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For data on the controls, general gameplay mechanics, and AI behaviors of NPC allies, see Squad.

This Squad Members Guide is meant every bit a general overview of the various squadmates Commander Shepard tin can learn in Mass Result 2, summarizing their abilities, strengths, and weaknesses in combat. The proper option and use of squad members can significantly reduce the claiming of a given mission or assignment, especially on the higher difficulty settings.

Meet also: Squad Members Guide, Team Members Guide (Mass Effect 3), Team Members Guide (Mass Effect: Andromeda)

Overview

This page focuses on what makes a particular squad fellow member stand out compared to others and is meant to serve every bit a starting point for how to assemble a squad. For recommendations on what squadmate choices work well for specific player classes, encounter the individual Class Guides. For in-depth information on the various abilities, equipment, and weapon options, investigate those individual pages equally most will contain notes and recommendations on squadmate utilize. Finally, for recommendations on which squadmates to have on specific missions, run across the Walkthrough page for that mission or assignment.

Note: When the terms "squadmate" or "squad member" are used in this guide, they are only referring to other NPC characters and not Shepard. If Shepard is meant to be included, the terms "political party" or "political party member" will exist used. Team members are listed in approximately the social club in which they become available.

Legendary Edition: All characters and outfits that previously required DLC to unlock no longer have this requirement, but any characters that can only be squad members during select missions that were formerly exclusive to DLC are still categorized every bit such on this page as they are still not bachelor outside of those missions in Legendary Edition.

Jacob Taylor

Availability: Very early | Start Playable: Prologue: Awakening
Specialty: Biotics, Combat support
Weapons: Shotguns, Heavy Pistols

Powers *

*Jacob Taylor and Miranda Lawson can each accept 31 points maximum available for distribution, non the 30 that is usual for squadmates.

Overview

Jacob has a very similar kit to Jack, wielding a shotgun, an ammo power, and Pull, though his class and loyalty powers are geared more towards defence force than offense. Pull once maxed is easily the strongest disabling power in the game, able to render multiple enemies instantly helpless and vulnerable to weapons fire or combos with Warp, and for a long duration. Jacob'south ammo ability is Incendiary Ammo, the most versatile of the ammo powers: not simply does it bargain skillful harm to most organic wellness and all forms of armor, it stops the health regeneration of enemies like krogan and vorcha, and panics most organic humanoid targets.

Unlocking Jacob's Barrier can create the puzzler that he will constantly reactivate it during battles even if Squad Power Utilize is disabled, making it much harder to call upon his Pull. The just way to have a loyal Jacob but avoid this problem is to reset his powers using the Advanced Training terminal at the Shadow Broker'due south Base (requires either Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC or Legendary Edition ) and investing no points in Bulwark.

Miranda Lawson

Availability: Very early on | Commencement Playable: Freedom's Progress
Specialty: Biotics, Tech, Combat back up
Weapons: Submachine Guns, Heavy Pistols

Powers *

*Miranda Lawson and Jacob Taylor can each have 31 points maximum available for distribution, non the 30 that is usual for squadmates.

Overview

Miranda is the definition of versatility, as all of her powers are useful in virtually whatever mission. The challenge comes from choosing which of her powers to invest in first. On higher difficulties, Overload should be maxed and evolved for area damage kickoff, as shielded enemies are nearly ubiquitous in the early game where Miranda is one of the only squad members. Warp provides sufficient supplemental harm fifty-fifty at Rank one, and enemies with barriers are adequately rare until afterward. Warp should exist maxed out somewhen and evolved to Unstable Warp for a reduced cooldown fourth dimension and more than powerful combos.

Slam, which only gets unlocked in the mid-game, fills in one of the only major gaps in Miranda's kit: lack of a true disabling power. There's really no need to invest more than the single indicate Slam automatically gets; this leaves another full 10 points available to max out Cerberus Officer, 1 of the strongest class passives in the game, buffing the health and weapon damage of the unabridged party. This bonus layers with the additional damage an ammo power provides. Pairing Miranda with a party member that can combo with her Warp is generally desirable; Jacob is a natural option early on on and his Incendiary Ammo makes the two a good pairing throughout the game.

Kasumi Goto

Prerequisites: Kasumi - Stolen Memory DLC or Legendary Edition
Availability: Very early on | First Playable: afterwards Dossier: The Master Thief
Specialty: Assassination, Tech, Enemy suppression
Weapons: Submachine Guns, Heavy Pistols

Powers

Overview

Kasumi has Overload, immediately making her useful for dealing with mass enemy shields, simply it's her two other agile powers that set up her apart as a unique and versatile addition to Shepard'due south team. Her exclusive Shadow Strike ability is capable of dealing more than unmarried-target damage than any other squadmate power. It works simultaneously as a distraction and equally a defensive tool for Kasumi, every bit well as disabling nigh targets, often even if a target was nevertheless protected before the assault.

