Covert skins from one collection yield a rare special item, but you choose neither the model nor the phase in it. Phase 2 specifically can only be had as a finished listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buy the ★ M9 Bayonet | Doppler Phase 2 in Factory New under these conditions:

• you want a pink M9 Bayonet with no marks on the edge;


• your CS2 loadout is built around pink and black, and the knife becomes its main spot of color;


• Phase 2 matters to you, not a gem: the Doppler gems cost noticeably more.