Notes before starting: Any Traptanium broken on the 1st pass has to be with THE SAME TRAP MASTER you open the elemental gate with, Else this voids no swap. The exception to this is The Ultimate Weapon, which only tracks swaps in the Kaos fight. Magic Items can be used multiple times in the same level if you have more of the same magic item. This route assumes you have an at least basic understanding of the game's collectible locations and speedrun strats.

Required Skylanders/Traps:

• 2 traps of each element
• 1 Kaos trap
• Blast Jet + Zone
• Gearshift
• Knight mare
• Knight light
• Headrush
• Thunderbolt
• Wildfire
• Enigma
• Tuff Luck
• Lob Star
• Short Cut
• Bouncer

Magic items:

• Winged Boots (Multiple if you can)
• Anvil rain (Optional)
• Midnight Museum
• Sunscraper Spire
• Nightmare Express
• Mirror of Mystery

Villain Vault 0 (Pre-run):

• Kaos: Kaos
• Life: Cuckoo Clocker & Chompy Mage
• Water: Slobertrap & Threat-pack.
• Fire: Smoke Scream & Scrap Shooter
• Air: DreamCatcher & Bad Juju
• Undead: Hoodsicke & Bone chompy
• Earth: Tussle Sprout & Golden Queen
• Magic: Bomb shell & Pain yata
• Tech: Doctor Krankcase & Shrednaught
• Light: Luminus & Lob Goblin
• Dark: Fisticuffs & eyescream

Soda Springs 1st pass:

• Jump down for Backwash Spillway Area
• 1st chest
• Jump into river for Cola Stream Area
• Skip Sheep Creep
• Skip traptanium pit
• Tech Gate: hat
• Skip secret Area
• Open Traptanium: Chest
• Skip gulper cutscene
• Villain Stash
• Soul gem (JawBreaker)
• Skip Buzz Cutscene
• Don’t Unload cutscene

Midnight Museum 1st pass:

• Go straight to the 1st ball puzzle
• Skip if you can, if not solve it.
• Skip room after
• After that, Go left for the 1st chest.
• Then Get Soul gem (Knight mare)
• Then legendary Treasure (Skip fight)
• 2nd ball puzzle: Solve as it can’t be skipped.
• Skip Laser Puzzle.
• Go to light gate, Skip everything with a double jump.
• Skip 3rd ball puzzle like you would in the IL.
• Go for last chest.
• Use Kaos for Nightshade boss fight, Don’t Unload Cutscene

Know it all Island 1st pass

• Skip Villain stash and first traptanium.
• Skip 2 key gate then defeat the enemies and tank.
• Grab Story Scroll.
• Break Traptanium (Dark Trap Master) and Defeat Buzzer Beak (Unload cutscene, Swap trap to Slobber trap)
• Legendary Treasure.
• Winged Sapphire.
• Solve puzzle and go to dark gate. Solve the puzzle.
• Do Slobber Trap Quest (leave trap in)
• Grab soul gem (Food Fight)
• Do fight as Blast Jet, Whilst waiting, Go back for Established Retreat area Unload Slobber Trap Cutscene

Hub shop 1 Get 25 keys More if you're expecting to fail some levels.

Chompy Mountain 1st pass

• Cutscene Warp (Kaos)
• Try to hit soulgem on the way down (Bushwack)
• Get traptanium outside the arena (Soulgem)
• Do Lockpuzzle.
• Do arena for enemy goal on the 1st pass.
• (Inside Mountain) Open Undead Gate and traptanium
• In undead gate: Grab hat
• In hidden area: Chest
• Get Legendary Treasure.
• Open bomb wall WITH CANNON (Else voids no swap)
• Go inside, Defeat Broccoli guy (don’t trap)
• Finish Level like normal but make sure you get enemy goal.

