Trying my hand at making guides for Arknights!
I wanted to make the guide not rely on numbers all that much and to just give people a general feel for the character and how to effectively use them so they can recognize where to use the operators in future content.
I am very new at all this so suggestions for improvement are always welcome!
Thumbnail by: ITSK
check out his work here (translations for the arknights OPERATORS! manga~)
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Thumbnail art is official art from Yostar JP twitter~
BGM used:
Control's Wishes
Dormant Craving (Instrumental)
[Arknights OST] Relax
[Arknights OST] Longmen Bar
[Arknights OST] Kal'tsit Team
Am doing a personal challenge, where I make at least 1 video every 1 or 2 weeks! Expect another video next week :)
You can do it!!!
Goodluck ❤
5:40 " not bad on paper....buuuuut eyja" describes the entire core caster class and a bunch of other caster classes.
Ceobe gets elevated soon but like I said in my comment, so many busted casters on my roster makes a good caster feel mid.
@@815TypeSirius Another module for Ceobe? I think since her module release, Ceobe is already in a strong position.
Ceobe’s secret power is the stat bloat of newer enemies with 1.5k or more defense. The problem with damage casters is that they are essentially all interchangeable regardless of archetype, with the exception of those with really powerful, unique traits. GG with global range, Ceobe with bonus damage from defense, Lin being a tank, etc. So every caster either competes with Eyja for damage or Gnosis for crowd control.
This is literally what I've known since her release. If her tornado just pierced enemies or had some aoe she would instantly be decent, but again she has that one talent that is essentially not useful at all. She has too many restrictions cause I'm pretty sure HG held back on her so much cause they know how strong she could've been or was when they were making her.
And with Mumu in the same banner HG think since her VA already on par and but mommy like sawashiro unlike yukari tamura so HG decided to held back her kit. Although people will pull for both believe me I don't want Mumu but got both.😅 I mean Mumu DPS is busted but again we did get event limited banner where both operators are broken (IL siracusano) both penance and Texas alt are broken respectively even lunacub and then we have vigil (HG fix this boy!)
@@abrahamwijaya6631 undertides had gladiia as welfare while having skalter and kaltsit on the banners. that's ages ago and it didn't really affect much anything, mumu and hool didn't need to be balanced around each other, hg just needed to make a non contradicting operator that can atleast luve up to its intended potential. Just look at nightmare lol, has an s1 niche that's literally a new class of medics now which doesn't require skills to activate, terrible talents, and counter intuitive s2 that deals damage based on distance travelled by enemies BUT SHE SLOWS THEM SO WTF WAS IT EVEN SUPPOSED TO DO.
Single target Casters should not have AOE skills, Eyja is a mistake
@@Thalasseven My argument for AOE: it looks lame and anti climactic when these big dramatic tornados just poof out after hitting one guy. If they weren't going to be AOE, they should have a different visual imo. As is, they should pierce to please my brain specifically.
They updated the enwmy info UI, so if you wanna know wether or not an enemy ability is silencable or not, if you check their profile you can see of a skill is silenceable, if the ability has a black X next to it, it can be silenced
Yeah it does show if an enemy is immune to silence or not, but sometimes even if an enemy is not immune to silence their mechanic still happens, like the conehead sheep in so long adele can be silenced, but they still leave carmine steam even if when they are silenced.
@@FABKlNG the carmine steam spawning ability on those sheep doesn’t have the little black x next to it in the traits list that they mentioned, it’s just a regular bullet point. It’s shown on an ability-by-ability basis, rather than being listed with the status immunities.
@@FABKlNGTraits that are specifically silenceable have the silence icon instead of a standard bullet point in the new enemy descriptions too, which is nifty
I'm just here to support the representation of our BirdSnake goddess, i use her waaay too often on IS3 because aspd relic + caster relic that increases dmg + aspd every relic you have goes really well with her s3. Add an SP battery relic/support device, she's one hell of a menace on IS3, well everyone would, but not everyone levitates your enemies and leave them there hanging, LOL. That was a nice video, good luck! - Proud M9 Ho'olheyak fan
See she works on is stuff because of that because these buffs literally fix her by brute forcing through the issues she has. She was theoretically almost so good in general content outside of is and sss but they held back 😩
@@voltrixgames4375 They held her back to "Balance" the game.
