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Team Building

Team Building

Use every Dwarf from Thorin's Company in a Buddy-Up attack

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How to unlock the Team Building achievement in LEGO The Hobbit - Definitive Guide

Okay, after working with several of my kids profiles I think I have finally figured out why this achievement seems to be so buggy. I did finally get this to pop on a profile using only a single lineup of 13 dwarves instead of all 78 combinations. It appears that this achievement requires you to control and form a buddy-up with each dwarf at least once and get a kill with the dwarf you are controlling in the buddy-up.

Start with Balin in the character 1 slot and team up with a static dwarf in character 2 (I just kept it Thorin in character 2 since he seems to be everyone's favorite). Make sure you are controlling character 1, hit B to team up and then kill some orcs. When you kill something in the combo, you must make sure that whatever it is flashes red and dies, not just falls apart. If it falls apart without flashing that means your buddy in character 2 slot got the kill credit and not you. Once you get a good kill ( I killed at least 3 every combo just to be safe) then switch character 1 to the next dwarf in line (Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Dwalin, Fili, Kili, Gloin, Nori, Oin, Ori, and finally Thorin) and repeat. Again, make sure you are switching the dwarves in order in the character 1 slot and using character 1 to press B and form the combo group. Should take 13 combinations to do it, finishing with Thorin/Thorin (if you decided to use Thorin in slot 2).

Again, I found a good place to grind this out is on the "Azog the Defiler" starting at "The Battle of Azanulbizar" with invulnerable turned on. When you reach the part of the level where the second siege tower comes out normal enemies spawn along with the ones you have to kill to proceed. Do not knock open the breakable wall on the second tower with a buddy attack and the regular guys just keep re-spawning forever. (Also a good spot to get the "Bros Before Gold" and "Conjurer of Cheap Tricks" achievements).



Bad solution kept here just for kicks.
For this achievement I had to do all the combinations of dwarves together. Since there are 13 dwarves it took me 78 combinations. I found a good place to grind this out is on the "Azog the Defiler" starting at "The Battle of Azanulbizar" with invulnerable turned on. When you reach the part of the level where the second siege tower comes out normal enemies spawn along with the ones you have to kill to proceed. Do not knock open the breakable wall on the second tower with a buddy attack and the regular guys just keep re-spawning forever. (Also a good spot to get the "Bros Before Gold" and "Conjurer of Cheap Tricks" achievements).

I started with Balin in character one then cycled the second character in order the rest of the dwarves (Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Dwalin, Fili, Kili, Gloin, Nori, Oin, Ori, and finally Thorin). After Thorin I switched character one to Bifur and then cycled character two from Bofur to Thorin. Switch character one to Bofur and cycle character two from Bombur to Thorin, etc. etc.


If you know of a faster way, please post it.
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12 Apr 2014 11:38

