When watching this episode, from 10:18 to 27:54, I recommend that you hold up your phone or be on your emulator to use the video as a checklist for your account. That way you'll be a lot more engaged by comparing the video against your account. This will be the longest episode of the Arkpedia series (30 whopping minutes!). Subsequent episodes will be down to less than or around 10 minutes each for easier watching. Thanks to my editor, Pepp, again for working on this video with me for the past TWO MONTHS to make this come true. Also, have a read at the article I wrote for LDPlayer and also download LDPlayer now! LDPlayer Great Starting Operators Article: www.ldplayer.net/blog/arknights-beginner-guide.html Download LDPlayer to play Arknights now: www.ldplayer.net/games/arknights-on-pc.html?gameId=151&n=42158918#

“You should build Kroos" Yes, Kokodayo is actually a 10 star must build EIther way, thanks Kukki for this guide!

Melantha is actually a 6 star. The missing 3 stars are hiding behind the 3 stars you see.

Despite the fact that Kal'tsit is indeed a ST medic, it still hurts to see how Aak has a branch of his own but she still isn't officially marked as Harmacist

I remember back when I first started the game, my friend who introduced the game to me, suggested on building at least 2 operators of each class, 2 snipers, 2 defenders, 2 guards, 2 medics, etc. I feel that was a pretty good advice, I wasn't limited to what operators to build, and I ended up with a pretty good variety

Watch this guide as a newbie to get the ideas of which ops to build ✗ Watch this guide as a veteran and see your ops get praise ✓

Building the right squad determines how fast you'll be progressing as a new player. I wish I this video was out when I was still learning the game lol. This would totally help out new players set a foundation for their accounts!

This is an extremely useful guide for integrated strategies. Coming from a 2-year player, i find that my acc is stacked with E2'd 6 stars, but my 4's are lacking. Thanks kukki!!

I remember my old days when I started playing AK, for AA snipers that I keep using in my runs was just Kroos and April until I reached chapter 7 and didn't realized that May/Jessica was better than April for AA, and I also called April's S2 trash just because I have to redeploy her again for the skill to active, until I reached the end game where I finally starting to read operators talents and skills, and that was the time I realized that I've been using April the wrong way until chapter 7

I've been playing for a year now and I'm lvl 96 with a fully built squad of 5 and 6 stars yet I still want to watch this because I love this guy and all he does for the Arknights community. I cant wait for the rest of this series to see how I can enjoy this game even more than I already am.

i don't know how much it took you to do it. but it really feels like you worked really hard on it. respect

Oh my this looks well made and professionally made like a perfection... Hope to see more despite me being 120 doktah A but of corrections for medics... Dont build kaltsit for your regular ops healing operators, NEVER... Bcs she's meant to be dealing damage instead lmao

i absolutely LOVE the way you scripted and presented this video, and this makes me super excited for the later episodes. this is definitely one of your finest work

Great guide! As a minor addition, I'd say that Click basically counts as a Standard caster for the purposes of this guide (and is definitely one of the better ones to build for that purpose). Looking forwards to more videos in this series!

Just started playing and this was sooooo helpful, you explained it really well for a beginner like me, it's a lot to take in so thanks for putting in all the effort in these guides, really appreciate it man!

Great video Kukki, very informative and useful. Now new players won't feel overwhelmed or lost as much as I did anymore!

Im thouroughly impressed by this video, i honestly want to thank you. I answer questions for beginners on the subreddit almost every day, a lot of questions, and ive seen the same things quite a lot. your opening to this video from second one to the rainbow6 characters anaology is so perfect a mindset and ethos to bring into this game and im so happy to see someone else sharing that kind of attitude to new players. This is a really really deep game, with a huge breath of content to cover, teach, mentor, and provide insight on. Seeing lots of new players fall into the clear-guide dependancy hole, and not really know how to take full reigns of the game and its mechanical depth for themself has always pained me, and ive wanted to do a video series just like this myself, covering things from your first squad, the importance of dp and deployment order, all the way to splitboxing tutorials or how to approach creating a low-op challenge team for a stage. Im limited in my means to do so (only a phone, no pc) so im genuinly happy, relieved even, to see a big member of our community starting something that looks to be very much the same if not identical to my idea. genuinly thank you so much, loved the video, i agreed with all your major points and i think the foundational branch concept was a great way to approach such a daunting topic. I know im just a random viewer, but since ive wanted to do this kind of series myself, if you ever wanted another person to bounce ideas or writing off of, id be happy to help. I usually do low-op cc challenge videos, so i think ive got a good grasp on the technical depth of the game, and really understand how every operator can find their best day in the sun with a proper doctor behind them. fantastic job and looking foward to more from this series☆

