30-Second Verdict
The Mighty+ wins — 8.7 to 8.5 — the way an index fund beats a memecoin: not on the best day, on every other day. The Frolic's vapour ceiling is genuinely higher — the hardest-hitting portable I've tested — but I keep the Mighty+ charged specifically as the Frolic's backup, and that arrangement is the entire verdict wearing a table of contents. You don't keep a backup for your pension.
Mighty+: 8.7/10
Limelight Frolic: 8.5/10
Buy the Mighty+ if:
- You want the same smooth, idiot-proof session every night for years — no technique, no anxiety
- You're a medical user who needs the device to simply work, on schedule, forever
- You'd rather have twenty years of S&B reputation than five seconds of heat-up
Buy the Frolic if:
- You want desktop-grade hits from a portable — 5-second heat-up, 25 L/min, 240°C ceiling
- You want a swappable 21700 instead of a sealed battery on a timer
- You already own something boring and reliable (ideally the other device in this article)
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| Mighty+ | Limelight Frolic | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat-up | ~60 seconds | ~5 seconds |
| Battery | Internal 2× 18650, 6–8 bowls | Removable 21700, 6–10 bowls |
| Bowl | 0.25g chamber (0.15–0.2g loads) | 0.25g chamber (0.15g loads) |
| Weight | 227g | 245g |
| Warranty | 2 years (3 with registration) | 2 years + 14-day money-back |
| Price | Check current price | Check current price |
The Hook: The Statement and the App
Twice a year, my pension provider sends a statement. It is the most boring document in my house. A grey chart creeps upward at some glacial percentage, there's a paragraph about fund fees written by a solicitor with no dreams left, and the whole thing goes in a drawer. In thirty years, that drawer will quietly have paid for my retirement.
Meanwhile, everyone knows someone with the app. The mate who bought some coin with a dog on it and turned £400 into £11,000 in a fortnight — and tells the story at every barbecue. What he mentions less is the refresh habit, the 3am price checks, the cold sweat every time the exchange goes down for "scheduled maintenance". The punt might 10×. The punt might also vanish overnight with a Discord apology. Both outcomes are fully priced in, and that's why he can't stop checking.
The Mighty+ is the statement in the drawer. The Frolic is the app you can't stop opening. I called the Mighty+ the Land Rover Defender in its review and the Frolic Nemanja Vidić in his, and both hold — but put them in the same portfolio and the real question isn't which is better. It's which one you'd trust with the money you can't afford to lose. One of these has compounded quietly on my kitchen counter for two years. The other one is brilliant, terrifying, and makes me check my ABV like it's a candlestick chart.
Here's the tell, and I'll say it now rather than saving it: the Mighty+ is the device I keep charged in case the Frolic combusts. Nobody keeps a backup for their index fund.
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Vapour Quality
The Frolic takes the category — 9.5/10 against 9.0/10 — and the half point is real, measurable, and exactly what you're paying the extra for.
The Frolic is the hardest-hitting portable on the market. Five seconds from cold to dense, fluffy, lung-filling vapour; 25 L/min of adjustable airflow that's genuinely desktop territory; a 240°C Demand-mode ceiling that doesn't taper when you pull hard. Three massive rips and the bowl is cached. A 0.15g load delivers what a full 0.25g bowl does through the Mighty+, which is an efficiency dividend that compounds at prescription prices.
The Mighty+ is the benchmark for showing up. Its 9.0 is a score for consistency: the same smooth, cool, flavourful session, bowl after bowl, for two years, with no technique and no learning curve. It's a sipper, not a ripper — 5–12 gentle draws across ten or fifteen minutes, more pint than shots — and its oversized cooling unit makes everything feel gentler than it has any right to.
Winner: Frolic on the ceiling, Mighty+ on the floor — and the ceiling is higher than the floor is solid, so the category goes to Serbia. But note the shape of the two experiences: the Frolic delivers an event; the Mighty+ delivers an evening. For sustained pain relief, the evening is frequently the better prescription.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
Same jars, same grinder, and two machines with opposite philosophies about what to do with them. The Mighty+ ran its usual 0.18–0.2g loads on its 180/190/200°C ladder; the Frolic ran 0.15g at 175/190/203°C.
Jack Herer
Neither of these is Jack's best home — that's a convection-on-demand job — but they fail him in instructively different ways. The Mighty+ rounds him off: warm pine rather than fresh pine, the cooling unit taking the needle-point off the terpinolene before it reaches you, so you get a good pine instead of a great one. What it gives back is endurance — the citrus was still detectable on draw four of the low stage, and all twelve draws were the same twelve draws I'd have got last Tuesday. The Frolic blasts him: three genuinely bright draws — real pine, fresh resin, lemon peel, arriving five seconds after a cold start — and then the whole hot chamber cooks the top notes off whether you're pulling or not, leaving very good black pepper in warm green herb for the remaining eight.
