You know a game is good when people are still playing and discussing stuff about the game 5 years after release such a gem of game really is.

my favorite is kreig. just hearing him scream random stuff always makes me laugh.

i fucking love how the game just lives on and on

When borderlands 1 came out, I played Lilith with my friend playing the Roland. When the second one came out, I played Maya and my friend played axton. Kind of a pattern with our choices.

C´mon, who does not enjoy playing a screaming Psycho that is burning while making everything explode and slashing foes down with a psycho buzzaxe?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="674">11:14</a> sums up the whole video, you're welcome. :)

Enemies: you can’t just shoot an assault rifle at walls and kill everything Gaige: haha, close enough and anarchy goes brrr

Why aren’t my fingers in someone’s eye sockets right now? Why aren’t my fingers in someone’s eye sockets right now? WHY AREN’t MY FINGERS IN SOMEONE’S EYE SOCKETS RIGHT NOW?!?!

I'd say Zero is the hardest to play solo by far, solely based his absolute lack of self-healing or defensive skills. Axton isn't really that difficult to play solo.

Axton is my favorite. I go for a survivability build. Double shielded turrets placed close together let's me stay in the overlapping shields for maximum protection. I prioritize health regen and shield capacity.

fav is zero. I like being a sniper motorcycle helmet wearing alien

Gaige is my favourite. Just reaching that sweet spot in anarchy and hearing Gaige screaming as crazy as her damage. Wiping the floor with everyone is the best feeling.

Melee zero is my fave, it's just one of those crazy moments when you're running through op8 difficultly and 1 shotting most enemies with a rapier

Krieg was so fun to play, I did melee from nvhm-tvhm which avoided a ton of farming for loot and whilst still feeling pretty powerful (slag wasnt nessecary at all). Moving to uvhm, I went into bloodsplosion build. As a person who never tried bloodsplosion before, it was like ecstasy. Seeing crowds of enemies drop like flies and bosses's health bars dissapear was amazing

Lmao the whole video you were ripping on Axtob, them you just say he's your favorite lol great vid

One thing I'd like to point out about Maya: if you get the life tap skill, you can basically become unkillable as her. This depends on the weapons and other gear you have (of course) and while it does require the need a kill to trigger the perk, if you can save weaker enemies till you need to kill them, that could save you for a while. I've also noticed that even with facing enemies around my level (72) cloud kill still helps substantially. Maybe its effectiveness goes down through out the Op levels, but I haven't gotten there yet.

I haven’t played Pre-Sequel or 2 yet. I just got them yesterday for my Nintendo Switch. My first go-to character was to pick Maya. Thanks for giving the explanation rundown on all the vault characters.

I like Sniper-Melee Zero. Dash on multiple enemies after a couple of critical shots from a sniper rifle just feels satisfying.

600 stacks of anarchy, I love breaking the game

No one class is the best. They all have unique abilities that makes them the best in their own way. Salvador is considered the best. He is very op. He doesn't go down that often. But that's only when you're rocking a harold most of the time. Salvador is an absolute pain in the ass to level up. Axton is the best speedrunner. What? Yeah, you read that right. Even in UVHM, he is one of the faster times. He can kill his own turret for damage and speed. He may not be strong, but he's fast. Maya is nowhere as good as Sal, but that's because she's not meant to be a raid bosser. She's a support class. She can revive people from any point in the map as long as she has a direct line of sight with them. Maya and Axton are the best leveling experiences I've ever had. Zer0. Very high melee. Able to have enemies go after him, rather than his team mates. He can make a decoy. He can do burst damage. He can debuff enemies so that they take 20% more damage or even more. Krieg. He's literally insane. He's a giant tank of damage. He isnt the best raider. But if you throw him in an arena with a Grog and a flame of the Firehawk, bosses aren't really gonna be able to kill him. Great support class in its own right. Gaige is in the same vein as Sal. Gaige is a damage dealer. She doesn't have much team synergy. The only synergy she has is the shield regeneration from deathtrap. Also Zer0 has B0re, which is pretty hilarious. Just instakill Hyperius with any gun in the game. So those are my thoughts on the video.

If you want to solo everything in the game here's your options of classes: The Gunzerker.