Phoenix Psanctuary 1st pass

• Play the level like you would in any% until shrednaught.
• Skip Shredaught.
• Go down and to tusslesprout quest. (grab stash)
• Continue level like you would in any% Until the 1st arena.
• Defeat Chill Bill
• Story Scroll
• Soulgem
• Wait for checkmark, then go inside
• Cookoclocker quest and airgate (Just a hat), order does not matter.
• Go down the hole, break traptanium (Winged sapphire).
• Big fight, go right and down to the traptanium (Chest)
• Finish level like normal
• Unload Villain Cutscene

Chef Zeppelin 1st pass

• Use Threatpack for Turret
• After turret: Jump down right for leg treas, then left for soul gem chopper
• Hit the bomb shell trigger.
• Chompy mage quest: Don’t forget chest.
• Defeat bomb shell.
• Inside: Skip first game, Grab winged sapphire.
• Enter fire gate (Chest, Hat)
• You CAN skip the skystones game by stacking ontop of wildfire
• Unload Villain cutscene

Rainfish Riviera 1st pass

Cutscene Warp (Hoodsickle)

Grab legendary treasure (traptanium), Then finish level

Shop pass 2 Buy 5 skystone cheats, you can buy more if needed

Monster Marsh 1st pass

• Cutscene Warp (Kaos)
• Defeat eyescream
• Backtrack, Hit previous island to load everything.
• Complete enemy gate and defeat Eyefive, the break traptanium (chest)
• Clip through gate (hoodsickle)
• fisticuffs villain quest. (hat)
• Go inside every house.
• Break Traptanuim (Villain stash)
• Go towards the screen then left after waking the 2nd mabu (chest) finish level

Telescope Towers 1st pass

• Cutscene Warp, Same as Any%
• Unload Villain Cutscene

Mystic Mill 1st pass

• Note: This level is known to be problematic with enemy spawns, If you experience issues with it, Doing the level skipless can fix the issue
• Use threatpack for turret
• Go into the house for shrednaught quest
• Defeat enemies then Smuggle the key.
• Go into first left building, get villain stash>
• Go into 2nd building, Defeat Shield Shredder. go into locked building
• Grab soulgem (super bouncepad)
• Go down right. Enter locked building (chest)
• Life gate: Use hoodsickle (chest, hat)
• Grab 2nd Key, But go into the powerhouse for area.
• Open gate, kill enemies, break traptanium (Chest, Soulgem flipwreck)
• Grab Winged Sapphire
• Traptanuim puzzle, Get area on trap bridge then get leg treasure.
• Finish level. Don't Unload villain cutscene.

Secret Sewers of Supreme Stink 1st pass

• Go straight to the lock puzzle.
• Go left inside (extra area)
• Play like normal until lazer puzzle, Then right and back for villain stash.
• Play arena down the fall until wooden enemies. Then skip like any%
• Laser puzzle: Left down for chest
• Do rage mage Arena in full.
• Get lock puzzle chest. Then go outside for Legendary Treasure
• Go down, Get Soul gem (High Five)
• Water Gate: hat
• Finish Level. Unload Villain Cutscene.

Wilikin Workshop 1st pass

• Cutscene warp (Scrap Shooter) Else Play any% up until his quest.
• Fling kong soulgem
• Legendary Treaure.
• Magic Gate: Hat
• Quest: Scrap Shooter.
• Go into 2 houses before entering the main workshop
• 1st is winged sapphire, 2nd is Dreamcatcher Quest. (DONT SAND CLOSE)
• Inside: Villain stash and Chest.
• Then go for the chest (Button is towards the screen)
• Traptanium: Soulgem (Headrush)
• Get to crane, Backtrack for area Then skip it like in any%
• Get enemies for enemy goal Then farm Mutated barrels in krankase fight.
• Unload Villain cutscene.

