I remember Skylanders. I found a trick where if you were scanning one character, then swapped it out for another one quickly, the game would register a completely unrelated one, which I used to unlock secret areas locked behind elements I didn't have yet.
Both Bouncer and Ninjini have the fastest speed of not just the Giants, but every Skylander in the game iirc. The only reason they feel "slow" is because of their bigger frames (relative to Core Skylanders, which would feel super fast if they had the same speed due to their smaller body) They only lose to those that have really good movement attacks that can be spammed to travel faster
@@regularphill True he's the only one who gets around the Size Issue as well do to that for Repositioning. Sucks that Ninjini's Bottle Gimmick is Borderline Trash in Game. Should have lasted like 5 Seconds and Made her Invulnerable while Firing off a Bunch of Spells. Instead we have a Bad Damage Skill that makes you feel somehow even Slower then the Big Frame.
We used to use Wrecking Ball to glitch thru locked gates lol. Also we could get him to glitch hard enough that the camera angle would change and we could see under the island, and there would be a lot of random unused assets, like a random second Flynn t-posing
I have to say that in my opinion Prism Break should be somewhere in s tier as he has a laser rhat separates, being able to tackle multiple enemies at once. Also it's long range and super useful
Also Crusher is so good when maxed out. I think he is better than Thumpback in all but movement. Camo is actually really good when maxed out the second (exploding vine) path
@@ghosty-gamer Prism break is definitely top tier, but thanks to his secondary and third attacks, he is a powerhouse, while crusher is by far the worst skylander of giants, he is slow, attacks slowly, not that strong, easily overwhelm, his movement option is actually useless, and his third attack even more useless, that's a shame considering how cool he looks with the armor upgrade
For drill sergeant, try the primary path for the series 2, the wow pow gives you the upgrade that was in the secondary path that makes tertiary last forever, so you can spam primary and tertiary for some decent damage
Honestly I still think the wow pow fits the secondary path better because your laser gets more dps and this way you get the third strong laser shot more often. (But I have to admit that I have more expierence with rating skylanders in pvp than pve)
@@Hallorenzo and that may be the case in pvp, I just haven’t really played it since I have no one to play with, but in pve I chose the top path and was happy with my decision
Zook's cactus path is just insanely good. The only think he's lacking is good movement, but he doesn't need to get out too often because the cactuses also distract enemies.
man I hope the skylanders community keeps having this little resurgence. just seeing lots of content and it's got me so nostalgic! I played the fuck out of Spyros Adventure and Giants, and the others too, but those two are just my all time favorite.
You put all these next to each other it becomes really apparent that the lead artist really likes that sunken-in, pug-like face on all the monster characters- I swear it’s like half of them.
I think Giants is where our tier lists would start to deviate a lot because of one big thing: difficulty levels. On top of us just ranking things differently, where you take almost exclusively gameplay aspects while I include those as well as basically every design aspect, from figure to voice, I like to play a lot more casually, rather than be super challenged, and so I play mainly on normal as opposed to hard or nightmare. I think it makes watching these videos very interesting as I get to see how a persons perception on a character changes based on things not even related to the character themselves. If you plan on keeping this going through the 10th anniversaries, I would be very excited to see more. You've earned yourself a sub man, keep up the good work.
Great tier list, i like your picks and your reasonings for them. I must disagree about Fright Rider however; I personally adore him. His jousting path makes his charging more powerful and combined with spamming the spin attack, I find it quite fun and exciting to attack enemies. I don't believe he is anywhere near bad but I understand why others would think so. But this was a really good list and it's making me rethink how I used certain Skylanders. Hope you make more in the future!😊
I know im one year late but this is the truest comment I've ever seen. Im playing giants for the first time and using him with his lower path. He's an absolute unit!
My friend you are cooking with exotic oils and a golden pan. I dunno anything about this game since I haven't played it in almost a decade but congrats on breaking TH-cam wide open.
Ghost Roaster's ectoplasm path is actually really good on nightmare mode since the amount of damage you have to take is incomparable to like, half or all of your health. The secondary attack still doesn't attack more than once on the wii but on other consoles is does and it acts as a good hit and run move since it's really fast, which makes it good for travel as well. His ghosts also do most of the heavy lifting.
Imo Zook is very top of S tier. Might be a bit exaggerated but OMG HE OS SO GOOD. Please for the love of god use his bottom path PLEASE, the cacti are insane
Going down Fright Rider's secondary path actually makes him a great hit and run as the spin is very easy to use as a drive by giving a character defined by close range a good get off me tool that also allows him to have a fairly non-commital push-in tool, plus his charge damage is busted. He's pretty ass on Nightmare in Giants purely because it kinda kicks melee Skylanders in the dick but I think he's pretty fun on the other difficulties and in other games to a certain degree.