39 Comments
Worked for me. Thanks for the solution.
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By DaveKinetic on 25 Apr 2014 20:01
Worked for me with this exact method. Thumbs up
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By Surfer2308 on 08 May 2014 18:10
perfect solution thumbs up!
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By kirchroa rjc on 14 May 2014 06:43
Great guide, worked perfectly. Saved a bunch of time doing this.
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By SoaringLlama on 10 May 2014 18:31
Tried this 2 times now and no achievement. Bugged?
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By Havoc NL on 13 Apr 2014 13:30
Tried this 2 times now and no achievement. Bugged?
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By Havoc NL on 13 Apr 2014 15:15
I tried too and no achievment.it looks is bugged damn now i wait and do all other achievment first.
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By on 13 Apr 2014 19:21
Were you guys missing it using the normal versions of the dwarves (not young or other outfit versions) when you made your attempt? I have been looking online to see if others were complaining about it being bugged but I have found nothing yet.
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By Lathanar on 15 Apr 2014 06:31
Got it in the exact method described thumbs up.
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By True Marvellous on 15 Apr 2014 23:17
got it.my failure was when i press B sometimes they stand hand in hand that doesnt count they MUST sit on the shoulder,i am not sure but i think u need only thorin and let the other dwarfs jump on the shoulder so before u try 78 combination try thorin first.
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By on 16 Apr 2014 14:16
I only had to do 13 combos not 78 , solution below describes how , just use level from your solution. If you combine the two it makes the achievement take like 1 minute to 2 minutes depending on how well you know these games.
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By TH3 BIG M3SS on 16 Apr 2014 17:42
Good solution for this dumb ambiguous achievement. Got it in two minutes, I can confirm you should switch the dwarf in the character one slot only. Also don't know what xxxLostboyxxx means as it didn't matter whether they sat on each other's shoulders or held hands.
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By Funky Monkee on 23 Apr 2014 17:14
Thank you for the excellent guide. This saved me a ton of time.
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By Assau1tedPeanut on 25 Apr 2014 01:33
guide is perfect. especially the battle of azanulbizar piece. cheers.
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By jonkavana on 27 May 2014 23:43
Tried it with all combinations before and it never worked. Did it using this solution and it popped 3/4 of the way through. Great job.
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By TG AceoHearts on 27 Apr 2015 17:24
Great guide after the update. Thanks for digging.
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By Naberios on 09 May 2015 16:19
I wish I could give 10 thumbs up. Worked perfectly.
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By xbox4xmas07 on 14 May 2015 01:22
Worked perfectly toast
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By FranksEZ on 12 Jul 2015 13:22
Perfect guide!
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By MUC Zephyr on 16 Jan 2016 09:54
First try with your guide. Thank you!!
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By JennyOwnz on 28 Jun 2017 03:57
never popped for me. the lonely achievement that will keep me from yet another 100% sad day.
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By boriblood89 on 01 Jul 2017 04:02
Great solution. Worked a treat
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By frenchmau5 on 12 Nov 2017 10:17
Worked great. Didn’t have to go through all 13.
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By Vonnalushi on 02 Dec 2017 16:32
Merci beaucoup en moin de 3 minute en as la reusite ^^ =)
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By jeremy3540 on 05 Dec 2017 17:31
This worked great.
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By chuckthetekkie on 16 Jan 2018 12:40
Thanks this worked awesome. Following your guide, I got it on my first kill with Oin (using Thorin all the time as the second), so didn't have to do all 13 (as I probably did Ori and Thorin before then).
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By Kennyannydenny on 23 Apr 2018 07:34
Excellent! Thanks smile
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By MasterTimos on 18 Aug 2018 08:53
Well I didn't pop it yet but just from doing all Thorin and Oin, I have 999 Leather and 999 Meat. Stick with the section with the second tower in "Azog the Defiler" and don't bash the second tower down and the baddies will not stop coming. And they will keep dropping leather and meat. Now I wanna go find someone/quest looking for one of those types of loot.
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By skittlebiz on 03 Jun 2021 23:12
I just popped it! I didn't realize I was missing a whole row of characters in the selection list (I was wondering where Bofur went.) (I guess my default character selection starts me on the second row.) So I restarted as the guide says above with Thorin as character 1 and popped after going through the first row of Buddy Up characters. (I included Frodo, Sam, and Bilbo.) I had also already done all of the characters below and including the second row. (I had also done the second row and below with Oin.) Good luck everybody! (Thank God I didn't have to do this 625 or more times like I commented above.)
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By skittlebiz on 05 Jun 2021 18:44
I had to do this with the full company of dwarves, with each one (so more than 13 times).
But i think the wording could be clearer, in that its just the dwarves of the company, not Thror/Thrawn etc. and only one variant of each dwarf.
So i used Thorin (Young) and that worked. But had to do all possible pairings
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By gazhibs on 22 Jul 2021 17:30
I just got this and had a little trouble. I used the guide from @Lathanar ... so full credit there. However, after running through the lineup, I didn't get the achievement. But, I realized that I changed the character I was controlling while doing it (tapped 'Y' instead of holding it). I re-did the same solution, but this time was very careful not to change the character I was controlling and it popped.

I may have ran into another problem (e.g., didn't kill an orc with the main character), but I was pretty sure I killed about 10 orcs per pair, so I would have thought I got them all. But, avoiding changing main character while creating my pairs worked for me.
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By Trimbler on 31 Jan 2022 03:22
The achievement did not unlock after killing with ANY Buddy-Up attack. It only unlocked after I took care to always have the Buddy-Up attack, where both dwarfs are running next to each other. The other Buddy-Up attack, where one dwarf is on top of the other may not count. There may be a way to trigger the stance, for me it appeared to be random. Try to regroup until both dwarves are running next to each other.

I did only the 13 standard dwarves as the German achievement description translates into "Used every combination of Dwarves of Thorin's group for Buddy-Up attacks". As pointed out, the FIRST player has to switch dwarves. Keeping the same dwarf and switching the buddy does not unlock.
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By Greedy136 on 19 Aug 2022 06:51
Unlocked for me on my first try, thank you man :)
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By BajerKR on 14 Jan 2023 11:02
This solution worked for me first try, thanks.
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By RS01 on 11 Aug 2023 18:40
Not sure. For the achievement for gathering all the schematics I had already gotten the forge all mithril items and forge perfect mithril items and 100% complete but the schematic one just would not pop. Went back through a couple levels gathering the schematics again, got frustrated and quit. Next day the achievement popped while I was not playing the game.
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By Lathanar on 13 Apr 2014 17:12
This guide looks perfect, explains everything. Will try out shortly, thanks!
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By PrimeBigTime on 21 May 2014 01:32
Got this one using the method above but it didn't click until I was on Bofur / Balin combination. Had been trying to mix it up during the game, so not sure if this was just a delayed unlock or if the other combinations are required.
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By PaleGringo on 25 Nov 2014 21:54
Starting at Gandalf you need to swap your character to:

Balin
Bifur
Bofur
Bombur
Dori
Dwalin
Fili
Kili
Gloin
Nori
Oin
Ori
Thorin

What worked for me was to make sure they were side-by-side not on top of each other, and also to get several kills with each pair.

