Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24074103-20131122113452/@comment-477304-20131130165321

I've this a couple of times, and I'll say it again, Sonic Wind was a one-time thing, never to be used again, so to over-think it is pointless, and as Mystic said, it was created so Sonic had a equivalent to Shadow's Chaos Spear, I think the fact that Sonic Wind didn't return for Shadow the Hedgehog rival battle in Sonic Generations counts for something too.