He is great for speedrunning levels in Giants if you go down the secondary path. The spin attack obliterate groups of small and medium sized enemies even in nightmare mode.
I gotta say when it comes to easy mode every single sky lander is 100% viable in their own right, unfortunately nightmare mode is an unforgiving playground. Also thank you so much for bringing Skylanders content to my childish brain lol I needed this in my life
boulder turning into rocks can be used to avoid damage not to do damage so u can get lots of damage in and get away and the reason turning enemies to stone is to stop minions from annoying u while u deal with bigger problems plus if u could turn anyone to stone that would be too overpowered and would take away the fun of the game
I'm roughly a year late, but I wanted to share a funny thing. So, me and my brother often visit stores that resell old games, media and other stuff, some including skylanders. One thing we always noticed was that Tree Rex was always 0.99 in our currency, so we started joking that other Skylanders should be valued in Rexes. Ninjina is 12 Rexes, for instance. Anyway, I rate this video 9 Rexes
I will say prism break should probably just be in S tier. If you go for the bottom path Crystaleer. You can drop two sets of three crystals. Then just shoot into any of them and spam the wow pow. The constant flow of good damage mixed with the wow pow just melts bigger targets. And smaller enemies get almost instantly destroyed. It basically like having a disco ball of deadly lasers.
It's kinda funny to me looking at this list since I'm realizing most of the Skylanders I had ranked among the good ones and also that I had all but one of the new cores in Giants. Weird realisations I guess.
This is the most accurate tier list I have seen. As someone who comes back to giants every few months for a new nightmare run, I agree with nearly every take in this video. (pop fizz mixology is peak tho).
@@tycheese5nah, they are all really good. wrecking ball has insane dps on ball path and is invincible while using the ball, fright riders last upgrade on bottom path is really good if used right, and voodood is just overally pretty good
Great video! Agree with some of your takes like Swarm and Thumpack, but not all of them (you did my boy Warnado dirty 😔) Excited for the Swap Force one!
I agree that beast mode is kinda useless in nightmare mode, however even without it pop fizz is still a beast. He deals tons of damage and his purple potions can distract enemies so they won't attack him. Fright rider isn't the strongest however he is really fun and you should definitely take the secondary attack path it's stronger and way more fun
Yea but they feel slower because they don’t have a movement attack, like Bash is slower walking but his secondary attack makes him move faster than most other skylanders
I think making this list solely based off of their performance in Nightmare Mode holds a lot of the Skylanders back specifically the Giants and melee Skylanders. When you play Skylanders, you're playing Skylanders to have fun, and as you said in the beginning, Hard Mode is more fair and balanced, and you're not getting one-shot left right and center. Your tier list is valid for n=Nightmare Mode, but I feel there should be one for Hard Mode.
rant incoming, apologies if i come off as rude: holy shit, this might be the worst tier list i have ever seen in my ENTIRE life. “fright rider sucks” he it literally one of the best skylanders in the entire game on bottom path. Wrecking ball gets an INSANE buff with s2, hex is literally the single best skylander in giants, shouldn’t be in A tier, crusher is not bad if you know how to use him right, thumpback is genuinely worse than sprocket, and sunburn should be high S. don’t even get me started on eye brawl. the upgrade that makes him follow the eye is singlehandedly the WORST upgrade on any skylander ever. it makes him so bad, he is almost worse than sprocket. jet vac should be lower, stump smash in S, hot head in high A-low S, prism break in S, chill in S, pop fizz way higher, and don’t get me started on the insane glazing of tree rex. he isn’t even that good. chop chop overrated, spyro overrated, camo very high A, ninjini a little higher due to her combo on top path having something called “Aggro”where an enemy will attack a summon and ignore you, which zook, stealth elf, slam bam, sonic boom, prism break, ninjini, stump smash, pop fizz, and many others have. Voodood is actually pretty good on tripwire path, and terrafin is ass. that is most of my complaints by a professional giants player who is part of the unm server. Oh yeah, and double trouble is NOT the best skylander
Glad Camo's at least in A Rank if I remember correctly when Specced and Played right. He can basically become Immortal since he's one of the Few if Only Skylanders with a Healing Skill much less a Decent Heal that you can kinda spam. Though it's hard to use consistent and effectively when enemies are surrounding you. As I think the Projectiles that Heal will Hit Enemies Instead. But with his Watermelon Field, Other Defenses and Ranged Attacks he's great for Annoying Content.
