Anyone who knows me knows that I have a special place in my heart and on my desk for the latest peripherals. My custom keyboard collection needs its own cupboard. I have more mice than I can remember without a spreadsheet, and I regularly swap between gaming controllers depending on which game I'm playing. I thought there wasn't much left to innovate in the gaming mouse space, other than the race for the lightest weight possible, but the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike and its magnetic switches have shown me there's still room for new ideas.

No, the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike won't make you instantly better at Counter-Strike, but it will instantly ruin your enjoyment of any other mouse switch. My collection of FinalMouse, Pulsar, and other boutique mice looks on with longing because there's only one mouse that's on my desk these days. And with a PowerPlay 2 deskmat, I never have to remember to recharge.

About this review: Logitech sent XDA the Pro X2 Superstrike and PowerPlay 2 deskmat for this review. The company had no input into its content or saw it before publication.

Price, specs, and availability

Logitech launched the G Pro X2 Superstrike on February 10, although you'll be lucky to find one in stores or in stock. Every stock drop so far has sold out in minutes, even with a $180 MSRP, and backorders are expected to start shipping on April 9.

While boutique mouse fanatics have long been used to this type of furor, with FinalMouse and others releasing small batches of each model with accompanying hype, the Superstrike (as I'm going to keep calling it, furthermore, as the full name is too darn long to type), is one of the first gaming mice from a consumer-focused company to have such appeal.

Fake clicks have made an impression on me

This should be on every mouse because it's unfair otherwise

Now, I had hoped to get two units, so I could take one apart and get some close-up images of the inductive switches and the haptic system, but I only received one, and after the first click, there was zero chance of me taking it apart. It's that good. Period.

You should buy this mouse, even if it's just for the inductive clicks. Really, it's the only standout feature, but it's so satisfying that it makes all my other mice feel weird afterward.

Now, we've had magnetic switches taking over gaming keyboards for a while, but this is the first time that they've hit a mouse switch. Except, inside the Superstrike, there really isn't a "switch" as you'd think, just a lot of empty air.

The Haptic Inductive Trigger System (HITS) has a coil under the left and right mouse buttons, and a couple of inductive sensors on the PCB that read the moving coil. It's like a theremin, except without the wobbly noises, and with more clicking heads, and it feels sublime. That's paired with a strength-adjustable linear haptic actuator on each button, reminiscent of 3D Touch on older iPhones or the haptic feedback of a MacBook's touchpad.

You can change the trigger point of the clicks, but the slightly unnerving thing that you have to get used to is that the haptic feedback happens after the mouse has already registered the "click," where on normal mice, you get the stiff pushback from the microswitch before the click registers. This gives you an ever-so-small improvement in latency because there's no debounce, so once you get used to the feeling, it increases your actions per minute in whatever game you play.

The rest of the mouse is what you'd expect from Logitech

For good or for ill

I have a love/hate relationship with Logitech mice because there are features no other mouse can match, but the company doesn't seem to care about the ones that are not good at all. The scroll wheel is bloody marvelous, and if FinalMouse could swipe the rotary encoders, then I'd never have to buy another mouse ever again. Well, maybe not because only Logitech has the HITS sensors.

Logitech software is always a pain, and I mean that in the nicest of ways. Can we have a web-based configurator one of these days, so I don't need a bloated organism living on my taskbar?

But there's a weird weight imbalance between the front, where the inductive sensors are, and the back end. It's somewhat mitigated by using the 6g PowerPlay puck to inductively charge the battery as I play, but it still feels weird, and then the whole mouse feels hefty. And I don't like that when I'm playing FPS games, even though I appreciate it for productivity tasks or photo editing.

And the UHMWPE skates need changing, immediately. They don't glide enough, especially with the weight, and it makes me feel like my hand is gliding on treacle instead of my finely tuned gaming mousepad. Please, Logi, put PTFE on this beautiful mouse, or at least put some optional skates in the box for us speed queens.

Should you buy the Logitech Pro X2 Superstrike?

You should buy the Logitech Pro X2 Superstrike if:

• You play games (yes, especially Cookie Clicker)
• You can find it in stock
• Why haven't you bought one yet?

You should NOT buy the Logitech Pro X2 Superstrike if:

• You don't play games
• You want a lightweight magnesium mouse full of holes
• You hate fun

I'm not about to pretend the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike (there, I said the whole thing again) is going to make you a better gamer overnight. No peripheral will, but I bet it'll make you not want to use any other mouse. If I could score this mouse just on the sublime switches, it'd be an 11/10, but then the rest of the mouse brings me back to reality.

It won't take much for Logitech to turn this into the tournament king it so desperately wants to be. A little weight redistribution to better balance the front and back, some material shaved away to make it lighter, and a slicker surface for the skates, and it'll be the only mouse that competitive gamers will want. Seriously, the switches shave off tens of milliseconds of reaction time, not the slivers of a millisecond that other companies are fighting over. Just buy one, you'll see.