You may not need to buddy up with the same character (eg Thorin and Thorin), so it is either 12 or 13 combinations.
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By HolyHalfDead on 10 Mar 2024 05:49
Why is the striekeout solution bad? I followed the one above it and did not pop. I imagine I have to do every possible combo. I have 25 regular characters that can buddy up, and by my calculation that means 625 total possible combinations (including a character with the same character.) Am I wrong here? 625 would take a hella lot of time. I'm including everyone, not necessarily just dwarfs, specifically also Frodo, Sam, Bilbo (Lake-town), Tilda, Bain, Bandobras Took (The Bullroarer), Stone Dwarf, and Gimli (Baby). There are also two dwarves characters in DLC I think: Dwarf Soldier and Lady Dwarf. I wonder if these count. That would make it 27 Buddy Up possibilities, for a total of 729. EGAD
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By skittlebiz on 05 Jun 2021 18:16
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In order for the trophy to pop you actually need to kill an enemy whilst buddied up (not just buddy-up) so find yourself a level with some enemies to kill (I used Barrels Out Of Bond - The Elven Gate). Then one by one roll through each of the thirteen Dwarfs taking turns to kill an enemy.

There are 13 Dwarfs you need to buddy up:

Balin
Bifur
Bofur
Bombur
Dori
Dwalin
Fili
Kili
Gloin
Nori
Oin
Ori
Thorin

If looking at your characters selection left to right they start from the 11th character on the top line to the 4th character on the 2nd line.

You need to initate the buddy-up whilst using one of the Dwarfs listed above (I also set the non-active character as someone other than one of the Dwarfs i.e. Sam).
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To unlock this achievement, you are required to Buddy-Up with all 13 dwarves in Thorin’s Company. 

First, set your character as Bilbo and then press  to switch to the other character. This is the character you are going to be changing. Select the first dwarf, Balin, walk up to Bilbo and press  to join together. While linked, press  to attack and defeat an enemy. They must completely break apart and the dwarf character must have defeated the enemy for it to have counted. Press  again to cancel the link up then hold  to select another character.

Suggest you open a word document for a check sheet and check off all of the ones you have done.

NOTE: You can go for this achievement after completing the level Chapter 3, "Azog the Deflier" which in case you should farm it here in Free Play mode or try Chapter 10,"Flies and Spiders" - "The Elves of Mirkwood", if Chapter 3 isn't working. You should also get the achievement "Bro's before Gold." Also BE SURE to use Thorin + Thorin! It is suggested you use the normal versions of these dwarves, not use the ‘Young’ or ‘Lake-town’ versions of them.

Thorin's Company List:

  • Balin
  • Bifur
  • Bofur
  • Bombur
  • Dori
  • Dwalin
  • Fili
  • Gloin
  • Kili
  • Nori
  • Oin
  • Ori
  • Thorin (team him up with himself)

You can use it if you found the Red Brick for Regenerating Hearts if you do the quest in Hobbiton for it. It will cost 100,000 studs. It will help because it gets annoying from dying all the time and trying to do every single character with the other character. Sometimes when you try to get the kill with your buddy the target will fly across the room and hit a wall, this DOES NOT COUNT towards the achievement.

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To unlock this achievement, you are required to Buddy-Up with all 13 dwarves in Thorin’s Company.

First, set your character as Bilbo and then press to switch to the other character. This is the character you are going to be changing. Select the first dwarf, Balin, walk up to Bilbo and press to join together. While linked, press to attack and defeat an enemy. They must completely break apart and the dwarf character must have defeated the enemy for it to have counted. Press again to cancel the link up then hold to select another character.

Suggest you open a word document for a check sheet and check off all of the ones you have done.

NOTE: You can go for this achievement after completing the level Chapter 3, "Azog the Deflier" which in case you should farm it here in Free Play mode or try Chapter 10,"Flies and Spiders" - "The Elves of Mirkwood", if Chapter 3 isn't working. You should also get the achievement "Bro's before Gold". Also BE SURE to use Thorin + Thorin! It is suggested you use the normal versions of these dwarves, not use the ‘Young’ or ‘Lake-town’ versions of them.

Thorin's Company List:

  • Balin
  • Bifur
  • Bofur
  • Bombur
  • Dori
  • Dwalin
  • Fili
  • Gloin
  • Kili
  • Nori
  • Oin
  • Ori
  • Thorin (team him up with himself)

You can use it if you found the Red Brick for Regenerating Hearts if you do the quest in Hobbiton for it. It will cost 100,000 studs. It will help because it gets annoying from dying all the time and trying to do every single character with the other character. Sometimes when you try to get the kill with your buddy the target will fly across the room and hit a wall, this DOES NOT COUNT towards the achievement.

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