Dexerto/SunbornThe best Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium characters can give you a huge advantage over your enemies and even turn the tide of the toughest fight. So, to help you dominate on the battlefield, our GFL2 tier list has ranked every character in the global version of the game.
Knowing who the best characters are in Girls’ Frontline 2 is incredibly useful, especially if you want to get through the mid to late-game content. While all Dolls have unique skills and playstyles, there are meta options every player needs to add to their roster for the best experience.
Whether you’ve just started your adventure or want to know who you should reroll for on the current banner, our tier list has you covered.
Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium tier list
Our tiers explained
- S: These are the best characters that offer a lot of value
- A: Very good
- B: There might be situations where these can perform well
- C: Best to avoid unless you find yourself drawn to them
It’s important to note that this tier list is based solely on the global version of Girls’ Frontline 2 and does not include characters exclusive to the Chinese server. We’ll continue to update the rankings as new Dolls are added or balance shifts shake things up.
In the current meta, Qiongjiu, Klukai, Suomi, Makiatto, and Vector still dominate the S-tier, with no sign of dropping off anytime soon. These five define the strongest team comps in the game right now.
Meanwhile, Daiyan, Mosin-Nagant, Lotta, and Nemesis have settled into the A-tier. They’re still strong picks, just slightly outpaced by the top performers.
Several Dolls, like Mechty and Zhaohui, remain in B-tier for now, while others such as Vepley and Cheeta struggle to stand out. Characters like Krolik, Littara, and Nagant continue to occupy the C-tier, where scaling issues and lack of synergy keep them from seeing much play.
S-Tier characters in Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium
Klukai
Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Corrosion
Klukai is an Elite Doll who deals incredible Corrosion damage. She especially excels at AoE attacks and can take down multiple enemies. On top of her stellar damage, she can also provide defensive debuffs.
Finally, when she’s paired up with fellow Corrosion damage dealer Peritya, her AoE moves will automatically trigger the Doll’s Action Support, increasing Peritya’s overall damage output even more. She’s a fantastic unit overall and is worth adding to any team comp.
Suomi
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Freeze
Suomi is the best Support character in Girls’ Frontline 2. Her kit is tailored around tanking damage and providing her allies with tanky shields that sponge incoming attacks. If that wasn’t enough, her ultimate heals all allied units and cleanses enemy debuffs.
Despite being classified as a Support character, Suomi also deals great damage as well. In fact, the more defense points Suomi has, the more damage she will deal to her enemies. Thanks to her potent combination of shields, heals, and damage, Suomi fits onto every team comp.
You can give our best Suomi build guide a read before you start using her in the game.
Makiatto
Dexerto / Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Freeze
Makiatto is a fantastic damage dealer in the current meta. Due to her Freeze typing, she also pairs extremely well with Suomi, which means you’ve got a great core for a Freeze team.
As well as dealing Physical and Freeze damage to enemies, Makiatto gains a Frost Barrier for 2 turns with her Ultimate. As Soumi has the same skill, you can easily restore the Barrier if it’s depleted, which is all the more reason to use them together on the battlefield.
Make sure to check out our Makiatto build guide before you slot her into team comps.
Qiongjiu
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Burn
Qiongjiu is the best character in Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium, thanks to her great DPS potential from her passive – Steady Plan. This allows her to provide three additional follow-up attacks whenever an enemy unit receives damage from an ally.
This extra damage potential makes her a must for any team comp, especially in the late-game, where enemies have a lot more health. Qiongjiu also has split damage between both Physical and Burn, meaning she can shred through even the tankiest foes.
Vector
Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Burn
Vector is a must-pick unit for any player looking to run a Burn elemental team. This SSR character wields a deadly SMG, which she uses to unleash Burn debuffs on her enemies.
Vector’s passive (Perception Block) is particularly potent when paired with QJ, as it increases the number of support attacks that deal Burn damage by 1. When this dynamic duo is paired together, there’s nothing your enemies can do to withstand the barrage of burning bullets.
Springfield
SunbornSpringfield is an SSR Support Doll in Girls’ Frontline 2, who was released globally on July 3, 2025. She provides long‑range healing, team‑wide buffs, and debuff cleansing while generating Confectance Index to trigger extra actions.
