Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure: Heroic Challenge List

Here is a complete list of all 32 Heroic Challenges in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.  It is broken down in several convenient formats and will show you what challenges yield what powers.  Hope this helps you out!


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I will list them in various forms to suit your needs, break them down by stat, element group, and then offer my tips.

Here are all 32 Heroic Challenges in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure:

1. Chompy Chomp-Down--Warnado +9 Elemental Power

2. This Bomb's For You--Ghost Roaster +3 Armor

3. Jump for It--Wrecking Ball +8 Speed

4. Where Art Thou, Paintings--Spyro +5 Critical Hit

5. Lair of the Giant Spiders--Prism Break +5 Critical Hit

6. Fight, Teleport, Fight!--Lightning Rod +3 Armor

7.  The Three Teleporters--Hex +3 Armor

8. Stop, Sheep Thieves--Dino Rang +3 Armor

9. Mining for Charms--Bash +5 Critical Hit

10. Dungeoness Creeps--Cynder +5 Critical Hit

11. Mining is the Key--Ignitor +8 Speed

12. Mission Achomplished--Stump Smash +3 Armor

13. Pod Gauntlet--Chop Chop +9 Elemental Power

14. Time's A-Wastin'--Sonic Boom +5 Critical Hit

15. Save the Purple Chompies!--Drobot +8 Speed TOUGH

16. Spanwner Cave--Terrafin +5 Critical Hit

17. Arachnid Antechamber--Sunburn +3 Armor

18. Hobson's Choice--Trigger Happy +8 Speed

19. Isle of the Automatons--Eruptor +9 Elemental Power

20. You Break It,You Buy It!--Double Trouble +8 Speed TOUGH

21. Minefield Mishap--Stealth Elf +8 Speed TOUGH

22. Lobs O'Fun--Whirlwind +5 Critical Hit

23. Spell Punked!--Voodood +3 Armor
24: Charm Hunt--Wham-Shell +5 Critical Hit

25. Flip the Script--Camo +3 Armor

26. You've Stolen My Hearts!--Zook +5 Critical Hit

27. Bombs to the Walls--Flameslinger +9 Elemental Power

28. Operation: Sheep Freedom--Boomer +5 Critical Hit

29. Jailbreak!--Gill Grunt +3 Armor

30. Enivronmentally Unfriendly--Drill Sergeant +9 Elemental Power

31. Chemical Cleanup--Slam Bam +9 Elemental Power

32. Break the Cats--Zap  +3 Armor TOUGH

1ofWiisdom's Tips for Heroic Challenges

Well, let's get this started first as it is likely what most of you care about.  Keep in mind, I base this on the Wii version of Skylanders...there are a few differences between versions which may impact things.  Nonetheless, here is my strategy.

Speed Kills.  It was in every Madden game when I was a kid.  It is probably the single most noticeable and enjoyable upgrade in terms of the Heroic Challenges.  Had all the figures been available in October, I probably would have used this strategy...thanks to the staggered release, many of us just took who we had and treated them to upgrades...which can come back to haunt us later on...

My advice is simple:

1. Take each Skylander thru all 6 of the Speed Challenges.  Each one grants +8 Speed, so you will have +48...and that makes a huge difference.  Most Skylanders will top out somewhere in the 90s for Speed when you have fully upgraded them.  

1a.  The other big thing is Drobot and Double Trouble's Challenge.  Drobot's isn't as big of an issue, but if you are like me and have a decked out Ghost Roaster down Skull Master you will never beat it.  The ghosts you create kill the chompies indiscriminately...so, regardless how careful you are, some purple chompie will walk into a ghost off-screen and in your bid for Heroic Challenge glory.  The sad thing is, a box-stock Skylander can whiz thru this with little effort, provided you don't get lost.

1b.  Double Trouble's Challenge is likely the toughest in the game.  Not because it is "hard," but because of the design.  I took a stock (no upgrades) Cynder thru last night and had trouble not breaking the vases or paintings...even when you position yourself perfectly you will often still take out a painting or 2-3 vases.  If you take out 2 Paintings, you fail.  Every vase you break costs you 10 seconds...so think, just 6 vases and you've lost a minute...this gets tough.

The biggest issue I had is that by the time Double Trouble was released and I tracked him down, I had upgraded Boomer and Eruptor quite a bit...big problem.  Double Trouble's Heroic Challenge is a nightmare for those guys with much past the base upgrades...in fact, box-stock it is pretty challenging.  

If you get desperate, and don't want to reset your maxed out Skylander, you can make use of the Anvil Rain and other Magic Items or Location Pieces to bring home the win....not ideal, but think of the time you save!

2. Once you have the Speed Challenges done, I don't really see any that are much of a challenge.  Whether you go at it fully upgraded or not just seems to impact time.  So, in challenges like Cynder's or Dino-Rang's the upgrades will just help you kill enemies quicker, which will get you thru the challenge that much earlier.

3. Zap's Challenge to me isn't "Tough" as the game says.  If you are careful and have the speed challenges done it isn't bad at all...upgraded or stock.  I do think having the speed challenges done is a big help as that makes up for any vases you (or the Drow spearman) might happen to  break.

4. Whirlwind's Challenge is the biggest pain of all 32.  The bombs are just not consistent.  Sometimes you can stand at the foot of the platform and land a glorious kill...the next time you use the same strategy the bomb can fall flat on the ground and do nothing.  There seems to be no ryhme or reason to success with this one other than keep trying.  The bombs in other challenges (Voodood and Zap) seem to work much better. The best counter to this annoyance is to just have the Speed Challenges done to move quicker and have more attempts to land hits.

That is pretty much it.  Knock the Speed Challenges out as soon as possible...the rest are not too big of a deal in my opinion.  If you have trouble with one in particular, just figure out if you are better suited to tackle it with or without upgrades and proceed on...Good luck!

Now, let's take a look at the Heroic Challenges divided by Reward:

+3 Armor Challenges (10 Challenges, +30 Armor)

Ghost Roaster

Lightning Rod

Hex

Dino-Rang

Stump Smash

Voodood

Sunburn

Camo

Gill Grunt

Zap

+5 Critical Hit (10 Challenges, +50 Critical Hit)

Spyro

Prism Break

Bash

Cynder

Soinc Boom

Terrafin

Whilwind 
Wham-Shell

Zook

Boomer

+9 Elemental Power Challenges (6 Challenges, +54 Elemental Power)

Warnado

Chop Chop

Eruptor

Flameslinger

Drill Sergeant

Slam Bam

+8 Speed Challenges (6 Challenges, +48 Speed)

Wrecking Ball

Ignitor

Drobot

Trigger Happy

Double Trouble

Stealth Elf

TOUGH Challenges (According to the Game)

Drobot (+8 Speed, #15)

Double Trouble (+8 Speed, #20)

Stealth Elf (+8 Speed, #21)

Zap (+3 Armor, #32)


And now, since you are still reading...here are the videos of a Box-Stock "No Upgrades" Warnado progressing through all 32 Heroic Challenges.  The only hiccup was Whirlwind's Challenge which took a few attempts thanks to the bombs: