Spyro's abilities
Fire
- Dragon Fire -- The basic fire breath. At higher levels, the fire can spread from enemy to enemy
- Comet Dash -- A powerful physical move. Leaves a trail of fire behind. Holding the button commences one Comet Dash after another.
Ice
- Ice Spikes -- Like the Ice Shards of ANB, but have a shorter range. At higher levels, they explode to freeze the enemy.
- Snow Storm -- Spyro spins in an icy style. Mainly physical move. Leaves a trail of ice behind. At higher levels, rapidly pressing light melee speeds up the spinning and shoots ice shards.
Earth
- Earth Boulder -- Spyro rolls around in a boulder. Landing on enemies flings them up a little. At higher levels, holding the light melee button charges up a Boulder Dash.
- Earth Shot -- Shoots a projectile. At higher levels, it can be charged up.
Electricity
- Electric Stream -- Locks on to enemies and stuns them. Only fires short bursts if there are no enemies.
- Electric Sphere -- Forms an electric orb around Spyro and keeps him in place. at higher levels, repeatidly pressing the light melee button generates electric pulses.
Cynder's abilities
Poison
- Venom -- Shoots out balls of poison that leave behind green clouds. Any enemy hit by either the ball or the cloud are poisoned. At higher levels, it can be charged up.
- Scorpion Strike -- Cynder flips/spins up and then down. A good physical move for ripping through crouds of enemies.
Shadow
- Shadow Strike -- Cynder is in a Cloak of Shadows as long as you hold the button. At higher levels, repeatidly press the light melee button to shoot Shadow Claws. Let go of the button to actually preform Shadow Strike.
- Shadow Fire -- Looks like dark black smoke. Breathing it on enemies for some time will make them attack each other. When there's ony one he'll follow you until the shadow wears off.
Fear
- Siren Scream -- When it hits an enemy for long enough, the enemy will be shrouded in a red cloud. Simple.
- Phantom Fright -- Shoots projectiles that either lock on to an enemy or dissapate. Same red cloud thing here, except the red cloud pops up sooner.
Wind
- Wind Stream -- The Electric breath of DOTD. It can pick up enemies after a while, literally.
- Twister -- Cynder spins in a mini tornado. Like Snow Storm, except it sucks up enemies. At higher levels, repeatidly pressing the light melee button throws debris and speeds up the twister.