- “Fruit Punch!”
- —Camo's official catchphrase
Camo is a plant/dragon hybrid core Skylander in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. His Series 2 counterpart is called Thorn Horn Camo.
Character Development
Camo was originally a character named Sun Dragon until changes were made to his design during late development of Spyro's Adventure.
Background
Personality
Like most dragons, Camo loves a laugh.[2] He is a real prankster, with one of his favorite tricks creating fruit and vegetables that explode in your shocked face![3] Despite his love of pranks, Camo is serious when it comes to protecting Skylands and its inhabitants.
Biography
Hatched at the roots of the Tree of Life, Camo is half-dragon, half-plant – with effervescent life energy flowing through his scaly leaves. This power allows him to cultivate fruits and vegetables at a highly-accelerated rate, which causes them to explode when they ripen. Camo’s unique gift caught the eye of Master Eon, initially because he was hungry and tried to eat a melon that exploded in his face. But upon realizing his true power, Eon convinced Camo to help the Skylanders protect their world.
Story
History
This plant-dragon hybrid was born by the roots of the Tree of Life, and so possesses the amazing ability to speedily cultivate fruit and vegetables that explode when they are ripe (creating both an everyday eating hazard and a hilarious dinner-party prank). Master Eon found himself at the butt end of this juicy-fruit joke when he visited Camo's idyllic island. While out for a stroll, Eon spotted a perfect melon waiting to be picked. But as he bent over the scrumptious speciment, it exploded, splattering the Portal Master's robe and alarmed old face. As he wiped away the sticky seeds, Eon noticed a pair of prying eyes nearby, clearly enjoying the scene. Eventually, Camo stepped forward and introduced himself. Eon soon invited him to be a Skylander - and, on his days off, the Portal Master's personal gardener.[4]
Gameplay
As a result of being half plant and half dragon, Camo can quickly grow fruits and vegetables that explode when they become ripe. His standard attacks involves firing bursts of solar energy from his mouth and conjuring vines of peppers from his tail that explode like firecrackers at enemies around them. He can also grow a ring of melons around him and send them flying and exploding at surrounding enemies. His Wow Pow lets him grow exploding pumpkins that explode into smaller pumpkins.
Stats
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: 300 (max. 600)
- Speed: 50 (max. 98)
- Armor: 34 (max. 64)
- Critical Hit: 30 (max. 80)
- Elemental Power: 25 (max. 75)
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 70
- Defense: 70
- Agility: 45
- Luck: 70
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: 300 (max. 600)
- Speed: 50 (max. 98)
- Armor: 24 (max. 54)
- Critical Hit: 6 (max. 56)
- Elemental Power: 25 (max. 75)
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 80
- Defense: 100
- Agility: 50
- Luck: 100
Abilities
| Basic Abilities These abilities are available from the start of the game. |
Wow Pow Ability
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| Sun Burst | Firecracker Vines |
Orbiting Sun Shield
Explosive Harvest
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 Camo can blast enemies with concentrated life energy in the form of a tiny sun. |
 Conjure a vine of rapid growth and incredibly explosive bounty. |
 Create a Sun Blast shield.
 Any melons can turn into explosive SUPERMELONS and launch at enemies.
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| Basic Upgrades Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods. | ||||||||
| Searing Sun Blast | Melon Fountain | Firecracker Food | Vigorous Vines | |||||
 Sun Blast does increased damage. |
 Send melons flying everywhere. |
 Firecracker Vines do increased damage. |
 Firecracker Vines move quicker and further. | |||||
| Vine Virtuoso |
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| Martial Bounty | Peppers of Potency | Proliferation | ||
 Firecracker Vines create more exploding melons. |
 Firecracker Vines do even more increased damage. |
 Create two Firecracker Vines at once. |
| Melon Master |
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| Ring of Might | Melon GMO | Melon Fortress | ||
 The Melon Fountain blasts out more melons. |
 The Melon Fountain does increased damage. |
 Hide in the Melon Fountain, then send Melons flying. |
Skylanders can use abilities depending on their level.
Starting Powers
- Sunsphere (Primary Attack): Shoot a sunsphere at enemies.
- Melon Bombs (Secondary Attack): Toss two melon seeds that will quickly grow into melons and burst open, damaging nearby enemies.
Upgrades
- Sunspark (requires level: 4): Camo's sunsphere (Y) will set enemies on fire. Hit an enemy with a Sunsphere three times to deal extra damage from the flames.
- Bountiful Burst (requires level: 7): Hold (X) and then release to toss two charged Melon Bomb seeds. These ripe melons will burst with an extra explosive seed that deals bonus damag to nearby enemies.
- Sowing Destruction (requires level: 9): When Camo stands next to a bursting Melon Bomb (X), he will be charged with seeds for a few seconds. Press Y while charged to shoot Camo's Sunspheres with bonus explosive seeds.
