Ranking EVERY Playable Vault Hunter in Borderlands History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2022
- From Roland to Moze and everything in between. These are MY rankings for weakest to strongest playable vault hunter in Borderlands history. Bear in mind: they’re all great, but some are just better than others
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Happy Holidays everyone. Let me know which Vault Hunters YOU think are the best and worst!
hey killer I completely agree with your list except for one small tiny thing. personally I would swap krieg and gaige with their spots. primarily because krieg has much more strength in end game content compared to gaige
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@@tachonka4747 I think Kreig has some pretty good survivability but I dunno...
Switch Aurelia and Nisha. Nisha suffers a bit the 1st playthrough and is gun dependent (certain guns and manufactures just don't work well with her skills) and your Aurelia complaint is flat out wrong, to the point where I question if you've actually looked at the skill tree. While it does focus on co-op play in general, it really only effects 6 skills (out of 13) on the Contractual Aristocracy tree. In fact, I just went back and checked, to see how many Contract skill points you'd waste just to get down the tree to capstone, and it's 4 (1 in Contractual Obligations, 1 in Excellent Shot, Madam and 2 in Valet). (I mean, not that you would, that capstone sucks awfully, just that you could.)
I like how Salvador’s ability is something as simple as “I can hold a second gun” and that makes him better than almost everyone including sirens that can warp in between dimensions and lock enemies in alternate realities.
Unfortunately, leveling Salvador is like pulling teeth. Without his real skills he's barely playable, blowing his load in seconds and burning through your pathetic low level ammo pool.
@@FelisImpurrator definitely don’t agree the most fun I have is levelling with some badabooms which don’t take that long to get at all
@@dadeee7776 I'm talking about the first half of NVHM where you barely have an action skill. Not great fun. Badabooms are only reasonable to farm by the time you hit the Blight, and that's most of the way in. Besides, farming up ammo SDUs is such a pain...
Then again, being forced to start at the beginning and play through three times is the worst part of BL2.
@@FelisImpurrator eh I don’t agree, guess we just have different taste though, sdus are aren’t that bad either since I just get it passively
Ive found the bests VHs are the ones that synergise most with guns. Salvador in 2 and flak at first in 3
I will never forget playing presequel with my friend in high school, he unlocked the Doppelganger's inspiration skill. We were getting our asses kicked in a circle of slaughter, Dahl Jetfighters everywhere, we're both in FFYL, and handsome jack just pipes up "Believe in yourself" and a rainbow flies across the screen. Peak co-op gaming.
Hahaha
lol
core memory unlocked
IV got that achivement
My boyfriend and I are working through playing various Borderlands games together, and I play exclusively as the Doppelganger in TPS, and I genuinely cannot wait for 'Inspired" shenanigans to ensue because he had no idea that was a thing
Claptrap was the definition of " I just wanna have fun", you never know what ability is gonna activate when you use your skill and that just kept the game interesting 😂
It was A BLAST! I played him with 3 other people and whenever I got the rubber duck bouncy ability all I could hear were insults 😂. They put up with it though because the pirate ship mode is just so op
Same
Im so happy they made that character, playing as Claptrap was easily the most entertaining and fun borderlands experience ive had
It was just pure chaos and ridiculous nonsense lol ❤
@@lndianajoe ghe pirate ship cannons were amazing, but i also loved gun wizard! You effectively get unlimited ammo
Let us not forget how long we suffered seeing poor iron bear be borderline useless. I chose her for the funny mech but stayed for the infinite healing explosions . . . and then eventually they made bear incredible. Truly a win win
Too bad u could get that EARLY GAME as CLAPTRAP in TPS lol
@@michaelbecket4901 Borderlands 3 was made after TPS. There is no Iron Bear in TPS
Her lock on missiles kill anything as shown in the video. Useless is pretty silly
@@ZachofPotatoes732 You clearly didn't play her when BL3 released
@@ZachofPotatoes732Moze and Zain were both weak on release. Moze was argued to be the weakest in 3. Then the buffs came in.
Wilhelm in the lore is an absolute unit. He beat all the BL1 vault hunters and single handedly destroyed New Haven all by himself. He was a literal monster. The BL1 vault hunters and handsome Jack knew that. That’s why Jack deliberately poisoned him so he would be weak enough that the player can have a chance at killing him 😂. Not to mention Roland being surprised when you beat Wilhelm. To this day, I still wish we could’ve gotten a non-poisoned Wilhelm raid boss where we can fight him at his full potential.
That would have been SOOO sick
TVHM Salvador>
Maybe in bl4 they could have throwback raids and Wilhelm could be one!
I've never played Gage the way this video describes. I didn't even know that was a thing.
Sounds like most people don't know how to play her in a fun way.
@@theutilizer I mean if u don’t have anarchy you ain’t kill anything
Imagine Salvador who doesn't need to dual wield and can deal a crapton of splash damage.
That's Moze.
Imagine Moze with dual wielding though
@@theharvinator7935 Iron Bear technically HAS dual wielding.
