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Borderlands 2 Skinpool Usage

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This page documents the vanilla usage of all Borderlands 2 skin/head pools, primarily collated while investigating the Issues with Skinpools and Ingame Rewards page. This page can be used to discover what drops/rewards might be impacted when putting more than one item into one of the custom skinpools.

See Custom Skin and Head Pool Registry for the freed skinpools available for use by modders, and Pre Sequel Skinpool Usage for the TPS version of this page.

Challenge Reward Pools

These are the pools used by challenge rewards. The game will attempt to only give you the skin of the char you're playing as.

Pool Name Level Description
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BanditEpic Knee-Deep in Brass 5 Fire a lot of rounds.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BanditUncommon Marauder? I Hardly Know 'Er! 3 Kill marauders.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BlueBold Open Pandora's Boxes 3 Open lootable crates, lockers, and other objects.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BlueBoldAccent Longshot 3 Kill enemies with sniper rifles.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BluePale Fisticuffs! 3 Kill enemies with melee attacks.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BluePattern This Is No Time for Lazy! 5 Revive a co-op partner.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.CyanBold Aggravated Assault 3 Kill enemies with assault rifles.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.DahlEpic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Assault Rifle 5 Kill enemies with assault rifles while crouched.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Gray Not Full of Monkeys 3 Kill enemies with stationary barrels.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.GreenBold It's Not Easy Looting Green 3 Loot or purchase green-rarity items.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.GreenBoldAccent Whaddaya Buyin'? 3 Purchase items with Eridium.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.GreenPale Super Novas 3 Kill enemies with a Nova shield burst.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head1 ...To Pay the Bills 5 Kill enemies while using your Action Skill.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.HyperionEpic Eviscerated 5 Kill shielded enemies with one shot using sniper rifles.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.HyperionUncommon Load and Lock 3 Kill loaders.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.JakobsEpic Quickdraw 5 Kill enemies shortly after aiming down the sights with a pistol.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.MaliwanEpic I Just Want to Set the World on Fire 5 Deal damage with incendiary DoT (damage-over-time) effects.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.MaliwanUncommon Slag-Licked 3 Deal bonus damage to slagged enemies.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.OrangeBold The Killer 3 Kill enemies with pistols.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.OrangeBoldAccent Pull the Pin 3 Kill enemies with grenades.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.OrangePale For the Hoard! 3 Save a lot of money.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PinkPandoracorn Nothing Rhymes with Orange 5 Loot or purchase legendary items.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PurpleBold Badass Bingo 5 Get Second Winds by killing badass enemies.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.RedBold Rocket and Roll 3 Kill enemies with rocket launchers.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.RedBoldAccent Hail of Bullets 3 Kill enemies with SMGs.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.RedPale EXPLOOOOOSIONS! 3 Kill enemies with MIRV grenades.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.TedioreEpic Boomerbang 5 Kill enemies with Tediore reloads.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.TorgueEpic Catch-a-Rocket! 5 Kill enemies with direct hits from rocket launchers.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.TorgueUncommon Boom. 3 Kill enemies with explosive damage.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.VladofEpic Ammo Eater 5 Absorb enemy ammo with an Absorption shield.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.YellowBold Shotgun! 3 Kill enemies with shotguns.
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.YellowPale Blue Sparks 3 Kill enemies by power-sliding over them in a vehicle.

Mission Reward Pools

These are the pools used by mission rewards. The game will attempt to only give you the skin of the char you're playing as.

Pool Mission
GD_CustomItemPools_Flax.Rewards.FlaxPumpkinHeads The Bloody Harvest
GD_CustomItemPools_Lobelia.Rewards.LobeliaHead A History of Simulated Violence
GD_CustomItemPools_Lobelia.Rewards.LobeliaSkin Dr. T and the Vault Hunters
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.CyanPale The Overlooked: Medicine Man
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.GreenPattern The Cold Shoulder
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head6 Symbiosis
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head7 Statuesque
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head9 In Memoriam
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.JakobsUncommon Capture the Flags
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PurpleNinja To Grandmother's House We Go
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PurplePale No Vacancy
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.YellowBoldAccent Shielded Favors
GD_CustomItemPools_Orchid.Rewards.OrchidHeads X Marks The Spot
GD_CustomItemPools_Sage.Rewards.SageHead The Fall of Nakayama
GD_CustomItemPools_Sage.Rewards.SageSkin I Like My Monsters Rare
GD_CustomItemPools_allium.Rewards.AlliumTGHeads The Hunger Pangs
GD_CustomItemPools_allium.Rewards.AlliumXmasHeads Get Frosty
GD_CustomItemPools_nasturtium.Rewards.NasturtiumEasterHeads Fun, Sun, and Guns
GD_CustomItemPools_nasturtium.Rewards.NasturtiumVdayHeads A Match Made on Pandora

