Lightcores Kinda Suck - Krypt Krusher

Today we look at the Lightcores and why they are my least favourite light source. I was never a fan of lamps either.

[@Chefonaoven]

WARNING: In the event of a power outage do not use lightcore skylanders for a substitute light source

[@bubbaphett8501]

Wouldn’t even work though because the portal requires electricity

[@Chefonaoven]

@@bubbaphett8501 exactly exactly

[@ender01o66]

@@bubbaphett8501 unless you use the 3Ds portals

[@bubbaphett8501]

@@ender01o66 true

[@tastyyoylecake2069]

@@ender01o66 what about the ipad portals

[@AdisPlays]

I like lightcore just because they light up and it looks cool, and the best part about lightcore and also series 2,3 is that they are an extra Skylander and it make it easier to find and collect, for example I really wanted Wham Shell for SSA but I sadly couldn’t find any because it’s so rare, but luckily I found the common lightcore wham shell and I use him so often in SSA, that’s the reason why it helps for us players who don’t want to collect every Skylander and variant

[@Aetherpeter]

I know late answer lol. I see your point but ... to release a Grim Creeper and Lightcore Grim Creeper or Star Strike and Lightcore Starstrike in the same Generation doesnt make sense in any way

[@Theoneeyethatstaresatyou7244]

It’s also a great alternative to the normal version of a core because they don’t have wow pows in the game they debuted in so you get a cool lightcore and the skylander you need for your collection

[@frogmouth2]

Ranking light cores (Based mostly on quality and context) #16 bumble blast #15 shroom boom #14 jet-vac #13 warnado #12 hex #11 drobot #10 flashwing #9 chill #8 eruptor #7 whamshell #6 star strike #5 countdown #4 pop-fizz #3 grim creeper #2 smolderdash #1 prism break The light cores should have been the gimmick of giants instead of the giants I feel. In the trap team conference they said “our goal is to make kids say wow!” And showed toys to life for SSA, swapping for swapforce, and lightcore for giants. Then again this is right before he tried to convince people that traps were any form of new technology but still. Maybe at least only resell old series 2s as light cores with WOW POWs and call it a day.

[@magmarxiogaming6717]

tbh i really wish that the trap masters' weapons would glow up when you got near a traptanium cluster, the technology was there and is even shown with the traps being able to respond to in game actions but they definitely didn't do enough with the lightcore technology

[@GhostRoasterDrankAllTheMilk]

My first lightcore skylander I ever got was Drobot and I personally love the figure because of that (just like that I lost my social credit score)

[@FatManThor953]

Mine was the countdown but my favorite is warnado

[@bobbynelson5849]

The only light core I have is shroom boom

[@aidenward8765]

I accidentally got a light core warnado instead of normal

[@jackeroni216]

He is my favourite skylander figure, even though I have S2 Drobot, I still use him because he was my childhood figure.

[@Roman_the_black_cat]

I have both drobot and shroom boom, didnt know they lack wow-pows i think its called, i always called them bonus soul gems

[@johnpaulcross424]

I have to agree, in my experience they rarely fulfilled on what you had in mind for them to light up, and a lot of the times the parts that were supposed to light up didn’t even function properly

[@juns_bf2]

i think they’re obviously a cash grab BUT they do look cool if you’re into collecting them,especially in box. plus you can mess with giants by crashing it with lightcores lol

[@notouchy31]

I WANT MORE SKYLANDERS ... i have 280 skylanders ... bruh help me

[@Roman_the_black_cat]

​@@notouchy31i have like 50 and it feels like nothing, i started collecting last year after watching a krypt crusher vid since i wanted to relive thise childhood memories

[@notouchy31]

@@Roman_the_black_cat don't stop and keep going, in one years i go pretty far , i have now 356 . Good luck with your collection !

[@Roman_the_black_cat]

@@notouchy31 thx m8, im still a just a kid so i dont hqve too much money but i buy em if i find them in second hands where they usually dont cost much in comparison to online

[@notouchy31]

@@Roman_the_black_cat good ! It's à good strategy , i'm only 16 years old so i'm not rich 😅

[@earthenavenger]

I don’t mind them, and actually really like lightcore Warnado, Eruptor, and Star Strike.

[@smasher3261]

I am trying to get lightcore star strike. I love her lightcore more than her normal figure

[@Spectral-Ace]

@@smasher3261 what a coincidence, i just got lightcore star strike today

[@inthem00d59]

I remember when I got Lightcore Eruptor as a kid thinking he had the Wow Pow. I was a little disappointed not gonna lie.

