Best Kang Taeshik Build Guide – Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE

Welcome to our Kang Taeshik Build Guide for Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE.

In this guide, we will explain how each one of Kang Taeshik’s skills work and how best to use them. We will provide more general tips for how to get the most out of Kang Taeshik.

We will also include a build guide for Kang Taeshik. While Hunter builds aren’t as widely customisable as Sung Jinwoo, you can still customise your equipment and level up your skills. We’ll walk you through these so you can find the best items and prioritise the best skill upgrades first.

ARISE OVERDRIVE Kang Taeshik Guide Table of Contents:

• Skill Overview
  • Basic Skills
  • Special Skills
  • Unique Skills
• How to Play Kang Taeshik
• Skill Upgrade Priorities
• Kang Taeshik Best Equipment

Kang Taeshik Skill Overview – SL Arise Overdrive

Here is an overview of Kang Taeshik’s skills in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE, and how to use them.

Basic Skills

Sanctuary

Taeshik swings his daggers quickly.

This is Taeshik’s basic light attack, activated with left click. You can chain them together to use different attack animations. The third and fourth attacks in the chain are rapid flurries of multiple dagger strikes.

Instant Kill

After slashing while spinning, Taeshik strikes down in an X shape.

This is Taeshik’s heavy attack – press C to activate it. It is more powerful than his basic attack. Since heavy attacks in ARISE OVERDRIVE have a very small cooldown, you can use this very frequently as your main source of DPS.

Dagger Toss

Taeshik throws his dagger twice.

Press Q to activate Dagger Toss. This allows you to deal some damage from range, so it’s useful when you currently can’t reach the target due to an ongoing AoE attack or some other reason.

Tracking

Taeshik teleports behind the enemy and unleashes a flurry of strikes. This skill can be used up to 2 times in a row.

Press E to activate Tracking. This is a great skill for quickly closing the gap to an enemy, and works especially well when combined with armour like the Assassin set that increases Taeshik’s damage on back attacks.

Special Skills

Consecutive Slicing

Taeshik teleports to the enemy and quickly slices them. Using this skill temporarily increases Taeshik’s damage when attacking from behind. 

Storm Raven is a Support Skill, which means it is only available when Taeshik is supporting Sung Jinwoo, not when you are playing as him directly. It can be used when Sung Jinwoo uses a QTE Skill or when nearby enemies have a Stagger effect on them.

Assault

QTE Skill. Taeshik jumps out of the air, slashes downward and throws a dagger as he steps back. Weakness Break is inflicted on hit targets, and Taeshik gains Back Attack Damage Increase for a long period of time.

Taeshik automatically uses Assault when you switch to him with Left Shift when prompted. Make sure you are in a good position to make the attack connect before making the switch.

Stealth Slash

Synchro Chain. Taeshik delivers a series of rapid slashes to enemies in front of himself.

Stealth Slash is Taeshik’s Synchro Chain skill. He uses it when you press T (when prompted) to activate your Hunter party’s Synchro Chain; all Hunters in the party will then activate their Synchro Chain at the same time.

Camouflage

Ultimate Skill. Taeshik cloaks himself in darkness and hacks at the enemy with superhuman speed. The Critical Hit damage he deals to targets inflicted with Weakness Break significantly increases.

Press R when your ultimate is charged to activate Camouflage. Try to use it soon after the Assault QTE skill so that your ultimate benefits from the Weakness Break debuff.

Unique Skills

Dash Combo Attack

When tapping the Basic Attack Button after performing Dash, the user can use Dash Combo Attack. 

Back Dash Combo Attack

When tapping the Basic Attack Button after performing Back Dash, the user can use Back Dash Combo Attack. 

Deflect Combo Attack

When tapping the Basic Attack Button after performing Deflect, the user can use Deflect Combo Attack. 

How to Play Kang Taeshik

Kang Taeshik is almost completely focused on single-target melee DPS, with no AoE skills and only one fully ranged skill. He’s ideal for DPS against a boss that you can frequently reach in melee, but in other situations you should switch to a different hunter in your party.

Kang Taeshik benefits from landing back attacks on enemies (attacking them from behind), so it makes sense to play into this as much as possible by equipping items that provide further boosts for back attacks, and ensure you attack enemies from behind as much as possible.

Taeshik’s Overdrive quickly hacks nearby enemies and increases his Critical Hit damage against targets with the Weakness Break debuff. Weakness Break can be inflicted by hitting enemies with Dagger Toss, Instant Kill or Tracking.

To recharge Taeshik’s Overdrive, attack enemies from behind.