Kasumi's loyalty power is Flashbang Grenade, which inflicts small-scale damage and stuns enemies for a brief flow of time, knocking downwards most unprotected enemies. This ability is unusual both for its extremely big blast radius and its ability to hinder enemies nevertheless protected by shields, barriers, and armor by overheating their weapons and disabling any biotic and tech abilities they possess. Master Thief, Kasumi's form power, increases the recharge speed of her formidable abilities, cementing her as a powerhouse of utility and impairment in any fight.

Zaeed Massani

Prerequisites: Zaeed - The Price of Revenge DLC or Legendary Edition
Availability: Very early on | Start Playable: after Dossier: The Veteran
Specialty: Long-range combat, Combat support
Weapons: Attack Rifles, Sniper Rifles

Powers

Overview

Zaeed is a combat specialist who can deal a high amount of damage with his weapons, especially sniper rifles. He is the merely character outside of an Burglar/Soldier Shepard with Disruptor Ammo, so he is a valuable addition to whatever party for dealing with multitudes of shielded or synthetic enemies. Due to his early and piece of cake availability, Squad Disruptor Ammo can make Zaeed a useful teammate fifty-fifty for an Infiltrator or Soldier, enabling the player to invest points in other powers first. Disruptor Ammo is too the ideal ammo power for sniping shielded targets—see its own page for more information.

Zaeed'south other active powers are useful more for their crowd command utility than their raw harm, though Concussive Shot and Inferno Grenade do moderately well against barriers and armor, respectively. Inferno Grenade can panic multiple enemies, making it very good for flushing them out of cover.

Garrus Vakarian

Availability: Early | Starting time Playable: after Dossier: Archangel
Specialty: Long-range gainsay, Tech, Combat support
Weapons: Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles

Powers

Overview

Equally in the commencement game, Garrus's weapon proficiencies and Overload permit him to bargain meaning harm during gainsay. While Concussive Shot is effective against barriers on lower difficulties and can temporarily knock down unprotected enemies, its use is more situational and generally should not exist maxed out. Turian Rebel increases Garrus's power harm, weapon harm and health, and enables his Overload to do slightly more damage than the Overloads of other squadmates, which on higher difficulties tin can actually be the departure between one-shotting enemy shields and not.

Afterward his loyalty mission in the mid-game he gains Armor Piercing Ammo, which inflicts significant additional harm against armored and unprotected enemies and makes Garrus the only squadmate with both a dedicated shield-killing power plus an ammo power. Maxing out points in Overload to gain the Area Overload evolution at Rank 4 is recommended, as is maximizing Armor Piercing Ammo and evolving it for squad-sharing.

Grunt

Availability: Early | First Playable: later on Dossier: The Warlord*
Specialty: Close combat, Gainsay support
Weapons: Assault Rifles, Shotguns
Unique Upgrades: M-300 Claymore Heavy Shotgun, Krogan Vitality (2 possible, +25% health each)

*Whenever the tank is opened (no time limit)
Powers

Overview

Grunt benefits from the innate krogan ability to continually regenerate health, which is unlocked when points are spent on his Krogan Berserker class power. In addition, his already above-average base of operations wellness can exist upgraded: two levels of Krogan Vitality give Grunt a +50% increase total. This combined with his unlockable armor-boosting Fortification ability makes Grunt'southward endurance in combat unmatched, giving him value in most any mission by virtue of this lone.

At close-quarters, Grunt is a juggernaut: his shotgun can be upgraded to the devastating unmarried-shot Claymore Heavy Shotgun (aka the "Krogan Shotgun"), and his charging melee attack tin can crush through even protected enemies like a bowling ball through pins. Grunt is the merely other squadmate besides Jacob to possess Incendiary Ammo, hands the best general-utilize ammo ability in the game, which should be maxed out and evolved for team-sharing.

Jack

Availability: Early on | Outset Playable: after Dossier: The Convict
Specialty: Biotics, Combat support
Weapons: Shotguns, Heavy Pistols
Unique Upgrades: Subject area Naught Biotic Boost (+20% biotic harm)

Powers

Overview

Jack specializes in biotic crowd control but her power to wield shotguns gives her above-average firepower also. Her bread-and-butter ability is Pull, which should be maxed out and evolved into Pull Field. Jack is the just squad fellow member with Shockwave, more situational but useful for masses of enemies, penetrating cover, staggering protected enemies, and knocking unprotected ones off their feet. If used against enemies already suspended by other biotic skills, Shockwave tin ship targets flying, frequently to ecology deaths.

