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Every Swap Force Core Ranked From Worst To Best
Boy oh boy, was this a hard list to make. Out of the three groups of assisting cores, the fact that the Swap Force cores were overshadowed so much was the biggest shame. This is mainly because most of these skylanders are fantastic and even the worst ones are pretty good. This list was a tough one, but I still managed to make it. With that being said, let's talk about some great skylanders.
Every Swapper Ranked From Worst To Best
Swap Force was exactly what Skylanders needed after the poor taste that was left by Giants, as it introduced a new concept that I can't even being to explain. The main skylanders in this game weren't just oversized cores with a few minor adjustments. They had the awesome ability to literally swap their top and bottom halves to give a lot of variety to the players (btw, there are a total of 256 combinations). Another thing that Swap Force did that was a big improvement over Giants was that it not only released more new characters, but more new and great characters. As for the main attraction, while not all of the swappers are great, I found that the majority of them are. With that being said, let's get into the list.
Every Giants Core Ranked From Worst To Best
Giants was also the game that started the trend of the cores getting overshadowed by the main group of the game. In Giants, it's not the biggest shame since only a couple of them are great, but it still sucks that some enjoyable skylanders got overshadowed by the Giants. What's also interesting was that these guys were even easier to rank than their giant counterparts. With that being said, let's get into the list before the opinion police show up again.
Every Giant Ranked From Worst To Best
Giants is mostly known as the worst Skylanders game for a number of reasons. My biggest issue with the game is that there weren't that many new skylanders released; what makes the issue even worse is that only five of them were great while the quality of the others varies depending on who you're talking about. However, that also made ranking them much easier, so let's get on to the list!
Every Spyro's Adventure Skylander Ranked From Worst To Best
Spyro's Adventure was the game that got many people into Skylanders to begin with. I can't really say that about myself, but I did acquire the game later and, even though I do find it to be one of the weaker games in the series, I still really enjoy it. In terms of the characters that were released, I found the majority of them to be great while others were far from it. So with that said, let's analyze the original batch.
Update: 7/20 - 7/24
I'm sure that some people were wondering why there were no reviews on Saturday and Sunday. That was mainly because I can't really play Skylanders in my current circumstances. However, this doesn't mean that there won't be content this week. I knew ahead of time that I wouldn't be able to do any reviews this week, so I prepared three different ranking list of the different groups that I've fully reviewed during this series. Here's the schedule: Monday, 7/20: Every Spyro's Adventure Skylander Ranked From Worst To Best. Wednesday: 7/22: Every Giant Ranked From Worst To Best Friday: Every Giants Core Ranked From Worst To Best Once I'm able to play Skylanders again, the reviews will continue. As far as I'm aware that date will be Sunday, 7/26. Until then, I hope you guys enjoy the rankings.
Update: Future Installments
Now that I've reviewed everyone from Spyro's Adventure, I feel like I should take the time to touch upon characters from later games since each game has a new gimmick that makes it stand out from the first game. Also, before I explain how the reviews for the unique characters will work, I'd like to point out that every game before Superchargers introduce new "core" skylanders (skylanders with no extra gimmicks, like the ones from Spyro's Adventure). My reviews for those characters will not change one bit. Giants When Giants first came out, the actual giant skylanders were generally met with backlash due to their mutual shared speed (or lack thereof). I, however, will not be taking this factor into account when reviewing the Giants for two main reasons. The first reason is that speed was never really an important factor for me to begin with. I never really cared about how fast a skylander was when playing with them. If they got the job done, they were okay ...
Update: New Schedule
Now that I no longer have my Nightmare Mode run of Giants to worry about, I might as well take the time to post the new release schedule: Monday-Friday: 4 posts a day Saturday & Sunday: still 4 posts a day I would also like to mention that because there's an odd number of skylanders (165 to be exact), the last batch of reviews will be an odd number as well (5 if on a weekday, 3 if on a weekend).