@@TheMC1102 And they give you a skill where when you use two of the same weapons they will make you more powerful and do splash damage heavy
Yea but Salvador was way more op, the thing is borderlands 2 was sooo unbalanced but sal still managed to one tap everything
basically better salvador
The thing I realized about Moze is that I never actually NEED Iron Bear. Her ridiculous fire damage and grenade health regen makes her so op that I only pull out Iron Bear for extra fun.
I do the opposite, I never use her guns. Luv iron bear
I broke Mayhem 10 once using just Auto Bear
I literally summon Iron Bear, Hop out immediately, and jump into the turret, essentially becoming temporarily invincible while iron bear cleans house.
Because I don't use any fuel the cooldown recharges super fast that by the time Auto Bear deactivates my Action Skill is already recharged.
_Moze is SO powerful you can literally win by doing absolutely nothing._
i like moze i just feel like theres better vault hunters
@@centerforasdstaff6080 most tier lists I've seen have moze as being the strongest vault hunter across all borderlands games.
Yeah, and the other thing about Moze is you also actually need NOTHING BUT Iron Bear
She is by far and away the strongest character in the franchise, by miles and miles, and there is no real argument against that statement
The second you hit max level you can crank it to M10 and go solo Hemovorous with nothing but her railgun build and anything at any level with a railgun anointment, no other special gear or equipment needed
No other character in the entire franchise can do that
Doppelgänger Jack is my all time favorite because he obviously had his own personality but is constantly forced to switch up the persona just to meet the standards of how Handsome Jack is supposed to act.
I love how one of the skills is Jack giving one liners. No buffs, just funni dialogue
CL4P-TP was the most fun character between all the other VHs, across all the games. It was so chaotic I loved it.
And it’s controllable. His ability adapts to scenarios and chooses which ability will be the most beneficial to you. Once you realize which situations trigger which action skills he can be really powerful and fun
The only problem is that it takes a lot more time to master than people are willing to put into him, because it’s not very usable if you don’t know what you’re doing
I wish Pre-Sequel had more end game content, it is arguably the most fun game in the series, but there's nothing to do after beating the raid Sentinel.
Oh 100%, the mechanics of TPS were my favorite by far, it’s so sad they neglected it so bad. It had so much potential
It’s the chaotic nature of him that I hated. I like KNOWING what is going to happen when I pop my skill.
As an Axton fan I was very suprised to finally not see him at the very bottom of these lists!
Same!
Agreed.
Me too. I thought his turrets were great and felt like a one man army with him.
He’s fucken so good . 2 maxed out turrets sticking them on a ceilings separated . On top of all the kills kills he has he was really good
@Inpugnito Turrets are mainly for buffing your skills and crowd control.
Krieg was by far the most fun character ever created in any game
Claptrap?
@@michaelbecket4901 I was about to comment exactly this. Lmao.
But Claptrap is not the conductor of the poop train!
Any game? No. But he's is really damn fun
Agreed, and yes, over claptrap too
Gaige has still been the only character ive ever gotten max. Shes fun as hell and personally no other character has lived up to her. But i also respect where you put her.
Sad to see zero respect to the left tree. Literally one of the tankiest characters in the game
The shooting on the ground was pretty unique and fun, but it is bad that anarchy is her only damage skill. I used a mod where you can change the amount of anarchy stacks you get with your first kill and it made her really fun
@@GVQuadraWait, I'm playing that right now on TVH and having a blast. And the robot saves my friends too
People also mistreat her by just thinking about Anarchy skill, she has great left and middle skill tree that are good in coop and solo up until maybe OP10 or something, but most of the game you can easily play her as tank with left skill tree.
@@katoka5904that's definitely what kills gaige for me. she was my first character to get to 61, but anarchy just gets stale after a while.
Mordecai was op in my opinion. Bro was able to bypass shields made him unstoppable, add hand cannon and he walked through the campaign.
He was OP in a very specific part of the game but not the rest is how I feel.
wtf is hand cannon?
Or you get him a Ranger class mod and let Bloodwing play the game for you. Hitting multiple targets and less than a second action skill recharge time makes the campaign a breeze.
Lilith was way more OP. Best class for the best guns in the game, SMGs, between the Hellfire and Double Anarchy.
Lilith was best mainly cause she helped speed up the game, mordecai was my personal favorite haha
I think Claptrap has one of the best skill trees. They are kinda weird but when used correctly it is nearly impossible to kill him and he was great at destroying groups.
Hes the best at everything but the only downside is that u cant choose what hes the best at lol
@@brado2861 nah thats the doppelganger claptraps more technical then that
Claptrap wasn’t the best character, but man he was fun to play during co-op
@@JackV315 why was he not? Hes actually able to do everything every other VH can do but better more DPS health and almost EVERYTHING heals him and his team
And... he can turn into a pirate ship. Most fun character in all the BL games. Hands down
Krieg hits a sweet spot around level 40 where he just annhilates everything and is constantly raging, especially with a conference call on hand to get out of Fight for Your Life.
In particular the overlook shield is wonderful since he is always getting knocked down and then immediately getting back up.
I know he doesnt scale well into the OP stuff but i genuinly don't care since *IM THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN*
I cant believe Athena’s Xiphos wasnt covered.
