Tech

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“Need a little fixin' up? We've got all the right tools.”

– Skylanders: Ring of Heroes Relationship description

Tech is one of the ten elements introduced in the Skylanders franchise. When combined with the other Elements, it has the power to dominate the entire realm. Orange is the main color for this element, though it is also commonly associated with gold, silver, metallic red and royal blue.

History

Although the element of Tech was around long before the Arkeyans 10,000 years ago, it was this ancient civilization who perfected the use of technical machinery beyond any other. The Arkeyans spent thousands of years honing their technical skills, coming up with everything from terrifying weapons of war to newfangled ways of quickly cooking their lunches. Their mighty machines have never been better, proving beyond all doubt that they were the ultimate Tech masterminds.

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

Golden Gear

The Golden Gear lies at the heart of the universe. It is the intricate clockwork of the world. The Golden Gear drives everything that is Tech, but can only function when oiled with green primordial goo. The Gear is the very essence of the Tech power in Skylands, and like other Elemental sources, dates back hundreds of thousands of years.

Green Goo of Primordia

Also known as Green Primordial Goo, it is grease made from the fossilized Explodasaurs, and contains unimaginable power. Aside from powering the Golden Gear, it can also vastly improve technology that uses it, like the Trolls' weapons after they secured factories of it.

Abilities

The Skylanders who possess the Tech element are associated with using advanced or unusual techonology as their weapons. They have an advantage against Skylanders and enemies who wield the element of Magic, but are weak against Earth Skylanders in the Battle Arena, but in Ring of Heroes, they are weak to Life and Earth instead. When they form a bridge, they bring a platform of machinery towards them and tiles form onto the platform to make a bridge.

Tech-based Skylanders also stand on a pedestal that consists of a pile of silver gears when they're in their toy form.

In Skylanders: Trap Team turret sections, Tech Skylanders have the ability Robot Rampage, which destroys most enemies in the area. In Kaos Doom Challenge, they can summon a machine gun that can be upgraded to have multiple barrels and giant rocket as additional support.

In Skylanders: SuperChargers, Tech-aligned Portal Master Powers include a protective barrier of gears, reducing enemies' armor, and gain a temporary Critical Hit chance boost. Those are distributed in several conditions, and the names are as follows:

• Clockwork Barrier - Tech Skylanders gain a protective barrier of gears in a Tech Zone.
• Analytical Entrance - Tech Skylanders reduce the Armor of enemies when summoned.
• Targeting Strike - Tech Skylander attacks have a chance to reduce the Armor of enemies.
• Technical Analysis - A chance for Tech Skylanders hit in a Tech Zone to gain a temporary Critical Hit chance boost.
• Metallic Desperation - Tech Skylanders gain a protective barrier of gears when their health is low.

Skylanders: Imaginators

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

Tech 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.
Tactical Turrets Mastered Tactical Turrets		Mechanical Microbots Mastered Mechanical Microbots		Motorcycle Mayhem Mastered Motorcycle Mayhem		Mighty Mines Mastered Mighty Mines
Original Power Press Attack 2 to create deadly turrets. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to create turrets. You can now have two active at the same time. View Base Power		Original Power Press Attack 2 to create microbot helpers that pack a punch. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to create beserk microbot helpers that will explode and electrocute enemies when they expire. View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 3 Press Attack 2 to summon a sparking gear bike and dash forward. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to summon your gear bike and dash. Post-dash, the gears will stay with you as a shield. View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 5 Press Attack 2 to create proximity mines. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to create four mines. When triggered, mines will explode twice in quick succession. View Base Power

The default color schemes for Tech Imaginators are Grease Monkey, Steam Engine, Power Tool, Gear Head, Wind Up, Pale Steel and Oil Change. Tech Creation Crystals unlock the Tech Adventurer Set of Imaginator parts, featuring the Rockets head, Adventurer's Arms, Dustered Chest, the Electrons aura and the Rocket Man's Ridge headgear.

