Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (GFL 2) Tier List
Prydwen's tier list for Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium that rates all currently available characters.
Last updated: 14/Jan/2025
Tier List
We are currently working on revamping the whole tier list. We have gathered a lot of feedback about the tier list and its flaws. Currently, the tier list tries to 'average' the character performance between generic content and bossing content. This clearly doesn't work. Instead, we will split the tier list into two:
- Generic Content - so everything with many monsters, like campaign, events etc,
- Bossing - so the real endgame like Guild Battles etc,
That split will allow us to better showcase the outliers like Klukay who is a god in Generic content even at V0, but she struggles in Bossing content until you get her V3 and since we rate all characters at V0, she will be rated lower there. The ETA for the revamp is before the next character is added to the Global server (so within 2-3 weeks)!
Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (GFL 2) is more of a collector/waifu game, but when it comes to combat, teams are more important than sole characters. A strong character without a proper team to support their playstyle/kit will struggle and not perform well. That's why when creating our tier list, we didn't look at the character in the vacuum and instead took into account their best teams and synergies. Also on their profiles, you will find their pros and cons + an overview of their playstyle.
The tier list was created with the help of multiple day 1 CN players and other veterans of the CN server who shared their knowledge and experience with us. Special thanks to - Made by RNGesus, koj and Hasilth from our staff and Ceia, Dr. Brom and Wewechoo who gave us additional feedback and information.
Tier Lists
- Global tier list focuses on early/mid game and shows the impact of the character on your progression through various PVE modes. Assumes non-optimal attachments and only Keys available early. PVP performance isn't include in the rating.
- CN tier list focuses on the late/end game and takes into account the performance of characters there based on how well they fit the current meta. Assumes optimal attachments builds and best Keys setup. PVP performance isn't include in the rating.
Categories
- Damage Dealer - Characters whose main role is to deal damage during the battle and that's their primary role,
- Amplifiers - Characters who help allies with buffs or hinder enemies with debuffs as their primary role,
- Healers - Characters who focus on keeping their allies alive via Heals or Shields, but they also can provide buffs (but to a lesser degree than Amplifiers),
- Tanks - Characters who are there to take the enemy attention and keep their allies alive.
Please keep in mind that some characters could fit multiple categories - for example Suomi - and in their case, we have picked the primary role they fill in combat as their default category.
Special Tag
Characters with the tag in the top left corner require specific teammates to perform at their full potential. If you can't give them who they want, they will perform below the rating given to them. We will soon provide a list of all very important synergies/pairings.
Criteria
Characters are evaluated as such:
- For Global tier list, both SR and SSR characters are rated at V0 (no dupes),
- For CN tier list, SSR characters are rated at V0 (no dupes) and SR characters are rated at V6 (max dupes),
- What's taken into consideration: raw power, versatility (teams and builds), utility (how unique or essential their kits are), how hard the characters are to play to their full potential,
- Characters are compared only within the same category when it comes to their placement on the tier list. So don't try to compare DPS with Sustains based on their ratings,
- Top Picks:
- S+ Tier: The absolute best at their category, while also offering extra benefits.
- S Tier: On par with the characters from S+ Tier, but lack the extra benefits that make the S+ Tier unique.
- Good Picks:
- A Tier: Compared to S tier characters, they have some sort of drawback - such as needing extra investment or a specific environment/characters to be paired with to work well.
- B Tier: Not bad, but definitely need investment or specific circumstances to shine and reach the same level of A Tier or above.
- Niche Picks:
- C Tier: Characters who work on very specific (niche) circumstances or who rarely play their role, functioning as a placeholder or substitute for characters who are from tiers above.
- D Tier: Underwhelming characters that have fully fallen out of the meta for various reasons and it's hard to make them viable.
14.01.2025
Added Daiyan to the Global tier list.
25.12.2024
After receiving feedback about the tier list, we've decided to change Vepley's category and adjust her rating.
- Vepley has been moved from DPS to Amplifier category. You don't really bring her to the battle for her damage (which is just okay), but for the damage taken debuff (which makes her decent on bosses) and other utility she provides. Her rating on Global has also been adjusted.
![Vepley]()
We also received additional feedback and are considering splitting the tier list from a generic one to two separate categories: Generic content and Bossing. Since different characters shine in different places, having a single rating that tries to average the performance isn't fair.
22.12.2024
We have updated both the Global tier list to account for upcoming characters announced to be coming to the game in a few days and also updated the CN tier list to include Springfield and Faye + their impact on the meta.
- Global tier list:
- Makiatto added to the tier list with S rating,
![Makiatto]()
- Papasha added to the tier list with B rating,
![Papasha]()
- Ksenia has been moved from Sustain to Amplifier category. Her buffs is the reason you bring her to the battle and her healing is secondary, so we decided to move her,
![Ksenia]()
- Sharkry B A. Even at V0, Sharkry proved to be way stronger in the Global server that we anticipated and is commonly used in various content, so we're raising her up a tier to distance her from the other characters available in the B tier,
![Sharkry]()
- Mosin-Nagant A B. With the release of Makiatto we're getting a much stronger Sniper who moving forward will be the primary choice for the role in the team. And the gap between their performance is big enough to warrant the drop of Mosing-Nagant down a tier.
![Mosin-Nagant]()
- CN tier list:
- Springfield added to the tier list with S+ rating. Springfield is Hydro support who excels both at buffing and healing her allies, but also doing quite a lot of damage herself. She's very like Suomi, but instead of Shielding, she focuses on overhealing and leans more into buffing/debuffing which is why she was placed in the Amplifier category,
![Springfield]()
- Faye added to the tier list with A rating. She's a DPS/Debuffer hybrid who can increase the Physical Damage taken by enemies. While this is quite a strong debuff, Physical element isn't in a good spot currently, but maybe it will change in the future,
![Faye]()
- Tololo B S. Tololo is a totally different character now with both her Mod Key and Springfield release. She finally has a Hydro support that can raise her potential to a whole new level, becoming a menace that can compete with the best DPS in the game - hell, she is one of the best DPS in the game now already at V0, but if you obtain more of her dupes, she becomes EVEN better (considering she's standard character),
![Tololo]()
- Zhaohui C B. Another Hydro character that benefited from the release of Springfield. The additional buffs help her with dealing damage and keep her save on the frontline,
![Zhaohui]()
- Ksenia A S. Ksenia is the best SR character in the game who can be slotted in quite a lot of teams when you need a buffer (with some side-healing on top), so we're raising her to better reflect that. She also has been moved from Sustain to Amplifier category. Her buffs is the reason you bring her to the battle and her healing is secondary,
![Ksenia]()
- Dushevnaya A B. Dush is in a pretty weird spot when you look at her performance at V0. While she is great pick the Freeze team, the buffs she brings are actually worse than some of the generic buffers can provide and she only becomes better with dupes. Since the tier list rates characters at their base kit, we have decided to drop Dush down a tier - as at V0 she isn't really a must have for the Freeze it and is more of a premium pick that you need to heavily invest into,
![Dushevnaya]()
- Centaureissi S A. Similar to Dush, centaureissi's performance at V0 is not good enough to keep her in the Top Picks category as she's basically a heal bot only then. That's why we have dropped her down a tier.
![Centaureissi]()
02.12.2024
Official release of the Global and CN tier lists.
28.11.2024
Initial release of the tier list page. Ratings are still in progress.
Tier List (Global - Early/Mid game)
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