With the release of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, we’re getting our first look at the next generation of Lego games. There are many new aspects in what is the biggest blocky Star Wars game in years. Still, after all this time, Lego manages to be at the pinnacle of franchise videogames.
One of those new aspects is Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga classes. Every single one of the characters falls under a specific class, changing the way they play. We’ve got a breakdown of those classes, and how it affects gameplay. Also, check out our guide to all the Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga characters to see who you can play as.
So, read on, young padawan, and get up to speed before you dive into this galaxy far, far away. Oh, what’s that? You need some extra help with collectables, well, we’ve got you covered with our Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga datacards and Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga extras guides.
We also have a Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga review, where we describe it as ‘the definitive Lego Star Wars experience’.
Okay then, let’s get classy!
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga classes
There are ten Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga classes, which are:
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Jedi
Any Star Wars fan knows what a Jedi is. Heck, even my mum knows what a Jedi is. So you probably know which characters you can find here, but allow us to list some anyway:
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Luke Skywalker
- Anakin Skywalker
- Yoda
- Mace Windu
- Kit Fisto
- Rey
Abilities
As with every class, the Jedi have abilties that are unique to them, and they are:
- Force Flinger – increase the attack damage caused by objects thrown with the force
- Jedi reflexes – successful combat counters are more powerful and damage nearby enemies
- Trick time – increase the duration of distract and panic Jedi mind tricks
- Mind Master – increase the range of effect for distract and panic Jedi mind tricks
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Hero
The hero class in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is basically all the super good people who aren’t Jedi. Such people include:
- Admiral Ackbar
- Poe Dameron
- Jar Jar Binks
- Leia
- Finn
- Padme
Abiltites
The abilities for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga hero class are:
- Improved shield generator – increases the shield for ships piloted by hero characters
- Armoured disguise – adds a defence boost to equipped armour pieces reducing damage taken
- Rebel heart – increase how often defeated enemies drop recovery hearts
- Hero terminal expert – hero terminal interactions can be bypassed if you hold the correct ‘Y’ button, you can complete them for bonus studs
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Scavenger
The scavenger is exactly what you’d imagine: any character just trying to get through by whatever means. this class also has access to unique tools, such as a glider, breaker blaster, a net gun.
Such characters include:
- Rey
- Teedo
- Wicket
- Chief Chirpa
- Jawa
- Paploo
Abilities
The four abilities for the Lego Star Wars: Tthe Skywalker Scavenger class are:
- Crafty – add new colour schemes for scavenger tools
- Expert climber – increase climbing speed
- Better breaker blaster – increase the damage and explosive range of the breaker blaster
- Advanced gliding – increase speed when using the glider
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Scoundrel
While a scoundrel may sound like a bad person, that’s not really the case. Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca – none of these are bad people. But they’re tricksters, smugglers, all trying to work around the system as best they can. Other scoundrels include:
- DJ
- Doctor Evazan
- Maz Kanata
- Pondo Baba
- Wandering Wookie
Abilities
As with all the other classes, the scoundrels have four abilities:
- Business opportunity – recieve a stud discount when purchasing rumours and hints in the holoprojector
- Charged shot – hold ‘ZR’ then release it to fire a charged shot, which causes 25% more damage and bounces of surfaces
- Combat slide – press ‘A’ when running to perform a combat slide, causing damage to objects and enemies
- Piercing rounds – pierce through cover with ranged attacks, inflicting damage in enemies behind it
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Bounty Hunter
Everyone seems to be a bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe. Most people don’t really have paying jobs, except for bounty hunters. Whether it’s the stars like Bobba Fett or someone called Rothgar Deng, for some reason, there’s a good handful of them, including:
- Aurra Sing
- Leia (Boushh Disguise)
- Greedo
- Bossk
- Jango Fett
- Zam Wesell
Abilities
The Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga bounty hunter abilities are:
- Enemy detector – detect enemies through walls and other surfaces
- Hidden bounties – collect a bounty of studs from defeated enemies
- Scattershot – bounty hunter weapons fire a spread of bolts, causing damage across a wider range
- Shock grenade – press ‘A’ to throw a shock grenade which briefly stuns enemies and disablees energy shields
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Villain
A villain is the opposite of a hero – all the bad guys who don’t know how to use the force. Like Sith troopers or FN-2187, it’s all the people doing the Empire’s bidding. Like these guys, they prefer to be on wrong side of this conflict:
- Captain Phasma
- Empire Captain
- General Hux
- Sith Trooper
- Vicrul
- Ushar
- Captain Canady
Abilities
The four Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga villains abilities are:
- Demolitions expert – grenades cause explosive damage at a larger range
- Extra ammo – weapons found in weapon drop crates carry more ammo, allowing you to use them longer
- Defence droid – a training remote will provide back up during combat, attacking your enemies
- Villain terminal expert – villain tterminal interactions can be bypasses by holding ‘Y’, or completed for bonus studs
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Dark Side
The Dark Side is where the bad force users end up. That’s people like Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and Kylo Ren. They have various force powers they can use, and we have to say, they’re quite fun to use. Other Dark Side members include:
- Anakin Skywalker (Yellow Eyes)
- Count Dooku
- Darth Maul
- Snoke
- Rey (Sith)
Abilities
The abilities for the Lego Stars Wars: The Skywalker Saga Dark Side class are:
- Fear the dark side – enemies and civillians have an increased chance of running away in fear, and from a further distance
- Power push – tap ‘A’ to use force push and knock back more enemies and objects over a wider range
- Force crush – repeatedly damage enemies grabbed with the force
- Dark rise – boost the power and capabilities of force lift
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Astromech Droid
BB-8, K3-R1, R2-B1, R2-KT, G8-R3… no, I’ve not lost motor function. That’s just a handful of the many astromech droids in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – the droids that spend time in space, basically. When it comes to abilities, these droids are pretty handy for causing a diversion. Other members of this class include:
- R2-R9
- R5-M2
- R5-D4
- R4-P17
- R4-M9
- R2-D2
Abilities
The Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga astromech droid abilities are:
- Distraction – project a hologram that distracts nearby enemies for a period of time
- Droid barge – press ‘A’ while moving to slide into enemies, causing damage
- Astromech socket expert – astromech socket interactions can be bypassed by holding ‘A’, or completed for bonus studs
- Super-charged – add a shockwave to stun prod attacks, which damages nearby enemies
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Protocol Droid
The other droids are known as protocol droids, the ones that help out with everyday tasks, like that gold chatterbox C-3PO, other characters in this class include:
- E-3PO
- H1-NT
- K-3PO
- TC-14
- RA-7
- R-3PO
- ME-8D9
Abilties
The Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga protocol droid abilities are:
- Destructive disassembly – release a shockwave when disassembling, damaging nearby enemies
- Paid translator – recieve bonus studs for translating alien languages
- Polished plating – add a chance of deflecting bolts fired from enemy weapons
- Turret tune-up – bolts fired from protocol terminal turrets will bounce off surfaces, increasing thier chances of hitting enemies
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Extra
This is where all the classless characters end up. No, I’m not saying they don’t have class. I’m saying they don’t have a class. There are so many characters in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga that not everyone can be categorised. So this is the catchall. Characters like Dexter Jettster or Gummgar. They don’t have any special abilities in-game, sadly.
Other characters include:
- Anakin Skywalker (Episode I)
- Jubnuk
- Jabba the Huttt
- Mama the Hutt
- Queen Amidala
That’s everything we’ve got for now on Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga classes. We’ve also got a guide to Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga codes if you need a hand filling up that character roster.