Hijacker (TJ)

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Hijacker

The Hijacker specializes in staying under the radar while seizing enemy assets such as their robotics, while also proving some crowd control and team support.

Class Overview

The Hijacker specializes in staying under the radar while seizing enemy assets such as their robotics, while also proving some crowd control and team support.

Weapons

Primary: SMGs

Secondary: Gremlins

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Rank	Ability
Squaddie	Full Override Take permanent control of a robotic unit and potentially acquire ADVENT MECs for the Resistance.	Phantom When the squad is revealed, this soldier remains concealed.	Hack Attempt to remotely breach security on a network access point with your GREMLIN/BIT.
	Acquisition	Malicious	Unseen
Lance Corporal	Supercharge All GREMLIN abilities gain an additional charge.	Perfect Plan Gain an action when revealed from stealth by your own action, as well as the ability to climb walls, plus negate the penalties of failed hacks.	Containment Field Send the GREMLIN to place target unit into Stasis for 1 turn.
Corporal	Resupply Refill the primary weapon ammo of all allies.	You Got This Grant an Overwatch shot to a visible ally. Can be used once per turn and ends the user's turn when used.	Surprise You deal +2 damage while concealed and +1 damage while flanking your target. Passive.
Sergeant	Botnet Activate to allow your squad's standard shots to reduce the target's hack defense by 10. Lasts for 1 Turn(s). Has a 5 Turn(s) cooldown. Free action.	Rescue Protocol Use your GREMLIN to grant a movement action to an ally and grant them a small boost to dodge and mobility.	Hail of Bullets Unleash a hail of bullets that is guaranteed to hit your target, but uses a lot of ammunition.
Staff Sergeant	Steadfast Grants immunity to negative mental conditions including panic, mind control, stuns, and disorientation.	Fade Gain concealment that is broken if you move. Only works in full cover. Has a 4 turn cooldown. Free action.	Airdrop The GREMLIN grants an explosive grenade to the targeted ally. Usable 2 time(s) per mission.
Tech Sergeant	Low Profile Makes partial cover count as full.	Recon Scout the area, Marking all enemies in a large cone. Marked enemies take 10-20% more damage and lose 5 defense. Retains stealth.	Sticky Bomb Protocol Send the GREMLIN to attach a sticky bomb onto an enemy (does not alert the enemy). The sticky bomb will explode upon that enemy taking damage.
Gunnery Sergeant	Manual Override Lowers all ability cooldowns on a selected ally soldier by up to 3 turns.	Stealth Protocol Give a friendly unit concealment.	Napalm Protocol Send the GREMLIN to a location where it offloads a large volume of napalm, damaging and burning all nearby units.
Master Sergeant	Slave Drive Never ask when you can take. Gain the Haywire Protocol ability when equipped with a GREMLIN or BIT secondary. Additionally, your Full Override ability gains a bonus charge.	By My Command The first time you use an officer ability or a command ability per turn you will refund the action point used.	Capacitor Discharge Send the GREMLIN to a location where it emits a substantial electric discharge, damaging and disorienting non-robotic units. Robotic units take more damage.

XCOM Abilities

XCOM row abilities are able to be purchased when the Training Center is built. The cost is 10/10/15/20/25/30/35 AP by tier.

