Ill/Kin or Ill/storm (the not so great debate)

I am a pretty experienced controller having got to the mid 30's and 40's with Ice/rad, earth/storm, and fire/kin (also dabbled in grav/ff and mind/emp) and am looking to tackle Illusion now.

I have three right now (lvl 22 ill/kin, lvl 22 illusion/emp, and a lvl 19 illusion/storm). Not really going to pursue the ill/emp so wondering about which other illusion should I take further.

I like both kin and storm as secondaries and am well-versed in both (lvl 32 kin/rad and lvl 37 storm/dark defenders). My current love affair, however, is with kin in that I am playing my Fire/kin a lot. Kin just makes things fast. And I like fast.

Here are some concerns I have with the combos though:

Does the knockback from the Illusioon pets affect the kin powers THAT much?

Is Illusion/storm boring to play? (read Tal-N's insightful but depressing guide)

Will I have trouble teaming in the high lvls with a Illusion/storm? (Can imagine kin will be always wanted in teams)

Will I get kin burnout playing a Illusion/kin after playing a fire/kin or is the play style reeally different?

I thank you in advance for you responeses to my "not so great debate"

The pet knockback was slightly annoying at times. Not enough that I wouldn't recommend the combo though.

As far as "burnout", 99.9% I love Kinetics.

Well I have a lvl 26 Ill/storm controller and she is absolutely my favorite toon.

Right now I am mostly busy getting my TAnker to 50, but I will be play8ing my Troller contastantly after I accomplish that.

I never read any guides on the ill/storm troller, so I have never been depressed about this toon. The addition of Storm to Illusion gives Maiden-Brazil gretaer powers of control, debuff, and slows.

My friends on freedom love to team with Brazil, but I sometimes solo +1 mobs (a little slowly and very carefully)

Where Brazil really shines is on teams though, as a buffer(steamy mist), healer(machine-gun O2 boost), debuffer(ice storm), tanker(good ole PA), and hold-troller(flash and spectral terror).

I love playing this toon. I never got my kin defender beyond 20 (boooooring), but hey, thats me!