Kirby Air Riders lets you play as more than 20 different characters, but unlocking them all can be tricky. Many players aren’t sure who all the Air Riders are or how to get them. This guide will walk you through unlocking every character in the game, making it easy for you to enjoy them all. Let’s get started!
How Do You Get All Characters in Kirby Air Riders?
Getting new characters in Kirby Air Riders isn’t as simple as it seems. The game has four main modes to play through:
- Air Ride
- Road Trip
- City Trial
- Top Ride
Unlocking characters can vary. Some, like Kirby, King Dedede, Meta Knight, and Bandana Waddle Dee, are available from the start. However, you can unlock different color variations for these characters by finishing specific challenges in certain game modes.
Once you unlock a character, you can use them in any game mode. You might notice some characters have extra missions, and that’s because finishing those unlocks a different color scheme for them. Here’s a complete list of all the characters you can obtain, and we’ll explain this further below.
- Kirby
- Air Ride – Finish without crashing into any walls
- Top Ride – Win on Flower (Map) without getting any copy abilities in a single race
- City Trial – Defeat a Rider while shrunken down
- King Dedede
- Air Ride – Win a race with a course, rider, and machine set to random
- Road Trip – Clear a Treasure hunt challenge
- City Trial – Get 80 points in a single Gourmet Race match
- Meta Knight
- Air Ride – On Nebula Belt, finish a lap without crashing into a wall twice
- Top Ride – Complete a lap on Nova without attacking another rider
- Bandana Waddle Dee
- Road Trip – Clear Top Ride challenges 3 times
- City Trial – Destroy two boxes within the first 30 seconds of a match
- Waddle Dee
- Road Trip – Defeat 30 Riders during City Trial Challenges
- Waddle Doo
- Air Ride – Complete Floria Fields (Laps) without crashing into any enemies
- Top Ride – Hit a Rider with a Course Quaker
- Chef Kawasaki
- Air Ride – On Mount Amberfalls, Eat the onigiri from the teahouse
- Road Trip – Clear Air Ride challenges 3 times
- Knuckle Joe
- Road Trip – Power up all stats to 1 or higher
- City Trial – steal a machine that another rider is actively driving
- Gooey
- Top Ride – Win after getting swept up in the Tornado on Air 3 times
- City Trial – Score 2,000 Points in a single match of Skydive I
- Cappy
- Top Ride – Using the Warp Star machine on Flower, complete a lap within 0:30:00.
- City Trial – Clear without getting any power-down items
- Starman
- Top Ride – On Crystalline Fissure, complete 4 laps in the lead position
- City Trial – Fall for 6 seconds after boosting only once
- Magolor
- Top Ride – Send the same driver flying twice with the Drill Driver
- City Trial – Enter every secret room
- Susie
- Air Ride – Perform a perfect landing 5 times in a single race
- Road Trip – Hit 3 enemies with a single attack
- Rick
- Top Ride – Win on Mountain with at least 5 seconds between you and the 2nd place rider
- Road Trip – Enter the Shop 3 times
- Rocky
- Top Ride – Use 30 items
- Road Trip – Open a treasure chest on the road
- Scarfy
- Air Ride – Defeat an enemy Scarfy on Waveflow Waters without making it mad
- City Trial – Destroy a rider’s machine within the first 30 seconds
- Lololo & Lalala
- Air Ride – On Crystalline Fissure (Laps), finish within 3:30:00
- Road Trip – Defeat 10 riders on star-type machines (i.e. Warp Star, Compact Star, etc).
- Marx
- Air Ride – In Free Run, complete an entire lap without driving below 19mph
- Road Trip – Spend 300,000 Road Miles
- Daroach
- Air Ride – Defeat the special enemy, Gemaine
- Top Ride – Win after lapping 1 Rider
- Taranza
- Air Ride – In Beanstalk Park (Time) ride for 5,489 yards
- City Trial – Win a short race
- Noir Dedede
- Road Trip – Defeat the Final True Boss in Road Trip
Why You Should Get Every Character in Kirby Air Riders
In Air Riders, all characters can copy abilities, but each one also has a unique, personal skill.
Characters like Daroach in Squeak Squad have unique skills – Daroach can even steal abilities from others! Kirby, for instance, uses a sword attack that hits all nearby racers. Every character has special, rechargeable abilities they can use during a race to gain an advantage.
This covers all the characters in Kirby Air Ride and how to unlock them. We hope you have fun collecting them all and enjoying the game! We’ll keep this list updated with any new unlocking methods we discover.
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