Smooth, short, and snappy. Lots of thock for little effort.

As much as I’m trying to get away from Holy-whatevers, and as obvious as it is to put Halo stems into every new housing, this is one I don't want to skip.

They’ve got a great, thocky sound and enjoy above-average smoothness even with just leftover factory lube. (Lubing the spring is kind of a must, though - unless you enjoy light metallic rattle.) Holy Dragons have a very short travel, even when compared to most other switches using Halo stems. Actuation lines-up well with tactility despite the short throw.

Even though the tactility of this switch is very affirmative, actuation only requires a light touch. It’s basically impossible not to bottom-out with these, but it’s pretty mild thanks to that extra-short travel.

With the Halo True stem, I think these have an almost regal appearance. Of course, the Halo Clear stem works just as well - and so does the Kailh Polia.

As a funny aside, I wanted to get a bit more creative with the name on this one, and thought to look up the proper name of the mythological Chinese celestial dragon kings. I thought that might be more fun than the obvious “Holy X” Halo stem naming convention. Well…

The linguistic phenomena of false friends being a thing, I wasn’t about to call these Lóng Wáng.

As a closing note, this applies to pretty much any switch with a total throw less than 4mm: If you’re interested in doing a build with these, I recommend you check out the video below by Walker's Keyboard Science - it will save you some headache when it comes to the stabs. Basically, you'll want a certain size of washer that fits around the cross-mounts and acts as a raised floor to prevent the cap from teeter-tottering one way or another on the stab mounts. This is also helpful for stabs where clipping significantly reduces the normal resting height of the mounts.

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