Best Song Chiyul Build Guide – Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE

Welcome to our Song Chiyul Build Guide for Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE.

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

We will also include a build guide for Song Chiyul. 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 Song Chiyul Guide Table of Contents:

• Skill Overview
  • Basic Skills
  • Special Skills
  • Unique Skills
• How to Play Song Chiyul
• Skill Upgrade Priorities
• Song Chiyul Best Equipment

Song Chiyul Skill Overview – SL Arise Overdrive

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

Basic Skills

Scorching Heat

Chiyul releases the power of flame.

Quick single target fire attacks. You can chain them together to activate a range of different attack animations.

Incinerate

Chiyul gathers the power of fire in his hands and unleashes it at enemies in front of himself. Damage dealt to targets inflicted with Burn is increased.

This is Chiyul’s heavy attack – press C to activate it. While it looks like an AoE spell, Incinerate does pretty good single-target damage and spamming it is a viable way to bring down bosses.

Hellfire

Chiyul steps back and creates a flame whirlwind that pulls enemies in. This inflicts the Burn effect on hit targets, dealing damage over time. 

Press Q to activate Hellfire. It can stagger and damage several enemies at once, making it ideal for clearing out trash waves.

Red Lotus Flower

Recalling his time as a swordsman, Chiyul imbues his sword with the power of flame. This skill can be used up to 3 times, and deals increased damage to targets inflicted with Burn.

Press E to activate Red Lotus Flower. Try and remember to inflict Burn on the target before casting it (for example using Hellfire) to maximise the damage.

Special Skills

Scorching Cleave

Chiyul creates a flame whirlwind that pulls enemies in, then slashes them with a flaming sword. Using this skill increases the active character’s Heavy Attack and Weapon Skill damage temporarily. 

Storm Raven is a Support Skill, which means it is only available when Chiyul is supporting Sung Jinwoo, not when you are playing as him directly. It can be used when Sung Jinwoo uses Dash Combo twice within 5 seconds, or when there are 3 or more normal monsters nearby.

Scorching Heat Penetration

QTE Skill. Chiyul pierces a target with his sword, then focuses fire magic into it to create a powerful explosion. This increases the entire team’s Heavy Attack damage and inflicts hit targets with Burn of a certain amount of time. 

Chiyul automatically uses Scorching Heat Penetration 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. It also buffs your Heavy Attack damage, so you might want to focus on using these shortly afterwards.

Special Iaido: Sketch

Synchro Chain. Chiyul strikes the enemy by unleashing a sword strike imbued with the power of fire.

Sketch  is Chiyul’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.

Special Iaido: Fire Demon

Chiyul imbues his sword with the power of fire and makes a forward-facing slash with all the expertise of a swordsman. Damage dealt to targets affected by Burn increases.

Press R when your ultimate is charged to activate Fire Demon. This ultimate hits targets in a narrow cone-shaped area in front of you. Try to Burn the target, for example with the Hellfire Skill, before using Fire Demon, because the ultimate does more damage against Burning enemies.

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 Song Chiyul

Chiyul is a fire mage who fights with a sword, effectively giving him a “melee mage” playstyle.

Try to ensure that enemies are afflicted with Burn before you use his ultimate or the Red Lotus Flower skill, because this will maximise the damage output of those skills.

When you have nothing better to use, spamming Incinerate by pressing C is a good way to deal consistent damage to your target.

Song Chiyul’s Overdrive pulls nearby monsters into a powerful flame explosion, inflicting Scorch on all of them. It can be recharged by casting Incinerate, which further incentivises Incinerate spam when playing as Chiyul.

Song Chiyul 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.

Song Chiyul Best Equipment – SL Arise Overdrive

We will now review the best equipment available for Song Chiyul 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.

Song Chiyul 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 Song Chiyul.

Weapon	Description
Sword (D)	To get the D-Tier Sword, start with the basic E-Tier Sword and upgrade it twice. This weapon provides no special effects, but gives a nice boost to Chiyul’s Attack stat.
Still Got It (D)	After crafting the D-Tier Sword, upgrade it to C-Tier, then use it to craft Still Got It. This allows Chiyul to boost his Red Lotus Flower and Fire Demon skills by using his Heavy Attack.
Still Got It (A)	Upgrade Still Got It three times more and you will reach the A-Tier. This version gives a huge boost to Chiyul’s Attack. It also boosts the situational bonuses from the previous tiers. This is by far the best weapon available for Song Chiyul in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE.

Song Chiyul 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 Apprentice Mage set gives us a modest boost to Attack and Critical Damage, which makes for a decent DPS boost. The Red-Eyed set synergises very slightly with Chiyul’s fire magic.

• Armor Set: Apprentice Mage
  • [2 Items] Slightly Increases Attack
  • [4 Items] Increases Critical Hit Damage
• Jewelry Set: Red-Eyed
  • [2 Items] Very slightly increases Fire Damage
  • [4 Items] When you deal Fire damage, there is a very small chance to apply the Scorch effect.

Mid Game Best Sets

High-Ranking Demon is a well-rounded set that boosts your attack and defense. This should help you out with the rather tricky bosses you’ll encounter around this time. Viridescent gives more damage boosts and slightly reduces your skill cooldowns.

• Armour Set: High-Ranking Demon
  • [2 Items] Increases Attack and Defense
  • [4 Items] Using a Basic Skill triggers a moderate chance to grant Super Armor, and will increase the user’s Basic Skill damage for a certain amount of time.
• 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 Dark Knight set because it boosts Chiyul’s Heavy Attacks, which are already very strong and benefit very well from additional boosts. The Beast set helps your overall DPS by ramping up your Critical Hit chance over the course of the battle.

• 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 your Damage Taken, but also increases your Damage Dealt.
• Jewelry Set: 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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