Air

“That amazing feeling of defying gravity! That, my friend, is something only we feel.”

    —Skylanders: Ring of Heroes relationship description

Air is one of the main ten elements in the Skylanders franchise. The vast and mysterious element combines the others in a number of interesting and unusual ways. Colors associated with the element are cyan, sky blue, capri, and occasionally white and azure.

History

Air surrounds us constantly. It clings to our lungs when we breathe. It is with us all the time, and yet we can neither see it nor feel it. Unless, of course, it wants us to. The skies above, around and often below, Skylands are infinite, meaning the Air Element may hold a limitless number of secrets that weren't yet aware of. This makes the Air element one of the most mysterious of them all.

When Earth Portal Masters were taken from their homeworld into Skylands, Portal Master Eugenie became the Air specialist.

Weaknesses

Air is a natural predator of earth, as it would erode the very stone Earth Skylanders would embody. While the Air element is strong when facing the Earth element, it is much less able to deal with Fire. Air Skylanders must be extra careful wehen facing Fire-powered enemies.

Abilities

Skylanders of the Air element have balanced fighting styles. Characters in the game who are associated with the element of Air use the manipulation of wind and weather to their advantage against their foes. They have a strong advantage against Skylanders who are associated with the element of Earth in the Battle Arena, but are not very strong against Fire Skylanders.

In Skylanders: Ring of Heroes, Air is weak to Fire and Magic, and strong against Life and Earth.

Air-based Skylanders also stand on a pedestal made of clouds when they are in their toy form.

In the turret challenges in Skylanders: Trap Team, Air Skylanders have the special ability Tornado, which immobilizes enemies. In Kaos Doom Challenge, they can summon a large fan which charges up an electric blast, which can be upgraded to have multiple lightning containers for shots that spread to nearby enemies.

In Skylanders: SuperChargers, Air-aligned Portal Master Powers include a damaging wind aura, an electric pulse and a temporary Speed boost. They occur in many conditions, and the name are as follows:

• Cyclonic Shield - Air Skylanders get a damaging wind aura in an Air Zone.
• Stormy Entrance - Air Skylanders shock enemies with an electric pulse when summoned.
• Tempest Strike - Air Skylander attacks have a chance to shock enemies with an electric pulse.
• Tailwind - A chance for Air Skylanders hit in an Air Zone to gain a temporary Speed boost.
• Stormy Desperation - Air Skylanders get a damaging wind aura when their health is low.

Skylanders: Imaginators

Air Imaginators can choose from four different abilities as their secondary attack:

Air Elemental Imaginator Powers The first two of these powers are unlocked at the start of the game, the other two are unlocked by leveling up your Imaginator.
Storm Cloud Mastered Storm Cloud		Twisting Tornadoes Mastered Twisting Tornadoes		Shockingly Swift Step Mastered Shockingly Swift Step		Toucan Zap You Mastered Toucan Zap You
Original Power Press Attack 2 to summon a storm cloud that chases enemies. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to summon a storm cloud that increases your damage output and critical hits. View Base Power		Original Power Press Attack 2 to create powerful tornadoes that track down targets. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to create homing tornadoes. Attack again to generate wind blades from the tornadoes View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 3 Press Attack 2 to dash forward, pulling enemies to your starting point and shocking them. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to dash. Enemy suction point now takes extra lightning damage. View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 5 Press Attack 2 to call in two bird allies that drop lightning explosives. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to call in two bird allies that drop lightning explosives with increased damage. View Base Power

The default color schemes for Air Imaginators are called Arctic Breeze, Polar Chill, Storm Cloud, Aqua Marine, Glacial Frost, Jolly Green and Fresh Powder. Parts unlocked by Air Creation Crystals are from the Birdman set, including a full body, tail and a bit of armor.

Air Elemental Characters

Skylanders

Core Skylanders Blades Legendary Blades Fling Kong Jet-Vac Legendary Jet-Vac Light Jet-Vac Lightning Rod Pop Thorn Buttered Pop Thorn (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Scratch Sonic Boom Warnado Whirlwind Elite Whirlwind Polar Whirlwind Giant Swarm

SWAP Force Movement Type Boom Jet Free Ranger Legendary Free Ranger Trap Masters Gusto Gourmet Gusto (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Thunderbolt Minis Breeze Pet-Vac Power Punch Pet-Vac SuperChargers Hurricane Jet-Vac Legendary Hurricane Jet-Vac Stormblade Senseis Battle Class Air Strike Egg Bomber Air Strike Bad Juju Mystical Bad Juju Wild Storm

Villains

Villains
	Bad Juju
	Buzzer Beak
	Dreamcatcher
	Krankenstein

Air Elemental Items

Items
	Air Traps Breezy Bird (Toucan) Cloudy Cobra (Snake) Cyclone Sabre (Sword) Drafty Decanter (Jughead) Storm Warning (Screamer) Tempest Timer (Hourglass)
	Air Creation Crystals

Vehicles		Terrain
	Clown Cruiser Dark Clown Cruiser Note: Nintendo Systems Only
	Jet Stream
	Lord Stratosfear's Storm Striker
	Sky Slicer Instant Sky Slicer

Battlecast Spell Cards

Air Spells are as unexpected as the weather. From damage, to debuffs, to card drawing, or to swapping enemies, it has many uses and masters none.