Ho'ol is the most expansive AA sniper you can get that won't prioritise aerial targets, I love her
Small thing to note on the Surtr and Mlynar comparison near the end, while they both probably still don't one cycle phase 2 DBS, they both also get hit by her burning breath, which does nerf the damage they deal to DBS, while Ho'olheyak doesn't get afflicted by it the entire time. Doesn't devalue the strength of her split boxing though. Overall, solid showcase.
Nice video! As a fellow Ho'olheyak enjoyer, another fun synergy she has is with trapmaster. You can place traps under levitated enemies so the snares combined with snek S3 makes for some really strong cc!
I can't believe I completely forgot about this when making the script... I looked over it so many times too 😭
Haiyaah you forgot to take pictures😢
that split boxing technique is really cool tip, ill keep it mind next time i bring my snek
I will add this AK content creator to my collection. Good stuff already
i just spent 300 pulls to get chen alter, as a free to play player i don't know how i will recover from this
Got Ho'olhyeak pot 6 when sparking for Rosmontis and haven't really used her much yet. Didn't know you could split box S3 that's some epic tech and now I have to build Qanipalaat too for that synergy.
Great vid! Also, as per new UI update, you can now see which of the enemy abilities can be silenced (the X symbol above in the enemy stats)
Well they could have atleast made her S3 pierce through enemies but gets reduced damage every pierce kinda like chain casters
never thought of that! Actually seems like a really good idea!
Yeah this is a genius idea, module Y?
Great video! So excited to build Ho'ol now!!
only three seconds in and you already convinced me to build Ho'olheyak!
As a Hool m9 lvl 90 mod3 Hool haver, I Liked seeing this video. Long live to your thicc flying snake.
This great guide deserves more view.
Very nice vid, really glad I found this gem. I love the snek so much I maxed her out (except pots, pulls are cursed) so vids like this makes me happy. Hoping that if she gets a 2nd module, they'll just removed the damn condition on her talent 2
I was thinking along the lines of something like that, maybe to make the talent more interesting, the threshold of weightlessness would significantly be reduced, to maybe 50% or 60% and she would deal increased damage to weight 3 and lower enemies, like around 140% damage, so it would be like a mirror to Rosa's mod... but maybe that's too optimistic haha.
I seen the smile thank you for this guide
The problem of most core caster simplified into one phrase "but, Eyja though"
Great video. 👍
7 months player here, as someone who also got her while trying to get Mumu but bought the "she just sucks" talk, this video was very informative. Also omg, you just changed my world with that splitboxing thing. Subscribed!
I heard which song you used in the opening. Also, I heard nowadays the new enemy info section shows which abilities can be silenced, with a silence debuff icon next to its description. I barely ever read it though. Also, her name is pronounced "holhaya". Anyway, lovely video!
Oh! sorry I was just copying the pronunciation of her english VA haha. Also yeah it does show if an enemy is immune to silence or not, but sometime even if an enemy is not immune to silence their mechanic still happens, like the conehead sheep in so long adele still leave carmine steam even if they're silenced. Thank you! I'm glad you like it~
hey fab, nonexistent reed moderator from the mochi server here: your video finally showed up in my feed at random without me having to be subbed to you because… I uhhh I didn’t know you had a yt channel because I forgot but somehow you still got in my algorithm lol without me being subbed so you get a sub
haha dw about it, didn't really want to advertise to people over at the mochi server that I decided to start a channel of my own. Thanks!
Nice video mate
I respect that you started off with showing Ho'olheyak's 200% Trust to let me know you're not just memeing.
For me, she's been a unique form of crowd control. Her tornadoes have slowed enemies just enough (especially ones that can't be blocked) to allow me to handle particularly tough enemies or waves. Also, love her EN voice!
Not sure if I missed when you said it but people often forget that the first talent is active on the hits that cause the levitate (she levitates enemies before dealing the damage) Speaking of synergies, there is a gimmick with S1 and Mr.Nothing where you can perma stall an enemy (if it's vulnerable to stun and levitate) Another gimmick is people using her talent 2 to skip the boss fight in Is4 with Weedy.