She’s already proven essential in Hydro‑focused teams, with the meta lineup of Springfield, Tololo, Mechty, and Klukai dominating both PvE stages and boss fights. Springfield keeps mobile allies alive from range and amplifies Tololo’s damage, making her a cornerstone for sustain‑heavy, Hydro‑centric compositions in the current GFL2 meta.
A-Tier characters
Daiyan
Dexerto / Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Vanguard
- Damage: Physical
Daiyan sits comfortably in A-tier because she’s great at setting the stage but not stealing it.
She’s built for boss fights thanks to Perfect Tuning, which disrupts enemy buffs and helps your real damage dealers hit harder. When you pair her with the Heavy Chord Rifle, she can even remove enemy buffs and grant random team buffs at full health.
That’s solid utility, especially early in a fight. But in today’s meta, where raw damage and synergy combos dominate, Daiyan plays more of a setup role. She’s reliable and clever, just not the type to carry the whole squad.
Still, she’s a strong Vanguard unit who can slot into multiple team comps and make a big impact in battle. For the best way to play her, check out our full Daiyan build guide.
Centaureissi
Dexerto / Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Fire
Centaureissi is an Elite Support unit that specializes in Fire damage. She’s a fantastic Doll to have if you’re looking to build a powerful Burn team. Her Fire can both damage enemies and heal her teammates.
Centaureissi’s Afternoon Tea Break ultimate can restore 100% of her attack power to all her allies, as well as restore up to seven points of Stability damage for a single unit and cleanse debuffs.
Overall, she’s not the strongest Burn unit in the entire game, but her versatility makes her a great pick, which is why we’ve placed her in the A-tier.
Lotta
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Freeze
Lotta has some incredibly strong AoE attacks, which enable her to blast nearby enemies with deadly shotgun blasts. Her Passive is particularly potent when an enemy has the Frostbite debuff, as she’ll perform a follow-up attack that deals a whopping 50% attack power as AoE Physical damage.
Her Ultimate (Amplified Courage) also ignores damage reduction from cover and gives you an extra command if you successfully hit two or more targets.
Lotta earns her A-tier spot thanks to strong freeze synergy and reliable AoE. She’s a chaos engine in crowd control fights and pairs well with freeze comps built around Suomi and Makiatto. However, the drawback with her is that you’ll have to deal with her long cooldowns.
Mosin-Nagant
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Electric
As any WW2 buff will be able to tell, Mosin-Nagant is your typical Sniper character. She comes packed with a long-range rifle capable of shutting down enemies from across the map. If her high-damage shots weren’t enough, her Ultimate and Active Skills all apply the Paralysis debuff to her enemies.
The only thing keeping Mosin-Nagant from being placed in a higher tier is her lack of mobility. In fact, she can quickly get overwhelmed if she gets caught out of position. Instead, you’ll want to sit Mosin-Nagant at the back of the map, behind the safety of her allies.
Ksenia
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Burn
If you didn’t luck out and manage to get Suomi, then Ksenia is the second-best Support character in Girls’ Frontline 2. Her kit is tailored around applying the Burn debuff to her enemies, while also providing life-saving heals to allied targets.
Additionally, her Ultimate and Passive apply Blazing Assault 2 to herself and an ally, which increases attack by 15%. Even with the buffs to her attack, Ksenia just doesn’t have as much DPS potential as Suomi and should only be used if you’re looking to build a Burn team comp or have yet to unlock Suomi.
Sharkry
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Burn
Sharkry is one of the best single-target characters in the game. All of her skills are tailored around instantly bursting down priority targets with a deluge of high-powered shots from her Assault Rifle. Her passive increases her crit rate by a whopping 20% when a target is inflicted with the Overburn, which can consistently be applied with her active skills.
We recommend running Sharkry alongside other Burn characters like Tololo, as she’ll be able to trigger her damage buff more often. Sharkry’s AR can also hit enemies from up to eight tiles away, so she also has the opportunity to snipe distant targets.
