Water

“Wash away your fears, and relax by the pool with us.”

– Skylanders: Ring of Heroes Relationship description

Water is one of the ten main elements in the Skylanders franchise. This element is associated with most shades of blue, overlapping with Air in slight usage of cyan.

History

Water is present in all living things. Without it, few of the Elements would ever have come to exist. Water takes on many forms - a calm lake, a torrential rainfall, a furious typhoon — and Water Elementals come in just as wide a range of shapes and sizes. Vast areas of Skylands are covered in Water, and beneath the surface lie a whole host of undersea kingdoms. There are creatures living down there who haven't even found out that dry land exists, never mind set foot on it. From heroic protectors like the Gillmen to the monstrous fish like the Leviathan, Water supports and teems with all manners of life.

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

Weakness

The Life element is strongest against Water. The grass, flowers, and plants that are part of Life suck Water through their roots to give them strength, which is great for them, but not too handy for Water.

Abilities

Characters who are associated with this element use water to wash away their enemies, as well as other related powers such as ice and steam. They also have the ability to swim through water to areas other characters, who don't wield the element of Water, can't reach. This ability, however, was excluded in Skylanders: Swap Force. Water-based characters and enemies have an advantage over Skylanders who wield the element of Fire in the Battle Arena.

Water-based Skylanders also stand on a pedestal of water when they're in their toy form.

In the turret sections of Skylanders: Trap Team, Water Skylanders have the special ability Snowball Fight, which greatly damages a single enemy. In Kaos Doom Challenge, they can summon a water gun that can be upgraded to shoot damaging puddles of water and slow down enemies.

In Skylanders: SuperChargers, Water-aligned Portal Master Powers include a freezing ice trail and the ability to freeze enemies in place. Those are distributed in several conditions, and the names are as follows:

• Path of Frost - Water Skylanders leave a freezing ice trail in a Water Zone.
• Frosty Entrance - Water Skylanders freeze enemies in place when summoned.
• Permafrost Strike - Water Skylander attacks have a chance to freeze enemies in place.
• Freezing Backlash - A chance for Water Skylanders hit in a Water Zone to freeze the enemy in place.
• Freezing Desperation - Water Skylanders leave a freezing trail of ice when their health is low.

Skylanders: Imaginators

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

Water 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.
Wave Push Mastered Wave Push		Bubble Bounce Mastered Bubble Bounce		Ice Block Mastered Ice Block		Piranha Pets Mastered Piranha Pets
Original Power Press Attack 2 to summon a tidal wave to keep your foes at bay. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to summon a tidal wave that leaves electric starfish in its wake. View Base Power		Original Power Press Attack 2 to turn into a bubble and bounce around your enemies. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to turn into a bubble that launches smaller bubble projectiles on completion. View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 3 Press Attack 2 to create a giant ice block. Press Attack 2 again to push it. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to create a a giant ice block. Press Attack 2 again to push it and freeze enemies. View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 5 Press Attack 2 to summon hungry piranhas that seek out enemies. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to summon piranhas that are even more vicious, doing extra damage to more enemies. View Base Power

The default color schemes for Water Imaginators are Caribbean Calypso, Surf's Up, Sea Foam, Whirlpool, Frozen Stiff, Deep Sea, seventh scheme unknown. Water Creation Crystals unlock the Pirate Set of Imaginator parts, featuring a head, a chest, arms, legs, and ears.

Water Elemental Characters

Skylanders

Core Skylanders Chill Legendary Chill Echo Flip Wreck Gill Grunt Elite Gill Grunt Punk Shock Rip Tide Slam Bam Elite Slam Bam Legendary Slam Bam Surfer Slam Bam (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Wham-Shell Zap Giant Thumpback Admiral Thumpback (Lost Islands Alter Ego)

SWAP Force Movement Type Freeze Blade Nitro Freeze Blade Wash Buckler Dark Wash Buckler Holiday Wash Buckler (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Trap Masters Lob-Star Winterfest Lob-Star Snap Shot Dark Snap Shot Instant Snap Shot Merry Snap Shot (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Minis Gill Runt Thumpling SuperChargers Deep Dive Gill Grunt Dive-Clops Instant Dive-Clops Missile-Tow Dive-Clops Senseis Battle Class Grave Clobber King Pen Dark King Pen Tidepool

Villains

Villains
	Brawl & Chain Outlaw Brawl & Chain
	Chill Bill
	Cross Crow
	The Gulper
	Slobber Trap
	Threatpack

Water Elemental Items

Items
	Water Traps Aqua Axe (Axe) Flood Flask (Jughead) Legendary Flood Flask Frost Helm (Flying Helmet) Soaking Staff (Angel) Tidal Tiki (Tiki) Wet Walter (Log Holder) Exclusive: Outlaw Brawl & Chain
	Water Creation Crystals

Vehicles		Terrain
	Captain Frightbeard's The Lil' Phantom Tide
	Dive Bomber Instant Dive Bomber Spring Ahead Dive Bomber
	Reef Ripper

Battlecast Spell Cards

Water Spells include healing, and also one of the few methods of removing status conditions. However, it's also a significant source of spells that cause them, being able to mute an entire team quickly.

