Pro Gaming Gear of the Year 2025

Introduction

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The year 2025 is almost over. Over the past 12 months, we’ve played some awesome new games, watched thrilling tournaments, and tested some amazing gear. And, as per usual, we like to reflect on that last part. What new products ended up on the desks of pro gamers? Did the old favorites survive, or did they have to move aside in favor of newer, trendier equipment? In this article, we’ll go over the current pro gaming gear trends, and we’ll dive a little deeper into current trends.

For this article, we use data from all of our analyzed games. The data in this post is a snapshot of the 4th of December, 2025.

Mice

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2072 players, using 218 different types of mice.

At the end of 2024, the Razer Viper V3 Pro took over as the most popular mouse in pro gaming. Compared to 12 months ago, Razer’s flagship ambidextrous mouse managed to gain 3% more users, landing it at an impressive 21%, the same as in July.

With that said, we need to emphasize that you need to take this #1 status with a grain of salt. Logitech’s Superlight line of mice still beats the Viper V3 pro by about 8% if you count the first iteration and the second iteration together.

What this also means is that 50% of pros are using basically two different mouse shapes; the Viper and the Superlight. Those mice (the Superlight more than the Viper) often get lambasted by the community for being too safe in their design, but if we look at what the pros have chosen, it’s quite clear that Razer and Logitech have made the right decisions. Their two flagship mice are both icons at this point in time, and we don’t see any other brand challenging for that #1 spot any time soon.

Looking further down, we see that the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro has already managed to overtake its predecessor and become the #1 ergonomic mouse on the website. This also means that, for the first time in years, there’s no ZOWIE EC to be found in the top 5. If we count all different iterations together, it is #6 with quite a comfortable margin, but it does seem like the pros have a new favorite ergo shape.

See our detailed mouse list, complete with specs, users, and links to reviews.

Brand Trends

Razer overtook Logitech as the most popular mouse manufacturer for the pro scene back in July, and they’ve grown their lead by 1% over the past six months. Interestingly, Logitech hasn’t lost anything, so the margins at the top are still quite small. With the recent release of the Superlight 2c and the upcoming Logitech G Pro X 2 SUPERSTRIKE, we might have an interesting first part of 2026 ahead.

ZOWIE is still very comfortably third, but it might be cause for alarm that the brand has lost 3% of their market share over the course of 2025.

Keyboards

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2008 players, using 163 different types of keyboards.

Razer’s Huntsman V3 Pro TKL had to give up the lead for a while back in July, but it’s now back and has taken the #1 spot from the Wooting 60HE again. It has to be said that a number of 60HE users have already swapped over to the very recently released 60HE v2, though. If you add those two groups together, the 60HE would still be the most used keyboard.

Beyond that, we see that Wooting’s 80HE has gained a further 4% compared to July, which firmly establishes it as a mainstay in the competitive scene.

We’ve seen some really cool analog keyboards released this year, so we fully expect that the number of users of these types of boards will keep rising even more. Analog boards are also objectively better for gaming than traditional mechanical boards, which is another reason we expect mechanicals to keep falling.

Interestingly, pros seem to go for either a tiny 60% board or a (comparatively) big TKL board. Full-size boards fell out of favor years ago (no need for a numpad for most games, so it makes a keyboard unnecessarily bulky), but we’d have thought that the 65% layout would be more popular as a happy medium.

See our detailed keyboards list with specs, users, and links to reviews.

Brand Trends

Over the past year, we’ve seen some seismic shifts in the keyboard landscape. Logitech lost 4% market share, while Razer gained 2%. All of that pales compared to Wooting, though. With a 9% market share increase compared to last year, 2025 was undoubtedly Wooting’s year. As a cherry on top, they also take the #1 spot as the most used keyboard brand. That’s an insanely impressive feat for a brand that was established only a decade ago.

These days, many brands are putting out high-quality analog keyboards, but Wooting and Razer have firmly established themselves as the go-to brands in this space, so we don’t predict any big changes here in the near future. Unless another brand can come up with a market-shattering innovation, we see the domination of Razer and Wooting lasting for a long time.

Monitors

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1926 players, using 97 different types of monitors.

ZOWIE continues to rule the world of gaming monitors. Their XL2566K is the standard monitor in pro gaming right now, which consequently also makes 2025 the year that 360Hz became the pro scene standard refresh rate.

On a budget, 240Hz is still an excellent choice, however. Over a third of pros are still using 240Hz, so if you’re on a system like that and you don’t have the money for an upgrade, you really shouldn’t despair.

In July, we speculated that we might see higher resolution OLED monitors come up over the course of the next few months (though we also said we wouldn’t put money on it) and we do kind of see that. SONY INZONE’s M10S doubled its market share over the course of the year, but it’s still quite far from entering the top 10.

Until further notice, 1080p is still very much the standard in the pro gaming scene.

Feel free to browse our detailed monitor list, where we have specs, users, and other interesting details.

Brand Trends

All the top three brands had to give up some of their market share in 2025. However, that doesn’t really mean much, as ZOWIE is still the #1 brand by a very, very large margin.

Mousepads

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1978 players, using 172 different types of mousepads.

Whereas the Artisan Zero‘s lead over the Razer Gigantus V2 was razor-thin back in July, it’s now grown to be a lot bigger. Razer’s mousepad lost 1% of its market share, and the Artisan Zero gained 2%. As a result, this is the first time in many months that we see a pretty clear winner in the mousepad scene.

