
How to Use Action Skills in Borderlands 3
Action Skills are powerful moves in Borderlands 3. Here’s how to use them.
You’ll have a bunch of tools at your disposal in Borderlands 3, to help you survive the wastelands of Pandora and beyond. There are literally thousands of weapons to collect, and character-specific skills and traits. You’ll have access to an Action Skill once you start levelling up your character, each providing a different special move for you to use. To help you get started with Action Skills, we’ve put together this Action Skills Guide. We’ll explain how to use Action Skills, and also how to upgrade them once you’ve found one that you like.
How to Use Action Skills
Once you’ve earned your first skill point, you can unlock an Action Skill. You’ll notice a bar on the bottom left of the screen, which will fill in from blue to yellow, indicating that the Action Skill is ready. Some Action Skills can actually charge and stack multiple times, and will have a small number indicating how many uses are available. To use your Action Skill, press LB/F.
How to Unlock Action Skills
You’ll unlock Action Skills at the end of the first mission in Borderlands 3. Defeat Shiv, and you’ll earn your first Skill Point, which can be spent on one of three Action Skills.

How to Switch Action Skills
If you’re torn between a few Action Skills in Borderlands 3, don’t fret! You can actually swap these out whenever you like, by heading into the skills menu. Unlike Skills, you can re-assign Action Skills from the main menu, whenever you’d like!
In other news
The SNES Can Do Ray Tracing Thanks to a Homebrew “SuperRT” Chip
Ben Carter's chip design makes real-time lighting and reflections possible on a 30-year-old console.
Archivists Resurrect Canceled Sega VR Game From the '90s on Modern Hardware
It's not Beat Saber, Superhot, or Half-Life: Alyx, but it's cool in its own right.
Here's What the Xbox Series X and S User Experience Looks Like
A new video shows what it'll look like when you boot up a next-gen Xbox.
Gears 5's Next-Gen Update Will Let You Swap John DiMaggio's Marcus For Dave Bautista
This is cool for Bautista but… maybe a bit weird for long-time Gears actor DiMaggio?
You may also like
Cyberpunk 2077 Review: Death by a Thousand Cyber-Cuts
Even if you get beyond the bugs, it's just not worth it.
PlayStation 5 Update Lets You Know If You're About to Play the PS4 Version of Game
Check yourself before you last-gen yourself.
Stardew Valley Just Got Beaches, Fish Tanks, Swimming Ducks, and a Whole Lot More
Nearly five years on, Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone just pushed what he says is Stardew's "biggest update yet."
Alien: Isolation Is Free on Epic and Just As Good as It Was in 2014
Get the motion tracker and don't go in the vents.