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4.0 out of 5 starsLightweight Fingertip Grip, But Double Click Issues
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023
First some context for how I use this mouse. I do about an hour of aim training every day, and then anywhere from 0-8 hours of FPS gaming per day. Average of probably 2 hours of gaming per day. I have a relaxed fingertip grip, my fingertips usually rest about 1/3 of the way down from the tip of the mouse. This means I usually end up clicking near the back part of the mouse buttons. I also have pretty small hands for my height.
The first thing I noticed about this mouse is how dang light it is. It comes with a 15gram AA battery to use with it. There is also a slot for a AAA battery if you want, however that slot is farther back and makes the mouse feel less centered. You can buy adaptors (usually about 3 grams) to fit a AAA lithium battery (usually about 7 grams) into the AA slot if you want, and this would shave about 5 grams off of the weight while still keeping it feeling balanced. I hadn't bought a new mouse for about 5 years, so my old G403 felt like a sack of potatoes compared to using this thing. The mouse skates are also great, nice and wide and completely pure white teflon.
The second thing I noticed was the shape. It's obviously a small mouse, and I'm fine with that, but I found that I really disliked the taper on the back of the mouse. Since I have a gripstyle that sits pretty far back on the mouse, I really noticed the lack of control that my pinky now had - I had to curl my pinky in a bit. On my G403, there is a small hump back there that really helped my pinky contribute to my aim. Similarly, it felt like my thumb was contributing slightly less to my aim, although not quite to the same effect as my pinky.
Everything mechanically felt great, clicks feel good and the thumb buttons feel good as well. I like the size of the thumb buttons, I wish more people made them "thin" like they are on the Orochi. I barely use the scroll wheel due to the nature of the games I play, so I can't speak to that part of the mouse.
In my aim training, I noticed some immediate differences. Tracking was SOOOO much easier. My tracking scores in Kovaak's literally immediately jumped up. This isn't too surprising considering that the Orochi is about 50 grams lighter than my previous mouse was (G403). However, I also had an immediate dip in my static scores. There simply is no stopping power in this mouse, and I had grown used to my G403 having a bit of friction due to weight. This is something that I adapted to over time, and I eventually ended up beating my static high scores with the Orochi after a few weeks.
The coating is not great. Or really just the lack of a coating. It's like a textured ABS plastic or something, it's certainly not the most slippery thing in the world, but I would often have to re-adjust my grip after about 15 seconds of very fast tracking that covers large swaths of area. There are grip pads you can use to help with this, but personally I'd rather deal with a mild amount of slipperiness than to put a stick-on grip pad onto my mouse. I found that my grip actually ended up changing mildly because of this, my ring finger ended up resting on the right "edge" of the mouse between the top and the side. This allowed it to have a "hard" edge to grab onto.
The DPI button is nicely recessed, so I never had any issues with accidentally clicking it like I've had on other mice. It's still usable if you wanted to do a DPI shift mid game for certain games where that can be advantageous.
Never had a single issue with connectivity, but I also keep my mouse dongle in a spot where it should have a great connection to the mouse. The battery life is kind of insane, after 3 months of almost constant use, it still has a nearly full battery. I never really used the mouse in Bluetooth mode, so I can't speak to how that functions.
Now with all of the bases covered, time for the biggest issue I had with this mouse: double clicking. My index finger rests to the far right of the left click, almost touching the scroll wheel. After about 3 months of use, I noticed that while holding down left click during tracking scenarios, I would occasionally miss a "beat" of the left click being held down. I thought it was user error, but it kept happening once in a blue moon. The click would be held down, and there would be no mechanical feedback of the click being let go or "reclicked", but it would still blip out for a bit. Then, after a little bit of this, I started to have a much larger issue - I was getting the occasional double click. Again, I thought this might be user error, but there were a couple of situations that made it extremely obvious to me. One such scenario was in Overwatch, where I shot someone as Cassidy and then instantly started channeling my ultimate, but the ultimate instantly got "used" despite me not clicking again. I also noticed it while playing Bloons TD6, where I accidentally bought two upgrades instead of a single one for one of my towers. I started looking into it and used a "double click test" that I found online that shows the latency between clicks, and I found that I could somewhat consistently (about once every 10 tries) replicate the double click situation. You can see this in the picture that I have attached, where I am clicking about every 0.8 seconds, but once there is a second click at about .28 seconds. It seems to be something with the release of the click, like if I click but *EXTREMELY SLIGHTLY* ease the pressure mid-click, the click is still being held down mechanically, but the mouse almost seems to interpret that the click was quickly let go and then re-clicked.
I haven't had any issues with the right click. I also didn't have the double-click issue for several months, or if I did it was rare enough that I never noticed it.
TLDR: The mouse is extremely light, feels good, slightly awkward shape, is a little slippery, insane battery life, and works well, except mine had a double click issue. If yours doesn't have the same issue, then I would recommend it for fingertip or claw grip.
