Dragon Breath

Template:Youmay The ability to breathe elements other than fire has been a part of the gameplay in the Spyro series since Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly though it technically made its debut in "Spyro: Year of the Dragon".

Fire breath seems to be the most common element. However, other elements can be acquired by using Powerup Gates or magic spells. In the spin-off Advance series, other elements can be obtained by means ranging from spell scrolls to hot peppers.

In other series, dragons of various different elemental types exist, with some specializing in just one element, or being capable of learning multiple breath attacks.

Original Series

In the original series, almost all breath types are modifications of fire, barring few exceptions.

Spyro the Dragon

Fire

The standard Element Spyro uses throughout the majority of the game. When used, Spyro heaves as if it requires significant effort to do. The actual flame resembles five small streams of flame arranged in a fan shape. It can be used to kill (or harm, in the case of Bosses) any unarmoured enemy, but is unable to harm armoured and metallic enemies.

"Love" Flame

This game's version of the Superflame that would appear in later installments. It is identical to the standard flame, but is pink in colour and is capable of destroying things that are normally immune to Spyro's standard flame.

Fire

Looks and functions identical to the first game, albeit with a notably crunchier sound effect.

Superflame

A stronger variation of fire breath capable of breaking through most armoured enemies and metal objects. It is a large fire ball that flies out in a straight direction and explodes on impact with anything. When used underwater, it becomes a blue-white mine of energy that travels in a slow, spiral-shaped path and, again, explodes on impact with anything. A permanent variant can be unlocled by collecting every Gem and Orb in the game. It is capable of securing a rapid victory against Gulp and Ripto.

Super Freeze

Is a breath exclusive to an Orb quest in Cloud Temples. It is used to freeze Trolls in order to meneuver up a bell tower.

Bubble

This breath cannot harm enemies or kill fodder. In fact, the only purpose of the bubble breath is to capture dragonflies in bubbles. It can also break open butterfly jars. Spyro learns bubble breath in Enter the Dragonfly, but never uses it afterwards.

Electricity

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Spyro using electricity breath.

Spyro first learns this element in Enter the Dragonfly, where he uses it to power machinery and open a locked gate that blocked the way to other levels. In A Hero's Tail, Spyro regains this ability after unknowingly rescuing the fairy named Amp from Gnasty Gnorc. It serves much the same purpose in this game as in the last game. Electricity breath can be obtained in Season of Flame with a Powerup Gate. In Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs, Spyro gains this ability after Moneybags gives him a magic battery as a reward for saving him from Butler.

Ice

Spyro first uses Ice Breath in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, where he uses a Super Freeze Powerup to freeze trolls and ring the bells in Cloud Temples. In Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the Ice Fairies give Spyro ice breath while he remains in Frozen Altars. Later, in Enter the Dragonfly, Spyro gets a more permanent ice breath. Ice breath reappears in A Hero's Tail and Shadow Legacy. Ice breath's most common use is to freeze enemies to be used as stepping stones to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. Frozen enemies can be defeated with a charge, no matter how big they are. In the spin-off game Season of Flame, Spyro's fire breath is replaced with ice and he has to collect fireflies to regain his fire. In Attack of the Rhynocs, a fairy gives Spyro a spell scroll that gives him ice breath for heating the Fairy Library.

Wind

Spyro starts the game Attack of the Rhynocs with wind breath already learned, although the game never explains how. At the start of this game, wind breath pushes Spyro backwards, but cannot harm enemies. Later, in the Rabbit Habitat, Uncle O' Hare gives Spyro a magic top that allows his wind breath to create tornadoes that can harm enemies. Moneybags later gives Spyro a magic battery that allows him to charge up his wind breath for a more powerful electricity breath, making electricity an extension of wind.

Sheep

This breath is a joke in Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy. It can only be unlocked by entering a cheat code. Sheep breath is exactly the same as fire breath, only that a sheep flies out of Spyro's mouth.