The most fun melee augment that lets you fly around the map killing even large enemies
Everyones playing borderlands and Athenas just over here playing Dark Souls with Sword and Board bleed tagging everything that moves 😂
Easily the most fun melee character in the series.
EDIT: Yes, even more than Krieg.
Every Other Vault Hunter: "We have elaborate skills and complex builds to help us dominate the competition."
Brick and Krieg: "so anyways I started swingin'..."
Lol my 2 mains from 1 and 2
Also is this joke from somewhere i could have sworn i heard it from somewhere else
@@michaelbecket4901 it's from always sunny in Philadelphia's "anyway I started blastin'"
@@77oAl3xo77 sounds like an interesting show what’s it about?
Claptrap: “Did someone call for a pirate ship?”
Moze and salvador: "kaboom"
Any melee character is a high point in my book. They don't give a sh*t about pain, they only care about funky punch punch stuff. Mad respect.
I have probably 3k hours in BL2 and i have to say the most fun i had with it was playing melee zero.
krieg me favourite, stv become 90% when theres a 1 hit psycho in my face and i hit myself in the face 30 times before I'm finally able to swing and i swing at nothing, then i go into ffyl and have to use norfleet to finally finish off the darn thing
@@A.Singularity or, crazy I know, you could just not stat StVs and go for his red tree for extra survivability. What does it matter when he can literally go Badass whenever he wants and always be at full health?
Krieg?
@@TheeOK1 i could be wrong since its been a while but i AM a krieg main but doesint his red skill tree just increase fire damage while INCREASING the fire damage he takes?
Most characters: "I have a niche, ultra-specific ability that gives me an immense advantage in battle. Be it magical powers, engineering prowess, decades of experience, blah-blah-blah..."
Krieg and Salvador: "So anyway, we ball."
I know it would be really tricky, but I'd love to see a tier list based more around the normal playthrough, rather than endgame raids. I've played BL2 so many times, it's within my top 10 games, but not once have I cared to do the raids or OP content apart from Terra. How well they do in co-op, how well they handle the typical crowds of enemies, how good their survivability is, etc - all while with a non-specialised build, no grinding and only whatever legendary guns you were lucky enough to find along the way, that's what always appeals to me in Borderlands :P
Claptrap wins he ALWAYS wins lol
SAME! I've never gotten into the whole - researching to find the exact perfect build and grinding to find that exact perfect weapona sort of gameplay. I've never had interest in the raid bosses, though I did enjoy Digistruct Peak and also the Takedowns with friends. I usually just pick a character I like, and spec out as I go while reading the descriptions of what skills do what, and check out the cool loot as I go. I know I'm quite often "wrong" and my character could always be way more powerful if I just used the right gun/shield/skill tree combo, but I just don't find that to be as fun (ask me if I've ever *once* shot a fibber at the ground with my Gaige build - didn't even know that was a thing lol)
This. This I want to see. I never played the raids as I had no friends to play it with simply because I got on the borderlands 2 band wagon WAYYY too late. Despite that, it is in my top 5 games ever. Its one of the few games I come back to time ans time again. The most fun character has been krieg for me, gauge second, maya and Salvador. Never went for zero or Axton but I would try zero.
so weird that you skip out on by far the best parts of the games
@@leftcoastfunk youre missing the very best parts of the game, super sad.
Everything you said about CL4P-TP us exactly the reason I love him. I can understand wanting stability and knowing what happens when you push a button but I want to have 4 GODDAMN cannons on me while playing the 1812 overture.
Hes also partially wrong claptrap ISINT an RNG character his analysis ability tends to be MOSTLY right and the bonuses for even the ones that are bad in those situations are STILL WORTH IT
A permanent 100% boost to reload speed and fire rate along with turning every gun into an explosive one with a 400% damage boost to the last shot to boot WHERES the flaws here?
His reasoning is just 'claptraps annoying to play as trash character' its stupid and very disingenuous ESPECIALLY when he claimed to appreciate the more versatile classes while simultaneously putting ALL of the versatile classes low on the list
@@michaelbecket4901 Yeah, I found this guy's list to be questionable. But hey, it's just some TH-camr's opinion, so it doesn't matter.
@@catisreckless4647 I can hardly say calling a character trash because u can’t be bothered to learn them an actual opinion it’s like if someone says a character like gaige or Krieg are bad despite never playing with them because they are more complex then the usual crew
My top 5 are
Maya - First love and speed running
Athena - The storm itself. With a shield throw. Just awesome.
Moze - "Now that's a lotta damage!"
Zane - Best one liners in the franchise
Amara - Ties that bind is the most satisfying ability in the franchise
I realize this is top heavy on BL3, but lets face it. BL3 playable characters were VERY well updated as the game went on.
Honorables:
Timothy and his useless point that you spend just to get dialog LOL
And ANARCHY!
There’s the actual best vault hunters, and then there’s the vault hunters that are the most fun to play. Salvador, Zane, Nisha, Athena, Amara are the ones that are just a pure joy to play, whether or not they’re the most powerful at endgame.
Maya, Athena, Krieg, Zero, and Nisha are my favorites
"Death comes for us all...but you first!" I say this all the time lmao
YOU'RE not the ugliest person I've ever met!!
