That’s the problem, it’s all a chance. I feel like there’s a lot of confusion about the arguments being made against Tornado. I think what people are hearing is “If I Tornado someone, I can’t be certain that it will be helpful”. That is true for every ability. If I Investigate someone as Paladin, I’m not sure if that information will be helpful. If I occupy someone as Butler, I am not sure if that information will be helpful.
What we are saying is, if I Tornado someone, I have no control over that tornado being helpful." It’s a subtle but important difference. If I occupy someone, I can’t be certain occupying them will be 100% helpful to BD winning, but I 100% know the results of my actions, and that will further help me with future actions. Maybe I occupied the Princess N1 and three people died. Great! I can be relatively certain that individual isn’t a killer. If I tornado someone, I have no control over who visits them, I have no information on who visits them, it is literally just redirection. Even if it was one way redirection, that would be immensely better. Say someone proves they’re sheriff, I could redirect anyone targeting them to someone I felt was sus. In that situation, I stand a chance of redirecting a healer trying to heal them, a conversion attempt to someone else, or class trying to investigate them, or I could cause another (potentially more useful BD) to die.
But I know 100% the results of my actions will stop my target from being affected by powers that night. But in the current iteration of Tornado, I don’t have that luxury. The individual I’m trying to protect can still be killed, occupied, and screwed over entirely by proxy, and what’s worse is that I could screw up things for two people. I can force a Knight to CS a confirmed BD and force a healer to heal a bad guy, because I have no control over if my power is useful or not. And that’s the problem.