Tololo
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Hydro
Tololo is the best Doll for early to mid-game content in Girls’ Frontline 2. Just like Qiongjiu, Tololo has an incredibly strong Passive ability. Unlike other Dolls in the game, she can take two turns at the start of battle and whenever her Confectance Index is at full capacity.
Qiuhua
SunbornQiuhua is an SSR Support/Debuff Doll in Girls’ Frontline 2, known for her ability to control the battlefield with AoE debuffs and enemy disruption. She specializes in applying Corrosion and movement‑impairing effects, which lower enemy defenses and set up high‑damage openings for allied DPS units. Her skills also allow her to generate Confectance Index, supporting faster team rotations, and she can provide situational healing and sustain when positioned in backline support roles.
In the current meta, Qiuhua is valued for boss fights and crowd‑control setups, pairing well with damage dealers like Tololo and Klukai who can capitalize on her defense‑shredding debuffs. While she doesn’t offer the raw healing of Springfield, her ability to weaken enemies and control engagements makes her a consistent pick in PvE stages and high‑level content where survival depends on keeping enemies locked down.
Sabrina
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Bulwark
- Damage: Hydro
Sabrina is your typical tank and works best when rushing her enemies to deliver deadly blasts with her shotgun. Her skills revolve around delivering AoE Hydro damage to nearby enemies, which works wonders if you happen to pair her with Tololo.
This is because whenever a unit deals Hydro damage to a target, Tololo will receive a buff to her crit rate and critical damage by 3%, stacking up to 8 times. Combine this with Sabrina’s own attack buffs and counterattacks, and you have an incredibly potent duo that can mop up the battlefield.
Vepley
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Vanguard
- Damage: AoE Physical damage/Debuffer
Vepley is one of the free Girls’ Frontline 2 characters and is a Vanguard who uses her shotgun to knock back enemies.
When compared to other Vanguard units, Vepley struggles to shine. She doesn’t deal very much damage and her knockback can prove detrimental to her team, leading to frustrating scenarios where your allies can no longer reach the target.
Nemesis
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Corrosion
Nemesis earns her spot in A-tier for being a dependable backline corrosion dealer who makes life easier for your main DPS.
She can hit enemies from nine tiles out and applies a defense down debuff that helps your team punch through bulky targets. That range alone keeps her safe, and the utility she brings fits perfectly into late-game comps where bosses start stacking armor.
She’s not as explosive as other Sentinels, but she doesn’t need to be. Her job is to weaken the enemy and stay alive while your top units clean up.
B-Tier characters
Dushevnaya
Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Freeze
Dushevnaya is a Support unit that specializes in Freeze damage. She can provide a 10% Freeze and damage buff to her allies in combat. Unfortunately, when compared to Suomi, she’s not nearly as impactful in the current meta, which makes it difficult to recommend pulling for her.
Despite her lack of healing and shielding, however, Dushevnaya is an excellent ice buffer for the team, which can help allies capitalize on enemies that have been weaken, allowing for a smoother fight overall when you play your cards right.
Ullrid
This instantly gives her access to her most damaging abilities, allowing you to tear through your foes with incredible speed. While she may drop off in the late game when enemy units have more health, this character can easily carry you through the early and mid-game missions.
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Vanguard
- Damage: Physical
Ullrid is the very definition of bringing a knife to a gunfight. This highly mobile Vanguard character prefers to slice and dice her enemies, ditching the rifle and choosing to hone her skills as a deadly swordmaster.
While running into the fray may seem counterintuitive, Ullrid’s high mobility and camouflage can keep her from falling in combat. We recommend dealing damage with your range characters before sending Ullrid in to mop up the remaining units.
Colphne
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Hydro
Colphne is the most basic Support in Girls’ Frontline 2. She is the game’s archetypal healer and doesn’t bring anything else to her team. She’s only useful in the very early game when you lack other Support options — and even then, it’s often best to run DPS and tank units instead.
While her heals can turn the tide of a tough battle, the other Support options come packed with other damage buffs and utility-based skills that far surpass Colphne. One reason why she’s not in the bottom of this list, however, is that she’s great at getting stability back.
Groza
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Bulwark
- Damage: Physical
Groza is your archetypal tank character. Her Active skills provide nearby allies with defensive buffs (up to 30%) and decrease enemy movements by two tiles.
