Barbella

Barbella
Element:	Earth
Battle Class:	Sentinel
Species:	Unknown
Gender:	Female
Role:	Sensei
World:	Skylands
Attacks:	Barbell Bash Rocky Rep Cubic Runic Rock Gifts of the Deadlift For the Crater Good
Appears in:	Skylanders: Imaginators Skylanders: Ring of Heroes
First Release:	Skylanders: Imaginators
English Voice Actor:	Cynthia McWilliams

“It's Crunch Time!”

– Barbella's official catchphraseBarbella is a crystalline Earth Sensei in Skylanders: Imaginators, who trains Imaginators of the Sentinel Battle Class.

Character Development

During Skylanders: Giants development, character designer I-Wei Huang started with the idea of a strong Water female Giant, but eventually developed the idea of a living statue character for the Earth element, first used to create the Weapon Master. Though the statue design would later be finalized as the Golden Queen, many of its ideas such as the square barbells, large armor and the textured skin would later surface in Imaginators with Barbella. Her pose, skin and barbells went through many attempts and iterations for a look that fit her concept perfectly.

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  Initial concepts from Giants, with qualities that Golden Queen and Barbella would later show
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  Initial concepts from Giants
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  Barbella Concepts from Imaginators.
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  Barbella Imaginators concepts before she was given the crystal skin.

Background

Physical Traits

Barbella is a crystalline, muscular woman wearing a black skintight jumpsuit with gold trim, stony armbands, and leg-warmers. She also has the golden sensei belt tied around her waist. She carries a boulder barbell.

Biography

Barbella was the best fitness trainer in all of Skylands. Not only did she possess otherworldly strength, she was also a firm believer that a healthy diet and exercise led to true happiness. With such a positive message to spread, Barbella decided to open her own fitness center called “Flex-a-lot”, where she hoped to instill good eating and workout habits with all of her patrons. But one day, the gelatinous villain known as The Gulper destroyed her gym, and it took all of Barbella’s strength to keep it from collapsing while everyone fled to safety. It was then that Barbella realized that bad guys were more hazardous to your health than anything else, so she began to train in the ways of the Sentinel, where she quickly became one of the greatest masters in the world!

Gameplay

Barbella uses her super-strength and boulder barbells in battle. With her boulder barbells she can smash enemies, and even use them to summon rock constructs, ranging from a large pair of stone hands, or a runic cube that she can push at enemies with great force. Her Sky-Chi has her lift her barbells which causes crystal shards to shoot out towards her foes.

Stats

Console StatsPower Stats

These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.

• Health: 350 (max. 700)
• Speed: ??
• Armor: ??
• Critical Hit: ??
• Elemental Power: ??

Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.

• Strength: 210
• Defense: 330
• Agility: 100
• Luck: 160

Abilities

ConsoleRing of Heroes

Basic Abilities These abilities are available from the start of the game.						Soul Gem Ability Requires Soul Gem from: Cradle of Creation Sky-Chi Ability Requires unlocking from the Sentinel Sensei Shrine
Barbell Bash		Rocky Rep				Taken for Granite Do You Even Lift?
Primary Ability Press Attack 1 to whack, thwack and smash with your Boulder Barbells.		Secondary Ability Press Attack 2 to create stone hands that pull enemies towards you.				Price: 4000 Press Attack 2 five times to buff yourself. You take less damage. Rock Crystals spawn over time. Attack 1 pulls Rock Crystals. View Sky-Chi The ultimate Sensei attack! Hold Special Attack for a Sensei-tional workout! Aim with Left Stick to shoot out Crystal Shards at your enemies! View Soul Gem
Basic Upgrades Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods.
Cubic Runic Rock		Unsteady Ground		Have a Gneiss Day		Rocks in a Hard Place
Price: 500 Press Attack 3 to conjure a giant rock that damages enemies near it and can be launched to explode into Rock Crystals.		Price: 700 Attack 1 triple-combo covers a larger area, dealing more bonus damage to closer enemies.		Price: 900 Rocky Rep's stone hands create Rock Crystals you can launch at foes with Barbell Bash.		Price: 1200 Press Attack 2 during Rocky Rep to create Rock Crystals.

