This is a just personal opinion on it, but i feel that the air burning up effect at the wouldn’t be there. it indicates that something with mass is moving at such a speed that the friction of the air moving against it heats it up. plasma/energy does not have any mass, so i think the air burning up effect looks completely out of place. on another note, i think the addition of a displacement effect trailing behind the particles would add another layer of depth, as it would indicate that the particles are so hot that it is causing the refractive index of the air to increase.