Mystic Seeker Scroll
- Gain a 20% Damage bonus while in the Radiant Isles. The scroll for this upgrade can be found in Dreamgardens.
Quests
Basic Quests
- Monster Masher: Defeat 1000 enemies.
- Chow Hound: Eat 50 pieces of food.
- Arena Artist: Complete an arena without taking any damage.
- Battle Champ: Win 10 PvP matches.
- Heroic Challenger: Complete a heroic challenge without taking any damage.
Elemental Quests
- Elementalist: Cause 7500 elemental bonus damage.
- Fully Stocked: Defeat 200 enemies while at full health.
- Melon Maestro: Hit targets 200 times while in a Turret challenge.
Unique Quest
- Garden Gorger: Eat 10 watermelons.
Basic Quests
- Bad Guy Basher: Defeat 1000 enemies.
- Fruit Frontiersman: Eat 15 fruit.
- Flawless Challenger: Complete a non-Story Mode level at full health.
- True Gladiator: Win 10 PVP matches.
- Totally Maxed Out: Reach level 20 and purchase all Upgrades for this Skylander.
Elemental Quests
- Elementalist: Deal 7500 elemental bonus damage.
- Defender of Life: Defeat 25 Undead Spell Punks.
- Fully Stocked: Defeat 250 enemies while at full health.
Unique Quest
- Garden Gorger: Eat 10 watermelons.
Quotes
Battle Cries
- "Fruit Punch!"
- "Plenty of sun this way!"
- "Off the bitter path!"
- "Ha-cha cha!"
- "Go green!"
- "Hot potato!"
- "Sccccrrrumtious victory!"
- "Time for the harvest!"
- "Jumping Peppers! I won!"
- "Someone's been eating their vegatables!"
- "Cultivating talent!" - checking stats
- "Oooh, extra shade!" - when given a hat
- "Spicing things up!" - when given a hat
- "Sounds exotic!" - when given a nickname
- "You can have your veggies, and name them too!" - when given a nickname
Character Trailers
See also
Gallery
Trivia
- When he's not protecting Skylands, Camo tends Eon's vegetable garden.[3]
- Camo's favorite food is exploding melons.
- The peppers Camo that grow from his tail are among the hottest in all of Skylands. Only the Fire Skylander, Eruptor, has ever been able to eat a whole one. He appeared to have no lasting effects, but he did spend almost a week having to lie down in a darkened room afterwards, and he hasn't been able to look at spicy food since.[5]
- In Giants, Camo commonly says fruit and vegetable-related puns and jokes when he talks.
- In Giants, Camo's melon attack grants him total invincibility while he is underground in his animation.
- He, Spyro, Cynder and Whirlwind are the only four dragons originally from Spyro's Adventure to return in Swap Force.
- Coincidentally, all except Cynder will have their horns altered in appearance after obtaining their Wow Pow abilities.
- Early Swap Force promo boxes at the time had the mistake of labeling Camo as a Series 3 character. This was most likely because Camo was the only Skylander with a Series 2 counterpart in Swap Force who was originally from Spyro's Adventure (not counting Wham-Shell and Warnado, who returned as LightCore Skylanders).
- In Swap Force, there is a glitch that Series 2 Camo can pull off where, if on the Melon Master path, one of the attack 3 buttons is held down and the other is pressed rapidly, another ring of melons will grow on top of the first. If this glitch is done with Series 1 Camo, the melon ring will simply replenish itself indefinitely. This glitch will not work on the Wii version.
- In Skylanders Giants, there is a glitch with Camo's melon attack. This is done by activating the attack on one of the giant bounce pads found in the Jump For It! Heroic Challenge. Doing so will cause the melons to not shrink/despawn, as long as the attack 3 button is held. They cannot be moved, either, unless Camo is experiencing vertical movement.
- Camo's Wow Pow causes his vines to occasionally grow melons, however, this is not mentioned in the upgrade's description.
- Camo's voice actor, André Sogliuzzo, is also the voice of Sparx (both the original and Skylanders incarnations).
- Camo's name is derived from "camouflage".
- His name is also the name of a municipality in the province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont.
- He and Zap are the only two dragon Skylanders included in battle packs (Scorpion Striker and Arkeyan Crossbow).
- Coincidentally, both of their figures were Series 2s.
- If Camo is drawn into a dialogue scene in Giants while his sun shield is active, his orbs will continue to circle him for the duration of the dialogue, only to disappear without healing him when the dialogue ends.
References
- ↑ Conventions & Highlights. André Sogliuzzo's website.
- ↑ Skylanders Universe: The Complete Collection, page 90
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Skylanders Official Annual 2013, page 15
- ↑ Skylanders Official Sticker Book: Meet the Skylanders
- ↑ Skylanders: Universe - Book of Elements: Life & Undead, page 19