And we have to congratulate Artisan here, as this is a seriously impressive move. Last year, their pad wasn’t even in the top 5 (though they were already the top brand in the space) so 2025 has been a great year for them.

It also marks an interesting point in time, as this absolutely confirms that players are increasingly willing to spend more money on a mousepad. A couple of years ago, the pad seemed to have been an afterthought for a lot of players, so this has been a cool change to witness. We’ve said it before, but these are golden times for mousepad enthusiasts.

At the bottom of the table, we see that the VAXEE PA dropped out of the top 5. ZOWIE’s G–SR-SE, the SteelSeries QcK Heavy, and the Logitech G640 take the other spots.

Browse our full mousepad list for specs, users, and test results from our test bench so you can compare glide speeds and characteristics.

Brand Trends

Artisan managed to hold on to their lead for the entirety of the year. They even widened the gap: with a 3% increase compared to 2024 (and a 1% drop for Razer), they’re now firmly the #1 mousepad brand for professional gamers.

Interesting: ZOWIE overtook Razer as the second most used mousepad brand. With Razer’s mousepad stats dropping a bit over the course of the year, it might be time for team green to make a move with a new product aimed at the premium end of the market.

Headsets

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1682 players, using 118 different types of headsets.

The Razer BlackShark V2 Pro comfortably held its spot as the most used headset in pro gaming. Meanwhile, with a substantial 5% drop, it’s also quite clear that the reign of the HyperX Cloud II is well and truly over. That’s not to say that it wasn’t an impressive feat, however. Being on top of such a competitive industry for pretty much a decade is something to be proud of for sure.

We mentioned it in earlier articles, but we believe that name recognition is important. During the Cloud II’s period of dominance, other brands released tons of headsets under different (often confusing) names and product lines, which meant that there was no time for any product or product line to really get enough recognition to mount a challenge. By the time gamers got to know a certain product as worthy, it was often already discontinued and replaced by something with a different name.

Today, we see that the landscape is different. Razer has firmly embraced ‘BlackShark’ as the name of their pro-tier gaming headsets, and Logitech has done the same with the G Pro X line. The results are impressive. The BlackShark V3 Pro only just released, and it’s already in the top 5. Meanwhile, Logitech’s headsets are firmly holding on to their market share as well.

See our full headset list for specs, user details, and links to reviews.

Brand Trends

Back in July, we said that it could’ve been the last article where we saw HyperX in the lead with gaming headsets. We were right.

In the last six months of the year, Razer increased their market share by 4%, while HyperX’s dropped by 4%. The result is that Razer is now the #1 headset brand on ProSettings.net. That’s the first time a brand that’s not HyperX can call itself the most used headset brand on our website.

In the first months of 2026, it’ll be interesting to see if HyperX can manage to stabilize. They’re not in danger of losing their second place just yet, but with no hyped releases in the past year and Logitech and Razer’s headsets gaining users, their downward spiral might not be over just yet.

Chairs

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485 players, using 30 different types of chairs.

This year, we chose to focus a bit more on gaming chairs and other furniture, so this is the first time we’re adding this new category to this type of article.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, we see that Secretlab’s Titan EVO is the most popular chair with pro gamers right now. It’s the brand’s flagship product and a chair you see in tons of gaming rooms, so we did expect it to come up first.

In second place, we see Razer’s Iskur V2. That chair is not as widely known as the Secretlab flagship, so it’s quite impressive to see it so high on the list. Together, these two chairs eat up more than 50% of the market.

In third place, we see a very new and perhaps surprising brand: Blacklyte. Their Kraken Pro is still pretty far behind the behemoths that are Razer and Secretlab, but it’s impressive to see such a new product in the top 3.

The rest of the top 5 is made by office furniture royalty. The Herman Miller Embody is an iconic chair, and pro gamers seem to recognize this.

Brand Trends

Secretlab and Razer are in a heated battle to see which brand can come out on top. Together, they seat just over 60% of analyzed pro gamers with their various chair lines, which is pretty impressive.

Speaking of impressive, we also see newcomer Blacklyte in the top 3. With just under 10% market share, they can be proud of the year they’ve had.

Since this is the first year we’ve been really tracking chairs, we don’t have a ton to analyze about trends, but we’ll gladly get back to you on this in 2026!

Conclusion

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A couple of brands have reason to pop an extra bottle of champagne come New Year’s Eve. Razer has some amazing achievements to celebrate, for example. Taking the crown as the #1 headset brand is something we thought to be almost impossible.

Elsewhere, Artisan further established itself as the leading mousepad brand in the pro scene. And Wooting, a brand that’s only a decade old and that pretty much no one outside enthusiast circles had heard of at the start of 2020, has managed to beat firmly established behemoths to become the #1 keyboard supplier of professional gamers.

If you ask us, the most exciting and potentially market-moving releases of this year came towards the end. The likes of the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro and Wooting 60HE v2 have potential to further deepen the dominance of these brands, but we won’t see the true results of these releases until we release our first 2026 report. Similarly, Logitech has released the often-requested mini version of their Superlight, and they’re close to releasing the SUPERSTRIKE, which may or may not shake up the mouse industry with its revolutionary switches.

So, as always, we’re very excited to see what’s coming.

Enjoy the holidays, have a great New Year, and see you in 2026!