Kang Taeshik Skill Upgrade Priorities – SL Arise Overdrive

As mentioned above, Hunter skills in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE are split up into Basic Skills, Special Skills and Unique Skills. Of these, only Basic and Special Skills can be upgraded. The upgrades are done in groups – for example, you upgrade all Basic Skills at once, rather than upgrading the skills individually.

It is generally more important to upgrade the Basic Skills rather than the Special Skills, because the Basic Skills are used much more often (this group includes your Basic Attack, Heavy Attack and the skills activated by pressing Q or E). So if you have to make a choice between the two, always go for Basic Skills.

In practice, however, it is usually easier to upgrade them in a balanced manner, upgrading both groups to rank 2, then upgrading them both to rank 3, and so forth. This is because each tier is significantly more expensive than the last, so rushing a full set of Basic Skill upgrades usually isn’t possible unless you’ve played through the whole game without doing any upgrades.

Kang Taeshik Best Equipment – SL Arise Overdrive

We will now review the best equipment available for Kang Taeshik in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE, including the best weapons and the best armour & artefacts. To help you progress through the lengthy level up and equipment grind, we have included setups for the early, mid and endgame.

Kang Taeshik Best Weapons

The table below shows you the best weapon progression from early, mid and endgame. We have not included every upgrade tier along the journey, just the most important milestones so you can see which path to take and what benefits the most important weapons offer for Kang Taeshik.

Weapon	Description
Dagger (D)	To get the D-Tier Dagger, start with the basic E-Tier Gauntlet and upgrade it twice. This weapon provides no special effects, but gives a nice boost to Taeshik’s Attack stat.
Unstoppable Frenzy (C)	After crafting the D-Tier Dagger, craft the Steel Dagger, upgrade it to C-Tier and then craft the C-Tier version of Unstoppable Frenzy. There are two C-Tier versions, so upgrade it again. This gives Taeshik significantly better Attack and a big boost to his Critical Hit Damage. He gets a brief period of damage immunity after performing Extreme Evasion. This weapon also increases Taeshik’s Back Attack damage and damage versus Normal Monsters.
Unstoppable Frenzy (A)	Upgrade Unstoppable Frenzy twice more and you will reach the A-Tier. This version further boosts Taeshik’s stats and enhances the situational damage bonuses from the previous tiers. This is by far the best weapon available for Kang Taeshik in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE.

Kang Taeshik Best Armour & Artefact Sets

Early Game Best Sets

In the early game, there aren’t many strong sets, so we just take whatever items we can get that will boost damage output. The Assassin set is by far the best option for us, since Kang Taeshik benefits from attacking from behind anyway, this set will further boost this playstyle.

• Armour Set: Assassin
  • [2 Items] Increases Critical Hit Rate
  • [4 Items] Damage dealt to enemies when attacking them from behind increases slightly.
• Jewelry Set: Put any items on Jewelry.

Mid Game Best Sets

The Black Lion set is similar to the Assassin set from earlier, giving you a boost to your damage output when you attack an enemy from behind. Viridescent gives more damage boosts and slightly reduces your skill cooldowns.

• Armour Set: Black Lion
  • [2 Items] Increases Defense Penetration
  • [4 Items] Very high chance to deal additional damage to the target proportional to your Attack when attacking from behind.
• Jewelry Set: Viridescent
  • [2 Items] Very slightly reduces the user’s Basic Skill cooldown, but slightly increases their MP Consumption.
  • [4 Items] Using the Basic Skill very slightly increases the user’s Basic Skill Damage Increase effect for a certain amount of time, stacking up to 10 times.

Late Game Best Sets

We’re using the Corrupted Knight and Beast sets because they synergise quite well. The Beast Set boosts your Critical Damage and makes it so your Critical Chance ramps up over the course of a fight. Corrupted Knight boosts your Basic Skill damage whenever you land a Critical Hit. The Corrupted Knight set only requires 3 pieces, so we also equip the Burning Blessing Robe which grants a standalone bonus to Critical Hit Damage.

• Armour Set: Corrupted Knight
  • [2 Items] Slightly Increases Attack and Critical Hit Rate
  • [3 Items] When the user lands an attack as a Critical Hit, it slightly increases their Basic Skill damage for a certain amount of time, stacking up to 10 times.
• Standalone Armour Piece: Burning Blessing Robe
  • [1 Item] Using a Basic Skill twice increases Critical Hit Damage of team members, including user, for a long period of time.
• Jewelry: Beast
  • [2 Items] Increases Critical Hit Damage
  • [4 Items] If a Critical Hit isn’t activated, the chance of the next attack landing as a Critical Hit increases very slightly, stacking up to 30 times.

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