Vatic Pro V-SOL POWER V7 vs V-SOL PRO V7: The RM549 Elongated Duo YouTube Won't Shut Up About
Augie Ge won an MLP title on a stock Vatic Pro Prism V7. That single fact has done more for Vatic's reputation in 2026 than any influencer campaign. The Prism V7 was $100. The paddle he beat elite JOOLA and Selkirk pros with was, spec-for-spec, half the price of what they were holding.
The follow-up question every Malaysian player is asking us: if the entry-level Prism V7 punches that high, what does Vatic's premium 2026 line - the V-SOL series - actually feel like on the court?
That premium line is now in Picklefox at RM549, and it splits into two paddles with the same elongated V7 shape, the same Toray T700 face, and completely different guts. This week we picked apart the pair every YouTube reviewer keeps sneaking into their bag: the Vatic Pro V-SOL POWER V7 and the Vatic Pro V-SOL PRO V7.
What both paddles share
Before we get to what separates them, the shared DNA matters, because it's what makes this comparison genuinely fair rather than a spec-sheet stunt.
Both paddles are 16mm elongated V7 shape - the same length, width, and beam depth that Augie Ge popularised in Vatic's lineup. Both use raw Toray T700 carbon fibre on the face with heat-compressed texturing, which is the same fibre grade Selkirk uses on paddles double the price. Both carry the PBCoR .43 certification (so they'll pass any tournament you're likely to enter in Malaysia or the region). Both come with a 5.3-inch handle at 4.125 inches around, with two polyurethane inserts in the grip to soften tennis-elbow-inducing vibration.
Both, in other words, sit at 8.0-ish ounces with the same face material, the same paddle silhouette, and the same tournament stamp. If you swung them in the dark, you would think they were the same paddle.
They are not.
V-SOL POWER V7: the honeycomb-familiar foam
The V-SOL POWER V7 uses what Vatic calls a "precision indented EPP foam core" - a full expanded-polypropylene foam block with intentional dimpling that engineers the trampoline effect back into a full-foam paddle. The perimeter is reinforced with a carbon-fibre sealed edge foam ring.
Translation: this paddle was built for players migrating off a honeycomb paddle who don't want to lose the pop they know. Bangers, singles specialists, anyone who tried a first-gen full-foam paddle and thought it felt like hitting with a wet sponge. The indented EPP gives the ball noticeably more punch off the face than the plusher hybrid foams, while still keeping the arm-friendly, quieter feel that made full-foam a category in the first place.
On drives it plays close to what a solid Gen 2 thermoformed paddle used to feel like - just cleaner, without the hollow tinny ring - and swing weight sits comfortably enough that quick-hands battles at the kitchen don't feel sluggish. Reset shots are the compromise. It's a full-foam paddle, so touch is fine, but the POWER V7 will pop your dinks a few inches higher than a control-first paddle when you catch one off-centre.
If you play mostly rec doubles in KL where your third-shot drop needs to be surgical, this is not your first pick. If you're the one hitting speedups from mid-court, driving fourths, and grinding through singles at Sri Hartamas or KLGCC, the POWER V7 is exactly the paddle that setup calls for.
V-SOL PRO V7: the touch merchant
The V-SOL PRO V7 uses a different construction that Vatic calls a "floating EPP core with an EVA perimeter foam ring." Two foams, two densities. The soft floating EPP sits in the middle of the paddle where you make contact on your best shots. The firmer EVA ring wraps the outside where mishits happen.
The practical result of that dual-foam construction is what YouTube reviewers keep calling "cheat-code touch." Dinks land dead. Resets under fire actually reset rather than pop up. The sweet spot is bigger than the POWER V7 because the softer central foam absorbs and cooperates with off-centre contact rather than trampolining it back. Twist weight - that spec every reviewer was talking about earlier in 2026 - is where the PRO V7 quietly wins the pair. Off-centre punch volleys stay on your paddle face instead of skewing.
