Zero Company Assault class guide

Quick answer

Mobile frontline fighter operating at medium-to-close range, built to cross the map in one action and punish enemies out of cover.

• Sweeping Salvo

  ◈Retail-reported

  Costs 4 Advantage rather than an Action Point. Sweeps a large cone with blaster fire, damaging everything inside it and applying Disoriented, which imposes a 20% chance-to-hit penalty on the affected enemies. **The cone is the whole of its reach**: from Patch 1.1 enemies outside the targeting cone are no longer hit, which the launch build did. Usable three times per combat, with no limit on how many of those come in one turn. Retail ability cards give its base damage as 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 across the first five ranks, reaching 20 at the sixth, and its effective range as 12 metres widening to 18. It scales with blaster damage mods and effective range, and cannot critically hit until the sixth rank removes that restriction.

  Build value: The only Ultimate that is a defensive tool bought with an offensive resource: dropping a group's accuracy by 20% mitigates more damage than most heals restore. At 4 Advantage it is also the cheapest Ultimate priced so far — under half of Open Fire's 9, and affordable twice over on a pool that caps at 10 — which makes the three-per-combat cap the real constraint rather than the price. Past the third use, saving Advantage for it is waste. The crit restriction is what makes the sixth rank worth reaching, because until then the Assault's own Strike the Flanks bonus does nothing for its biggest attack. **Aim it more carefully than the launch build asked you to.** Patch 1.1 stopped it hitting enemies outside the cone, so its effective coverage is smaller and more strictly defined than the behaviour a 1.0 player got used to. Anyone who watched it catch a straggler off to one side was watching a bug, and a turn planned on that happening again will come up short. This is also what the rank ladder is buying: 12 metres widening to 18 is the difference between a cone that has to be aimed and one that can be pointed. It is the strongest argument on this site for giving the Assault's Ultimate to a Heavy. Intimidating Posture Taunts on a blaster hit, a launch-week guide reports that Taunt firing from blaster-based area attacks and Assist Attacks too, and this is a blaster-based area attack covering up to eighteen metres. A Heavy holding it Taunts everything the cone contains, for 4 Advantage and no Action Point.

• Bull Rush

  ◉Preview-reported

  A melee charge that grants 2 metres of bonus movement at first rank, rising to 8 across five ranks, then slams into the target and pushes it backwards. A pushed enemy that collides with anything takes 4 impact damage. Being melee, it cannot miss, and it still receives the Assault's Strike the Flanks critical bonus.

  Build value: Stacked with a fully invested Fleet of Foot, the charge carries an Assault 11 extra metres on its first movement — often the length of the arena — which collapses a three-Action-Point crossing into one. The push is the other half: an enemy shoved off a cliff, into a void or down a turbolift shaft dies outright regardless of its health, which is the cheapest kill in the game and entirely free of the hit-chance roll.

• Fleet of Foot

  ✓Confirmed

  Increases this Operator’s First Movement by 1.0m. Its Focus Tree ranks raise the figure; only the first is published.

  Build value: Half of what makes the Assault a map-crossing class rather than a fast one, and the half that is easy to undervalue at a metre. It is bought together with Bull Rush’s charge distance, and the two compound: an Assault who has invested in both opens a fight several metres further forward than the squad, for the same single Action Point everybody else spends. The word that matters is **first** — it is a bonus on the opening movement of a turn, not on every movement, so it rewards deciding where to be before the shooting starts.

• Strike the Flanks

  ✓Confirmed

  This Operator gains a +20% Critical Chance bonus against Exposed enemies.

  Build value: The largest published critical-chance bonus in the game, and the reason the Assault’s whole kit points one way. Every weapon starts at 5% critical chance, so +20% against the right target is a fivefold increase rather than an improvement — and the Assault creates that target himself, because Bull Rush pushes enemies out of the cover that was keeping them unexposed. It applies to every attack including melee, so the charge that creates the condition also collects on it. A Scout in the same squad makes it a squad-wide plan rather than a personal one.

• Scout

  A Scout's shot applies Exposed, which is the exact condition Strike the Flanks pays out on. The Scout marks, the Assault crits.

• Sharpshooter

  Bull Rush pushes enemies out of cover and Sweeping Salvo drops their hit chance; the Sharpshooter removes whatever is left standing in the open.

• Medic

  Advancing into the open is the highest-exposure role in the squad, and Combat Stim's temporary health is applied on top of current HP.

• Heavy

  A Heavy taunting the enemy line gives the Assault a safer lane to charge through.

• A Life of Labor

  Bull Rush is a melee attack that cannot miss, so +4 melee damage is applied on every charge with no accuracy risk attached.

• Anticipation

  Charging into the open is the most exposed thing a squad does, and Evasion cancels the first attack that punishes it.

• Fortitude

  The Operator most likely to be downed is the one that charges into the open, so it is the most likely to be fighting injured in the first place.

• Grit

  Charging out of cover is the most exposed action in the game, and Invulnerable covers the turn that exposure is paid for.

• Taunt

  An Assault that has already charged into the open is going to be shot at; taunting the target it chose makes that exposure deliberate.