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you couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo
Mordecai has to be my favorite, running a gunslinger mod in bl1 with either a defiler or the pearlescent stalker was absolutely broken, not to mention being able to take advantage of mashers - one of the strongest guns in the game. Tears crawmerax apart
Zer0 and Zane are my 2 favs in the entire series. Both were my first picks on my first playthroughs
Mine are brick krieg and claptrap
My first two were Salvador and zane
My favorite VH of all time and always will be Athena. I truly hope we see her again in the series at some point.
She's nasty
you really feel like an elemental GOD playing as Athena, and the shield throw is so satisfying
@@hunterseefried936 I think her and the Doppelganger are the most underrated by FAR
@@RemingtonSteel its kinda annoying with athena bc u cant just use a certain legendary to farm maelstrom. U basically need to rely on worlddrop delivery and development. That and the constant weapon switching makes her in my opinion one of the most annoying characters. With nisha just get a maggie or a luck cannon for mobbing and mongol for bossing and u destroy everything. Same with aurelia with skullmasher and Pitchfork.
I always liked the design of the vault hunters on pre-sequel. Athena and Nisha were very fun to use. I wish we had a skillset similar to theirs but in more of a B3 setting.
Zer0 has been, and probably will always be my favourite of the vault hunters. As someone who’s done a melee build for ever Borderlands game, not a single other vault hunter can match Zer0 in terms of how unique he is to do melee with, while still being very strong. His methodical hit and run burst damage setup is so fun and satisfying to pull off, and Many Must Fall allows you to have brief moments of hyper aggressive slaughter. I don’t think they’ll be able to outdo what they did with Melee Zer0, but I sure as shit want them to try.
There will never be another melee character like Zer0 i think he’s just too unique
Hell yes someone needed to say it
What do you think of Krieg as a melee fan
@@Lofirainbows He’s lots of fun and a cool take on tanks berzerker style melee builds, and is pretty easy to build for as he doesn’t need a lot of gear, hell people have done many gunless and even gearless runs with him to great effects. Definitely strong and very fun in his own ways. Plus bloodsplosion is an amazing skill
First time BL player here. I'm doing the sniper tree and been hesitating between that and melee.
What do you guys think?
I love playing electricity Gaige. It makes shock damage in bl2 feel SO strong.
The fun thing with claptrap was I eventually figured out what triggers would bring about certain ultimates from him like whether you're jumping have no Shields or low Health attacking or other stuff would trigger powers
The only thing that scares Moze is her own splash damage. 9/10 times in FFYL, it's because an enemy jumped in my face and brought a mini-nade from Mind Sweeper or the CMT with it.
Probably the only character that runs from enemies because they are afraid to kill themself
@@elijahjoaquim918 krieg? Gaige?
I would of put Cl4p in the top 5. His action skill can be chaotic, but it's borderlands. As a certain former hyperion employee turned bandit chief teaches us, to survive you embrace the chaos.
Dude can LITERALLY 1 shot every boss in the game lol
Something that i like about Maya is that in one of her skill trees is a skill that revives you immediately after you go down, before going unavailable the next time you go down for a certain amount of time.
FL4K is top tier for me
The ability to even res yourself even from silly mistakes is SSS tier regardless
Moze for the explosions, Zane for the one liners. Moze has some good ones, too.
I am POSITIVE claptrap has her beat in explosions lol
Krieg is by far the best vault hunter across the entire franchise been into borderlands since day 1 and nothing feels more like the chaos of pandora then playing as the strongest psycho on the planet.
Strongest in lore, in gameplay, he’s as effective as smacking a boulder with a wet fish
@@chewee4ever811 tbf that wet fish is covered in nukes and a double barrel shotgun with one barrel pointed at the boulder and another barrel pointed at your head
@@gaiusperson8704 nope just a wet fish, cause kreig fucking sucks gameplay wise
This is half true he is a FUCKING BEAST being able to 2 or 3 shot MOST bosses in his mutant badass state
But the BEST vault hunter HAS to go to claptrap and yes i AM a claptrap main
@@chewee4ever811 not sure what build you play him with but im always the one carrying with him, never had a problem with raid bosses either
I started borderlands 3 with Zane, he was still so fun to play that I didn't really care about power. Not only does he have a fantastic build but he has a fantastic personality to watch him interact with the rest of the game.
Mordecais ability to shoot through shields was op in BL1. Every endgame enemy literally had big ass shield but next to zero health. You would go around and one shot everything. Was also a passive btw, so you didnt have to wait for a window or such things
Krieg will always be my favorite vault hunter ever even on raid bosses. His unpredictably is so fun and a different kind of randomness then something like claptrap
Nah hes just suicidal lol
I play him and claptrap as both my mains but i VASTLY prefer claptrap over him
I have a friend who loved Krieg and when he first came out and we saw the trailer for him we did a duo of Krieg and Maya and we were unstoppable. It was great because I love Krieg but I sucked with him haha. We called our characters Poop Train and Pretty Lady.
