Why Ripjaws From Ben10 Sucks 

One of my least favorite aliens since he gets outdone by so many other aliens that can breathe under water.

because its supposed to be an alien creature, not a super hero. thats just how ben uses them.

Kinda reminds me of how Jetray has a cool design but overtime he just became a "Fast Travel" alien.

All of Ben's water based transformations get done dirty. Ripjaws, Jetray who only flies underwater once, and Amphibian who had a ton of cool abilities that Ben rarely ever used. It's a shame.

To be fair, it's not Ripjaw's fault that the prototype Omnitrix forgot to give him some water tanks so he could breathe out of water (just like reboot Gwen 10's transformation) I mean the damn thing forgot to put pants on poor Rath

It still baffled me that Gwen used Ripjaws of all aliens to fight Alien X

You're treating Ripjaws like Aquaman from Justice League. Yes, he does have the problem with being on land for too long, but the other aliens had their specific weaknesses too. Grey Matter just wasn't useful in a physical fight. Heatblast was weak to either water, cold or fire-extinguishers. Ghostfreak wasn't really strong. Cannonbolt was pretty klutzy. And let's not forget aliens that made no sense like Walkatrout.

There's animals that are generalists and others that are specialists. Both present incredible species that have survived and evolved for millions of years. Ripjaws doesn't suck as an alien, he sucks in the way alot of you people wanna use him. It's like picking XLR8 to to lift a truck, or Stinkfly to go underwater, like what do you expect?

I mean he's useful in water at least so I wouldn't say he's entirely useless just because he can't be on land for too long. Plus he has a cool design.

I get what you mean, but Ripjaws is still okay to me. You wanna know which alien sucks? Stinkfly. He became useless after the original series, to the extent that he was basically downgraded to a mistransformation. At least Ripjaws still proved his worth in Ultimate Alien and Omniverse.

There's also that he gets outperformed by later introduced aliens like waterhazard and overflow,both of which can be used underwater and on land,which comes no suprise that in reboot he was replaced by overflow

the only reason Ripjaws is so underrated is because he's literally the only Piscciss Volann in the franchise that doesnt have a water breather.

It would be one thing if his powers were mainly good underwater, but he could go on land, but since he can't be outside of water for more than like 3 minutes, he just sucks so much. Like if he got a breathing tool like Brainstorm, he could at least be weaker but still work.

Maybe if they expanded on Ripjaws’ powers, like maybe his bioluminescent appendage could’ve been used to blind enemies, or maybe hypnotize enemies into dropping their guard or obey simple commands (like how irl anglerfish use theirs to lure prey). Otherwise, Ripjaws is barely superhuman, which is a shame because he’s amongst my favorite design-wise.

In my fanfic called Tari 10 I replaced ripjaws with artiguana Ripjaws does appear later though

Surprised you didn't mention the fact that Ben would get other aliens overtime that could be used underwater AND on land.

Ripjaws is so useless that Upgrade can essentially take his place. Like in Krakken and They Lurk Bellow, Upgrade can take over machinery and attack underwater

He sucks because he's so specialized Maybe if they added aspects like he doesn't suffocate, but he just gets physically weaker and weaker to the point where he can't fight would have been a better trade-off. Also it's really odd that they never gave him a breathing brace. Despite brainstorm getting It's the silver thing around Omni tricks.

It's a shame that Ripjaws proved to be a rather mostly useless alien as he has a very cool design and in water he's great but being that the series does mostly take place on land he's really not a good addition.

*1:32 Gwen 10 as Ripjaws is actually in Alien Xtinction final episode!!!

Ripjaws is a bit more than just "the waterbreathing alien" he has monstrous bite that can rip through solid steel, thats not something Fourarms has (scratch that, maybe Fouramrs can bite through solid steel ), thats not something Waterhazerd has

What do you mean by other Ben transformations as other characters, aren't they all just Ben?

