I feel like most of the hype around Doom Stone is because he was the last Swap Force character released, kinda like Wham Shell and Lightcore Hex. Hes good but it kinda depends on what difficulty you're on
Doom is a great top that makes some attacks on the bottom viable when they previously weren’t (namely fire kraken’s “the big one”). But the bottom is atrocious because it increases your hitbox and just isn’t that effective.
His top half is pretty good defensivly and using his shield can cancel any attack early,yep even being in the air as rise,doom NEEDS a good damaging bottom half as doom has some of the worst dps out of all the top halves,stone is easily the worst bottom half,but overall i would put doom in C tier and stone in F tier.
@@rubyjrdx that's what I said in my post, he has the cheese strats with the shield but that's it, his primary is pretty underwhelming and can't really pull his weight
About Dino Rang! One thing that has to be mentioned is that his boomerang shield reflects projectiles which is a MASSIVE BOON in Swap Force! Swap Force has propably the most deflectable projectiles in the whole series. With the upgrade that makes the shield last longer, you can destroy Tech Geargolems with their own bullets while being completely safe.
well I knew that I'd miss something, still thats some pretty useful tech, probably only moves him to Countdowns placement. Reflecting projectiles is really broken in this game
@@Dymastia Thats fair, I honestly didnt even expect you would tackle SSA and Giants characters in this ranking but its badass that you did! I only knew about this because I love Dino Rang, and he was one the few Skylanders I didnt sell off in my childhood. And when I got back into the series, I started with Swap Force
10:02 One reason why so many of the melee Spyro's Adventure and Giants characters' attacks feel so sluggish in Swap Force (rip Terrafin) might be that Vicarious Visions overdid the "hitstop" for animations! Hitstop is a fighting game animation trick where you "stop"/"pause" the player and enemy animation right once a hit lands. It's not something you can always see when played at full speed, but you can definitely feel it. When done properly it really sells the strength and impact of an attack! (Smash Bros. is a great example.) But hanging on it *too long* can make things feel slow, and at worst make the character feel unresponsive-each frame that the animation is paused can feel like a delay between when you press the button for the next attack and when it actually comes out. Go frame by frame in the video on Terrafin's punches (using "," and "." when paused) and you can see just how long he holds on a pose and that "hitstop!"
yea,its honestly one of the main reasons i dont like the VV engine games that much,the hitstop pausing is rlly annoying,for example free rangers primarys projectlie counts as a melee hit which means it does the hitstop,so if u let a projectile go through like 20 chompys ur stuck frozen for like 3 secs which is so dumb,i dont like using melee skylanders in VV engine games because of hitstop
ngl I've been waiting for this. Nice to see these games get this type of analysis. No one else has looked into character balancing like this. So yeah, good work
If u like swappers then there is a deffinitive swapper combo ranking chart and video that im helping a fellow skytuber make,it is THE best swapper teirr list and it will reveal the worst swapper of all time AND the best swapper which is NOT who u think it is
its not well made mate srry so say,the research and testing was lackluster and dymastia should have put more time into testing and research because there is alot of misinformation in this vid,i love his other vids but this one is just not great,entertaining...but factually wrong most of the time,jat vac should be S tier because of a 'tech' called "corkscrew loops" which has one of if not the highest dps in swap force next to grilla's double drilling punches
@@rubyjrdxwell, I guess it's ok for you to think that, but I thought it was very entertaining, plus he redid a lot of the raknings at the end to make up for some poor decisions.
the vid was entertaining i agree,but there are times where i stop enjoying the vid and instead get sad at the fact dymastia gets multiple things wrong@@ludwig7022
I hated that they bragged all previous Skylanders were playable in new games but they always nerfed the crap out of them so u needed current characters. So dirty. Wish they'd make a new game where all old characters r usable & powerful so ppl who have massive collections can enjoy them on a bunch of new levels & make them all scannable & in a digital library nicely organized (better than switch imaginators)
Really enjoyed watching this tier list in combination with your previous two tier lists to see the highs and lows of each Skylander! Me and my mate are about to do a two-player nuzlocke from SSA to Trap Team on Nightmare, so keeping these build paths and playstyle rankings in mind is definitely something we'll be doing 🤝 Cheers, I'm definitely looking forward to the Trap Team tier list later this year!
