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Probably the two most hated Skylanders will face against each other to see who's better.
Say which one you like more and explain if you want.
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EDIT: Lightning Rod wins! Boomer is officially the most hated Skylander.

Boomer is better.
No one wants to walk with a naked man around

Lightning rod for the win!

Series 2 charge ability is kinda cool.

Both are great and underrated, but I like Boomer better.

Read my username

Boomer is by far the better Skylander. Not only is he stronger, but he has a funny personality, as well as an attack that can do like 150 damage. I like all the Skylanders, but Lightning Rod doesn't really strike me as a Skylander. He is too human-like in my opinion.

Lolnoep

Quote: Tempest

Boomer is by far the better Skylander. Not only is he stronger, but he has a funny personality, as well as an attack that can do like 150 damage. I like all the Skylanders, but Lightning Rod doesn't really strike me as a Skylander. He is too human-like in my opinion.

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It would easily be Lightning Rod. His grand lightning attack has a farther range than Boomer and his wow pow is wicked. Game over.

Quote: Sharkz2001

It would easily be Lightning Rod. His grand lightning attack has a farther range than Boomer and his wow pow is wicked. Game over.

Now here is someone who actually recognizes the greatness of Lightning rod!

lightning rod he is my second favorite skylander both games

Lightning Rod by far.

Boomer has a better back story/ character model, those of you wanting to play as a "Villain" Boomer is you best choice. He can throw dynamite, and to be honest as stated above Lightning Rod is too human like. Have S2 Lightning Rod, and he looks a lot better than the old one, but human skylanders don't looks as good as non human skylanders to me.

Quote: Tempest

He is too human-like in my opinion.

Blue skin, orange beard, and a cloud for legs. Just like my uncle...

Quote: Tequiza

Quote: Tempest

He is too human-like in my opinion.

Blue skin, orange beard, and a cloud for legs. Just like my uncle...

Haha! Yeah I am cloud from the waist down as well. Although I can't throw lightning bolts I did get electrocuted once and made me feel like I could throw one. I did see a blue guy once on the beach because he almost drowned....still not the same thing though.
Edit: BTW, L - Rod gets my vote as I hover over the ground on my cloud and send a bolt of lightning down and fry Boomer.

Lightning Rod MUCH BETTER!!!!

Quote: Tempest

Boomer is by far the better Skylander. Not only is he stronger, but he has a funny personality, as well as an attack that can do like 150 damage. I like all the Skylanders, but Lightning Rod doesn't really strike me as a Skylander. He is too human-like in my opinion.

Greek God Zeus comes to mind for me.

Lightning rod
If you go down grand lightning path, it does 26 and has a fast timer doing about 100+ every use. Plus, he has a sweet wow pow.

^This says it all! Plus you gotta love his laugh.....Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa!

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Lightning rod
If you go down grand lightning path, it does 26 and has a fast timer doing about 100+ every use. Plus, he has a sweet wow pow.

The attack can be interuppted you know, btw Boomer gets my vote

Here's why is a bad skylander:
LIGHTNING LORD
Every upgrade Lightning Lord has is devoted to creating the most powerful Grant Lightning attack in history. You’ll get a speed boost, you’ll get a pair of damage boosts, and you’ll even get the ability to transform into a larger-than-life Lightning Avatar to rain down damage on your foes. If you can’t tell already, this path is a blast to play.

Recommended Hat: Winged Hat (or your best Speed hat)
Not only does the Winged Hat look completely awesome on The Rod, it also helps shore up his greatest weakness—a total lack of speed. Easily the best choice.

Damage Numbers:
Grand Lightning: 26
Thrown Bolt: 17
Thrown Bolt Residual Damage: 3
Zapper Shield: 18

Story Mode Rating: 8
If you’re looking for the best place to rain down electric doom on a wide variety of targets, bring Rod through Story Mode. Although 26 damage may not seem like a lot for an attack with the fanfare of Grand Lightning, keep in mind that the attack hits multiple times and relatively rapidly. It’s no stretch to say that, once you’ve practiced a bit with the remote control damage of Grand Lightning, Lightning Lord obliterates everything in his path.

Battle Mode Rating: 6
Grand Lightning will steamroll the weaker and slower characters with relative ease, but there’s one problem that stops Lightning Lord from ranking any higher than the middle of the pack. What’s that, you ask? Well, for all its great power and even greater fanfare, Grand Lightning can be interrupted relatively easily, and this means trouble—especially since this is the only attack you’ll be upgrading along this path.

Overall Ranking: 7
Lightning Rod, in many ways, does live up to the hype. Grand Lightning is as powerful as you would expect, and if it weren’t for the fact that it can be interrupted, it would be pretty close to the perfect attack. The problem is, it’s also pretty much your only attack, leaving Lightning Lord an overall one-dimensional path. In situations where Grand Lightning falters, there’s really not much else you can do.


