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“Do you like scary stories? Wanna hear ours?”
    —Skylanders: Ring of Heroes Relationship description

Undead is one of the ten elements in the Skylanders series. Despite its dark origins, the Undead Element is a vital part of the Core of Light. It combines with the other Elements in some unusual, and unexpected, ways.[1] This element is associated with shades of gray, white, pure black and occasionally thistle, grayish blue and deep purple.

History

Many creatures, including the Skylanders, have been changed forever as a result of visiting the Underworld. Some have found their very souls twisted beyond recognition. Others, such as Cynder, simply like hanging out in graveyards. But all have it within themselves to use their Undead abilities for good. The Undead Element inhabits the darkest corners of Skylands, lurking in the shadows, ready to pounce - and then serve up a lovely snack or tell a terrible joke.[2]

Weaknesses

While the Undead Element is strong against the Life Element, it is at the mercy of Magic. Spells and sorcery really take their toll, and Undead Elementals should beware the wrath of wizards.[1]

In Skylanders: Ring of Heroes, Undead is weak to Fire and Magic, and strong against Life and Earth.

Abilities

The Skylanders who are associated with the Undead element are mostly creatures who hail from the Underworld such as skeletons or ghouls and living creatures who have been corrupted by the element. They use the power of the undead and spooky magic, as well as some abilities relating to poison and contagion, to aid them in battle. When forming a bridge to access their Elemental Gates, Undead Skylanders create a bridge that are formed from the bones of their fallen enemies.[3]

Undead-based Skylanders also stand on a pedestal that resembles a white skull when they're in their toy form. The white skull on the pedestal is known to glow in the dark on most figures. SuperChargers, on the other hand, stand on a pedestal of bones that do not glow in the dark.

In Skylanders: Trap Team 's turret challenges, Undead Skylanders have the special ability Spectre Swarm, which gradually damages enemies in an area. In Kaos Doom Challenge, they can summon skeletal hands as their towers, which throw flaming skulls at enemies and slam the ground while recharging.

In Skylanders: SuperChargers, Undead-aligned Portal Master Powers include summoning a flaming skull minion that attacks enemies for you and reduce the attack damage of enemies with an enervating curse. Those are distributed in several conditions, and the names are as follows:

  • Skeletal Subject - Undead Skylanders summon a skeletal minion in an Undead Zone.
  • Enervating Entrance - Undead Skylanders reduce the Attack of enemies when summoned.
  • Enervating Strike - Undead Skylander attacks have a chance to reduce the Attack of enemies.
  • Curse of Undeath - A chance for Undead Skylanders hit in an Undead Zone to reduce the enemy's attack.
  • Necromantic Desperation - Undead Skylanders summon a skeletal minion when their health is low.

Skylanders: Imaginators

Undead Imaginators can choose from four abilities as their secondary attack:

Undead 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.
Tombstone Timber
Mastered Tombstone Timber
Last Laugh
Mastered Last Laugh
Soul Stealer
Mastered Soul Stealer
Contagion
Mastered Contagion
Undeadelementalpower1
Original Power
Press Attack 2 to hit your enemies with a tombstone attack.
View Upgrade
Undeadelementupgrade1
Price: 1500
Press Attack 2 to hit your enemies with a tombstone attack that unleases ancient avenging ghosts.
View Base Power
Undeadelementalpower2
Original Power
Press Attack 2 to throw laughing skulls at your enemies.
View Upgrade
Undeadelementupgrade2
Price: 1500
Press Attack 2 to throw laughing skulls that also increase your critical hit chance and damage output.
View Base Power
Undeadelementalpower3
Unlocked at Level 3
Press Attack 2 to turn the souls of your enemies into health orbs.
View Upgrade
Undeadelementupgrade3
Price: 1500
Press Attack 2 to turn the souls of your enemies into health orbs. Collected orbs damage nearby enemies.
View Base Power
Undeadelementalpower4
Unlocked at Level 5
Press Attack 2 to release a contagion that spreads around your enemies.
View Upgrade
Undeadelementupgrade4
Price: 1500
Press Attack 2 to release a contagion that spreads around your enemies and summons a swarm of bug allies.
View Base Power

The default color schemes for Undead Imaginators include Zombies' BallGhastly Gargoyle, Grave Yard Smash, Stark Terror, Obsidian Graves, Morbid Decay and Soulless. Undead Creation Crystals unlock the Werewolf Set of Imaginator parts, featuring the Wolf Head, Wolf Chest, Wolf Legs, Wolf Arms and Wolf Ears.