Tier 1 10 AP	Tier 2 10 AP	Tier 3 15 AP	Tier 4 20 AP	Tier 5 25 AP	Tier 6 30 AP	Tier 7 35 AP
Revival Protocol Send the GREMLIN to an ally to remove any negative mental status effects: Disoriented, Stunned, Panicked, or Unconscious.	Maim Fire a shot with your primary weapon that immobilizes the target until the end of their next turn. Uses 1 ammo. Has a 3 turn cooldown.	Lone Wolf Gain bonus Aim and Defense when at least 4 tiles distant from any ally, with a maximum of +12/+12 at 7+ tiles.	Hostage Protocol Send the GREMLIN to an enemy to take them hostage. The hostage can be used as full cover.	Interrogator At one point, this job involved dialogue. Gain +1 Skullmining charge when carrying the Skulljack.	Overkill Your ranged attacks deal +2 more damage to units at 50% HP or less.	First Strike While concealed or flanking your target, you deal +3 damage with your primary weapon.
Scrounger There is a chance of an extra loot drop whenever you are on a mission.	Stalker Gain +3 Mobility and +10 Aim while concealed.	ECM Enemies have 10% smaller detection range against all squad members.	Chasing Fire Once per turn, the soldier follows up an ally's attack with a reaction shot.	Shield Protocol Grant a friendly unit bonus ablative hit points.	Hunter's Instincts Ranged attacks against flanked enemies deal +2 damage.	Double Time Gain a bonus move action this turn. 3 turn cooldown.
Advice Share the tricks of the hunting trade with an ally. Raises chance to score a critical hit.	Damn Good Ground Confers +10 aim and +10 defense against targets at a lower elevation.	Holo Targeting Any directed primary weapon shot, hit or miss, will mark the target, increasing your squad's aim by +15 against this target.	Shadowborn The soldier is much more difficult to detect while concealed. Also, small bonuses to aim and crit while in concealment.	Lightning Reflexes Reaction fire shots against you have a significantly decreased chance to hit. The bonus goes down with each additional reaction shot you face.	Shredder Your primary weapon attacks shred armor.	Conceal Immediately enter concealment once per mission.
Ghostwalker Activate this ability to reduce enemy detection range against you by almost 25% for 2 turn(s).	Scout's Watch The soldier no longer has reaction fire penalties with overwatch and can crit, but can only watch over small regions.	Emergency Containment If the soldier takes enough damage to be killed, they are immediately put in Stasis for 1 turn and their health is only reduced to 1 HP. This can only happen once per mission.	Renewal Protocol Grants a unit HP regeneration every turn, and stabilizes and revives bleeding out or unconscious units.	Evasive Start each mission with 100 bonus dodge. The bonus is removed after you take damage for the first time.	Rocketeer Your rocket launcher or heavy weapon gains a bonus use.	Puppeteer Haywire Protocol no longer has a cooldown and doesn't end the turn.
Flashbanger Grants 1 free flashbang item to your inventory.	Extra Munitions Grants 1 free explosive grenade item to your inventory.	Medical Protocol The GREMLIN can perform healing actions remotely: GREMLIN Heal and GREMLIN Stabilize. The GREMLIN has a single charge. If a medikit is equipped, the GREMLIN will gain an additional charge.	Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns.	Disabling Shot Stun enemies with a precise shot, with a bonus stun duration if the shot crits. The shot can not do critical damage.	Sticky Bomb Attach a Sticky Bomb onto an enemy (does not alert the enemy). The next attack against that enemy is guaranteed to hit and it will detonate the bomb, dealing 5 damage and shredding 2 armor. 1 use(s) per mission.	Hit and Run Once per turn, gain an additional action after taking a standard shot at a flanked or exposed target with your primary weapon. Cannot trigger on the same turn as Close Encounters.
Triage Restores health to the user and surrounding allies. Removes Burning, Acid, and Poison.	Walk Fire Take a highly accurate shot with +30 bonus to hit 66% damage and -30 crit. Uses 2 ammo.	Field Surgeon Reduce wound recovery times for most soldiers.	Sensor Overlays All squad members get +10 Crit chance against enemies you can see.	Minelayer Provides one free proximity mine.	Winter Protocol Send the GREMLIN to deliver a cryogenic explosive. Deals cold damage and inflicts bitterfrost.	Restoration The GREMLIN flies to each squad member, healing or reviving them as needed.
Aid Protocol Command your GREMLIN to move to a friendly target. It grants that target a bonus to Defense until the start of the next player turn.	Combat Protocol Send the GREMLIN to an enemy to jolt them, dealing guaranteed damage, which is increased against robotic enemies.	Shadowstep This soldier does not trigger overwatch or reaction fire.	Burial Shot Fire a shot at a target. If this attack is lethal, its AP cost will be refunded.		Shadowstrike While concealed, gain +50 bonus aim and +50 bonus critical hit chance when attacking enemies.	Stasis Field Puts the Dragoon and all nearby units into stasis for one turn. Units in stasis cannot act and are immune to damage. Can be used once per mission.
Scanning Protocol The GREMLIN can trigger an instant scan of the area, increasing the Specialist's sight radius substantially for one turn, and revealing any hidden or disguised enemies in view. Free Action.		Reconnoiter Every 4 turns, as a free action, you can use a Battle Scanner.			Surefire Shot Fire a searing round that's sure to hit. Deals fire damage and inflicts burning.