I decided to go with Gaige on my solo run, mainly with the idea that deathtrap can draw enemy attention away from me (which he actually does) while I pick off from a safe distance as support, or leave deathtrap to clear one area while I clear another. It’s worked so far for my kind of play style.

I am a Maya fan here....and still playing the game till this day (2018)

Is anyone else here because the handsome collection is free with ps plus for this month? Edit: why does this have 100 likes?

i love krieg because you can hit with a meele attack and heal and use the love thumper and just kill everything in your path

Skill trees: 1. Maya: Elemental guns are my favorite things about Borderlands and Maya's skill tree takes direct advantage of that. I know this vid is about Solo but support Maya is also very fun as well. 2. Gaige: Anarchy makes her OP AF. Her shock damage is great too, as not many enemies are resistant to shock. 3. Krieg: Diverse play styles between melee, and fire. Fire is fun but there are tons of enemies resistant to it. Sure you can build him to use any element but he won't be as effective as Gaige with Shock or Maya with Corrosive and Slag. 4. Salvador: His gunlust tree only has 2 interesting skills (Moneyshot and No kill like Overkill.) his brawn tree just makes home durable, but his rampage tree is what makes him interesting. Taking direct advantage of gunzerking making it last longer, to doing more damage, to firing faster the longer you hold the button. You also may as well have infinite bullets when going down that tree as well. 5. Zer0: He's got good skills but Sniping and Melee do not work well together. Making end game Zer0 kind of a gimp character. Whereas everyone else benefits going down all 3 trees, Zer0 only benefits going down 2. Versatile sure but part of the fun of Borderlands is finding builds that work, with end game Zer0 I just feel like I'm wasting points. 6. Axton is just a standard FPS character. Nothing super interesting about him.

Maya is my favorite. Good solo potential, and when I play with friends, I get to be a healer!

Nothing more fun than having Gaige with close enough + anarchy... walking into a room full of enemies and popping off about three shots from conference call at high anarchy stack and watching everybody in the room fall down at once.

In Borderlands as a whole( and TPS, I LOVE playing Jack the Doppelganger. Great and fun skills, his Action Skill is my 2nd favorite, and his personality is amazing just because he is very similar (in some dialogue) but has his own personality. In BL2, it's a tie between Salvador and Krieg. Both characters are fun and powerful, and has the best dialogue. Playing as a midget who is using 2 guns while screaming/insulting at the top of my lungs is just hilariously fun. For Krieg, he's funny and , like Sal, his dialogue is amazing. Playing as a maniac screaming at the top of his lungs about shit trains and bicycles made of meat is just beautiful.

Krieg. Hands-down is the most entertaining character to play as. NIPPLESALADS!!!!!

2020 still playing love this game to death

All the hate against gaige 😭

I disagree that Zer0's skill is "Just a cloaking" and has been "Done before" - the stacking damage bonuses that Zer0 gains while remaining cloaked give him a risk/reward type of play where you want to stay in Decepti0n for as long as possible to maximize burst damage, but makes you run the risk of the the enemy walking away from your perfectly lined up killshot. It's a type of gameplay that is very unique to Borderlands. Similarly, MMF revolutionizes his action skill in a melee build, allowing him to stay cloaked for much longer periods of time while still balancing the risk/reward of maximizing DPS and the number of thrown decoys.

BLASPHEMY! RAMPAGE IS THE BEST! OH KRIEG, LORD AND SAVIOR, PUNISH THIS NON BELIEVER FOR HIS TREACHEROUS AND BLASPHEMOUS WORDS! MAY HE BE PUNISHED FOR ALL ETERNITY! ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!

Personally, throwing turrets is pretty enjoyable for me. Also part with seeing it get better and upgraded with all the new guns on it and such.

i don't understand why people dislike your videos only because they don't agree with you ....

I absolutely love breaking the game with Sal. Watching health bars melt when inconceivable catches on a money shot, or destroying the framerate with a Kitten/Tattler never gets old.

I love watching Deathtrap blow shit up while I just troll around picking up ammo

Krieg is my most favorite. I love a lot of his lines and his action skill, but also because of his bloodsplosion.

The most fun class? It's simple. Any class with sandhawk and the bee shield because the sound of hitting the enemy while amp shield effect is active is EXTREMELY satisfying. It's like... BRMBRMBRMBRMBRMBRM. I love it.

