GeekVape Aegis Hero Q
Stephen is holding out for a hero, and GeekVape are there with the new Aegis Hero Q pod kit
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The Electronic Cigarette Company (TECC) sent this GeekVape Aegis Hero Q pod kit over for me to have a look at.
Back for 2025, yay. I’ve had a few weeks off not doing anything over the festive period so I'm right back into it with a pod review. I’ve had this one for a while now so have managed to have a right good go at it.
I like GeekVape stuff and have had a few of their products over the years. The Aegis series is the one most people know, and this is the latest pod kit in that range. One of the things I like about GeekVape is that their kits are quite simple to use, and this one is no different.
The Aegis Hero Q is a pod device with a 1300mAh internal battery. It goes up to 30W and takes three different ohms of GeekVape Q pods. There’s a 0.6ohm, a 0.8ohm and a 1.2ohm to choose from, but this kit only includes the 0.6ohm and 0.8ohm ones, so if you want the 1.2ohm, you’ll have to buy some separately. The kit is both auto draw and button activated, and has an airflow control on the top of it to dial down your preferred draw. The kit is also shock resistant but doesn’t have the usual IP rating of the Aegis range as it doesn’t seem to be waterproof due to the opening for the pods to slide into. It charges at 2A/5V so you can get back to vaping quite quickly when the ample battery runs out.
In the box you get:
- 1 Hero Q Pod Kit
- 1 Charging Cable (Type-C)
- 1 Geekvape Q 0.6 Pod
- 1 Geekvape Q 0.8 Pod
- 1 User Manual
- 1 Lanyard
- 1 Warning Card
Style wise, it’s a small Aegis mod design. It has the usual metal C frame for the shock resistant feature and the usual comfortable padding at the back. The rest of the body is coated with rubber to enhance the shock resisting factor, and this time the airflow control is on the top of the kit, which is quite a nice change and does seem to help with flavour. There’s a small TFT screen, the blurb states it’s 0.54” and it’s quite basic but it gives all the info you need, such as wattage, ohms, battery power, and puff count. There’s also a lanyard fitting on the top which adds to the design overall.
Function wise, there’s not a lot there. You can adjust the wattage with three clicks on the fire button, but it does do that annoying thing that restricts you to the range of the coil in the pod. I hate being told what to do, and if I want to pump it up to the full 30watts on a 1.2ohm pod and burn the cotton, I should be able to.
In use, I started off on the 0.6ohm pod with some lovely cherry and raspberry juice that I’ve started making for myself which comes out at a 70/30 vg/pg ratio. The flavour was hitting straight away, and I didn’t notice too much of a bed in time for the coil, so that was nice. I could puff away, chain vaping with no burny effects as well so it’s a plus point for the 0.6ohm pod. There’s a decent amount of vapour and the flavour is good on a nice RDL draw with the airflow fully open.
I moved on to the 0.8ohm pod after about week and while you can still get a decent RDL draw, I feel it’s better for a MTL one myself. The same juice at 50/50 ratio had even more flavour due to the PG content, and moving the airflow one notch closed gave me that lovely loose MTL draw that I prefer. You can slide it further closed for a tighter draw and fully closed its reasonably tight for those who like a more smoke like draw.
One thing that I did notice, and it’s the same for most auto draw kits, is that if you leave the device lying for, say, a week then it takes a bit of time for the auto draw to kick in again. You have to puff a bit on the button draw to get it going properly. One really good thing is that over the time it was left lying alone, there were absolutely no leaks at all, a big thing for a pod kit as most will dump even a little bit of juice out when stationary for a few days. There was also minimal gurgling when I picked it up again, so I was well impressed.
Conclusion
GeekVape have brought their Aegis design to a nifty little pod kit that, while basic, satisfies most needs. It can do good RDL, good MTL, and the best thing is the pods won’t leak on you. You can adjust the wattage, within reason, and the airflow is nicely done for a variety of draws.
I don’t like being restricted with the wattage, that’s probably just a personal thing but I just like a little more control.
Other than that one moan, it’s a kit worth considering if you want a decent starter kit or a robust kit for out and about. I am really impressed with the flavour and non-leaking capabilities of the pods so I might use this one for a while myself as I can leave pod kits sitting around for days before I use them again.
Many thanks to TECC for sending in the GeekVape Aegis Hero Q for review.
- Does not leak, like at all
- Good flavour from the pods
- Nice and robust
- That damned smart draw restricting how high you can push the wattage
Stephen Gitsham
Reviewer at POTVI was a very militant smoker for many years…why would I stop doing the only thing I had left that I liked doing? Then I fell into vaping in 2017. My wife bought a cheap kit off from Amazon that stopped working and I took it to a local vape shop to see what they could do with it. An hour later and full of new knowledge about watts, ohms, and juice strength, I headed home with a new nautilus mini tank for her and raved to her about the helpful guy in the shop. I must have bored her with all my new found information. I tried her vape that night, and a week later bought my own kit. Then I found POTV and the amazingly helpful and generous people on it. A month later I was making my own (disgusting) vape juice, and a month after that I was winding coils for my new RDA. Six years on and I'm much better at making juice, and I now have no money but lots of shiny mods and tanks
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