Ability

Zero Company Ruthless

Cly Kullervo's damage passive: +2 Critical Damage, rising to +6.

Retail-reported

Confidence: Strongly supported
Verified: 1 September 2026
Version: Pre-release evidence, plus retail launch-build ability cards (August 2026)

What it does

Increases Cly's Critical Damage, from +2 at the first rank to +6 at the fifth.

Belongs to: Cly Kullervo
Cost: Free — no cost
Ultimate: No
Tags: critical-setup, single-target

Focus Tree

Every rank, and what each one changes

Focus Points buy these steps in order. Several change what the ability does rather than making it bigger, so the last row is worth reading before committing to the first.

Retail-reportedRetail 1.0 exotic-class tables, August 2026 — per-tier values, no costs, one source

The ladder carries its own evidence, and it is weaker than the ability’s. EA published what each ability does at its first rank; guide writers read the rest off the shipped game’s Focus Tree. Nothing here has been reproduced by this site, and no source has published what any rank costs.

Rank	What it does
Tier 1	+2 Critical Damage
Tier 2	+3 Critical Damage
Tier 3	+4 Critical Damage
Tier 4	+5 Critical Damage
Tier 5	+6 Critical Damage

Build value

Why it matters when you are planning a squad

Her only Focus Tree row that makes her ordinary attacks better rather than her electrical ones, which is what makes it the row to think hardest about. Both her class abilities are priced in Advantage and compete with the whole squad for the pool; this is free and applies to every blaster shot she fires between them. Critical damage rather than damage means it wants a critical chance to pay out on, so it argues for the secondary Specialization she is uniquely allowed — a Gunslinger's Keen Eye more than doubles the base 5%, and this is the passive that turns those criticals into a number.

Cly Kullervo's other abilities

Sources

All Star Wars Zero Company Focus Trees and Skills
Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 1 September 2026
Supports: Every Focus Tree in one index, with a per-tier table for each ability. Jedi Padawan — Shockwave (Ultimate) "Drive the Force outward in a focused burst, dealing Force Damage and Pushing nearby enemies back. Costs 6 Advantage", six tiers of "18 Base DMG; Area Effect 5.0m" rising to "30 Base DMG; Area Effect 5.0m; Gain Harmony for each enemy hit"; Push (Standard) "Forcefully Pushes an enemy in the chosen direction, dealing Force Damage. +4 Impact damage for each object struck. Costs 1 AP", six tiers of 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, "18 Base DMG; also Disorients"; Nobel Stance (Final Action) "Increase Deflection by defending in place against Blaster Attacks... Increases Deflection Chance by +10% for each AP used", Cannot Upgrade; Padawan Training (Passive) five tiers "+30% Deflection Chance", "Movement +1.0m", "+10% Melee Critical Chance", "Equip a second Meditation", "Equip a third Meditation"; Move With The Force (Passive) "Tel-Rea can execute Vertical Jumps without climbing or using a ladder", Cannot Upgrade; and the fixed Talent Strong with the Force at five tiers, 2 stacks of Harmony rising to 6. Mandalorian Warrior — ElectroWeb Surge (Ultimate) "Costs 4 Advantage", six tiers 12 to 18 Base DMG; ElectroWeb Dart (Standard) "Costs 2 Advantage", six tiers of Effective Range 14.0m rising to 24.0m; Ruthless (Passive) five tiers "+2 Critical Damage" to "+6 Critical Damage"; Mandalorian Armor Training (Passive) "Cly gains base defense of 3 and a Jetpack, allowing her to execute free vertical transitions", Cannot Upgrade; and the fixed Talent Combat Jump at four tiers, "Jump up to 14m", 17m, 20m, "Jump up to 23m; inflicts 4 stacks of Burning". Astromech — Coordinated Support (Ultimate) "Grant all Operators 1 AP (Operators cannot have more than 3 AP)", six tiers costing 10 Advantage falling to 6 and granting 2 AP at tier 6; Enhanced Scanners (Standard) "All effected enemies are Scanned, negating all Defense and making those enemies easier to hit. Costs 1 AP", six tiers of Effective Range 14.0m to 24.0m with "Each target has a chance to be made Vulnerable" at tier 6; five passives marked Cannot Upgrade — Extended Storage and Storage Optimization both "All Utility Items that have limited uses can be used +1 additional time", Improved Motors "+1.0m Movement", Hardened Frame "+2 Defense", Built-in Thrusters "jump vertically without restrictions"; and the fixed Talent Built-In Comlink at three tiers, "+1 AP; 1 per turn", "2 per turn", "Unlimited". The eight standard Specialization tables reproduce the per-class guides already registered above. No Focus Point cost is given for any node. Bylined Hack The Minotaur

Costs, and why most are blank

A cost is recorded here only where a source states one. Most abilities have been named without one, and an inferred number would be indistinguishable from a measured one on the page — so the field says “not published” instead.

Every named ability

Build around it

The Squad Builder knows which abilities compete for the shared Advantage pool, and says so before you commit a slot to two that do.

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Editor’s note

Added 2026-09-01, and it is the third row of the Mandalorian Warrior's band — the one this database did not know existed. Her class record listed two abilities and the Focus Tree captures show three investable rows per Specialization band, which was a discrepancy nobody had noticed because no source printed the third. Single-sourced, like everything else in this pass. The value to re-check first is whether the ladder replaces or adds: +2 through +6 reads as replacement, which is how the standard classes' five-tier passives are printed and read here.