I think voodood is pretty good because his damage if you choose his first pad is pretty good and his combos are insane. Also his pull attack plus his combos are very good
I was about to point at every thing that is incorrect, but that would be too long so heres a top 5 5: Sprocket warnado and fright rider are not that bad, they are in the middle, you just need to invest to get good with them 4: Wham shell and lightning rod are some top tier (definitely in the top 10 with the Big bolt and the versatility/power of wham shell) 3: Thumpback is maybe the second best giant, at least the third best one, range is just needeed with giants, and thumpback have it, and he is strong too 2: Ninjini is top tier, there is no debate about it, crowd control, bottle form allows a giant to have small hitbox and that is an incredible thing to get, great range and projectiles, definitely top tier 1: Tree rex... He is overrated as f* He is not that strong, his dash is not really good, he is super slow to attack and get easily overwhelm, his only saving grace is his soul gem and his projectile Honorable mentions: Sunburn is actually one of the best skylanders, camo is even better than where you put him and Crusher is so bad he would need another tier under the trash can to put him
finally someone who is (mostly) smart. only disagreement is how thumpback is really bad in nightmare mode, and how crusher isn’t that bad on rockslide path.
@@JimmyAntavius crusher can flee quite well, but behind he can’t put in the work in nightmare without taking years And if you go into nightmare bouncer become top tier and one of the only two viable giants, so yeah thumpback does not perform that well in nightmare But he is still really good Every skylanders can be good if you put the work in the end
Sprocket is bad alright like the sentry turrets leave you a sitting duck to get hurt and aren’t worth it and the wrench is slow. The only useful play style of sprocket is throwing mines until the enemy dies.
What's funny is one time in I think it was called the Kaos Colosseum in the main story quest is I only had like 15 hp left with double trouble and my sister has nearly full health around the beginning with a different skylander ..let's say I somehow managed to survive until the end while my sister d i e d
Didn't have the money to get into this game when the first one came out and tbh I don't think I'd be into it today, but I like digging into niche communities. Gonna watch some more vids even though I will most likely never play it. Awesome that you and these people can get together and talk about what you like
@@rileydugan2443 thumpback is very cool and i love him, but as much as i wish he was good, he just isn’t. his attacks are slow, not great range, and leave him very vulnerable. he can do like nothing on nightmare mode. he is good in almost every other game tho
They are both awful lol. Giants already have a disadvantage in nightmare mode being so slow. With crusher not having any speed boost along with his secondary and tertiary attacks being way too inconsistent make him a terrible Skylander. Then the only use for thumpback is his primary from far away. His other attacks do next to no damage and his slow ass primary move is the only way to go.
Wrecking balls wow pow is slept on so hard; i found a little gimmick to use: disco ball dash, and use the forcefield blast right after you hit an enemy with the disco ball. Hes still a hit and run character, but you can start up the disco ball very very fast in giants, and he does about 100-150 damage every two seconds. Still an C tier character?
wrong path on Prism break imo his secondary where he summons 3 crysals from the sky saved my ass in nightmare mode in arcus city since the crystals take agro and do very good damage from distance
Awesome video :) Must say I disagree with a few of your picks but thats just my opinion ofcourse. Overall a very decent tierlist. Do you plan on making more skylanders content? Would love to see it :)
Wrecking ball is S tier. I don’t care about the “meta” of Skylanders. He is wrecking ball. S. I don’t need to state the reason as to why because I just like to idea of throwing a Skylander into a wall like a chao from Sonic Adventure and watching it bounce around, I don’t need any of that “WeLl ThIs OnE pAtH mAkEs HiM S” I honestly have no clue. He bounces, that’s all you need. Move him to S. I have stated my case.
@@staringcorgi6475 hell nah, he falls off in ssf. his main thing is that he’s invincible in the ball, his ball charges instantly, and that if he cancels it as soon as he hits an enemy, he does crazy damage. in ssf, he’s no longer invincible, and it takes a while to charge up. not to mention he does less damage. while yes the knockback is nice, he would be way better in tt then ssf since tt has knockback too
Series 2 Chop Chop, Zook and Drill Sergeant should be in S tier because they become literal GODS if you upgrade them correctly... let me show you how: Chop Chop series 2: shield path makes him invulnerable to and damage from the front while using the shield and his wow pow let's him use that shield while moving around at incredible speed while hitting with his shield makes enemies unable to attack you... also his shield absorbs damage and shoots it back at the enemies... people who use his swords just don't understand how broken s2 Chop chop really is Zook with the Cactus spawn path is so overpowered, he's the only one who even has a chance of surviving s2 Chop chop in pvp since the cactus knocks enemies back on contact and since even projectiles spawn the cactus when hitting the floor... completely broken Drill Sergeant is a completely broken homing spam god if you upgrade the Drill projectiles because you can literally spam them infinitely while they split in waves of small rockets that little target enemies by themselves and are able to get combined with the Canon on his back who's also able to just spam projectiles... no idea who balanced this skylander but Holy moly, the screen is just full of projectiles, making him basically the first cheater skylander before the eons elite
I would honestly put terrafin in S. He can stay underground indefinitely pretty much, and can summon minions and deal damage with his fin while under allowing him to kill and take no damage.
