Nova | Rising Skull
from $5.06 up to $11
The Nova's rock-bottom price tag makes it a great ambush weapon for a cash-strapped team. It has been customized with an image of a skull using matte paints and an oil-based paint marker.
- Rarity
- Restricted
- Float range
- 0 – 0.5
- Wears
- Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn, Battle-Scarred
- StatTrak
- Available
- Souvenir
- Available
- Team
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Both Teams
The Winter Offensive Collection 
Winter Offensive Weapon Case Price by wear
What matches this skin
More Nova skins
All Nova finishes
- How much does Nova | Rising Skull cost?
- Nova | Rising Skull starts at about $5.06 and runs up to around $11 depending on wear. The cheapest wear is Well-Worn at $5.06, and Factory New is the most expensive at $11. Prices here are pulled from live market listings and refreshed daily, so treat them as a starting point rather than a fixed quote.
- What case is Nova | Rising Skull from?
- Nova | Rising Skull drops from The Winter Offensive Collection and Winter Offensive Weapon Case. Opening for a specific skin is a bad bet at almost any odds, so buying it outright on the market is nearly always the cheaper route.
- Does Nova | Rising Skull have a StatTrak version?
- Yes. A StatTrak version of Nova | Rising Skull exists and counts your kills with the Nova. StatTrak copies are a separate item on the market and normally trade above the plain version, and a Souvenir version exists as well.
- Which wear should you buy for Nova | Rising Skull?
- Nova | Rising Skull exists between float 0 and 0.5, which is what decides the wear you can get. Here Factory New costs roughly 2.2x what Well-Worn does, so the question is whether the difference is visible from a first-person view. On darker and busier finishes it usually is not, and the cheaper wear does the same job in a loadout.
- Is Nova | Rising Skull good for a matching loadout?
- Nova | Rising Skull is a Restricted Nova finish, so the deciding factor is its palette rather than its tier. Pick the gloves first, then judge whether this skin sits in the same color family and has a similar finish, matte against matte or gloss against gloss.