The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is an excellent wireless gaming mouse that you can use wired or wirelessly with its USB receiver or Bluetooth. It's lightweight but feels very sturdy and has a right-handed shape ideal for all grip types and very nearly all hand sizes. It has excellent click latency, a very low and adjustable lift-off distance, a wide CPI range, and a CPI you can adjust by increments of 50.
Our Verdict
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is a good mouse for office or multimedia work, though it isn't for this use. You can use it wired or wirelessly with its USB receiver or Bluetooth. It feels sturdy and has an ergonomic shape well-suited for nearly all grip types and hand sizes, and all buttons are programmable using the companion software. Unfortunately, the software is only compatible with Windows, and the scroll wheel lacks L/R tilt buttons and doesn't unlock for free scrolling.
- Comfortable right-handed shape with a thumb rest.
- Feels well-built.
- Connects wirelessly with its USB receiver or Bluetooth.
- All buttons are programmable.
- Not nearly as many buttons as a dedicated MMO mouse.
- Scroll wheel lacks L/R tilt buttons and doesn't unlock for free scrolling.
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is an amazing FPS gaming mouse. It has very low click latency, feels well-built, and is ideal for all grip types. However, small hands may not be able to reach both side buttons using a fingertip grip. It has a flexible cable and excellent mouse feet that glide well on all surfaces. It also has a wide CPI range, a CPI you can adjust by increments of 50, and a very low and adjustable lift-off distance.
- Comfortable right-handed shape with a thumb rest.
- Feels well-built.
- Superb click latency.
- Very lightweight.
- Not nearly as many buttons as a dedicated MMO mouse.
- No default dedicated button for cycling CPI settings.
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is very good for MMO gaming, but it doesn't have nearly as many side buttons as dedicated MMO mice. That said, all the buttons are programmable. It feels sturdy and has a right-handed shape ideal for all grip types, though small hands may have trouble reaching both side buttons using a fingertip grip. It also has excellent click latency, a wide CPI range, a CPI you can adjust by steps of 50, and a very low and adjustable lift-off distance.
- Comfortable right-handed shape with a thumb rest.
- Feels well-built.
- Superb click latency.
- All buttons are programmable.
- Not nearly as many buttons as a dedicated MMO mouse.
- Scroll wheel lacks L/R tilt buttons and doesn't unlock for free scrolling.
- No default dedicated button for cycling CPI settings.
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is an excellent travel mouse, though it isn't for this use. It connects wired or wirelessly with its USB receiver or Bluetooth and feels very well-built. It has a comfortable right-handed shape that's ideally suited for all grip types, but small hands may have difficulty reaching both side buttons using a fingertip grip. It also has onboard memory storage for up to five profiles. Unfortunately, it's fairly bulky and may not fit in most laptop cases.
- Feels well-built.
- Connects wirelessly with its USB receiver or Bluetooth.
- Storage compartment for its USB receiver.
- Onboard memory; up to five profiles.
- Not nearly as many buttons as a dedicated MMO mouse.
- Bulky; may not fit in most laptop cases.
Changelog
- Updated Oct 11, 2022: We've added a link to the newly-reviewed ROCCAT Kone XP Air in the Additional Buttons section of this review.
- Updated Oct 06, 2022: We've retested the CPI for this product after discovering an error with our Windows Pointer Settings, which automatically defaulted to incorrect settings during initial testing. From our observations, this error may be due to interactions with the ROCCAT SWARM software. We've updated this review with the results of our corrected test.
- Updated Sep 06, 2022: We've converted this review to Test Bench 1.3. This update adds a new Sensor Latency test and makes minor changes to several of our existing tests, resulting in test result changes in several sections. For more information, you can check out our full changelog here.
- Updated Aug 09, 2022: Following the update to Test Bench 1.2, some of our test results have changed within both the Weight and CPI sections. We've added or modified some of the text in this article to clarify these changes.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air we tested is the black variant; there's also a white one available. The very similar ROCCAT Kone Pro is a wired-only version of this mouse. You can see the label for our unit here.
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The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is a continuation of ROCCAT's Kone lineup and their first wireless entry in the series. It's an excellent gaming mouse aimed both at the esports community and more casual gamers, but as a lightweight FPS mouse, it joins a very competitive market given its price point. It has good performance specs and is very lightweight considering its wireless capabilities, but its winning feature is the ergonomic right-handed shape that sets it apart from many of its ambidextrous competitors.
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The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air and the ROCCAT Burst Pro Air are both lightweight, wireless gaming mice, but the Kone Pro Air performs slightly better overall. The Kone Pro Air has a more ergonomic right-handed design, and it feels better-built overall. Its click latency is significantly lower, and it's lighter than the Burst Pro Air. On the other hand, the Burst Pro Air has more independent RGB lighting zones, and it's slightly more portable as it's less bulky.
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is a wireless version of the ROCCAT Kone Pro. It connects wired or wirelessly with its USB receiver or Bluetooth. The Kone Pro is significantly lighter, but it's wired-only. Both mice are almost universally well-suited to all grip types and hand sizes, but small hands may not reach all buttons using a fingertip grip.
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is an updated, wireless version of the ROCCAT Kone Pure Ultra. The Pro Air connects wirelessly either with its USB receiver or via Bluetooth. You can also use it wired with its charging cable. It has mouse feet that glide more smoothly, a wider CPI range, and lower click latency. On the other hand, the Kone Pure Ultra has two CPI buttons behind the scroll wheel for making on-the-fly CPI adjustments, a feature the Kone Pro Air lacks. The two mice are nearly the same size, but the Kone Pro Air is more accomodating to extra-large hands than the Kone Pure Ultra.
The ROCCAT Kone Pro Air is an excellent wireless gaming mouse, while the ROCCAT Kain 120 AIMO is a good wired gaming mouse. You can use the Kone Pro Air wirelessly via Bluetooth or its USB receiver. Also, its mouse feet glide more smoothly, and its paracord-like charging cable is more flexible than the Kain 120 AIMO's braided cable. The Kone Pro Air is much lighter and has lower click latency. On the other hand, the Kain 120 AIMO has more RGB zones and a CPI-switching button below the scroll wheel.
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