@@TurtleXcore That's so cool! I loved that trailer back in the day
@@TurtleXcore I mained Kreig too. He was actually a sleeper medic because he couldn’t be juggled off a revive as easily as other characters
@@michaelbecket4901krieg is practically invincible if you build him for his mutation ability
zer0 was also my first ever VH, and i loved his playstyle. I loved throwing my deception before i engage a fight then just delete an enemies health right before i reappear. I especially loved the skill that allowed you to melee-dash, definitely felt like an Assassin.
zero fit for me it an shame my gear got wipe randomly
My favorite is probably Nisha, using her Aimbot skill and the two Revolver ability from her skilltree makes her basically the best killing machine of them all.
Never expected Moze to be at no.1 but she deserve it, If gearbox ever decides to remake borderlands 1 & 2 they should upgrade the original BL1 skill trees
Moze is completely unsurprising to me. The reason for that? Her numbers are so obscenely broken, she can obliterate the damage cap and deal the largest theoretical single number in the entire franchise. In a power ranking it's tough to beat the character who can output enough DPS to obliterate a planet.
@@FelisImpurrator oh really i thought it was actually Krieg chaining bloodsplosion that could achieve the highest single instance of damage
@@osthatch9242 I think Moze has some way to break trillions in theory. How high did Krieg's math go? Unfortunately the GBX forums are dead, which means the meme math threads are gone.
@@FelisImpurrator oh shit lol i don’t remember exactly i think ive seen up to 80ish billion which is obviously nowhere near the trillions of damage
@@osthatch9242 I just vaguely remember it being some insane number that can't remotely be rendered by the game. I think it involves some exceptionally broken interaction between Skag Den and Short Fuse.
Claptrap is my all time favorite playable vault hunter, his chaotic style always kept me on my toes and made his runs interesting
Maya for me. I'm a sucker for magic in any game that has it. Amara is also cool, but she's basically just Maya with a couple additional powers, one of which (the melee power) I haven't seen much of a use for.
Granted, Amara locking down an enemy with phase grasp does make Torgue weapons more useful since you can pelt them with sticky bombs while they're immobilized, then blow them up without needing to bob and weave to get enough stuck to be effective. So there is that.
My favorite Amara build is what I like to call the "pinball" build. You basically spec into as much melee damage as possible and use the orb action skill, punching it at enemies and pulling it back over and over and just wiping enemies out with a ball of death.
Honestly, just seeing how Wilhelm evolved through levelling up his skill-tree and changed to reflect that Manea me like him a lot more.
Jack is the only VH in TPS that I am comfortable using when soloing EOS and Eclipse
I don’t know how it would work or be done, but imagine if all the vault hunters were able to be cross played between games. It wouldn’t make sense story-wise, but the gameplay could be insane. Like playing Zayne in BL1 and Claptrap in BL3.
I would love this but all the games other than bl2 and TPS are so different with skill trees, scaling, etc.. you would have to drastically rework them to line up. I do think TPS and bl2 could be done fairly easily, sure the games scale different but I think they could work. Bl1 characters in other games would just feel bad because the skill trees don't provide enough to make them powerful enough to play. Lilith for example would go God awful in uvhm in BL2.
To make it work, just match which ever VH your playing with enemies health pool from the same VHs game. I'm thinking sorta same way you can play as a level 15 and your friend can be 45. That might work!
I find Iron Bear being so overpowered to be hilarious, because there was a point I'm time where all Iron Bear was good for was the temporary involuntarily you would get while entering it.
my best friend and i did a co-op full playthrough with him as zane and me as moze. once we got to the postgame stuff it was absolutely wild having both of those working together, we were absolutely absurd
I like the Messy Breakup Flak, can melt everything with the right Messy Breakup and and having your pets shield break repeatedly to unleash a swarm of drones.
And red fang taunt will last even after gamma burst has ended. The pet is basically a God that somehow in mayhem 11 it's health is infinity except because of barrels
Gaige was actually the first character I ever did a playthrough with in the series. I bought Borderlands 2 with money from my first job back when I was in highschool, and I grabbed the Gaige DLC along with it. Figured I paid extra for the character, might as well play as her. Believe it or not, I didn't use Anarchy my first time through. The reduced accuracy was a big turn off to me as I was maining sniper rifles, so I just didn't invest into it. Instead, I was relying on DT to help me out, and invested into "Close Enough" while still actually trying to aim, with the idea being that it would be useful if I got downed and the only enemies to second wind myself were around a corner.
By the time I finally did decide to give Anarchy a proper try I was pretty high level, one of the old level caps. Combined with Close Enough, it's incredibly powerful. I found the best combination to be to use a class mod that gives you extra stacks of close enough so that as many shots are hitting something as possible, only invest into the base Anarchy skill (because you have to sacrifice clip size to get later skills), and use an infinity pistol (which has a clip size of 1, so it won't shoot if you sacrifice clip size). The Grog is a good gun to have as a secondary weapon, switch to it when you want to mark enemies with slag then swap to your infinity and just let loose on them. Get enough kills and each individual shot will be doing ungodly amounts of damage, and you will be landing most of them. IIRC one of her skills can also make you slag the first enemy you hit after a while, so you don't need to keep weapon swapping so much. Make sure you're actually aiming at the enemies so that as many shots are landing as possible, you will get very inaccurate but it won't matter much.