I haven't played Giants in over half a decade, nor did I pay attention to their performance, so I'll take your word for it I mained Prism Break by the way
Yea I thought he looked cool too, but his gameplay needs some work, he might be better than I’m giving him credit for here since I only used one path with him.
@@Dymastiayeah, bottom path is WAAAAY better, and you are really only gonna be using the “360 degrees of spear” attack. it has really good dps, you gotta give him a try
I remember Skylanders. I found a trick where if you were scanning one character, then swapped it out for another one quickly, the game would register a completely unrelated one, which I used to unlock secret areas locked behind elements I didn't have yet.
THAT WORKS WHAT????? that would have helped me slot back in the day
That would save my parents a lot od money
bruh wdf
TELL ME MORE PLIIIS
This isnt true
my brain cant handle this much nostalgia/ i still remember th days of playing that one card game in the pirate area or something. loved that
Sky stones was truly a legendary mini game
Both Bouncer and Ninjini have the fastest speed of not just the Giants, but every Skylander in the game iirc. The only reason they feel "slow" is because of their bigger frames (relative to Core Skylanders, which would feel super fast if they had the same speed due to their smaller body)
They only lose to those that have really good movement attacks that can be spammed to travel faster
I always wanted ninjini man but my mom said no
Swarm faster with wings anyway tho.
@@regularphill True he's the only one who gets around the Size Issue as well do to that for Repositioning. Sucks that Ninjini's Bottle Gimmick is Borderline Trash in Game. Should have lasted like 5 Seconds and Made her Invulnerable while Firing off a Bunch of Spells. Instead we have a Bad Damage Skill that makes you feel somehow even Slower then the Big Frame.
@@dr.dylansgame5583yeah but her mini is actually better though. Mini-Jini is much faster
We used to use Wrecking Ball to glitch thru locked gates lol. Also we could get him to glitch hard enough that the camera angle would change and we could see under the island, and there would be a lot of random unused assets, like a random second Flynn t-posing
I thought that was only in the first game, can you do that in Giants too?
How do you do that
@@Thesatanchips idk
I have to say that in my opinion Prism Break should be somewhere in s tier as he has a laser rhat separates, being able to tackle multiple enemies at once. Also it's long range and super useful
Also Crusher is so good when maxed out. I think he is better than Thumpback in all but movement. Camo is actually really good when maxed out the second (exploding vine) path
@@ghosty-gamer Prism break is definitely top tier, but thanks to his secondary and third attacks, he is a powerhouse, while crusher is by far the worst skylander of giants, he is slow, attacks slowly, not that strong, easily overwhelm, his movement option is actually useless, and his third attack even more useless, that's a shame considering how cool he looks with the armor upgrade
@@PonKabruti Sprocket?
@@agentblackbird9435 sprocket at least have range and hood crowd control with the mines
@@PonKabrutiHadn’t see the full video before commenting, my bad
For drill sergeant, try the primary path for the series 2, the wow pow gives you the upgrade that was in the secondary path that makes tertiary last forever, so you can spam primary and tertiary for some decent damage
THIS! I always thought Drill Sergeant was pretty good when I was a kid, so I was shocked to see so many people say he's terrible
Honestly I still think the wow pow fits the secondary path better because your laser gets more dps and this way you get the third strong laser shot more often. (But I have to admit that I have more expierence with rating skylanders in pvp than pve)
@@Hallorenzo and that may be the case in pvp, I just haven’t really played it since I have no one to play with, but in pve I chose the top path and was happy with my decision
best skylander imo
Zook's cactus path is just insanely good.
The only think he's lacking is good movement, but he doesn't need to get out too often because the cactuses also distract enemies.
Finally a tier list. This channel is hella underrated, how much wor on this list is. Great work ty!
man I hope the skylanders community keeps having this little resurgence. just seeing lots of content and it's got me so nostalgic! I played the fuck out of Spyros Adventure and Giants, and the others too, but those two are just my all time favorite.
You put all these next to each other it becomes really apparent that the lead artist really likes that sunken-in, pug-like face on all the monster characters- I swear it’s like half of them.
from a lot of playing, i can tell you in confidence, Camo maxed out is literally unkillable, his attacks are SO strong. great video!
