“Their only weakness is fire... and cannons.”

    —Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure flavor text

Rotting Robbies are zombie enemies encountered only in Cadaverous Crypt and Spyro's Heroic Challenge in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. They slowly walk toward the Skylanders, often in groups, and swipe their arms to attack. They can only be defeated with fire-based attacks, such as Spyro's fire breath or any of the Fire elemental Skylanders' attacks. Any fire attack, cannon blast, or even candles will defeat them. If struck by other types of Skylanders' attacks, they will not take any damage but will eventually lose their limbs, causing them to attack by biting.

In Skylanders: Giants, Rotting Robbies are simply called Zombies and appear in Series 2 Chop Chop's, Series 2 Cynder's and Hot Dog's Heroic Challenge. In Hot Dog's and Chop Chop's challenges, they can be defeated using any attack, while in Cynder's, they are the zombies you need to find the heads of. They are generally considered to have been replaced by Trog Wanderers.

In Return of the Dragon King, a group of Rotting Robbies and Bone Chompies chased and fought Cynder at the Cadaverous Crypts, causing her to lose a charm she needed to track down Calliope. The Undead fiends were soon driven off by Wallop.

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Gallery

Skeletal Rotting Robbie

Differences between the two variations of Rotting Robbies

Rotting Robbie from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Playstation 3/Xbox 360)

Burnt Rotting Robbie

Rotting Robbie's enemy intro at Cadaverous Crypt (Wii)

Rotting Robbie's enemy intro at Cadaverous Crypt (PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360)

Rotting Robbies seen in Skylanders: Giants

Rotting Robbie head seen in Skylanders: Giants

Rotting Robbie icon seen in Cynder's Heroic Challenge (Giants)

Trivia

• Some of them are different in certain ways, like having heads instead of skulls or certain limbs being bone or flesh.
• After taking some damage, Rotten Robbies will occasionally lose an arm. They will also sometimes spawn without said arm without taking any damage at all.
• The Rotting Robbies in the PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 version of Spyro's Adventure have at least twice the amount of health as the ones seen in the Wii version.
• The Robbies are affected by Drobot's Afterburners and Trigger Happy's Yamato Blast, but only on the Wii version. In other versions, they have no effect.
• Their design and weakness is similar to Frankenstein's Monster.
• Rotting Robbies have an unused Announcer line in Skylanders: Giants, implying they were to officially return.
• In Giants, they appear in Cynder’s heroic challenge as allies, which makes them, Chompies, Stump Demons, and Goliath Drow the only enemies from the original game to have canonically peaceful variations of themselves, and in Hotdog’s heroic challenge they appear as enemies. In this game, they can be defeated by any Skylander no matter the element, but they can only be damaged once both of their arms have been knocked off. They can also be flattened by Bash, Wrecking Ball, and Stump Smash, though they still won’t be damaged from being flattened until their arms are gone.
• Two Rotten Robbies were spotted as spectators in Lightning Rod Faces the Cyclops Queen, throwing their heads in the air as they watch Lightning Rod's performance at the Storm Titan games.
• Their name is identical to "Rotten Robbie," a California-based gas station brand, and similar to "Robbie Rotten," the villain from the Lazy Town TV series.
• They do not have hurt or defeated animations.
• Their eyes will float in the air for a few seconds after they are defeated.