darkSpyro

I've noticed something interesting during normal races in Skylanders SuperChargers Racing. There is always a number of CPU Skylanders who use a Vehicle other than their own, such as using a Barrel Blaster in a Land race. I understand it's a way to make sure that there are always eight competitors in a race, but it does make me wonder if there's a fixed pattern to which Vehicles each character will use, as well as which mod each of them equips to "their" ride.

So I thought I'd start a discussion to try and figure out the alternate Vehicles of each CPU opponent. Why, you ask? It's simple, really: because we can. It's something that we can do, and a puzzle we can solve. By playing the game and noting which SuperChargers use Vehicles outside of their main terrain type, we can build a database of who drives what. Then, if anyone is interested, they can look it up in one place. Happy racing, everyone!

in each race there will be 4 mabu racers in a random vehicle, it seems to be a generic vehicle not one of the superchargers or villains vehicles. the other 4 spots will be filled with other players or npc superchargers. the npc superchargers will always be paired with there vehicle. like stormblade with the skyslicer. the npc superchargers will never be the same as someone racing, like im playing as stormblade so i will never race her when playing as her. each supercharger will only appear in there driving style. like stormblade in sky tracks, gill grunt in water and spitfire in land.

as far as bowser in the barrel blaster, im sure this is just an oversight as hes really not part of the game. on the wii/wii u versions of the game they probably just have him thrown randomly in with any vehicle or bowser and DK are limited to there vehicles but can freely swap, like DK in a sky race even thou hes a land racer. it may just also be a glitch and never got fully tested because its only on the wii/wii u version of the game, in short they had bigger fish to fry than making sure DK and bowser followed the same rules as all the real skylanders.

Playing on Xbox 360, I never saw a Supercharger driving a vehicle that is not his signature vehicle, so this must be a Wii U thing.

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in each race there will be 4 mabu racers in a random vehicle, it seems to be a generic vehicle not one of the superchargers or villains vehicles. the other 4 spots will be filled with other players or npc superchargers. the npc superchargers will always be paired with there vehicle. like stormblade with the skyslicer. the npc superchargers will never be the same as someone racing, like im playing as stormblade so i will never race her when playing as her. each supercharger will only appear in there driving style. like stormblade in sky tracks, gill grunt in water and spitfire in land.

as far as bowser in the barrel blaster, im sure this is just an oversight as hes really not part of the game. on the wii/wii u versions of the game they probably just have him thrown randomly in with any vehicle or bowser and DK are limited to there vehicles but can freely swap, like DK in a sky race even thou hes a land racer. it may just also be a glitch and never got fully tested because its only on the wii/wii u version of the game, in short they had bigger fish to fry than making sure DK and bowser followed the same rules as all the real skylanders.

That's how it works in the main console version's Racing mode, but it's different in Skylanders SuperChargers Racing (the Wii/3DS version, just to clear up confusion). Rather than having four slots taken by Mabu in the Clunker/Blunder Bucket/Rusty Rotor, all seven CPU opponents are SuperChargers, either in their own Vehicle or, if it's a different terrain ( in a Sea race, for example), in someone else's Vehicle with a custom mod.