Welcome to our Nam Chae-Young Build Guide for Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE.

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

We will also include a build guide for Nam Chae-Young. 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 Nam Chae-Young Guide Table of Contents:

Nam Chae-Young Strengths

  • GOOD LONG-RANGE DAMAGE
  • FREEZE ENEMIES
  • DEAL DAMAGE OVER TIME

Nam Chae-Young Weaknesses

  • NO MELEE SKILLS
  • REQUIRES CAREFUL KITING

Nam Chae-Young Skill Overview – SL Arise Overdrive

Here is an overview of Nam Chae-Young’s skills in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE, and how to use them.

Basic Skills

Basic Attack

Chae-Young fires a bolt filled with cold energy forward.

A basic single-target attack. You can chain them together; the last two attacks in the chain fire two bolts instead of one. Good for chipping away at a boss’ HP bar from a safe distance.

K13 – Reactive Type Ice Grenade

Chae-Young throws a grenade forward that spins and continuously releases ice energy.

This is Chae-Young’s heavy attack – press C to activate it. It deals damage over time in a small area, and is very good at freezing targets, including bosses. Since it’s a Heavy Attack, the cooldown is only a couple of seconds so you can spam this constantly to keep a damage over time effect on the boss that will also freeze them on cooldown, giving you a safe window to use your other skills without being interrupted or pursued.

K63 – Ice Grenade

After Chae-Young throws the K63 – Ice Grenade in the air, she kicks it powerfully with her foot. It inflicts Freeze on enemies when it hits. 

Press Q to activate K63 Ice Grenade. It causes a frost explosion for a burst of AoE damage. It’s also very good at freezing enemies in their tracks, even several enemies at once.

Icy Step

Chae-Young fires three arrows charged with icy energy to emit an icy shockwave. 

Press E to activate Icy Step. Deals a modest amount of damage and can stagger enemies, potentially knocking them over. There’s nothing too special about this skill, but you should still use it on cooldown simply because it’s better than Basic Attacks.

Special Skills

Icy Wind

After throwing the K13 – Reactive Freeze Grenade in the direction she’s facing, Chae-Young fires 3 arrows each charged with icy energy. When they hit an enemy, there’s a high chance they will inflict Freeze.

Icy Wind is a Support Skill, which means it is only available when Chae-Young is supporting Sung Jinwoo, not when you are playing as her directly. I’ve found this to be one of the best Support Skills in the game, because it triggers when Sung Jinwoo uses a QTE Skill (which is usually very often) and is almost guaranteed to freeze the boss. This works as a crutch in very tough boss fights, giving you a safe window to unleash bursts of damage on the boss. Just beware that a boss who is frozen during an attack animation will complete their attack as soon as they thaw out.

Tip of the Iceberg

QTE Skill. Chae-Young fires a projectile while sliding forward, does a backflip, and fires another powerful bolt to Freeze enemies she hits. 

Chae-Young automatically uses Tip of the Iceberg when you switch to her with Left Shift when prompted. Make sure you are in a good position to make the attack connect before making the switch.

Icy Flow

Synchro Chain. Chae-Young slides forward while releasing a projectile, then lets loose a powerful ice arrow from midair. 

Icy Flow is Chae-Young’s Synchro Chain skill. She 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.

Light-Freezing Arrow

Ultimate Skill. Chae-Young throws a freezing grenade into the air then fires a bolt to detonate it. Using this skill grants the entire party Cold Ice Damage Increase for a certain amount of time.

Press R when your ultimate is charged to activate Light-Freezing Arrow. A good ultimate for both single-target and AoE situations.

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 Nam Chae-Young

Nam Chae-Young is often one of the first Hunters unlocked by players in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE. This because she is a low rank Hunter and quite cheap and easy to recruit. Despite this, she is still very useful, but you will need to employ a patient playstyle to safely DPS bosses.

Chae-Young has no melee attacks, so should stay at long-range almost all the time. Kite enemies around, throwing your Ice Grenades and shooting bolts at them whenever you have a safe moment. This way, you can gradually defeat any boss in the game while avoiding most of their dangerous attacks.

Chae-Young is, in my opinion, one of the best Support Hunters for Sung Jinwoo, especially for new players. This is because she can be activated very easily (whenever you use a QTE skill with Left Shift) and will freeze the boss, giving you a window to deal damage safely. This is great if you are struggling with one of the difficult Story Mode bosses in Arise Overdrive, for example.

