Gears 5

Each class gives you a Heroic Skin once you hit level 20. To get this achievement just level a class to level 20. The Heroic Skins are Red rarity.

Currently the best way of leveling up your characters is to do the Featured escape on the highest difficulty that you can do it on, making sure that you can get Gold. This will also net you:


If you want to know which Heroic skin comes with each class here is a list:

Blademaster - Heroic Venom Claw
Demolitions - Heroic Venom Lancer GL
Infiltrator - Heroic Venom Gnasher
Marksman - Heroic Venom Longshot
Nomad - Heroic Venom Markza
Anchor - Heroic Venom Boltok
Brawler - Heroic Venom Scorcher
Gunner - Heroic Venom Torque Bow
Pilot - Heroic Venom Dropshot
Veteran - Heroic Venom Retro Lancer
Combat Medic - Heroic Venom Lancer
Jack - Heroic Jack / Heroic Venom Hammerburst
Mechanic - Heroic Venom Enforcer
Robotics Expert - Heroic Venom Embar
Tactician - Heroic Venom Boomshot
Architect - Heroic Venom Snub
Protector - Heroic Venom Talon
Slugger - Heroic Venom Overkill
Striker - Heroic Venom Breaker Mace

As of the February 9th 2021 Update, you can also alternatively receive a Heroic Marcus skin for completing Re-up 20.

Heroic Skins are “red” and at the time of this post ONLY able to be unlocked via PVE class leveling. Simply find a class you enjoy and level it to level 20 and you’ll unlock a Heroic Weapon Skin.


One of the fastest ways to level up your classes in Gears 5 introduced after Operation 5 is to play with the mutators or difficulty.

1) Horde Frenzy - Overload - Master difficulty
2) Escape - The Surge - Insane difficulty with these mutators on More Filler Enemies, More Drones, More Health, More Pouncers, Ironman
3) Escape - The Clock - Master Difficulty
4) Horde - Jingle Juvies (until January 4th) Inconceivable difficulty
5) Daily/Featured horde/escape maps

In terms of hours spent you’re looking at roughly 5 hours from level 1-20 for Horde Frenzy Master Overload and Inconceivable Jingle Juvies.