Girls Frontline 2: Exilium – How to Beat First Gunsmoke Guild Boss

Important Abilities, Turn Rundown and Some Tips

By Dr. Brom

Most Important Abilities

Scattered Cross Prison

Boss loses 2 stability per hit. If you have Papasha in your squad, soak every cross with all 6 units (Papasha bot counts), boss will receive 50% def debuff for 2 turns. Boss takes less damage with more stability present, its important to break it to deal more damage.

Sword of Damocles

Boss will mark closest target on this turn, in the end of the next turn boss will shoot selected target. The more HP target will have after the attack, the bigger debuff boss will receive. 30% + 5% for each 10% HP above 65% of target HP. You should soak this attack with shields and defence abilities, target must be fully healed.

City Warden’s Protection (Buff)

Boss applies defence buff on itself, you need to cleanse it to get attack buff. This buff can be stacked.

Characters with Cleanse Abilities:

Qiongjiu

Tololo

  • Vepley (Skill 2)
  • Daiyan (Skill 1)
  • Peritia (Skill 1)

Any SMG doll with Classified Manuscript (BP SMG)

Buff also can be cleansed with thermal recovery but only on turns 1 and 4.

Note: Any cleanse will dispel all 3 layers of buff in one go.

Important: It’s more effective to run two balanced teams than try to get maximum score with one and then get poor number on second run. Latter boss HP layers provide less points than initial first layers. Optimise your runs in a way to have balanced teams to follow boss mechanics and get better scores. You can restart guild boss fight as much as you want.

Turn Analysis

Turn #1

Boss has full stability and no debuffs, concentrate on stability break and just do damage. If you using Wawa V2+, ult on second turn, not this turn. If you have thermal recovery, boss will be automatically cleansed on this turn. This cleanse is only possible on turns 1 and 4. If you have Papasha, all units soak Cross. If you dont have papasha, you can put Wawa away from cross range to save her fixed key atk buff. Boss will lose stability by each cross hit.

Papasha should be placed on the middle spawn point so her robot also got hit.

Papasha should have key that disables robot movement.

Turn #2

Cleanse boss if you havent yet. Choose Sword target. Boss marks closest target. If you have Wawa, you can soak Sword with her shield. Wawa V2+ ults this turn to maximise her damage output.

Turn #3

Cleanse boss. Doll with Sword mark should be fully healed and have shields/defence abilities applied. If you have Papasha, all units soak Cross. If no Papasha, soak this ability depending on boss stability. If boss has 0 stability, soaking is optional. On this turn use Suomi ult as last action so her shields last on turn 5.

Turn #4

Just do damage. If you have thermal recovery, boss will be automatically cleansed on this turn. If you have Papasha, all units soak Cross. If no Papasha, soak this ability depending on boss stability. If boss have 0 stability, soaking is optional. 

Turn #5

Cleanse boss. Choose Sword target. Boss marks closest target. If you have Wawa, you can soak Sword with her shield. On this turn Suomi can apply Skill 2 shield on Wawa so Wawa dont get hit. If you used Suomi ultimate on turn 3 the right way, Suomi shield may last on this turn.

Turn #6

Cleanse boss. Wawa V2+ ults this turn to maximize her damage output. Doll with mark should be fully healed and have shields/defence abilities applied. If you have Papasha, all units soak Cross. If no Papasha, soak this ability depending on boss stability. If boss have 0 stability, soaking is optional. Prioritise your damage abilities on this and next turns.

Turn #7

Just do damage. Prioritise your damage abilities on this turn.

Boss Run Examples

Guild Boss #1:

Guild Boss #2:

Boss Distance Tips

Boss Distance Count

Note that Cross range is 6 tiles. There is a boss affix for range attack damage increase. 

New Data!

Apparently, required distance of this affix is either bugger or was changed. Actual distance for this affix is fewer than 6 tiles and not the same it was on CN season. Please, refer to new image below.

New range is based on testing today. Refer to pictures and video below for testing results.

  • Example #1: Damage outside of affix effective range.
  • Example #2: Damage inside of affix effective range.

Recording of the process:

Boss Targeting Tip

If distance from 2 dolls are equal, boss will target doll which was first in the echelon list. Lets say QJ and Nemesis are on equal distance from boss (picture below). Boss will target QJ.

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