Good video, it takes a lot to rank all skylanders and i agree with most takes but i wanna say 2 words about my mains and doom stone: - doom stone's bottom is trash, everyone agrees, but the the top part is actually fearsome in pvp, a shield that negates all damage and knockback while reflecting damage is not something you can ignore (it took my best blast zone techs to hit through that shield - grim creeper has an interesting interaction with his secondary attack (to be exact, when his soul leaves the armor), specifically I-FRAMES, from when you start the move till few frames after the player can move around the soul, grim creeper is completely immune to all attacks, i was actually considering the bottom path because of this fact alone - bash does struggle with melee attacks but that's what the third attack is used for, range and knockback, especially with the wow pow i still think bash is doing very well in swap force - drobot, yes he is very strong, but he didnt just got "buffed".... vicarious vision BROKE drobot, the primary attack can reach insane dps while drobot is hovering, around 8 shots per second each shot is a group of 3 projectiles, dealing 16 damage the main one and 2 damage the two smaller lasers, this means that drobot by himsef can deal 16+2+2=20 damage per shot and 20x8=160 damage per second.... imagine buffing this damage with blast zone's ring of fire... which btw BLASTZONE section blast zone deserves S tier, there are many things you didnt spoke about his arsenal: - the ring of fire increases the damage of (almost) every projectile in the game by 12, it counts for both swap bottom parts and other skylanders in coop and pvp, the effect is stupidly strong and fun to use (let's take drobot again, shoots 3 projectiles per shot, 8 shots per second, so each of those 16 and 2 projs get an additional 12 damage, stacking to 28+14+14=56 damage per shot, then multiply 56x8= 448 damage per second,,,,, bosses melt with these 2) - his range with the primary attack can be huge, there are instances in which you can hit enemies before they target you (especially the flaming bombs, which gain extra AOE) or you can hit enemies normally impossible to reach like evil whiskers when he stands on a wall (also the charged bombs, yeh, they dont do much dps but they cause high knockback to enemies, stunlocking them, it's great crowd control) - his dash from the bottom part is very underrated, it has fast charge time, good speed for traversal, insane damage both during the charge and with the initial dash, causing high knockback and during this entire window, blastzone has super-armor (doesnt reduce incoming damage but ignores knockback and cant be interrupted by almost anything in the game) - using the aura path on the bottom part, the dps that blast zone can reach in melee range is insane, it can kill a golem in nightmare mode in just 5 seconds to back up my claims about bash, grim creeper, drobot and blastzone, i already made a series of videos years ago in this google drive drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n08qH_o9Ro9WaUckCwmDJkHfHjydKIG0?usp=sharing i might make a video about them at some point
Great video, I've been here since the giants video, and I've been loving it, keep up the great work! Also, I would love to see a tier list video on all the combination of the swappable skylanders.
i remember i hated swap force as a kid and wrote it off because my GOAT thumpback was so bad in it compared to giants, i was 6 or 7 i think and thumpback was the first non-starter pack skylander i got so i have a ton of nostalgia for him. the truth hurts. there is no santa claus, there is no easter bunny, and there is no game where thumpback is good
a wow pow is an additional move a skylander can obtain if you are using their series 2, series 3, or series 4 figures, also known as reposes. no, you don't unlock multiple higher the series number is, thats just counting "oh this is the 3rd figure since the original", a skylander can only have 1 wow pow, and the wow pow is different depending on the figure, so for example, a series 3 spyro will have an entirely different wow pow compared to a series 2 spyro.
wrecking ball's tertiary attack does have a use. if you eat an enemy, the burp gains a lot more range, damage, and speed. i don't know if this is in spyro's adventure or swap force, but it is in giants.
I actually did notice something different about the attack when I was using him when gathering footage, but must not have been that important if I forgot numerous times while editing LMAO
Next up a very mixed game with a very mixed concept and where the places will be switched again with another tier list (villains), some cooked some half baked, love these actual well researched vids and can’t wait for you to do a tier list of the actual games (though last place should be obvious nuts and bolts 2, I think) also the minis count as separate entries for worse and better.
Literally haven't played Trap Team since launch, cant wait to play it again, I'll probably do a ranking of the games at some point. I was also thinking of doing a video ranking the levels in each game, because the next video is not gonna be the trap team ranking.
srry but the research in this vid is very lackluster and has alot of misinformation and should have had more time to cook and get the proper testing done for the skylanders,i love his other vids but this one is fine,but is missing vital info for skylanders and seems very rushed,dymatia should reach out the community for extra info,theres nothing wrong with asking the community for info and can lead to overall better and more well researched vid
I'd say that Hot Head peaks in Trap Team, cause there's a glitch where if you press jump and his primary attack at the same time, he'll do a dash that gives him crazy mobility and makes his soul gem obsolete
I have recently discovered a similar speed glitch with eye-brawl that involves galloping your thumb over the jump and then the primary attack. It works with eye-small as well but it's more difficult (both this glitch and the hot head one I found were both on accident)
Damn I haven't thought about this game in a hot minute, but its cool to see that all my favorites (Flashwing, Star Strike and Smolderdash) are all top tier lmao
I think you forgot the most overpowered thing about Free Ranger- his spin attack can cancel enemy shields and charge attacks. He's by far the easiest skylander to playthough the game while taking zero damage. He absolutely should be S tier
Doomstone is.......... Definitely flawed but if you play him very specifically he can put in work, he's a crowd control gremlin, shield is ironically his best skill 1. Anyone that attacks you is instantly stunned, perfect for a charge up smack 2. It can reflect projectiles, turning them green and launching a stun projectile back the opponent. The best part is you don't need to upgrade the shield path, you only need it to stun anyways. Bottom STONE is kinda garbage, top upgrade path makes the circle do more damage, the other path with the projectiles is...... Fun I guess but they do 12 damage. It's not great but it's manageable
Doom Stone might not be fun for all, might not be the most efficient but hes damn near unkillable and probably the skylander with the highest survivablitiy and i used to love him as a kid
In my opinion Spy (Top-half Spy Rise) Jet (Bottom-half Boom Jet) is the best combination. Mainly because of the execute and heal (Spy) and the broken 150 damage spam dash (Jet).
It’s nice to see skylanders like punk-shot and roller brawl actually have good things to be said about them on a tier list, I personally think roller brawl should have been top of B but I think they were alright placements.
