Hello all, I would like to first say that we can all agree the question, “what is the best 1a yoyo?” is one that is highly debated. So I figure the problem is there is no one best yoyo. But also there isn’t enough questions/categories. I’m looking for opinions from all skill ranges. Go
Best all-around:
Best feeling/playing:
Favorite(even if it isn’t the best feeling/playing):
Best for beginners:
Best mini:
Best bimetal:
Best plastic:
Feel free to suggest more categories!
My opinions:
Best all around:
Draupnir
Shinobi
Best feeling:
Citizen
Hyperion
Favorite:
Shinobi
Nobunaga
Best for beginners:
Shooting star
Best Bimetal:
Nobunaga or Draupnir
Possibly the Kenshin Kiwami, but I’ve been enjoying my Nobubaga more lately
Best Plastic:
Shooting Star
Best Budget Monometal:
Shutter
Best all-around: One Drop VTWO
Best feeling/playing: One Drop VTWO
Favorite(even if it isn’t the best feeling/playing): One Drop VTWO
Best for beginners: Recess First Base
Best mini: no opinion
Best bimetal: YoyoFriends Hummingbird
Best plastic: YoyoFriends Dove
I only own 15 yoyos, so I’m not going to pick one in each category.
Best feeling/playing: Honey Badger
Best bimetal: Grasshopper GTX
New category
Best esthetics (coolest look): Silhouette
Modified the categories just a bit:
Best all-around (non-organic): YYF Butter (Bi-metal) or OD Free Solo (Monometal)
Best all-around (organic): tie between MCMO and Grail/B7
Best performing yoyo: YoYoFriends Peregrine
Best feeling, not necessarily performing: OD Panorama or Grail/B7
Best for beginners: Recess First Base
Best plastic: Recess First Base (Also the best value IMO)
Best all-around: Grasshopper GTX (I don’t do horizontal or speed combos otherwise maybe Peregrine)
Best feeling/playing: Arcade
Favorite(even if it isn’t the best feeling/playing): P40 Warhawk
Best for beginners: Recess First Base
Best mini: OPO Sprite
Best bimetal: Grasshopper GTX
Best plastic: Speedaholic XX
Best mono metal: Golden Hour Ridgline
Best all-around: Japan Technology Shaqshine
Best feeling: Japan Technology Arrows
Favorite: Reykjavik Freyja
Best for beginners: C3 Speedaholic XX (Shooting Star is probably just as good, I just haven’t played one)
Best bimetal: Japan Technology Shaqshine or Reykjavik Mjolnir
Best plastic: Japan Technology Origin (Newer 2017 model)
Best budget monometal: C3yoyodesign Krown
Coolest: Mod44 (Other modular stuff like the Core Co Standard and Lathed Back Bangarang can have this title too)
I think it’s pretty interesting to see the brand preferences people have. I think mine should be fairly obvious lol.
Best all-around: Opyoyos Spright
Best feeling/playing: Opyoyos Spright
Favourite: Opyoyos Spright
Best for beginners: Recess First Base
Best mini: General Yo Ministar 2
Best bimetal: Opyoyos Spright
Best plastic: iYoYo Shooting Star
Best all-around: Brass Wisteria
Best feeling/playing: Duality
Favorite(even if it isn’t the best feeling/playing): G2 Banshee SS Brass
Best for beginners: Recess First Base
Best mini: Fallen Angel
Best bimetal: G2 Banshee SS Brass
Best plastic: Speedaholic XX
This was a lot harder to answer than I thought it’d be. I went back and forth on a lot of these.
Best way to know is try many, if you can own a few, you will know.
I prefer less rim weight now, competition specs are not important to me, and neither is fast play.
Also, depends on your mood that day, or what tricks.
From what I have and thrown:
Best all around- The Don
Best feeling playing- free solo mono or i think the yyf flame bimetal is really good
Favorite- Gravity or Par Avion
Best for beginners- the sage or shutter
Best mini- Fallen angel (bimetal organic D bearing!)
Best bimetal- grasshopper gtx
Best plastic- the rally (any of the bimaterial are good)
Its really difficult to choose the best in any category
Best feeling/playing: Clyw Kodiak (my hands down favorite throw, please release the mono metal version already), TP Mustang
Favorite(even if it isn’t the best feeling/playing): Terrarian/Gravity/Panorama (this was super hard to narrow down but these are my happy chill throws)
Best for beginners: Topyo Silenus (great intro to awesome splashes and a fun shape that isn’t the generic yo-yo shape people would typically think of if they are not in the hobby)
Best mini:Zipline strings Ist (round boi that performs like a big boi)
Best bimetal: Clyw Kodiak (note I’m not big into bimetals)
Best plastic: Clyw Yeti
This took a ton of thought for me. Glad someone made this discussion.
Also favorite is often the one that just arrived.
You aren’t wrong lol I just got the mustang but the kodiak has stayed consistent over a year so that throw is onto something, for me at least.
These opinions are based solely on my relatively limited collection and experience.
Favorite: One Drop Top Deck
Best for a sesh: GWAY Daredevil
Best all-around: Yoyofriends Sync
Best feeling: Recess Komodo
Best performing: Rebellion Invaders Must Die
Best for beginners: Duncan Butterfly XT
Best plastic: Recess First Base
Hm, this will be tough, and my opinion atm ephemeral, but ill play.
Best all-around: Luftverk Acadia. Simply put, my best performing yoyo. Does all the tricks I know in the most forgiving way. It can’t do fingerspins, but neither can I (yet, since I havent practiced them).
Best feeling/playing: Impossible to answer without a top 10 (or more). I can’t answer with Daytripper/ Ti-Sunbird/ MCMO/ Ti-Vayder/ Gravity/ Loop 720/ KNack/ etc. This is why I own ‘several’ yoyos, lol
Favorite(even if it isn’t the best feeling/playing): General-yo 5 Star. Just love the the slightly undersized fun this yoyo is to play. The Hatrick might take the throne after finally getting one though.
Best for beginners: I agree with consensus on this one, Recess First Base. An honest and well playing responsive yoyo is great for any beginner. Wait until you have basics down before going unresponsive, and the First Base is probably the easiest responsive yoyo ive ever played that can bridge the gap.
Best mini: I like my Sengoku Masamini v2 for the novelty, but honestly this category probably doesn’t have a good “best”.
Best bimetal: Yoyofriends - Peregrine. Just edges out the Batsquatch imo because it is a full performance package that seems to fully utilize bi-metal design to get that extra performance out of it. Im more of a monometal guy, but this yoyo slays.
Best plastic: Loop 720. Imo plastic is ideal for looping yoyos, and this is my favorite. Plastic unresponsives are meant to be beat or given to kids to learn. This yoyo otoh is not (the brat can pry it from my cold dead fingers if he wants it).
Additional categories:
Best Fixed Axle: Spinworthy KNack. My go to for performance and feel, not to say I don’t like the rest. I prefer the Beech version for 0A.
Best Organic: All
Oh lord…
Best all around- RCS Deluge
Best feeling/playing- YYF Uppercut
Favorite- RCS Deluge (it was my YYP Code, but then it fell out of my pocket while I was biking, and now vibes like a washing machine.)
Best mini- YYF California
Best bimetal- RCS Deluge
Beat for beginners- butterfly xt
Best Plastic- Recess first base
I prefer Magnesium. There you go.
Ti is ok. I mean it’s better than aluminum, however Magnesium is where it’s at. Thank you for your support.
Im not biased, best shape.