TYPHOON TITAN
Instead of upgrading Lightning Rod’s signature Grand Lightning attack, Typhoon Titan instead opts for a more passive and defense-oriented approach featuring an attack all his own, the zapper satellites. These are a series of three protective clouds that deal damage to nearby enemies. They also work very well with the zapper shield, especially after you’ve purchased Rod’s Soul Gem upgrade.

Recommended Hat: Winged Hat
Lightning Rod is a very slow character, and that lack of speed is his chief weakness. You can never completely fix this, but a speed hat at least helps.

Damage Numbers:
Grand Lightning: 15
Thrown Bolt: 17
Thrown Bolt Residual Damage: 3
Zapper Shield: 18
Zapper Satellites: 10

Story Mode Rating: 4
Typhoon Titan functions best up-close, because that’s where his zapper satellites do their greatest damage. Problem is, Lightning Rod is very slow, and getting up close to begin with can be a hassle. In the time it takes Typhoon Titan to approach and engage a group of enemies, Lightning Lord will have already wiped them out and be moving in to collect the rewards. Not only that, 10 damage per satellite strike isn’t nearly as high as it should be to warrant choosing a whole path for them.

Battle Mode Rating: 3
Typhoon Titan has serious damage issues, and while he has no trouble hitting opponents, actually draining their HP from full to zero is another matter entirely. Faster characters can avoid him entirely, ranged attackers don’t need to get close to shoot right through his satellites, and charging melees are not deterred by Typhoon Titan’s zapper shield since they do so much more damage up close than he does. This is far from an ideal choice for the versus arena.

Overall Ranking: 3.5
The idea of zapper satellites is a promising one—after all, who wouldn’t want a ring of damaging clouds following them wherever they went? Sadly though, this is one of those ideas that only sounds good on paper. In practice, 10 damage is 10 damage—a very low number unless you’re striking rapidly, which, on this path, you’re not. Lightning Rod was made to use his Grand Lightning, and because of that, Typhoon Titan almost seems like an afterthought.

Quote: flashwingftw

Here's why is a bad skylander:
LIGHTNING LORD
Every upgrade Lightning Lord has is devoted to creating the most powerful Grant Lightning attack in history. You’ll get a speed boost, you’ll get a pair of damage boosts, and you’ll even get the ability to transform into a larger-than-life Lightning Avatar to rain down damage on your foes. If you can’t tell already, this path is a blast to play.

Recommended Hat: Winged Hat (or your best Speed hat)
Not only does the Winged Hat look completely awesome on The Rod, it also helps shore up his greatest weakness—a total lack of speed. Easily the best choice.

Damage Numbers:
Grand Lightning: 26
Thrown Bolt: 17
Thrown Bolt Residual Damage: 3
Zapper Shield: 18

Story Mode Rating: 8
If you’re looking for the best place to rain down electric doom on a wide variety of targets, bring Rod through Story Mode. Although 26 damage may not seem like a lot for an attack with the fanfare of Grand Lightning, keep in mind that the attack hits multiple times and relatively rapidly. It’s no stretch to say that, once you’ve practiced a bit with the remote control damage of Grand Lightning, Lightning Lord obliterates everything in his path.

Battle Mode Rating: 6
Grand Lightning will steamroll the weaker and slower characters with relative ease, but there’s one problem that stops Lightning Lord from ranking any higher than the middle of the pack. What’s that, you ask? Well, for all its great power and even greater fanfare, Grand Lightning can be interrupted relatively easily, and this means trouble—especially since this is the only attack you’ll be upgrading along this path.

Overall Ranking: 7
Lightning Rod, in many ways, does live up to the hype. Grand Lightning is as powerful as you would expect, and if it weren’t for the fact that it can be interrupted, it would be pretty close to the perfect attack. The problem is, it’s also pretty much your only attack, leaving Lightning Lord an overall one-dimensional path. In situations where Grand Lightning falters, there’s really not much else you can do.


TYPHOON TITAN
Instead of upgrading Lightning Rod’s signature Grand Lightning attack, Typhoon Titan instead opts for a more passive and defense-oriented approach featuring an attack all his own, the zapper satellites. These are a series of three protective clouds that deal damage to nearby enemies. They also work very well with the zapper shield, especially after you’ve purchased Rod’s Soul Gem upgrade.

Recommended Hat: Winged Hat
Lightning Rod is a very slow character, and that lack of speed is his chief weakness. You can never completely fix this, but a speed hat at least helps.