Timetown 1st pass

• Do first part normally.
• Head down for Krankase quest at steam puzzle (Hat)
• After Steam puzzle and fight.
• Then go back and go the krankase area. (Villain stash)
• Head across the super bouncepad, hit button grab winged sapphire.
• Wind gear up then go underneath (Secret area, Chest)
• Continue until earthgate: (hat, Secret Area)
• After Steam puzzle: Do fight like normal.
• Krankase area; secret area. Then go inside house (Another secret area)
• After that: Go to cross-crow area and defeat him (Chest)
• Unload villain Cutscene and swap to hoodisckle.
• Last fight: Break Traptanium (Legendary Treasure)
• If you have enemy goal, you can skip the alst fight with a precise hoodsickle dash. Finish level.

Future of Skylands 1st pass

• Cutscene Warp (kaos)
• When you land: Get winged sapphire.
• Inside: Break Traptanium, Grab soul gem (Horse) Then Defeat Blastertron
• Finish level like in any%, Unload villain cutscene

Operation: Troll Rocket Steal 1st pass

• Do bone chompy quest (hat)
• After breaking wall, 2 areas unlock: Sapphire and Chest
• Then: Go upright: Traptanium
• Upleft: Tech gate: Hat. Then chest near the factory.
• Inside: Soulgem (Cobra Cadabra)
• After lockpuzzle: 2 areas to the left and right.
• Get legendary treasure (Follow path down).
• Then break through barrier on the left (Grinnade + Villainstash)
• Then back outside: go down and get story scroll and Soul gem (Enigma)
• Then right before arena: enter door on the right.
• Finish level. Unload villain cutscene

Skyhighlands 1st pass

• Start as Threatpack for Quest. Then grab story Scroll. (No cannon)
• Grab key don’t skip gate.
• Skystones: (use cheat) Cannon: use threatpack
• Go to second cannon
• Skip Skystones and grab legendary treasure.
• Go to soul gem (Blastermin) then do the life gate: Hat, Chest.
• When near the cannon Go Inside: Traptanium, Winged Sapphire,
• Finish level like normal.

The Golden Desert 1st pass

• Grab Story Scroll (to the right of the start)
• Don’t skip first boundepad
• Skip First Chompyworm.
• Defeat bonechompy. (Pull out trap to skip cutscene)
• Skip 2nd chompy worm like in any%
• Grab winged sapphire then head inside.
• Do battle like normal.
• Double jump to skip the puzzle and use air trap master to break crystal.
• Then when in the next area, head down left through the door.
• Airgate: hat. Then when going back grab the villain stash.
• Go down after going outside for chest.
• In Arena: like normal until enemy goal, then you can start skipping with the glitch. Grab chest whilst doing this.
• Finish level.

Lair of the golden queen 1st pass

• Hoodisckle dash to skip the first part of the level
• Get chest (Can be done on 2nd pass but you’re here anyways) Skip everything Up until story Scroll. (behind a lock gate to the right after skipping maskermind)
• Go in magic gate (hat, chest) its to the left.
• Golden queen fight: Play until golden hands appear, add enigma as 2nd player then unload.

The Ultimate Weapon 1 Go

You get everything on the 1st pass. Here's a walkthrough that shows all the collectible locations: Unload villain cutscene.

Game Restart after Ultimate Weapon, This fixes issues caused by ram being clogged.

Sunscraper Spire 1st pass

• Get the first Chest (Traptanium)
• Get luminus Quest (Hat)
• Skip the earth gate and story scroll
• Soul gem (Traptanium)
• Villain stash (Right after a super bounce pad)
• Winged Sapphire. (Hidden under lazer puzzle)
• Chest (Use laser beam to activate bridge)
• Dark Gate (Hat)
• Chest 4 (Fall down at the long laser puzzle 1st bridge)
• Legendary Treasure (Bring a bomb, don’t void no-swap)
• Do luminus battle normally. Unload villain cutscene.

