Ranking Every Mass Effect Squadmate Ever

25. Jacob

Someone has to be last, and honestly there won’t be too many objections here. Jacob’s loyalty mission is one of the darkest Mass Effect has ever done, but that’s pretty much all he has in his favour.

He’s like one of those army men toys kids play with; regurgitating the same, bland lines over and over, always ready for combat with no real motivation. The Alliance soldier who defected to Cerberus definitely offers some intrigue, but the game proceeds to do precisely nothing with it in a very un-BioWare way.

They have another bite at the cherry with James Vega, and by injecting him with a lot more personality, made a much more memorable character.

He’s not helped by gameplay either. Shepherd can be any of six classes, but the most popular choice renders Jacob surplus to requirements. Being one of the two default squadmates in ME2, he doesn’t even get a recruitment mission, and in ME3 they can’t seem to write him out of the story fast enough.

Mass Effect doesn’t have any truly bad squadmates. It just doesn’t have 25 great ones either.