Jump Combatant

"Jump Combatant - Gets in Tails' way by jumping."

- Description from Japanese manual of Tails Adventure

Jump Combatants (ジャンプ戦闘員), are enemies in Tails Adventure. They are small anthropomorphic avian foot soldiers of the Battle Kukku Empire, who are able to attack on their target by simply jumping on them.

Appearance
Jump Combatants are humanoid birds about the same size as Tails. They have pointy orange beaks and feet and a white plumage. They are wearing grey combat helmets with black goggles as covering their heads and they also wear grey overalls.

Powers and abilities
Jump Combatants are really balanced soldiers without any weapons, who can do large leaps to attack their target or roll logs towards water targets.

Overview
In Tails Adventure, Jump Combatants are found in Polly Mountain 1. Usually being individually placed, they are moving on the one place until the player approaches as it then starts hopping. Jump Combatant will then try to do leap after the third hop while jumping into Tails's neck while damaging him. If Tails is not enough close to them, Jump Combatants will jump straight up instead. Due the uneven terrain, it is extremely tricky to dodge their jumps as the player has to attack first by throwing any type of Bomb back at them.

Jump Combatants appear later in Lake Rocky, where they are rolling logs downstream, getting to the player's way as trying to proceed in the direction of the upstream on the Sea Fox. The player has to use Vulcan Gun to defeat these variations. In both cases, defeating Jump Combatant can sometimes cause a Ring to be dropped for the player to collect.