Thank you as someone coming back to the game its been a great guide to get me back on track. Also looking forward to the rest of the series

I just started playing Arknights last week (everything I heard about the new event finally pulled me in) and your videos are SO helpful. Thank you.

High production values, a good message well communicated. A great example for the community.

Kukki I love your content. There are so many amazing Arknights content creators and you are by far my favorite. And massive shoutout to the editor, these videos are always so slick and clean. Plus, you can absolutely tell that a massive amount of effort and love went into making these.

I remember the call the night before where we had last checks on the video - then apparently my PC got haunted by a ghost KEKW I'm very happy how this turned out 2 months of hard work, not to mention the finals I had to deal for school. hope you guys enjoyed the video. best use of 65GB in my life :')

A very helpful and clear instruction. Editing is cool. Looking forward to how Kukki is going to explain other features for new players.

This is perfect kukki. If this video was available before I played my start would've been much smoother. Promoting Myrtle to E2 early is probably the best advice, its cheap and it will open up strong support units like Silverash, Surtr, Blaze, or Ifrit that is often used on low rarity clear guides. Amazing editing too it looks nice.

Really needed this as a gacha vet who’s been on Arknights a few months. Game has different progression from most. Been having a ton of fun with getting different types of ops leveled. Very well designed by HG and Yostar IMO

Very comprehensive guide! It's good to see that you emphasize on operator roles (branches); a lot of new players tend to overlook that you actually have to build an entire SQUAD at the start. I also agree on "build whoever you want AFTER the foundation squad." As a 2-year (level 119) player, I still build and use some lower rarity operators over 6-stars just for fun.

I've literally only started playing again because of this guide, super helpful! Please make more guides on the other branches!

I'm so glad you showed Click at the end. my favorite operator by far

Awesome guide! Really like the editing!

Amazing video with really great production value - even the video examples feature all the relevant Operators. Amazing work! I found it odd that only one of each Vanguard was recommended, when I often need more. Then I realise that I fill most of my squads with 5-6 stars. :^)

Guides like these are amazing for the community. Thank you so much, kukkikaze!

I'm new at this game, this helped me so much. I'm waiting for the Ep2!

super interesting video thank you I can't wait for the next parts of this guide

The best beginner guide i have ever seen. Props to you kukki. New AK players are in good hands.

Amazing video Kukki! So good to see you making new and relevant content for all the new players. I'm excited to see more of this series. The editing and overlay was perfectly done! Props to your editor Pepp!

Yo the visual is very crisp and cool!!!! Nice.

This is so well edited. I'm lovin it.

This video is phenomenal beyond words! I can definitely imagine my early player self eating this advice up. I will say, though - I'd argue that the Hexer archetype can also be quite useful to new Doctors due to Hexers being a source of Arts damage and having the widest range in the game at five tiles, making them flexible and reliable. Granted, there are currently only three hexers (Gnosis, Shamare, Pramanix), and they may not be a 'necessity' due to their scarcity and higher rarities, however I feel like they at least deserved an honorable mention. All three are great in their own rights and would definitely give much support to newer Doctors. • Gnosis is one of if not the best crowd-control dealer that amplifies allies' damage and stops enemies completely in their tracks. • Shamare has huge ATK and DEF debuffs and both of her skills are viable for usage. She's very friendly towards new players in terms of difficulty usage. • Pramanix applies large DEF, RES and ASPD debuffs which helps new players to dish out and tank more damage - and she can attack two enemies at once at E2! I'd also like to mention that Kafka is a very new player friendly Executor, second only to Gravel; Kafka requires absolutely zero investment (and I mean *zero*, many recommends to just have her at E0 LVL. 50 for lower DP costs), and her burst of Arts damage alongside with the Sleep debuff can really help out new players in a pinch. I would bring up Ayerscarpe and the fact that he has more controllable and higher overall DPS than Lappland, however her Silence debuff is without a doubt an amazing addition that pushes him off the edge. I'd also mention that Wandering Medics have great merit - the Berries in particular - due to their wide healing range and their future relevance in later chapters due to Elemental Damage. Besides that, though, I agree with all the things you've said so far! Great job, Kukki!

