The Arknights Building Rulebook | Arkpedia Ep 2

This episode covers the basics and the guiding rules of building operators. Everything you would need to know from leveling to skills, to promotions is all shared in this one!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Reading Levels
1:04 - Leveling Up
3:23 - Skills
4:44 - Elite 0 Level Limits
5:27 - Elite 1 Promotion
7:41 - Elite 1 Comfortable Levels
9:23 - Skills Over Levels
11:03 - Skill Breakpoints
12:22 - Elite 1 Level Limits
13:13 - Resource Usage When Leveling
14:03 - Elite 2 Promotion
16:56 - Elite 2 Comfortable Levels
20:51 - Masteries, Potentials, Modules & Trust
24:21 - Importance of an Early Elite 2
25:54 - Summary
26:44 - Closing

Edited by Nagashima07
Thumbnail by DragonVerse
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[yaamchao]

Been waiting for this one. As someone who is relatively new to Arknights, this series has been a godsend so far, appreciate the hard work.

[spamrme]

I like to point out another point about skill rank and operator level. As I learned from playing WoW, no matter how high was one's dps, if he is dead, his dps is ZERO!.
Raising an operator's level is not limited to attack boost, also boost max health and defense, which are keys to surviving and contributing dps.

[ShuraCS]

For a more stable squad I recommend having your often used operators at least on E1 lvl 50, you can clear most stuff with that and you can prioritize anyone you want to build with less worries of not being able to clear stages.

[animeyahallo]

Tip: Dont overlevel your operators. Keep them at L69 or something.

[az]

25:35 Zafang cameo lets
This one explaining how important skill level and how expensive and unnecesary it is to max e2 units is exactly what I need to teach new players.

[washington]

One thing I'd like to add here is to keep in mind auto deploys when upgrading ops. There are cases when offensive recovery ops may kill an enemy faster because of its increased stats. You may think that's good thing (it is, btw) but killing enemies faster means less hits to that enemy for your offensive recovery op which eventually translates to its skill not activating at proper times in the autodeploy.

This also another reason why you should levelup your ops skill level after promotion because it prevents this event from happening (tho maybe not entirely).

[anonymouslyrandom]

Been playing Arknights for nearly 2 years and I still wished this video was available to me back when I first started. I had to learn so many things the hard way and even followed some not so useful advice by a certain ex-Arknights youtuber, just because I didn't know any better at the time.

Anyway, I'm really happy newer players now have the privilege of watching such an informative and well made video to help them kickstart their Arknights journey!!

[dawned]

Props for Kukki and the editors for the effort they put in for this beginner guide series. Clear explaination with visual examples! Great Job Everyone!

[zaphkielenri]

Thanks for the guide, kukkikaze. About the leveling e2 operator to 90, events are a special place for them. It depend on the events though. Events have event tokens that I get by just playing the event stages and exchange it in the event shop for lmd and level-up tickets. I always get the mats from event shop because it save some sanity for building e2 mats.

[seirucruz]

13:02 Kyaaa Skadi moment!

Simping aside, great vid once again, Kukki! Though I'm already technically knowledgeable about most of the basics of AK, I still watched the entirety of the vid! I can see that this guide will be very easy to understand and will be very helpful for a lot of new players!

[byird]

Very informative video, especially the comfort level and importance in leveling skills, thanks for the hardwork!

I do hope arkpedia about gacha will cover pity across banners because I could not for the life of me find any info about it except limited not being transferable, so I just assume the rest share the same pity

[veridan]

It's been an interesting journey helping my friend with these concepts after they E2-90 s3m3'd their SilverAsh right away and wondered why they still couldn't clear a lot of stages xD
It's so counter-intuitive to so many gacha games they've played before, it's really difficult to rewire your own brain to this system.

[zaphyrae]

Another operator you can E2 early on is Amiya, since you'll need to build her up to that anyways later in the story.

[jester]

11:15
I think you mean to say 'Deployment Points reload at 1 per second', since SP can recharge differently (Funnily enough, Jackie's S1 is exactly one of those skills). I feel like making a distinction between the types of SP recovery and how impactful a SP cost reduction is in each type might also be helpful, though it might be getting a bit too detailed as well. Overall, great video!

[charginginprogresss]

Note for leaving operators at Elite 1 Level 40.
Most of the times it will NOT be worth it, if they're not 3 stars.
Most 4 stars and 5 stars, and even some (a lot) 6 stars actually have lower stats than an Elite 1 Level 55 3 star.
So if you're just starting, level all your 3 stars to E155 first.

Then look into your higher rarity and know most of them will need level 55 or 60, some even higher level, to outperform 3 stars.
Example Jessica and Gavial for the most part will be overpowered by Kroos and Hibiscus unless they're at least Elite 2 Level 40.

[Minandreas]

I hope this series continues. I've been playing almost a year now, but I still remember how lost I felt when I first started and how many mistakes I made that made the game much harder for me. You're a good educator.

[soma]

1st comment? Vigna E2 when?

Super helpful guide even for a veteran player such as myself as this actually reminded me of the basics. Also, a round of applaud for kukki for the actually promoting a 6 star for a video so that he can show an example to the newer/early players out there in the ak community, just imagine the ammount of time and effort he used in making this video

[devseiya]

also one thing is that when you clear a stage with Support unit, you can"t use Auto deploy. Which mean you will have to manually clear the stage again without support unit so that you can farm the material on said stage

[temoorashraf]

Such a fantastic series. From the amazing info, slick editing, great music, and all the little details. This series so far answers so many common questions from new players.

[poseyyddon]

As an old player, watching this was kinda interesting. New players will find this a very valuable information source.