The scrapped team spell for this element is the Tempest of Air, in which the characters combine their attacks for more damage for each Air character on the team.

Tiny Twister		Arkeyan Desk Fan - Relic		Shock
Common Swap in a random sideline enemy. Crush the active enemy for 10 damage.		Common Give each ally +10 power.		Common Shock a frontline enemy for 40 damage.

Gust		Shower of Sparks		Smoke Screen
Rare Swap in a character.		Common Shock each enemy for 30 damage.		Rare Enemy abilities, attacks and spells deal -30 damage until your next turn.

Windfall		Azurite Weathervane - Relic		Dust Devil
Draw two cards. Common		Epic Give each ally +20 power. Give each enemy -20 power.		Epic Crush an enemy character for 60 damage. Swap it in.

Atlas of Ages - Gear		Lightning Strike		Splintering Gale
Ultimate When you draw a card, if owner is active, gain a copy of that card.		Common Shock a frontline enemy for 110 damage.		Ultimate Draw two cards. Slice each frontline enemy for 10 damage for each energy those cards cost.

Thunder and Lightning		Torrent of Air
Epic Blast each enemy for 30 damage. At the start of your next turn, shock the active enemy for 60 damage.		Common Blast each enemy for 20 damage for each Air character on your team.

Character Spells: See Jet-Vac, Whirlwind, Stormblade and Sonic Boom

Gallery

• Main series
• Battlecast

Magic Moment in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Wii)

The "Fresh Air" Achievement in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

The Air Skylanders in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Warnado, Sonic Boom, Whirlwind, Lightning Rod) by I-Wei Huang

Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Air Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Air Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Giants

Animated Version of Windfall.

Animated version of Shower of Sparks.

Animated version of Smoke Screen.

Trivia

• In Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Air-based Skylanders are one of the three elemental characters who do not build a bridge when opening their elemental gates, the others being Water and Fire. Instead, they teleport through a swirling vortex of wind.
• Sonic Boom, Warnado, Thunderbolt and Wild Storm have the Air elemental symbol on their heads.
  • Similarly, Jet-Vac, Pet-Vac, and Boom Jet all have it on their belt buckles.
  • Gusto is the only one who has it on his stomach.
• None of the Air Skylanders made an appearance in the trailers and commercials for Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. However, Jet-Vac appears and speaks in the trailers for Skylanders: Giants, Skylanders: Swap Force and the the first trailer for Skylanders: Trap Team.
• In every game after Spyro's Adventure, remixes of Stormy Stronghold's theme play in Air elemental zones. However, Skylanders: SuperChargers employs an entirely new theme for its Air Vehicle Challenge, making Air the only such vehicle challenge not to remix music from previous games.
• In Skylanders: Battlegrounds and some websites, the element is sometimes erroneously referred to as "Wind" instead of "Air", such as the Element of the Day.
• In the 3DS version of the first two games, every Air Skylander can glide or hover.
• While some Air Skylanders can fly for a limitless amount of time, only Jet-Vac and Swarm can only fly for a short period of time and then return to the ground. Lightning Rod cannot fly as an attack, though he can still travel over water. Swarm however, can fly infinitely if he goes over water.
  • Jet-Vac is the only Air Skylander in Giants who can't go over water.
• This element has more quadruped Skylanders than any other element.
  • Before SuperChargers, all the female Skylanders in this element were quadrupeds.
• This element has the least variants out of the original eight elements.
• None of the Air or Tech Villain Quests are mini-games.
• This element has more female Villains (Dreamcatcher and Bad Juju) than any other element.
• Lightning Rod is so far the only Air Skylander that does not stand on the base, instead the clouds are his lower half.
• Oddly, most of the Imaginator color schemes are named after icy and oceanic winds, powers relating to Water, possibly referring to wind currents.
• This and the Fire element are the only elements to have only one Eon's Elite Skylander.
• This element had the highest amount of Skylanders present in Skylanders: Ring of Heroes, specifically 12.
• Lightning Rod, Free Ranger, Thunderbolt, Wild Storm and Bad Juju are only the Air element who have electrical powers.

References

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