This is actually a good and legit guide to new player how to build their initial squad. Wish I have something like this when I was a new player.

Crazy editing. Amazing job man!

This is a very useful guide kukki, and this is something that'll reccomend to newbies and anyone who i feel needs it.

Just dropping by to appreciate Kukki's latest project. Comprehensive and insightful. Cheers!

You are a life saver, I started the game last week and i couldn't tell left from right so i just started leveling up everyone who looked nice

Let's go kukki!! I've been waiting to see this.

Thank you for create content like this. Especially this one is very creative. Mostly AK contents now a days is strategy to clearing stage. Mostly lore, tips, or base by they buff rarely get topic for content or discussion.

I really appreciate the effort u put into this video, good job man!

I'm sure that was a tough edit-job, work well done I say! Thank you!

very nice format and well made video tbh, definitely keeping this video in mind when I make some guides

yas, this is exactly the video/series i was looking for

looking forward to the next installment of this series

Thank you very much for this guide. Just started this game and this was very valuable in learning the various classes.

I remember when I first started last year. One of my early 6 stars was mudrock and ppl said she wasn’t very beginner friendly bc of her high dp cost. I didn’t listen since I was a newb and I liked the idea of bringing my 6 stars in stages. Mudrock has carried me since I started and I bring her to almost every stage since. The only other defender that I built at the time was like bubble and spot. So yeh mudrock was like my main defender for a very long time. The game is fun bc u can finish stages with different strats/operators . I hope this series will really help new players in learning the game

I wanted to say that even as a 2yr+ veteran to the game, I still enjoyed listening to this. I feel the information will be useful and would recommend any new player to give it a listen and then ask questions after. I do have a few minor disagreent with some operator recommendations / ratings but that is more of an opinion than fact and feel the overall accuracy is on point of your selection. The editting for a video of this size is great and I commend all involved in the editting process :) Good work!

I follow the mentality of "there is balance in all things" most of the time

Thanks for this vid, im relatively new to arknights so this is a big help!

What an amazing guide!, I just started playing some months ago and this will help me a lot, thanks!

Your production value is fantastic. Very concise, very clear information. I'm a veteran player and have most of the golds built, but it gave me some awareness of holes I might have in my account (I don't have two Guardians fully built, for example; fixing that next). Great work.

eyyyy finally the guide has come gonna watch even though i have my own team

Thanks for your hard work Kukki!

Cant wait for next episode in this series

Great video :) thanks! I wish I had a guide like this when I started 1 year ago. I struggled for a while not having prioritize all the fundamental branches.

Looking forward to the next episode kuki😊

Yeahhhh I was waiting thx bro

as a veteran i vouched for ur guide its both informative and entertaining goodjob kuuki :)

Poor Adnachiel, the only of the Marksmen to be singled out as not recommended ;_; But what a great resource to have as a new player! I can only imagine how much less fumbly my beginnings would have been with something like this to guide me. Incredible work, kukki!

For a person who started roughly 3 weeks ago, this is quite helpful, much appreciated

I am no longer in the stage where I have to build foundation operators anymore, but I know if this video came out back when I first started I would be breezing many more stages early on.

This is a promising series. Looking forward to future episodes!

Im a 2 years veteran player of AK and rn my account level is 119 and I just wanna say that this video is really well made. The way the branches are explained is very straightforward. I learned another branches of operators with which I don't know or heard of after 2 years of playing this game.

