Battleborn has a wide range of playable characters to choose from. At launch the game will have 25 heroes and more will be added as downloadable content in the future. To prevent the players from overwhelming with this amount of characters in the roster Gearbox has locked away some heroes. Also some heroes have a bigger learning curve then others. Learning a new game and mastering a complex character might be too much. Battleborn heroes can be unlocked by playing the game, each hero has its own goals to achieve in order to get access to them. This can be getting a specific rank or completing a challenge. You start the game off with 7 unique heroes, these provide you a easy to learn set of heroes to dive into the game.
Starter characters
Unlock Battleborn
To unlock one of the other Battleborn heroes you have to complete one of these objectives in order to get acces to that specific character. You can unlock them by naturally level up you command rank by playing the game. With Rank unlock you will get a new hero every 2 command ranks. However there are faster ways to unlock characters by going for the challenge unlock. So do you want to find out the quickest way to unlock characters check out the following list.
Shayne & Aurox
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 6
OR - Challenge Unlock: Complete 5 co-op missions or matches with at least one player.
Reyna
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 8
OR - Challenge Unlock: Get 50 assists in Versus matches.
Benedict
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 10
OR - Challenge Unlock: Win 5 matches as a Peacekeeper character.
Galilea
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 12
OR - Challenge Unlock: Kill 800 minions of any type.
Ambra
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 14
OR - Challenge Unlock: Win 5 matches as a Jennerit character
Whiskey Foxtrot
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 16
OR - Challenge Unlock: Win 15 matches.
Kelvin
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 18
OR - Challenge Unlock: Win 5 matches as an Eldrid character
El Dragón
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 20
OR - Challenge Unlock: Win 5 matches as an LLC character.
Phoebe
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 22
OR - Challenge Unlock: Kill 50 enemy players.
Toby
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 24
OR - Challenge Unlock: Win 5 matches as a Rogue character.
Boldur
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 26
OR - Challenge Unlock: Complete “The Experiment”
Caldarius
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 28
OR - Challenge Unlock: Complete “The Renegade”
ISIC
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 30
OR - Challenge Unlock: Complete “The Algorithm”
Attikus
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 32
OR - Challenge Unlock: Kill 800 Jennerit enemies.
Mellka
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 34
OR - Challenge Unlock: Complete “The Heliophage”
Kleese
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 36
OR - Challenge Unlock: Earn a Silver rating on all Story missions.
Deande
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 38
OR - Challenge Unlock: Complete “The Heliophage” on Advanced.
Ghalt
- Rank Unlock: Command Rank 40
OR - Challenge Unlock: Earn a Silver rating on all Story missions on Advanced difficulty
DLC Heroes
The other Battleborn heroes that were added as free DLC have a different requirement in order to unlock them. If you have the season pass, that is also part of the digital deluxe edition, you will receive a hero key. With this key you can unlock any character that you haven’t unlocked yet. If you unlock one of the standard 25 heroes that are part of the base game you will get your hero key back once you completed the hero’s requirement. If you use the hero key on the additional heroes you will lose that key. If you don’t have any hero keys you can unlock these by buying them with in-game credits. These credits are earned by simply playing the game.