I'm guessing controllers with back buttons or paddles would make gill grunt easier. Idk. I'm kind of just a casual player who just enjoys all their cool powers & has a soft spot for Halloween type ones especially but they're really all so cool in their own ways which is why I collected them all😂
I think dune bug is actually one of the best skylanders in this game if you play him right. His secondary attack is like a waayyy better version of magna charge with throwing bros off cliffs
1:50 actually, funny thing: I have the top half of dark wash buckler and the bottom half of hoot loop. ~2017 EB games had a bucket of skylanders and I found the bottom of hoot loop and really wanted it but was told buy the person working there that it had to be a full skylanders, so I ended up grabbing the top half of dark wash buckler.
apart of me hates to admit it but prism break in swap force just isnt the same, prism break s2 in giants was peak of prism break, on the second attack path you can spam those prisms and use a speed hat to make up for his lack of it, along with the charged shot working with or without the prisms (if you doubt it just try beating nightmare mode on giants with only prism break, youll thank me when the arkeyan juggernaut tries to shoot your prisms instead of you)
If I am not mistaken, they didn’t make attacks go slower but rather every time you hit an enemy it slows down. Seriously, try hitting nothing with Terrafin and then hit training dummies in Swap Force, you will see the slowness. Great ranking by the way 👍
that would make sense, I would assume they did that to make the hits seem more impactful but since enemies don't stagger it really just hurts a lot of skylander's potential
I’d like to point out for trigger happy that his blast attack still harms spinning enemies and so far shatters the shield to the beginning enemies I’m still testing others, but I feel like that should be noted
Is it me or did they break Prism Break's crystal drop? I remember it being able to deal ridiculous damage in giants but just... not working in Swap Force. The crystals would just disappear on enemies.
it does feel really janky. Not helped by enemies huge HP pools, and sometimes the crystals do phase through the floor. Really should have increased the hitbox size of the crystals
@@Dymastia that's what it feels like. It would explain why they get deleted before they hit anything. Oh and his little crystal stomp being absolutely garbage too
@@MrSmashySmash I have no idea if enemies have more HP on higher difficulties, or if they're just like that. In Giants enemies did crazy damage but didn't have that much HP so it was kinda balanced and I never played Trap Team or Superchargers on anything higher than hard because I didn't really like them enough to replay them.
the base health and damage got increased on everything in this game and also level 20 Skylanders is the max level. They are not buffs the stat system just got changed in this game with higher hp and damage on Skylanders and enemies
I really want to critisize the fact that the tier list is based much more on raw power this time, but also, it's freakin Swap-Force we're talking about ! All the game feels like an arena battle, so I guess it's fiting.
@@staringcorgi6475 Yeah, yeah, totally. Camo is extremely good against almost every boss in giants, especially Robokaos which is usually not an easy boss. He's also very good against some bosses of Trap Team by cheesing some phases, such as Wolfgang, Golden Queen, he's one of the only kinda consistent answers against Wii U Tae Kwon Crow (with Loop, Rise, Rouser or Shroomboom) and he's also very good against Trap Team Kaos because he can heal very efficiently in between attacks, especially on hard (same for Krypt King). Rattle Shake transforms Wolfgang into a sitting duck with his turret that slows down enemies, making him pretty free even on nightmare, and he breaks Dr. Kranckase in the same way, making him completely free. It also works against every boss that run on your face, especially Eye Five. (Also, Rattle Shake's INSANE bulk makes him the best swap skylander by FAR, even though his damage output isn't crazy, it's extremely clutch on the turret sections of Swap Force.)
scratch is arguably the strongest Skylander in swap force. She can solo nightmare mode no problem and has by far and away the best damage output of any character in this game (ruby path). The only characters you can kind of make a case for being better is either cynder or roller brawl because of how mobile both of them are and therefore can also solo nightmare exceptionally easily too. The don't deal anything close to her dps though. there are some majorly shitty takes in this video I have to say.
Every swap force in a nutshell Free Ranger: Ohio bird who can somehow cause tornados Magna Charge: version 1: spamming the gun version 2: spamming the magnet to push most ennmies out of the map (if able) Freeze Blade: Skylanders Captain Cold isnt real, he cant hurt you. Skylanders Captain Cold: Doom Stone: just parry, block, dodge. Rubble Rouser: *Earthquake sounds* Blast Zone: *fire emergency alarm starts ringing* Fire kraken: for a moment i tought it was a dragon merged with a kraken XD Grilla Drilla: NFT skylander isnt real, it cant hurt you. NFT Skylander: Stink Bomb: Farts and shurikens Hoot Loop: (*Loop has left the server*) Trap Shadow: half cat...half...what? Spy Rise: 1 word, Arachnophobia night Shift: Dracula if he went on a boxing career Rattle Shake: Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Wash Buckler: No pirate treasure? :(
there are way more than that sadly,terrible research and testing done for this vid,i love his other vids but this one is just factually wrong most of the time with alot of misinformation.
I have a festive bumble blast, he is easily one of my favorite skylanders cause uh… good dps + aimbot And don’t forget the fact that it can slow enemies and bosses SO MUCH like it almost trivializes anything slowed by the honey
Wrecking Ball is bugged in the Wii version of swap force. His tongue and burp attack hit twice for some reason so he just destroys everything doing 110 damage per hit with a super spammable attack.