[@terrapog8533]

The thing is in the Giants beta the lightcores actually had the wow pows

[@Kalfuyama]

but if lightcores had wow pows, series 2 would have been 100% useless :c

[@icespider8199]

@@Kalfuyama maybe a different wow pow

[@samuellodge231]

So glad you took a break and still managed to get this video so quickly

[@FoxflameGoddess]

fun fact: the devs actually wanted to make the trap masters’ weapons light up but they couldnt cuz budget

[@Lexors]

I would love to see a lightcore jawbreaker 🥲

[@HungryWarden]

What color would the Dark and Undead ones light up?

[@Gokusolosfr56]

the only good thing about lightcores to me is that they look cool on the portal

[@BookshelfJunk]

some of the best skylanders content on the internet keep up the good stuff!

[@Kingofportals]

Glad to see you back, also really appreciate the Kaos’ Kastle music in the background!

[@tedcamus3578]

I liked when the Lightcore re-pose matched one of a Skylander's two paths, and (if you really like that particular Skylander) you could buy both and have their respective poses matching their corresponding paths. Flashwing and Shroomboom are the best examples of this -- also because their Lightcore versions aren't missing out on a Series 2 Wow Pow. And also also, not being Series 2, you can't change their paths without resetting them, so you'd need to buy two anyway.

[@agentblackbird9435]

This applies to the SF lightcores, including Warnado and Wham Shell

[@zanemiller3704]

I once bought a light core drobot not knowing it was light core and i didn’t realize it lit up until months after even after I played as him a bunch.

[@Santi-lq6fl]

awesome video and i loved how you teased the next "kinda suck" in the end it was very cool

[@snwmn4783]

8:22 “that never became a reality” You mean reposes or another game?

[@GummyPikminProductions]

What I think would have been cool would be articulated figures Edit: Also yes, I agree with you, LC Drobot sucks, and if his eyes and maybe his wings glowed also and he was in a pose where you could see everything lighting up from the front would be cool

[@PoopyHeadGaming]

Here's an idea for lightcores to make them better: Make them have special, almost wow pow like abilities unique to that version involving light in some way and make said abilities do a LOT of damage.

[@HungryWarden]

I think the Lightcores should’ve had massively buffed elemental power. It wouldn’t make it too different from the normal Skylander, but it’d make you really glad to hear the “Skylanders of the [Insert Skylander Element] are stronger in this zone” cue and having your attack power be massively buffed.

[@RocKnight11]

While I don't hateThem, I could do without the Lightcore figures. My biggest problem with them is the Lightcore and the base figure looked too similar to each other. At first glance could your average Portal Master tell the difference between Series 1 Jet-Vac and Lightcore Jet-Vac? Or Series 1 Chill and Lightcore Chill? The best Lightcore figures were the ones that had a unique look compared to the base figures, like Countdown and Hex.

[@0z0nedwellerproductions5]

Technically there's actually 24 light cores, if you count the giants though because they do have Parts of their Body light up.

[@kryptkrusher]

I do go on to talk about that if you watch more of the video...

[@0z0nedwellerproductions5]

@@kryptkrusher Sorry lol, I was watching this while walking home from School. I agree as well that they should've just made all skylanders glow, Great vid tho!

[@cappella264]

I wish that they made it so that every part of the skylander that would make sense to glow should, Like Prism Breaks hand crystals are the only things that light up, I think it would’ve felt a little bit justified if they made Prism Breaks back crystals and even the stand that all skylanders stand on glow

[@Fire_Oasis_Gaming]

I miss him..

[@agentblackbird9435]

My only real upside to LCs is different poses and being able to get them cheaper in some cases (also some of them just look better like Jet Vac)

[@matthewmatthew981]

Swap force lightcores were objectively the worst because instead of using it to bring in new characters or bring back old ones they went for slight reposed models of BASIC characters IN THE SAME ROSTER. Why would I want to buy a character that risks either being a boring piece of cheap plastic or a blindingly gaudy lightcore gimmick depending on which one you actually wanted?! Since I actually much prefer the look of the lightcore gimmick, I love the fact that all the elite Giants characters have built-in lightcore functionality: and the fact that they didn't bring it back for the COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT TRAPTANIUM WEAPONS of Skylanders Trap Team will NEVER make sense to me.

