The Fly Type symbol from Sonic Heroes
The Fly Type (フライタイプ , Furai taipu ? ) , also known as Flight Type ,[1] is a character 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.
Game appearances
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 Battle mode 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 combination 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.
Sonic Runners
In Sonic Runners , Fly Type characters can float whilst in mid-air. While all levels in the game can be played with any character, Sky Road is better suited for Fly Types. Buddies, companions that the player can equip to characters, also have different ability types. Pairing Fly Type characters with Fly Type Buddies will enhance the effects of those Buddies.
List of Fly Type characters
Non-Sonic Fly Types
Fly Type Buddies
Trivia
Silver is the only hedgehog who is a Flight type.
The Flight type has the least amount of members.
The Flight Type is the only character 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.
Most Fly Type characters are the youngest members of their teams.
References
↑ Sonic Riders (GameCube) United States instruction manual, pg. 21.
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Playable characters
Team Sonic
Sonic | Tails | Knuckles
Team Rose
Amy | Cream | Cheese | Big
Team Dark
Shadow | Rouge | Omega
Team Chaotix
Espio | Charmy | Vector
Team Super Sonic
Super Sonic | Super Tails | Super Knuckles
Other characters
Eggman | Metal Sonic (Neo Metal Sonic ) | Chocola | Froggy | Shadow Android
Enemies
Cameron | Egg Bishop | Egg Hammer | Egg Knight | Egg Magician | Egg Pawn | Egg Pawn (Casino version) | E-2000 | E-2000R | Falco | Flapper | Gold Cameron | Gold Klagen | Heavy-Egg Hammer | Klagen | Rhinoliner | Pumpkin ghost
Stages
1P stages
Sea Gate | Seaside Hill * | Ocean Palace | Grand Metropolis * | Power Plant | Casino Park | BINGO Highway * | Rail Canyon * | Bullet Station | Frog Forest * | Lost Jungle | Hang Castle | Mystic Mansion | Egg Fleet * | Final Fortress | Special Stage *
2P stages
City Top | Casino Ring | Turtle Shell | Egg Treat | Pinball Match | Hot Elevator | Seaside Course | City Course | Casino Course | Road Rock | Mad Express | Terror Hall
2P Play Mode
Action Race | Battle | Bobsled Race | Expert Race | Quick Race | Ring Race | Special Stage
Bosses
Egg Albatross | Egg Emperor | Egg Hawk | Metal Madness | Metal Overlord | Robot Carnival | Robot Storm | Team Chaotix | Team Dark | Team Rose | Team Sonic
Moves/ techniques
Speed Maneuvers
Homing Attack | Kick | Light Dash | Propeller Hammer | Rocket Accel | Shuriken | Spin | Swinging Hammer Attack | Tornado Jump (Black Tornado , Blue Tornado , Leaf Swirl , Tornado Hammer ) | Triangle Jump
Power Maneuvers
Auto Homing | Body Press | Bubblegum Descent | Fire Combination | Fire Dunk | Fire Launcher | Fireball Jump | Forward Power Attack | Hammer Down | Jump Fire Knock | Jump Fireball | Remote Power Attack (Fireball , Fire Knock ) | Triangle Dive | Umbrella Descent | Wide Power Attack (Big Fishing , Omega Arm , Vector Breath , Volcanic Dunk )
Fly Maneuvers
Ascending Flight | Cheese Attack | Dummy Ring Bomb | Sting Attack | Thunder Shoot | Quick Ascent
Team Blast
Sonic Overdrive | Chaos Inferno | Flower Festival | Chaotix Recital | Super Sonic Power
Misc.
Crouch | Crystal Attack | Grind Step | Grinding | Jump Dash | Lightspeed Attack | Spin Jump
English voice actors
Ryan Drummond (Sonic , Metal Sonic ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | William Corkery (Tails ) | Scott Drier (Knuckles ) | David Humphrey (Shadow ) | Lani Minella (Rouge , Omochao ) | Jon St. John (Omega , Big ) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | Sarah Wulfeck (Cream ) | Bill Corkery (Espio ) | Marc Biagi (Vector ) | Emily Corkery (Charmy )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic the Hedgehog , Metal Sonic ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Taiten Kusunoki (Omega ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Takashi Nagasako (Big ) | Yūki Masuda (Espio ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Yōko Teppōzuka (Charmy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao )
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Sonic Heroes | We Can | This Machine | Follow Me | Team Chaotix | What I'm Made of...