Nightmare Express 1st pass

• Open bomb gate like normal And Open Chest
• Go left and off grab story scroll.
• Play untill tank area
• Break Traptanium (Villain Stash, Legendary Treasure)
• Lob Goblin Quest: hat.
• Collect keys and enter The temple like normal.
• Solve puzzle or skip. Defeat Trolling Thunder.
• Backtrack a bit to go to a lock puzzle after defeating all enemies. (Sapphire)
• Above that is the Magic gate. (hat)
• Go to troll mega tank, then go inside like normal.
• Go down and destroy the traptanium (Chest)
• After this point there are no more collectibles, but still areas you can miss
• Go grab mega bomb like normal, the area after the 1st turn can be missed, go into the back wall to make sure it registers
• Defeat Lob Goblin
• Finish level like normal

Mirror of Mystery 1st pass

• Get 1st Mech piece in the right most house
• Defeat Chompy
• Go into the house left of the one you where inm Grab hat
• Outside: go all the way to the left to grab the leg treasure. 2nd mech part
• Get winged Sapphire
• Buy last mech part
• Mech segment until bombs
• Grab story scroll
• Break Traptanium (Water trap master, Chest)
• Defeat Moblobs
• Grab chest in secret area down near evil tree.
• Water Gate: Hat, Chest (off screen, Down right)
• after gate
• Get Secret Area Lonely lonescale
• Villain Stash
• Turret Like Normal

Soda Springs 2nd pass

• Defeat Sheep Creep
• Get Winged Sapphire. (Cave)
• Farm enemies
• Traptanium: Chest
• Watergate: Hat
• Story Scroll
• Light Gate: Soulgem (Spotlight), hat.
• Get Soulgem (blades)
• Life gate: Hat, Enemies.
• Super Secret Spot
• End on Enemy Goal
• Quit to hub (Continue to next level if unrestricted, this goes for all levels before a villain vault pass if applicable)

Villain Vault Pass 1

• Life: Broccoli Guy, Chompy
• Water: Cross Crow. (Keep threat pack.)
• Tech: Mab Lobs, Trolling Thunder
• Fire: Grinnade, Chef Pepper Jack
• Magic: None
• Air: Buzzer Beak. (keep bad juju)
• Earth: Grave Clobber, Replace any.
• Undead: None
• Light: Eye Five, Blaster Tron
• Dark: Tae Kwon Crow. (Keep Eyescream)

Phoenix Psanctuary 2nd pass

• Traptanium (Chest 1)
• Buzzer Beak Quest. (Hat)
• Defeat Shredaught.
• Water gate: Hat
• Continue until Arena, but don’t go in.
• Go left and into a secret area, Soulgem (Snap Shot)
• Treasure Chest
• Legendary Treasure
• Check star screen load next level

Chef Zeppelin 2nd pass.

• Turret like normal.
• Break right most board.
• Get area and go to 2 elemental gates
• Air: Villain stash, hat.
• Light: Hat
• Story Scroll.
• Go back and open up main path
• After spinner: go to the left
• Puzzle: Broccoli guy quest.
• Continue until bomb wall: Break it
• Make sure you got top burners area. (Bomb)
• Check star screen load next level

Monster Marsh 2nd pass

• Break Traptanium (Winged sapphire)
• Get soulgem (Kryptking) using double jump
• Villain Quest (Eye Scream), Use winged boot
• Swap back to kaos. Free headwick as normal.
• After this, go to block puzzle (double jump) and grab chest (cave)
• Undead gate (hat)
• Lock Puzzle: Soulgem (Fist bump), Chomp Chest.
• Go back to headwick like normal.
• Go in mill for area, go back out and giant jump over gate.
• Story Scroll (Behind the mill)
• Secret area (under story scroll)
• Go down, make sure you get the area (Puddle) (Skip arena)
• Marsh skip: If inconsistent blackout is an option
• Legendary Treasure: Island Left to the first Island
• Dark gate: 2nd island, SWAP to open gate, 2nd player will bug. Hat
• Check Stars and go to next level.

Mystic Mill 2nd pass

• (Normal intro)
• Bomb-shell quest: use winged boot. Gives Hat
• Story Scroll (Outside houses)
• House 1: Soul gem (Thread head)
• House 2: Area.
• Fire Gate: Hat
• Check Star Screen go to next level.

