Solo Leveling Arise Han Song Yi build guide: Best artifacts, weapons, and more

Han Song Yi is an Assassin class Hunter of SR rarity in Solo Leveling Arise who deals Water elemental damage to enemies. Her skills can inflict the Poison debuff, which deals continuous damage to enemies over time. She can also knock down enemies and create a shield with her skills. This SR Hunter is one of the best Water characters for players lacking SSRs.

Song Yi can deal decent damage to enemies and works best against enemies weak to the Water element. In this article, you can find the recommended artifacts, weapons, skills upgrading priorities, and Advancement guide for the best Han Song Yi build in Solo Leveling Arise.

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Solo Leveling Arise Han Song Yi build guide: Best artifacts

Best artifacts for Song Yi. (Image via Netmarble)

Han Song Yi’s kit becomes robust by boosting her attack, critical hit rate, and critical hit damage. Players can use the below-given Solo Leveling Arise artifacts for the best Song Yi build:

Body Set

Armed

• 2-set effect: When Song Yi equips two pieces of this artifact, her attack boosts 5%.
• 4-set effect: Song Yi ignores 15% of enemies' defense and attack when she equips four pieces of this artifact.

Toughness

• 2-set effect: Song Yi’s Critical Hit Rate gets an 8% boost when she equips two pieces of Toughness.
• 4-set effect: Her Critical Hit Damage increases by 32% boost if she wears four pieces.

Destroyer

• 2-set effect: If Song Yi equips two pieces of Destroyer, her Power Gauge Acquisition Rate increases by 20%.
• 4-set effect: Song Yi’s Power Gauge charges by 50% at the start of every battle. It also increases Song Yi’s and her allies’ Power Gauge Acquisition Rate by 20%.

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Accessories

Champion on the Field

• 2-set effect: If Song Yi equips two pieces, her attack boosts by 5% for 4 seconds whenever she lands a critical hit.
• 4-set effect: If she equips four pieces, the attack buff can stack up to four instances.

Expert

• 2-set effect: If Song Yi lands a critical hit with two pieces of Expert equipped, she will have a 25% chance to increase her attack by 0.08%. The attack increase buff can stack up to 100 times.
• 4-set effect: If Song Yi wears four pieces, the attack buff activation chance rises to 50% and the attack-increase percentage to 1.6%.

Outstanding Connection

• 2-set effect: If Song Yi wears two pieces, her and the team members' attack increases by 12% for 10 seconds. The effect is triggered when she exits from the battlefield.
• 4-set effect: If she wears four pieces, the attack increase percentage rises to 28%, and the duration extends to 15 seconds.

Players can give Song Yi Toughness artifact for the body set and pair it with the Champion on the Field accessory. They will increase her critical hit rate, critical hit damage, and attack. Song Yi can deal increased damage with these artifact sets equipped.

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Solo Leveling Arise Han Song Yi build guide: Best Weapons

Steel Bow is the best weapon for Song Yi. (Image via Netmarble)

Players can use the SR weapon, Steel Bow, for the best Han Song Yi build. When she equips the weapon, her critical hit damage will be boosted by 9% at the weapon’s base level. At the max level, the weapon increases her critical hit damage by 24%.

Another Solo Leveling Arise weapon players can use for Song Yi build is the SR Steel Longsword. It enhances her water elemental damage by 4.5% at the base level. At the max level, her elemental damage increases by 12%.

Players can use these two weapons until they can obtain Song Yi’s Exclusive Weapon, First Bloom.

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Skills upgrading priorities for Han Song Yi in Solo Leveling Arise

Song Yi's skills (Image via Netmarble)

For the robust Han Song Yi build, players can upgrade Song Yi's Solo Leveling Arise skills in the following order:

Swift Flight (Basic Skill) > Short Attack: Rakshasa (Support Skill) > Light (Core Attack) > Retrieve (Basic Skill) > Quick Attack: Light (QTE Skill) > Rakshasa (Ultimate Skill) > Throwing Knife Slash (Basic Attack)

Song Yi’s Swift Flight deals damage equal to 782% of her attack at the base level. Her Support and QTE skills can inflict the Poison debuff on enemies. The Hunter’s Core Attack inflicts damage equal to 607% of her attack at the base level.

Song Yi’s Ultimate Skill deals the highest damage, equal to 2591% of her attack at the base level. Her other skills deal a decent amount of water elemental damage.

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Best Advancement Tier for Han Song Yi in Solo Leveling Arise

Song Yi's Passive effects (Image via Netmarble)

The Advancement Tier 1 grants a new ability to Han Song Yi that allows her to create a shield for herself while using the Retrieve Basic Skill. At Tier 2, her critical hit rate and critical hit damage get a 5% boost. Solo Leveling Arise players can stop upgrading the Solo Leveling Arise Hunter's Advancement after Tier 2.

The Advancement Tier 3 increases the number of Umbral Weapons she throws with Swift Flight from two to three. Tier 4 increases Song Yi’s attack by 6%. At Advancement Tier 5, the cooldown of her Basic Skills, Swift Flight and Retrieve, resets when she uses her Ultimate Skill, Rakshasa.