Damage Numbers:
Grand Lightning: 15
Thrown Bolt: 17
Thrown Bolt Residual Damage: 3
Zapper Shield: 18
Zapper Satellites: 10

Story Mode Rating: 4
Typhoon Titan functions best up-close, because that’s where his zapper satellites do their greatest damage. Problem is, Lightning Rod is very slow, and getting up close to begin with can be a hassle. In the time it takes Typhoon Titan to approach and engage a group of enemies, Lightning Lord will have already wiped them out and be moving in to collect the rewards. Not only that, 10 damage per satellite strike isn’t nearly as high as it should be to warrant choosing a whole path for them.

Battle Mode Rating: 3
Typhoon Titan has serious damage issues, and while he has no trouble hitting opponents, actually draining their HP from full to zero is another matter entirely. Faster characters can avoid him entirely, ranged attackers don’t need to get close to shoot right through his satellites, and charging melees are not deterred by Typhoon Titan’s zapper shield since they do so much more damage up close than he does. This is far from an ideal choice for the versus arena.

Overall Ranking: 3.5
The idea of zapper satellites is a promising one—after all, who wouldn’t want a ring of damaging clouds following them wherever they went? Sadly though, this is one of those ideas that only sounds good on paper. In practice, 10 damage is 10 damage—a very low number unless you’re striking rapidly, which, on this path, you’re not. Lightning Rod was made to use his Grand Lightning, and because of that, Typhoon Titan almost seems like an afterthought.

I think you are forgetting that on Typhoon titan the zapper field also does INSANE damage with those clouds.

Typhoon Titan is a pretty weak path. However, Lightning Rod becomes the best Skylander on Lord of the Lightning.

L rod happens to be my favorite S1 skylander.

^ Yes! You are a great person!

^ Why thank you, kind sir.

Lightning Rod is SUCH a GREAT truimph......again!

^ Exactly. This needs quote marks.

Why does it need quote marks?

Because it is a good quote.

How is it a quote?

Boomer,he is stronger,looking better and more creative and he has better attacks.

Boomer. I'm not saying lightning rod is bad , but after a long hard fought fight Boomer would win .

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Boomer. I'm not saying lightning rod is bad , but after a long hard fought fight Boomer would win .

No he woldnt.

oh yeah. Why hmm I would like to know

Quote: slambam104

oh yeah. Why hmm I would like to know

The only wat boomer would win would be cuz the lightning rod player sucks and this applies to both paths of boomer.

I was able to beat Boomer with my Typhoon titan Lightning rod very easily. The troll bombs hindered L rod quite a bit, but in the end Boomer could not escape the grand lightning and had to come close where he got fried by my zapper field.

I didn't write that review, the toy collector app did, but L rod is a horrible skylander, he's unoriginal and there's already a character with storm clouds who was released before him, whirlwind

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I didn't write that review, the toy collector app did, but L rod is a horrible skylander, he's unoriginal and there's already a character with storm clouds who was released before him, whirlwind

Whirlwind and Lightning Rod are nothing alike. Just because a storm cloud you say that L- Rod is unoriginal? I don't see Whirlwind throwing bolts of lightning anywhere. If you were using that as a principle to say that a skylander was unoriginal, you'd have to say that about alot of skylanders. Hot Dog has a fire attack that resembles Zap's wave attack. Chill has a shield that can block attacks just like Chop Chop. Are they all unoriginal skylanders as well? I could go on but I think I've made my point. BTW, Zap shoots electricity out his mouth so I guess he is like L-Rod too. Come on. If you don't like L-Rod please come up with something better than he's unoriginal.

I think Boomer and lighting rod are 50-50

Quote: flashwingftw

I didn't write that review, the toy collector app did, but L rod is a horrible skylander, he's unoriginal and there's already a character with storm clouds who was released before him, whirlwind

Lolnoep

l rod

L-Rod.

Boomer is lame.

Quote: RainMan

Quote: flashwingftw

I didn't write that review, the toy collector app did, but L rod is a horrible skylander, he's unoriginal and there's already a character with storm clouds who was released before him, whirlwind

Whirlwind and Lightning Rod are nothing alike. Just because a storm cloud you say that L- Rod is unoriginal? I don't see Whirlwind throwing bolts of lightning anywhere. If you were using that as a principle to say that a skylander was unoriginal, you'd have to say that about alot of skylanders. Hot Dog has a fire attack that resembles Zap's wave attack. Chill has a shield that can block attacks just like Chop Chop. Are they all unoriginal skylanders as well? I could go on but I think I've made my point. BTW, Zap shoots electricity out his mouth so I guess he is like L-Rod too. Come on. If you don't like L-Rod please come up with something better than he's unoriginal.

Don't have to be a jerk about it, jeez, the zapper satellites look almost exactly like whirlwind's tempest clouds, and LR's clouds are weak, he's such a visibly unappealing skylander also, he looks too human for me to like him (like sprocket), at least boomer has attacks that aren't use by any other skylander out

L rod

I get it. You said Lightning Rod 3 times.

L rod

Seriously. Stop it.

L rod