6 Best Faction Skis in 2025

The headline for the Faction Dancer 2 is fun, light, and playful. Just like you’d want your go-to all-mountain ripsticks, the Dancer 2 has a poppy wood core for a tempered blend of high energy and ample handling stability.

At first glance, the Dancer 2 has a more traditional shaping profile with minimal rise in the tip and tail, but even with its subtle rocker shape, it still maintains a floaty feel with outstanding maneuverability while still having enough camber to carve up groomers.

With only a 96mm waist, these aren’t exactly powder hounds, but they do offer performance under a number of variable conditions and handle exceptionally well in choppy conditions.  The durable construction is also an attractive feature, with two thin sheets of titanal aluminum alloy over its wood core.

Don’t be fooled by the Dancer 2’s off-piste prowess. These skis are also extremely fast on packed snow, and their edge-to-edge agility and playful feel provide a ton of fun.

The myth behind pipe and park or freestyle skis is that they only belong in the terrain park. While a good set of freestyle skis should be able to eat up jumps, rails, and the pipe, freestyle skiing goes well beyond the park in the bottom half of the mountain.

Modern freestyle skis should be able to attack the back bowls, steep chutes, and backcountry booters.

Faction Skis sees freestyle skiing as having agile fun all over the mountain, hitting jumps, ledges, and cliffs and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on the snow and in the air.

That’s exactly where the Faction Mana 2 excels. These skis are flat-out fun. The light poplar wood core construction offers a poppy flex, and the rocker/camber profile means they transition really well into carving turns through multiple snow conditions with a floaty stable feel at high speeds.

They also have a higher tail profile to help with landing switch in deep snow, and a carbon rubber layer underfoot helps to dampen choppy snow and add cushion on hard landings.

Gather round freestyle hucksters and check out Faction’s Prodigy 1, a pure freestyle park ski that’s designed and fine-tuned specifically for the burliest lines through the park.

With some manufacturers moving away from a specific park and pipe skis, opting more towards an all-mountain ski with freestyle tendencies, Faction has bucked this trend with the Prodigy 1.

With a ton of camber, a rubber layer underfoot, only a small amount of rocker shape, and a skinny 88mm waist, this ski is a freestylers dream. The Prodigy 1 is also a forgiving flex rating at about 6 out of 10. With all that camber and beefed-up edges throughout Faction’s Prodigy line, carving, making quick turns, and wiggling through the bumps is second nature and practically mute out chatter at high speeds.

In the air is where the Prodigy 1 really excels. The poplar wood core has a poppy, light feel and provides stable landings on the big jumps. Plus, they come equipped with anti-chip microcaps at the tip and tail to prevent delamination. They are, however pretty geared towards on-piste, so don’t expect them to venture out of the park and keep up with some of their all-mountain/freeride cousins.

Freeskiing is about freedom, being unrestricted from boundaries, and having complete control of your path. That really sums up the Faction Prodigy 3.

They are basically a toned down powder ski to open up the type of terrain it performs best in. The Prodigy 3, and all of the 2024 Prodigy line, features a pure poplar core, giving it a softer feel in the rocker sections, a solid camber section, and burlier edges (2.5mm) than previous Prodigy iterations.

The softer flex gives it an energetic feel and reduces unwanted vibrations. While being only 106mm underfoot, it still keeps the floaty feel of the 2023 Prodigy in deep snow, having an aggressive sidecut, beefy camber, and subtle rocker profile.  It also transitions really well to the terrain park, adding stability, particularly on icy days.

The bigger edges, along with a tough fiberglass laminate, mean it’s an extremely durable ski, although this does mean it isn’t the lightest ski in its class. Overall though, we found it to be a fun, versatile, and hard-charging freeride ski and a solid option if you had to choose one ski for everyday use.

Faction’s award-winning La Machine 3 Mega skinned its way to the top of our list of touring skis above some other solid options in the brand’s alpine touring line. For a touring ski, these are some of the lightest skis in their class (sub 1800g), which is an obvious perk for climbing. But do they lack anything on the way down? Absolutely not.

These lively and energetic powder hunters feature a 106mm waist, a progressive rocker profile, and a lightweight paulownia carbon and woodcore construction. The flex is what Faction calls its “Mustache Flex” – a softer flex in the tips and tails and a stiffer underfoot flex, which gives it an agile turn radius, and the low swing weight makes jump turns seem effortless.

As avid ski tour adventurers know, the conditions are always unpredictable. The elliptical side cut of the La Machine 3 Mega provides a solid yet floaty and versatile disposition to take on anything the mountain throws at you.

As an added eco-friendly bonus, these skis are constructed with sustainable wood and held together using lightweight bio-based resin.

While Faction’s entire line is technically unisex, the Prodigy 2X is right in the design wheelhouse for women seeking an all-mountain ripper with a freestyle feel. With a 98mm waist, prominent rocker shape in the tip and tail, elliptical sidecut, and stacked camber, the Prodigy 2X is really a playful, do-it-all ski in any snow condition. 

Faction went back to well with an energetic poplar wood core and microcap sidewalls for a smooth and solid feel that loves to pivot and pops off of jumps and bumps. The Prodigy 2X also features a 2.5mm edge that sits a bit taller, carves exceptionally well, and adds durability to your new favorite skis.

The topsheet mirrors the Prodigy 2 but sports an alternate design to celebrate women in skiing.