I’m kinda surprised I haven’t contributed to this yet! But I have one…
Nylon isn’t good.
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Well, you’re just wrong. 
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Maybe if you could send some to me you could change my mind
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Challenge accepted.
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What nylon have you tried?
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It’s not just aesthetics - you can achieve a higher moment of inertia with less total weight by using stainless steel rims. The chunky aluminum rims are more than just an aesthetic thing - they’re less efficient at adding moment of inertia because more of the weight is closer to the axis of rotation.
This isn’t to say that monometals can’t be very high performing (in the rim-weightedness axis), though. And not all bimetals really take advantage of their unique characteristics.
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Well yeah, sort of, but then 7068 and 7075…
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“they’re less efficient at adding moment of inertia because more of the weight is closer to the axis of rotation.”
Even if it’s to a smaller degree, this still applies with 7075 and 7068 though… The difference is more negligible but a well made bimetal still plays better than a well made 7068 monometal
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“Plays better” really seems to mean different things to different people. To me, it means “spins longer and is more stable,” while for others it means “is floaty and manuverable and mega chill, brah.” For instance, I don’t think a well-made bimetal is going to deliver a better playing experience to guys who believe that a throw like the A-RT Grail reaches the zenith of the yoyo experience.
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Spin time and stability = plays better, or at least “performs” better, I just use the 2 interchangeably
Floaty and maneuverable and mega chill brah = more fun
Someone can tell me a FHZ is more fun to play than a Draupnir and that’s fine but if they say it performs better I’m going off 
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I totally get what you’re saying. But even if everyone agrees on what constitutes “better performance”, we may not all agree on what makes a yoyo fun. For instance, I really only find high performance throws fun. Organics that are difficult to control (without exceptional technique) are the opposite of fun for me. Others will feel the exact opposite.
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I use to feel this way. Same goes for fixies too. And flat bearings. But I’ve grown quite fond of them
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Oh I totally agree with you. I just meant “fun” is completely subjective, while it’s not so much the case for play or performance
For the most part, I don’t find bad yoyos fun either
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I find myself loathe to toss the term “bad” around too loosely. I’m not experienced enough to make a credible judgment on whether a yoyo is good or bad. At most I can only say I find some yoyos easier to play than others, but in many cases that’s not the fault of the yoyo per se, but a consequence of my poor technique.
A good example of this is the SF Cadence. A lot of people just love that throw, but I can’t get it to perform well. If I were to call it a “bad yoyo” I would be laughed out of these forums. This is also the reason why I have to take reviews with a considerable degree of skepticism; reviewers with superior skills than mine (which is all of them, let’s face it) will find far more throws worthy of glowing praise than I will.
Some yoyos that came highly recommended/reviewed turned out to be awesome for me (Hummingbird, Kuntosh 5000QV, Elite), while others not so much (Cadence, Charm, WEdge). I’ve learned that as a beginner I can’t take all reviews and recommendations (and assessments of “good” and “bad”) at face value. I pretty much have to find out for myself (the hard/expensive way).
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In my opinion, both the Shutter and the Horizon are awesome and I like both.
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Here’s a really unpopular yo-yo opinion: “Smoothness” is one of the most, if not the most, overrated yo-yo quality that exists.
Also, 1A freestyles were horrible in the past and Jensen Kimmit is so bad, he wouldn’t know the difference between a baseball and a yo-yo if the latter hit him in the head while trying to throw a breakaway.
PS: I’m just kidding about older types of freestyles and Jensen Kimmit. His 2010 freestyle is still one of the best I’ve seen.
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10/10 triggered. 
Glad you cleared that up though. I was about to go nuts 
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Shion Araya deserved his 2 victories and Mickey should’ve won more than 4
Asian speed players are far more skilled than almost any American gives them credit for
Edit: whoops this wasn’t meant to be a response to your post @Dalex
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The horizon is a horrible yoyo to learn fingerspins on. It’s been my only yoyo for 4 months and I have tried and tried but failed every time. But when I got my skyva in, I learned it in 2 days. I still can fingerspin on my horizon because it hits my finger and orbits and fly’s off.
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The skyva is an auto-fingerspin yoyo though, not really a fair comparison.
With that said I do find it pretty difficult to do fingerspin tricks with horizon-type yoyos.
I still prefer plain flat cup yoyos for fingerspin tricks over anything else though. Skyva-styled yoyos are good for standard fingerspins but I find more advanced tricks easiest with flat cup yoyos because they have the most forgiving catch radius.
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