Nova | Rising Skull (Well-Worn)

The Nova is an inexpensive shotgun that rewards a well-planned ambush; a close-range hit can deliver both stopping power and economic value. For the Rising Skull treatment, it has been customized with an image of a skull using matte paints and an oil-based paint marker.

The surface avoids a flat appearance, leaving component boundaries and changes in material visible beneath the treatment. The body material remains visible beneath the decorative layer.

The Rising Skull design joined the Counter-Strike catalog as a distinct work with its own family of variants.

The finish entered the item catalog as a separate design with its own range of variants. Across the Nova family, Rising Skull keeps one artistic foundation while condition changes only the individual surface.

Within its original release, Nova | Rising Skull occupies the Restricted tier. Rarity applies to the whole family: individual examples may look different, but their assigned level remains fixed.

The tier allows the work to be compared with other Nova finishes at the same level. When variants are compared, rarity should be kept separate from edition and wear because each describes a different part of the item.

The Rising Skull treatment works with that character instead of burying the item's form beneath decoration.

On the Nova, the Rising Skull treatment uses the Custom Paint Job method, shaping the way the image meets its material and geometry. The degree of wear changes how the design reads without replacing its motif or application method.

Nova | Rising Skull is easy to recognize through the pairing of a familiar silhouette with a distinct surface treatment. Its identity does not depend on inspecting tiny details.

A clear visual rhythm keeps Rising Skull from disappearing beside other finishes made for the Nova. Condition adds another visible distinction: cleaner examples preserve more of the original detail, while abrasion gives the same design a rougher, quieter character.

The Nova | Rising Skull family includes standard edition, StatTrak™ and Souvenir. By wear, the Nova covers Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred, so preservation depends on the selected variant.

No dedicated container is listed for Rising Skull. Its available editions and conditions are still treated separately. The availability of one variant depends on its edition and condition together, not merely on the family name.

The available editions of Nova | Rising Skull are standard edition, StatTrak™ and Souvenir. Its base edition does not track kills; the StatTrak™ edition tracks its owner's kills; the Souvenir edition is distinguished by its tournament-release origin.

A variant should be checked by edition before condition because the two traits never replace one another. A shared artwork connects the Nova | Rising Skull family without erasing the differences between its available versions and conditions.