830,000 Boss Kills: Borderlands 4 Players Crush Amon Challenge, Unlock Another 5-Year Shift Code

Borderlands 4 players turned the weekend into a full-on boss harvest, and it was all for a community challenge tied to Amon, the Forgeknight with the fire-and-ice toolkit. This was not your usual vault run; it was a collective hit job with a prize at the end.

What the challenge was, and how hard players went

Gearbox tossed out a simple ask: across the entire Borderlands 4 playerbase, rack up 300,000 boss kills using Amon. Not per person, not per region — a global tally. Over just a few days, fans didn’t just meet it; they nearly tripled it with 839,225 boss kills using Amon. That is an absurd amount of cooked-and-frozen bosses.

• The target: 300,000 cumulative boss kills with Amon (global)
• The final count: 839,225
• Timing: over the weekend, across a few days
• The reward: a redeemable code for a new Amon skin inspired by the 'Demons' short film
• Vibe check from the official account:

  Everyone crushed it.

Gearbox didn’t release deeper stats (platform splits, regions, that sort of thing), but honestly, what more do you need? Amon went on a rampage and the loot rained down. Feels like the studio underestimated how much people like roasting and flash-freezing anything with a health bar when they pick Forgeknight.

About that 'Demons' short film

The prize skin pulls from Amon’s look in 'Demons,' the YouTube short Gearbox dropped a few weeks before Borderlands 4 launched. It’s a little lore snack that fleshes out who Amon is in the universe — and it ends on a line that lets you know exactly what kind of guy you’re dealing with:

You can turn a man’s head into a diamond if you squeeze it hard enough.

I do not want to know how many players tested that theory this weekend, but I also absolutely do.

Meanwhile, in the Borderlands rumor mill...

Separate from the challenge, a recent datamine claims Ava was swapped out in Gearbox’s new looter shooter, and now a chunk of the fandom is campaigning to bring the divisive character back. The general sentiment floating around: 'We were robbed of a generational story.' Inside baseball? Definitely. But if that ends up being true, expect more heated discourse than a Maliwan flamethrower.