Best Midrange Golf Disc?
Which Midrange Disc is The Best?
Many disc golfers primarily throw their mids on short courses. These discs can be used for drives, fairway shots, approach shots, and sometimes even putts – no wonder many golfers favorite discs are their mids.
Every disc golf manufacturer makes at least one mid range disc. On our site alone, there are 71 different midrange options.
New Midranges Hitting the MarketRecently a handful of new midrange golf discs hit the market. We have new midrange discs from Westside, Prodigy, and MVP, Dynamic Discs, and Latitude 64. Innova will be releasing new midrange discs like the Shark3 and Mako 3 soon as well. For extreme disc golfers that like testing all the latest discs, this is a lot of midrange to digest all at once.
Will these new mids be better than the ultra popular Innova Roc and Discraft Buzzz? The technology of drivers over the last few years, has made great strides, but midrange discs really get better? Or will Roc’s and Buzzz’s reign supreme for another decade?
From professional disc golfers to those who casually throw Frisbee’s around, we have asked the question, what mid-range golf discs are best?
The Buzzz Remains Supreme
Our site visitors have spoken, and despite so many different midrange options, the Discraft Buzzz is clearly the highest rated.
If disc golfers used other mids as much as the Buzzz, it is possible that this dominance wouldn’t be as pronounced. The Buzzz has been around for more than a decade, and is likely the most common golf disc. The fact is that disc golfers continue to like it, and use it.
While player skill has a bigger impact on one’s game than disc selection, confidence and scores improve by using good discs. Disc golfers perform better with discs they know and are used to.
As of March 22, 2013, 36% of our poll participants said that the Buzzz is the best midrange disc. It is versatile, consistent, and reliable for beginners, intermediate players, and professionals.
In second place, 19% said they liked Innova midrange discs other than the Roc. The Innova Shark had a high number of votes, likely because it is a very common Innova disc, available in starter sets. Many new players who begin playing with the Shark get used to it and stick with it.
Ten percent of respondents like at least one of the many different variations of the Roc, while another ten percent think that “other” Discraft midrange discs such as the Meteor, Hawk, and Wasp are best.
The Vibram Obex and Ibex ranked fifth (7%), followed by Gateway midranges (6%), Latitude 64 midranges (4%), other midranges (4%), and Westside midrange drivers (3%).
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State your opinion. Present your argument. Share your experiences.
Give me a Mako Star plastic please,
When runnin at birdies and cutting through trees.
I’ve found with aproaches a straight line is best,
Not pitching and fading causing me stress.
So if your approach could use TLC,
Then try one you’ll see why it’s Mako for me.
Mainly throw RHBH, and used to throw prodominately an old 90’s dx shark, and it was great, but as it got too beat in and flippy, I switched to a premium plastic, Z buzzz. The buzz holds great lines, but didn’t offer the same versitility my shark did. Longing for a new go to disc, I picked up my Ibex in a trade. LOVE the grip, holds any line I throw, straight, hyzer, annyhyzer, up shot, even flick and cut rollers when SOL. Most important to me playing in the Northeast in all types of weather is getting a good grip on the disc, which the vibriam material allows me to do. Plus when I throw it on uneven ground I know it is going to stick the landing and not jump up and roll away like my Buzzz does. Most of the time, the key to a good score is a great SECOND shot that is why I value my Ibex the most in my bag.
I bet this format is about to confuse the website, but if the lines get cut off it’s easily copy+paste-able into notepad. My vote is for the Raven, I’ll describe why after this:
Once upon a day seen clearly Through rounds of disc golf, long and weary
We start the story with minus six the current score
On the teepad, poorly throwing, my heart knows that I’m a’going
Into grass that needs a-mowing, mowing to the earthen floor
“I’ll find that disc,” I tell myself, “Find it on this earthen floor-
I can do this and save my score.”
As I search, a disc I spy in a clearing it did lie
Perhaps abandonded there to die, finding it too much a chore
Now on the disc my hands are gripping, as I throw a drive a’ripping
And my hyzers keep a-flipping, fipping like never before
Down one, two, three, four, birdies I couldn’t make before
With minus ten my final score
My opponent now at minus nine, we’re on the last hole of Brandywine
He’s going to putt now, and misses his last shot with a roar
“I’m the victor!” I jump a-howling, and to my new disc give a towling,
Ignoring my opponent’s scowling, scowling as he yelled and swore
“That was my best game yet,” I declared and boldly swore
To throw another disc… “Nevermore.”
A few weeks ago I found an old Innova Raven. A couple of my pals threw the disc and did NOT like it. With a 1995 stamp, I decided to go home and research it, only to find that it had been discontinued in 2005! I can throw my Raven low and straight for accurate shots, or use the slight understability for a longer-distance slight S-shot. Nobody I play with has really seen one before, so I call it my secret weapon.
Note: Change all instances of “minus” to “plus” and you’d get a better idea of what my scores actually are. As a new RHBH thrower from starting out flick-dominant, the Raven gives me an out, as it were, to my inconsistency. If it doesn’t go low and straight like I had intended, it flips a little out to the right but just enough to fade back towards the fairway, never too much to fly out into the woods.
Wow. Just wow.
Roc3! Super accurate and the new innova champion plastic feels amazing!
I’d have to say the wasp by discraft is the best of all the midrange discs. When new the wasp is the perfect power midrange it wont turn over and it holds a nice straight line with a slight hyzer finish. Once it breaks in it has all the characteristics of a newer buzzz.
