Adidas Response Sneaker
Which Adidas Response gives off the strongest hype signal?
The Hypescore reads the signal strength of every Adidas Response colorway. Community votes, resale movement, search demand and scarcity together decide how much hype a sneaker gives off, expressed in GSv. On the left the strongest hype signals, on the right the colorways just being picked up and rising fast.
About Adidas Response
Adidas Response CL: the running shoe that came back like a time machine
Response was for years adidas’ name for solid mid-range running shoes. Not the flagship, but the shoe you put the miles on. Nearly half of what’s listed here now carries the CL suffix, and that’s the version that brings back the turn-of-the-century silhouette for the street: low, wide and unabashedly technical.
The sole gives away the era most quickly. Pressed in full on the black midsole wall is ADIPRENE, the cushioning material adidas equipped its runners with back then, and the plus variant is listed separately at the heel. Above that the three stripes sit as raised bands with a thin chrome line around them, a metallic arrow-shaped plate runs over the heel and there are perforations in the toe. The upper is smooth nubuck with stitching that divides the panels like map lines.
The titles deserve attention, because the term covers three different sports. Response CL is the retro street version, Response Super is the current running shoe, and about one in eleven results is a **Tech Response golf shoe** — those belong on the course and reveal themselves by the word golf or Tech in the title. There are also trail versions with a coarser tread.
The CL fits seamlessly into the company already lined up on this site: the Asics Gel-NYC, the New Balance 9060 and the Ozweego all do the same trick with their own archives. And that ADIPRENE inscription literally returns on the retro-Supernova, where it marks exactly the same era.
On this page you’ll see which versions of the Adidas Response are currently hottest according to the Hypescore, from what price they can be found and how many shops have them in stock.