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Fighting against hordes of monsters and strong bosses is the heart ofSolo Leveling: Arise. So, knowing combat mechanics is essential if you want to survive. With detailed combat mechanics and multiple kinds of skills and combinations, there are a ton of things that you need to manage when fighting.
The initial combat experience can be overwhelming for most players, especially if you’ve skipped the tutorial. To help you navigate these challenges and become a combat expert in Solo Leveling: Arise, here are some tips and tricks to help you get going. We’ve got everything covered, from QTE and evasion to elements and combo.
Understand Your QTE Skills
More often than not, when you’re fighting against monsters, you’ll randomly see agolden skill popup on your screen. These areQTE or Quick Time Event skills,and unlike normal skills,they require special conditions to trigger anddeal more damage than regular skills.
In Solo Leveling: Arise, QTE skills can unlock hidden skills and switch out squad members while providing ashort-time damage immunity,making them essential for any combat.
QTE skills are mostly triggered when an enemy isknocked down, airborne, or evaded. These skills can help you bridge power gaps between stronger enemies butdon’t use them carelessly since they have a cooldown time.
Know How To Charge Your Ultimate
Ultimate skills are thetrump card for every character in Solo Leveling: Arise, including Sung Jinwoo. To use an ultimate skill, you mustfully recharge the character’s power gauge.
Recharging the power gauge can be tricky since it requires you to haveskills that directly replenish the power gauge or create high-hit combos. To make this process easier, you can eitherequip weapons that recharge power gauges or take squad members who can do it for you.
Some hunters canreplenish their power gauge using their skills.Unlocking the ultimate skills of this hunter is quite easy, but consequently, these aremostly supporting characters and lack damage output.
In any combat situation, your only support is your teammates.Fights in Solo Leveling: Arise will include Sung Jinwoo with squad members asone-time support with CD or only Squad members who can be switched.
When playing as Sung Jinwoo, you should beextra careful when using squad skills, asthese skills have high CD and should only be used in emergencies.On the contrary, feel free tospam squad skills when in squad fights,since the CD is substantially lower.
Know How The Elements Work
An essential aspect of the combat mechanics in Solo Leveling: Arise is theElements; everycharacter, weapon, and monster in the game has an element.Having an element means they’restrong against a certain element and weak against another.
Using this knowledge, you can prepare accordingly to use the elements to your advantage to eliminate bosses and clear stages much more easily. Right now, there are five elements:Light, Dark, Fire, Water, and Wind,and each oneprovides a certain advantage that you can use in your favor.
Don’t Depend On One Weapon
A mistake that most players make when starting Solo Leveling: Arise is investing in a single weapon.Every stage has a boss monster with a certain element that can be countered if you’re using a weapon of the opposing element.
If youspend your resources on a few weapon options, you can easily deal with every stage instead of struggling against stages with an elemental disadvantage. You can alsorefer to the tier listto choose the best weapons.
Learn About Your Support Skills
Support skills are a special kind that yourhunters contribute in solo stages, and these can bedifferent among characters and their respective roles.For instance, Cha Hae-In is an offensive hunter; subsequently, her support skill is an AoE attack skill.
Similarly, if you consider Lee Joohee, she is a support hunter, and the support skill you gain from having her on your squad is a wide-area heal. So, to trulyget the best value out of your hunters, check their support skills and equip them accordingly.
Level Up Your Skills And Change Job
Once you progress through the game, you’ll unlock the feature tolevel up your skills in Solo Leveling: Arise.This is something you must do to survive in late-game stages, and once youchange your job to ‘Nightlord’ or ‘Necromancer,’you’ll have many skills to choose from.
Apart from leveling skills,you will also have to choose ‘Runestones’for skills to further boost their effectiveness against monsters. Sung Jinwoo’s skills can be alternated (unlike hunters’ skills); therefore,you have the freedom to set a skillset that is easy for you to use.
Extreme Evasion Is Your Best Friend
The final mechanic you should attempt to master as soon as possible is the‘Extreme Evasion.’The extreme evasion skill allows your characters to not only beimmune from any damage for a short period but also unlock a QTE skillthat deals tons of damage in return.
Getting thetiming of the extreme evasion perfectly can be challengingat first and requires a bit of practice to get it right consistently. But once you’re able to pull that off,you can defeat bosses several times stronger than yourselfwith the help of this skill.
