darkSpyro

Bought my son skylander swap force, never played the other 2 versions


Whats stats do we want to use for nightmare?

I,m assuming armor?

Thanks

Armor and health is useful and I did that in my story nightmare playthrough, though the other school of thought is 'the faster you can defeat the enemy the less time you'll spend in danger of taking hits' and I'm switched over more to boosting critical hit and damage now.

My son and I have done nightmare a few times and from what I've seen it's the Skylander you use more than the extra stats. Go with one you are comfortable with is my best advice for you.

what are the best legendary treasures to put on pedestals for nightmare? does it make any difference?

I'd say Armor boosting is not that advisable in Nightmare: even if you get a +60 boost or so from the various treasures, you still get killed in 2-3 hits no matter what, so you still have to avoid getting touched pretty much the same way
Food gain and critical hits are the best imho, being able to do more damage and thus kill enemies faster helps a lot, and it can't be stressed enough how useful is to gain food from defeated enemies, that gives you a much higher margin of error then armor boosts. Elemental boosts are also nice, once you stack the varoius boosts the damage becomes insane, but they don't always work since boss fights and some zones don't give Elemental bounus, so Crit is more "safe".
Luckily there's plenty of +25 elemental hats to use to deal extra damage

how does food gain and elemental food work?

what is the difference between the 2?

Having a hard time finding a webpage that explains all the stats, anyone have one by chance?

thanks

I think elemental food give you a higher yield when eating in elemental zones. I.e Spyro gets healed more in magic zones.