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Skylanders Giants Character Guide

Air Element Characters From Giants

by Neal Ronaghan - October 18, 2012, 10:03 am EDT

Check out info on Jet-Vac and Swarm.

Jet-Vac
Type: Air
How to get: Giants Wii Starter Pack, Individual
Variations: LightCore, Legendary Jet-Vac

Jet-Vac is a hawk with what resembles a vacuum cleaner. He does a few things with his air-powered weapon, including blowing out air bullets and sucking in all that surrounds him. He also uses it as a jet pack. Yes, Jet-Vac, you are rife with "Hawk and Awe."

  • Starting Abilities
  • Vac-Blaster (A button; shoots powerful blast of air)
  • Suction Gun (B button; Suck enemies into spinning fan blades)

  • Initial Upgrades
  • Feistier Fan (Increases power of Suction Gun)
  • Jet-Vac Jet Pack (Z button; use jet pack)
  • Vac Blaster 9000 (Vac-Blaster does more damage)
  • Turbine Suction Fan (Suction Gun does more damage)

  • Path 1
  • Piercing Winds (Vac-Blaster does more damage)
  • Vac Master-Blaster 20X (Vac-Blaster does more damage)
  • Super Suction Air Blaster (Use Suction Gun to give Vac-Blaster a super shot)

  • Path 2
  • Tank Reserves (Use Jet Pack longer)
  • The Mulcher (Suction Gun does more damage)
  • Flying Corkscrew (While using Jet Pack, press B to perform a corkscrew attack)

  • Soul Gem Ability: Eagle-Air Battle Gear (Enhanced Armor; found in Autogyro Adventure)

Swarm
Type: Air Giant
How to get: Individual
Variations: 

Swarm is a giant bee who used to be a small bee. He grew to be super huge, though, and now uses his powerful bee powers to fight evil. His basic attacks revolve around using melee attacks, but once he starts flapping his wings, he starts shooting projectiles. He can also turn into a swarm of bees.

  • Starting Abilities
  • Barb Blades (A button; slash enemies)
  • Flight of the Wasp (B button; hover, and then fire Barb Blades as projectiles)

  • Initial Upgrades
  • Sharpened Barbs (Barb Blade melee attacks do more damage)
  • Wingin' It (Fly faster and longer)
  • Swarm Form (Z button; turn into swarm of bees, damaging anything you touch)
  • Stinger Shot (Hold A button to charge a stinging energy blast)

  • Path 1
  • Razor Wings (wings damage any creature they touch)
  • Better Barb Blast (Barb Blades projectiles do more damage)
  • Ultimate Barb Blades (Barb Blades do more damage)

  • Path 2
  • Swarm Storm (Swarm Form is bigger and does more damage)
  • Insectsplosion (In Swarm Form, press B for shockwave attack)
  • Bee Cleaver (In Swarm Form, press A for an axe attack)

  • Soul Gem Ability: Bee is for Butt Stinger (While flying, press Z for stinger missiles; found in Cutthroat Carnival)

Talkback

geoOctober 18, 2012

Holy RSS feed batman.  I got like 20 new news stories because of this! -_-;

CericOctober 18, 2012

Hey Neal is there anyway I could get a checklist of the one that will out on this wave?

Quote from: Ceric

Hey Neal is there anyway I could get a checklist of the one that will out on this wave?

That's a great idea. I'll see what I can do.

Honestly? I'm not even totally sure what will be out on Sunday. There seems to have been a lot of late shuffling.

CericOctober 18, 2012

Quote from: NWR_Neal

Quote from: Ceric

Hey Neal is there anyway I could get a checklist of the one that will out on this wave?

That's a great idea. I'll see what I can do.

Honestly? I'm not even totally sure what will be out on Sunday. There seems to have been a lot of late shuffling.

Thanks.  I could really use a list for Sunday Morning.  I'll probably hold off on the Series 1 Variants and just go for the new ones.

Ron POctober 22, 2012

At Walmart I found:

Crusher
Swarm
Tree-Rex (Starter Kit)
Bouncer
Chill
Fright Rider
Shroomboom in a 3 pack with cannon
Pop Fizz


Toys R Us I found
Sprocket
Jet Vac (single pack not the starter kit)
Hot Head
Flashwing



Ron POctober 22, 2012

Wonder what is scheduled for Wave 3 or a Wave 3 release date in the US

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