I respect your opinion, but Doom Stone I believe is actually a great Skylander, especially in battle mode as he can block attacks and re direct ranged attacks.
Free ranger’s blade path is better in my opinion, you do 25 damage for each hit, finishing damage is 100, AND you can move and it only takes like a second to charge, he deserves to be higher, the lightning path is kinda disappointing tbh
I don’t Like Dune Bug either; especially compared to the other magic additions to swap force. But you can trap enemies in his Ball an throw them off cliffs. That at least should put him a Little Bit higher. It is not as satifying or as easy to pull off like it is with Magna charge But still. Probably still the weakest Addition to swap force
i feel like the community is so divided on doom stone. one tier list puts it at the top, this one puts it at the bottom. who do i believe
I feel like most of the hype around Doom Stone is because he was the last Swap Force character released, kinda like Wham Shell and Lightcore Hex. Hes good but it kinda depends on what difficulty you're on
Doom is a great top that makes some attacks on the bottom viable when they previously weren’t (namely fire kraken’s “the big one”). But the bottom is atrocious because it increases your hitbox and just isn’t that effective.
From my experience playing him, he has invincibility from the shield which can be rather cheesy, but his damage output is absolutely abhorrent.
His top half is pretty good defensivly and using his shield can cancel any attack early,yep even being in the air as rise,doom NEEDS a good damaging bottom half as doom has some of the worst dps out of all the top halves,stone is easily the worst bottom half,but overall i would put doom in C tier and stone in F tier.
@@rubyjrdx that's what I said in my post, he has the cheese strats with the shield but that's it, his primary is pretty underwhelming and can't really pull his weight
FINALLY I found a Skylanders tier list, no one really talks about what Skylanders are good or bad in gameplay. Thanks for making this
swappers combo ranking is in the works rn which is cool,but sadly this vid has alot of misinformation and lackluster testing for the skylanders.
Cough cough, Crash the Skylands Cough couch
41:32 “You need something more than just a spammy projectile to be good.”
Drobot in top 3: 🦖
Drobot has THE spammy projectile
About Dino Rang! One thing that has to be mentioned is that his boomerang shield reflects projectiles which is a MASSIVE BOON in Swap Force! Swap Force has propably the most deflectable projectiles in the whole series. With the upgrade that makes the shield last longer, you can destroy Tech Geargolems with their own bullets while being completely safe.
well I knew that I'd miss something, still thats some pretty useful tech, probably only moves him to Countdowns placement. Reflecting projectiles is really broken in this game
@@Dymastia Thats fair, I honestly didnt even expect you would tackle SSA and Giants characters in this ranking but its badass that you did!
I only knew about this because I love Dino Rang, and he was one the few Skylanders I didnt sell off in my childhood. And when I got back into the series, I started with Swap Force
@@szymonlewandowski9690 Dino Rang was one of the first Skylanders that I bought after the starter pack, so I got a bit of a connection to him as well
10:02 One reason why so many of the melee Spyro's Adventure and Giants characters' attacks feel so sluggish in Swap Force (rip Terrafin) might be that Vicarious Visions overdid the "hitstop" for animations!
Hitstop is a fighting game animation trick where you "stop"/"pause" the player and enemy animation right once a hit lands. It's not something you can always see when played at full speed, but you can definitely feel it. When done properly it really sells the strength and impact of an attack! (Smash Bros. is a great example.)
But hanging on it *too long* can make things feel slow, and at worst make the character feel unresponsive-each frame that the animation is paused can feel like a delay between when you press the button for the next attack and when it actually comes out. Go frame by frame in the video on Terrafin's punches (using "," and "." when paused) and you can see just how long he holds on a pose and that "hitstop!"
Also, great vid by the way! The time taken to edit everything together sounds insane haha, but it really paid off!
yea,its honestly one of the main reasons i dont like the VV engine games that much,the hitstop pausing is rlly annoying,for example free rangers primarys projectlie counts as a melee hit which means it does the hitstop,so if u let a projectile go through like 20 chompys ur stuck frozen for like 3 secs which is so dumb,i dont like using melee skylanders in VV engine games because of hitstop
ngl I've been waiting for this. Nice to see these games get this type of analysis. No one else has looked into character balancing like this. So yeah, good work
If u like swappers then there is a deffinitive swapper combo ranking chart and video that im helping a fellow skytuber make,it is THE best swapper teirr list and it will reveal the worst swapper of all time AND the best swapper which is NOT who u think it is
I love these videos so much! It's also so refreshing to watch a genuinely well-made tier list about gameplay.
its not well made mate srry so say,the research and testing was lackluster and dymastia should have put more time into testing and research because there is alot of misinformation in this vid,i love his other vids but this one is just not great,entertaining...but factually wrong most of the time,jat vac should be S tier because of a 'tech' called "corkscrew loops" which has one of if not the highest dps in swap force next to grilla's double drilling punches
@@rubyjrdxwell, I guess it's ok for you to think that, but I thought it was very entertaining, plus he redid a lot of the raknings at the end to make up for some poor decisions.
the vid was entertaining i agree,but there are times where i stop enjoying the vid and instead get sad at the fact dymastia gets multiple things wrong@@ludwig7022
I hated that they bragged all previous Skylanders were playable in new games but they always nerfed the crap out of them so u needed current characters. So dirty. Wish they'd make a new game where all old characters r usable & powerful so ppl who have massive collections can enjoy them on a bunch of new levels & make them all scannable & in a digital library nicely organized (better than switch imaginators)
Not for this game at least because sometimes the reverse happened like with wrecking ball who had some use due to him being able to knock back enemies
The way you deliver "He's just a little guy, but he's a little ANGRY" is slightly iconic
I still sometimes repeat it to myself
This went into my recommended, I have only a tertiary knowledge of Skylanders from my little stepbrother, but I still do not understand a word
Really enjoyed watching this tier list in combination with your previous two tier lists to see the highs and lows of each Skylander!
