The maverick is not inherently more responsive than most other current yoyos. The bearing condition is what primarily determines if the yoyo is responsive or not. So properly cleaning the bearing will go a long way towards your goal,
just clean the bearing, add a drop of thin lube and youre good to go. The Maverick is a little more responsive than most modern throws thanks to its gap and grippy response system. It wont be dead unresponsive after cleaning the bearing, but it will be unresponsive enough for you to perform most modern tricks. Eventually, you will be able to wear in the response enough to make it dead unresponsive, but that will take quite a while
Clean the bearing, no lube.
The grippyness of the response system doesn’t really matter unless it keeps touching the string.
Btw, do you have the new Maverick (with C bearing) or the old one?
in my case i put some rtv in and cleaned the bearing with goof off and after a good 2 hr of play and it was dead unresponsive you can send the maverick to me and I will make it unresponsive for you for 8 dollars
take out the metal spacers and put silicone under there and then scrape away the excess, like everyone else was saying. clean the bearing, lube it and play it until it gets unresponsive. if you screw it up i think yomega sells extra bearings.