NEWS – Razer built its most personal esports collaboration around a rifler whose competitive numbers look made up. The Razer NiKo Collection is a four-piece peripheral set co-designed with Nikola “NiKo” Kovač, the Counter-Strike competitor whose highlight clips look scripted for effect. It covers a mouse, mousepad, keyboard, and headset, all built on hardware NiKo already uses in tournament play. The announcement came on February 16, 2026, with a live reveal at PGL Cluj Napoca that felt more like a ceremony than a product launch. What makes this worth paying attention to isn’t the name on the box alone.
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NiKo’s stats read like someone filled them in to break HLTV’s tracking system. Ten MVP titles, ten HLTV Top 20 rankings, seven Top 5 finishes. A 52-kill performance on a single CS Major map is still the kill record at that level. That 1.70 rating at ESL One: New York 2017 isn’t a typo. His most recent event, the BLAST Bounty 2026 LAN Finals in Malta, ended with a 1.20 overall rating and a 2.18 Mirage performance that showed the form hasn’t faded. NiKo revealed the collection on stage at PGL Cluj Napoca right after earning that tenth career MVP, and the timing felt less like marketing and more like a victory lap. This isn’t a farewell tour. It’s a player still producing highlight-reel tournaments with product launches attached.
What’s in the Razer NiKo Collection
Every piece runs on Razer’s existing esports hardware, and if you’ve used a high-refresh competitive setup, you’ll feel the difference in response times right away. The Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro NiKo Edition is an ultra-light wireless mouse built around HyperSpeed Wireless Gen-2 and a true 8,000 Hz polling rate, paired with optical switches and an optical scroll wheel. That rate means the mouse talks to your PC 8,000 times per second, which matters most when a few milliseconds of lag decide whether you land the shot or get traded. Weight sits low and balanced, and the click resistance rewards fast double-taps without misfires. It’s the kind of mouse that fades into your grip during a long session, which is exactly the point.
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The desk surface gets the same treatment. Underneath the mouse sits the Razer Gigantus V2 Pro NiKo Edition, a soft mat with a woven surface and GlideCore foam that absorbs small movements without killing stopping power. That mix of glide and control is a smart pick for the fast aim corrections that define high-level Counter-Strike.
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On the keyboard side, the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro TKL 8KHz NiKo Edition runs analog optical switches with Rapid Trigger Mode at 8,000 Hz HyperPolling. Rapid Trigger removes the reset point found in standard mechanical switches, so a new press starts the moment you push back down with no gap between release and re-fire. Counter-strafing in CS2 gets noticeably sharper with this setup, and movement inputs feel like they follow your intent rather than fighting the switch. The TKL layout drops the numpad for more mouse room, a choice that’s standard at the pro level for good reason.
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Audio rounds out the set with the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro NiKo Edition, a wireless headset running HyperSpeed Gen-2 with Hybrid ANC and a 12 mm mic built for team calls. The ear cups are shaped for long wear, with enough clamp to keep a solid seal without getting uncomfortable by map three. It’s the piece most players will sleep on.
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What ties the collection together is how the pieces talk to each other. Every product shares the same Gen-2 wireless protocol, keeping lag consistent across the full setup, and the flame design across all four pieces looks coordinated rather than pasted on. That kind of detail is a small win most collaborations miss, and competitive players will notice it even if casual buyers won’t.
NiKo joined Team Razer about a year ago, and Razer says the development process put NiKo in the room for actual design choices rather than the usual “pick a color and we’ll add your name” deal. His take: “Every detail comes from my own experience, my values and standards, and what I believe in as a competitor.” Most pro player partnerships end with one product in a custom color, something fans buy as a collector’s item without expecting it to change how they play. Building four products with tournament-grade hardware points to something bigger than a limited release.
Where This Fits in Esports Hardware
Razer isn’t the only company putting pro names on peripheral boxes, but it’s been the most consistent at turning those partnerships into full product lines. Logitech and SteelSeries have their own player rosters and limited runs, but neither has shipped a multi-product collection built around one athlete’s competitive identity at this level. The Razer Faker editions proved there’s real demand for athlete-branded esports gear, and the NiKo Collection pushes that approach into Counter-Strike’s audience with wider reach.
CS2 keeps pulling strong player counts, which makes NiKo one of the safer bets in the esports hardware market right now. If you follow this space, the trend is clear: peripheral companies are copying the athlete-signature model from traditional sports, and esports is now producing the stars to carry it.
The timing of this launch adds its own weight. NiKo’s tenth MVP came right before the announcement, giving the collection a competitive credibility that most product reveals can’t touch. PGL Cluj Napoca offered a live crowd, and the LAN stage added a layer of realness that a social media post wouldn’t carry. Counter-Strike viewership has been rising through 2025 and into early 2026, and the franchise-player model that runs traditional sports marketing is starting to show up in esports.
What Razer wants to find out is whether competitive FPS fans will invest in a full peripheral lineup tied to one player’s brand. That’s a bigger question than it sounds, because esports hardware buyers have always followed brand names over player names. A good result here probably leads to more multi-product collections from Razer, not one-off mice with a laser-etched signature.
Razer will find out fast if this turns into a repeatable model or stays a one-time play. The next twelve months tell the story.
What It Signals
What the collection signals matters more than any single spec on the list. Razer is treating competitive Counter-Strike the way Nike treats basketball: building full kits around proven athletes instead of putting a logo on a colorway. Pricing is now live and confirms the positioning. Full lineup and current pricing are at razer.com/esports/niko. If you’re weighing a competitive CS2 setup, that’s not impulse-buy territory, but the tournament-grade hardware should hold its value better than most signature editions.
Price: From $69.99
Where to Buy: Razer
That’s a real shift from how esports hardware has been sold for most of its history, where the brand name always pulled harder than the player name. For now, it’s the most ambitious single-player peripheral collection in esports, and the hardware has the competitive record to back up the branding.
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