Me and my mate are about to do a two-player nuzlocke from SSA to Trap Team on Nightmare, so keeping these build paths and playstyle rankings in mind is definitely something we'll be doing 🤝
Cheers, I'm definitely looking forward to the Trap Team tier list later this year!
I liked watching you do these tier lists for all 3 games. It brought me a lot of nostalgia.
A destiny weapon in a skylanders video comment section ???
@@gyrozeppeli8303 Correction: the BEST Destiny weapon in a Skylander's video.
You'll find me in a lot of unsuspecting places.
Good video, it takes a lot to rank all skylanders and i agree with most takes
but i wanna say 2 words about my mains and doom stone:
- doom stone's bottom is trash, everyone agrees, but the the top part is actually fearsome in pvp, a shield that negates all damage and knockback while reflecting damage is not something you can ignore (it took my best blast zone techs to hit through that shield
- grim creeper has an interesting interaction with his secondary attack (to be exact, when his soul leaves the armor), specifically I-FRAMES, from when you start the move till few frames after the player can move around the soul, grim creeper is completely immune to all attacks, i was actually considering the bottom path because of this fact alone
- bash does struggle with melee attacks but that's what the third attack is used for, range and knockback, especially with the wow pow
i still think bash is doing very well in swap force
- drobot, yes he is very strong, but he didnt just got "buffed".... vicarious vision BROKE drobot, the primary attack can reach insane dps while drobot is hovering, around 8 shots per second
each shot is a group of 3 projectiles, dealing 16 damage the main one and 2 damage the two smaller lasers, this means that drobot by himsef can deal 16+2+2=20 damage per shot and 20x8=160 damage per second.... imagine buffing this damage with blast zone's ring of fire... which btw
BLASTZONE section
blast zone deserves S tier, there are many things you didnt spoke about his arsenal:
- the ring of fire increases the damage of (almost) every projectile in the game by 12, it counts for both swap bottom parts and other skylanders in coop and pvp, the effect is stupidly strong and fun to use
(let's take drobot again, shoots 3 projectiles per shot, 8 shots per second, so each of those 16 and 2 projs get an additional 12 damage, stacking to 28+14+14=56 damage per shot, then multiply 56x8= 448 damage per second,,,,, bosses melt with these 2)
- his range with the primary attack can be huge, there are instances in which you can hit enemies before they target you (especially the flaming bombs, which gain extra AOE) or you can hit enemies normally impossible to reach like evil whiskers when he stands on a wall
(also the charged bombs, yeh, they dont do much dps but they cause high knockback to enemies, stunlocking them, it's great crowd control)
- his dash from the bottom part is very underrated, it has fast charge time, good speed for traversal, insane damage both during the charge and with the initial dash, causing high knockback and during this entire window, blastzone has super-armor (doesnt reduce incoming damage but ignores knockback and cant be interrupted by almost anything in the game)
- using the aura path on the bottom part, the dps that blast zone can reach in melee range is insane, it can kill a golem in nightmare mode in just 5 seconds
to back up my claims about bash, grim creeper, drobot and blastzone, i already made a series of videos years ago in this google drive
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n08qH_o9Ro9WaUckCwmDJkHfHjydKIG0?usp=sharing
i might make a video about them at some point
Great video, I've been here since the giants video, and I've been loving it, keep up the great work!
Also, I would love to see a tier list video on all the combination of the swappable skylanders.
26:09 you can also hold down the left and right buttons on the controller to use the other moves, makes using Gill Grunt easier
Decided to watch your older videos today for no reason at all and got surprised by a new one 🙀
i remember i hated swap force as a kid and wrote it off because my GOAT thumpback was so bad in it compared to giants, i was 6 or 7 i think and thumpback was the first non-starter pack skylander i got so i have a ton of nostalgia for him. the truth hurts. there is no santa claus, there is no easter bunny, and there is no game where thumpback is good
Bumble blast was always my favorite cause i got the Christmas version of him from my grandparents and i just really love bee attacks for some reason
As someone who has never even touched a Skylander I think you’re wrong on a lot of your opinions, also what is a wow pack?
a wow pow is an additional move a skylander can obtain if you are using their series 2, series 3, or series 4 figures, also known as reposes. no, you don't unlock multiple higher the series number is, thats just counting "oh this is the 3rd figure since the original", a skylander can only have 1 wow pow, and the wow pow is different depending on the figure, so for example, a series 3 spyro will have an entirely different wow pow compared to a series 2 spyro.
trap team when i also really like how you reranked all the previous casts i feel like the engines can really change a whole skylander
what a masterpiece of a thumbnail.