Undead Elemental Characters

Skylanders

Core Skylanders
Bat Spin Icon Bat Spin
Chop Chop Icon Chop Chop
Elite Chop Chop Icon Elite Chop Chop
Grill Master Chop Chop Icon Grill Master Chop Chop
(Lost Islands Alter Ego)
Legendary Chop Chop Icon Legendary Chop Chop
Cynder Icon Cynder
Skeletal Cynder Icon Skeletal Cynder
(Lost Islands Alter Ego)
Fright Rider Icon Fright Rider
Funny Bone Icon Funny Bone
Fortune Funny Bone Icon Fortune Funny Bone
(Lost Islands Alter Ego)
Ghost Roaster Icon Ghost Roaster
Elite Ghost Roaster Icon Elite Ghost Roaster
Grim Creeper Icon Grim Creeper
Legendary Grim Creeper Icon Legendary Grim Creeper
Hex Icon Hex
Hallows' Eve Hex Icon Hallows' Eve Hex
(Lost Islands Alter Ego)
Light Hex
Roller Brawl Icon Roller Brawl
Snowler Brawl Icon Snowler Brawl
(Lost Islands Alter Ego)
Giant
Eye-Brawl Icon Eye-Brawl
SWAP Force Movement Type
Night Shift Icon Night Shift
Legendary Night Shift Icon Legendary Night Shift
Teleport
Rattle Shake Icon Rattle Shake
Quickdraw Rattle Shake Icon Quickdraw Rattle Shake
Bounce
Trap Masters
Krypt King Icon Krypt King
Nitro Krypt King Icon Nitro Krypt King
Short Cut Icon Short Cut
Minis
Eye-Small Icon Eye-Small
Hijinx Icon Hijinx
SuperChargers
Bone Bash Roller Brawl Icon Bone Bash Roller Brawl
Legendary Bone Bash Roller Brawl Icon Legendary Bone Bash Roller Brawl
Fiesta Icon Fiesta
Frightful Fiesta Icon Frightful Fiesta
Senseis Battle Class
Chopscotch Icon Chopscotch
Candy-Coated Chopscotch Icon Candy-Coated Chopscotch
Smasher
Pit Boss Icon Pit Boss
Legendary Pit Boss Icon Legendary Pit Boss
Sorcerer
Wolfgang Icon Wolfgang
Dark Wolfgang Icon Dark Wolfgang
Bowslinger

Villains

Villains
Bone Chompy Villain Icon Bone Chompy
Hood Sickle Villain Icon Hood Sickle
Masker Mind Villain Icon Masker Mind
Wolfgang Villain Icon Wolfgang

Undead Elemental Items

Items
Undead Traps Undead Traps
  • Dream Piercer (Captain's Hat)
  • Grim Gripper (Hand)
  • Haunted Hatchet (Axe)
  • Spectral Skull (Skull)
  • Spirit Sphere (Orb)
    • Legendary Spirit Sphere
  • Spooky Snake (Snake)
Undead Crystals Undead Creation Crystals
Vehicles Terrain
Spirit Dragster Icon Count Moneybone's Spirit Dragster Land
Crypt Crusher symbol Crypt Crusher Land
Tomb Buggy symbol Tomb Buggy Land
Sub Woofer Icon Wolfgang's Sub Woofer Sky

Battlecast Spell Cards

The Undead Element in Battlecast revolves around draining enemy health, xp and power, with abilities pertaining to allies being powerful but at great costs or risks.

The scrapped team spell for Undead characters is the Dirge of Undead, a haunting song in which the active character can drain the enemy's life force for each Undead character in the team, acting as a cheaper and inverted Slice of Life.

Boo! Forgotten Headstone - Relic Lights Out
Boo!card

Common
Afflict a frontline enemy for 20 damage. Swap in a random sideline enemy.

Forgotten Headstone - Reliccard

Common
Give each enemy -20 power.

Lights Outcard

Common
Snare and mute the active enemy.


Vanishing Cloak - Gear Weaken Bat Attack
Vanishing Cloak - Gearcard

Rare
At the end of your turn, if owner is active, swap it out for your healthiest sideline ally.

Weakencard

Common
Afflict the active enemy for 40 damage. Give it -40 power until your next turn.