Tech Elemental Characters

Skylanders

Core Skylanders Boomer Elite Boomer Lucky Boomer (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Chopper Countdown Kickoff Countdown New Year's Countdown (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Drill Sergeant Drobot Sprocket Tread Head Trigger Happy Elite Trigger Happy High Noon Trigger Happy (Battlecast Card Counterpart) Legendary Trigger Happy Springtime Trigger Happy Wind-Up Giant Bouncer Legendary Bouncer

SWAP Force Movement Type Magna Charge Nitro Magna Charge Spy Rise Trap Masters Gearshift Jawbreaker Knockout Jawbreaker (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Legendary Jawbreaker Minis Drobit Trigger Snappy SuperChargers Double Dare Trigger Happy Power Blue Trigger Happy High Volt Senseis Battle Class Chain Reaction Dr. Krankcase Dr. Neo Cortex Ro-Bow

Villains

Villains
	Brawlrus
	Bruiser Cruiser
	Dr. Krankcase
	Mab Lobs
	Shrednaught Steampunk Shrednaught
	Trolling Thunder

Tech Elemental Items

Items
	Tech Traps Automatic Angel (Angel) Factory Flower (Scepter) Grabbing Gadget (Hand) Makers Mana (Flying Helmet) Exclusive: Steampunk Shrednaught Tech Totem (Tiki) Topsy Techy (Handstand)
	Tech Creation Crystals

Vehicles		Terrain
	Barrel Blaster Dark Barrel Blaster Note: Nintendo Systems Only
	Cluck's Sky Scrambler
	Glumshanks' Steam Roller
	Gold Rusher Power Blue Gold Rusher
	Shield Striker

Battlecast Spell Cards

Tech Spells in Battlecast mostly revolve around Gear and energy, but with attacking moves using several conditions for their best results.

The scrapped team spell for this element is the Mech of Tech, a giant mech suit that increases power and health to every Tech character on the team.

Cog of War - Gear		Short Circuit		Skylithium Surge
Common +10 power, +40 max health		Common Destroy a gear or relic.		Common At the end of the next enemy turn, each player gains a crystal.

Mobile Generator - Relic		Arkeyan Battle Armor - Gear		Sabotage
Rare At the start of each player's turn, that player gains 2 energy.		Ultimate At the start of your turn, if owner is active, give it +30 power and +30 max health until this gear is destroyed.		Common Blast an enemy for 60 damage. If it has a gear, blast each other enemy for 10 damage.

Copycat		Starting From Scrap		Call to Arms
Rare Give a copy of a character's gear to your active ally.		Epic Destroy each enemy gear and relic.		Ultimate Give a random gear to each ally.

Forcefield Generator - Relic		Surprise-A-Tech		Warly Birds
Epic Reduce damage from enemy attacks against each ally to 10.		Common Shoot an enemy for damage equal to your active ally's power.		Common Slice each enemy for 80 damage.

The Double-izer - Gear		Mech of Tech
Epic Owner's attacks, abilities, and character spells deal double damage.		Common +10 power, +20 max health for each Tech character on your team

Character Spells: See Trigger Happy, Jawbreaker and Countdown

Gallery

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  Magic Moment in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Wii)
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  The "Perfect Technology" Achievement in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
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  The Tech Skylanders in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Trigger Happy, Boomer, Drill Sergeant and Drobot) by I-Wei Huang
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  Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Tech Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
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  Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Tech Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Giants
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  The Tech Skylanders in Skylanders: Universe

Trivia

• Every Tech Skylander uses weapons, inlcuding those who have one as part of their bodies or armor.
• In Skylanders: Giants and Trap Team, the music from Goo Factory plays in the Tech elemental zones.
  • The music does not play in the Tech gates of Kaos' Kastle or the smaller one in Molekin Mountain. This is possibly due to the small size of the zones.
• In Skylanders: Swap Force and SuperChargers, the Tech Element is associated with remixes of Icicle Isle's music.
• Tech has currently nine robotic Skylanders: Drill Sergeant, Bouncer, Wind-Up, Magna Charge, Spy Rise, Gearshift, Jawbreaker, High Volt and Ro-Bow. Out of these nine, only Bouncer, Drill Sergeant, and Magna Charge have wheels instead of feet. In addition, Wind-Up, Spy Rise, Gearshift and High Volt don't possess robotic voices when they talk.
• In Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Wii only) and Giants, whenever a Tech Skylander gets close to some Sheep, the sheep will start following it.
• None of the Tech and Air Trappable Villains' Quests are minigames.
• This element has more Troll Villains than any other element. Coincidentally, they are also the only Troll Villains who pilot vehicles (with exception of the Fire Villain, Smoke Scream).
• It is the only element to have two Villains in Trap Team in adventure packs (Trolling Thunder and Mab Lobs).
• The Warly Birds bear a resemblance to Angry Birds as well as the Buzzer Beaks.
• Out of the original eight elements, Tech has the lowest amount of female Skylanders (Sprocket and Gearshift).
• This, along with Earth and Undead are the only three elements without a Wow Pow figure made for Trap Team.
  • Of the three, Tech is the only element with one Series 3 Skylander.
  • Also of the three, Tech is the only element with a Series 2 Skylander who originated from Giants.