Yes, the abilities of your team do not really matter. Whaleship has its own stats for different activations.
I am not sure but it seems that some of the ablities do add a little here and there, like Crit. Chance, Skill act chance etc, but if that is true, and by how much I cannot tell.
The only setup for WS is to stack the most powerfull girls of the necessary color into the first two teams who will do the actual combat.
Well she seems like an elf... if that answers your question