I totally lost it at "when you are climbing a Mountain". Take my like for that!

Very good video, godlike editing!

This is lit ngl Thx for the guide, mate

Wonderful guide. I appreciated the approach of putting more choice into each players' hands. I think it is worth stressing even more than Kukkikaze did, you don't need to build all high rarity operators. Early in the game, picking some low to mid rarity operators pointed out in this guide can make progression easier. And the lower rarity operators pointed in this guide do scale well into end game.

I hope you get a ton of views! this is exactly what I needed when I started playing good video! 👏

Great help to new player!! Keep up the great job!

great vid. cant wait for the base guide :)😁

This is great. Might be the best starting guide around now. Thx for clarifying at the end what you mean with 'build' for next time. Since I'm worried people will look at this and think 'build'='E2 this' (altho I'm pretty sure that's not what you mean.) I find it curious that you included standard bearer and arts fighters as foundation since these 2 weren't even around when the game started. Don't get me wrong I still agree with it, just kinda funny.

I played AK for almost a year now and 29:43 is really true. I watched a guide days after installing the game that said the same advice. And in few months, I never needed to look for clear guides anymore unless I don't have the time to plan and do trial and errors. Thanks for the very high-quality video Uncle Kukki 👍

I've recently started taking Arknights seriously and the ArkPedia videos have done alot to help me! You might not see this, but thanks so much for your contributions!

Even High End players, this is such a good throwback and reminder for myself. Thanks for the amazing video Kukki! I'm gonna recommend this to my new Doctor friends

thing with the dreadnaught branch is this is probably the first branch that you would fully replace with a different branch. Usually a Musha or arts fighter would be a superior replacement. However, it is reccomended to build melantha as a low investment until you get units of the alternate branches. As where DP generating is a problem, Melantha's low DP can still come in clutch in some cases. but is skippable if you already rolled into an arts fighter or musha guard. (NTR is limited so may not be an option to everyone) also, Lava 3* might be one of the units that you'd get the longest use out of, as she beats out all the 4* alternatives because of her high initial SP on deployment, allowing her to be a deployed at more flexible timings, which is an issue for other AOE casters cause of their high DP cost and SP cost, and well, 4* shirayuki S2 kind of makes any other AOE casters less relevant. (While Dusk is the best representation of what this branch needs, she is limited.)

Amazing work

extremely useful video!! thanks ☺️

AK community is blessed to have Kukki aboard within our jurney. Always appreciate your help to new player man 🙂

OMGG THWBK YOU SO MUCH I play tons of games on my life but arknights is the one game I don't understand, ty again for creating this video😭😭

Excellent video man. Veteran 2 Year player approves here. Big props to the editor too. I got no complaints or suggestions at all to the recommendations or the order of topics in the video. If this series is ever completed then I can definitely see it as excellent material for all newer players. I'll be big chilling waiting for the concepts of strategy and specific game mechanics if they're ever discussed in this series.

Thanks for the guide kukkikaze also the guide of the recruitment help me a lot so thank you and have a good day

I'll have to come back to this... EDIT: I've come back to this started building up by account in line with this post level 50, now I'm approaching 70... This is gonna be rough...

Thank you so much! This will help me lots.

Kukki, you outdid yourself with this video. Impeccable. This will definitely be one of the staple videos to recommend for new players.

really helpful. Thank you!

The only E2s I have are Myrtle, Cuora, Thorns, and Exusiai... and I'm speedrunning the story stages because it made my game easier but I still need to level-up more operators so I can enjoy it more. I just returned to Arknights when Vigilo was about to end I was struggling at first but was able to find yours and other AK content creators through watching to make my account alive again. Now I'm happy despite that I missed a lot of events especially the Dossoles Holiday but I have to move on and focus what I can do now. THANK YOU☺️

Good advise....you rock,have a good day,these videos are the fckng best out there and your a good coach and sensei...rock on...

Excellent video covering great tips! While having long passed the stage of beginner; it was still highly interesting to watch and compare this to how I ended up going about building my squads. I must say I followed a similar path of having several operators per class, per branch. