Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28415717-20170624142216/@comment-31420441-20170625043409

Echoson wrote: Four Arms, Heatblast and Cannonbolt were all spammed in OS too, and Ripjaws was hardly ever used. The reboot is not really at fault here, as every previous series has a tendency to spam a certain alien (Four Arms, Swampfire, Humungousaur, Feedback, Crashhopper, etc)

No. Ripjaws for example was still used quite a lot. His powerful jaws were often used to rip metal surfaces.

Superbike 10: Well the problem with Ripjaws is the practicability in his use since he can only be used in water. Without any water he would dehydrate.

In lots of episodes Ripjaws was used without the dehydrating problem, even in the middle of a desert. The dehydrating problem came only when he was in alien form for a long amount of time or near a fire. In the majority of them Ripjaws was used in an action sequence and the issue never came up. See Ben 4 Good Buddy. (This is just one example. There are many more episodes)