Jack's unlockable Warp Ammo is the only ammo power that deals bonus harm to barriers in Mass Effect 2, making her a powerful tool confronting the Collectors in one case the ability is max level and evolved for team sharing. Her Subject Zero form power provides a bonus to her ability recharge times, giving her more power casts during fights than the average squad member; however, for her abilities to have their maximum bear on, enemy defenses must exist stripped.

Mordin Solus

Availability: Early | Showtime Playable: afterward Dossier: The Professor
Specialty: Tech
Weapons: Submachine Guns, Heavy Pistols
Unique Upgrades: Mordin Omni-tool (+20% tech damage)

Powers

Overview

Despite having only tech powers, Mordin possesses no power to deal with enemy shields or barriers. He does, however, excel against armored targets, being the merely team member in the early game that can do serious harm to multiple armored enemies with the Rank four Incineration Boom. His omni-tool upgrade makes this powerful enough to one-shot the armor of grouped lesser enemies of all types, even on Insanity difficulty. Incinerate and the rest of Mordin's kit are as well powerful against almost unprotected organic enemies; the Rank 4 Full Cryo Blast is notable as the fastest recharging squadmate power, and its power to disable multiple enemies in one hit is invaluable. Neural Daze is non worth significant investment, non offering much that Cryo Blast doesn't already provide.

Samara/Morinth

Availability: Mid-game | First Playable: after Dossier: The Justicar*
Specialty: Biotics, Gainsay
Weapons: Assault Rifles, Submachine Guns

*Morinth playable after Samara: The Ardat-Yakshi (outcome dependent)
Powers

^* Morinth just
Overview

Samara and Morinth are very similar, with course powers that increase their recharge speeds making them both formidable biotic powerhouses especially with Pull Field. The only functional divergence betwixt their kits is in their loyalty powers, though this is meaning.

Samara'south Reave is comparable to Warp and is effective against armor and barriers; though it can't detonate unprotected targets, it will cripple organics while simultaneously bolstering Samara'southward ain health. Reave shines at Rank 4 with the Area Reave development, making Samara the all-time squadmate past far for dealing with mass barriers, and she is truly deadly versus the Collectors.

Morinth's Boss tin be idea of as AI Hacking for organic enemies. Dominated enemies are protected by a biotic bulwark instead of a shield at higher levels. Because organic enemies are much more common throughout the game than mechs or geth, Dominate can find a great deal of utility, though merely as with AI Hacking, information technology only affects unprotected enemies.

Tali'Zorah vas Neema

Availability: Mid-game | First Playable: after Dossier: Tali
Specialty: Tech, Anti-synthetic
Weapons: Shotguns, Heavy Pistols

Powers

Overview

Early, Tali is not very constructive except on missions involving many enemy synthetics (mechs or geth). Her usefulness increases markedly after unlocking Energy Drain, which enables her to replenish her shields while dissentious enemy shields and synthetics. This power should be maxed out at the earliest opportunity and evolved for surface area of upshot. The remainder of Tali's kit is similar to Legion's, though her class power enables her AI Hacking to last longer. Rank four Improved AI Hacking maximizes this advantage, allowing Tali to keep an enemy synthetic target subverted for use equally a distraction basically indefinitely. Gainsay Drone is a useful situational ability, but possesses such a long cooldown when used past squadmates that it doesn't merit more the minimum investment.

Thane Krios

Availability: Mid-game | First Playable: after Dossier: The Assassin
Specialty: Long-range gainsay, Biotics
Weapons: Sniper Rifles, Submachine Guns

Powers

Overview

Thane has two main playstyles he can specialize in. The showtime is as a pure sniper: Shredder Ammo is Thane's loyalty skill and tin increase his damage to very loftier levels against organic enemies with the Rank four Improved Shredder Ammo. Coupled with a fully upgraded Drell Assassinator, Thane can quickly impale off unprotected targets. This is peculiarly powerful at lower difficulty levels where almost enemies have no special defenses.

At college difficulty levels, specializing Thane' biotic powers tends to be more than useful, granting him versatile damage and crowd command. Warp should be evolved to Unstable Warp for faster recharge times and more devastating combo potential. To get the most out of these abilities, Thane should be paired with other biotics, particularly those with Pull. Pairing him with a political party member able to provide him with an ammo power is too recommended if he forgoes Shredder Ammo.

