★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby (Factory New)

This is the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby in Factory New (FN). Ruby is one of the gems, the rare variants of Doppler. It is a Covert rank item with the ★ star, and in CS2 it drops from the Prisma Case and the Prisma 2 Case. The finish's scale stops at 0.08, so there are only two wears, Factory New and Minimal Wear. The float of the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby lies within 0.00 to 0.07.

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

The blade is red from edge to edge, a saturated ruby, with dark cloudy swirls inside the paint and a thin silver edge. The spine has saw teeth and three holes along the flat. The handle is pale ivory with brass rivets, and the ring at the end is red.

Valve's description says the finish is black and silver metallic paint in a marbled composition under a candy lacquer. Wear on the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby is fixed at drop, and you have to take it within the 0.00 to 0.07 band.

Phase and pattern

Doppler comes in named phases: Black Pearl, Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4, Ruby and Sapphire. The phase is part of the item name and the buyer chooses it. Ruby is one of them, and the listing page already states the phase. Sources disagree on the pattern index inside Ruby, so it is the phase itself to go by.

What to check before buying

Copies of the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby differ in just these ways:

• phase in the name: Ruby, not Phase 1 to 4 and not Sapphire;


• float: the 0.00 to 0.07 band is tight, and the difference disappears into the margin of error;


• name tag: allowed, though the knife has no stickers;


• item type: the StatTrak version is listed as a separate product.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs 1.27 times as much as Factory New.

Among the Covert Talon Knife finishes in Factory New, Ruby sits almost at the very top: of twenty-one, nineteen cost less and one costs more. At the top is Doppler Black Pearl, and Doppler Sapphire is below it by a clear margin. Cheaper still are Case Hardened, Doppler Phase 2 and Ultraviolet. The bottom end is Damascus Steel, Scorched and Boreal Forest.

Getting the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby

The Talon Knife drops from the Prisma Case and the Prisma 2 Case, but you do not choose the phase when you open one. A craft from five Covert skins of one type returns a random rare special item: neither the model nor the finish can be named in advance.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Talon Knife | Doppler Ruby specifically in Factory New is reasonable when:

• you want Ruby on a Talon Knife, not one of the regular phases;


• the cleanest float band, 0.00 to 0.07, matters to you;


• your CS2 loadout is built on red, and the blade has to be its color center.