Time Town 2nd pass

• Go back and down for secret area
• Go to the left and break Traptanium. (Soulgem Rock Roll)
• House to the left (area)
• Grab story scroll and the chest on the left
• Continue until after 2nd fight go left and grab soul gem (Thunderbolt)
• Do cross crow quest.
• Check starscreen and go to next level

Skyhighlands 2nd pass

• After flying section.
• Skip key gate.
• Attempt to skip Skystones game.
• Turret like normal.
• Screwy thing: go inside grab stash. Grinnade quest.
• Continue until 2nd turret, do it like normal.
• Skip skystones game.
• Screw thingy: Water gate: chest, hat
• Check stars load next chapter

Golden Desert 2nd pass

• Grab Story Scroll (if you forgot)
• Blaster Tron Quest
• Tae Kwon Krow Quest (Anvil rain can make it easier)
• After all that, Hoodsicke dash to skip chompy worm
• go left for legendary treasure
• Continue like you would in any% until 2nd worm
• Skip as in any% but go right for traptanium (SOulgem Tuff luck)
• Continue like any% until inside, Dash onto ledge and go in grab chest.
• Continue the skip. Skipping the lock puzzle aswell.
• Earth Gate: hat
• Check stars and continue to next chapter.

Lair of the Golden Queen 2nd pass

• Go for enemy goal
• Skip first puzzle and fall into the quicksand (Villain Stash)
• Airt Gate: hat,
• Villain Quest: Maskermind (hat)
• Soul gem (short cut)
• Legendary Treasure
• Winged sapphire (Double jump over the gate, smuggle key)
• Skip Block puzzle, Keep going after lights (chest)
• Break Traptanium (Key 2), Open Gate (chest 2)
• Grave Clobber quest: Use winged boot
• After that, Defeat bad juju and get enemy goal.
• Check stars go to next chapter.

Sunscraper Spire 2nd pass

• Story Scroll
• Earth gate: Hat (Play as bouncer)
• Check stars go to next chapter

Nightmare Express 2nd pass

• Trolling thunder quest: Hat, Chest 1
• Tech gate: Hat
• Check stars go to next chapter.

Mirror of Mystery 2nd pass

• Start as blast-zone
• Mob-Labs quest
• Hyperspeed to next quest
• Chompy Quest.
• Hyperspeed to Skip mechs.
• Life Gate: hat.
• Check stars load next chapter

Rainfish riviera 2nd pass

• Go for enemy Goal
• Lob-star soulgem
• Go down and defeat brawlrus like normal, Trap him
• Continue then do Eye-five quest
• Undead gate: Chest, Hat
• Skystones house: Skip game with double jump, story scroll + key.
• Outside: Maskermind then grab 2nd key.
• Then go inside to lower the gate.
• After skip bridge with hoodsickle.
• Go down and inside: Chest
• Brawlrus quest: Go inside submarine for hat.
• Then go back outside onto ship: Skip crane with double jump.
• Defeat enemies and brawl and chain. (TOUCH GATE TO TRIGGER THEM TO SPAWN)
• Break traptanium: Villain stash.
• Soulgem: deja Vu
• Earth gate: Hat
• House near the end: Winged sapphire, Chest, Pepperjack quest (use winged boot)
• Check stars and return to the hub for villain vault pass.

Villain Vault Pass 2

• Magic: Rage Mage (Keep painyata)
• Water: Brawl & Chain, Gulper
• Air: Krankenstein.
• Life: Shields Shredder, Sheep Creep.
• Undead: Wolfgang, Masker-Mind
• Earth: Chomp Chest.
• Dark: Nightshade.

Restart Game.

