I picked up this disc after getting my first taste of Prodigy with the X5 Distance Driver in 400g plastic (Which I absolutely love) Can’t say I’m overly impressed with this disc. I turn this disc over A LOT, and I wouldn’t dream of using this in any sort of headwind. Or a tailwind. Or a crosswind. Or windless conditions. It never really felt right in my hand. I let my brother throw it, and he hated it as well (he’s a huge Prodigy fan, and even he said it felt strange). I got it in 400g, and it didn’t quite have the same feel as my other 400g discs. I would give this disc a far lower rating, save for the fact that I have thrown my friend’s F5s, and I really liked them, so I suspect I simply got a dud.

I bag two F5s in 400 and 400g plastic. They fly pretty different to one another but both are very useful.

The 400 F5 started fairly understable and is getting more understable as I beat it in. It's great for soft hyzer flips when you need to hit a gap and control the shot shape. I can also throw it hard and get it either finish right or roll depending on the height and angle. This would be a good choice for beginners

My 400g F5 is much straighter. I can throw it on hyzer and it will flip up just a little and carry straight with a soft finish. If I throw it flat, it will flip to anhyzer but it will always come back to finish left. It's a great stable counterpart to the 400 F5.

This mold is comfortable in the hand and both plastics feel great. The F5 is my most controllable disc and I'm using it for most shots on tighter, wooded courses.

I have been throwing a 400g F5 for the past two-three months. I'd still qualify myself as a novice. I typically through 225 with similar 7 speed discs and longest has been 275.

I've tried a leopard (reg and 3), meteor, river, passion, and stalker as my hyzerflip to straight disc. The F5 gets 95% of these shots now. Why?

Plastic -- 400g is great. It's grippy, and can stand water. You can feel it's tensile strength and its resistance to bend. I've hit dozens of trees and spike hyzers and still has the majority of it's stability. 400 is also nice if you like gummy plastic or are playing in the cold. The rim is very comfortable and a bit more shallow than the other's.  I have tried. Glow tape will shine through it. The nicest thing I can say about it is that it releases much easier than just about every disc I've tried.

Flight -- Slight hyzer will give a lovely, easy flip. I feel that it is much more forgiving than the leopard I was using. Control Hyzers are also nice, but I prefer to use the stalker or an F3 for this shot. Regardless, it has a lot of glide and will push. It is predictable but obviously not as much as something more stable. Flat gives me a slight turnover mid-flight with a bit of fade. Anhyzer is good for the turnover to fade shot.

I wasn't really interested in Prodigy until I tried this and the M4. Feels dumb now, but I'm still learning. I feel incredibly confident with this disc--the glide, the grip, and the easy release. I bought a couple more of the same run to work on my game and will probably be buying more.

This plastic feels great. Very grippy with a nice release. It feels like a firmer G Star.

The disc itself is extremely understable. My intermediate arm speed has a tough time controlling the turn. A hard anhyser into the ground is going to happen. To make it glide straight, I throw it with less speed than I would throw a mid. 

So, I throw mids for this shot. My flight numbers for this disc show much more turn than I've read about before. It may make a nice "get out of jail" kind of disc. 

I am going to start off saying something not so kind. Prodigy as a whole doesn't tend to make beginner beginner friendly discs. That's fine, they still sponsor big names. Let me follow this up with something nice, though. They are honest in terms of their ratings. Take the F7. Some dude who just picked up a couple of these is going to get on here all upsetti-spaghetti because 'iT wAsN't LiKe ThE fLiGhT cHaRt". Listen dude, you need to have a professional arm to nail the graph that Prodigy provides. If you actually paid attention to the beginner graph, they all kind of fly the same. Apart from that, it's an average driver. As Prodigy tends to run a little pricey, you could pick up a wider variety of 7 speed for something cheaper. 

PROS: Reliable middle of the road driver.

CONS: Just doesn't stand out in any particular way.

400g x-out 174g 

I like prodigy plastics. The grippy plastics are very grippy and the durable plastics are very durable.

 I putt exclusively with Prodigy putters- they feel right in my hand. And most of my mids are prodigy. I don't use the D series. I don't know if I'm too weak or what, but have more success with other distance drivers. I recently started throwing the F series for a couple reasons, and I'm glad I did. 

I tried an F3, but after using it a bit, I realized that an F5 was the thing I sought. It finishes pretty straight and can hold a line with a very reliable Prodigy fade. The F3 didn't really do it for me- it behaved too overstable to do what I wanted. This 5 is a class A fairway if you ask me. It flies a lot like my M3. It turns a bit, and a bit more when you crank it, with confident fade as it slows. Though the M5 is rather understable, this F5 doesn't turn over like the M5. I was leery of that because it has "5" in the name. I've learned the M's F's and D's have different turn/fade/stabilities in their respective classes. The D1 fades hard, but the M1 is, for example, less of a meathook.

This is a bit touchy if you release with anny it will go there and stay away, but it has enough fade to hold on and hook up if there's air under it when it slows down. All in all this is becoming my go to driver for most stuff. I'm going to get this in 750 and 350 eventually.  

Oh how I've tried to like this disc.  I've pulled it off the shelf over and over as I've improved hoping it would find a slot in my bag.  But it just keeps getting outperformed by other discs. I find this to fly closer to a mid than a fairway driver.  It's not very understable, frankly it flies like the F3 is suppose to.  You really have to put some power into this disc to get it to turn, and it always fades more than it turns for me.

I found a 155g 400 F5 in a lake at a course I was playing. I lost one of my favorite discs, but ended up grabbing this one out of the water. It was very beat in and had seen a lot of play.

With that being said, it was very understable. I could release it on a huge hyzer and it would flip to flat and keep on going right. I quickly learned that unless I wanted a backhand roller, I couldn't throw it full power. Throwing something that understable takes a lot of practice, because you have to throw it at the correct angle and speed to get it to flip up just right and stay flat. If I was throwing this disc at my 40-50%, it would pick up nicely and just sail with minimal effort. 

The F5 feels very comfortable in my hand and the 400g reminds me a lot of G-Star from Innova but maybe not quite as gummy.

If you are new to disc golf, you should give this disc a shot. If you are looking for something understable to flip up, or have it ride to the right, this could be the disc for you. Although I have by no means mastered a backhand roller, if I wanted to learn I'd grab this disc. If you throw hard and flat, or with a touch of anyhyzer it's going to start rolling. I enjoyed this disc and I think you will to.

Acquired a 168g F5 in 400g plastic.  It looks really good, but looks more like 400s plastic (shiny instead of matte finish).  It feels good in the hand, nice grip, comfortable to throw.  I got it to complement my stable/overstable F3.

I worked with the F5 on the range and then took it to the course.  On the range the F5 was very long for a fairway driver, sometimes getting distance I'd expect an H4 or an Innova Valkyrie to get.  One thing is for certian, though:  this disc is stable/understable for sure.  It turns over before fading back, and the fade back may not be all that much.

The F5 is a very good disc, but it's a bit understable fresh-out-of-the-box, and it will not kick a River or TL out of my bag.  If you're an all-Prodigy fan, however, it will definitely fill the stable/understable control driver role in your bag.