• Final Shot

  Sweeping Salvo damages a whole cone without killing much of it, so it manufactures the low-health targets this Talent cleans up for free.

• For My Brothers

  Charging into the open is the fastest way to be Downed, and this is the only Talent that makes being Downed recoverable without spending an ally's turn.

• Uppercut

  Bull Rush and Uppercut are both melee displacement that cannot miss, and both take the Strike the Flanks crit bonus against the Exposed targets they create.

Builds using the Assault

• Dual Specialization squad◇ Theorycraft
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Other Specializations

• Zero Company class tier list — the Assault is A tiertheorycraft, not yet tested
• Zero Company Gunslinger class guide
• Zero Company Heavy class guide
• Zero Company Medic class guide
• Zero Company Scoundrel class guide
• Zero Company Scout class guide
• Zero Company Sharpshooter class guide
• Zero Company Soldier class guide

Sources

• Star Wars Zero Company: How Some of the Greatest Minds in Tactics Games are Pushing the Genre, Again

  Xbox Wire · Tier 2 — Developer interview · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Greg Foertsch and James Brawley on the eight Specializations, Combat Stim + Gunslinger synergy, Advantage, and Specialization changes on authored characters

• Lead Zero Company To Victory on August 27

  Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Operator introductions; 3 Action Points per turn; Advantage caps at 10; the eight Specializations; Bonds in the Personnel Facility; Hawks' species options

• Ultimate Star Wars Zero Company Assault Build and Class Guide

  Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 28 August 2026

  Supports: Sweeping Salvo ability table — "Costs 4 Advantage"; base damage "Tier 1: 14" rising 15, 16, 17, 18 to "Tier 6: 20"; effective range expanding from 12.0m at Tier 1 to 18.0m at Tier 6; "This attack cannot score Critical Hits" printed on Tiers 1 through 5 and "can now Critically Strike" at Tier 6. Bylined Hack The Minotaur, updated 2026-08-27

• Star Wars Zero Company: Specializations Tier List

  GameRant · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 28 August 2026

  Supports: Assault entry — "Sweeping Salvo, which acts as a close-range AoE Disorient (-20% Chance-To-Hit) that also deals solid damage, is up there with the best offensive abilities in the game, and it costs just 4 Advantage." Soldier entry — "Rocket Strike (Ultimate): Fire a powerful rocket that explodes on impact, damaging all targets in the blast", "Brutal Strike (Standard): Rush and strike a target, dealing Melee Damage and Dazing", "Armsmaster (Passive): Increases Blaster Damage and Grenade Damage by +2", with no Advantage cost given for Rocket Strike. Gunslinger entry — "Open Fire (Ultimate): Fire 2 Times at any combination of enemies", with no cost given. Bylined William Parks, published 2026-08-27

• STAR WARS Zero Company — Patch 1.1 Notes

  Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 14 September 2026

  Supports: Published 9 September 2026, the first post-launch patch; re-read in full on 14 September 2026, when it was still the newest entry on EA's News & Updates page. **Every item below is listed by EA under bug fixes**, which is what makes each one a statement about 1.0 as well as about 1.1. Secondary Specializations: their passive Cross Trainings "now correctly enter the selection pool at Relationship +8", and Secondary Specializations "now count for Specialization-specific Operation requirements and results". Chance-to-Hit: attacks displayed at 100% "can no longer erroneously miss". Scattergun: Tiers II, III and IV "no longer incorrectly use Tier I values". Droid Dismantler: Harmony "is granted only on Droid deaths, not on every enemy death". Tel-Rea: the Ranged Damage Cross Training bonus "is now applied once rather than twice" to her Force attacks, and Critical Damage bonuses "now correctly apply" to them. DC-17m Anti-Armor: it "can now critically hit" and "receives damage bonuses that apply to grenades". Ion Blasters "no longer double Critical Damage". Sweeping Salvo: "enemies outside the targeting cone are no longer hit". A Life of Labor II "can no longer infinitely accumulate bonuses when purchased repeatedly". Immovable: the status "now provides its intended bonuses". Bacta Tank, missed on the first read and added 14 September: "Fixed an issue where the Bacta Tank could be used more than one in a cycle" — EA's wording, typo included; the intended rule is one use per cycle. Overwatch, three lines, quoted verbatim on 14 September because the first pass had paraphrased the first of them too loosely: "Fixed an issue where Overwatch shots triggered against attackers caused the enemies to fire through solid objects at Operators they couldn't see" — an enemy-side line-of-sight failure, not the player's reaction shots passing through walls; "Fixed some instances of Overwatch triggering on a unit outside of the targeting cone"; and "Fixed various Overwatch issues that caused enemies and Operators to be unintentionally attacked". A fourth mentions it in passing: "Fixed a turn ordering issue that caused the Coil Captain to heal a target already slain by Overwatch". **Checked for and absent**: any figure for anything — no Scattergun tier statistics, no Harmony amount, no DC-17m damage, no figure for what Immovable now provides, no Bacta Tank cost. Also absent: any fix for Overwatch *failing* to trigger. Every Overwatch line corrects a shot that should not have happened, and none claims a shot that should have happened now does.