Fly Type

The Fly Type (フライタイプ), also known as Flight Type, is an ability type used in the Sonic the Hedgehog series and is represented by the color yellow. It was introduced along with the Speed Type and Power Type in Sonic Heroes. As its name implies, Fly Type characters have the ability to fly, often jump farther or levitate.

Sonic Heroes
The Fly Type was introduced in Sonic Heroes. Fly Type characters have the unique ability to fly for a period of time, allowing them to carry the entire team over bottomless pits or to higher areas. Another one of their main abilities is the Thunder Shoot, an ability that can stun and once leveled up, destroy enemies from a distance or in mid-air and can also fill the Team Blast Gauge (though, at a very small rate).

In Battles and boss battles against other teams, Fly Types have an advantage over Power Types, but are weak against Speed Types.

Sonic Advance 3
The Fly Type returns in Sonic Advance 3. Fly Type teams focus on aerial abilities such as flying and slow descent. Fly Type teams are the most useful for reaching high places. Fly Type teams are any combanation that doesn't include Sonic or Knuckles

Fly Type teams

 * Team Jubilee (Cream and Amy)
 * Tails and Cream
 * Tails and Amy

Sonic Riders series
In the Sonic Riders series, Fly Type characters can use Accelerators that enable them to Air Ride, allowing the characters to pass over segments of the course and reach new areas while earning Air in the process. Certain Extreme Gears, such as the the Magic Carpet allow the user to fly regardless of their ability type. In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, although Fly Type characters can use any ability, their exclusive Gears are Boards which had a Gear Part enabling the use of Air Ride or already can use Air Ride (in the case of SCR-HD). In Sonic Free Riders, Fly Type characters can race with any ability type. Regardless, all Fly Type characters tend to have excellent acceleration and curving capabilities with just average rating on top speed and durability.

List of Fly Type characters

 * Charmy Bee
 * Cream the Rabbit
 * Merlina the Wizard
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Normal Chao
 * Rouge the Bat
 * SCR-HD
 * Silver the Hedgehog
 * Wave the Swallow

Non-Sonic Fly Types

 * NiGHTS

Trivia

 * Silver is the only hedgehog who is a Flight type.
 * NiGHTS is the only non-Sonic character who is a fly type.
 * The flight type has the least amount of members.
 * The fly type is the only type that does not appear in the Mario & Sonic series.
 * Most of the flight type characters are the smartest in their teams.
 * Rouge is the only Fly Type to be the leader of a team.
 * She is also the only Fly Type in Sonic Heroes that doesn't float over the ground when running at high speed.
 * Team Jubilee is the only named team in Sonic Advance 3 to be a Fly Type team and is also the only one not to be a Speed Type team.