darkSpyro

Whatever reason you have for picking your favorite Skylanders, I would like to hear them. Personally, the ones I choose for my team are as followed:

* (Spike) - Sheep Burner Spyro or Blitz Spyro
(Shadow) - Sheep Burner Spyro
** (Shining Bubbles) - Mad Scientist
(Juicy) - Best of the Beast!
(Dazzler) - Swords of Might
(Ruby) - Ancient Magic Djinn
* (Turbo Laser) - Master Blaster or Clockwork Dragon
(Crystal) - Super Spinner
* (Rainbow) - Ultimate Rainbower
(Fireball) - Blaze Dragon
* (Nightfrost) - Blizzard Brawler or Glacier Yeti
* (Lightning Wave) - Tesla Dragon
** (Glowing Mildew) - Paramushroom Promotion
* Spring Meadows) - Forest Ninja
(Treedledum) - Treefolk Charger
(Nightmare Ryder) - Joust Jockey
* (Dusk) - Nether Wielder
(Death Eye) - Eye For An Eye

Parantheses - Nicknames
Single asterisk - Series 2
Double asterisk - LightCore

I guess I prefer those who can move faster or fly. It's a good way of balancing power and speed. Also, I'm more into Magic, Water and Undead Skylanders. Also, I am more interested in dragons than any other species.

wow. thats....long. for mine, it would be:
thumpy
voodood
double trouble
terrafin
zook
boomer
eye brawl. it covers everything:
thumpy is my fav, how could i not pick him?
voodood is a powerful meelee character.
double trouble is just plain overpowered. i use him for boss fights.
terrafin for speedruns.
zook for his cool damage and attacks.
boomer for his radius with attacks.
eye brawl for his awesomeness.

Ultimate Spinner, Crystaleer, Frozen Fury, Flame Lord, Operator, Fear Eater, Eye of The Storm, Nut Crafter, Robot Rocketeer. Undead, Air, and Life might be open to change depending on future Wow Pows or general releases. Tech will never change, on the other hand... And I probably won't replace Bouncer as my Giant due sheerly to how much more balanced he is than the others, though maybe I'll switch his path depending on my impressions when I try the other. Magic, Earth, Water and Fire Skylanders are pretty much garunteed to stay the same as with the exception of Chill they're the only characters from each I enjoy playing often(well... I like playing Pop Fizz, but his Beast Form is too iffy in Battle).

Sprocket - Operator
Wrecking Ball - Ultimate Spinner
Fright Rider - Joust Jockey
Shroomboom - Paramushroom Promotion
Chill - Frozen Fury
Eruptor - Volcanor
Jet-Vac - Bird Blaster
Flashwing - Super Spinner

However, if I had all Skylanders, it would be this.

Sprocket - Operator
Ninjini - Ancient Djinn Magic
Hex - Bone Crafter
Shroomboom - Paramushroom Promotion
Thumpback - Belly Slide Path or Chill - Frozen Fury
Hot Dog - Combo Path
Lightning Rod - Protective Cloud Path
Flashwing - Super Spinner

I only have 10 in my collection so far (have only been a Skylanders fan for a month) but out of the 10, i love playing (in order) as

Lightcore Drobot
Pop Fizz
Ignitor
And
Chop Chop

I did love Tree Rex (the 1st character i maxed up to Lv 15) but his speed (and lack there of) drives me nuts!

Not a fan of Cynder or Jet Vac either.

Out of all of them?

Cynder (series two)
Stealth Elf (series one)
Flashwing
Whirlwind (series one)
Spyro (dark variant or series two)
Drobot (series one)
Chill (regular)

Tree Rex (regular)
Hot Head
Thumpback

Those are my first favorites. Among my second favorites are Hex, Ninjini, Eruptor, and- actually, I think that's it.

I wont list any, but I like ether speed and projectiles, or no speed, but with a lot of damage and armor. I don't like the ones with stats that are all the same because that would mean that none of them are that good.

I'd kinda like to 100% my nightmare mode with just dragons as a team. I still need Spyro, Zap, and Bash for that. I hope I can grab two in a future three-pack.

I've played as Bash, Flashwing, Dino-Rang, Cynder, Double Trouble, Hot Head, Sunburn, Tree Rex, Jet Vac, Whirlwind, Sonic Boom, Drobot, and Slam Bam.

Faves from that:

Sonic Boom - Medea Griffin - Babies are just cool. I was so proud of them when they destroyed a house in stage 12(?).
Cynder - Nether Welder - Dash, pop the ghosts. Bwhaha.
Sunburn - Teleport path - hard to make the teleport work, but fun when I do. One of the few characters where I bother with all three attacks.
Drobot - Lazors!!! - His main attack is boringly awesome, and I just love his dash and hover for their look and feel.

It has changed to Ultimate Spinner, Pulver Dragon, Frozen Fury, Flame Lord, Operator, Fear Eater, Eye of The Storm, Vine Virtuoso. DinoHex said Bash's Wow Pow makes him more fun and we generally agree on things with Skylanders so I think it's safe to put Bash in as my team needs better variety when it comes to melee characters anyway. Camo is back in because meleeist and ranged characters are equally amounted now... Really missed him actually. I don't plan to change anything at the moment, except maybe, and this is a big maybe, Ghost Roaster for Chop Chop. I don't think any Wow Pows will be able to change my mind right now in terms of characters I get the most enjoyment from in each Element.
Edit: I just left a list in my Guestbook now. I won't copy it down because I've ranted several times recently already.