The Best Skill Cards for Dani in Dead Island 2

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Once you have the best Skill Cards for Dani in Dead Island 2, she will be a hard Slayer to put down. Her Stamina is remarkable, and she puts out good damage for consistent hard hits. The right Skill Cards will elevate her natural abilities and work well with her Innate Skills. We’ll help you design a reliable Dani build to succeed in Dead Island 2.

The Best Skill Cards for Dani in Dead Island 2

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In Dead Island 2, Skill Cards are a necessary feature if you want to improve your Slayer. You’ll have to loot, steal, or otherwise find dozens of them throughout your time in the game. When it comes to a Slayer like Dani, you’ll want Skill Cards to enhance her natural ability as an enduring, hard-hitting survivor. It is demonstrated well by her Innate Skills:

Bloodlust: Regain health when Dani slays multiple zombies in quick succession
Thunderstruck: When her heavy attacks land, they trigger a forceful explosion

The best Dead Island 2 Skill Cards for Dani allow her to kill quickly and efficiently. We’ve listed our recommended build below:

Abilities: Dodge, Drop Kick, Dash Strike, Blood Rush, Spitting Cobra
Survivor Skills: Invigorating, The Limb Reaper, Serial Killer, Vivisuction
Slayer Skills: Breakdancer, Group Therapy, Hack and Dash, Heavy Hitter
Numen Skills: Born Survivor and Glass Cannon

Best Skill Cards for Dani – Explained

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Abilities

Dani’s Abilities will work well with her high stats and see her put out great damage while building up her Fury:

Dodge: Defensive dodge that can help Dani regain Stamina and leave zombies stunned
Drop Kick: A Jump Kick attack that causes low damage but high Force
Dash Strike: Dash forward fast to strike zombies and inflict the Weakened effect
Blood Rush: Countering and killing zombies increase Fury
Spitting Cobra: In Fury mode, pressing the Curveball button will cause you to vomit and leave Caustic damage

Survivor Skills

With our Survivor Skill Cards, we want to ensure Dani can still leave some devastating hits but won’t go down that easily in Dead Island 2. Some of the Cards make up for Dani’s almost nonexistent Health Recovery stat:

Invigorating: Performing counters will restore extra health
The Limb Reaper: Restores lost health when you maim zombies
Serial Killer: You receive a temporary and mild damage boost when you kill a zombie
Vivisuction: When you hit a zombie with Dash Strike, you will restore health

Slayer Skills

Dani’s Slayer Skills focus on enhancing your speed and some damage output. Although the Heavy Hitter Card can cost your health, your Survival Skills make up for it. Plus, Dani already has a nice Peak Health stat:

Breakdancer: A slide attack hit will give you a moderate boost in Agility and attack speed
Group Therapy: Restores Stamina if you kill zombies in rapid succession
Hack and Dash: Temporarily boost attack speed when you kill zombies
Heavy Hitter: Increase the damage of heavy attacks at the cost of health

Numen Skills

To round out our Dani build in Dead Island 2, we need Numen Skill Cards that will keep her going in battle even if she’s low in health:

Born Survivor: Dani will explode and trigger Fury mode when she reaches critical health. While this is active, melee attacks restore health.
Glass Cannon: Increase damage of critical hits, especially if you reach critical health. It will cost you Toughness.

Dead Island 2 is available on PC, PS5/PS4, and Xbox One/Series.