Mid-temp is where they briefly agree: both produce properly defined black pepper over woody haze at 190°C, the Mighty+ with its hybrid heater finally working, the Frolic with more visible cloud per draw than anything else I own. Up top, both finish Jack honestly — earth and leather, nothing scorched, even ABV.
Jack's verdict: a curious draw. The Mighty+ preserves more of him for longer at a lower peak; the Frolic reaches a higher peak and burns through it faster. If you love Jack, frankly, buy neither and read the TinyMight 2 review. Between these two: Mighty+ by a whisker, because rounding is kinder than blending.
Wedding Cake
Both machines were built for this strain, and both know it. The Mighty+'s mid-temp stage was the moment its review hung the whole verdict on: vanilla, butter, warm baked cake and black pepper as four distinct items — dense enough that Sarah walked through the kitchen and asked whether I'd been baking. The Frolic does the same separation with more weight behind it: the dessert notes are richer through the Frolic than through anything else in the house, its mid-temp butter-and-cake stage smooth at a vapour density that would make most portables harsh.
Put the two side by side and it's the same dish at two restaurants: the Mighty+ serves the reliable version — every note present, in order, corners filed off; the Frolic serves the indulgent one — bigger, richer, slightly less composed. Ten draws from the Frolic, eleven from the Mighty+ across its stages, and both finished with the two strains still reading as two different plants at the top of the range, which is the whole test.
The flavour-device call: the Mighty+ earned the line "a flavour device with all the corners filed off", and it stands. The Frolic is a flavour device on robust strains and a delivery device on fragile ones. On Wedding Cake, the Frolic wins. On Jack, the Mighty+ shades it. Across a mixed jar collection, honours are more even than the airflow figures suggest.
Design & Build
Both scored 9/10, and here they're strange siblings: both PEEK-bodied bricks, both built to survive your lifestyle, both with a weak point that isn't the body.
My Mighty+ has survived two years of daily use, including the time my elbow launched it off the kitchen counter mid-kettle-reach onto tile — picked it up, turned it on, not a scratch. The Frolic's PEEK-and-Ultem construction is, if anything, more overbuilt — Serbian military prototype energy, 245g of it. But then you open the cooling units. The Mighty+'s is a gunk magnet but structurally sound; the Frolic's is a puzzle box with a lock wheel that pops off and screens that bend — mine detonated across the kitchen counter one morning, O-rings bouncing, which is how Sarah came to ask her now-canonical question about Serbian pricing.
The honest asterisk on the S&B side: Dave has been through five Mighty+ units in two years — error-code lottery, every one replaced under warranty within a week. That's not a great look for German QC, and I won't pretend otherwise. But note the rhythm: fail, replace, week, done. Winner: draw on the hardware, Mighty+ on the institution around it.
Battery & Charging
The Frolic wins the category, 9/10 against 8/10, on architecture alone. The removable 21700 is the future; the sealed pair of 18650s is a timer that started the day you bought it. The Frolic gives 6–10 bowls per charge against the Mighty+'s 6–8, and — the part that matters — a spare cell in your bag resets it to full in ten seconds, while a degraded cell in three years is a cheap swap rather than a warranty conversation.
Both have a charging catch. The Mighty+ needs the S&B Supercharger (sold separately, which remains a cheek at this price) for its 80%-in-40-minutes party trick; a standard phone brick takes four hours. The Frolic's conservative internal charger stops short of a true 100% unless you buy an external 21700 charger — which I did, because of course I did. Call it a draw on quirks, a clear Frolic win on longevity, and note the Mighty+'s counterargument is behavioural rather than technical: you charge it overnight like a phone and genuinely never think about it, which is its answer to most questions.
Ease of Use
Not a contest. Mighty+, 9/10 against 7.5/10. Two buttons, up and down. Vibrates at temperature. No technique, no learning curve, no combustion risk, forgiving of any pack. It's the vape I hand to first-timers, and the one my mum figured out in thirty seconds. The Frolic, per its own review, needs a forum thread and a YouTube tutorial: learn the grind, don't tamp, manage the airflow, survive cooling-unit reassembly, and check your ABV every bowl because the early-gen calibration question hasn't been answered yet. One of these is a kitchen appliance. The other is a hobby with a mouthpiece.
