This yoyo is very expensive. But I will say it is a premium experience as advertised. Very nice presentation and overall aesthetic. Packaging was really well done, although personally I'm not a fan of the tear away opening. The yoyo design itself is 100% a collaboration between Brandon and Jeffrey Pang. The evidence of that is very clear. As an owner of the outlier 2 and the deviant, this carries a similar feeling in the string. It feels dense and a little bit hefty, but I think you get extra power in exchange. The yoyo is extremely stable and surprisingly very very good at rejections. Usually in my experience, V shapes don't reject the string very well, but this definitely did. Stability and spin time are excellent as you would expect.
Feels great on the string and it's very fun to play. It's a solid banger. I don't regret buying the set, although it definitely left a hole behind 😅.
I think the design goals were absolutely met. I am no competitor, but I can definitely see it being good for that purpose. This yoyo belongs just as much in my luftverk collection as my offset one.