OOOHHH MY GOD. Someone still cares about skylanders :)
I am CRAZY happy someone still does skylanders vids
wrecking ball's tertiary attack does have a use. if you eat an enemy, the burp gains a lot more range, damage, and speed. i don't know if this is in spyro's adventure or swap force, but it is in giants.
I actually did notice something different about the attack when I was using him when gathering footage, but must not have been that important if I forgot numerous times while editing LMAO
Correction here: this also applies to food.
@@staringcorgi6475 okay, understandable, but why would you use the tongue path
@@FloopytheStinker you don’t bc the soul gem allows you to swallow enemies food, and coins.
@@staringcorgi6475 no? swallowing coins and food is restricted to the tongue path, as there is an entire upgrade dedicated to it. do your research.
The last 10 minutes were the funniest thing I've watched in a long time
its been ages since ive played but as a kid i really liked free ranger solely cause his secondary/bottom tornado attack disabled shields.
One note and thats a actually a nerf to the enemies: melee ones take way longer to attack.
Just some advice for Gill Grunt, you should be able to just hold both triggers and spam the primary if you're on the water path
Or the bumpers if it's a game swap force and later
Swap force and trap team*. Bumpers definitely don't work in superchargers, not sure about imaginators
Next up a very mixed game with a very mixed concept and where the places will be switched again with another tier list (villains), some cooked some half baked, love these actual well researched vids and can’t wait for you to do a tier list of the actual games (though last place should be obvious nuts and bolts 2, I think) also the minis count as separate entries for worse and better.
Literally haven't played Trap Team since launch, cant wait to play it again, I'll probably do a ranking of the games at some point. I was also thinking of doing a video ranking the levels in each game, because the next video is not gonna be the trap team ranking.
srry but the research in this vid is very lackluster and has alot of misinformation and should have had more time to cook and get the proper testing done for the skylanders,i love his other vids but this one is fine,but is missing vital info for skylanders and seems very rushed,dymatia should reach out the community for extra info,theres nothing wrong with asking the community for info and can lead to overall better and more well researched vid
@@rubyjrdx and what’s exactly is wrong with the video besides your vague complaints?
like i sed i need help from a fellow ssf expert to list ALL the things that were wrong or dym didnt mention,cos there are ALOT@@diegoizaguirre3452
I'd say that Hot Head peaks in Trap Team, cause there's a glitch where if you press jump and his primary attack at the same time, he'll do a dash that gives him crazy mobility and makes his soul gem obsolete
This sounds so much like a scam I am checking right now
@@szymonlewandowski9690it works for blast zone also, it’s used in speed runs. It’s called hyper speed
I have recently discovered a similar speed glitch with eye-brawl that involves galloping your thumb over the jump and then the primary attack. It works with eye-small as well but it's more difficult (both this glitch and the hot head one I found were both on accident)
Thunderbolt has something similar
Sprocket is also really good in TT but most people won't use her there
Your skylanders videos is so underated keep it up
man. my favorites as a kid were sprocket and terrafin bc they looked cool 😂 now i know why i remember sucking ass at these games.
As a drobot fan I call this a huge W
Damn I haven't thought about this game in a hot minute, but its cool to see that all my favorites (Flashwing, Star Strike and Smolderdash) are all top tier lmao
Skylanders content is always welcome
+goated ror2 music
^ formerly known as purple
Your skylander content is excellent, really gives me nostalgia vibes. Don't mind me asking when is Trap Team coming ?
@@chinchillinDaily October most likely
@@Dymastiait better be
@@Dymastia its almost december now and fuck you for ever putting thump back in D
I think you forgot the most overpowered thing about Free Ranger- his spin attack can cancel enemy shields and charge attacks. He's by far the easiest skylander to playthough the game while taking zero damage. He absolutely should be S tier
Can we also get a Villians tier list along with the regular Skylanders tier list when you get to Trap Team?
Doomstone is.......... Definitely flawed but if you play him very specifically he can put in work, he's a crowd control gremlin, shield is ironically his best skill 1. Anyone that attacks you is instantly stunned, perfect for a charge up smack 2. It can reflect projectiles, turning them green and launching a stun projectile back the opponent. The best part is you don't need to upgrade the shield path, you only need it to stun anyways. Bottom STONE is kinda garbage, top upgrade path makes the circle do more damage, the other path with the projectiles is...... Fun I guess but they do 12 damage. It's not great but it's manageable
Doom Stone might not be fun for all, might not be the most efficient but hes damn near unkillable and probably the skylander with the highest survivablitiy and i used to love him as a kid
In my opinion Spy (Top-half Spy Rise) Jet (Bottom-half Boom Jet) is the best combination. Mainly because of the execute and heal (Spy) and the broken 150 damage spam dash (Jet).
I will be here. Waiting for the Trap Team tier list.
Because I know for a fact that it will be upwards of 3 hours >:)
For all the games before Imaginators you can use the shoulder buttons for attacks so that isn’t a problem until Imaginators
I appreciate everyone who still going with this Community i respect you
13:57 actually the camo variant is called series 2
Can’t wait for him to see how much stronger fright rider is in trap team
Still not worth using due to being fragile and being not strong/spammable
"The babies die in 1-2 hits" bro pause
To be fair, most babies die in 1-2 hits
It’s nice to see skylanders like punk-shot and roller brawl actually have good things to be said about them on a tier list, I personally think roller brawl should have been top of B but I think they were alright placements.
