These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: 280 (max. 560)
- Speed: 43 (max. 91)
- Armor: 18 (max. 48)
- Critical Hit: 8 (max. 58)
- Elemental Power: 25 (max. 75)
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Free Ranger
From Skylanders Wiki
| Free Ranger | |
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| Element: | Air |
| Movement: | Spin |
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| Species: | Storm Chicken |
| Gender: | Male |
| Role: | SWAP Force |
| World: | Skylands |
| Attacks: | *Stormblade Slash
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| Appears in: | *Skylanders: Swap Force |
| Cameos: | Return of the Dragon King |
| First Release: | Skylanders: Swap Force |
| English Voice Actor: | Joey Camen[1] |
- “Whip Up A Storm!”
- – Free Ranger's official catchphrase
Free Ranger is a storm chicken who is one of the SWAP Force Skylander in Skylanders: Swap Force. He is of the Air element, and his SWAP Force ability is Spin.
Character Development
Free Ranger's stormblades were inspired from the claw attacks of the scrapped Skylander, Breezewing.[2] Early concepts depict him with an eye-patch, rooster's wattle, feathered crest, scar over his left eye, dual boomerangs, lightning-breath, and/or a feathered tail. His feathers were originally blue, and one of his finalized designs included a tail of lightning.[3]
Background
Personality
A real whirlwind, Free Ranger is sometimes too impetuous for his own good.[4] He has a love for bad weather, such as tornadoes, hurricanes and thunderstorms, and would often throw himself into them. He is most likely to talk about the weather; and least likely to stay indoors because it's raining. He is incredibly brave (but also a big chicken) and uncomfortable in confined spaces.[5]
Biography
Free Ranger was hatched during a storm when a thunderous bolt of lightning struck his egg. From that very moment, his destiny was clear – he would become the greatest storm chaser ever known! He spent his entire life pursuing hurricanes, spinning inside tornados, and riding lightning. But a day came when he encountered a storm unlike any other. It was unnatural and ominous, billowing with evil, and leaving only desolation in its wake. Free Ranger was standing at its edge, moments from boldly leaping into it, when he was stopped by none other than Master Eon. The wise Portal Master told him that it was The Darkness that raged before them, and if he were up to the challenge, he could join the Skylanders to help defend against it in the Cloudbreak Islands.
Gameplay
Stats
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 115
- Defense: 150
- Agility: 105
- Luck: 90
Abilities
Basic Ability and Upgrades
The primary ability is available from the start of the game. Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods.
| Stormblade Slash | Eyes of the Storm | Charged Blades | Gale Slash | |||||||||
 Press Attack 1 to slash at enemies with powerful Stormblades. |
 Press Attack 3 to shoot a bolt of lightning from the eyes, stunning the first enemy and chaining to others. |
 Press Attack 1 to slash with more powerful Stormblades that do increased damage. |
 Press Attack 1 three times to send a wave of powerful air at enemies. | |||||||||
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Soul Gem Ability Requires Soul Gem from: Mudwater Hollow | |||||||||||
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Slicing Storm
Lightning Strikes Thrice
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Feathered Fury
Charged Gigawatt Bolt
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Storming Stormblades | ||||||||||
 Hold Attack 1 to charge the Stormblades, release for a devastating combo attack.  Hold Attack 3 to charge Eye of the Storm, release to shoot a larger bolt of lightning. |
 Slicing Storm does increased damage. Unleash the full fury of the bird!  Lightning Strikes Thrice does increased damage. More powerful than lightning! |
 Press Attack 1 to attack with more powerful Stormblades that deal extra lightning damage. | ||||||||||
Basic Ability and Upgrades
The primary ability is available from the start of the game. Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods.
| Ride the Wind | Approaching Storm | Wind Powered | Tornado Vacuum Boost | |||||||||
 Hold Attack 2 to become a tornado and damage nearby enemies. |
 Hold Attack 2 to become a tornado, speed is increased while the tornado is active. |
 Becoming a tornado will last longer. |
 Tornadoes now pull in enemies from further away. | |||||||||
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Soul Gem Ability Requires Soul Gem from: Mudwater Hollow | |||||||||||
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Lightning Nova
Wild Tornado
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Nova Flash
Twisted Twister
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Charged Winds | ||||||||||
 Blast all nearby enemies with a powerful lightning bolt when becoming a tornado.  When becoming a tornado ends, a powerful tornado is shot out damaging all enemies in the way. |
 Lightning Nova does increased damage.  More powerful tornadoes are shot forward that does increased damage to enemies. |
 Hold Attack 2 to become a tornado filled with lightning, dealing damage to all enemies in the way. | ||||||||||
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Strong Wind Today (Active) | |
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1 enemy |
Mana cost: 3 | |
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Thunderstorm (Active) | |
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[All Enemies] |
Mana cost: 4 | |
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Whirlwind Blade (Active) | |
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If you have 2+ Beneficial Effects on yourself when charging begins, grants the Critical Rate UP 6% Effect on yourself for 3 turns. After charging for 2 turns, inflicts 30% of ATK as damage to 1 enemy 5 times. Able to put the enemy in Knockdown Status. |
Mana cost: 4 | |
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Calm Before the Storm (Passive) | |
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[SELF] |
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Graze and Shock (Leader (Passive)) | |
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[SELF] |
Mana cost: | |
Skylanders can use abilities depending on their level.
