

The included wrist-rest, which has significant padding to it, offered a breathable faux-leather surface to limit sweating and irritation to my skin. Admittedly, I do not have the greatest typing posture, as I often wrist the bones of my wrists on a flat surface in order to move my hands freely. While this is labelled as a “gaming keyboard”, it was used thoroughly for full-day typing, design work, and gaming (of course), and was one of the most comfortable, and durable, keyboards I have used. The real star of the ROG Strix Flare II Animate was not a single element or component, but the result of the combination of a stellar line-up of design choices. Though, while the lighting could be handy, I never found myself looking at too much after the initial “oh that’s cool” moment, seeing either my own custom image or a pre-loaded visual animation. The lighting was super handy, able to display a multitude of useful information, such as system status – even battery life on a notebook – there were also cool visual animations that were just fun to watch. While the UWU-named LED system catches the eye at first, it was the comfort brought on by the heavenly wrist-rest, ergonomic shape, and soft PBT keycaps that really stole the show. ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate Experience

Finally, we have the AniME Matrix LED Display, offering a micro-dot LED lighting system that offers customisable settings for various applications. The ROG Strix Flare II Animate comes included with a beautiful, fully-detachable magnetic faux-leather padded wrist wrest, complete with subtle ambient lighting bar at the bottom. An anti-Windows Key button, as well as a quick access lighting brightness control are placed alongside the multimedia scroll wheel.

Some of the more flashy features include a handy multimedia scroll wheel for easy volume adjustment, with a nifty lever-style knob next to it for forwarding, or rewinding, content, as well as a convenient pause/play button on the side.
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The Flare II Animate offers a full 104-key US layout, with full language support depending on your region. ASUS boasts their new proprietary ROG NX Red and Blue switches in the Flare II Animate, with soft PBT keycaps, an industrious aluminium frame, and shrouded in ABS plastic. ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate Tech Specsīefore I dive deep into my experience of the ROG Strix Flare II Animate, let’s run through some of the features. Was it because of the super-cool LED animation system? The proprietary PBT keycaps? The 16.8 million per-key RGB lighting? No, it was something much better than any of that – its comfort.

However, the ROG Strix Flare II Animate certainly changes things, as it is truly one of the best keyboards I have used in quite some time. The ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate is by far one of the best keyboards I have tested out, and while they have not always been the strongest contenders for my money, the Flare II Animate has truly shown what ASUS is capable of when they put the same thought into their keyboards as they do their more notable components.ĪSUS hasn’t always been the strongest competitor when it came to peripherals – not that they were particularly bad, just that they didn’t offer anything different from a normal keyboard experience, but at a much higher price point.
