Talent

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Tel-Rea Vokoss' fixed Talent: she opens every turn holding Harmony, which buys both deflection and lightsaber damage.

Confirmed

Confidence: Confirmed
Verified: 1 September 2026
Version: Pre-release evidence — retail verification pending

Quick answer

Tel-Rea begins each turn with a number of Harmony stacks. Each stack adds 4% to her chance to deflect an incoming ranged attack and 4 damage to a Lightsaber Strike, and each Strike consumes three of them. Ranks raise how many she starts the turn with.

Available to: Tel-Rea Vokoss only — fixed, and it persists across every Specialization
Cost: Passive — no cost
First rank: She opens each turn holding Harmony, spendable on deflection and lightsaber damage.
Max rank: Six stacks at the start of every turn — +24% deflection on top of Padawan Training's 30% base, or two Lightsaber Strikes at +24 damage each.
Tags: mitigation, single-target

Build value

What this Talent is actually for

Harmony is a budget she is handed at the top of every turn, not a total she builds across the fight, and that makes her aggressive from turn one rather than back-loaded. The arithmetic is the argument for putting her where the shooting is: six stacks on a 30% Padawan Training base is 54% to deflect, and spending a full turn's Action Points on Noble Stance adds 10% each on top, reaching roughly 84% against fire from the direction she is facing. At that point standing in the open is the play. The tension inside the Talent is that the same stacks pay for both halves — three per Lightsaber Strike — so every swing is deflection sold for damage, and a turn spent striking is a turn spent less protected. Shockwave's final upgrade is the release valve: it grants Harmony per enemy hit and is the only way past the six she starts with.

Focus Tree

Every rank, and what each one changes

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

Retail-reportedRetail 1.0 — launch-week Focus Tree tables, one source

The ladder carries its own evidence, and it is weaker than the Talent’s. EA named these Talents; guide writers read the numbers off the shipped game’s Focus Tree. Nothing here has been reproduced by this site.

Rank	What it does
Tier 1	2 stacks of Harmony at the start of each turn.
Tier 2	3 stacks of Harmony.
Tier 3	4 stacks of Harmony.
Tier 4	5 stacks of Harmony.
Tier 5	6 stacks of Harmony.

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

Pairings

Specializations it combines with

A Talent is chosen separately from a class, so these are combinations you assemble yourself rather than anything the game groups for you.

Heavy
Both want the enemy shooting at them, and only one of them profits from it — a Heavy taunting pulls fire off the bay where a missed deflection actually costs something.
Scout
Shockwave is the only route past six Harmony, it is priced in Advantage, and the Scout is the class that fills the pool on purpose.

Still unverified

The retail game is out. These are the points we have not yet reproduced or measured reliably enough to state as fact — recorded rather than guessed at.

Whether unspent Harmony carries into the next turn or is simply replaced.
Whether stacks are lost when she takes damage.
Whether the deflection percentage is capped below 100%.
How far Shockwave can push her past six, and whether that surplus survives the turn.

Other Talents

Sources

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
Is Z-COM our new X-COM? Star Wars Zero Company gameplay deep dive
ChristopherOdd · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 11 August 2026
Supports: 2:13–13:51 — Sweeping Salvo at 4 Advantage with three uses per mission; Hawks granting an ally 1 AP for 3 Advantage; Combat Recon granting 1 Advantage per unit scanned; the Grit Talent's stacking invulnerability; Heavy attacks taunting; the droideka ray shield; the Scout's Spotted status; Defense as flat damage reduction
All Companion Abilities & Skills | Star Wars Zero Company
Dantics · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 20 August 2026
Supports: 1:05–3:40 Kabb — starts Scoundrel; Uppercut costs 1 AP plus travel, once per turn, and refunds every point spent on a kill. 5:05–7:00 Trick — starts Soldier; For My Brothers rank by rank: half health, full health, no Injury, then an immediate stand-up refunding 1 AP. 7:02–8:34 Jae — starts Assault, changeable; Final Shot fires once per turn at 4 health or less, rising to 10, cannot miss, and is inactive while she is dead. 8:34–13:50 Tel-Rea — Specialization cannot be changed; Padawan Training's 30% base deflection; Harmony at 4% per stack to six; Noble Stance at +10% per AP; Lightsaber Strike at +4 damage per stack, consuming three; Shockwave at 6 Advantage; Force Meditations in place of Utilities, one slot rising to three; Force Pull, Lightsaber Throw and Elegant Weapon in place of a second Specialization. 13:50–17:55 Cly — Specialization cannot be changed, but dual Specialization adds any of the eight; +3 base Defense from Mandalorian armour; Combat Jump at 2 Advantage and no AP, triggering neither Overwatch nor retaliation; Ruthless at +2 critical damage rising to +6; Electro Web Dart at 2 Advantage; Electro Web Surge detonating on every darted target and ignoring Defense. 17:55–20:05 Luco — starts Sharpshooter; Combat Gas at 2 Advantage, no AP, once per battle, granting Sharpened Senses stacks worth +5% hit and +1 ranged damage each, two rising to six, one consumed per ranged attack. 20:05–21:15 Astromechs — three Utility slots, no blaster, an Action Point handed to another Operator, and an extra passive, ability and Ultimate at dual Specialization

The layer above this one

Talents sit alongside Specializations, not inside them. The Squad Builder models the class half only, so a build that leans on a Talent says so in prose rather than being checked for you.

How the Talent system works

Editor’s note

Laddered 2026-09-01, which closes this record's oldest open question: the stacks run 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 across five steps, so every rank is one more stack and the six at the top is the fifth purchase rather than a jump from somewhere unstated. Five steps, where every universal Talent has four and Built-In Comlink has three — so the step count is genuinely per-Talent and this file's header assumption of a shared shape is now wrong in both directions. What it changes for building her is the shape of the curve. Three Harmony buys a Lightsaber Strike, so the second rank is the one that makes her able to strike on turn one without spending her whole deflection, and the fifth is the one that buys two strikes. Ranks three and four buy neither and are the least valuable Focus Points in her tree. Updated 2026-08-20, and this is a correction to the build advice rather than an addition to it. This record described Harmony as accumulating across a fight, and concluded that Tel-Rea is weakest on turn one, should not be rushed forward, and wants a Medic keeping her alive while the resource builds. She is handed her stacks at the start of every turn instead, which reverses all of it: she is at full strength immediately, the resource cannot be built by waiting, and waiting only wastes it. The Medic pairing went with the reasoning that produced it. Note the older wording was an inference from 'gains stacks each turn' rather than a sourced claim, which is precisely how a plausible reading survives three passes unchallenged. The percentages are also published for the first time — 4% deflection and 4 damage per stack, six stacks at top rank, three consumed per Strike — and the last of those is the interesting one for building her, because it makes deflection and damage the same currency.