I think Giants is where our tier lists would start to deviate a lot because of one big thing: difficulty levels. On top of us just ranking things differently, where you take almost exclusively gameplay aspects while I include those as well as basically every design aspect, from figure to voice, I like to play a lot more casually, rather than be super challenged, and so I play mainly on normal as opposed to hard or nightmare. I think it makes watching these videos very interesting as I get to see how a persons perception on a character changes based on things not even related to the character themselves. If you plan on keeping this going through the 10th anniversaries, I would be very excited to see more. You've earned yourself a sub man, keep up the good work.
Great tier list, i like your picks and your reasonings for them. I must disagree about Fright Rider however; I personally adore him. His jousting path makes his charging more powerful and combined with spamming the spin attack, I find it quite fun and exciting to attack enemies. I don't believe he is anywhere near bad but I understand why others would think so. But this was a really good list and it's making me rethink how I used certain Skylanders. Hope you make more in the future!😊
Amen brother 🙏
I know im one year late but this is the truest comment I've ever seen. Im playing giants for the first time and using him with his lower path. He's an absolute unit!
PREACH 🔥
Crushers ranking should be a crime
that thumbnail is making me react in a way I do not know how to describe
Love how you had the risk of rain 2 soundtrack in there, I was bumpin the whole time
I always thought this was a pokemon spin off nah just kidding i was a huge skylander fan but the similarities are uncanny
My friend you are cooking with exotic oils and a golden pan. I dunno anything about this game since I haven't played it in almost a decade but congrats on breaking TH-cam wide open.
Ghost Roaster's ectoplasm path is actually really good on nightmare mode since the amount of damage you have to take is incomparable to like, half or all of your health. The secondary attack still doesn't attack more than once on the wii but on other consoles is does and it acts as a good hit and run move since it's really fast, which makes it good for travel as well. His ghosts also do most of the heavy lifting.
One of my favorite games as a kid I remember getting them for Christmas I loved it
Imo Zook is very top of S tier. Might be a bit exaggerated but OMG HE OS SO GOOD. Please for the love of god use his bottom path PLEASE, the cacti are insane
Going down Fright Rider's secondary path actually makes him a great hit and run as the spin is very easy to use as a drive by giving a character defined by close range a good get off me tool that also allows him to have a fairly non-commital push-in tool, plus his charge damage is busted.
He's pretty ass on Nightmare in Giants purely because it kinda kicks melee Skylanders in the dick but I think he's pretty fun on the other difficulties and in other games to a certain degree.
He is great for speedrunning levels in Giants if you go down the secondary path. The spin attack obliterate groups of small and medium sized enemies even in nightmare mode.
Freight rider good design.
fright rider is really good in nightmare
Popfiz is the first skylander to have an actual jump which can in some cases allow him to skip block puzzles
Crusher in D is absurd, dude is a UNIT
I gotta say when it comes to easy mode every single sky lander is 100% viable in their own right, unfortunately nightmare mode is an unforgiving playground. Also thank you so much for bringing Skylanders content to my childish brain lol I needed this in my life
Whenever he said tenth anniversary, it made me feel so old dude
4:39 is when he starts the actual giants tier list
Crusher was my favorite skylander when I was a kid. That ranking hurt
it's always funny to see a youtuber talking about having 300 subs and then scrolling down to see them with over 1k
I hate that my boy Chop Chop is in A tier. He is always my go to, he can heal when he kills enemies with his sword.
it’s only 5 hp, and you arent gonna be using the sword ever on s2
boulder turning into rocks can be used to avoid damage not to do damage so u can get lots of damage in and get away and the reason turning enemies to stone is to stop minions from annoying u while u deal with bigger problems plus if u could turn anyone to stone that would be too overpowered and would take away the fun of the game
did you just call him boulder?
my favorite giant, boulder 🔥
I'm roughly a year late, but I wanted to share a funny thing.
So, me and my brother often visit stores that resell old games, media and other stuff, some including skylanders. One thing we always noticed was that Tree Rex was always 0.99 in our currency, so we started joking that other Skylanders should be valued in Rexes. Ninjina is 12 Rexes, for instance.
Anyway, I rate this video 9 Rexes
I will say prism break should probably just be in S tier. If you go for the bottom path Crystaleer. You can drop two sets of three crystals. Then just shoot into any of them and spam the wow pow. The constant flow of good damage mixed with the wow pow just melts bigger targets. And smaller enemies get almost instantly destroyed.
It basically like having a disco ball of deadly lasers.
It's kinda funny to me looking at this list since I'm realizing most of the Skylanders I had ranked among the good ones and also that I had all but one of the new cores in Giants. Weird realisations I guess.
