"Clones" of popular products tend to have a bad reputation. If we look past a discussion of original thought and idea, there is undoubtedly merit to remaking a product if it is improved in many or even most ways while keeping the price the same or less. The Sharkoon Light² 200 is one such case. Of course, its right-handed ergonomic shape is that of the Zowie EC2. However, the incredibly low weight (62 g) and top-tier sensor (PixArt PMW3389), along with excellent mouse feet, very high button quality across the board, a very good scroll wheel, grippy coating, full software customizability, and a decent range of RGB lighting effects set the Light² 200 quite clearly apart from any iteration of the EC2. Furthermore, the inclusion of a non-honeycomb back cover, a set of replacement mouse feet, and several differently colored button caps are nice additions as well, and seldomly seen on other gaming mice.

Using the latest firmware ("4 ms"), click latency is more than competitive now as well, and lower than on the EC2-A or EC2-B. The only thing falling a bit short is the cable, which is of above average flexibility but cannot compete with some of the paracord-like cables of the competition, such as the Cooler Master MM711 or Endgame Gear XM1. Still, the Light² 200 gets a lot of things right, which is why it gets the Editor's Choice and Budget awards from me.