Overall, Gaige can be absolutely busted. DT went from my saving grace to feeling honestly kinda useless. I mostly only ever use him now to give the enemies something else to shoot at while I'm mowing them down. Technically you can do even more damage if you have fire weapons, which isn't very intuitive since Gaige is a shock themed character. However, I don't really mind the lost DPS from using shock weapons. Melted enemies are still melted enemies all the same, and anything that has most of it's tanking power in it's shield will rue the day it crossed my path.
My other favorites are Mordy, Lilith, Wilhelm, Nisha, Athena, Jack/Tim, Zer0, Krieg, Zane, and Moze. Among them, I'd say Mordecai, Jack, Zer0, and Moze were the most fun I had from each game. Though, I do prefer Gaige over Zer0. Maybe it's nostalgia, I dunno. I just really like playing Gaige, and I'm not sorry.
old comment, but the pre-sequel's big issue for me was just how much of the game was "stand still and wait for an annoying NPC to open a door while they tell you their life's story." BL1, 2, and 3 you can pretty much just blast through the game as fast as your character can run, but pre-sequel has so much forced waiting that I really didn't want to play it more than twice.
Timothy in my opinion is the best vault hunter in any game. If i could choose 1 vault hunter to play in every game it would be him. Hes sooo much fun and his dialogue is top notch.
One of my favs too
Man i love the borderlands character designs. All the summoner characters are so incredibly fun to me no matter how bad they are. Im hype to see what borderlands 4 cooks up
You did some major psychic damage to me when you said a Gaige main accidentally reloaded early
How to play Gaige:
1. Unbind reload
There is no step 2.
I wish all of Amaras skills got mayhem scaling but it’s an evil world we live in
I friggen love Zero,because
1:I had an OC as a kid called Zero and he was just like Bordeland’s Zero,
2:His clone ability is sick,
And 3:Sniper riffles,I love staying back and sniping the heck out of losers.
Claptrap is the most controversial pick. Claptrap is the only reason I played the prequel. Now you don’t got to worry about the stupid oxygen mechanic, but you still get a jet pack. The prequel was actually fun, and his action skill is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. He’s a top 5 character for me.
Timmy, Gaige and Zane are my top 3 in term of playing them but Zane as a whole is my fav.
Timmy as in Timothy
Salvador and moze in a nutshell:
"KABOOOOM"
I really like seeing FL4K so high up, one of my favorite Vault Hunters ever, I replayed so many times as them playing different ways so much fun!
I started the series with Axton and 2, but a few years ago, I got curious about Maya and never looked back, much as I still love Axton's character and story. Health regen from two different sources that benefit every other character she plays with and stacks with each of their own personal regen, the ability to reciprocate incoming damage in two separate instances(one of which reduces further incoming damage), pulling all enemies that were near each other together to allow for more effective area damage and control and then having them fight each other while they all take increased damage from everything, literally stealing a portion of health from enemies just via shooting them, right down to increasing the speed at which her guns just work, while all of that is happening. Maya will always be my favorite Borderlands character to play as, because I've never had another experience even close to being like her.
Kreig is my all time favourite character but I have to agree with you on the placement for this one it's sad but if they had worked him in a way where he didn't need to rely on bloodsplosion he'd be a lot better
He doesn’t rely on bloodsplosion. Use blood bath
@@mullicanman353 bloodsplosion is one of if not his main core components and when you go towards endgame content I.e raids he just becomes subpar compared to the others
@@bobpatel9689 nah
Krieg is my fav too... I just wish the game didn't "balance" him by making him either hit himself or burn himself to death. Could have been the funnest melee character...
@@bobpatel9689 Krieg: *Can solo basically every raid boss in seconds*
This guy: "Sub-par"
The addition of the purple skill trees in 3 greatly helps iron bear's run time and armor, as well as a certain class mod that resets Moze's AS within a few seconds of igniting someone. IB with dual explosive mini guns is the biggest threat in the game you could come across. And iron cub with the right weapons can clear multiple sectors on its own. However, you shouldn't run explosive bullets on it because cub tends to get up close to enemies a lot and will blow itself to pieces quickly.
Honestly I love Roland because of how simple he is. Really all you need is Metal Storm, Stat, maybe Aid Station, and any half-decent fully auto Combat Rifle and you can pretty much hold down the trigger and become nearly unstoppable.
Definitely agree with Zane and Moze at the top. Those two are such utter crack to play.
You must've been one of those that really got punched in the gut when Handsome Jack backshot him... Also shed a tear at Bunkers and Badasses?
For me, it was Bloodwing and the bird babies
As a sniper class fan, Mordecai was my first VH. He willl always be my favourite, no matter what. Lilith comes a close second, followed by Maya, Zero and Aurelia.
Lilith is totally a top 5-worthy character. There's a reason she's the most popular of the BL1 characters and it's because specced properly, she's damn near immortal. Run in, pop phasewalk, spread dots, pop out, kill a few enemies, pop phasewalk again, heal, done.
