EDITOR’S CHOICE
AWARD
GAMING GEAR
AWARD
ROCCAT TYON
WHITE
RRP: $99.99 | Website: www.roccat.org
I
’ve used, gamed and written
about several ROCCAT mice in the
past and with each one I always
came away feeling that ROCCAT
would not sacrifice their focus,
quality control and design for the
trend. When it was fashionable to
make mice with an absurd number
of buttons, ROCCAT stuck with a
few basic buttons. When DPI was
the craze, they kept releasing mice
with usable sensitivity options and
tracking precision, even when the
firm did have an 8200 DPI laser
mouse. At no point did I ever feel
ROCCAT was with the crowd even
when sometimes it seemed they just
weren’t innovating fast enough for
my liking.
With the TYON, well that all
changed. I first glanced at this
mouse, at the time prior to final
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production, at COMUTEX 2014,
that’s a year ago this issue. It looked
promising then and what stood out
to me at the time remains the most
impressive aspect of the mouse
today. Aesthetics!
The previous mice from ROCCAT
like the Kone Pure and XTD, looked
good and as always felt even better.
I did however they would soon be
in need of some new fresh thinking
that would pull them out of the
subtle design language and into
something that would draw you
instantly be it through pictures,
video on in the flesh. The Tyon did
exactly this when I first saw it in its
demo guise. Finally, after spending
an arduous amount of time with
the mouse I have only warmed ever
more so to it. The sleek, but cutting
edge design of a svelte curves and
accentuated by angular lines of the
numerous buttons make for one
striking mouse. Painted in a matt
powder white offset between the
two black sides makes this easily
the most attractive mouse I have
ever come across. Add to this the
base LED lighting system that traces
the circumference of the mouse and
LED lit scroll wheel and it comes
together, dare I say - perfectly.
Set all the LEDs to pure white and
you’re incentivized to purchase any
one of the LED backlit keyboards to
match it. Some may be indifferent
to it, but from where I stand this
mouse deserves a perfect score for
aesthetics and it certainly gets one
from me.
Visual cues aside, the most
fundamental part of a mouse is in
how it works while gaming. This is