Drops

Pools in this category do not attempt to match the character you're playing as. They would still get affected by the issues linked to in the opening paragraph, though, since that ends up truncating the reward pools. (Mechromancers in specific would very often miss out on skins/heads.)

General World Drops

These can be dropped from just about any enemy in the game.

  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.CyanBoldAccent
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.DahlUncommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.GreenNinja
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PinkPale
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.YellowNinja (plus ultimate badass varkids)

Generic Enemy Drop Pools

Pool Drop
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head10 badasses
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.MinecraftHeads badass creepers
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.MinecraftSkins creepers, badass creepers
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PurpleDark skags
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.RedNinja chubbies/tubbies
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.RedPattern spiderants
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.White threshers
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.YellowNinja ultimate badass varkids (plus general world)

Specific Enemy Drop Pools

Pool Drop
GD_CustomItemPools_allium.Rewards.AlliumTGSkins Wattle Gobbler
GD_CustomItemPools_allium.Rewards.AlliumXmasSkins Tinder Snowflake
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Black Assassins
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BlueNinja Son of Mothrakk
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.CyanNinja Dukino's Mom
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.CyanPattern Henry
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Handsome Warrior
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head2 BNK3R
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head3 Geary
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head4 Vermivorous
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head5 Terramorphous
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Head8 Henry
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.OrangeNinja King Mong
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.OrangePattern Captain Flynt
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PinkBold Terramorphous
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.PinkNinja Vermivorous
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.YellowPattern Saturn
GD_CustomItemPools_nasturtium.Rewards.NasturtiumEasterSkins Son of Crawmerax
GD_CustomItemPools_nasturtium.Rewards.NasturtiumVdaySkins Bridget Hodunk

Vending/Slot Machines

Like drops, these do not match your character, but would be affected by pool truncation.

Ordinary Weapon Vending Machines

  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.BanditCommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.DahlCommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.HyperionCommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.JakobsCommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.MaliwanCommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.TedioreCommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.TorgueCommon (plus Torgue Vending Machines)
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.VladofCommon

Torgue Token Vending Machines

From the Campaign of Carnage DLC.

  • GD_CustomItemPools_Iris.Rewards.IrisHeads
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.TorgueCommon (plus regular weapon machines)

Slot Machines

  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.TedioreUncommon
  • GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.VladofUncommon

"Loyalty" Unlocks

These are used to reward players for instances like having a Borderlands 1 installation, etc. These only ever get unlocked when your main profile.bin file is first created, and are processed immediately upon opening the main menu. They're never actually used ingame to provide skins.

Pool Where Referenced
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Borderlands1Head GD_Globals.General.Globals
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Borderlands1Skin GD_Globals.General.Globals
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.DigitalEdHeads GD_Globals.Unlocks.MarketingUnlock_Collectors
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.DigitalEdSkins GD_Globals.Unlocks.MarketingUnlock_Collectors
GD_CustomItemPools_MainGame.Rewards.Gearbox GD_Globals.General.DeveloperPerks

Not Referenced Anywhere

These pools aren't actually referenced anywhere in the BL2 data, or at least nowhere which actually results in the player receiving the skins/heads. (At least that I've found.)

  • GD_CustomItemPools_Aster.Rewards.AsterHead
  • GD_CustomItemPools_Aster.Rewards.AsterSkin
  • GD_CustomItemPools_Flax.Rewards.FlaxSkins
  • GD_CustomItemPools_Peony.Rewards.PeonyHeads
  • GD_CustomItemPools_Peony.Rewards.PeonySkins

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