Unlocking Grandpa Legacy Shenanigans

playing the game the other night with a friend of mine (he'd recently gotten the game and Season 1) we played a game, and i figured since I SO enjoy using G-pa Legacy(Or America's Greatest Legacy as it's actually called) we'd go through a game to get him unlocked. we played through 2 games using the same team, Crono Ranger, Fanatic, Expatriat, and Tempest, obviously against Ambuscade in Silver Gulch. 

Problem is: the first game we defeated him, one of the characters was at 9 HP, everyone else was below but still functioning: no unlock. i figured it was because i had put together the game. so we did it again, this time with him being the game put-togetherer person. again, defeated Ambuscade, noone was even at 9 HP, everyone was below but still alive. again, no unlock. 

he'd gotten the unlock today by himself, which made me think MAYBE it was just because there was multiple players in the game? I'm not sure, but i'm wondering if that's not an issue i may or may not have to look out for with later unlocks?

if it helps, i had already unlcoked G-pa Legacy, but we'd been in games before where he got an unlock i had by being the player in control of that particular hero...

Grandpa can’t be unlocked in multiplayer games.

that would make sense. is there any other hero that can't be unlocked in Multiplayer as well that we currently know of? just for future referance when helpnig my friend out

As it says on the Variants web page: To unlock a variant hero in multiplayer, you must be controlling that hero.

Hi guys, I'm having a similar problem: I tried to unlock Granpa in solo game using hakka, grandpa and the naturalist. The first time hakka was down, so I figured it was the problem, but this time I really don't see why it didn't unlock. Here is the screenshot of my endgame: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504884829

This isn’t really similar.  Based on the screenshot alone that should’ve worked if you didn’t have America’s Greatest Legacy already unlocked. 

Oh wait. I've unlocked every variant, so I didn't realize I did that success randomly while fighting Ambuscade for the first time. xD

Sorry ^^