Cleaning & Maintenance
The one category where the Frolic beats the Mighty+ and it's nothing to celebrate: 6.5/10 plays 5/10, the two worst cleaning scores at this end of the catalogue having a sad little derby. The Mighty+'s cooling unit is a gunk magnet needing a full teardown every 2–3 weeks — sticky brown maze, eight O-rings, one of which I have personally watched vanish down the sink drain. The Frolic's needs attention every 10–15 bowls for heavy users and fights back: bent screens (three in two months), an escape-artist lock wheel. The Mighty+'s routine is tedious but safe; the Frolic's is shorter-cycle and riskier to the parts. Winner: Frolic, technically, in the way that a punt outperforming cash in a bad year is technically a win. The hot Q-tip method helps both. Spare cooling units help both more.
Portability
Frolic, 7.5/10 to 6.5/10, and let's not oversell either. The Mighty+ is the brick — jacket pocket at best, zero stealth, looks like something a nurse would hand you. The Frolic is a denser, smaller-footprint brick at 245g that rides better in a bag and needs no case, and its on-demand mode is the real portability feature: three rips outdoors and you're moving again, versus committing to a ten-minute Mighty+ session on a park bench. If actual discretion matters, neither — that's ArGo territory. Winner: Frolic, for the bag and the speed.
Value for Money
Both scored 8/10, a clear price gap apart, and the identical score hides opposite arguments. The Mighty+'s 8 is the "safe money" 8: twenty years of S&B reputation, mature accessories, solid resale, a warranty machine that has personally shipped Dave five replacements — you're not buying a device so much as joining an institution. The Frolic's 8 is the "risk-adjusted" 8: objectively more performance per pound — more airflow, faster heat-up, better battery architecture — discounted by six months of track record and a support desk that's currently drowning.
Here's the pension maths that settles it for me: the realistic Frolic budget isn't the Frolic's price. It's the Frolic plus a backup device you trust — because that's how both its review and my own medical planning actually treat it. If the Mighty+ is your only vape, the total cost of ownership is the Mighty+. If the Frolic is your only vape, you don't sleep properly. Winner: Mighty+ — the cheapest thing about it is everything it doesn't make you buy.
Score Comparison
| Category | Mighty+ | Limelight Frolic |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 9.0/10 | 9.5/10 |
| Design & Build | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 8/10 | 9/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 5/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Portability | 6.5/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 8/10 | 8/10 |
| Overall | 8.7/10 | 8.5/10 |
Read the table honestly and the Frolic wins more categories — vapour, battery, cleaning, portability. The Mighty+ wins two, draws two, and takes the overall anyway. That's not a fix; that's weighting. Ease of use and trust are what a daily device is for, and the categories can't price in the fact that one of these machines has never once made me nervous.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the Mighty+ if this is your only serious vaporiser, your first serious vaporiser, or your medical one. The person it suits is the person who wants to think about their device never: load, press, sip, done, tonight and every night, with a warranty operation behind it that treats failure as a one-week inconvenience. It's the recommendation I give first, and two years of nightly pain-management sessions haven't moved me off it.
Buy the Frolic if you're adding, not replacing. It's the best second device in vaping: the weekend nuclear option that turns film night into an event, bought by someone whose daily needs are already covered by something dependable. If your flower leans dense and dessert-heavy, it will render it better than anything else portable. Just buy it with your eyes open — early-gen risk, fiddly maintenance, a support queue in Serbia — and with something charged beside it.
The wrong buyer for each: a medical patient betting sole access on the Frolic, or a cloud chaser expecting the Mighty+ to rip. Both will be writing me disappointed emails within a month.
How I Actually Choose
The honest ledger: the Mighty+ lives on the kitchen counter and takes about 30% of my total usage — nightly pain sessions, 185°C, 8pm, two years without a week off except when I was genuinely ill. The Frolic gets three or four bowls a week: weekend evenings, film nights, moments that call for being properly flattened in under three minutes. One is income; one is capital gains.
And the arrangement between them is the whole article: the Mighty+ is charged at all times specifically because I don't fully trust the Frolic not to combust. That's not a metaphor, it's my actual medical planning, stated in the Frolic's own review and unchanged since. Dave ran the same portfolio with worse luck — his Frolic combusted twice at 195°C, went to Limelight's RMA queue, and he simply went back to his Mighty+ and stayed there. He texted me about it last week: "Still nothing from Limelight, by the way. You know the Mighty's never once made me check a forum." Five replacement units in two years, and it's still the device that never made him check a forum. That's what institutional trust looks like from the inside.
