Cly Kullervo: How Combat Jump Rearranges a Fight

Cly Kullervo is one of the last survivors of the ancient Clan Verminoth. She joins Zero Company for a straightforward reason: revenge.

Her value is not in damage numbers. It is in something few Operators can do at all — moving enemies where she wants them.

Her unique talent

Combat Jump: she uses her jetpack to jump to a target location, pushing enemies out of position and inflicting Burn. Upgrading the talent increases the jump range and the number of Burning stacks.

That is a different answer from “deal damage”. An enemy behind cover drags your hit chance down, and the usual fixes are flanking or flushing them out with explosives. Cly simply moves them — out of cover, off a ledge, or into a hazard.

How to use her in a fight

1. Move first, shoot second. Open with Combat Jump, then focus the displaced target with the whole squad. The damage that turn usually beats everyone taking one shot each.
2. Treat the landing spot as the weapon. She decides where the enemy ends up, so scan for ledges, explosives and hazards rather than only reading the damage range.
3. Upgrade with Burn stacks in mind. Jump range decides which targets you can reach; Burning stacks decide the added damage. Pick according to the enemies you keep meeting.
4. Don’t use her as a pure tank. Her job is control and tactical repositioning. Standing at the very front and absorbing fire is a bad trade.

One thing to keep in perspective

A player thread on the official EA forum asks whether Cly is too strong and needs a nerf, which shows her jump combination sits in the middle of balance discussion.

That is player opinion, not an official balance statement. Patch 1.1 did not adjust her — the patch fixed general issues such as combat action processing order and Overwatch triggering.

To pair a control Operator with a finisher, read best Operators. For how the whole roster divides up, read characters and squad members.

Sources: EA’s official Cly Kullervo page, and the player thread is on the official EA forum discussion board. EA has not published Combat Jump’s damage, knockback range or Burning values.