Seismic Smasher

View Ruler of Rocks

Improves Barbell Bash with earth-shattering perks!

Gifts of the Deadlift		Caving In		Rocky Roads
Price: 1700 Rock Crystals will pound the ground when you press Attack 1. Press Attack 1 thrice to create Rock Crystals.		Price: 2200 Barbell Bash does even more damage and the shockwave extends further.		Price: 3000 Press Attack 1 thrice to send out cascading earthquakes.

Ruler of Rocks

View Seismic Smasher

Rock Crystals are easier to make and are stronger!

For the Crater Good		Rocky Rebound		Boulder and All the Wiser
Price: 1700 Damaging enemies sometimes spawns a Rock Crystal.		Price: 2200 Rock Crystals will return to their targets when they fly out.		Price: 3000 Rock Crystals spawn more frequently when damaging enemies. Rock Crystals critically hit on their return trip.

	Weight Lifting (Active)
	[All Enemies] Inflicts 51% of ATK as damage to all enemies, and grants the [Shield] 10% Effect for 2 turn(s) on the ally with the lowest HP ratio currently.	Mana cost: 3 Cooldown: 3 seconds

	Swinging Playground (Active)
	[All Enemies] Inflicts 51% of ATK as damage to all enemies, and grants the [Provoke] Effect on yourself for 2 turn(s).	Mana cost: 3 Cooldown: 4 seconds

	Time to Crunch (Active)
	[1 Target] When an ally starts charging, excluding yourself, removes debuff effect x1 of the ally that has started charging.	Mana cost: Cooldown:

	Deadlift (Leader)
	[Self] If the [DEF UP] Effect is granted on yourself at the end of the turn, grants the [Effect Resistance Rate UP] 5% Effect on yourself for 1 turn(s). Additionally, increases your MAX Endurance by 1 in battle. Leader Effect Increases the MAX Endurance of a team member by 1 in battle.		Mana cost: Cooldown:

Quotes

Battle Cries

• "It's Crunch Time!"
• "I'll whip all your Imaginators into shape with my workout program!" - Sensei Training Bonus
• "And I can train all of your Sentinel Imaginators in this awesome secret technique." - Secret Technique Bonus
• "Going, going, gong!" - ringing a Battle Gong
• "Bring it on, I'm always up for a challenge!"
• "I should probably warn you: I've been training for this." - before a battle.
• "Work it!"
• "Oh yeah, feel that burn!"
• "No pain, no gain. Right, bad guys?" - after a battle
• "Nothing stands between me and where I want to go!" - opening a gate.
• "Oh, I'm in the zone right now!"
• "And lift and smash!"
• "And that's how you get results!" - level up.
• "All that hard work has paid off!" - level up.
• "I can definitely improve on these numbers!" - checking stats.
• "Oh yeah, check out those measurements!"
• "One, and two, and Sky-Chi!" - activating Sky-Chi (Do You Even Lift?)
• "I've been waiting for that!" - after Sky-Chi

Gallery

Barbella/Gallery

Trivia

• Barbella is a pun on both barbells, a type of exercise equipment, and the Italian word bella, meaning beautiful.
  • Her name is also a pun on Barbarella.
  • Barbella is also an Italian surname.
• In earlier versions of the game, Barbella had an icon based on concept art and had white instead of yellow hair.
• Surprisingly, Barbella's element and battle class have more female senseis than males.
• While most of the Senseis' garments consist of robes, tunics, and armor, Barbella's outfit is a jumpsuit with golden linen on the sleeves, pant leg, and even outlines around the chest like an actual chest plate with pauldrons.
• Barbella is very similar to Crusher - Both are members of elite Skylander teams, are Earth elements, have very similar powers and weapons, and have nearly identical catchphrases.
• She's the only Earth sensei without an alternate deco.