The scrapped Water team spell is the Cascade of Water, a stream summoned by the characters that heals each ally the more Water characters the player has.

Amulet of Healing - Gear		Snow Blind		Flash Flood
Common At the end of your turn, restore 10 health to owner.		Common Afflict each enemy character for 20 damage. Give them -20 power until your next turn.		Epic Crush each enemy for 20 damage. Swap in the least healthy enemy.

Healing Rain		Splish Splash		Douse
Common Restore 40 health to each ally.		Rare Swap in your ally with the most power. Swap in the least healthy enemy.		Common Blast each enemy for 40 damage. Mute them.

Everflowing Fountain - Relic		Kraken's Beak - Relic		Tangled Kelp
Epic At the start of your turn, restore 40 health to your active ally.		Ultimate When an ally swaps in, restore 30 health to it and give it +30 power this turn.		Common Subdue an enemy. Destroy its gear.

Waterfall		Ride the Wave		Tidal Wave
Ultimate Restore 50 health to each ally. Unmute, unsubdue, and unsnare them.		Common Swap in a sideline ally. It attacks the active enemy.		Rare Crush each enemy for 50 damage. Give them -50 power until your next turn.

Ice Storm		Cascade of Water
Epic Mute each enemy. Snare each enemy with 200 or less health. Subdue each enemy with 100 or less health.		Common Restore 20 health to each ally for each Water character on your team.

Character Spells: See Wash Buckler, Snap Shot and Rip Tide

Gallery

Main gamesBattlecast

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  Magic Moment in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Wii)
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  The "Pure Water" Achievement in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
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  The Water Skylanders in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Gill Grunt, Zap, Wham-Shell, Slam Bam) by I-Wei Huang
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  Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Water Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
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  Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Water Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Giants

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  Animated version of Douse.

Trivia

• Water-based Skylanders are one of the three elemental characters who do not build a bridge when opening their elemental gates, the others being Air and Fire. Instead, they are pulled through a swirling whirlpool of water in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and later stop a geyser in order to pass through in Skylanders: Giants.
• The Water Skylanders were able to swim in large bodies of water in Spyro's Adventure, and in certain Heroic Challenges in Giants. However, due to the absence of the bodies of water in later games, the Water Skylanders no longer hold this feature.
• Slam Bam, Chill, Freeze Blade, and King Pen have powers relating to ice instead of water, and are part of this element as ice is frozen water.
• Lob-Star is the first, and currently, the only Water Skylander with steam-based powers.
• In Skylanders: Giants and Skylanders: Trap Team, the music from Leviathan Lagoon plays in the Water Elemental Zones. In Skylanders: Swap Force, Dark Water Cove's theme is used instead, and the Water Vehicle Challenge in Skylanders: SuperChargers remixes Oilspill Island's theme. However, all three themes are variations on the same core melody.
• Zap, Wham-Shell, and Punk Shock are currently the only Water Skylanders with electrical powers.
  • Coincidentally, all three come from royalty.
• This and Undead are the only elements to contain a Legendary LightCore Skylander.
• Water and Tech have the same two Swapabilities, Climb and Speed, namely Wash Buckler, Spy Rise, Magna Charge, and Freeze Blade.
• This and the Life element are the only elements to have two Sidekicks before Trap Team.
  • Also, they both have more Starter Pack Skylanders than any other element.
• Gill Grunt and Thumpback are currently the only Water Skylanders in the 3DS versions who can glide.
• Thumpback, Thumpling, and Flip Wreck are currently the only Water Skylanders who are cetaceans, in other words, members of the whale and dolphin family.
• The Water, Tech and Life elements have the most Villains in Skylanders: Trap Team.
  • If counting the Villain Senseis and the Ring of Heroes beta and 1.0 villains, the Water element contains the highest amount of different playable villains, specifically eight.
• Water is the element with the most Trap Master variants (Dark Snap Shot, Instant Snap Shot, Merry Snap Shot, and Winterfest Lob-Star).
  • It is also the only element where both of its Trap Masters have in-game variants.
• The Water element is the element with the most Christmas variants (counting Skylanders: Lost Islands exclusive variants).
  • It is also the only element to have Lost Islands exclusive Christmas variants.
• This element has the most Skylanders that are leaders of their respective teams.
  • Wash Buckler is the leader of the SWAP Force.
  • Snap Shot is the leader of the Trap Team.
  • King Pen is the leader of the Skylander Senseis.
• Water, Fire and Life are the main three elements to appear in starter packs.
• This, Dark and Fire are the only elements whose Villain Senseis were originally from other elements. (In this element, Grave Clobber, originally an Earth Villain.)
  • Water is the only element with a Ring of Heroes Villain originally from another element. (White Broccoli Guy, an illusion of the Life Villain Broccoli Guy's evolved form.)
• This element has two Senseis (King Pen and Grave Clobber) from the same class (Brawler).
• This is the only element to have a Series 4 Skylander.
• All of the Water SuperChargers have "dive" in their names.
  • With the exception of the Reef Ripper, all the Water SuperCharger-debuting entities have the word "dive" in their names.