Know It all Island 2nd pass

• Gulper Quest (Use winged boot)
• Villain Stash
• Break Traptanium: Chest, Tussle Sprout
• Earth Gate: Chest, hat
• Play like any% until
• Life Gate: Chest, Hat.
• Check stars, next chapter

Telescope Towers 2nd pass

• (go for enemy goal)
• Brawl and chain quest: Use winged boot.
• Soulgem Wildfire (Left of the start)
• Continue like you would until the 2 enemy gates Farm enemies with eye dudes.
• Go into dream portal
• MaskerMind quest
• After you go back outside, head right (Story Scroll)
• Continue as you would until you’re outside again after the keydoor.
• Go to the top: grab batspin soulgem
• At skystones: Use cheat, then break traptanium.
• Go down: Winged Sapphire.
• Magic gate: Hat.
• Tech gate: Hat.
• Go back and go inside
• Defeat Hoodsickle like normal.
• after the fight: go right after the scientists for villain stash
• Back outside: go right into the portal (Chest)
• Go back, Defeat Painyata.
• Press button to go down (Chest)
• Lock puzzle: Chest.
• Continue until water gate: Hat
• Outside again: Secret ledge, Legendary Treasure.
• Check Stars next chapter.

Secret Sewers of Supreme stink 2nd pass

• Story Scroll.
• Go down and inside (bring a bomb) for chest.
• Go up and inside for chomp chest’s quest. (use winged boot)
• Break Traptanium for soulgem (echo)
• Go inside, activate boats, then stand on one to go to secret area>
• Painyata quest, Gives hat
• Continue, Skip arena after fall, trigger rage mage cutcene.
• Grab Winged Sappire
• Skip rage mage, enter fire gate: Play as bouncer. (hat)
• Check stars go to next chapter

Wilkin Workshop 2nd pass

• 1st house to the right: Shield shredder quest
• 2nd house to the right: Story Scroll
• House to the left: chest
• House after blocks: Area
• Undead Gate: Hat
• Defeat Scrap Shooter.
• Check stars and next chapter

Future of skylands 2nd pass

• Go for enemy Goal.
• Go down for light gate: Chest, Hat < Might take a few passes to register opening the gate, idk what causes this
• Take the left taxi: Gearshift soul gem
• Then complete the Rage Mage quest
• Continue until fire gate: Hat
• Take super bounce pad on the left: Story scroll
• Take the taxi up there to the secret area.
• Wolfgang quest: Hat.
• Break Traptanium: Chest
• Go back with the super bounce pad and grab the Leg Tres
• Continue back like normal (get area) Untill right before the atom smasher. Villain Stash.
• Skip atom smasher with giant double jump.
• Chest (to the left)
• Check stars, next chapter.

Operation Troll Rocket Steal 2nd pass

• Earth Gate: Hat
• Krankenstein quest: Hat.
• Check stars then hub

Villain Vault Pass 3

• Water: Chill Bill
• Undead: Hoodsickle

Midnight Museum 2nd pass

• Go for enemy goal
• Go left and down for traptanium: Chest
• Then inside: Area.
• Before going in the 1st puzzle: Go right for Winged sapphire.
• Skip first ball puzzle, Else solve like normal.
• Nightshade quest: hat
• Continue until after 2nd ball puzzle
• Magic Gate: Hat
• Story Scroll
• Traptanium: Bouncepad, VIllain stash
• Go into the 3 balls room
• Pray you get lucky or ninja finds a wall clip
• Get enemy goal in the next room, make sure all areas register
• Check stars continue to last level.

Chompy mountain 2nd pass

• Winged Sapphire
• Sheep Creep Quest
• House 1: Area
• House 2: Villain stash, Soul gem (Gusto)
• House 3: Magic gate: Chest, Hat
• Well: chest
• Continue until Bruiser Cruiser (Trap him)
• Bruiser Cruiser Quest: Hat
• Repair bridge for area.
• Traptanium: Soulgem (wallop)
• Story Scroll
• Villain Quest: Chill bill
• Soulgem: Bushwack (if you haven't gotten it yet)
• Check stars, Exit level. Time ends on the last star screen.