Goddess of Victory: NIKKE has done an excellent job of ensuring players have a steady stream of new content for players to enjoy. With the summer update finally out, players are hopping into the game to try their hand at acquiring Dorothy: Serendipity, the limited-time holiday costume of Dorothy. With unique abilities and extremely high potential, players will want to learn the best build, strengths, and weaknesses of this character to ensure they can bring out the most of her abilities.
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Who is Dorothy: Serendipity in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE?
Dorothy Serendipity is a limited SSR NIKKE added to the game with the summer 2025 update. She comes from the Inherit Squad as a pilgrim Nikke and is a water-type version of the original Dorothy with a much more revealing outfit. Being a limited-time character, those who don’t have her yet can always look toward LootBar’s services.
She has a shotgun, Ungrateful Oz, and is a burst III Nikke with a 40-second cooldown, making her incredible at dealing massive single-target and AoE damage, especially against bosses. Her kit focuses on piercing shots and ATK buffs, making her a flexible tool for water-focused teams or mixed compositions.
What skills does Dorothy: Serendipity have in NIKKE?
Dorothy: Serendipity deals high burst damage, precise attacks, and teamwide buffs, centered around her shotgun and piercing capabilities.
►Skill 1: Flash
Dorothy gains Pierce for her next three attacks after hitting 80 shotgun pellets. These attacks receive a boost to their hit rate, and her attack increases for 5 seconds, with her pallet count being fixed to one for three rounds. Hitting the target with 160 pallets expands the Pierce range by 200% for three rounds, letting the character hit from more of a distance.
Flash is Dorothy’s main way to deal damage, because Pierce is essential for boss fights with multiple weak spots. The hit rate ensures consistency while the ATK buff increases her damage.
►Skill 2: Radiant Wings
Radiant Wings activates when entering battle, providing Dorothy with a Pierce damage boost, increased attack, and increased hit rate. During full burst, she gets a continuous ATK increase and a hit rate boost.
This enhances Dorothy’s strengths by boosting her Pierce damage and ATK/Hit rate during windows of burst. The hit rate ensures pellet accuracy against wide targets, while letting the character deal more base damage.
►Burst skill: False Salvation
False Salvation affects Dorothy, giving her an attack speed increase, an ATK boost, and adds five pellets per shot for 15 seconds. Pairing it with a good support NIKKE can turn Dorothy: Serendipity into a force to be reckoned with. Those who don’t have ideal support characters can always use LootBar’s services to get them.
Dorothy’s burst provides a powerful self-buff. At level 10, it provides one of the highest self-ATK boosts in the game. The attack speed increase heavily boosts her DPS, and the extra pellets accelerate the activation of her Flash, boosting her Pierce uptime. It transforms her into a powerful damage dealer during the burst window.
What’s the best equipment for Dorothy: Serendipity in NIKKE?
Like most other characters, it’s crucial for players to properly build Dorothy: Serendipity if they want to get the most out of her kit.
►Harmony cube
The best harmony cube for Dorothy is the Resilience Cube. It works well because Dorothy’s shotgun fires quickly but has a low default ammo size. Resilience reduces her reload time, allowing her to activate Flash more often and maintain consistent damage.
►Overload gear
Here’s what stats players should prioritize:
- Elemental damage: It’s the top priority because it increases her water-element damage, which can be helpful in raid content with elemental advantages.
- ATK: It boosts her DPS, especially when she has burst activated.
- Max ammo capacity: Dorothy needs ammo to keep firing, and the high pallet requirement demands that she have enough ammo in her gun.
Players must focus on headgear the most, then go for gloves, chest, and boots, in that order.
As for the line priority, 1st ammo has the highest priority, followed by 4x element bonuses, then 2nd ammo and 4x ATK equally, with 3rd ammo next, ending with Crit range and Crit damage.
►Doll priority
Equipping an SR+15 doll on Dorothy is an excellent choice. After all, she’s a shotgun unit who deals damage through her normal attacks, so having this will raise her damage from the normal attack multiplier. This is especially true for players who want to focus on water-weak solo or union raid content.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Dorothy: Serendipity?
Dorothy: Serendipity has a handful of strengths and weaknesses that determine whether the character is good for your play style.
►Advantages
Dorothy: Serendipity is a great pick for high-level raid content. Her piercing shots and double-hit mechanics make her incredibly powerful against bosses. She provides team flexibility, like being a core component in powerful Tove teams for Water-weak solo raids, but is also useful outside of them and isn’t locked to any specific support unit.
Her high self-buffs like ATK and attack speed mean she can perform well, even with mid-tier overload investment, such as gear having only elemental damage or low ATK lines. Pairing her with a character like Elegg: Boom and Shock, who increases the Pierce damage Dorothy can deal, can take her potential to the next level.
►Disadvantages
Despite her power, Dorothy has weaknesses. She needs 1-2 max ammo lines on her overload gear to work properly. Having too few reduces her uptime, and keeping too many can interfere with Flash activation. Also, she ranks as one of the weaker 1% banner rate units when compared against powerhouses like Little Mermaid.
Her huge self-ATK buff from False Salvation makes her vulnerable to ATK buff saturation, reducing the effectiveness of external ATK buffs. She needs resources for skills, doll levels, and overload lines.
Conclusion
This concludes everything you need to know about building Dorothy: Serendipity in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE. If you’re lucky enough to have gotten your hands on this character, then you should start building her before taking her to battle. Alternatively, if you haven’t gotten her yet, you can always buy a NIKKE top up or two to increase your chances of getting the limited-time Dorothy: Serendipity.
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