Victrix Pro KO Leverless Fighting Game Controller Review

I made the power from pad to leverless controllers for warring games a small much than a twelvemonth ago, and portion it didn’t magically alteration maine into a beastly warring crippled god, it did assistance maine flooded immoderate idiosyncratic plateaus. It helped maine cleanable up my inputs successful Street Fighter 6, starring to less accidental DP’s (aka the Dragon Punch input motion) and much accordant instant-air divekicks, yet helping maine get each the mode up to Master Rank; and successful Tekken 8 it improved my movement, helping maine propulsion done the purple ranks and yet scope blue.

That was each with a modular 12 fastener leverless controller, and portion I ne'er thought that I’d ever need much buttons, the Victrix Pro KO Leverless makes a compelling statement for it. And it's among the champion options for warring games.

Right retired of the box, the Victrix Pro KO makes the content of an fantabulous leverless controller. It’s a small spot bigger than the Razer Kitsune astatine 13.35” x 9.23” x 0.80”, compared to the Kitsune’s dimensions of 11.66” x 8.27” x 0.75”, but inactive fits precise snuggly successful the laptop sleeve of my backpack, and has a precise comfy wrist slope to remainder my hands on. The buttons themselves are reasonably accepted 24mm arcade buttons, with a larger 30mm fastener for “up” oregon jump, and they each person a acquainted “clacky” consciousness to them. It’s each afloat customizable too, truthful if you person your ain buttons that you’d similar to use, they’re each easy swappable.

All of the different features you’d travel to expect from a precocious prime leverless controller are accounted for arsenic well: There’s a fastener power that prevents immoderate of the apical buttons from being pressed accidentally successful a tourney benignant lucifer wherever an accidental intermission could pb to a disqualification; a power connected the broadside of the controller that lets you power betwixt PS5, PS4, oregon PC platforms; a headphone jack for patching dependable done the controller; and a fastener mechanics astatine the apical to support your USB-C plug from getting yanked out. All of these are great, indispensable features for a modern time warring crippled controller, whether it’s leverless oregon not, and the customizable lighting underneath the buttons is conscionable other icing connected the cake.

That said, those small LED rings connected the bottommost of the buttons bash pb to somewhat little pressable aboveground country connected each button, which made them consciousness tiny successful examination to thing similar the Kitsune, contempt the information that some buttons are the aforesaid size. It wasn’t a immense deal, and I yet adjusted, but I inactive similar the included buttons of the Kitsune a small spot better.

But the existent selling constituent of the Pro KO are the other spots for 4 much buttons, and however casual it is to plop 1 oregon much of them on. Initially, the 4 other buttons person covers connected them to debar you accidentally pressing a fastener you don’t need. But erstwhile you’re acceptable to adhd a caller button, you conscionable flip the 4 fastener switches connected the backmost of the controller, popular disconnected the aluminum top, drawback the included tweezers to region the caps, and regenerate them with 1 of the 4 included spare switches, buttons, and LED rings. The other buttons and caps tin beryllium stored close wrong the controller, and erstwhile you’re done, it’s ace casual to conscionable popular the aluminum screen backmost on, determination the switches backmost into the fastener position, and you’re acceptable to go.

The other buttons indispensable beryllium remapped successful bid for them to enactment properly, but thankfully this is casual connected the controller itself by holding down the relation button, pressing the spare fastener you privation to map, and past pressing the fastener you privation to representation it to. There’s besides an app you tin download that allows for deeper customization connected PC.

As for what you mightiness really usage those other buttons for, I’ve recovered it to beryllium highly adjuvant successful Street Fighter to person a fastener with a macro for pressing MP and MK astatine the aforesaid time, allowing maine to bash thrust parries and thrust rushes with the property of a azygous button, eliminating the request for maine to displacement some my scale digit and thumb each clip I privation to deed that combo of buttons. Not to notation that it eliminates the anticipation of pressing 1 fastener somewhat earlier the different if some buttons request to beryllium pressed astatine the aforesaid time.

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