SteelSeries Rival 5 - Gaming Mouse – FPS, MOBA, MMO, Battle Royale – 18,000 CPI TrueMove Air Optical Sensor – 9 Programmable Buttons – 85 g Competitive Weight, Black

Excellent gaming mouse from steel series, the size and weight are perfect for me! It also comes with small weights if you want the mouse to be heavier or more comfortable to use for you.It’s responsive, it’s fast, you can customise it to suit various games and it’s got a nice RGB.

The media could not be loaded. This mouse is great for me as I always press the wrong buttons on my keyboard when playing games at a fast pace, but now I have reprogrammed all 9 buttons easily through the Steelseries engine (which is simple enough to use), allowing me to only have to use the WASD keys on some games.The rgb lighting is as good as you’ll find with any other brands like Corsair or Razer. You can pretty much do whatever you want with the lighting and it’s quite bright compared to everything else on my setup (can be changed if you dislike that). I feel Steelseries sort of pushes the limits of rgb stuff, as on max speed on colour shift with max brightness you’ll basically have an Epileptic fit.I guess you can sync profiles to other Steelseries stuff like keyboards but I don’t have any so I can’t confirm. Almost all my other stuff is Corsair so it’s a little annoying I can’t sync the rgb, but it’s a small price to pay for such a good mouse.Build quality is very good. I’ve used this mouse for over a month and it feels really nice. It’s made of plastic but still a quality type which doesn’t show fingerprints or feel cheap. Weight is fine, not heavy but not super light.Overall a good quality mouse which I would recommend to anyone wanting a mouse with lots of buttons, while still keeping a good feeling, something lots of other brands have failed to do. As of August 2021 this mouse is relatively new, so a Bluetooth option in the future would be nice.

Its the best mouse for me in this budget. Was confused between G502 and this but chose this one for RGB and the feel. Button 7 should have been a bit easier to reach like in Rival 5 though.

Firstly I bought this at a discount and at it's full price is pretty expensive.The mouse has 4 zones that can be independently set for lighting and that is quite nice especially when you need to confirm what program or game you are playing and sometimes when you alt-tab out of that program and go back in it doesn't kick the profile in so you instantly know by the lights.The weights - well I do wonder if this is a gimmick frankly but some will appreciate the option to make it heavier however, I don't use them but the storage or the fitting to the mouse is a monumental pain. The weights have a smaller squared key to insert into either the storage or mouse recess and this is not only non-positive but totally inadequate so you are fiddling for ages to put the weights in whilst dislodging the adjacent one that you spend a few mins trying to get in. There are 8 to do ..The sensor in this is supposedly the best one they do but I had the sensai raw previously and don't notice any difference however, it's even less configurable since you can only set the sensitivity in steps of 100 whereas I can set my Sensai in steps of 10 I believe. That is a big downer for me and is a serious flaw when you consider that "oh best sensor ever" .. and "oh much less control over it" Duh!There is an extra button on the left which many complain is hard to reach - yes it is a little hard to reach and I have big hands - you will not want to assign anything too critical for this button. Here I preferred my sensai as it was ambidextrous and so had 2 buttons either side -that was easier to get used to than this third button but having said that if you have reasonably medium / large hands it's not a game breaker. Small hands will struggle without moving the positioning of the hand and making it a poor choice for gaming. ... and this is really a gaming mouse after all.I also see one of the major complaints is the side grips which appear to come off after a lot of use (possibly heat from hand loosening the adhesive?). This hasn't happened to me and my hands don't get that sweaty but I can see the potential for this to happen and if you are paying £80 for this mouse this is totally unacceptable.This is a wired mouse so at that price it should be the bees knees - no premium has been spent on the wireless side so my recommendation is wait for this to appear on offer well under the full price and it will be worth the purchase.So far I've been reasonably happy with it but if I'm honest I could have stuck with the Sensai without any downsides to actual play / sensitivity, I only bought it for the price and that my sensai is a bit old even though I've bought a full set of omron switches and replaced a couple on one of them already.EDIT : Knocked down to 2 STARS as per so many other people, come summer the side pad adhesive just melted and I ended up with a sticky mess in my hands. This is atrocious for an £80 mouseNOTE: I'm now rating this higher again because it's such a damn good mouse IMO. With regard to the adhesive and the eventual failure of the side grips. Steelseries will give you a code to replace the grips if this happens within the 2 year warranty period and for however many times it happens. They are aware of this problem and are developing a better adhesive (so they say).What I did after I got the replacement was to completely wipe off the adhesive from the rubber pads. This is not that easy but if you make a solution with White Vinegar and Bicarbinate of soda this will completely come of without too much elbow grease. I then used super glue to put them back and they are really solid now.So I guess I'm saying here that the mouse is worth getting particularly if you wait till it's reduced in price and if you don't mind the mucking about that I describe above then go for it.EDIT: I am downgrading my review because so far (not withstanding the rubber problems) I have had 2 replacements of the mouse due to the left button acting up (double fire or misfire). The second replacement lasted from August 2020 to Jan 2021 and it is not double firing, making it the 3rd one. None have lasted even a year before this happened.Sadly I bought another one when I saw a sale and I've started using that - this will of course be viable for replacement for 2 years since I bought it in Aug 2020 but it's a real pain and to me it proves that the buttons fitted to the mouse are substandard. I will report back each time the new one fails and each time I'll drop a star.For now it's going to 3 with the express recommendation that you DO NOT pay the full price for this.Please give this a thumbs up if it has helped you make up your mind.