[@kirbyfan2088]

Light cores are the second most useless toys to collect of the useless three groups But the most useless in my opinion are the chase variants I hate them Oh and the only Repose that should exist is Zap Series 2

[@juns_bf2]

chase variants look cool af tho

[@migantomon117]

And sunburn series 2

[@avatarm364]

I'm curious to see your Imaginators. Wanna do a showcase?

[@Terraria-Melee]

There's a good reason why the weapons can't glow: if it was then if it broke it could cause fire or the wires for the led to start sparks. The weapons, arms and sometimes heads usually break in most skylanders

[@anemarin4lif358]

Krypt Krusher could you please do a skylanders guide on Zap, Camo, or Echo please? Thanks

[@culturalist]

LMAO how do you have so many topics to talk about in a stagnant series? much respect for covering skylanders in 2021

[@SpiltMySquash]

How dare you insult T-posing Smolderdash!

[@familyfun_1014]

One thing I will say though about the lightcores and series 2 is although it was very much for more money, it allowed those with less money at one time or less selection to come back to future games and get characters they had missed for past games. This is especially notable with wham-shell, which was the last spyros adventure skylanders to come out but did come out later as a lightcore in swapforce

[@BingBong67489]

The lack of a light up feature in Trap Masters is what irks me the most. It's like they designed an entire line of gimmicklanders around the idea of being lightcores and then just forgot to put in the wiring.

[@bourkekarl6328]

Useful for those nights spent 100%ing swap force

[@turbocreamer637]

What could possibly be next? Variants kinda suck? Minis kinda suck?

[@LowlySlime]

Prism Break was my only lightcore I ever got, but I really wanted lightcore Hex as a kid

[@LowlySlime]

Oh and Pop Fizz

[@ee_butter6471]

My first skylander was a lightcore eruptor

[@HungryWarden]

I can definitely agree that narrator is cool. Hands down the best narrator in a video game and makes everything sound exciting even if it’s not, which may be a good thing or a bad thing but personally I think it’s a good thing

[@christophershaver-nt8kf]

the reasons are that the parts that glow required wires from the base to make them light up and some parts couldnt get those

[@chrissysnax947]

I played all games with my brother and naturally we weren’t able to share our figurines so lightcore figures kept the peace

[@Lechgang]

Lightcores are the type of skylanders you buy your friends for their birthday because you don't want to buy a cool one that you can't have.

[@GNVS300]

I found Lightcores to be a bit of a rip-off when first using them on Giants; my first was Drobot, who barely lights up at all, and soon found out that even though he was a returning character, being a Lightcore prevented him from getting a Wow-Pow ability or being able to change his upgrade path. Then I changed my mind after getting Lightcore Prism Break, for the reasons you stated, plus I didn't care about not having his Wow Pow as I thought his Soul Gem was really good anyway. Overall, pretty mid, especially when many other Skylanders can light up, i.e. Giants.

[@Offstage_p]

We need a krypt Christmas

[@jonahdengler3858]

I pretty much had Grim Creeper and Countdown in hand.

[@chopshield4456]

Announcement:😁 Lights:😂 Actually happended:😳

[@aar9036]

Radioactive tomatoes, my favorite!!😋

[@jolttrontitan2755]

I really like the light cores, something about them just is so awesome to see in my room. Except Swarm and Hot Head, they are not so awesome

[@jimmyarellano2021]

I'm just gonna say my light core dro bot is saved me several times plus it's kinda cool they light up

[@HAYDENCRAFT-nn9wu]

The dark and light expansion packs are classified as light cores in-game

[@jacobsarcourbious114]

Alright see yall next month/year when he uploads again

[@CardMasterPhoenix]

Huh. I thought Wow POWs were exclusive to Series 1… thanks Krypt King!

[@airination6140]

@Krypt Krusher have you ever done a tierlist once?

[@yves1594]

The light and dark expansions are actually lightcores (it says so when you enter them]

[@gxalcremieshiny4229]

I hate the fact that light cores used to have a light explosion that atleast was usefull in Giants and partially Swap Force, but not any further. Because every skylander game became harder, only damage wise. Their 125 dmg did barely anything towards enemies in trap team, as most trap master already did 135 per hit. Superchargers and Imaginators also followed this, making light cores useless outside esthetics.

[@whackyzachy1482]

I mean if you want a cheaper wham-she’ll you could always buy the lightcore variant?

[@thenorfnonly3486]

I only have two Lightcores: Warnado and Countdown. However, these lightcores are also the only versions of these Skylanders that I have, so I can’t really be one to complain. Well, there’s always something to complain about with Warnado, but that’s beside the point.

