Database · 10 evidenced pairings
Bonds are pair relationships that pay out permanent bonuses and most of your Focus Points. This page holds the values; the guide explains the system.
A Bond is a relationship between two Operators that climbs through named tiers — Low, Neutral, High and Very High — and pays out a chosen bonus at every level. The bonus applies to both Operators, and one of the three options is Focus Points rather than a combat stat, which makes Bond pairing a progression decision as much as a squad one. Maximum Bond grants a Passive Ability instead, and no such passive has been named.
Pairs do not all start in the same place. Some begin below neutral because the characters dislike each other, so a Bond is as often repaired as built.
Where several pairs begin. Starting below neutral is deliberate — some Operators dislike each other before you have done anything, so a Bond is as often repaired as built.
The usual starting point for a pair with no history.
Reported by previewers as a named tier. It is no longer thought to be the top of the ladder.
Named by the pre-release trophy list, which asks you to reach it with specific pairings. Nothing states whether it is the maximum tier or the last one before it.
Reaching a Bond level offers the same three options every time, and the one you pick applies to both Operators in the pair. The choice is a choice — two previewers describe picking rather than being handed one — which is what makes Bond pairing plannable.
+5% Critical Chance.
The safest of the three. It pays out on every attack rather than on a narrow action, which makes it worth most on whoever attacks most often in a turn — a Gunslinger stacking Onslaught, not a Sharpshooter taking one shot.
+1 Overwatch Damage.
The narrowest. It pays only on turns an Operator actually holds a cone, which most never do. It stacks with the Sharpshooter's Pick Them Off, and outside that class it is usually the wrong pick.
+2 Focus Points.
The only one that compounds. Focus Points buy ability and Talent ranks, so this converts a Bond level into scaling rather than into a flat modifier. On a pair that will reach several levels, taking Focus Points early and combat bonuses late is the obvious line.
Evidenced by a pre-release trophy requiring this pairing to reach Very High Bond.
Evidenced by a pre-release trophy requiring this pairing to reach Very High Bond.
Evidenced by a pre-release trophy requiring this pairing to reach Very High Bond.
Evidenced by a pre-release trophy requiring this pairing to reach Very High Bond.
Evidenced by a pre-release trophy requiring this pairing to reach Very High Bond.
Evidenced by a pre-release trophy requiring this pairing to reach Very High Bond.
The one pairing a source describes as starting hostile: Umbara fought the clones. That a trophy exists for taking it to Very High means the starting animosity is repairable, not permanent.
Evidenced by a pre-release trophy requiring this pairing to reach Very High Bond.
Two Custom Operators. Recruits are not excluded from the relationship system, so a squad built without authored characters still progresses Bonds normally.
Two Astromechs. The load-bearing row: droid-to-droid Bonds reach the top tier, which is what makes an all-astromech squad a progression strategy rather than only a legal one.
The system, what raises a Bond and what it costs to lose one are covered on the Bonds guide and the Cross Training guide. Focus Points have their own page.
The game has not been released. These are open questions we have chosen not to guess at.
Dantics · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 11 August 2026
Supports: 5:26–11:55 — an injury is taken only on being reduced to zero health; normal, hard and expert named, plus an Ironman-style toggle; crisis operations; weapon mods slotted freely before missions; a second Specialization after cycle 18; every Bond level granting Focus Points and one of three joint training bonuses; the Sharpshooter's unmissable shot and the Soldier's rocket barrage
Insider Gaming · Tier 2 — Achievement list · accessed 19 August 2026
Supports: Full trophy table — Very High Bond as a named relationship threshold, and the named pairings reaching it, including two astromechs and two Custom Operators; completing a mission with four astromechs; equipping four Weapon Mods to one weapon (“Fully Geared”); applying a Focus Point; using Force Push or Pull to knock one enemy into another; knocking an enemy out of the combat space; defeating enemies from higher elevation; landing a shot at 10% or lower Chance-to-Hit and missing at 90% or greater; the difficulty tiers Story, Normal, Hard and Expert, and Expert with Beskar Mode. Published 2026-08-17
PSNProfiles · Tier 2 — Achievement list · accessed 19 August 2026
Supports: Trophy list — independent corroboration of the trophy descriptions and of the Very High Bond terminology.
TrueAchievements · Tier 2 — Achievement list · accessed 19 August 2026
Supports: Achievement list — independent corroboration of the same requirements, including the four-Weapon-Mod achievement and the difficulty tiers.