Training

Training Selection

Training is a character customization feature in Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Overview

Creating a character will always begin with the selection of a Training.

• Choosing a Training will determine the initial abilities of the protagonist and which skills will be available early in the game.
• Choosing a default Scott or Sara Ryder will have Security as their default training.
• Creating a custom character will allow access to all six Trainings.
• If the desire is to create a default Ryder but not a default Training, create a custom character and simply leave the appearance and name as default.

Corresponding Profile

Each Training has a corresponding Profile. When you select a specific training, you unlock the corresponding profile at Rank 1.

Training	Corresponding Profile
Security	Soldier
Technician	Engineer
Biotic	Adept
Leader	Sentinel
Scrapper	Vanguard
Operative	Infiltrator

Selecting your training gives the side benefit of getting to choose your starting profile versus taking the default Security training which awards the Soldier profile.

The corresponding profile will be unlocked and available at Rank 1 for the entire game.

None of the training choices correspond with the Explorer profile. You can only unlock the Explorer profile by spending the required skill points.

Your corresponding profile will always be available at Rank 1 even if you reset your skill points at the Skill Respec Station in the Med Bay on the Tempest.

Security

During your Alliance military service, you focused on learning everything you could about weapons and tactics.

• Starting Skill
  • Concussive Shot
• Unlocked Skills
  • Turbocharge
  • Combat Fitness

Biotic

You were effectively 'designated biotic' during your Alliance military tenure, assisting your cohorts with your ability to control mass effect fields.

• Starting Skill
  • Throw
• Unlocked Skills
  • Singularity
  • Barrier

Technician

As a technician in the Systems Alliance military, you learned to operate drones and hack enemy systems.

• Starting Skill
  • Overload
• Unlocked Skills
  • Invasion
  • Team Support

Leader

You were a team player and a natural leader in the Alliance military, working closely with your cohorts for their safety and the safety of others.

• Starting Skill
  • Energy Drain
• Unlocked Skills
  • Annihilation
  • Team Support

Scrapper

When a fight broke out, you were always the first soldier in the thick of it - mostly according to Alliance military protocol and occasionally not.

• Starting Skill
  • Charge
• Unlocked Skills
  • Combat Fitness
  • Charge

Operative

In the Alliance Military, you studied covert operations and the tech used by special forces - knowledge you rarely found a use for until the Andromeda Initiative.

• Starting Skill
  • Tactical Cloak
• Unlocked Skills
  • Combat Fitness
  • Tactical Cloak