[@cyberredpandas1903]

Also only one of Swarm's stingers light up.

[@prestonlincoln8653]

What portal is that?

[@juns_bf2]

hey krypt i was wondering how did you get into the old skylanders website for that video you made on it?

[@ShatteredShqrd]

I have been waiting for this

[@gigaswardblade7261]

why couldnt they have made just one series 2 for each element be a lightcore and have a series 2 for all skylanders rather thatn what they actually ended up doing. like they couldve just made normal pop fizz lightcore and had series 2 voodood.

[@captvalstrax]

My Lightcore Jet Vac only has a problem with the paint job. His eyes look derpy.

[@Zizou69420]

Lightcores are cool as fuck

[@migantomon117]

Agreed, they shine

[@PokePotvin]

Awesome video man!!!!!!! Great job!

[@fivenightsatmimikus7508]

I think the lightcores have more potential (eon saying that they got trapped in crystal or something an have a stronger power or something) Edit: *Eon. Also yea the crystal idea is cool considering Imaginite does the Lightcore gimmick

[@RebelTrooperHoth]

I would exclusively buy the light cores if I knew one existed

[@craiggilderdale3427]

Long time no see

[@migantomon117]

Yeppers

[@d1nor4ng59]

1:02 yeah that definitely worked …

[@Kingofportals]

When will you make a new video?

[@opinion_populars]

When we're all in our 80s 💀

[@Countcomfortable]

I kinda like Lightcore Warnado because it’s my only Warnado

[@duracell9575]

The voice that says "LIGHTCORE" is cool, but other than that Lightcore exists? ig, But why would I buy a figure just cause A PART OF IT lights up? it's dumb

[@migantomon117]

Hmmm mini Skylanders video?

[@ButterTofu1]

Wait, my countdown is a light core? Ok

[@alexhale7685]

Can we get a video that shows your imaginators?

[@17jacoyne]

I never bought lightcore skylanders if I wanted a character I would buy the Original figure

[@pachorro5661]

Does the Lightcore Warnado work on Spyro's Adventure and Giants?

[@kryptkrusher]

You can use him but he doesn't appear as a lightcore sadly

[@KyleRaynerCh]

Do you think you will ever remake your ranking all chapters in spyro's adventure so it is the same quality as trap team and giant?

[@elliotjarrvi3281]

I can use lightcore euraptor in trap team and so on

[@Dooffus]

Hope I have light core prism break

[@Master-jy3xf]

were are you its been 5 months pls unless you have exams but you cant have exams that take 5 months

[@Zonatedjaguar90]

The king is back

[@portalmaster07]

and now hes gone again

[@Zonatedjaguar90]

@@portalmaster07 so true

[@portalmaster07]

@@Zonatedjaguar90 this commentv was typed using the 2011 ssa skylander boomer

[@Zonatedjaguar90]

Ok then

[@paladinsans5991]

Your my fucking hero Krypt Krusher

[@noahkleppolsen9465]

you are a good man

[@timothypeters7160]

Great vid...

[@cindytallyn6170]

Y haven't u uploaded in a long time

[@guywithrevolver]

They do make for good joke armies though

[@user-zm1xr6zq3x]

The light cores are the way they are because they rely solely on the light produced by the portal.

[@chromaticdragons2943]

*me when the LED's of my giants are starting to break* :(

[@skylandersdude9734]

I never bought any lightcores, now I’m glad cuz they don’t do anything different

[@planter6195]

Here’s the way I see it, if you already have that skylander, then the lightcore version isn’t worth it, but if you don’t have the skylander yet, shot for a lightcore (unless a repose is available then get that)

[@Midget_bunger]

Were ar the now videos

[@Impfinity]

Not related, but one time when I young, I bought a used prison break series 1 figure, and I wondered what it’s name was and it’s name was literally “no one likes you” or something similar to that I just thought that was funny

[@theyeti1437]

I legit don't buy these unless it unintentional, because I don't keep track of all skylanders

[@ChipFanXO]

The only times I bought reposes is because I didn't have that character Because I never owned the og and giants

[@iaincampbell6959]

Hmm.... when I look closely at Magna Zone, I swear his eye and wheel are supposed to light up. Even in game they light up.

[@tman.cullen]

The only good light cores are the giants

[@wetsocks4460]

It’d be really cool if the light cores were like alternate B-side of the chosen skylander o: Like how prism break has great area control, the light core version of prism break could either lean HEAVILY into that idea, or go the opposite route of setting up prisms to deal huge single target damage :>