Handsome jack collection is free on Epic store, so if you still don't own these masterpieces of games or is short on money.... What are you waiting for? Go, grab em.

I like to do the “Shoot first have tons of regrets later” with Salvador, it consist of jumping in the middle and start shooting and regret when you run out of gunzerk fuel

Maya is my favorite. First character I ever played with so I just know how she works the most. It's fun to dominate every raid boss with Salvador but he can get boring with other things. Krieg can be very fun with his ridiculous screaming and awesome action skill but sometimes I don't feel like going melee and I always go back to maya.

My favorite character, in terms on action skill,is probably Krieg. For me, Salvador is the most boring to play.

Axton is "the hardest character to play." I chose Axton as my first character and it's been great.

dont agree regarding Axton, The POD or eventually, PODS can deal SLAG , Force fields (that can protect you as well), dual guns and missiles, the ability to be stuck on any floor, walls, or ceiling ,,, its like having another person on your side. With TWO pods, you can place at opposite sides of the enemy while you are in a different location. VERY VERSATILE

2021 gang this game is still my favorite krieg is fun and easy to play for mobbing when you get unleashed the beast but it's action skill becomes less effective when facing flying enemies or bosses

Hey man, thank you for making this game alive. I really liked it and that was the last very good game I've played. Keep up your quality work :) Antoine from France

I’ve found Legendary Engineer Axton has a great ebb and flow to the combat, I use Gemini turrets with the double gun slag rounds and I love setting up crossfires and using the turrets defensively with the shield. You barely have to worry about slagging enemies with two turrets rapidly slagging enemies, tho I do enjoy using my slag Baby Maker and completely obliterating whole areas with a Meteor Shower Grenade mod. In between the chaos, I’m precisely shooting heads with a seraphim :3

Great list with multiple approaches - thank you very much, I knew this vid was gonna have exactly what I was looking for once you talked about how phase-lock is the coolest, but immediately went on to talk about her skill trees and how you’d remove one of hers

I love Zero due to his 80% amplify damage combine it with slag now you amplified 480% damage for your team to easily kill a raid boss. Plus, the critical damage stacking is amazing and his deception skill is cool for distracting the dragons or Terramorphus.

All these other comments talking about how fun Krieg is, and I’m just sitting here quietly raising my hand like, “S-Salvador’s fun too-“

I don't know why but I'd have to go with Maya as my favorite character. First character I played/beat a Borderlands game with, loved upgrading her siren powers to wreak absolute havok with an ability that I thought would just be boring at the beginning, loved hopping around everywhere giving bandits an electric shotgun to the face and making all those elemental explosions with Phaselock in the late game, it was a blast. I like her voice acting the best, I like her dynamic with Kreig, there's just a lot of little things that make her my favorite personally.

honestly, melee zero has been the biggest blast for me. just the satisfaction of dropping your roid shield and getting lucky with kunai and seal clubbing your way through a bandit camp is unmatchable.

Maya will always be my favorite.

Axton is my homie

Thanks for this, had our group (wife and a few friends) discussing our take on why we like the characters in Borderlands 2 we all like. Fun video, thanks for the upload and the time these quality videos take to edit, shoot, script and upload :). An Thanks to your Patrons which allow you to do it YOUR way and do this full time. Loving the back catalog.

BL1 Mordecai + Brick BL2 Zero + Gaige BLTPS Athena [? Still testing] BL3 Fl4K + Amara[once I get a(n) upgrade] My list

Maya is my favorite . She has so many fitting play styles , and her action skill is OP . She’s just overall the best character. I had a commando with all 3 skill trees filled out and oh my god I wish I could get it back because that was some of most fun I’ve had playing games. You could throw 2 nuke turrets that slag and rocket everything around them it was just so bad ass.

even though zer0 starts off fairly weak, if you know how to use his skills you can manage fairly well, and as the game goes on, i'd say zer0 grows the most in power.