For me Cynder is like my favorite and best to use her lighting path combo is so good
This is the most accurate tier list I have seen. As someone who comes back to giants every few months for a new nightmare run, I agree with nearly every take in this video. (pop fizz mixology is peak tho).
there were so many that he way underrated power wise, like wrecking ball, fright rider, voodood, etc. this tier list is pretty inaccurate overall
@@JimmyAntavius All 3 of those are mediocre at best
@@tycheese5 😐
@@tycheese5nah, they are all really good. wrecking ball has insane dps on ball path and is invincible while using the ball, fright riders last upgrade on bottom path is really good if used right, and voodood is just overally pretty good
@@JimmyAntavius Maybe I went the wrong path on wrecking ball, I’ll give those 3 another try next time I play!
ZOOK IS DOING 720 DAMAGE!! HE DOES THE MOST DAMAGE OUT OF ANY GIANT!!
WHAT THE HELL??!!!
I remember soloing Spyro's Adventure with Terrafin at one point. Ah, good times
I dont know if this is bias speaking but I feel like drill sergeant is CRIMINALLY underrated and should move up a few tiers
I feel the same for wham shell
Great video! Agree with some of your takes like Swarm and Thumpack, but not all of them (you did my boy Warnado dirty 😔) Excited for the Swap Force one!
I agree that beast mode is kinda useless in nightmare mode, however even without it pop fizz is still a beast. He deals tons of damage and his purple potions can distract enemies so they won't attack him. Fright rider isn't the strongest however he is really fun and you should definitely take the secondary attack path it's stronger and way more fun
"Ninjini is slow"
Ninjini who has the fastest speed stat of every skylander, Bouncer too
Yea but they feel slower because they don’t have a movement attack, like Bash is slower walking but his secondary attack makes him move faster than most other skylanders
@@Dymastia at least he's not Eye-Brawl, slowest movement speed with no movement abilities, unless you count his primary
@@ender01o66 I’m counting the primary cause that shit is funny
@@Dymastia lmao xD
@@Dymastia you forgot about flashwing since she's voiced by Tara strong from mlp fim
YOU ARE G.O.A.T.E.D
Reference at 12:24 caught me off guard 😂
I think making this list solely based off of their performance in Nightmare Mode holds a lot of the Skylanders back specifically the Giants and melee Skylanders. When you play Skylanders, you're playing Skylanders to have fun, and as you said in the beginning, Hard Mode is more fair and balanced, and you're not getting one-shot left right and center. Your tier list is valid for n=Nightmare Mode, but I feel there should be one for Hard Mode.
What would be the point of ranking them then?
rant incoming, apologies if i come off as rude:
holy shit, this might be the worst tier list i have ever seen in my ENTIRE life. “fright rider sucks” he it literally one of the best skylanders in the entire game on bottom path. Wrecking ball gets an INSANE buff with s2, hex is literally the single best skylander in giants, shouldn’t be in A tier, crusher is not bad if you know how to use him right, thumpback is genuinely worse than sprocket, and sunburn should be high S. don’t even get me started on eye brawl. the upgrade that makes him follow the eye is singlehandedly the WORST upgrade on any skylander ever. it makes him so bad, he is almost worse than sprocket. jet vac should be lower, stump smash in S, hot head in high A-low S, prism break in S, chill in S, pop fizz way higher, and don’t get me started on the insane glazing of tree rex. he isn’t even that good. chop chop overrated, spyro overrated, camo very high A, ninjini a little higher due to her combo on top path having something called “Aggro”where an enemy will attack a summon and ignore you, which zook, stealth elf, slam bam, sonic boom, prism break, ninjini, stump smash, pop fizz, and many others have. Voodood is actually pretty good on tripwire path, and terrafin is ass. that is most of my complaints by a professional giants player who is part of the unm server. Oh yeah, and double trouble is NOT the best skylander
They broke tree Rex’s primary attack in swap force as the hitbox is bugged to be much smaller than it was in giants,
Sad to see my favourite (Warnado) at the bottom but great video! Really bringing the nostalgia
8:11 what did he sayyyyy😂
With practice on the lowest ones, you’ll find out they’re very good
But voodood’s odd hitbox still doesn’t make him great and you’d be better off using chop chop or igniter since their hitboxes are more reliable.
my goddd so many memoriessss this was like one of my favourite games for ps3 as a kid
Glad Camo's at least in A Rank if I remember correctly when Specced and Played right. He can basically become Immortal since he's one of the Few if Only Skylanders with a Healing Skill much less a Decent Heal that you can kinda spam. Though it's hard to use consistent and effectively when enemies are surrounding you. As I think the Projectiles that Heal will Hit Enemies Instead. But with his Watermelon Field, Other Defenses and Ranged Attacks he's great for Annoying Content.
