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I believe Sonic controls the wind through his speed. He creates a turbulance as powerful as his speed and can weaponize it for certain abilities.

While Sonic Wind is just an ability made up for verses battles, it is still made to match up to Shadow's "Chaos Spear" attack as it functions almost exactly the same way.

Chaos Spear made it into canon (Shadow's game and Sonic '06) but Sonic Wind did not.

I figure that Sonic and Shadow are almost the same in speed and gameplay. However I imagine Shadow would use his speed more offensively while Sonic would rather use his speed to resolve problems. Because of this Shadow would have Chaos Control as his signiture ability to grant him additional speed while Sonic who is not as violent as Shadow could have an offensive based ability like Sonic Wind to further defend himself with against odds.

Though when I played Sonic Heroes, I did confused Blue Tornado for Sonic Wind, given I thought thats what Sonic Wind became in a more canon sense.o