Best Daiyan build in Girls’ Frontline 2: Abilities, team comp & weapons

Daiyan is an Elite character in Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium with powerful abilities, Keys, and options for impactful team comps.

As a tough SSR Vanguard, Daiyan is known for her ability to remove enemy buffs and eliminate them before they can even attack. She’s ideal to have on hand during boss encounters. Before you pull on Daiyan’s banner though, it’s important to read up on her best build in Girls Frontline 2.

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Abilities

This Vanguard uses her AR to deal physical damage to her enemies, while also debuffing them with her Active Skill — Perfect Tuning.

Her passive also gives her Tuning stacks, which increase her damage and give her the ability to intercept enemy attacks before receiving damage. You can read Daiyan’s full ability breakdown below:

Basic Attack

ABILITY NAME	DESCRIPTION
Plucking Strings (Targeted, Medium Ammo)	Deals Physical damage to one enemy within a six tile radius. (Equal to 80% of Daiyan’s attack)

Active Skill

ABILITY NAME	DESCRIPTION
Perfect Tuning (Targeted, Dispel, Light Ammo)	Choose one enemy target within six tiles, dispel one buff, and deal Physical damage equal to 150% of Daiyan’s attack power.

Active Skill

ABILITY NAME	DESCRIPTION
Qing Shang Harmony (Buff)	Gains three stacks of Tuning, as well as Pitch Perfect for one turn. Gains one instance of Extra Command.

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Ultimate

ABILITY NAME	DESCRIPTION
Subtle Resonance (Targeted, Buff, Medium Ammo)	Select one enemy target within six tiles and deal Physical damage equal to 190% of Daiyan’s attack power. For each stack of Tuning, reduce this skill’s cooldown by one turn. After the attack, consume all stacks of Tuning and gain one stack of Permanent Tuning, stacking up to three times.

Passive Skill

ABILITY NAME

DESCRIPTION

Swift Harmony (Interception)

At the start of the action, gain one point of Confectance Index and one stack of Tuning. When performing an active attack against a target not protected by Cover, gains one point of Confectance Index. Before taking targeted damage, if the number of Tuning stacks is greater than two, launches Interception, dealing light ammo Physical damage equal to 150% of attack and four points of Stability damage, and permanently gains one stack of Tuning. This can be triggered once per turn. If the number of Tuning stacks is greater than three, increases damage dealt by 20%.

Keys

• Resonance: While you have Tuning, gain one extra tile of movement.
• Ascending to the Heavens: At the start of battle, gain three points of Confectance Index.
• Smoke and Melody: For each additional tile of movement, increase critical hit rate by 10%.
• Melodious Heartfelt: If your movement is greater than the target’s, gain one stack of Tuning before performing an Active Skill.
• Shattering the Formation: For every three stacks of Tuning, when using the Active Skill Perfect Tuning, additionally dispel one buff.
• Flowing Fragrance: After using the Active Skill Qing Shang Harmony, if a kill is made during this turn, restore 20% of your maximum health and two points of Stability Index.

Common Key

Stone and Silk Split: At the start of action, gain Movement Boost I, lasting one turn. Cooldown one turn.

Best Daiyan weapon

The best Daiyan weapon is the Heavy Chord rifle.

This signature firearm gives her one random buff whenever she’s at full health at the start of each action. If that wasn’t enough, Heavy Chord also has the chance to Dispel one buff from the target before attacking.

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It synergizes incredibly well with her Perfect Tuning ability, which also debuffs the target. This is incredibly useful during boss fights and where the target often ramps up their defense or damage.

Failing that, you can also use the Golden Melody, Planeta, and Type 95 – the latter being a great option for F2P and limited-spend accounts. You can read all the traits and effects for each weapon in the table below:

Weapon	Trait	Effect
Heavy Chord (SSR)	If the unit has full HP at the start of the action, they gain a random buff for 1 turn.	Has 20/36/52/68/84/100% chance to Dispel 1 buff from the target before attacking. For every 3/3/3/2/2/1 tiles moved, damage dealt increases by 5/7.5/10/10/10/10% (up to 10/15/20/20/20/20%). Critical damage against targets without cover increases by 10/10/10/10/15/20%.
Golden Melody (SSR)	If the unit has full HP at the end of the action, they gain a random buff, lasting for 1 turn.	Increase damage dealt by 10/10/15/20/20/20%. When gaining buffs, increase damage dealt by the next support attack by 10/15/15/15/20/20%, and grants 1/1/1/1/1/2 stacks stacking up to 2/2/3/3/4/4 times.
Planeta	If the unit has full HP at the start of the action, they gain 1 random attack buff for 1 turn.	When a kill is made or after this unit’s Extra Action ends, damage dealt by active skills is increased by 4/5/5/5/5/5%, stacking up to 5/5/6/7/8/8 times by 1/1/2/2/2/3 times. After reaching 5/5/6/7/8/8 stacks, gain 2/3/3/3/3/4 tiles of Additional Movement after active attack.
Type 95	If the unit has full HP at the start of the action, they gain a random buff for 1 turn.	If extra movement points are available at the start of your turn, the next damage dealt is increased by 10/12/14/16/18/20%.

Best team comp

We’d recommended using the following team comp with Daiyan in Girls Frontline 2:

• Daiyan (DPS/Debuffer)
• Makiatto (DPS)
• Suomi (Healer)
• Qiongjiu (DPS)

This team has amazing damage output thanks to the two best single-target damage dealers — Makiatto and Qionjiu. In fact, with both, of these units you’ll be constantly triggering support attacks and interception which will enable you to damage your foes before they can even land a hit.

Even if your enemy does manage to make it through your firing squad, Suomi’s shield will keep your DPS units out of harm’s way. This pint-sized healer also lowers the defense units with her Freeze debuff, which makes them even weaker to Makiatto’s long-range shots.

Daiyan release date

Daiyan was released on January 15, 2025, and her limited banner is available until February 5, 2025.

During this time, players can spend their Targeted Access Permissions for a chance to add her to their team.

That’s all you need to know about the best Daiyan build in Girls Frontline 2: Exilium. For more on the game, check out all the upcoming characters, events, and the codes you can redeem.