It’s awesome seeing how different someone else’s opinion is. For example, I believe that lightning rod deserves A tier.
How I played Skylanders:
Step 1. Put Eyebrawl on portal
Step 2. Feed Kaos his own teeth
Exactly
I think voodood is pretty good because his damage if you choose his first pad is pretty good and his combos are insane. Also his pull attack plus his combos are very good
when i was a kid i remembered i mained hot dog and zap, so seeing where they were put on the tierlist just made me sad
This Fright Rider slander will not stand
I was about to point at every thing that is incorrect, but that would be too long
so heres a top 5
5: Sprocket warnado and fright rider are not that bad, they are in the middle, you just need to invest to get good with them
4: Wham shell and lightning rod are some top tier (definitely in the top 10 with the Big bolt and the versatility/power of wham shell)
3: Thumpback is maybe the second best giant, at least the third best one, range is just needeed with giants, and thumpback have it, and he is strong too
2: Ninjini is top tier, there is no debate about it, crowd control, bottle form allows a giant to have small hitbox and that is an incredible thing to get, great range and projectiles, definitely top tier
1: Tree rex... He is overrated as f* He is not that strong, his dash is not really good, he is super slow to attack and get easily overwhelm, his only saving grace is his soul gem and his projectile
Honorable mentions: Sunburn is actually one of the best skylanders, camo is even better than where you put him and Crusher is so bad he would need another tier under the trash can to put him
finally someone who is (mostly) smart. only disagreement is how thumpback is really bad in nightmare mode, and how crusher isn’t that bad on rockslide path.
@@JimmyAntavius crusher can flee quite well, but behind he can’t put in the work in nightmare without taking years
And if you go into nightmare bouncer become top tier and one of the only two viable giants, so yeah thumpback does not perform that well in nightmare
But he is still really good
Every skylanders can be good if you put the work in the end
And I would add that crusher still have the least out of all 48 skylanders in giants, which does not mean it’s bad, just one had to be the worst
Sprocket is bad alright like the sentry turrets leave you a sitting duck to get hurt and aren’t worth it and the wrench is slow. The only useful play style of sprocket is throwing mines until the enemy dies.
@@staringcorgi6475 if you can manage to have multiple turrets she is not bad
But you NEED to find a moment where you can build them without being hit
Voodood has devasting damage with his axe, why is he in bottom tier? His last combo attack deals 96 damage, insane
U do be spittin facts
This was literally childhood videogame
What's funny is one time in I think it was called the Kaos Colosseum in the main story quest is I only had like 15 hp left with double trouble and my sister has nearly full health around the beginning with a different skylander
..let's say I somehow managed to survive until the end while my sister d i e d
oh yeah, chap 9 Kaos’ Kastle is pretty hard
How to beat Skylanders Giant be like:
1. Buy Tree-Rex
2. ?
3. Profit
tree rex is mid
Guess i gotta buy a light or dark element related item to see what that 2nd step is
Didn't have the money to get into this game when the first one came out and tbh I don't think I'd be into it today, but I like digging into niche communities. Gonna watch some more vids even though I will most likely never play it. Awesome that you and these people can get together and talk about what you like
didn't know that eazyspeezy had a second secret channel
one of my favorite games ever.
Love the content man, I know the audience in nich but I hope you keep it up if you’re still enjoying the process!
Bro really said Crusher and thumpback are bad 💀
thumpback is bad, but crusher is overhated
@JimmyAntavius I agree, crusher is overhated, but Thumpback isn't bad, he's pretty good and cool asf
@@rileydugan2443 thumpback is very cool and i love him, but as much as i wish he was good, he just isn’t. his attacks are slow, not great range, and leave him very vulnerable. he can do like nothing on nightmare mode. he is good in almost every other game tho
They are both awful lol. Giants already have a disadvantage in nightmare mode being so slow. With crusher not having any speed boost along with his secondary and tertiary attacks being way too inconsistent make him a terrible Skylander. Then the only use for thumpback is his primary from far away. His other attacks do next to no damage and his slow ass primary move is the only way to go.
@RRGames09 you're wrong and don't know how to use them, you also shouldn't be looking at this in nightmare
Wrecking balls wow pow is slept on so hard; i found a little gimmick to use: disco ball dash, and use the forcefield blast right after you hit an enemy with the disco ball. Hes still a hit and run character, but you can start up the disco ball very very fast in giants, and he does about 100-150 damage every two seconds. Still an C tier character?
So happy you brought up the bottle rockets for ninjini!