Yup! i did mention it while explaining her skill 1 that all her skills levitate before the damage instance~
Ahhhh, I need her to come home aaaaaa, i didn't even consider splitboxxing (also when she gets module 2, if her restriction on talent 2 is taken away she'll likely thrive with the pusher gang
dang that splitbox trick is a real dealbreaker, im about to let her afk in my account until my last 6 star built, but now maybe I'll reconsider to build her before other useless 6 star i have
Great video, I loved it. I love content creators that try to find ways to make operators great rather than just regurgitating community rhetoric. 1 thing I would have added is that certain enemies are vulnerable to levitate while being immune to stun/sleep/freeze. A great example of this is Degenbrecher since she's a fairly annoying enemy that you can bully with Ho'olheyak and pretty much only Ho'olheyak at least until they add more strong levitate users. So building someone who is the best applier of levitate will let you have that in your back pocket when more enemies like Degenbrecher come in the future. I'm told but have not confirmed that there is a certain enemy in IS 4 that is vulnerable to levitate as well. Also, like 6 months ago there was an Arknights informal tournament that had some of the best players on global competing against each other and you got to see a lot of Exusiai and Ebenholz in that tournament. I think a lot of players underrate the operators that the best players are using because they don't use buffers enough.
yes! the boss for the 2nd ending for is4 I believe is immune to everything, even slow, except for levitate!
I mean if her tornadoes had homing or an AoE blast, or if levitated enemies took true damage when they hit the ground she'd be awesome. And thus... How to use Hoho: Wait for her new CN module
En efecto Ho'olheyak es cine🚬, Ho'olheyak Theme is GOOOODDDDD!!!🖤🔥
The beginning gave me flashbacks to my pulls. 300 pulls for pot 4 Hoolheyak and had to buy Mumu from the shop. Now Adele's banner doing a similar thing with Swire goddammit. Lvled Hoolheyak to E2 for art but never use cuz salty. I suppose I can try her out after your video, but it ain't gonna change my saltiness. Thank you for this video. Imma sub. Now, back to pulling for Adele...
Swire’s actually good, though.
Snake supremacy
I kinda like her despite her downsides, finding ways just to have her on my team and deploy her
Well, now i don't regret e2 her, thanks for the tips
its my dude
if I understand how it works correctly, I hope the devs take some feedback inro consideration when making her 2nd module,
Noice vid. I was hoping for IS synergies as I find all 3 of her skills quite viable in that mode with different relic builds you can rely on with skill 1 and skill 3 plus even s2 depending on the general relic buffs you get, which is rare for a six star who usually has 1 or 2 at most in that particular game mod. Like you can do hand of core caster s1 machine gun which you can also pair with spinach type relics for rapid fire beeg numbers while also not having slow projectile issues that eyja, ifrit and dusk(in my experience so feel free to correct if I was mistaken) have that make their supposed to be benificial skills miss the spinach type 1 second buff, tornado alley with s3 or bank on the multiplicative arts damage buffs, caster/ranged op atk buff to make her sharp style big multiplicative atk buff tornados hit 8k-10k+ damage while S2 is ol reliable spammable skill when theres no spinach or you find the skill fits the stage more than S3 does.
IS 3 is plagued by insanely high resistance enemies at high Surging Waves which does make using arts damage difficult but not impossible. This hurts the conversation around her for IS due to a lot of the serious players only caring about SW 15.
That's only a small percentage of players anyway and way outside actual regular IS3 SW level plays as SW15 is basically max risk CC with the sheer difficulty it does that heavily narrows the roster and not a good basis for operator capability. Its like saying texas aint an arts nuker coz she didnt instakill the gajillion HP enemies in POO.(Unfortunately, this was a hottake spouted by someone and I lost tons of braincells from that)
@@ZeHeavyArmor IDK, max risk CC is the only thing in the entire game that can actually require potentials. Though I do take your point. The resistance thing is mostly just a nuance of IS 3 and not even consistent from IS to IS.
Despite many calling her kit bad, her s3 is useful for me so far, pair her with exusiai or cutter s2
it's bad for a reason, it's completely justified as imagine what she could've been if she didn't have big contradicting mechanics to here MAIN mechanic which is levitate
I use her as my Main caster equipped with S2🤩
Me with M9 ho'ool bae hearing "dont mastery this skill" XD
I did 320+ pulls on the Mumu banner and snek eluded me. I HAVE P6 MUMU AND P4 NEARL ALT AND STILL NO HOES!!
more like, u just want 1 copy of mumu, but end up with 6 copies of hoolheyak in the process
As snek lover I like it
I'm in the same predicament. Wanted Eyja alter, got her in like 30 pulls. Kinda want Swire alter, but scared of wasting my pulls lol
Hail the snek borb!
nice video
please make more videos like this 🙏
I got Mumu from Lonetrail banner then spent 63 pulls on Eyjacat banner and got Hoholheyak. Now I'm here trying to cope. myandering stars
Ho'ol bad? yesnt she isnt a nuke but her range and semi stalling is actually great and her Res ignore helps the only bad thing is her first talent imo hitting aerial enemys is nice and all... but the amount of time enemys Levitate is just not doing it outside of skill 2
ho'ol is perfect already. she costs too much, her power is swire alter, but swire costs 7 DP. If she cost 10 DP she would be my favorite operator.
