Borderlands 4 - Vault Hunters

Six Vault Hunters are available in Borderlands 4: Vex (Siren), Rafa (Exo-Soldier), Amon (Forgeknight), Harlowe (Gravitar), C4SH (Rogue), and Loveless (Hacker). Each has 3 Action Skills with unique skill trees.
of 6 entries · updated 2026-09-07
Name Description Title Class Trait Action Skills Skill Trees Forgeskills Key Skills Note
Vex A Siren who attunes to her gun's elemental type via Phase Covenant, converting all Action Skill and Melee damage to match. The Siren Phase Covenant - Vex attunes to the elemental type of her current gun, converting all Action Skill and Melee damage to match.
  • Name: Phase Phamiliar Description: Summons Trouble, a catlike Phase creature that teleports to enemies, deals AoE damage, and gains boosted damage.
  • Name: Incarnate Description: Phase explosion that fully heals Vex, grants movement speed and Eldritch Blast (explosive projectile).
  • Name: Dead Ringer Description: Charge-based skill (up to 3 charges); summons either Reaper Clones (taunt/melee) or Spectre Clones (ranged gun damage).
  • Name: Here Comes Trouble Action Skill: Phase Phamiliar Skills Count: 5 Augments: Violent Outburst, Grave Command, Beast Mode Capstones: Double Trouble, Trouble Bubble, Unsealed
  • Name: Vexcalation Action Skill: Incarnate Skills Count: 6 Augments: Witchy Trigger Finger, Grave Harvest Capstones: Desecration, Vibe Check, Heartpiercer
  • Name: The Fourth Seal Action Skill: Dead Ringer Skills Count: 6 Augments: Banshee's Wail, Ghast Blaster Capstones: Heirloom, Grim Reaper, Dark Pact
Rafa Born and raised in microgravity, Rafa's bone density altered dramatically. The Exo-Soldier Overdrive - Whenever Rafa activates an Action Skill, he enters Overdrive.
  • Name: APOPHIS Lance Description: Equips an arm cannon firing piercing shock ordnance blasts. Tap to fire (uses charge), hold to charge for increased damage. Unused charges convert to cooldown.
  • Name: Peacebreaker Cannons Description: Deploys shoulder-mounted cannons that auto-target enemies with kinetic gun damage. Can end early to refund remaining duration as cooldown.
  • Name: Arc-Knives Description: Twin energy blades dealing melee damage and marking enemies. Dash forward for shock melee attack. Blade Fury - shock whirlwind hitting all marked enemies.
  • Name: People Person Action Skill: APOPHIS Lance Capstones: PROJECT: Raiju (taser arc), PROJECT: Basilisk (corrosive split), PROJECT: Gorgon (incendiary chain beam) Augments: Sangre por Sangre, Battery Subscription Service, Ojo Rojo, Gibistruct Module, Engorged Bore
  • Name: Remote Agent Action Skill: Peacebreaker Cannons Capstones: Double-Ought Autoshot (ricochet shotguns), Beam Team (shock+corrosive beams), Volatile Hollowpoints (rocket splash) Augments: Instinto, Bullet-Buddy Deluxe, Hell in a Shell, Insta-Fort Battle System, Unmissable Missiles
  • Name: This Year's Gimmick Action Skill: Arc-Knives Capstones: Huracan Especial (shock singularity), Inferno Protocol (stored dmg + incendiary), Galvanic Panic (acid gliders) Augments: Altered Cabron, Dead Man Walking, Thundercutter, Parting Gift, Acid Drop
Amon Raised in a monster-worshipping cult; sole survivor after a Vault creature massacred everyone. The Forgeknight Uses Forge Drones to power his Forgeskills (secondary action skills with their own cooldown).
  • Name: Onslaughter Description: Melee punch/hybrid. 5 augments include Pyroclast, Fellfrost, etc.
  • Name: Scourge Description: Shield + whip. 5 augments include Stormlance spears, Molten Rebuke shield throw.
  • Name: Crucible Description: Axe throwing with priming detonation. 5 augments include Hour of the Hammer, Blade Tempest.
  • Name: Calamity Description: Close combat. 10 skills total. Key Skills: Gut Punch, Forged In Steel, Berserk, Rimebreak, Rearm, Mortal Flare, Fists of Stone
  • Name: Vengeance Description: Affinity-based (Fire/Cryo/Shock). 11 skills. Key Skills: Bullet Hail, Burning Rage, Worldbreaker, Winter's Kiss, Thunderous Rage, Blackout
  • Name: Cybernetics Description: Drone companions + priming/detonation. 9 skills. Key Skills: Tempered Pyre/Ice/Lightning, Twin Tempers, Honed Point, Reactive Armor
  • Name: Molten Slam Description: Incendiary melee slam. Enhancements: Molten Roil, Hoarcleave, Stormcutter.
  • Name: Firewall Description: Projectile-absorbing barrier with incendiary DoT. Enhancements: Ring of Frostfire, Glacial Rapture, Wrathfall.
  • Name: Double Edge Description: Cryo throw/incendiary return axe. Enhancements: Conflangarang, Snowmaul, Storm Surge.
Harlowe Focuses on Crowd Control, Action Skill Spam, Shield Capacity, and Status Effects/DOT. The Gravitar Gravitar - manipulates gravity and elemental forces.
  • Name: CHROMA Accelerator Description: Powerful action skill with combo potential via The Shattering Light and Containment Breach. Neutron Capture amp gun damage.
