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Does Portal 2 have energy balls

Does Portal 2 have energy balls
No. They are replaced by the Thermal Discouragement Beams, which are simply lasers. This was possibly done to fix a continuance error, as the Combine were thought to be the ones who introduced energy balls to humanity in Half-Life 2, so it didn't make sense that they were present in Aperture Science Laboratories pre-invasion.