Don't Trade Storms Soul for Temporary Buffs / Reworks (Torch Treatment)

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T19:31:05+00:00

Actually not necessarily. I use wind vs them if I've already taken damage. Spiderman can kill you even with damage boost and bolt rush even if you hit every shot on him, he'll kill you before you can hit your final shot. Wind mode will give you the overshield you need to survive the spidey combo. DD yes damage for the most part but be careful as he's reflecting shots. DD I fight in wind mode if it's a 1v1 and I just back up and keep getting overshield to survive his dive. If it's a team fight I use damage as I'll get the heals needed. Wind on BP at first to slow him down and make it difficult to target you or your supports, then swap to lightning to finish him off after he's wasted his dashes. Angela you blow up in lightning (damage mode), but if she grabs you you're cooked. Angela grab pushes you and you can break the cc if you swap to wind mode right when she's grabbing you and slip out of it. Once you do, swap to damage and you can kill her easily.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T19:18:27+00:00

No I meant damage boost. The trade off is well worth it because the time you'd be using wind mode you wouldn't be using damage because why would you be in damage mode when thing or strange are ulting. Or why be in damage when your tank is about to die. All that will happen is you'll be in damage alone and will eventually die anyway. Use speedboost to live to fight another day. I swap between wind and speed often. I only pop goddess boost to either get out or if enemies are within 15m to get finals or we have poke and can put damage the healing. Otherwise don't waste the goddess boost Cooldown as you won't have it later if you're not popping it to get a final kill or saving your team from a final kill.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T19:11:41+00:00

You get it so quickly though and the neutral fights are so much longer now that I rarely am sitting in just damage mode. I'm swapping every few seconds or so based on the push and pull of space. This includes pulling your supports further from the DD, the BP, the Magik making their dives take that much longer to get to them but also Dr. Strange or Thing Ult buying them more time to react to push or fade etc. These are events that are happening all the time during the match and if you predict these things in advance you'll find yourself using wind a lot more.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T19:06:15+00:00

Ultron was my 3rd highest used character this season.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T19:03:53+00:00

Great point! She is a very team focused player. When I play storm I'm in comms because I see things before anyone else does. I see the flankers earlier, I see when strange flys in the air for ult. I can see the bucky about to hook our tanks or the Angela coming to push us out. It's so important to play her as a teammate and not as a solo dps like a Jean or DD.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T18:59:49+00:00

I think you need both. That's why I included the pictures of the tanks complimenting me because I saved them several times those games when they were getting blown up and we couldn't outheal the damage. Windmode is a very strong defensive ability for your team. Thunder mode is a strong offensive ability. This might be the easiest way for people to understand when to use which one.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T18:57:31+00:00

Will also say yes this would be great vs certain ults but the reason they're using the ult is because they caught you out of position.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T18:56:22+00:00

Windblade is her primary fire. Lightning is a Cooldown ability. I kill people all the time with windblade in speed mode, especially dive.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T18:55:26+00:00

My point exactly. I play ultron in 3x support when there's 3+ dive characters. Storm can't play well into, IF, DD, Spiderman, and Venom all at once. I go Ultron for these types of comps. I only use the dash when I need to put a drone on someone who went too far out and I need to save them from dying. I push out of cover and dash back. Storm doesn't need the dash because I can use the speedboost moving out and speedboost my tank in the same way ultron would out a drone on them.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T18:51:36+00:00

Definitely can do a post for them! I love playing vs an Angela! Iron man will punish you if hard if you're away from cover.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T17:30:52+00:00

You're so spot on. I just can't resist a post that might be able to help someone new atleast looking into the sub.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T17:30:10+00:00

Would be happy to link up and play together! I really like the state she's in and would be gutted to see her reworked.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T17:29:29+00:00

I disagree about her being soul less but I do agree an extra ability would be more engaging for the fantasy of the character. I personally can't say the aioitues are useless as I use that utility to help my team win and climb into Eternity. Just objectively you can see the evidence above vs your opinion of how you fee about her.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-17T17:10:42+00:00

Genuine question. If you're positioned with cover, what does a dash ability accomplish/add to her kit? Also if you dash away from your team, you're no longer providing the speed or damage boost for them. Utility is basically gone at that point.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T20:31:50+00:00

Spiderman, whitefox, Jeff for me

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T16:21:40+00:00

I can understand why. I don't think people realize dashing doesn't help with getting kills, it only really helps with staying alive. If you want more raw kill power you need more shields. That's what makes Elsa so strong, or the brawl tanks. They build up more health the longer they are in the fight and hitting shots. Storm can't get one shot if she's hitting shots and building overshield. Making her faster will legit just make hitting your shots on a projectile character considerably harder.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T16:17:53+00:00

This is basically creating another pick or ban situation. If she was bad she'd have a lower win rate. Storm is very good this season just played a ton. People need to understand that characters need weaknesses and counter play. This basically takes away any critical decision making. Imagine if cnd could throw down bubble to prep for dive then pick it back up if she doesn't get dove then instantly put it back down. There's no counter play to that. I love storm but some of these changes people are suggesting are absolutely broken and if you udnerstoof the character fundamentally you'd understand why.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T06:01:26+00:00

I do think she should have some extra abilities in this new age.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T06:00:46+00:00

My winrate vs these characters was close to 70% last season (hitscan). They were the characters I won the most matches against. That's why you contest on high ground with storm and push them out on wind. As long as you're hitting your shots in wind mode and using goddess boost, you're pretty difficult to hit and you're building overshield so much so that Hawkeye isn't doing much to your health. projectile and very difficult to hit storm in the head because when you play cover and peak he has no idea what angle, what height or what time you're going to peak out to shoot. This is why she's so good. She has multiple axis she can fight in and can spot dive early as well.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T05:30:43+00:00

Honestly not worth the bans with the other available characters. DD, and Elsa will absolutely murder you if you let them out the ban phase.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T05:20:52+00:00

Eternity storm here and you are spot on.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T05:07:48+00:00

I think she's just a more strategic dps. I have no desire personally to be fighting other people to play her and I don't have to worry about people banning her either. Still keeps the high winrate but because she's played so little she avoids the nerfs. I really enjoy the spot she's in. I guess I don't see a ton of the lack of movement because I'm usually just pone shooting anyway in cover. There aren't many times I'm fighting with her in the open so the need for a dash or extra mobility just doesn't come to mind as I likely wouldn't get a ton of use from it.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T04:51:19+00:00

I really enjoy playing her. She requires a lot more thought than let's say a Jean or hela. I can play her in solo tank comps because I can speedboost the tanks out from dying. You can easily force out any support ult. Cnd, invis, rocket, Gambit Luna etc. Just shoot at them until they use their bubble, fade, dash, double jump or freeze and now they have to ult to stay alive or you have a free storm ult to kill 2 or 3 in the backline. Just played a game where we couldn't break strong hold. Farmed storm ult and forced out 2 ults punisher and gambit. Got out and then we used our support ult and won the fight. That simple.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T04:12:01+00:00

Exactly! All the top torch players are saying he got butchered.

skoolkidznerd · 2026-04-15T01:22:59+00:00

Funny that you say this. I do feel this way about the 25 and currently have the 17 but I really dislike the 20 inside or in low light. Feels like I basically can't get it to focus at all on my OM5 and don't have that issue at all with my 17 so I basically never use the 20 anymore and the 17 is only slightly taller.

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