The trade-off is baseline power. It's still there, and the T700 face still generates the same spin, but you have to swing through it more deliberately. A dead-arm bang from mid-court that would land deep with the POWER V7 will land mid-court with the PRO V7. That's not a defect; that's the paddle asking you to actually load into the shot. Advanced players read that as feedback. Newer players sometimes read it as "this paddle has no power."
If your game is built around soft-game manipulation, third-shot drops that clear the net by four inches and land at the toes, and long dink rallies where whoever blinks first loses, the PRO V7 is the paddle. It's also the one we'd hand a 4.0-plus player looking to graduate from a hot Gen 2 thermoformed paddle without giving up the elongated reach they've got used to.
Head to head: which one, for which player
The cleanest way to sort this is by asking one question - what breaks down first in your game when the score gets tight?
If your fourths sit up and get put away, if your speedups don't have enough on them, if you keep losing hands battles because your paddle feels slow through the ball, the POWER V7 solves those problems. It rewards commitment. It punishes hesitation, but you weren't going to win those points with hesitation anyway.
If your dinks pop up an inch too high, if your resets land shoulder-height and get attacked, if you feel like you're wrestling the paddle on soft shots rather than steering it, the PRO V7 solves those. The bigger effective sweet spot alone will fix half a dozen unforced errors per game for most 3.5-to-4.0 players.
A quick honesty check: neither of these paddles will magically make you play at a higher level. They will, however, remove specific frictions in your game. Pick the one whose weakness in your game is the one you're most tired of losing points on.
The Flash shape option, and where the Launch Editions fit
The V7 elongated shape isn't for everyone. If you want the same POWER or PRO foam architecture in a widebody Flash silhouette - shorter reach, bigger face, faster hands - Vatic offers both. The V-SOL POWER Flash and the V-SOL PRO Flash Launch Edition live at the same RM549, and the swap from V7 to Flash mostly costs you an inch of reach in return for a noticeably larger sweet spot and quicker hands at the kitchen line. Doubles rec players default to Flash. Singles players and two-handed backhand hitters default to V7.
Both the POWER V7 and PRO V7 also come in Launch Edition colourways: the POWER V7 Launch Edition and the PRO V7 Launch Edition. Same paddle, same price, different graphics, and honestly the Launch Edition stock is deeper right now than the standard finish.
Where they sit versus the RM1200 flagships
The obvious question is whether spending RM549 gets you 45% of a Selkirk Omni or a JOOLA Perseus Pro V. It doesn't. It gets you somewhere between 80% and 90%.
The flagships still win on grip build quality, finish, and edge guard sophistication. The V-SOL grip is fine but Selkirk's is nicer. The V-SOL edge guard is functional but you can hear the difference between it and JOOLA's molded work. And the ceiling on twist weight and swing weight tuning is higher at the flagship tier because the manufacturers pack in more internal weight-tuning options.
But on-court performance - the actual ball flight, spin, control, and pop - the V-SOL POWER V7 and PRO V7 are close enough that most players ranked 4.0 and below will not feel a meaningful ceiling. Which is why Augie Ge won MLP with the cheaper cousin. The paddle stopped being the bottleneck a long time ago.
The Malaysian buy
Weather matters here. KL sun and humidity chew through paddle grips faster than most players expect, and full-foam paddles like the V-SOL series hold up better than older honeycomb paddles in that climate. There's less internal air volume to trap moisture, and the sealed carbon edge doesn't peel the way old-school edge guards do after a few months of outdoor sessions. If you're playing three-plus times a week at outdoor courts around Klang Valley, both of these paddles will outlast their honeycomb equivalents by a comfortable margin.
Our shortlist recommendation is simple. If you're a banger, a singles player, or someone whose game is built on power and reach: V-SOL POWER V7, standard or Launch Edition, whichever colour you like. If you're a control player, a doubles specialist, or a 4.0-plus grinding out kitchen battles: V-SOL PRO V7. If you can't decide, the PRO V7 forgives more mistakes per game, and forgiveness beats theoretical power at any level below 4.5.
At RM549, spending an afternoon deciding between the two is a better problem to have than most.