Kirby Air Riders doesn’t hold back on any customization, offering different color variations for its characters. These can be unlocked by completing different challenges across the game modes. After completing the Checklist tasks of a character, a duplicate copy is unlocked, which includes their alternative color.
Today’s piece covers exactly that. What characters have different colors to offer, and how they can be unlocked.
Rider Checklist Tasks & How To Unlock
While Kirby Air Riders doesn’t offer alternative colors for all of its characters, it still does for a good chunk of them. Completing Checklist Tasks of some characters will also unlock them as playable Characters upon first challenge completion.
Kirby
- Cross the finish line in Air Ride: Laps without crashing into walls.
- Defeat a rival rider in City Trial: Big Battle 2 while shrunken.
- Win a Top Ride: Flower race without obtaining any Copy Abilities during the entire race.
King Dedede
- Win a race in Air Ride mode with the course, rider, and machine options set to random.
- Earn 80 points in a single match of City Trial: Gourmet Race
- Complete a Treasure Hunt challenge in Road Trip.
Meta Knight
- Finish a lap in Air Ride: Nebula Belt (Laps) without crashing into walls any more than 2 times.
- Complete a lap in Top Ride: Nova without attacking or damaging any rival riders.
Bandana Waddle Dee
- Destroy 2 boxes in City Trial: Field within the first 30 seconds of a match.
- Complete Top Ride challenges three times over in Road Trip: Top Ride
Waddle Doo
- Complete a race in Air Ride: Floria Fields (Laps) without crashing into your rivals.
- Attack a rival rider with a Course Quaker in Top Ride
Chef Kawasaki
- Complete Air Ride challenges three times in Road Trip: Air Ride
- Eat onigiri from the treehouse in Air Ride: Mount Amberfalls
Knuckle Joe
- Steal a rival rider’s air machine, one that they’re actively riding
- Upgrade all stats to 1 or higher using Power-ups in Road Trip
Gooey
- Win a race in Top Ride: Air after getting swept in the tornado a total of 3 times\
- Earn 2,000 points in a single match of City Trials: Skydive 1
Cappy
- Complete a lap within 30 seconds with the Warp Star machine in Top Ride: Flower.
- Complete City Trial: Field without getting any power-down items
Starman
- Fall for 6 seconds after only Boosting once in City Trial: Field.
- Complete 4 laps in the lead position in Top Ride: Crystal.
Magalor
- Enter all hidden/secret rooms in City Trial: Field.
- Send a rider flying 2 times with the Drill Driver in Top Ride.
Susie
- Hit a clean landing at least 5 times in a single race of Air Ride.
- Hit at least three rivals with a single attack in Road Trip.
Waddle Dee
- Beat 30 rival riders during the City Trial challenges in Road Trip: Skyah
Rick
- Enter the shop three times in Road Trip.
- Win with at least a margin of 5 seconds between you and the 2nd place in Top Ride: Mountain.
Rocky
- Use the character 30 times in Top Ride
- Open a treasure on the road of Road Trip
Scarfy
- Beat a rival without making it mad in Air Ride: Waveflow Waters
- Destroy an enemy air machine within the first minute of the race.
Lololo Lalala
- Complete Air Ride: Crystalline Fissure (Laps) within 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
- Beat 10 riders that are riding on star-type machines in Road Trip.
Marx
- Spend at least 300,000 Road Miles in a Road Trip
- Complete the entire lap without the speed ever touching below 19 mph
Daraoch
- Find and beat the special enemy Gemaine in Air Ride
- Win in Top Ride after lapping at least 1 rival rider.
Taranza
- Ride for a total of 5,469 yd in Air Ride: Beanstalk Park (Time).
- Win a short race in City Trial: Field
Noir Dedede
- Finish all Road Trip’s Checklist tasks to unlock Noir Dedede’s bronze alternative color.
