A Turtle Beach Kone II Air gaming mouse with RGB enabled. And a cute dog sleeping.
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Turtle Beach Kone II Air review

A well-rounded, wireless gaming mouse with very little to complain about.

(Image: © Future)

Our Verdict

The Kone 2 Air improves tenfold on its predecessor, bringing Bluetooth, better ergonomics and a fantastic scroll wheel to the design. It feels like a premium mouse, and it delivers on battery life as well as supporting software. You couldn't ask for much more from a heavy, wireless gaming mouse.

For

  • Great shape & lovely hand feel
  • 3 days battery over wireless
  • Free spin scroll wheel
  • Swarm II software is great

Against

  • Marks made easily on the coating
  • Minor inconsistencies in polling rate

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If you're looking for a review on the Roccat Kone 2 Air, you should know that the Roccat brand has been assimilated under the Turtle Beach brand name. So I'm actually looking at the next iteration of the Kone Air, here, minus the associated Roccat branding. Got it? Cool.

The Turtle Beach Kone 2 Air is a wireless gaming mouse marketed as an ergonomic wonder with up to 350 hours of battery life. Everything on the box makes me very excited, because it looks like Turtle Beach has finally rounded out the Kone lineup with a chonky beast of a gaming mouse. But does it live up to the hype in actual, everyday testing?

Previously, I spent some time with another wireless sister of the Kone 2 Air—the Kone Pro Air. Just getting the Kone 2 Air out of the box I was already amazed at the vast comparative quality, against both the Pro and what I've seen of its predecessor.

The clearest difference between the Kone 2 Air and its Pro counterpart is the weight. The Pro is more suited to FPS games, weighing in at just 2.6oz / 75g, while the Kone Air has always been the chunkier option for players who don't fling their mouse around willy-nilly. With two AA batteries under the hood, the old Kone Air was around 140g… not an issue in and of itself; people like chunky mice, myself included. It's the weight imbalance that users found problematic.

Kone II Air specs

A Turtle Beach Kone II Air gaming mouse with RGB enabled. And a cute dog sleeping.

(Image credit: Future)

Buttons: 7
Connectivity: USB Type-C, 2.4GHz wireless & Bluetooth dual wireless.
Sensor: Owl-Eye 26K Optical Sensor
Max DPI: 26,000
Max acceleration: 50g
Max speed: 650 IPS
Polling rate: up to 1,000 Hz
Battery life: Up to 350 hrs
Size: 13 x 4.4 x 8.2 cm / 5.1 x 1.7 x 3.2 in
Weight: 110g / 3.8oz
Features: Infinite scroll, RGB Lighting, Grip tape and USB-A to USB-C Transmitter Adapter included
Price: $120 / £120

Thankfully, the Kone 2 Air has done away with AA battery power. It's much more balanced, and you don't need to keep spare batteries to hand. You can just plug in the lovely, light braided USB Type-C cable Turtle Beach has included and click away, unhindered.

Where the build quality is concerned, the Kone 2 Air feels good and sturdy in hand. The ergonomics are lush, with a thumb rest and a button on it that isn't as easy to accidentally click as it looks. There's also something about the thumb grove I really like as a claw grip mouse user. It makes it easy to keep hold of even without slapping the included silicone grips on the sides.

Every click of the Kone 2 Air's seven, well placed buttons feels purposeful. There's a satisfying, light press that doesn't sound hollow like a lot of lighter gaming mice do.

The design has also moved away from those awful metal scroll wheels Kone used to rep, replacing it here with a soft silicone one that lights up with RGB at the edges. Not only does it have the fancy, programmable tilt click function, it also unlocks and goes into freespin mode. If you're thinking infinite scroll is a pointless novelty, I can vouch that it's one of the single best features I've found in a gaming mouse. I've been using the same function on the Logitech G502 and G502 X daily for years and it never stops being useful.

Buy if...

✅ You move around and switch between games/playstyles: The Kone 2 Air's Easy Shift function and five onboard profiles make it great for changing things up, and playing away. Plus, the battery life is pretty fantastic.

✅ You're looking for a well-rounded, ergonomic mouse: The Kone 2 Air is super comfortable to hold, with a nice grip and thumb rest, and it's great for larger hands.

Don't buy if...

❌ You're trying to save money: I know the prospect of a gorgeous ergonomic mouse with seven buttons sounds great, but there are cheaper wireless gaming mice out there that are almost as good.

❌ You're a bigtime FPS gamer: There's a bit of latency going on with the Kone 2 Air's sensor. It's accurate, but the polling rate is a little inconsistent. With that and its weight in mind, this might be better suited to slightly slower-paced games.

In testing, the Kone 2 Air's Owl-Eye 26K Optical Sensor is relatively accurate, with a nice smooth curve and minimal outliers on MouseTester's xCount vs. Time chart. But while 1000 Hz polling looks great on paper, there are quite a few inconsistencies when it comes to the update rate. It's not enough to notice in general use, but there's around 8ms latency and quite a lot of wavering when shifting the Kone 2 Air around quickly.

One thing to note is that the Swarm 2 Software has come far. It's got a lovely clean look, and it importantly lets you create your own macros for using those seven buttons.

Taking more cues from the Logitech G502 and crew, the Kone 2 Air also includes an Easy Shift function, so you can switch some of the buttons up on the fly, and quickly back again. There's space for five on-board profiles, too, making it a godsend if you play away and switch between games/playstyles a lot. The fact you can get a good few days of battery life out of it over wireless connection (a week or more in Bluetooth mode) makes the portable aspect all the more enticing.

Honestly, I'm struggling to find something bad to say about the Kone 2 Air. Sure it's not the cheapest wireless gaming mouse out there, nor is it the lightest, or the mouse with the most buttons. But having rectified the issues with previous models the Kone 2 Air is perfectly placed in that sweet spot for weighty, ergonomic mice, and one that's worth your consideration even with that $120/£120 price tag.

The Verdict
Turtle Beach Kone II Air

The Kone 2 Air improves tenfold on its predecessor, bringing Bluetooth, better ergonomics and a fantastic scroll wheel to the design. It feels like a premium mouse, and it delivers on battery life as well as supporting software. You couldn't ask for much more from a heavy, wireless gaming mouse.

Katie Wickens
Hardware Writer

Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she's waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.

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