Thx for guide video and rekomend sinergy tho👍🏾 IAM PLAYER ARKNIGHT SINCE YEAR 1 AND REMEMBER GUYS WAIFU >>> META
I got 3 mumu's instead of Ho'olheyak I feel nothing but pain and agony
She is significantly more fun in SSS.
Yes, yes, I *am* brainwashed.
to be fair: I got both girls quite early I think 11.11 for ho'ol and two days later muelseye and: both were free pulls... probally as I didn't make a screenshot of the 10er pull xD
it wasn't my opinion that ho'ol was 'bad' per se. but if you can buy ceobe and eyja for 180 from the distinction shop with regularity, and goldenglow gets rate up. this is the field she's competing with. I'm assuming any account that can drop 200 pulls for ho'oly HAS eyja, golden glow and ceobe, what is the use case for her?
In the video I show some scenarios where Ho'olheyak would do better than either Ejya or Coebe, Ejya would not be able to kill either of Taluhlas's phases, or not be able to cover both phases of Manfred as fast These would be the use cases for her. Hope this helps!
200 pulls on ho'ol? you're lucky. I got Mumu pretty early but Ho'ol is the one I wanted. 300 pulls and no Ho'ol at all I had to spark for her. Now I cant pull for eyja since Im saving for Viviana and Artorius as well.
Haya best snek
Imagine wind mommy and sand mommy combo 😊
I've been a supporter of her S2 from the get go. Calling it an Amiya S2 sidegrade is wrong. It's amiya S2 with everything bad about it removed, making it an actual good skill. Multihit skill benefits more from basically everything than single hit skills, from attack buffs to enemy mechanics such as number of hit requirements or, in the current event, applying white clouds for the rest of attacks to go through. The only downside for multihit attacks is defense penetration, but that only applies to physical damage and not arts. So its just a really good skill. Ho'ol's S3 is overrated IMO. To really take advantage of it, you basically need to find two nearby parallel 'ifrit lanes', which isnt common, or you have to cross lane with it. But cross lane with it is really bad because of how its a moving projectile rather than just an autohit attack. Unless you have blockers to position enemies, you're basically relying on enemies to walk into the tornado rather than her actually attacking enemies. Plus, what is she going to do while the skill is down? She doesn't have the range to cross lane better than any other operator without it. All in all, Ho'ol is held back from being great because of how bad her s3 is, but she still has a perfectly good S2, its just not broken like Goldenglow S3 or something.
There is no bad operators, only bad doctors. Nice video ! I quite like using Ho'o with Dorothy to put trap under levitated ennemies, it's a cute combo.
You may already know this but Dorothy pairs very well with Muelsyse due to her aspd being like .8 and just 1 of the fastest attacking operators in the game. She is the highest dps clone option assuming low defense enemies.
Me on my mind why u pull her Snek mommy
Source for thumbnail art?
It's official art from Yostar JP~ here's the link to the tweet: x.com/ArknightsStaff/status/1727523039968194980?s=20 I also put the link to the artwork in the description now :>
I got 4 Mumu. 1 Snek Lady. I wanted Snek Lady. Not Water Woman.
Ho ho is good, just have a lot of busted casters. Still got her to e2l60
No, I wasted all I have and got 2 HOLOLOYAK AND 0 MUMU
0:14 I wish...Ho'olheyak was p6 and went to pitty for Mumu....
rip.. almost had this happen to be with ejya, got my swire alt to p5 haha
i got hool trying to get eyja :(
Snek was the op I was pulling for but I ended getting 4 copies of Mumu before I got her. I now use Ho'ol out of pure spite even if she isnt great!
i have a p6 hool 👀
i have max pot ho'ol and pot 3 mumu
Yeah, her talent 2 is meh... Particularly when you remember Angelina exists, who gives a *global* weightless for as long as she has a skill active. But well... It's a nice talent to have, at least? Lol. Anyway, I need to invest in her more... Eventually.
snake
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Snake simp? Nc
oh shit hi fab, i didnt know u did youtube
I just started making vids this week! haha am planning on making a vid every week or two as a challenge to myself
@@FABKlNG good luck bro :) u got my sub
Just don`t. Buy caster - Eyja for golden certs.
that split boxing technique is really cool tip, ill keep it mind next time i bring my snek