The Verdict (The Bookend)
The barbecue version of this story is always about the punt. Nobody stands next to the grill telling you their index tracker returned its usual boring percentage — but the Frolic story gets told every time: the five-second heat-up, the clouds, the 240 degrees, the mate who couldn't finish his second bowl. As entertainment, the Frolic wins this comparison and it isn't close.
But portfolios aren't entertainment, and here's the position I actually hold: the pension is the core holding and the punt is the satellite, sized so that if it goes to zero — combusts, thermal-shuts, joins Dave's unit in the RMA queue — the household is fine, because the grey chart in the drawer keeps compounding on the kitchen counter at 185°C. The Mighty+ wins, 8.7 to 8.5, because "which is better?" was never the real question. The real question is which one you'd build your evenings on, and I answered it the day I designated a premium German vaporiser as a backup appliance.
Could the Frolic 10×? Genuinely, yes — if Limelight survive their own success, fix the calibration and staff the inbox, this is the machine the next generation copies. I'd love to update this article in eighteen months and eat the metaphor. Until then: fund the pension first. Punt what's left.
FAQ
Mighty+ vs Frolic — which should I buy?
The Mighty+ (8.7/10) if you're buying one device: easier, safer, proven, backed by a warranty operation that actually operates. The Frolic (8.5/10) if you're buying a second device for maximum impact and you accept first-gen risk. If you can, the honest answer is the Mighty+ first and the Frolic later — which is, not coincidentally, my house.
Is the Frolic's vapour really better?
Its ceiling is. 9.5/10 against 9.0/10: harder hits, 25 L/min airflow, five-second heat-up, and a 0.15g load doing what 0.25g does through the Mighty+. The Mighty+ counters with unmatched consistency and a gentler session style that suits sustained medical use.
Which has better battery life?
Per charge they're close — 6–10 bowls (Frolic) against 6–8 (Mighty+) — but the architecture isn't: the Frolic's 21700 is removable, so spares extend runtime indefinitely and cell replacement is trivial. The Mighty+'s sealed pair of 18650s puts you on a timer from day one, though most owners get years before it matters.
Which is easier to clean?
Neither will enjoy this question. The Mighty+ (5/10) needs a full cooling-unit teardown every 2–3 weeks — sticky maze, O-rings, drains lurking. The Frolic (6.5/10) needs shorter-cycle attention with bendable screens and a lock wheel that fights back. Keep spare cooling units for either; do the hot Q-tip trick after sessions for both.
Will the Frolic combust my herb?
Mine hasn't in six months; Dave's did, twice, at 195°C, and other users have reported the same at temps that should be safe. It's early-gen calibration risk — check your ABV regularly. The Mighty+ has no combustion risk whatsoever, which for medical users may end the conversation.
Can I use them with a water piece?
The Frolic has a 14mm water adapter and its density genuinely suits glass. The Mighty+ isn't built for it — its oversized cooling unit is the water piece, philosophically, and it works.
Is the Frolic another Grasshopper?
Not yet — Limelight still ships replacements and updates firmware. But the pattern (tiny workshop, cult demand, overwhelmed support) is familiar, and my recommendation follows from it: brilliant second device, nervous only device. Ask me again in eighteen months.
About Dennis M.
Dennis M. has been vaping daily for the best part of a decade — since an original Mighty in 2018 — and has tested 50+ devices for this site. He works in IT, has ADHD, and uses cannabis for chronic pain management. He lives in Manchester with his partner Sarah.
Dennis pays into an actual pension and owns no cryptocurrency, a combination he describes as "the most Mighty+ fact about me". He is aware that designating a premium vaporiser as the emergency backup to a dearer one is not normal financial planning. He has decided this is the readers' problem now.
A note on spelling: 'vaporizer' is the de facto international spelling, but I've stuck with the British 'vaporiser' throughout this blog.
Questions, corrections, or a device you want tested? dennis@herbvape.co.uk
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Last updated: 25 September 2026.
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Strains Used: Jack Herer — sativa (Haze × Northern Lights #5 × Shiva Skunk), ~20% THC, terpinolene/caryophyllene/pinene-dominant, pine-citrus-pepper profile with fragile top notes. Wedding Cake — indica-leaning hybrid (Triangle Kush × Animal Mints, via Triangle Mints #23), ~24% THC, caryophyllene/limonene/myrcene-dominant, vanilla-cream-dough dessert profile over peppery earth. Same two strains, same jars, across every vaporiser reviewed on this site — the strain is the control, the device is the variable. Strain effects vary by individual, batch and consumption method.
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