Action skill: 1. Sal. Yeah we've seen dual wielding before but not typically like this. Sal also regens health and ammo making his action skill the most favorable for run and gun types. It can be specced to last longer the more you kill and can have an aggro pulling function. You can also dual wield anything unlike most FPS's and with the crazy loot of Borderlands you can come up with some unique combos. 2. Krieg: An alternative to an aggressive play style. Krieg is so god damn powerful at mobbing. Possibly even better than Sal. But he loses to Sal overall because Sal takes advantage of the guns he finds where as Krieg puts them away and pulls out an axe, making the whole loot aspect of Borderlands less interesting. However its still really fun. 3. Zer0: Cloaking is always useful and fun. But I particularly love going the melee route and trying to stay cloaked as long as possible. Its super satisfying killing an army of enemies without them ever seeing you. 4. Maya: We actually have seen this before in the Mass Effect series. It is fun but I feel like its less involved than Sal, Krieg, and Zer0, probably because it's more of a defensive skill where as Sal and Krieg's are offensive and Zer0's is both. In Co op Res is Damn useful. 5. Axton: Low because you drop a turret and that's all you do. After that you are at the mercy of the there's AI. Not that much fun. 6. Gaige: Similar to Axton but even less involvement. With Axton you at least have to decide where to place the turret, with Gaige you literally summon and forget about it.

I personally love Zer0 bc i love the infinity run and gun build with him plus doing god b0re kills is really fun to me especially killing OP 8 bunker with the 11 damage repeater from the game start

I like Axton and Maya for solo and co-op, but do split time with Krieg and zero for the insane melee damage. My first character was zero who is fun but also frustrating simply due to his glass like resilience. I have a lvl 30 started gaige who came with a hot button lady fist,. Close enough and anarchy are crazy one shot kill skills

fordI can tell that in the comments there is a lot of arguing of who is the best character, borderline is the best character is whoever you want it to be, any character is good at the op levels, and who cares what someone else says your favorite is your favorite it doesn't have to be someone elses1 second ago•

I think the most Interesting skill is axtons turret or gaiges DT it’s Nice to watch them kill dozent of enemys. I think there’s are the most fun too

Gaige's deathtrap is head and sholders superior to axton's turret. It can deal more damage, endure more punishment, MOVE and finally it has a better cool-down. Combine all of that with the bff tree perk to give DT your shield and a terra shield and DT can wipe out entire areas all on his lonesome.

Why do most people discredit Gaige so much? This video makes Gaige seem like the least fun character to play, when in reality the Anarchy build is an amazing twist I’ve never seen in any other game and it’s extremely fun just literally wreck enemies with a shotgun. Plus you mix Anarchy and Close Enough it gets even more fun. Now granted, DT is the least fun ability to use, it is really helpful Solo to keep enemies distracted or easily get Second Wind (sometimes DT targets the boss rather than one of the nearly dead enemies that will give you Second Wind, but that’s really only a problem during boss fights). On top of that she’s hilarious and has a great character. If you haven’t already, I would highly suggest playing her.

Hey friends, I'm just starting the game for the first time ever, are there any tips or tricks that I should know?

Hey, could you do a similar video on the pre-sequel's characters aswell?

Axton is my favorite as well. I like him because he's like the only character that more like a classic FPS and has more skills that improve overall his stats instead of focusing on one specific stat also the turrets can be used for quicker second wind and cover. idk but for me I feel like he is the best for beginners.

Maya’s cloud kill is absolutely game breaking on the first two play throughs as 99 percent of guns can’t even out damage the passive ability.

Krieg is fun but he cannot do glitches that every other character can if it includes higher jumping

I say Gaige is by far the most OP character. The first time I played as her i beat about half the game before I died for the first time... Seriously I was assaulting the bunker.

Easiest to Hardest 1. Krieg: Simply because he is the least gear dependant class and people have actually done gearless Krieg runs. 2. Sal: Gunzerking both increases his DPS and durability. Give his off hand a Slag weapon and you'll have a super easy time. 3. Gaige: Anarchy+Richoceting bullets bypasses the accuracy penalty. Richoceting bullets takes a penalty in damage but the bonuses of Anarchy far outweigh the penalty. Give her a shot gun and watch everything die. 4. Maya: Things are sure easy to kill when they aren't moving.That and Cloudkill is OP on normal. 5. Axton: Just underwhelming. 6. Zer0: Zer0 is at the bottom because his skills actually require YOU to ACTUALLY be good at the game. Every other character alleviates the need of skill whether it be Krieg or Sal's strong durability or the lack of needing to aim with Maya or Gaige. But if you ain't good at getting Head shots than Zer0 is gonna suck for you. He's also the squishiest of all the Vault Hunters.