Damn, was really hoping for a pvp tier list, can’t find a complete one anywhere for the life of me
Ranged good high health good. Eye brawl and igniter bad
Is there a way to have the characters without having to sell my organs? Because then I might put some time into labbing matchups at a simple level.
@@Lil.Crackar imagine saying eye brawl is bad in pvp (Or am I not understanding the joke?)
@@hylus5d10 Yes there is the NFC method. And if you're playing with Dolphin Emulator you can just play whatever I think.
@@youniques1316 yeah I made a mistake. If you have the upgrade where the body fights too then he is insanely good
YES STAR STRIKE FOREVER
Giants were buffer i tell you!
Jumping makes then Way less vulnerable
I'm guessing controllers with back buttons or paddles would make gill grunt easier. Idk. I'm kind of just a casual player who just enjoys all their cool powers & has a soft spot for Halloween type ones especially but they're really all so cool in their own ways which is why I collected them all😂
You can use the bumpers
@@Fredthepizzaguy929could be referring to the poor souls who play the wii port of swap force
Pop Thorn has been my absolute favorite Skylander since the beginning and I didn't even know about the exploit until now 💀
Also one of my fav
Gooning Moments
1:00 “In General-ugh”
2:57 “Lightning Rod-ugh”
3:05 “Brief Period-ugh”
@@malditoo I’m about.com
OF COURSE I ENJOY, YOUR AMAZING
Commenting to get more Skylander videos recommended to me
I think dune bug is actually one of the best skylanders in this game if you play him right. His secondary attack is like a waayyy better version of magna charge with throwing bros off cliffs
Skylanders superchargers has a jet-vac variant that can trhow enemies of cliffs too
😅😅😂😂😂😂
nice tier list portal master friend
I still think Thumpback is a lot better than you make him out to be, but I respect the effort you put into ranking so many characters much more lol
1:50 actually, funny thing: I have the top half of dark wash buckler and the bottom half of hoot loop. ~2017 EB games had a bucket of skylanders and I found the bottom of hoot loop and really wanted it but was told buy the person working there that it had to be a full skylanders, so I ended up grabbing the top half of dark wash buckler.
apart of me hates to admit it but prism break in swap force just isnt the same, prism break s2 in giants was peak of prism break, on the second attack path you can spam those prisms and use a speed hat to make up for his lack of it, along with the charged shot working with or without the prisms (if you doubt it just try beating nightmare mode on giants with only prism break, youll thank me when the arkeyan juggernaut tries to shoot your prisms instead of you)
If I am not mistaken, they didn’t make attacks go slower but rather every time you hit an enemy it slows down. Seriously, try hitting nothing with Terrafin and then hit training dummies in Swap Force, you will see the slowness.
Great ranking by the way 👍
that would make sense, I would assume they did that to make the hits seem more impactful but since enemies don't stagger it really just hurts a lot of skylander's potential
I saw none mention how dune bags balls can bypass shields giving him a niche and atleast making him C tier
Putting Terrafin down that low is criminal
He's good in ssa and giants (normal mode and below only though). But he's pretty ass in swap force (nightmare mode)
I’d like to point out for trigger happy that his blast attack still harms spinning enemies and so far shatters the shield to the beginning enemies
I’m still testing others, but I feel like that should be noted
Is it me or did they break Prism Break's crystal drop? I remember it being able to deal ridiculous damage in giants but just... not working in Swap Force. The crystals would just disappear on enemies.
it does feel really janky. Not helped by enemies huge HP pools, and sometimes the crystals do phase through the floor. Really should have increased the hitbox size of the crystals
@@Dymastia that's what it feels like. It would explain why they get deleted before they hit anything. Oh and his little crystal stomp being absolutely garbage too
@@Dymastia actually now that I think about it, was fake difficulty mostly a Swap Force thing or was it in the others too?
@@MrSmashySmash I have no idea if enemies have more HP on higher difficulties, or if they're just like that. In Giants enemies did crazy damage but didn't have that much HP so it was kinda balanced and I never played Trap Team or Superchargers on anything higher than hard because I didn't really like them enough to replay them.
@@Dymastia understandable, have a good night
As a chop chop main I must say thank u
Chop Chop good
SLOBBER TOOTH MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥
trap shadow isn't as bad as people think. he can actually attack with his primary while being invisible
I don’t like how they straight up nerfed Hex.
Wrecking ball disrespect must be abolished
No, I will continue to disrespect the soccer ball until the day I die
@@Dymastia but look at his face and tell me you can still say d tier
@@R3SP3CT08just for saying that he gets F tier now
@@R3SP3CT08 Just like in real life short people finish last
Terrafin being in d tier hurts me. Him, prism break, and slambam were my goats of spyros adventure and giants
Cannot BELIEVE the Crusher slander in this vid but W either way
the base health and damage got increased on everything in this game and also level 20 Skylanders is the max level. They are not buffs the stat system just got changed in this game with higher hp and damage on Skylanders and enemies
i use whoever i think is the coolest
you forgot to attach the gigachad image
@@Dymastiadamn
please make one for trap team 🙏
Everyone’s lowkey getting nerfed because trap masters are required for that game
Dude, Dune bugs ball attack can ALSO knock enemies off the edge.