Legion

Availability: Belatedly | Start Playable: after Reaper IFF*
Specialty: Long-range combat, Anti-synthetic
Weapons: Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles
Unique Upgrades: Widow Anti-Material Rifle, Geth Shield Force (2 possible, +25% bonus shield each)

*If not given to Cerberus and activated
Powers

Overview

Legion is the only squad member capable of wielding the devastating 1000-98 Widow sniper burglarize. If the harm buffs from the Rank four Improved Geth Shield Boost and the Geth Burglar class power are combined with an ammo power from another party member, Legion is capable of greater weapon damage than whatever other squad member. On top of this, Legion's to a higher place-average shield force can exist further boosted with two Geth Shield Strength upgrades, making information technology more than resilient than any squad member except Grunt. Bated from being a walking mass accelerator cannon, Legion is the only squadmate other than Tali who is able to hack synthetics and deploy Gainsay Drones, but unlike Tali, Legion has no dedicated ability for stripping enemy defenses, and then the residuum of the party must exist relied on for this.

Reference Tables

Weapons Tabular array

Weapon Blazon:	Submachine Guns	Heavy Pistols	Shotguns	Assault Rifles	Sniper Rifles
Garrus Vakarian				✓	✓
Grunt			✓*	✓
Jack		✓	✓
Jacob Taylor		✓	✓
Kasumi Goto	✓	✓
Legion				✓	✓*
Miranda Lawson	✓	✓
Mordin Solus	✓	✓
Morinth	✓			✓
Samara	✓			✓
Tali'Zorah vas Neema		✓	✓
Thane Krios	✓				✓
Zaeed Massani				✓	✓

^* Character-specific option available

Powers Table

Squadmate	Class Power	Ammo Powers	Biotic Powers	Gainsay Powers	Tech Powers

Garrus Vakarian	Turian Rebel	Armor-Piercing Ammo ¹		Concussive Shot	Overload
Grunt	Krogan Berserker	Incendiary Ammo		Concussive Shot Fortification ¹
Jack	Subject Zero	Warp Ammo ^ane	Pull Shockwave
Jacob Taylor	Cerberus Operative	Incendiary Ammo	Bulwark ⁱ Pull
Kasumi Goto	Main Thief			Flashbang Grenade ¹ Shadow Strike ²	Overload
Legion	Geth Infiltrator				AI Hacking Combat Drone Geth Shield Boost ¹
Miranda Lawson	Cerberus Officer		Slam ¹ Warp		Overload
Mordin Solus	Salarian Scientist				Cryo Blast Incinerate Neural Shock ¹
Morinth	Ardat-Yakshi		Dominate ¹ Pull Throw
Samara	Asari Justicar		Pull Reave ¹ Throw
Tali'Zorah vas Neema	Quarian Machinist				AI Hacking Combat Drone Free energy Drain ^ane
Thane Krios	Drell Assassin	Shredder Ammo ^ane	Throw Warp
Zaeed Massani	Mercenary Veteran	Disruptor Ammo		Concussive Shot Inferno Grenade ¹

¹ Loyalty power
² Benefits from the Tech Cooldowns research

Squad Fellow member Outfits

DLC Mission Exclusive

Legendary Edition: The following character(due south) are all the same not available equally squadmates beyond the mission(s) in which they appear even though DLC missions are at present included with the primary game.

Liara T'Soni

Availability: Lair of the Shadow Banker DLC ( LE ), Lair of the Shadow Broker (mission)
Specialty: Biotics
Weapons: Heavy Pistols, Submachine Guns

Powers

Overview

Liara rejoins Shepard's team during the mission to take down the Shadow Broker. Equally in the original Mass Outcome, Liara is a talented biotic and her passive power Asari Scientist enables her powers to recharge very quickly. Singularity is very powerful for stalling protected enemies and lifting unprotected ones, and works confronting multiple targets clustered together. Warp can be used to detonate targets suspended in Singularity's vortex, but the cooldown on Singularity is a fleck besides long for Liara to self-execute this. Warp is of course a useful ability on its ain for direct damage confronting enemy barriers and armor.

Liara's standout power is Stasis, which is unique in Mass Effect ii for its power to stop even a protected or armored enemy in its tracks for the elapsing, and ragdolling the target subsequently wearing off. Flight drone-type enemies are instantly killed instead of beingness ragdolled. Stasis should be maxed out and evolved to Enhanced Stasis if possible, as repeat uses will build resistance in targets, and during the Lair of the Shadow Broker missions there's a proficient run a risk of encountering enemies who need to exist disabled more than than one time.

	Mass Issue 2 Squad
	Garrus Vakarian • Grunt • Jack • Jacob Taylor • Kasumi Goto • Legion • Miranda Lawson Mordin Solus • Morinth • Samara • Tali'Zorah vas Neema • Thane Krios • Zaeed Massani

	Mass Effect 2 Guides
	Completion	Walkthrough • Morality • Upgrades • Planet Scanning
	Classes	Good • Engineer • Infiltrator • Watch • Soldier • Vanguard
	Other	Squad Members • PC Tweaks • No I Left Behind • Data Hound • Merchants Research Guide • Interrupts