WOW! What an awesome review! You covered absolutely everything and answered all the questions I had about which character to begin my play with. (PS4 Handsome Collection) Thank you greatly!

Zero is weak, Gaige screams like a maniac when on fire, Maya is a witch Salvador is on steroids and Krieg is a bloodthirsty psycho....Axton is the only normal one

My first play through I used zero and found him to be quite difficult to play with in the early game. So much so that I switched to maya around level 17 and was able to quickly level up and surpass where I was in game with zero in only a couple hours. I eventually beat the game with maya and am now playing through again in true vault hunter mode.

Gaige is a badass, I play as her bc if you unleash Deathtrap it distracts the aggressives and I just run through the bandit camps without being touched.

Gaige is one of my favorite characters because of deathtrap it's like having another player with u which is great for solo and co op

Imo the most fun is Zer0 as cloking, running behind someone assassin creed style and stabbing them is hella fun

I love having a 450 anarchy Gaige just shooting a shotgun non stop with bullets ricocheting everywhere, lol. The first time I could complete a tier 5 of a dome was thanks to that ability.

Axton was my first character, and as of now, no other of vault hunter in any of the games has gave me the fun and challenging experience that is to play him. I remember once, my teacher was taking roll, then out of nowhere, she says "Axton Wood!" I immediately started looking for this dude, but he wasn't there, and never showed up

Axton main here. Axton is a beast in the end game. Twin turrets, with twin barrels, automatic slag applications - easy FFYL revives. Grit is soooooooooo good. Co-op with a few friends during an Invincible Bosses farming session devolved into the other 2 players placing bets on how many 'DINGS' I would get during each fight. The Invincible boss in the cave with all the poison was hilarious. Axton just tanked the poison with what seemed like a 100% Grit chance. Maya and fellow Axton player: "Ok, we're dead. Let's come back to this after Vermi" Me: "Sure" My Axton: "Hold my beer" DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING You get the point. Turrets killed the boss because we too busy laughing.

gauge is my favorite solo, maya is my favorite in a group, Krieg has the best dialogue, and zero is the most difficult for my play style.

Maya, Zer0 and Krieg are my favorites.

This is easily the most discussable and subjective list which actually makes this the best list

Salvador with his awesomeness with shotgun and rifle spraying and throwin two middle fingers up in the air! Harold and Grog nozzle? Who neeeeds em when you got guns for days and a mean uppercut?

Axton really isn't the hardest to play solo. I've gone through every character, except Salvador. Axton's fairly consistent in difficulty throughout the game. Zero and Gaige get pretty difficult solo after a certain point.

I love me some Maya and krieg 👌

I don't understand how people don't rank salvador number 1. He is BY FAR the best VH in borderlands history

Once you get Sharing is Caring and Make it Sparkle for Gaige, Deathtrap becomes an absolute monster if used correctly. Slap on a Hide of Terra or a Black Hole while charging him with any element useful for that situation (shock for stalkers, corrosive for loaders, you get the idea), and he just destroys everything. Upshot Robot works even better since it means as long as he doesn't run out of health, he'll be active semi-permanently :o

I think axton and Gaige is in my opinion the coolest characters. I just like demolishing everything with a big ass fing autocannon or a death robot with wulverine claws. Most boring is in my opinion zeros cloaking. Like it’s nothing that interesting

Axton is the Druid of Vanilla Wow.

I like using snipers and revolvers so on first game my favourite is Mordecai, in second Zer0 and in tps Nisha. I haven't played Borderlands 3 yet so I don't know about that one. I always play solo

Kreig is fucking hilarious when he shouts.

Bruh if you're in for a good time go Melee Assassin Zer0. It's so goddamn satisfying.

But. No joke, zero is really fun to play. Its challenging and more interesting.

To this day Krieg and Maya are my favorite to play across all games with Athena somewhere just below

wut? maya is far ahead as a support character. when i had bl2 on pc, i used to be in a group of 4 that played the same character but in different roles - soldier, sniper (me), heavy and medic/engineer. maya is the most playable character party we had, because of her medic tree

anarchist gauge is most fun