SteelSeries - Rival 3 Gaming Mouse

I love steelseries prime's shape and sensor but it's skates are outdated. For Rival 3, I think that it's click and sensor latency are bad and skates are outdated on this gaming mouse too.

Got a rival 3 wired to replace my old Logitech g pro wireless. A quarter the cost and I'd argue performance is on par. Only criticism so far is that the most 5 button kind of sucks.

Was one of the first mice i ever bought the steelseries rival 3 wired a long time ago unfortunately clicking issues started and i had to bin it after nearly 2 years currently using the atk u2 plus chinese clone of the zowie u2 and its amazing

Been using a Kone Air Pro for almost 2 years now and love it. They make a corded version you can buy on amazon from the manufacturer direct as well for less than 40 and on sale recently was 21.99 (turtle beach as they have dropped the Roccat line branding though they have always been the actual makers/owners). Logitech has wheel and button click issues these days and it drives many of us nuts. The G502 is abysmal for everyday use with the cord. and both wireless and corded suffer from the pointed left and right mouse pad clickers. Feels like cheap garbage and honestly has no reason to be like that at all imho. YMMV SteelSeries used to make some very affordable mid tier mice that were fairly competitive and had basic but functional software for tuning them. I owned the Rival 3, 1st gen and it was a good one until it died just 7mo into it. At the time it was a $99 dollar mouse. The new versions are redone but have not used them. They do a some theme branded stuff for high dollar, Diablo 4/ WoW etc. for 149.99 if you are into that stuff. Glorius Model D is as good and you can by them refurbished to new for 15.99 on amazon direct from manufacturer. Actually very good for FPS /Shooter games. Not as good as the Model O but for the price very hard to beat. Lots of other high end and boutique gaming mice but i am a bit frugal unless the product is just superior for durability/function many are also quite good. If you have a best-buy, or Micro center or similar place with mice on display to use and feel i suggest that, it can help a great deal. good luck Cheers!

My thoughts as well. I'm actually astounded SteelSeries isn't anywhere to be seen. I've been using a $30 Rival 3 / 300 for ~7 years at this point and it has been the most rock solid mouse I've ever used. I've got a few friends who took my recommendation years ago as well and similarly none of them have had any problems with their mice. I suppose it's all subjective to a point at the end of the day, and I can't speak for or against their present day build quality either as I've never had to replace it.

9k hours, got a wired steelseries rival 3 gen 2. It has 1.35ms response and its freakin fast

Same. Had a Rival 100 from 2016 to 2024 and now I'm using a Rival 3

The design has already been done for other mice that weren't advertised as ambidextrous, so it might get confusing for some people to suddenly call designs that are symmetrical but not have the "waist" as ambidextrous too. Cases in point: Logitech G305, Razer Orochi V2, SteelSeries Rival 3, Corsair M75. Currently the term ambidextrous mouse refers to mice with the concave thumbrests on both sides. >What are your thoughts on this? I’d love to hear other opinions. Stop looking at the marketing material terminology and look at the picture of the mouse and the measured dimensions to know if you'd like the shape.

I recently got the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro and comparing your hand placement our hands are almost exactly the same size - it works perfectly well for me. One difference, the second/third picture your 3rd finger folding down by the side of the mouse feels very un natural for me so it may simply be how you grip the mouse. I dont know if they still make it anymore but I used to use the Steelseries Rival (3 I think) and that was slightly bigger than any other mainstream mouse I've used.

I had a SS 100, then 110, now rival 3, it's amazing bro