Stat Progression

Rank
Per Level	Health	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
	Aim	2	2	1	2	2	1	2	2
	Will	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Hacking	50	8	7	7	7	7	7	7
Total	Health	0	0	1	1	1	2	2	2
	Aim	2	4	5	7	9	10	12	14
	Will	4	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
	Hacking	50	58	65	72	79	86	93	100

Tips

Hijackers are third gremlin class with innate ability to support our troops with the ability to permanently capture robotic units, or at least stun them for a long time. Full override it is and they start with it, Hijackers also start with Phantom and can learn plenty of support abilities so they have something to do once they are out of charge for their gremlin abilities. Hacking laptop is a must for this soldier. All robotic units that Hijacker stole that survived the mission will join the local haven as defenders, this garrison can grow quite massive and we can strengthen these units with our upgrades for proving ground units. So not just our robotic units will be better, so do the units at the local garrison.

Hijackers can only use a submachinegun, so their direct firepower is weak; they are a support class in essence. Hacking has its own share of problems of being mostly based on a chance, without failsafe, the attempted theft might make the situation much worse if it fails.

Hackers laptop can lower hack defense of robots, but requires direct line of sight and cannot be used at squadsight.

Try to soften up hack defenses before risking it, lowering hack defense with the laptop does not blow concealment so if you have the time...take your time.

All sort of robotic units can be stolen, even things XCOM could not fathom creating, like Sectopods. And yes, these will join the local Haven. Advent will discover where their massive robot went...

Hijackers should be trained out of either high hack rookies (for hacking duty) or the bottom of the barrel rookies with the worst stats imaginable (support role). Hijackers have the highest hack growth out of 3 gremlin classes, but in comparison they generally end up similar to their counterparts, their Full Override requires a higher hack score than Haywire. Hijacker perks in general are, outside of hacking, independent from stats so everyone can use them, stats be damned. Plus they are forced to carry an SMG, so their mobility will be above average by default.

See Also

XCOM Units in Ted Jam
LWOTC Soldiers	Assault Grenadier Gunner Ranger Sharpshooter Shinobi Specialist Technical
LWOTC Unlockables	Psi Operative SPARK Officers
Faction Heroes	Reaper Skirmisher Templar
Trainable Soldiers	Agent Akimbo Arsonist Buccaneer Combat Engineer Dragoon Heavy Hitman Hijacker Hoplite Hunter Infantry Juggernaut Recon Scrapper Stormtrooper Survivalist
Untrainable Soldiers	Crasher Keeper Stormrider Warden
MEC Troopers	MEC Assault MEC Heavy MEC Hellion MEC Protector MEC Reaper MEC Skirmisher MEC Sniper MEC Support MEC Templar
Playable ADVENT	Assault Trooper Bio Assault Trooper Bio Barrier Trooper Bio Captain Destroyer Commando Frost Captain Frost Lancer Frost Purifier Frost Technician Officer Pathfinder Pathfinder Hunter Priest Purifier Raptor Commando Shieldbearer Stunlancer Wraith Commando
Playable Aliens	Andromedon Archon Berserker Desolator Faceless Frost Adder Frost Bomber Frost Mamba Frost Necromancer Muton Beleaguer Muton Harrier Muton Hunter Muton Prowler Muton Sapper Muton Trooper Naja Python Sectoid Sectoid Abjurer Sidewinder Viper Viper Marauder Warmaster Winter Sentinel
Buildable Units	Junk SPARK Resistance MEC MEC Archer MEC Pyroclast Prototype Assault MEC Military Assault MEC Frost MEC Frost Droid ADVENT Drone Hunter Drone Enigma Drone Phase Drone SHIV Alloy SHIV Elerium SHIV Celatid Turret Alloy Celatid Turret Elerium Celatid Turret Chryssalid Hound