If you were a fan of the original Idol or if you were looking for a strong symmetrical ball, the Idol Helios is going to be a MUST have. This ball is really strong up front but also continues down lane. I found the Helios a lot like my Idol but the major difference is that my Idol needed a large weight hole close to the thumb to really get it started up and the Helios doesn’t need the weight hole because the cover stock is that much earlier. This ball really picks up the lane a lot sooner but never stopped hooking in the back part of the lane. I drilled my Idol Helios 4.5 x 4.5 x 4, which is also the same drilling I had in my original Idol and Zen Master. I was a huge fan of the original Idol and it was one of my favorite balls to throw on fresh longer patterns or patterns that had a lot of volume on them so when I got my hands on the Helios, I was super excited. XtermeTrax is a chemically charged nano particles which create the thought amount of responsiveness to friction. The Ikon Core that was made famous in the original Idol, is now wrapped around the brand new XtremeTrax solid cover. Anyone in the market for a strong rolling benchmark type of reaction, again, you’ll want to try this one. If you were a fan of the previous Idols this will be one, you’ll want to try out. I’ll be intrigued to see how the cover breaks in with additional games and eventually what the ball will do with some surface changes. With the way lanes transition typically, that was a refreshing change. Was able to use the ball all three games in a 5-person league. Ball roll was tight, controllable, went through the pins well. When I executed correctly, the results were excellent. Those with a higher rev rates and ball speed should have no problems. The ball just burned up and went forward. That’s more of a result of my ball speed and rev rate. Any shots that I gave away at the break point resulted in a flat 10 or a 2-8-10 combo. Playing the track / in the oil was the most effective use for me. Performance from the ball was as I thought. Not a huge fan of the bright orange color, but you know what ball it is going down the lane. That shouldn’t be a surprise looking at the ball. My initial thoughts are someone with my ball speed and rev rate I need oil in the heads. The new Idol Helios piqued my interest enough to give it a try. The Idol Pearl, I’d drilled a couple of them with similar layouts and saw effective use after cracking the box surface on it. I’m convinced my layout choice on the original one caused me issues and didn’t allow the ball to perform as it should. I’d had mixed results with the Idols in the past. Condition – house pattern on older HPL surface
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