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Emma Laurent from Solo Leveling: Arise is a hunter with excellent versatility. She has skills that are advantageous for break destruction and is also good at handling mobs. She can quickly use skills, retreat, and support allies, allowing her to support the team in various situations.

Emma is a fire-attribute tank with a defensive skill set that includes break destruction and shields. Using her Heat Emission trait, she can support allies with 7.77% Defense Penetration for 20 seconds, and Emma herself can quickly retreat after using skills, making her ally support ability excellent.

Thus, Emma is a hunter who can be used in various situations such as supporting allies extensively, break destruction, and sub-dealing.

Emma is a hunter specialized in break destruction. Two of her normal skills have Break Medium and Break Strong, and her main skill 'Burn Up' has a relatively short cooldown of 8 seconds. She is a character who consistently deals break damage to enemies and aims for break destruction.

The normal skill 'Burn Up' is a useful skill with a wide range, decent damage, and a short cooldown. It is especially specialized in handling low-level monster waves, allowing Emma to be used in various situations. At 1 evolution, the break damage also becomes substantial, making it even more useful. It is also an advantage that you can quickly retreat with a core attack combo after using Burn Up.

Emma's main skill is the ultimate skill 'Burning Pride'. The base coefficient is not very high, but the damage increases by 77.77% when 'Heat Emission' is activated, and the actual damage is high because it receives all of the Heat Emission's fire damage increase and defense penetration. You can also use a weakened ultimate without stacking Heat Emission, but instead of low damage, you get 50% of the cooldown and power gauge back.

Emma's traits 'Heat Absorption' and 'Heat Emission' are the core of her operation. Emma stacks 1 stack upon normal attack, and 5 stacks upon using core attack, normal attack, and extreme evasion. Heat Absorption grants beneficial effects such as defense, HP recovery, and shield every 5/10/15 stacks, and using the normal skill 'Flame Slash' changes it to the offensive buff Heat Emission, granting various bonus effects such as defense penetration, fire damage, and Heat Emission effect to teammates depending on the number of stacks.

Since Heat Emission is also stacked in QTE attacks, Emma's basic cycle is QTE alternating appearance, then Q skill 'Burn Up (Heat Absorption 10)', 'Core Attack (Heat Absorption 15)', 'Flame Slash (Heat Absorption changes to Heat Emission)' - retreat. Since the core attack is activated immediately when using Burn Up (Q) after QTE, you can use 15 stacks of Heat Emission immediately, so it takes less time. Heat Emission can also be stacked with extreme evasion, so it is also possible to avoid the boss's pattern and stack 15 stacks.

The supporter skill is useful for obtaining Break, Heat Emission, and Heat Absorption at once. If Sung Jinwoo uses a fire attribute skill, Emma's supporter can be used to the fullest. However, the supporter skill only increases the damage coefficient, so the level-up priority is low. It is recommended to level up Emma's skills in the order of ultimate skill, Flame Slash, and Burn Up.

Emma Laurent's evolution efficiency is not very high. The only evolution that directly increases Emma's damage is the 4-stage 10% HP increase, and all other evolution effects are attached to break-related conditions. Emma, who has completed up to 5 stages of evolution, can be operated with a focus on break. Emma's core evolutions are stages 2 and 3, which maximize Emma's break effect and grant Heat Absorption to teammates, increasing stability.

The 5-stage evolution has a groundbreaking option of resetting all skill cooldowns upon break, and the core gauge and power gauge are recovered to 100%, making it theoretically possible to use ultimate skills in succession. In addition, the damage increases by an additional 77.77%, so the performance increases greatly depending on the presence or absence of break. However, this effect is only activated when Emma Laurent directly breaks the break while on the field.

Emma's exclusive weapon 'Night of Reverie' increases the damage dealt to targets in a break state as a basic stat, and gains an effect that increases the damage dealt when the [Heat Absorption] effect occurs up to 4 stacks. The key is the damage increase upon Heat Absorption, which can supplement Emma's firepower. If the evolution stage is high, the damage dealt to break targets effect also becomes useful.

Emma's exclusive weapon is not a high priority, but it is worth making if you use it as your main weapon. From the stage where Emma's evolution increases, all options of the exclusive weapon can be used usefully, so the importance increases.

The most common weapons that can be used as alternatives are grimoires and staves. Both weapons increase HP, making them good for Emma to use, and the power gauge effect allows you to rotate ultimate skills more often. Use the grimoire/staff with the higher breakthrough.

The importance of break increases as Emma's evolution stage increases. In particular, if you have a max breakthrough Emma, you get a huge bonus of resetting all skills after break, so the operation starts once you break the enemy. If you have an Emma near 4-5 evolution, it is good to equip the artifact with the New Recruit, which increases the break effect.

However, if Emma's evolution stage is low or you are still in the stage of starting to set up, the 'Leather' set is a good choice. It is useful for Emma, who does not have a critical hit chance buff. If the setup is completed to some extent, the Archmage's Robe, which maximizes the damage of the ultimate skill, is also good. You can use it as a 2/2 set or a 4 set.

In addition, you can consider the Divine set, which increases HP, and the Guard set, which grants a shield effect.

There are two main choices for Emma's accessories. A good choice is 'Verdant Dew'. Emma has the characteristic that if you use the QTE attack - normal skill Burn Up, the core attack is activated immediately and you can switch immediately without waiting. Since you only use skills and retreat immediately, the damage increase and normal skill cooldown reduction effects of the Verdant Dew set can be used usefully. However, if you use Emma as your main weapon and rotate Burn Up often, you may run out of magic power. Use it when there is another main dealer.

The next good choice is 'Behemoth', an accessory for all hunters. The Behemoth (Executioner Set) provides an effect that increases the damage dealt by 8% when attacking enemies with less than 40% HP, and the HP condition is 70% for the 4 set, and the damage dealt is increased to 20%. If you don't have a good Verdant Dew set or you use Emma as your main dealer, this is a good choice.

Emma quickly rotates skills and retreats, and supports the party by granting a 20-second defense penetration buff. She mainly takes the 2nd and 3rd positions in the party to rotate skills and support the main dealer, or performs the role of sub-dealer or break destruction.

Emma's Heat Emission buff time is 20 seconds, which is long, and her combat time is short, so she can support almost all hunters. Get the Heat Emission buff and switch, and continue fighting with the main dealer during the Heat Emission buff. Anyone can operate smoothly if they are main dealer-level hunters such as Silver Mane Baek Yunho, Seo Jiwoo, and Cha Haein.

Emma's best partner is 'Jong In'. Both characters are fire attribute hunters and can be active in the same weaknesses, and can utilize all of Emma's defense penetration and fire damage increase. Jong In also has a 'burn' debuff, which can supplement Emma's firepower that will come out later, and the defense reduction debuff and defense penetration are linked to create high synergy. Jong In cannot deal break damage, and Emma also compensates for this disadvantage.

If you are a hunter of a different attribute, there is also Cha Haein/Min Byung-gu, who have critical hit buffs. It is a good combination to supplement Emma's lack of critical hits and supplement each other's firepower.

Webzine InvenChoi Minho Reporter
2024-05-23