Ultimate Guide to the Best Dushevnaya Build in Girls’ Frontline 2: Skills, Team Composition, and Weapons

The optimal build for Dushevnaya can significantly enhance your Freeze team in Girls’ Frontline 2, empowering you to defeat even the most formidable adversaries. As the latest character featured in the current limited banner, Dushevnaya brings unique capabilities to the battlefield as a Support unit wielding a sniper rifle that inflicts Freeze debuffs. This unique skill set weakens enemies, making them more vulnerable to subsequent attacks.

Whether you’re assembling a second team to challenge Deichgraf in the Boss Fight event or enhancing the effectiveness of existing characters like Suomi and Makiatto, Dushevnaya is an excellent addition. To unlock her full potential, it’s essential to equip her with the most effective weapon and complementary team composition.

Soul Banner Release Timeline

The Dushevnaya banner launched on February 6, 2025, and will be available until February 26, 2025. During this promotional period, players have a 50% chance of acquiring Dushevnaya when drawing an Elite Doll, alongside enhanced drop rates for the SR characters Krolik and Littara.

Understanding Soul

Belonging to the Elite Doll (SSR) category, Dushevnaya operates within the Support class. Her primary functions include augmenting her team’s Freeze damage and applying Area-of-Effect (AoE) Freeze debuffs to incapacitate her opponents effectively.

Her characterization presents her as a “highly sensitive Doll who has lost her neural records, ” perpetually searching for her past while dedicated to fulfilling others’ requests.

Soul’s Skill Set

Dushevnaya utilizes her long-range sniper rifle to inflict Freeze damage and offers considerable attack buffs that affect allied units within a seven-tile radius. Here is an in-depth overview of her abilities:

Basic Attack

Ability Name	Description
Daybreak (Targeted, Heavy Ammo)	Select 1 enemy target within 8 tiles to deal Physical damage equal to 80% of your attack power.

Active Skills

Ability Name	Description
Hero’s Code (Targeted, Heavy Ammo)	Select 1 enemy target within 8 tiles to deal Physical damage equal to 110% of your attack power. For each enemy unit that falls under a Freeze debuff, gain 1 stack of Ice’s Grace.

Second Active Skill

Ability Name	Description
Marzanna’s Sanction (Ice debuff tile)	Choose 1 tile within 6 tiles to inflict AoE Freeze damage equal to 50% of your attack power on all nearby enemies, while creating a Frost tile for 2 turns. The next use will enhance the skill, increasing damage to 70% and applying Frigid status for 1 turn. This enhancement can only activate once until the skill is used again. Achieving a full Confectance Index allows for immediate reuse of this skill.

Ability Name

Description

Marzanna’s Sanction (Ice debuff tile)

Choose 1 tile within 6 tiles to inflict AoE Freeze damage equal to 50% of your attack power on all nearby enemies, while creating a Frost tile for 2 turns. The next use will enhance the skill, increasing damage to 70% and applying Frigid status for 1 turn. This enhancement can only activate once until the skill is used again. Achieving a full Confectance Index allows for immediate reuse of this skill.

Ultimate Skill

Ability Name	Description
Book of Prophecy (Buff, Support)	Grants 1 stack of Arctic Benediction to all friendly units within 7 tiles, adds 2 points to Confectance Index, and activates Glacial Domain for 2 turns. While in Glacial Domain, if Confectance Index is 0 at the end of a turn, gain an additional 2 points.

Passive Skill

Ability Name	Description
Blessed Artwork (Buff)	Increases damage dealt by all friendly units by 10%, with an additional 10% boost for Freeze damage. At the end of each turn, gain 2 points of Confectance Index. Maintaining HP above 80% reduces Stability Damage by 1 point and grants Insight, which extends the range of all non-Ultimate Active Skills and support attacks by 1 tile.

Key Equipment for Shower

Lance of Longinus: Each excess Ice’s Grace stack above the limit enhances the critical rate of Hero’s Code by 5%, up to a maximum of 30%.
Adventurer’s Will: When an active attack targets a single enemy, increases Freeze damage by 20% and stability damage by 2 points.
Magical Support: Activating Freeze tiles can trigger a tile reaction, clearing enemy buffs and awarding Ice’s Grace stacks.
Courageous Claymore: Causes Defense Down II to targets entering Stability Break from Marzanna’s Sanction for 2 turns.
Heart of the Sage: Grants immunity to movement debuffs while under Glacial Domain.
Holy Light: Cleanses 2 debuffs at the turn’s start if standing on an allied Freeze tile.

Common Key Equipment

Artistic Inspiration: Increases Phase damage by 10% against immobile targets or those with mobility equal to or less than the user.

Recommended Weapon for Soul

The Eulogistic Verse rifle is the top weapon for Dushevnaya. This signature sniper rifle bypasses 10% of a target’s defense when exploiting a phase weakness, increasing to 20% against enemies weak to ice, which harmonizes perfectly with Dushevnaya’s Freeze mechanics.

Additionally, Eulogistic Verse amplifies damage output whenever Insight is active or if an enemy is afflicted with a Freeze debuff. This combination allows players to inflict significant damage on frail targets and considerably weaken sturdy ones.

For those unable to acquire Eulogistic Verse, Makiatto’s signature weapon, Bittersweet Caramel, is a solid alternative if obtained during her banner event.Samosek, available at no cost through Redundant Pieces, is another strong option.

If all else fails, the Walther WA 2000 serves as the best free-to-play SR weapon. Below is a summary of each weapon’s traits and effects:

Weapon	Trait	Effect
Eulogistic Verse (SSR)	Exploiting phase weakness ignores 10% of the target’s defense, further increasing to 20% against Freeze weaknesses.	While Insight is active, damage increases by up to 20%.Attacks on Frozen targets enhance Freeze damage significantly.
Bittersweet Caramel (SSR)	Boosts damage against Paradeus units by 2.5%.if the target is Frozen, this bonus increases.	Raises Freeze damage dealt by 10% per four instances of damage dealt outside the user’s turn.
Samosk (USSR)	Ignores 1 point of Stability index; additional reduction when Insight is gained.	Phase damage increases by 10%.
Walther WA 2000 (SR)	Ignores 10% defense, with an additional 10% for targets with Freeze debuffs.	When HP is above 80%, off-turn damage increases.

Optimizing Your Dushevnaya Team Composition

To maximize Dushevnaya’s effectiveness, it’s crucial to surround her with characters whose abilities complement her Freeze capabilities. For the most synergy, consider the following team composition:

Macchiato (DPS)
Finland (Support/Healer)
Soul (Support/Debuffer)
Qiongjiu/Tololo/Sharkry (DPS)

Dushevnaya specializes in debilitating her enemies with Freeze debuffs, making her an integral part of a Freeze-focused team. Makiatto will further boost damage output, while Suomi’s support and healing capabilities will keep the team resilient in battle. Networking with characters like Qiongjiu can add significant single-target damage potential as she happens to be the highest performing DPS Doll available.

In scenarios where enemies resist Freeze, Qiongjiu’s additional Burn damage offers a strategic advantage by allowing players to exploit a variety of enemy weaknesses consistently.

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