Other
Armored train | Ball Switch | Bingo | Bobsled | Bomb | Bumper | Bumper wall | Cage | Cannon | Capsule | Car | Casino chip | Castle Key | Cell Key | Chaos Emerald | Check Point | Container (Cage ) | Conveyor Belt | Dash Panel | Dash Rail | Dash Ring | Detonator Switch | Dummy Ring | Egg Bazooka | Egg Fleet | Egg Gun | Egg Spear | Emblem | Engine Core | Fan | Fireball | Flipper | Flower | Fly Type | Formation Change Gate | Giant Frog | Giant Switch | Goal Ring | Grind Rail | Haunted Towers | Health Gauge | Hermit crab | HEXAeco | Hint Ring | Iron ball | Item Box (Barrier , Fly Charge , High Speed , Invincible , Rings , Power Core , Team Blast Ring , 1-Up ) | Jump Panel | Kao | Laser field | Light spider marking | Mushroom | Orb switch | Palm Plants | Pole | Power Gong | Power Type | Propeller | Pulley | Sonic Heroes Puzzle | Rainbow Ring | Rank | Ring | Shuttle loop | Slot machine | Speed Type | Special Stage Key | Sphere | Super Hard Mode | Switch | Target Switch | Team Blast Gauge | Torch | Trolley | Vine | Warp Flower | Weight | Wide spring
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Other characters
Eggman | Vanilla | G-merl (Ultimate G-merl ) | Chao | Omochao
Zones
Route 99 | Sunset Hill | Ocean Base | Toy Kingdom | Twinkle Snow | Cyber Track | Chaos Angel | Altar Emerald | Nonaggression | Special Stage
Enemies
Akatento | Aotento | Ape | Bu-bu | Buzzer | Clam | Condor | Gaogao | Gekogeko | Ginpe | Guards | Guruguru | Hariisen | Jousun | Juggling | Kamaki | Kyacchaa | Marrun | Minimole | Muugaden | Spina | Takkon | Uutsubo | Yadokka | Yukigasen
Bosses
Egg Hammer 3 | Egg Ball No.2 | Egg Foot | Egg Cube | Egg Chaser | Egg Pinball | Egg Gravity | Hyper Eggrobo | Ultimate G-merl
Moves/ techniques
Regular moves
Amy Dash | Big Hammer Attack | Boost Mode | Bound Attack | Chao Attack | Chao Ball Attack | Chao Spinning Attack | Dash Climb | Double Mid-Air Glide | Double Punch | Drill Claw | Fire Sliding | Flying | Floating Fall | Grinding | Hammer Attack | Hammer Jump | Hammer Propeller Flying | Head Slide | High Propeller Flying | Hip Drop | Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Leap | Mid-Air Dash Glide | Propeller Flying | Mid-Air Chao Attack | Mid-Air Chao Ball Attack | Mid-Air Chao Spinning Attack | Mid-Air Glide | Mid-Air Hammer Attack | Mid-Air Hammer Jump | Skid Attack | Spin | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Super Sonic Boost | Spinning Hammer Attack | Spiral Upper | Tag Action | Tail Spin Attack | Tail Swipe | Tornado Attack | Upper Spin | Wall Climb | Wind Attack
Mid-Air Trick Actions
Big Air (Happy Spring , Hop Jump , Petit Step ) | Long Wind Jump (Humming Top , Sweet Roll , Window Jump ) | Stop 'n' Slam (Bound Attack , Spinning Hammer Attack , Propeller Descent , Hip Drop )
Gimmicks and obstacles
Balloon | Bungee Rope | Dash Panel | Flywheel | Grind Rail | Gymnastic Bar | High-speed warp tube | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Minecart | Platform-raising Wheel | Pole | Pulley | Propeller Spring | Seesaw | Snowblower | Special Spring | Switch
Objects
Act Ring | Capsule | Chaos Emerald | Checkpoint | Factory Ring | Goal Medal | Item Box (Invincibility , Maximum Speed , Ring Magnet , Shield , 1-Up , 5/10/ Random Ring Bonus ) | Ring | Special Key
English voice actors
Ryan Drummond (Sonic ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | William Corkery (Tails ) | Scott Dreier (Knuckles ) | Jon St. John (Announcer) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | Sarah Wulfeck (Cream )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic the Hedgehog ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream )
Other
Angel Island | Chao Playground | Corkscrew loop | Fly Type | Freeze | Mini-Game | Power Type | Shuttle loop | Sonic Factory | Speed Type | Time Attack | Tornado 2
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Courses/Fields
Heroes
Metal City | Splash Canyon | Egg Factory | Green Cave | Sand Ruins | Babylon Garden
Babylon
Night Chase | Red Canyon | Ice Factory | White Cave | Dark Desert | Sky Road | Babylon Guardian
Extra
Digital Dimension | Sega Carnival | Sega Illusion
Survival
Dual Towers | Snow Valley | Space Theater
Extreme Gears
Accelerator | Access | Advantage-F | Advantage-P | Advantage-S | Air Broom | Air Tank | Auto-Slider | BANANA | Beginner | Berserker | Blue Star | Blue Star II | Cannonball | Channel5 | Chaos Emerald | Cover-F | Cover-P | Cover-S | Darkness | Destroyer | E-gearG | E-gearR | E-Rider | Faster | Fastest | Gambler | Grinder | Hang-On | Heavy Bike | High Booster | Hovercraft | Legend | Light Board | Magic Carpet | Night Sky | Omnipotence | Opa Opa | Pink Rose | Power Gear | Powerful Gear | Red Rock | Rengoku | Slide Booster | Smile | Speed Balancer | Super Hang-On | Temptation | The Crazy | Trap Gear | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Yellow Tail
Moves and techniques
Air Boost | Air Riding | Air Slide | Attacks | Grinding | Tornado | Trick Action
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Jet ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles , Storm ) | Bella Hudson (Wave , Babylon Computer) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Mike Pollock (Dr. Eggman ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream ) | Maddie Blaustein (E-10000G , E-10000R , Babylon Guardian ) | Liza Jacqueline (Omochao ) | Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) | Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave , Babylon Computer) | Kenji Nomura (Storm , Babylon Guardian ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) | Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) | Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Other
Accelerator | Air | Air Pit | Air Tank | Automatic Trail | Babylon Garden | Babylonians | Barricade | Bashōsen | Catapult | Catch Me If You Can | Chaos Emerald | Dash Panel | Emerald Detector | EX World Grand Prix | Flight Type | Freeze | Grind Rails | Item Box (Air , Explosion , High Speed , Invincible Barrier , Magnetic Barrier , Speed Down , Rings , Question Item ) | Key to Babylon Garden | Power Type | Ring | Sonic Speed Riders | Speed Type | Speedbeats Grand Prix: Sonic Riders Original Soundtrack | Time Attack | Trick Zone | Turbulence