Fallout Shelter characters

Characters within the game range from enemies to your own citizens. Vault citizens are known as dwellers and players have taken to calling enemies invaders. There are three rarity levels of Vault dwellers.

Common dwellers wander in from the wasteland. Several automatically arrive during the tutorial, thereafter they must be summoned by operating a radio studio. Each arrives wearing an unnamed outfit, but immediately switches to a vault suit when brought into the vault. They arrive with no weapon. Common dwellers have a sum total of 12 SPECIAL points, never more than three in a single stat.

Rare dwellers are found in lunchboxes. Their names are randomly generated. Each arrives wearing a rare outfit but carrying no weapon. Rare dwellers keep their outfit when entering the vault, rather than switching to a vault suit. Rare dwellers have a total sum of 28 SPECIAL points, none higher than a seven.

Legendary dwellers are unlocked randomly through opening lunchboxes. There are 22 different legendary dwellers to unlock. These are named after main characters from Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. Legendary dwellers have a total sum of 40 SPECIAL points, none higher than a nine.

Legendary dwellers are not unique. A vault can have multiple legendary dwellers of the same name. All legendary dweller cards are equally likely to be found in a lunchbox, regardless of whether any legendary dwellers are already in the vault.