Flx ESP buzzz there’s nothing you can’t do with this disc straight shots hyzers annhyzers. Also it feels great In your hand great grip in any weather. I carry alot of mids and I can always count on my buzzz
Roc3 is the best midrange out there. The plastic looks amazing yet also has great grip and unbeatable durability. The flight pattern is very consistent. The shape of the disc fits perfectly and comfortably in your hand. There is nothing else you would want in a midrange disc which is why roc3 is the best.
I am really liking discrafts wasp for a midrange disc. It has just a bit more overstability than the buz making it great for my up shots that are longer. i can put the wasp within about 10 ft of the pin the majority of the time with its reliability.
I only throw the Comet. Once I get used to it, I think it’ll be amazing.
I really dig my vibram ibex firm, the rubber is pretty cool & it makes awesome sounds when it bounces off of trees. There’s lots of trees on our home courses in north east ohio/ western penna. Guess I’m just a tree hugger by nature. All of my other mids(buzzz, axis, star lycan) work pretty well too. I luv mid ranges, especially when the get those chains… it’s not like I’m huggin trees all of the time.
I’m a huge fan of the original Buzz in the windy conditions of Kansas that I typically play in, but am becoming more and more excited about the Vibram Obex. It is just enough overstable that it can power through the wind very well – not to mention it’s grippy-ness and durability. If you ask this question again in 6 mos. my answer might change. But – for now – gotta go with the ol’ Buzz!
I think the innova mako is the best midrange. I think that because it is one of the few discs with no turn or fade. It holds any line you put it on. It has great glide as well. I call it my lazer beam. this disc over any other will let you know if you have any ‘YIPS’ in your throwing motion. if you turn it over or hyzer it out, you know immediately that you threw it wrong. so, if you are just starting out and want something to see how well you throw, or you are experienced and want a disc that will always go right where you put it, this is the disc for you.. Get a MAKO, you won’t be disappointed.
Champion Beast enough said!
First off, I have to say there’s a bunch of these mids that I have never thrown, or even seen, so my comparison is limited, but Gateway gets my vote for the warrior. It’s my favorite disc overall because it drives well, but still stays fairly straight short. I like overstable discs, and this disc is slightly overstable. It is overstable enough to give me the fade and hyzer lines that I need to get out of trouble, while still being straight enough to hold an anny line for the same purpose. That said, if I put just a slight anny on it, it will straighten out. I love this for when there is that one tree or bush in the way I need to get around, but it does cause a slight problem on some of those gentle anny shots, that it won’t hold.
For comparison, I have thrown a buzz some now, that I have started using for straight shots. The buzz fades about 3/4 of what the warrior fades for me at short distances (50-100 feet). See above for gentle annys, but on anything steeper than maybe 20 degrees from flat, they hold about the same. This disc will hyzer slightly harder than a buzz left on a hyzer line, as expected from it’s overstability.
Next, I’ve thrown a shark a lot, and an element some, and they fly very straight to understable for me. I have a lot of trouble controlling them, and that’s why I like overstable discs more, I have more faith in where they’ll land and what they’ll do.
I’ve thrown a demon and a blaze, also from gateway, and they are both very good discs, but so overstable they lack versatility for shots like annys and shots without room to the right.
I’ve thrown a comet a few times, but have the same understability problem as the element and shark.
To conclude, I like the warrior the best of the midranges I have thrown because it is consistently overstable, so I have faith in where it will land every shot, but will hold a steep anny line while straightening out on light annys, giving it the versatility to get around obstacles of all sorts and find lines that the other midranges I have thrown simply can’t find. One day perhaps I will find one I like better, but it hasn’t happened yet.
I would say the best mid-range disc that I like and use all the time is,wait for it,wait for it.
star or champion plastic Innova Mako.
After that I would say Discraft Buzz SS
The Buzzz. I have dozens of discs but literally the only disc I can confidently putt, approach, or drive is my Buzzz or my Buzzz SS. It will fly straight, flip, run an S, or follow a curve. No matter the distance or line I need to follow, if the shot really counts, I use my Buzzz no questions asked. I also want to add that using only my Buzzz has increased my drive, judgement on my power for throws and my stability when approaching and putting. In my opinion discraft’s Buzzz is hands down the best disc golf disc ever produced.
I love the buzzz. I throw a bottom stamped ghost stamped z buzzz and not much compares. I am always interested in new stuff too.
Discraft. I am by no means a fanboy but the Buzzz and Meteor cover MOST disc golf shots. Understable to stable, big Buzzz Hyzers…Then the Drone and Zone??? ALL amazing discs.
Let’s face it, if you are talking about a midrange disc, you have to compare it to the Discraft Buzzz.
Before I knew about Infinite Discs, I bought a three Gateway discs from another site. (I don’t remember how much I paid for them back then, but it turns out that based on today’s prices I would have saved four dollars if I had bought them here instead.)
One of the disks I bought was the Gateway Warrior (175gm). This is an overstable disc that is easy to control, and flies a lot straighter than the Buzzz (but you have to throw it harder), it is faster, and like the Buzzz has a nice glide.
Like the Buzzz, I can play the Warrior from just about anywhere on the course. Even more so if there is a decent headwind.
I love the Buzzz, but there are a lot of shots that make me pick up my Warrior instead.
i would say the buzz will remain supreme