Turn 5 Twister Strategies Compendium

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So in your video showing it exploding underneath you, it's actually detonating exactly underneath you as you run. It doesn't look like it's detonating a few steps behind you like positional lag would imply. If it were lag, I would think the twister would detonate behind you but you would still die, even though it looked like you were not directly under it on your screen. Does that make sense? Like on Titan, if you are running when he starts casting Weight of the Land, the circles will show up a few steps behind you due to the server thinking you are there. However in your videos, the detonation happens right under you as you are running.

It's almost as if the server has already determined you are going to get hit with it and is just informing the client of that fact. That makes me think it's a mechanic and not anything to do with positioning, especially since there aren't any markers or AoEs placed on people, correct?

That would also explain why some people are able to "place" the twisters and some people just get hit with them. Perhaps the server is telling the client, "Okay, this round, these players will place twisters, and these players will get hit by one." It's just figuring out what to do to prevent you from dying when it's your turn to get hit, maybe?