U mean gameplay wise or story wise? Cause gameplay sure but her personalities shit in the future games
@@michaelbecket4901 Why is her personality shit in future games? I think she's really good in Bl2 and Bl3, but Bl3 overall suffers from low quality story. I would say her acting is the most human of all, her personality is something I can identify with. And she always picked up the slack, whenever it was needed. Maybe I'm biased but I can't find many faults in that character, I think most people can't, which is why she was fan favorite for a long time (she and Maya).
@@ibazulic I’m a pre sequel fan and that game expanded on her personality she basically showed how selfish her and moxxi were after trying to kill people she considered her friends over the actions of jack and also made them look like huge hypocrites I just can’t see her in a good light
Also wasn’t she only a fan favourite for her speed running potential?
@@michaelbecket4901 aw man, I tried playing the presequel, but I just couldn't do it because the whole low level gravity sucked for me xD and yep, you're right, it might be because of her speed running potential. In my personal case, I judge NPCs based on their character in the games I played, because I am no speedrunner.
@@ibazulic fair enough I’d suggest giving TPS a single run through its 25% shorter then the other games u level up quicker and depending on who u play as your character goes through an arc where they either evolve or devolve
I have never killed faster with more survivability than with Zane. He is on a completely different level than all the other characters.
You're not wrong on Krieg's positon pissing people off. He's pretty much the best if you go into the explosive axe throwing stuff, even against big enemies.
It hurts me a little to see Gaige at 13 because I just had a ton of fun running and gunning with her, but I appreciate the reasoning for her and the others, much of which I agree with (especially DT being a erratic. Appreciate the video amigo, thanks for doing what you do.
But I do think I'm going to see how far I can get with one life Gaige because I like pain.
Hurts here too, but let's be honest, Gaige had like 1 or 1-and-a-half viable endgame builds, and the and a half was buffing deathtrap which while my favourite, was hampered by how stupid the pet AI is in borderlands.
Still my main.
Gaige is who you play when you need to blow off steam. Fire up a new Gaige game, grab a two-shot Jakobs shotgun, watch your stress levels magically deplete as quickly as the enemies' health bars.
@@GiuseppeDAntelmi I've certainly followed the fibber formula with her, but she's just so much fun to run wild with.
What reasoning exactly? All he really said is he likes versatile characters while putting the most versatile ones at the bottom
And listing gaige as bad because MOST people play as her a specific way isint a good argument and honestly MOST of the characters on this list should be put backwards with the 'lower' tiers being high while the high tiers being lower
All he really did was show how he appreciated quick damage more then anything and as a claptrap main his choice of moze as the top 1 pick while claptrap who is BY FAR the most versatile character in the series thus far is at the bottom is bullshit
Also WTH is with all these people agreeing with him? He didint give any valid arguments for gaige being trash shes a simple high risk/high reward type of class
@@michaelbecket4901 Like we said, Gaige has 1 viable endgame build. That's not the mark of a good character
I loved playing as wilhelm in almost exclusively play as him anytime I play the pre sequel. I love All the terminater references and the nuke explosion death thing and everything about him is so awesome and he just gets more awesomer as you go down the skill trees and he becomes more robotic
Top 6 - "Where the f is my FL4K!"
Top 5 - "Don't tell me they forgot FL4K"
Top 4 - "There yah go, you're top 4 my boy"
Merry Christmas K6! My favorite remains Flak. He's just so effortless with fade away and the Clairvoyance . With a great Jacobs artifact and a stackbot, he's a blast to play with!
Pre-Sequel characters are the best with very unique skill trees, weird to see them on the bottom of the list
I agree. As a group they're the best imo. I doubt it would happen, but I'd love to see a remaster where we could play any of the VHs in any game. TPS characters in 2 & 3 - hell yes
It's cause it's weak to strongest they aren't melting raid bosses like the others
@@mrsurprise2294 have you seen what claptrap can do to raid bosses?
@@mcrib5559 The videos I saw wasn't faster than bl3 raid boss kills
@@mrsurprise2294 well I’m not saying bl3 characters can’t but I’m just saying claptrap can destroy raid bosses in tps, like basically one shotting EOS in his first phase and one shotting iwajira type of damage
Got BL3 a week ago. When trying to inspect the heroes to decide which one I play first, I clicked on Zane and it just started the game. I just rolled with it, and damn! Zane is so freaking fun.
Got him to level 51 tonight. Didn’t look at a single guide, and went down the blue tree first. I thought it would be too tough to top Tim the Doppleganger but Zane is my favorite of the franchise as of now.
HELL YEAH!!
Is it weird that I tried to balance all three of his skill during my playthrough?
Strongest or not. Clap Trap is the most fun character to play. You probably had to play borderlands 1 when it first came out or at least before playing BL2. When I saw that Clap Trap was going to be playable, I was over the moon. Then when I realized he could turn into a pirate ship "Pirate Ships can be vault hunters right?" I almost peed myself laughing. Then I blew myself up a few times, getting the hang of it. Then I blew myself up more after that. Those ship canons do massive damage, sometimes to yourself. Yes, he's annoying, but so much fun. And, I believe, the only character that is in every BL game.
heard about Krieg? no one is more fun than this guy.
@@LogoSystemCG I played Krieg for about 10 minutes. His muttering made me not like him right away. It's one thing to be demented, but the stuff he says just seemed kind of dumb to me. So, I didn't play him long. Maybe he's powerful once built up, but getting there was too much for me.
