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What are they and how do you get them?

You get one Heroic for every character registered to your save file. You can access them by talking to Cali on the deck of the ship. If none are showing up, try changing ownership in the "select" menu; that'll make them work.

So do these Heroic Challenge make them stronger and what the most they get?

For each Heroic, you get a permanent one-time stat boost to speed, armor, critical, or elemental power. So, to completely cap speed, for example, you would need to complete the Heroics of every character whose challenge gives +speed as a reward, and so forth. Basically, it's how you "max out" your character.

One caveat: In Giants, only Giants characters add Heroic Challenges. So, Series 2, new guys like Shroomboom, and the Giants. Anybody whose base is orange, not green. Series 1 characters, even if owned by your game, don't add HCs. Also you can get a few stand alone ones, I think all bought from Auric, finishing the game I've gotten 6 total. When selecting one to play from Cali, the character for them shows as a key instead. I would guess all of these are from characters who didn't get a Series 2, they all seem to match HCs I had in Spyro's Adventure (I would think it would be 8 then, as 8 weren't re-released).

You guys are awesome Thank you so much for explaining will show my Lil guy how to do this...Thanks again!

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One caveat: In Giants, only Giants characters add Heroic Challenges. So, Series 2, new guys like Shroomboom, and the Giants. Anybody whose base is orange, not green. Series 1 characters, even if owned by your game, don't add HCs. Also you can get a few stand alone ones, I think all bought from Auric, finishing the game I've gotten 6 total. When selecting one to play from Cali, the character for them shows as a key instead. I would guess all of these are from characters who didn't get a Series 2, they all seem to match HCs I had in Spyro's Adventure (I would think it would be 8 then, as 8 weren't re-released).

Ummmmm.... Yes you are right in stating that only characters with orange bases unlock HC's. There were 32 challenges in the original game. Duplicates of the same character potentially unlock the same HC. For example Granite Crusher and Crusher unlock the same HC and LC Prism Break and S2 Prism Brea unlock the same challenge. There are 40 specific characters represented with orange bases. There are an additional 8 characters from the original game that have no counterpart with an orange base. In addition Cynder ad Zook were given new challenges for the Giants game and Chop Chop was given Cynder's original challenge. This makes 50 specific challenges that can be unlocked with any character that can be used I either game (any of the original 32 or their variants). In addition to the 40 challenges that can be unlocked in Giants through figure unlocking one challenge is automatically unlocked (Sunburn's) and four can be bought from Auric. This means any of the new 16 characters or their variants can gain a maximum of 45 HC's

niceguy1- You claim you have unlocked 6 from Auric you are either mistaken or have something to share with the class my friend.

Auric does have several. Making my way thru buying all his crap tomorrow. I have seen em tho.

Auric sells four and as far as anyone has found only four

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One caveat: In Giants, only Giants characters add Heroic Challenges. So, Series 2, new guys like Shroomboom, and the Giants. Anybody whose base is orange, not green. Series 1 characters, even if owned by your game, don't add HCs. Also you can get a few stand alone ones, I think all bought from Auric, finishing the game I've gotten 6 total. When selecting one to play from Cali, the character for them shows as a key instead. I would guess all of these are from characters who didn't get a Series 2, they all seem to match HCs I had in Spyro's Adventure (I would think it would be 8 then, as 8 weren't re-released).

niceguy1- You claim you have unlocked 6 from Auric you are either mistaken or have something to share with the class my friend.

Sorry, misspoke. I created an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of the progress my characters have made (I first did it for SSA), to know who still has progress to make, and I had to have it account for 6 HCs that didn't come from new Skylanders and Giants. I forgot that one is from a Series 2 Chop Chop that my nephews used on my system. Checking my save game, I actually have 5 extra HCs, presumably bought from Auric:

1. Chompy Chomp Down
   
2. This Bomb's For You
   
3. Arachnid Antechamber
   
4. Charm Hunt
   
5. Flip The Script
   

I've also gotten 3 stars in all levels and finished all 21 Arena Challenges with Brock, not sure if any of that awards an Heroic Challenge... Sorry, I did most of this back in October/November, it's been a while.

I was just curious because I was starting to think there might be a surprise about the game we had not found yet.

Of the five you mentioned Arachnid Antechamber gets unlocked automatically the other four are the ones you can buy from Auric.

This still gives Giants a cap of 45 HC's

I think the HC cap will level out after Skylanders 3. This is just my thinking though. What I wonder, is if in 3, you can bring back Giants and newlanders over 45 HCs back down to Giants and it'll read more than 45. When you bring a Series 1 skylander character to Spyro's Adventure, only the 32 applicable challenges are counted, and are maxed at 32, even if you character has more.

That.....would be interesting....