Nam Chae-Young’s Overdrive fires a barrage of freezing arrows. The last arrow will always inflict Cold Ice on the target. You can regenerate her Overdrive by throwing K63 and K13 ice grenades, using the Icy Step skill or the third attack in the Basic Attack chain.

Nam Chae-Young Skill Upgrade Priorities – SL Arise Overdrive

Slao Nam Chae Young Skill Upgrades

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.

Nam Chae-Young Best Equipment – SL Arise Overdrive

We will now review the best equipment available for Nam Chae-Young 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.

Nam Chae-Young 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 Nam Chae-Young.

Weapon Description
Chae Young early weapon SL ARISE OVERDRIVE

Bow (D)

 To get the D-Tier Bow, start with the basic E-Tier Bow and upgrade it twice.

This weapon provides no special effects, but gives a small boost to Chae-Young’s Attack stat.
chae young midgame weapon SL ARISE OVERDRIVE

Slayer’s Mercy (C)

 After crafting the D-Tier Bow, upgrade it to C-Tier, then use it to craft Slayer’s Mercy. Upgrade it again to reach C-Tier.

This boosts Chae-Young’s HP and Attack and inflicts Frostbite when you use K63 – Ice Grenade or Tip of the Iceberg.

It also gives a small chance to remove your Heavy Attack cooldown.
chae young endgame weapon SL ARISE OVERDRIVE

Slayer’s Mercy (A)

 Upgrade Slayer’s Mercy twice more and you will reach the A-Tier. This version gives a larger boost to Heejin’s HP and Attack.

It also further improves the bonuses from the previous tiers.

This is by far the best weapon available for Nam Chae-Young in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE.

Chae-Young Best Armour & Artefact Sets

Here are our recommended Nam Chae-Young armor/artefact sets for early game, mid game and late game.

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 Chae-Young. The combination of Apprentice Mage and Aquamarine will give a modest boost to Chae-Young’s DPS potential and slightly increase her chance to freeze enemies.

  • Armour Set: Apprentice Mage
    • [2 Items] Slightly Increases Attack
    • [4 Items] Increases Critical Hit Damage
  • Jewelry Set: Aquamarine
    • [2 Items] Very slightly increases Water Damage
    • [4 Items] When the user deals Water damage, there is a very small change to apply the Cold Ice effect

Mid Game Best Sets

With Nam Chae-Young you’ll be pretty much spamming basic skills from range, so we’re going with High-Ranking Demon and Viridescent, both of which boost your Basic Skills as a reward for using Basic Skills.

  • Armour Set: High-Ranking Demon
    • [2 Items] Increases Attack and Defense
    • [4 Items] Using the Basic Skill triggers a moderate chance to grant Super Armour and will increase your Basic Skill damage for a certain amount of time.
  • Jewelry Set: Viridescent
    • [2 Items] Very slightly reduces Basic Skill cooldown, but slightly increases MP consumption.
    • [4 Items] Using the Basic Skill very slightly increases your Basic Skill Damage for a certain amount of time, stacking up to 10 times.

Late Game Best Sets

The Dark Knight set is a great choice for Chae-Young because you’ll be constantly throwing down her Heavy Attack to apply a DoT and Cold Ice to enemies – with this set it will do even more damage and sunsequently boost the damage of your Basic Skills. The Beast set will ramp up your Critical Hit chance over the course of a fight, and the Burning Greed Gloves give you even more stagger than usual as well as an extra chunk of Attack.

  • Armour Set: Dark Knight
    • [2 Items] Increases Attack, Defense and Max HP
    • [3 Items] Significantly increases Heavy Attack Damage. When your Heavy Attack hits, there is a very high chance to significantly increase your Basic Skill Damage for a short period of time.
  • Standalone Piece: Burning Curse Gloves
    • [1 Item] Increases Damage Taken but also increases Damage Dealt.
  • 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.

Alternative Setup: You can also use the Sharpshooter set, which provides you with a damage buff that stacks up over the course of the fight if you avoid damage. But this is a four-piece set so it prevents you from wearing the Burning Curse Gloves, and if you take just one hit you’ll lose the whole buff.

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