Eye Brawl and Thumpback in B is criminal NGL
31:55 we found the world’s only bottle fan
ok you moved bash down but DOUBLE TROUBLE ON TOP IM STILL HERE
This is so nostalgic to me bruh
you deserve to burn in the deepset hell fires for putting wrecking ball in D tier
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more More MORE! All the game tier lists
wrong path on Prism break imo his secondary where he summons 3 crysals from the sky saved my ass in nightmare mode in arcus city since the crystals take agro and do very good damage from distance
i would add Hex, Prism break and Chop Chop to S tier
@@dark_aod5039melee characters don’t belong in s unless they can do insane DPS or have something else to make them good.
i need a swap force video now, this is too good
Love seeing skylanders videos that aren't 10+ years old
Awesome video :) Must say I disagree with a few of your picks but thats just my opinion ofcourse. Overall a very decent tierlist. Do you plan on making more skylanders content? Would love to see it :)
I personally think that stealth elf is in fact the best one when you choose her main attack path that damage is just insane
TREEREX A TIER?! WHAT IN TARNATION?! YOU’RE TRAAAASH L TIER LIST.
preaching over here 🔥
I personally love Fright Rider, but I respect your opinion.
Literally my favorite Undead skylanders he sucks on the top path tho.
Can't wait for the Swap Force one!
Drill Sargent was broken for me and he was the ultimate spam
He's pretty good against the final boss in SSA, I really like his design but tech just has too good of competition
This is one of the most unbased Tierlists in ever
Took more than half the video before the actual giants tier list started😭💀
@@drippindog7214 watch time efficiency 💪
skylanders is such a nostalgic game for me, it is such a good idea and the games were fucking awesome
Gill grunt above trigger happy is crazy work
Gill grunt can take hits though while trigger happy can’t
Wrecking ball is S tier. I don’t care about the “meta” of Skylanders. He is wrecking ball. S. I don’t need to state the reason as to why because I just like to idea of throwing a Skylander into a wall like a chao from Sonic Adventure and watching it bounce around, I don’t need any of that “WeLl ThIs OnE pAtH mAkEs HiM S” I honestly have no clue. He bounces, that’s all you need. Move him to S. I have stated my case.
wouldn’t say S tier, but he is really powerful on ball path
Wrecking ball is so much better in swap force than here since his ball attack actually knock backs enemies.
@@staringcorgi6475 hell nah, he falls off in ssf. his main thing is that he’s invincible in the ball, his ball charges instantly, and that if he cancels it as soon as he hits an enemy, he does crazy damage. in ssf, he’s no longer invincible, and it takes a while to charge up. not to mention he does less damage. while yes the knockback is nice, he would be way better in tt then ssf since tt has knockback too
Series 2 Chop Chop, Zook and Drill Sergeant should be in S tier because they become literal GODS if you upgrade them correctly... let me show you how:
Chop Chop series 2: shield path makes him invulnerable to and damage from the front while using the shield and his wow pow let's him use that shield while moving around at incredible speed while hitting with his shield makes enemies unable to attack you... also his shield absorbs damage and shoots it back at the enemies... people who use his swords just don't understand how broken s2 Chop chop really is
Zook with the Cactus spawn path is so overpowered, he's the only one who even has a chance of surviving s2 Chop chop in pvp since the cactus knocks enemies back on contact and since even projectiles spawn the cactus when hitting the floor... completely broken
Drill Sergeant is a completely broken homing spam god if you upgrade the Drill projectiles because you can literally spam them infinitely while they split in waves of small rockets that little target enemies by themselves and are able to get combined with the Canon on his back who's also able to just spam projectiles... no idea who balanced this skylander but Holy moly, the screen is just full of projectiles, making him basically the first cheater skylander before the eons elite
the drill charge path is better for drill sergeant by quite a bit.
I would honestly put terrafin in S. He can stay underground indefinitely pretty much, and can summon minions and deal damage with his fin while under allowing him to kill and take no damage.
I haven't played Giants in over half a decade, nor did I pay attention to their performance, so I'll take your word for it
I mained Prism Break by the way
Don’t take his word for it, fright rider and wrecking ball are op
Can’t wait to see Scorp ranked S tier
Love this series hopefully we get the Swap Force tier list soon.
This is bringing me BACK
Fully disagree on terafin. He may be melee but he can go underground. Saved my ass a lot as a kid. Makes him real good at dodging boss moves
Damn sucks to hear Fright Rider sucks because I adored him and his design so much
Yea I thought he looked cool too, but his gameplay needs some work, he might be better than I’m giving him credit for here since I only used one path with him.
@@Dymastiayeah, bottom path is WAAAAY better, and you are really only gonna be using the “360 degrees of spear” attack. it has really good dps, you gotta give him a try
Pop fizz IS THE GOAT
idk its been like 8-9 years since ive played any skylanders game
Nice, now we got to wait for the one for swap force