But it’s not as effortless with magma charge or slobber tooth
We gotta complete the list for the rest of games :D
Absolute heartbreak of terrafin being so bad in this game 😭
The ol' one-two is simply not as good as it used to be
literally playing Spyros Adventure right now and the difference is night and day between the 2 versions
I really want to critisize the fact that the tier list is based much more on raw power this time, but also, it's freakin Swap-Force we're talking about ! All the game feels like an arena battle, so I guess it's fiting.
Raw power is the only objective factor in skylanders.
@@staringcorgi6475 Yeah, yeah, totally.
Camo is extremely good against almost every boss in giants, especially Robokaos which is usually not an easy boss. He's also very good against some bosses of Trap Team by cheesing some phases, such as Wolfgang, Golden Queen, he's one of the only kinda consistent answers against Wii U Tae Kwon Crow (with Loop, Rise, Rouser or Shroomboom) and he's also very good against Trap Team Kaos because he can heal very efficiently in between attacks, especially on hard (same for Krypt King).
Rattle Shake transforms Wolfgang into a sitting duck with his turret that slows down enemies, making him pretty free even on nightmare, and he breaks Dr. Kranckase in the same way, making him completely free. It also works against every boss that run on your face, especially Eye Five. (Also, Rattle Shake's INSANE bulk makes him the best swap skylander by FAR, even though his damage output isn't crazy, it's extremely clutch on the turret sections of Swap Force.)
scratch is arguably the strongest Skylander in swap force. She can solo nightmare mode no problem and has by far and away the best damage output of any character in this game (ruby path). The only characters you can kind of make a case for being better is either cynder or roller brawl because of how mobile both of them are and therefore can also solo nightmare exceptionally easily too. The don't deal anything close to her dps though. there are some majorly shitty takes in this video I have to say.
Boom jet chillin tho
@@woah8921 he's very good yea. I don't like his bottom much but his top is very effective
Every swap force in a nutshell
Free Ranger: Ohio bird who can somehow cause tornados
Magna Charge:
version 1: spamming the gun
version 2: spamming the magnet to push most ennmies out of the map (if able)
Freeze Blade:
Skylanders Captain Cold isnt real, he cant hurt you.
Skylanders Captain Cold:
Doom Stone: just parry, block, dodge.
Rubble Rouser: *Earthquake sounds*
Blast Zone: *fire emergency alarm starts ringing*
Fire kraken: for a moment i tought it was a dragon merged with a kraken XD
Grilla Drilla: NFT skylander isnt real, it cant hurt you.
NFT Skylander:
Stink Bomb: Farts and shurikens
Hoot Loop:
(*Loop has left the server*)
Trap Shadow: half cat...half...what?
Spy Rise: 1 word,
Arachnophobia
night Shift: Dracula if he went on a boxing career
Rattle Shake:
Boing
Boing
Boing
Boing
Boing
Boing
Wash Buckler: No pirate treasure? :(
bro really started the whole spiel with “ohio bird”
The last 10 minutes of the video is so unbelievably funny
I’m glad, was thinking that it was just incoherent babbling, by the way I did end up changing my mind about a few placements. So oops
NEVER listen to the masses, keep whirlwind in S
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO LIKES NINJINI
You have some good opinions in this video. You also have some abysmal ones. I’m not gonna name and shame…
Windup
Magna charge
Dune bug…..
there are way more than that sadly,terrible research and testing done for this vid,i love his other vids but this one is just factually wrong most of the time with alot of misinformation.
I wouldn’t say factually wrong. This comment was meant to be sarcastic, not a criticism of the video.
Risk of rain music in a skylanders video goated
I have a festive bumble blast, he is easily one of my favorite skylanders cause uh… good dps + aimbot
And don’t forget the fact that it can slow enemies and bosses SO MUCH like it almost trivializes anything slowed by the honey
This guy talks about skylanders like he's their teacher on parents evening.
Wrecking Ball is bugged in the Wii version of swap force. His tongue and burp attack hit twice for some reason so he just destroys everything doing 110 damage per hit with a super spammable attack.
I respect your opinion, but Doom Stone I believe is actually a great Skylander, especially in battle mode as he can block attacks and re direct ranged attacks.
Free ranger’s blade path is better in my opinion, you do 25 damage for each hit, finishing damage is 100, AND you can move and it only takes like a second to charge, he deserves to be higher, the lightning path is kinda disappointing tbh
Swarm should be higher. Probably not S, but he isn't hit as hard as the other giants when the game isn't designed around his kind.
We ever getting a trap team tier list? 👉🏻👈🏻
Innit
HOW DARE YOU PUT THUMPBACK IN D
edit: thank you for taking him out of D.
He's a chill guy like that
I don’t Like Dune Bug either; especially compared to the other magic additions to swap force. But you can trap enemies in his Ball an throw them off cliffs. That at least should put him a Little Bit higher. It is not as satifying or as easy to pull off like it is with Magna charge But still.
Probably still the weakest Addition to swap force
AIR SKYLANDER FANS WAKE UPPPP 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Munkey
Did you forget Prism Break has a Lightcore
Who doesn't have a Wow Pow, making it worse than Series 2 and 3 versions...
Permanant Indecisiveness
I used Terrafin to defeat the Fire Viper for the no damage star.
Luckily i played this on the wii