This might not sound like much, but it can be really useful when you need to kite a powerful enemy or simply wish to keep them from hitting your squishy DPS units.
Mecthy
Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Corrosion
As as a support, Mechty can help shred through tougher bosses thanks to her damage amplifying nature and the ability to deal AoE Corrosion damage.
However, she needs to have good synergy if you want her truly shine, making her not ‘a must pull.’ She’s not exactly the worst Doll, but given that she’s outclassed by other characters who deal similar damage, she currently sits in the B-tier.
Cheeta
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Burn
There’s just one word to describe Cheeta: buffs. This Support character just loves handing out buffs to her allies.
When activated, Cheeta’s Ultimate grants two random buffs to all allied targets for two turns. The only catch here is that they are random and don’t always prove that useful when compared to the other Supports in the game.
Cheeta is B-tier because her kit lacks consistency. She hands out two random buffs with her ultimate, but they’re unreliable and often underwhelming. While her passive healing is nice, she doesn’t offer the utility or synergy that top supports bring.
Papasha
Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Physical
Papasha is a Sentinel unit that specializes in dealing Physical damage and removing debuffs. She also summons a City Warden at the start of battle, who can grant the user a 20% attack boost whenever the Warden lands a critical hit of their own.
Papasha is fantastic in Platoon content, but outside of that, she’s not the strongest Physical pick in the current meta, so she’s sitting comfortably in our B-tier for now.
Zhaohui
Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Vanguard
- Damage: Hydro
Zhaohui is the newest addition to the game, bringing a kit that allows you to deal Physical and Hydro damage. She can summon Imperturable Arrow on multiple tiles and has decent mobility to deal with enemies.
That said, the lack of her damage makes her a tricky character to run, as you really have to build your team well to play around her. Right now, though, there are just many different options that are better than her.
C-Tier characters
Peritya
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: Corrosion
Peritya is an SSR Sentinel character that comes equipped with an LMG. Her kit is tailored around peppering her enemies with both physical and AoE Corrosive shots.
While the added AoE damage is particularly potent in the early game, mid to late-game enemies benefit from single-target bursts, which are much more effective at taking down deadly targets before they can unleash their devastating attacks.
Yoohee
Sunborn- Rarity: SSR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Physical
Yoohee is a Physical Support character in Girls Frontline 2 who is known for her buffing abilities, which boost damage and reduce enemy defenses. She works best when paired with single-target DPS units like Daiyan and Ullrid, who greatly benefit from her damage-enhancing abilities.
However, the global version of GFL2 is currently lacking in Physical damage type Dolls, which makes Yoohee rather ineffective in the current meta. Her lack of sustain and map-wide heals make her a niche pick when compared meta supports like Suomi.
Nagant
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Support
- Damage: Corrosion
Not to be confused with Mosin-Nagant, Nagant is a Support who uses her handgun to apply Acid Corrosion damage to her targets. When this 30% defense debuff is used in coordination with the additional 10% defense debuff from her Ultimate, you have a decent chance to dish out damage from your main DPS.
However, the lack of any other utility outside the stun and defensive debuffs just makes Nagant rather obsolete. This is especially true when so many characters have her skills as part of their kit.
Littara
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Sentinel
- Damage: AoE Physical damage/Debuffer
Littara is all about laying down fire with her LMG, delivering defensive down debuffs and AoE damage. This may sound fantastic on paper, but her overall damage (834 at max level) is on the low side, putting her behind other DPS options in the Sentinel class.
Because of this, we recommend only using Littara in the early game and switching her out for meta options like Qiongjiu and Tololo.
Krolik
Dexerto/Sunborn- Rarity: SR
- Class: Vanguard
- Damage: Burn
Krolik is a worse version of Ullrid and should only be added to your team if you want a Vanguard sword unit. While her added Burn damage can be potent in Fire teams, her max damage (770) is way lower than her SSR counterpart (921).
There’s also the fact that she is squishier than Ullrid, an area that you really don’t want for a frontline unit whose purpose is to get up close and personal with the enemy.
As more Dolls are added, we’ll be sure to recommend further team comps to our list.
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