Bat Attackcard

Common
Your active ally drains 40 health from an enemy character.


Slice of Life Touch of Darkness Graveyard Grudge Match
Slice of Lifecard

Epic
Pick an enemy character. Each of your allies drains 20 health from it.

Touch of Darknesscard

Ultimate
Set an enemy to rank 1 with 0 XP.

Graveyard Grudge Matchcard

Epic
Two random enemies attack each other.


Vampiric Vial - Relic Leeching Mist Soul Survivor
Vampiric Vial - Reliccard

Rare
At the start of your turn, Vampiric Vial drains 20 max health from the active enemy.

Leeching Mistcard

Common
Give each enemy -50 power until your next turn. Restore 50 health to each ally.

Soul Survivorcard

Epic
KO a sideline ally. Give your active ally extra power equal to the KO'd ally's power.


Restless Spirit Dirge of Undead
Restless Spiritcard

Ultimate
Revive a KO'd ally with 150 health. At the end of your next turn, afflict it for 150 damage.

Dirge of Undeadcard

Common
Your active ally drains 20 damage from the active enemy for each Undead character on your team.


Character Spells: See Hex, Krypt King and Roller Brawl

Gallery

Trivia

  • Both Fright Rider and Eye-Brawl are Skylanders composed of two creatures in a symbiotic relationship with one another (Eye-Brawl with the flying eyeball and the headless giant, and Fright Rider by Rider and his skeletal ostrich, Fright).
    • Coincidentally, the two of them are the Undead Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Giants.
  • In Skylanders: Giants and Skylanders: Trap Team, the music from Cadaverous Crypt plays in the Undead elemental zones. Skylanders: Swap Force remixes Creepy Citadel's theme instead, whereas the Undead Vehicle Zone in Skylanders: SuperChargers borrows Rampant Ruins's theme.
  • This and Water are the only elements to contain a Legendary LightCore Skylander.
  • This element has three elves (Hex, Rider, and Hijinx), seven skeletal creatures (Ghost Roaster, Chop Chop, Fright, Funny Bone, Krypt King, Fiesta, and Bone Chompy), three vampires (Roller Brawl, Night Shift and Bat Spin), two reapers (Grim Creeper and Hood Sickle) and two snakes (Rattle Shake and Pit Boss).
  • This element currently holds the highest amount of female Skylanders.
  • Undead is the element with the most Skylanders: Lost Islands exclusive variants, with five.
    • It is also the only element to have more female Lost Islands exclusive variants than male.
    • It has more female Lost Islands exclusive variants than the other elements combined.
  • This was the last of the original eight elements to get a non-Legendary variant.
    • Ironically, it currently has the highest amount of Legendaries.
  • This was the only element in Skylanders: Giants where none of its Skylanders received in-game variants.
  • Before the Dark element was introduced, the Undead element was associated with characters with powers over shadows and dark, mysterious locations. In Battlecast, some Undead spells are also associated with it despite the existence of the Dark element, such as Touch of Darkness.
  • Undead creatures are collectively referred to as "ghouls" in most media, though the namesake species exists as seen with Ghost Roaster and Chopscotch.
  • The Undead Elemental Gates in Skylanders: Swap Force and Trap Team open in a unique way. Skeletal arms emerge from the gate's frame as an Undead Skylander approaches, with the bottom hand extending one finger, the next hand extending two, and so on up to four.
  • All Undead characters introduced in Imaginators have in-game variants.
  • Undead Imaginators can perform Soul Stealer on training dummies and create health orbs to replenish their health meters.
  • Undead and Earth hold the least amount of Series 2 Skylanders, specifically three.
    • They also are the only two elements to have two Series 3 figures in Swap Force.
    • All of its Series 2 Skylanders were made in Giants.
    • They, along with the Tech element are the only elements (not counting the Trap Team-debut elements) to not have a Wow Pow repose Skylander for Trap Team.
      • Cynder was originally planned to have a Series 4 figure in Trap Team. Had it made it to the final game, the Undead and the Water element would have been the only elements to have a Series 4 figure.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Skylanders: Universe - Book of Elements: Life & Undead, page 76
  2. Skylanders: Universe - Book of Elements: Life & Undead, page 45
  3. Skylanders: Universe - Book of Elements: Life & Undead, page 56
Elements

Air - Dark - Earth - Fire - Kaos - Life - Light - Magic - Non-Elemental - Tech - Undead - Water

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