@@royruther4895 yeah probably because you didn't understood what was a psycho and we could play the stronger one :D but yh late game krieg is a fkin monster i'll put him rank 2 after sal and for some situations he is even above, but yh everyone is different I loved the lore and how OP they described him to be an unstopppable melee psycho trying to get his mind some peace. The fact that we ear the normal guy sometimes while in menu or after a massacre is so freaking good.
Moze was my 1st pick when I started BL 3. Then Amara, love how she can do an elemental Kamehameha wave! 👍🏻
I just have to pop in before fully watching to both comment for the algorithm, and to say that despite BL3 being my absolute #1 in the franchise, there may never be VH that hits it for me like Krieg does. His 3 vastly different yet super synergistic skill trees make him a character I feel like I could theory craft with for ever, and his dialogue is still just as amazing as it was that first playthrough. God I love Krieg
Top 5 in order: Krieg, Amara, Maya, Zane, Lilith. Honorable Mention to CL4P-TP cause chaos makes me smile
Yeah, Ronald to be fair was more of a support class, than a main damage class, he was my first character, and the biggest issue with Ronald is his turret which can do massive amounts of damage and truly clutch up at tough spots, is that it just takes to long for it to recharge to be viable
I got back into Borderlands thanks to the Pandora collection and theres something I appreciate in BL3
the amount of health recovery you can do. I remember playing first BL2 and just dying over and over like in Dark Souls because health regen was a joke if it isnt a weapon doing the healing
I haven't even watched the video and I already know Moze is at the top
As a Moze main, this makes me happy.
I will say a full team of 4 claptraps is the most fun ive had in borderlsands tps. The absolute chaos of everyone activiating their action skill at once
Not to mention that Claptrap's I Love You Guys! skills can stack with other Claptrap players causing them to be able to steamroll through most of the game.
I was fr expecting zero to be top 3 with his 1 shot melee build that was able to wipe raid bosses in 2-3 hits
how could you not mention one of Athena's best features: her Blood Rush skill, which lets her rapidly dash forward and attack enemies with her blade. combined with melee skills like Rend it's just a ton of fun dashing around like an anime swordsman cutting down every enemy on screen
Touche.
My top 5 based on the fun I have with them (in no particular order) would be: Krieg, Moze, Timothy, Claptrap and Amara.
Hell no you didn't do dirty to my baby gage she is the true berserk character in the game nothing beat going right in the face of a enemy and blowing theirs health bar to nothing,(also admit shooting the groud is a play style but it was funny as well)
I think with how balanced the BL3 vault hunters are, I have to say that Salvador is the strongest vault hunter. He’s the only character that can *reasonably* beat every single raid boss in borderlands 2 by himself
I wish I could take any of these Vault Hunters through the franchise games, keeping them updated to the newest thing. Athena is my favorite, and I'd love to be able to play her in the other games. :(
Another bad thing anout claptrap was his full skill was locked for multiplayer. More than half of his abilities are only available in multiplayer.
When my son turned 9 I let him try borderlands 3 for the first time, which was also his first ever first person shooter game. He saw this cool-looking robot with a pet and was almost sold but I told him to just check the rest of them. He did so (a little annoyed for not getting to choose beasty boy from the get-go) and then he saw this itsy bitsy teeny weeny tiiiiiiiiiiiny girl with the biggest, baddest and most epic robot suit ever and instantly choosed her. He ran through the game like it was one big tutorial. This kid's closest experience to anything similar was "ratchet and clank crack in time". He choosed skills on how the icon looked (didn't read them because he didn't understand english at the time) and just plowed through it like it was nothing. That's the power of Moze. It's almost too much. Needless to say, my son had a blast
Awesome!
My favorite from each game are Lilith, Sal, Jack, and Moze. Jack is my favorite with his clone deaths triggering kill skills.
Zain is absurdly good, the best class in 3 I had was with him
I was like "20 vault hunters?! How are there so many?" Then I remembered the prequel game exists and I was so uninterested in it that I played it for like an hour then never again 😂
I’ve never really put much time into zero but was surprised to see him above maya. I love running bee sandhawk legendary cat mod with her. It just melts everything and is so satisfying to hear the bee hitmarkers while everything is slagged because of her phasegrasp.
I think I really liked how I wasn’t reliant on grenades or guns to slag things and could just run around with my favorite guns using phasegrasp and the bee to carry me mostly.
I'm not gonna lie, I thought 1 & 2 were going to be switched.
We all know Claptrap is the best but no in all seriousness Salvador was the strongest
HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT MY CLAPTRAP. That's my favorite coop character to grief my friends haha.
great music choice at the start. Got me and dad into dark synth that one
Hearing someone else say "Screw the OP levels" is like music to my ears
I see Moze as a combination of Axton but stronger and Salvador but weaker. I still think that if you compare each vault hunter by how well they perform in their original game Salvador is hands down the strongest since he utterly trivialize the entirety of the game without much effort but I'm really not surprised by this top 3
When you play as Moze, remember this: Vladof. Vladof! VLADOF!