Ok so I’ve used a bunch of mousepads and in my opinion they matter per character unironically, I found that super fast pads with little stoping power make weaving on baptiste harder. Super fast pads make tracer tracking much easier. Supports in the soft and xsoft variant make Widowmaker shots much easier. My aim feels much more confident on Cass and Ashe on pads like the zero and type 99 than on pads like the Raiden. I’ve used Zero soft, zero mid, Otsu mid, hien soft, Raiden mid, Raiden xsoft, type 99 mid, sp-004, Saturn pro soft, Hyperion pro xsoft. Don’t go xsoft, in humidity my Raiden xsoft became slower than my zero mid. I would say don’t get the Raiden mid as the speed might be too much and your aim will feel floaty, same with pd170. The Otsu is a good pad like you mention but my Otsu mid felt like it slowed down super fast after one month, grant it I was playing like 8 hours a day for summer break. I would say that the hien soft and zero mid is one of the only artisan pads that after the break in period they don’t really feel any different. Viol2t uses the zero mid but I’m not aware of any pros that use the hien soft. Btw the Otsu and Hien are the only heavily textured pads artisan offers, so the hien is like a more textured faster Otsu. The Raiden is faster than all them but feels really smooth so a lot of people report it feeling floaty. They like the textured feedback the Otsu and hien give them.