At almost 28 inches long, Spyra’s latest blaster can shoot “water bullets”—individual 30-milliliter bursts, around the same measure as a shot glass—at targets up to 50 feet away. It packs a punch and overflows with additional features, including an auto-reload function that refills the gun in under 10 seconds and a tactical display that tracks tank water levels and battery status for gameplay.

And this marks yet another way in which water guns have leveled up. Spyra’s latest boasts three distinct gaming modes—Open, Burst, and League—that promise to streamline players’ water-based warfare into proper tournaments. Spyra even offers a “duel set” of blasters for summer battles: one red and one blue, but both with the brand’s signature design.

“The goal was to design the Spyra in such a way that it would have a distinctive, futuristic look,” the brand’s marketing manager Leana Kampf says, “while still being inspired by classic toy design. The clean and angular surfaces of the SpyraThree convey a sense of power without being aggressive. This is a light-hearted summer toy that doesn’t rely on weaponized design patterns.”

The same can be said for Xiaomi's Pulse blaster. Built by the corporation’s Mijia subdivision—a manufacturer of other kidult toys, from electric scooters to aerial drones—this water gun was also crowdfunded, and also exceeded its target, achieving 990 percent of a ¥65,000 ($9,277) goal. Cheaper than the SpyraThree, at ¥799 ($115), it forgoes the German blaster’s bright primary shades for restrained whites and grays. This is a slicker proposition, as if Apple made a Super Soaker.