darkSpyro

you know, the one you couldn't name with a gun to your head.

honestly it's gotta be either fist bump, trail blazer, or cobra cadabra. TT was not a good year for cores.

Swap Force and above all Trap Team have both quite a bunch of forgettable characters IMO. Maybe I can name or remember them, but I find their concept and design just dull, boring and/or uninspired, even awful.

Swap Force: Spy Rise, Rubble Rouser, Countdown, Bumble Blast and Dune Bug (I know some of them are beloved but many people, but for me they were always just boring and unappealing, above all Rubble Rouser, he's the ugliest skylander for me).

Trap Team: Bush Whack, Thunderbolt, Blastermind, Torch, Fist Bump, Trail Blazer, even Fling Kong...

From SuperChargers, the only skylanders I find a "meh" is High Volt.

Overall, I think Imaginators has one of the best rosters in the series.

i agree with you on rubble rouser- especially with his soul gem upgrade, eugh.

honestly TT's handling of them is what killed the core skylander- changing the standard elemental gates to the trap master only ones, effectively making the cores useless. still kinda mad i never got spotlight.

boom jet, rubble rouser, torch, wind up, grim creeper

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boom jet, rubble rouser, torch, wind up, grim creeper

Boom Jet, true!

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WAIT A MINUTE! Grim Creeper? C'mon, he's one of my favourite ones! The lightcore figure rocks! He's appealing!

for me, i think it depends on who i ended up seeing most in stores and how much i liked the designs. so i probably just didn't see him around that much :/

I'm the opposite. I "study" the roster, and if I see someone that I like, I go for it. So when I went to the stores, I usually was specifically looking for a figure most of the time.

Rubble Rouser and Fist Bump. You got more of the character you've already seen 3 times, hooray.

With Earth being my favorite element, some of these replies hurt. I gotta say Trail Blazer though, he's just not great

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With Earth being my favorite element, some of these replies hurt. I gotta say Trail Blazer though, he's just not great

I don't dislike Earth either, but that's part of the problem! You've got such incredible ideas like Flashwing or Barbella, and yet they kept putting yet another dude whose main gimmick is smashing a hammer or hands. I wanted sand or obscure geology-themed skylanders to the bitter end, and yet...

^This.

Earth is not one of my favourite elements, but there're a bunch of my favourites that belong to Earth. And the design/concept of most "earthlanders" is polarising: you can have original and unique powers based on geological stuff, like Flashwing and Prism Break, or nice earth-related abilities like Terrafin, Bash or Rocky Roll... but at the end, most of these characters just smash the ground with a heavy weapon or fist and make rocks to blow out.

Even the elemental attacks for Earth Imaginator were really limited because of this.

I find myself always forgetting the existence of riptide as a whole, his design is rather plain in my opinion. While the stance change concept could be interesting I feel as though it could have been executed in a more interesting manner.

i think trailblazer is ok, but it was really a missed opportunity that there weren't really any other unicorn skylanders. you could count whirlwind, but that's unfortunately really it...

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Quote: skylandsfan

With Earth being my favorite element, some of these replies hurt. I gotta say Trail Blazer though, he's just not great

I don't dislike Earth either, but that's part of the problem! You've got such incredible ideas like Flashwing or Barbella, and yet they kept putting yet another dude whose main gimmick is smashing a hammer or hands. I wanted sand or obscure geology-themed skylanders to the bitter end, and yet...

i would've killed for a sand-themed character.

ones like Prism Break, Doom Stone, Flashwing, Scorp, and Barbella were great

Golden Queen was also good since she had some elements like the scarabs

Didn't play Imaginators, so pretty much most of the Skylanders from that game are forgettable to me. Especially Wild Storm and Ro-Bow (yes I had to look up the names first)

Wildstorm is probably one of the coolest Skylanders design wise for me, and his upgrades are kind of complex, they require certain skill but provide certain gameplay diversity, like Ambush. And it's a ton of fun to play.