XCOM 2: All Soldier Classes and Abilities

XCOM 2 Grenadier

Squaddie 

• Launch Grenade – The Grenadier uses a grenade launcher to fire grenades rather than throwing them. This allows for greater grenade range and grenade capacity.The grenadier gains an extra inventory slot that may only be used for grenades.

Corporal

• Blast Padding – Your gear includes layers of extra padding and blast plates, granting a bonus point of Armor and 66% less damage from explosive attacks.
• Your cannon attacks shred armor.

Sergeant

• Demolition – Unleash a volley of bullets at your target’s cover, significantly damaging or destroying it. Deals no damage to your target.
• Suppression – Fire a barrage that pins down your target, granting reaction fire against it if it moves, and imposing a -50 penalty to the target’s aim. Suppression is cancelled if the Grenadier takes damage. Suppression penalties stack. Uses 2 ammo. No cooldown.

Lieutenant 

• Heavy Ordinance – The grenade in your grenade-only slot gains an bonus use. Affects support grenades, not just offensive ones.
• Holo Targeting – Any directed cannon shot, hit or miss, will mark the target, increasing your squad’s aim by +15 against this target. Applies to standard attacks and single-target abilities, including suppression.

Captain

• Volatile Mix – Grenades gain +1 tile to their radius and deal +2 damage. Does not increase environment damage.
• Chain Shot – Fires a shot with a penalty of 15 to aim. If it hits, immediately fire another shot at the target. Uses 2 ammo. 3-turn cooldown.

Major

• Salvo – Using the grenade launcher or a heavy weapon as your first action does not end the turn
• Hail of Bullets – Fire a shot that is guaranteed to hit. Uses 3 ammo. 5 turn cool down.

Colonel

• Saturation of Fire – Fire a hail of bullets in a cone damaging every enemy and all cover within. Uses 3 ammo, 5 turn cool down.
• Rupture – Fires a shot that deals critical damage. The target, if hit, will also take 3 additional damage from all sources. Uses 3 ammo. 3-turn cooldown.