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You're rating and reviewing them all, and ultimately picking them in order of who you'd pick if you HAD to for a playthrough

DMG 1 - 3
Unique 1 - 5
Fun Factor 1 - 5

In order, for whom I'd pick for a playthrough and why


SWARM
DMG 3 Projectile - PBAOE - Melee
Love his melee, it feels fast and agile like I'd want it, his ranged powers are based on turning on flight but I don't mind it at all. He falls short with the Swarm form... but oh well.

Unique 2
He is a giant so that get's one bump but he is a melee, and projectile character... Luckily his gameplay makes up for the blandness of his design

Fun Factor 4
FUN, and fast. He can't go toe to toe and quickly combo off a ton of bad guys. He can hover - strafe and tear bad guys up... His lack of situational usefulness is what puts him so high vs other air guys as you will see


SONIC BOOM

Dmg 3 Lobs - Conical AoE - Best minions in the game - PBAOE
This character has lots of ways to kill the bad guys and it's fun.

Unique 4
One point off for flight... it's a give up power but everything else is awesome. You get to hatch eggs, a little micromanagement, your babies help you kill bad guys, echolocation is another way to utilize the minions. And this character and it's attacks just look right. All this light neon blue burst and waves and everything. It's just pleasing to watch as it is to do the fighting with

Fun Factor 3
Sadly only a 3 for me. She is like art... fun to look at and admire, but the gameplay does get old kinda fast. In reality the choice between 3 or 4 eggs or their upgrade with terrible twos never really made a discernible difference in any way I could figure... so I would always switch back to Siren Griffin and then her gameplay eventually feels like so many other characters.
It's number 2, so its not like it's that bad, but this is a character that could easily be number 1 over several entire elements she'd been tweaked right

WARNADO

DMG 1 Motion - summoned (possibly controlled/homing) possible projectile and PBAOE
Might be the only 1 I give on dmg... His spin attack is really fun to use, and I prefer the whirlwind where you can shoot the turtles, but upgraded or not the tornadoes leave a lot to be desired for me... and it's a lot of work to get the shells, and get the smash aoe, and ect. He would be great if ONLY there were not so many better options

Unique 5
He IS FORM OVER FUNCTION. The spin shell attack looks great, all his attacks look great and feel unique to him. Again it's a lot of work (vs other characters) but tornadoes or the whirlwind attacks are very HIM and that's what unique is all about for me. Very distinguishable

Fun Factor 3
3 is a high number for someone as rational as me and this characters lack of easy functionality. But as a kid at heart (somewhere in there) over the rest of the air guys I like this zippy nature of this character.

LIGHTNING ROD

DMG 3 Projectile - PBAOE - Remote controlled dmg source
Just going to say it, the clouds are dumb... he is a non melee... can't go toe to toe with anyone. The clouds only help IF someone gets close which they shouldn't so they are only useful if you are consistantly messing up... it's not well thought out in my opinion. The controlled lightning on the other hand is AWESOME. When using it you really get a sense of power you don't get with many other characters.

Unique 4
His projectile is copy/paste the clouds are cool but again I don't think executed well. The points come from the lightning. No other charater just seemingly stands there and makes the whole screen (if they had the AI to do so) shake in their boots and flee as they would if you saw a giant figure crackling with electricity and in front of them a column of lightning is summoned and is now chasing you down. In anything other than a skylanders world this ability it would be crazy OP... Think about having this in GTA, Skyrim, most games.

Fun Factor 2...
It makes me sad to give him a 2 but all the fun and thrills of the lightning do not make up for the fact he is so SLOWWW and then doesn't move the whole time he is attacking. I think in a co op arena where I had a protector he might be one of the best but that is a very singular scenario and doesn't warrant higher points. This is a guy that needed quick summon minions (not clouds) to be a distraction for him. Think about this guy but with his version of 3 sonic boom eggs instead of a projectile, and just some kind of dash... ride the lightning who knows instead of the PBAOE and he moves to number 1 no problem.

WHIRLWIND

DMG 2 Lob - ranged aoes
In function the lobs are bleh, the clouds are slow but potential clear the screen well just take a bit of planning, and her BIG aoe is slow and I just hate it so tried it and ever went back

Unique 4
Flying... takes her a point down but makes up for that with one think that NO ONE else has. A heal!!! Instead of the rainbow path they should have made this character the one and only healer shylander for co-op the clouds can make her do the dps though subpar... but who in two player wouldn't have her set aside the portal ready to throw on to help a friend in need. The rainbows are cutesy and fun to look at... she is pretty unique just a missed oppurtunity

Fun Factor 1
Probably the ONLY 1 I will give in fun factor... I just can't get into this character. The heal is the only thing that makes her kinda okay to use.. sometimes but it's annoying and really not all that helpful. And I do like the clouds but... one situationally useful attack doesn't make up for everything else. Like I said before this character was a missed chance. Even as a better healer I still wouldn't put her at number one but would be a solid option for a lot of situations

JET-VAC
Someone else will have to review as I don't have this character and don't plan to get it. I have read his powers, watched the videos... several in fact because I wanted to really like the vacuum kinda power but this looks to be the most one dimensional skylander I've ever seen. So will let someone else cover this. I would like to get some insight from people on here that pretty put some insight into their reviews.


hate to do a review like this when I don't have a character, but I won't be getting them all... or not anytime soon. I hope on this and future ones others will be able to review and fill in the gaps.

This element was especially hard and had to do a lot of pve arenas and levels ect to get a grasp on how I really feel about them. If you had just asked me before today I would have said Warnado was going to be my pick. Once I started doing some side by side comparisons and not just spinning around.

JET-VAC

DMG 2,

i went with the blaster line, the shots themself do low dmg but you can spam em and upgraded they go through targets,
so it adds up. With micro managing your vac-charge you get up to 3 supershots and they do about 60 dmg.

Unique 3
Cant say much, but shoot/fly is done on other chars too, the idea of vac-in enemies is fun but also dangerous.
Did put the undertrousers hat on him.(his own fault ..that roomcleaner)

Fun Factor 4
I like to play him, his set works good and the micro managing with the vac for faster backpack recover and supershots
is entertaining, he also is fast so you can breeze through the lvls.

LIGHTNING ROD IS THE BEST AIR AND THE BEST SKYLANDER!
Then,
Warnado
Sonic Boom
Swarm
Whirlwind
Jet Vac

these posts have not really garnered the kind of attention that warrants doing the rest of the elements. Thanks for the feedback I did get though.