It's strange to hear about "Character Development" of the alien transformation, when it's just Ben in another form and most of his aliens don't really have psychological or mental features that affect Ben's character, only few like Rath, Jurry Rigg, Brainstorm, Ghostfreak, Big Chill, most of the time Ben just Ben

Not gonna lie. I would've replaced rip jaws in the original 10 with either cannonbolt or way big. Both of them are more useful and iconic then rip jaws.

Sad part: Water Hazard and Amphibian already surpass Ripjaws

His design is very cool and aliens shouldn't be always all powerfull and versitile, some aliens just have a specific utility ans that's it, humans for exemple are good at long distance running compared to other animals, outside of that you wouls pick another critter

Yeah ripjaws really sucked his only memorable moment for me was the episode where Ben broke the Omnitrix top which caused his aliens to fuse and at the climax he turns into ripjaws with heat blasts arms

bro is mad that a fish can't live without water. next he'll be mad that fire gets extinguished by water.

Funny thing is, he is my favorite alien.

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Yeah ripjaws really sucked it's funny that his only memorable moment to me was the episode where Ben broke the Omnitrix which caused his transformations to fuse and at the climax Ben turns into ripjaws with heatblasts arms

Imo, after the first season from classic, Ripjaws just became a joke alien, simillar to Grey Matter. With Ben unlocking new aliens and the restrictions that Ripjaws have, he just became the funny mistransformation alien. While Gray Matter was creative, Rpijaws was still limited as a joke alien. Its sad that he didnt appeared in S3 and only had small and non-serious appearances S4

honestly one of the aliens i have the softest spot for. great points though, well done.

If only they gave him a weapon like calling whales or something cool Or a weapon

its an alien species not a superhero

He's basic niche, like every other classic alien. One can't compare Ripjaws to Jetray or anyother swimmer for matter cause their not in the same playlist. Yes he's useless on land but you know Heatblast is useless in water(on a planet thats 2/3rds water), Upgrade is useless with magnets, Fourarms is useless in cramped spaces, Greymatter size makes him vulnerable, Stinkfly is useless wet, XLR8 can be knocked off his feet mid speed, Diamondhead can fracture to sonic blasts, Wildmutt can only see through his thermal gills. Each alien has a krutch thats why they have variety in Ben 10. After Classic Greymatter isn't used much cause theres already Azmuth, just as Plumber Pilatdae has more appearances than Ripjaws himself, and Stinkfly is overshadowed in flight by classic aliens like Heatblast, and thats Stinkfly main department. but people continue to love stinkfly just for his design(as I do ripjaws). As for originality Ripjaws is one of the best designs actually even if thats opinion biased the gimmick is to look alien so that every variety is marketable. But please note thisn't a hate comment its your channel and making videos takes time and love to do, its just it is biased video when other aliens like Stinkfly, and Greymatter fall into this rule too.

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get away from my boy ripjaws even he is useless

On a power level scale, he sucks no doubt, but in my book he holds merit for his design in the original series being about mythological creatures and folklore in tandum with aliens, the original series did alot more then just aliens. There was zombies, mutants and even magic was kinda its own thing. Ripjaws to me is the series trying to play into that by making an iconic fishman monster into some sort of alien, which brings his lore and story potential up by quite alot. His problems arent rooted in him sucking on a power scale level but they didnt grab enough at his potential as an alien.

Ripjaws mewing all the time idk what ur talking about

Awesome design not useful when it outside water

I don't think ben 10 verses the universe was the right one thats when waybig first appears

Rip jaws cool

Not to use this as a cop out for the writers, as you could say this for any alien, but they're exactly that, aliens. As we saw in UA, Ripjaws' homeworld is a water world, with hardly any land. So yeah, it makes sense for him to be almost fully adapted for an aquatic lifestyle and combat. Plus, in my opinion, a drawback makes him just as unique as any extra ability could. Sure he sucks at on-land combat, but Greymatter sucks at physical combat. The aliens all have their ups and downs, which is important to telling varied stories.

Yep exactly

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