★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet in Minimal Wear (MW) has Factory New at 2.7 times its price, while the three lower wears are cheaper by 1.2 to 1.4 times. The knife has Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and drops from the Prisma Case and the Prisma 2 Case. In CS2 it is a talon with a black blade and a violet handle.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet looks like in Minimal Wear

The blade is black and matte, with serrations on the spine and three round holes, and a pale edge runs along the cutting side. The handle is a saturated violet with black rivets, and the ring at the end is black. Valve describes the finish as separate parts painted in solid colors in a black-and-violet range, so there are no gradients and no swirls.

The wear scale of the ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet in this wear runs from 0.07 to 0.15. You can buy it here almost blind, because the 0.07 to 0.15 band is tight. Wear is fixed at the drop.

Phase and pattern

The artwork on the ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet is applied identically across the whole run. It has no phases and no pattern indexes, unlike Doppler, so listings differ only by float and by the name tag.

What to check before buying

These are the parameters to check in a ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet listing:

• float: 0.07 to 0.15, with small differences;


• name tag: the knife accepts one;


• version: the StatTrak copy is sold as its own item.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet costs in Minimal Wear

Among twenty-two Covert talons priced in Minimal Wear, Ultraviolet is in the middle of the list: eight finishes cost less and thirteen cost more. Blue Steel is a quarter higher, Stained and Damascus Steel are almost level, and Night Stripe and Urban Masked are lower. At the top are Doppler Phase 1, Doppler Sapphire and Doppler Ruby.

Between wears the prices diverge like this:

• Factory New costs 2.66 times as much;


• Field-Tested is 1.28 times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is 1.23 times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is 1.40 times cheaper.

Getting the ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet

The Prisma Case and the Prisma 2 Case are where this knife is opened, and the wear you get is random. The other route is a craft: take five Covert skins of one type, either all regular or all StatTrak. The result is a random rare special item, and the game decides the model and the finish.

Is there a StatTrak version

The game has a StatTrak variant of this knife.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear makes sense for the ★ Talon Knife | Ultraviolet when:

• you want a contrasting black-and-violet talon without swirls;


• you want wear better than Field-Tested, which costs 1.3 times less;


• you do not want to overpay for Factory New, which costs 2.7 times as much.