  • Name: Flux Generator Description: Huge co-op potential. Synergizes with Nuclear Winter, Unified Theory, Coronal Mass Ejection, and Group Study.
  • Name: Zero-Point Description: Similar to Phasegrasp from BL3. Can slam enemies around. Great for mobbing.
  • Name: Decoherence Description: Double-dipping debuff that multiplies damage.
  • Name: Confirmative Reality Description: Insane cooldown skill when paired with low level, high fire-rate gun.
  • Name: Gamma Ray Burst Description: Single-target gun build damage.
  • Name: Neutron Capture Description: Amp up gun damage.
  • Name: Alternative Fuel Source Description: Tons of damage for CHROMA Accelerator.
  • Name: Distribution Function Description: Insane shield regen with action skill spam.
  • Name: Dirty Bomb Description: Clear single-target double-dipping; may make status effect best archetype.
  • Name: Make Extraordinary Description: Huge DPS increase to action skills.
  • Name: Domino Effect Description: Potential triple dip skill.
C4SH A wandering ex-casino dealer robot who drifts through Kairos, weaving fate and fortune. The Rogue Windfall - C4SH gains Fortune stacks on kills.
  • Name: Cross-Fire Description: Holster current weapon and brandish dual revolvers from third-person perspective. Secondary effects: melee knockback and targeted lock-on.
  • Name: Sleight of Hand Description: Draw cards and toss spells like Fireball or Magic Missile. Adding more card types makes draws more random.
  • Name: Cleromancy Description: Roll supernatural Bone Dice to summon a Bone Totem with unique effects - buffing or damage depending on roll.
  • Name: Chaos Walking Action Skill: Cross-Fire Augments: And Hell Followed With Him, Midnight Showdown, Show Your Marrow, Slick Thunder, Desperado, Reckoning, Sawed-Off, I Like Those Odds
  • Name: Luck of the Draw Action Skill: Sleight of Hand Augments: Thunder the Table, Cowboy, Big Pull, The Cooler, Bet on Red, Dead Man's Hand, Sweeten the Pot, Furious Fingers
  • Name: Roll the Bones Action Skill: Cleromancy Augments: Heavenly Sevens, Five is Alive, Three's Company, Commotion's Eleven, Mighty Nine, Eights of Hel, Dirty Dozen, Easy Sixes
C4SH has no capstone skills due to his Devil's Tines ability - instead equips up to 4 augments at once.
Loveless A master Hacker who manipulates digital code, constructs, and viruses on the battlefield. The Hacker RAM & Digital Mastery - Loveless utilizes RAM resources to power enhanced abilities and Empowered Melee attacks.
  • Name: Malignant Construct Description: Press Action Skill to Summon a digital Wyrm to fight by Loveless' side. Function: Press Action Skill while Wyrm is out to order them to Teleport towards an enemy, dealing Radiation Damage in an area around them. Executable: Press and hold Action Skill while Wyrm is out to order them to use a powerful Breath Attack on an enemy, dealing Radiation Melee Damage. When Loveless summons Wyrm, she gains Symbiosis Stacks, allowing her to benefit from Symbiosis Effects. Symbiosis Stacks deplete over time. Loveless gains Symbiosis when Wyrm kills an enemy or by using certain Passives.
  • Name: Visual Paradox Nexus Description: Loveless activates her Visual Paradox Nexus (VPN) for a Duration, increasing Movement Speed and Critical Hit Damage. Killing an enemy while VPN is active causes Loveless to enter Stealth for a brief Duration and creates a Clone at the location of the killed enemy. Only one Clone can exist at a time. Function: Press Action Skill to Slash nearby enemies with a Kusarigama, creating a wave of Radiation Melee Damage. If Loveless is in Stealth, the Kusarigama will Critically Hit and ends Stealth.
  • Name: Plague Star Description: Loveless throws a digistructed Shuriken, dealing Corrosive Damage to enemies it passes through, and inflicts Contagion, which deals Corrosive Status Effect Damage over time for a Duration. If an enemy suffering from Contagion dies, it spreads to up to 3 new enemies and inflicts them with half of the Contagion Stacks of the killed enemy. Executable: Press and hold Action Skill to Detonate all active Contagion, consuming them, to deal Corrosive Damage in an area.
  • Name: Manifestation Action Skill: Malignant Construct Description: Summons and commands a digital Wyrm companion with Symbiosis mechanics, Radiation damage, and empowered constructs. Skills Count: 34 Augments: Solid State Destruction, Intelligent Artifice, Hard Crash, Dark Web, Giga Bite Capstones: barrag.exe, nuk.exe, enrag.exe
  • Name: Hack / Slash Action Skill: Visual Paradox Nexus Description: Focuses on stealth, Kusarigama radiation melee strikes, holographic clones, critical hits, and Footwork movement stacks. Skills Count: 35 Augments: Stack Overflow, Bash Script, sudo kill, Swarm, CTRL/ALT/DEL Capstones: accelerat.exe, synchroniz.exe, engag.exe
  • Name: Virology Action Skill: Plague Star Description: Deploys digistructed shurikens, spreading virulent Contagion, status effect damage, corrosive explosions, and explosive Contaminants. Skills Count: 37 Augments: Recursion, d://File, Lag Switch, Burst Finish, Host Compromise Capstones: replicat.exe, fulminat.exe, proliferat.exe
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