Razer Orochi V2 review | Laptop Mag

Our Verdict

The Razer Orochi V2 offers great performance in a sleek, lightweight beat out, only it's pricey given the limited features.

For

Sleek, lightweight pattern
Great performance
Intuitive software
Two wireless modes
Long battery life

Against

Also small for larger hands
Limited features
Pricey

Laptop Magazine Verdict

The Razer Orochi V2 offers great performance in a sleek, lightweight shell, merely information technology's pricey given the limited features.

Pros

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Sleek, lightweight pattern
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Swell operation
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Intuitive software
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Two wireless modes
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Long battery life

Cons

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Too small for larger hands
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Limited features
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Pricey

The Razer Orochi V2 is a simple gaming mouse that focuses on i aspect: weight. Information technology sits at just 2.2 ounces, making information technology one of the near lightweight gaming mice around.

For $69, you can choice up the Orochi V2 and benefit from the great operation found in its lightweight shell, its ii wireless modes, intuitive accompanying software, and long bombardment life. However, go on in listen that the Orochi V2 might be besides small for people with larger hands, and it doesn't have plenty features to justify its price. You lot are certainly paying the Razer taxation with this product.

Despite the faults, if you're looking for something fast and lightweight, the Razer Orochi V2 is the all-time gaming mouse you can buy, as long as you can become over its size and price.

Razer Orochi V2 design

The Razer Orochi V2 is a tiny matter. The version I accept features a sleek matte white vanquish accented past a black Razer logo at the bottom. It weighs only 2.two ounces and measures four.3 x 2.iv 10 one.5 inches, making it one of the lightest and smallest gaming mice around.

Razer Orochi V2 review — (Image credit: Rami Tabari)

The pinnacle console looks like it has an ambidextrous design, with a mouse-wheel at the top-center surrounded by 2 equivalent clickers and a DPI button just below. Even so, this is not an ambidextrous mouse; the Orochi V2 is designed for correct-handed users.

On the left side of the mouse, at that place'southward a slight depression in the shell where your thumb is intended to rest, and right to a higher place are ii boosted clickers. Meanwhile, the right side features a slight protrusion of the shell where the ring and pinkie finger residuum.

Flipping the mouse over reveals teflon anxiety as well every bit the switch that turns the mouse off or into either Bluetooth or two.4GHz mode. The 2.4GHz USB is housed under the top console of the mouse, which you tin can easily admission if you lot peel dorsum the clickers. You'll as well detect the slot for the AA and AAA battery (it can utilise either but non both).

The white and black versions of the mouse toll $69, but there are models with custom panels for $89.

Razer Orochi V2 comfort

People with larger easily may find the Razer Orochi V2 uncomfortable to use given its petite size. However, thanks to its lightweight and agile design, it's piece of cake to move around. It felt freeing jumping to the Orochi from the heavier Razer Naga Pro.

While the clickers were satisfying to depress, it's not the kind of mouse that you can rest your entire hand on. Most of the time, I held the mouse with my fingers and my palm rarely touched the bodily surface, and then my hand is more than active than usual.

The thumb residuum and pinkie residuum aren't roomy, but they're comfy enough and let me access the ii side clickers even faster. The scroll-cycle is also in the perfect position, allowing me to effortlessly move my finger to the correct of the clicker to use it.

Overall, the comfort isn't as good every bit a larger, more expensive mouse with fine-tuned ergonomics, just the Orochi V2 is easy to control thanks to its lightweight shell.

Razer Orochi V2 performance

I performed incredibly well during my gaming exam, and then did the Orochi V2 cheers to its lightweight design and accurate sensor.

I've been replaying the Resident Evil series in apprehension for Resident Evil Hamlet, and while playing, I swifty turned 180 degrees earlier pulling my gun and precisely blasting a zombie's head make clean off. When I was surprised from behind and grappled past another zombie, I quickly striking one of the side buttons to stab him with a knife. The mouse fabricated it easy to maneuver effectually the undead.

In No Man's Sky, I jetpacked around a little orange planet and used the Orochi V2 to expertly eradicate the flora and fauna so I can sell my ill-gotten gains to the highest bidder (because capitalism). I had to turn downward the DPI a bit because of how piece of cake it was to move the mouse around, which isn't a bad affair.

Playing a Dark Souls title on a keyboard and mouse is almost always a bad idea, and so I tried information technology with the Razer Orochi V2. I managed to kill an ogre in Night Souls 2 without getting striking, which is a attestation to not only my badassery merely also to the Orochi V2 for beingness easy enough to control during the encounter.

Razer Orochi V2 features

As with nigh Razer mice, the Razer Orochi V2 is outfitted with some fancy tech that make it stand out amongst other mice.

With the Razer Synapse app, you can reprogram whatever ane of the 8 inputs onboard the mouse (including Scroll Up and Down), and with Hypershift, you can assign alternative functions for each button. In the Performance tab, you can configure the DPI in a layer of 5 stages from 100 to 18,000. Nonetheless, I've noticed that you cannot go between increments of 100, which is frustrating considering I typically use a 750 DPI. The 2 other tabs in the app let you customize the calibration and power modes of the mouse.

The Razer Orochi V2 is outfitted with Razer's 2nd-gen mechanical switches, which are supposedly rated for a 60 million click lifecycle.

Razer Orochi V2 battery life

Razer designed the Orochi V2 to last up to 950 hours on Bluetooth and up to 425 hours on the 2.4GHz USB input. At that place's been a fully charged symbol in Razer Synapse for equally long as I've used it. You lot tin can outfit the Razer Orochi V2 with either a AA or AAA battery, which makes it more attainable than some mice.

Lesser line

The Razer Orochi V2 is splendid at what it's supposed to exist: fast and lite. Information technology has great operation, a sleek shell and long bombardment life. Yet, its cost can exist a fiddling daunting considering it doesn't accept as many features as competing mice.

If you want to save a bit of money and are willing to go wired, you can selection up the Corsair Sabre RGB Pro, which comes with colorful RGB lighting, 8K polling and a larger shell.

Still, you won't be able to beat out the Orochi V2's wireless capabilities or how stunningly lightweight it is.

Rami Tabari is an Editor for Laptop Mag. He reviews every shape and form of a laptop too every bit all sorts of absurd tech. You lot can notice him sitting at his desk-bound surrounded by a hoarder's dream of laptops, and when he navigates his manner out to culture, you can catch him watching actually bad anime or playing some kind of painfully difficult game. He's the all-time at every game and he just doesn't lose. That's why you'll occasionally take hold of his byline attached to the latest Souls-like challenge.