I own the Tropical Heat solid Indigo and a Tropical Storm pink black.
The Heat is a lot more ball all the way down the lane! Midlane and smooth backend.
The Tropical Storm is a mostly backend ball that retains a lot of energy and moves hard on friction and even on some carry down and moves and hits very energetically. I use later or wider.
I like both! Used in different ways and usually at different times.
REgards,
Luckylefty
Actually, Lucky, since the Tropical Storm only came as a polished pearl, the more appropriate comparison would be to a polished Tropical Heat Pearl, not the dull solid. In that case, if both were drilled similarly and used by an average speed, average revs bowlers on the right amount of oil for each ball, then their shape would not be very dissimilar.
The Tropical Storm was a light oil ball.
The Polished Tropical Heat Pearls and Hybrids are medium-light to medium oil balls.
UNLESS YOU ARE SPEED DOMINANT or ARE USING THE BALL ON A LOT OF OIL,
the polished Tropical Storm and almost all balls with the polished Reactor coverstock have very strong backends.
I have and use a Tropical Breeze SOLID (discontinued). When I first got it, I put a 3000 grit + medium dose of non-abrasive polish on it, in order to use a known surface and see how it reacted. On a fresh medium-light oil pattern, it had an extreme skid/flip reaction, shocking for a solid, but not for a polished Reactor coverstock. And this was with a relatively even-reacting drilling for me: pin in the ring finger. I have since left the 3000 grit surface but hazed the polish quite a bit. It is now much more even reacting but still has a good backend & excellent carry on medium light oil, due to the solid coverstock.