Starting Powers
- Storm Blade Combo (Primary Attack): Rapidly tap (Y) to perform a combo chain.
- Eyes of the Storm (Secondary Attack): Press (X) to launch a blast of lightning.
- Spin (SWAP Force Power): Press (L) to create a vortex that pulls in coins, pulls in and damages nearby targets, reflects projectiles, and causes the Skylander to hover.
- Sonic Boom Blast (requires level: 3): Upgrade the Storm Blade Combo to launch a massive blast of wind on the final strike.
- Sprint Twister (requires level: 6): Leaves whirlwinds behind while sprinting (A) that pull in enemies and deal damage.
- Lightning Blast (requires level: 9): Hold (X) to charge a stronger version of Lightning Tail.
Quests
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.
- Geronimo!: Travel over 250 feet in one fall.
- Skylooter: Collect 500 gold while in midair.
Unique Quest
- Ruffled Feathers: Hit enemies 25 times without stopping your melee attacks.
Quotes
Battle Cries
- “Whip up a storm!”
- “Rain down the lightning.”
- “Duck, duck…lose.”
- “That was a breeze!” - success
- “I strike again!” - success
- “Egg-celent!” - success
- “Taking the world by storm!” - victory
- “A grade-A victory!” - victory
- “Served…sunny side up!” - victory
- “For my nest-egg.” - finding treasure chests
- “Not just chicken feed!” - finding treasure chests
- “Storm rolling through.” - unlocking barriers
- “Unstoppable.” - unlocking barriers
- “Coming home to roost.” - unlocking barriers
- “Gotta fly.” - using a Bounce Pad
- “To the skies.” - using a Bounce Pad
- “Fly away.” - using a Bounce Pad
- “Power strike!” - levelling up
- “Fully charged!” - levelling up
- “Looks like chicken scratch to me.” - checking stats
- “I’m the best of the nest.” - checking stats
- “A cap for my feathers!” - equipping a hat
- “I look rather striking.” - equipping a hat
- “This name’s for the birds…no really!” - nickname
- “A name to rule the roost.” - nickname
Character Trailers
See also
Gallery
Trivia
- Free Ranger's name is a play on the term "free range," a farming method for chickens.
- He shares the same few battle quotes as Sonic Boom.
- Free Ranger appears in the Clutch - The Art of Skylanders SuperChargers art book, in which he is depicted riding a vehicle.[6] This makes him one of two SWAP Force Skylanders to have been potentially considered as a candidate for SuperChargers.
- Free Ranger's lower half is capable of stopping enemies from spinning and using swirling shields as their means of defense by using his tornado ability.
- His blades resemble Adam Frankenstein's blades from I, Frankenstein and the bat'leth from Star Trek.
- Incidentally, they also resemble Stealth Elf's blades, and even Hodge's blades from the Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
- His blades also resemble Plasma Rifles from the Halo series.
- His stormblades are similar to chakrams.
- Oddly, his belt buckle is gold on his artwork and toy, but is blue in-game.
- Free Ranger is voiced by Joey Camen, who is also the voice actor of Terrafin and Boomer.
- He is the second Air Skylander to come with a starter pack; the first was Jet-Vac for Skylanders: Giants, and the third was Gusto for Skylanders: Trap Team.
- He's also the first to do so both for Nintendo 3DS and as a non-core Skylander.
- In early packaging, his catchphrase was mistakenly Hoot Loop's catchphrase.
- He and Magna Charge are the only SWAP Force Skylanders whose secondary attacks are capable of causing enemies to drop defenses. Other SWAP Force Skylanders with their bottom halves are able to do the same thing.
- In the Wii version of SWAP Force, Free Ranger doesn't say his catchphrase until after he stops spinning.
- Free Ranger appears on the cover of the Strata art book for Swap Force, where his feathers appear to be blue and he exhibits the ability to exhale lightning.[7]
References
- ↑ Joey Camen's resume. VoiceComic.
- ↑ Strata: The Art of Skylanders: Swap Force page 16-17
- ↑ Strata: The Art of Skylanders Swap Force.
- ↑ Skylanders Universe: The Complete Collection, page 16
- ↑ Skylanders: Book of Elements - Air and Earth, page 31
- ↑ Clutch - The Art of Skylanders SuperChargers. (Date Posted: Feb. 19, 2024). Internet Archive.
- ↑ Strata - The Art of Skylanders Swap Force. (Date Posted: Feb. 19, 2024). Internet Archive.
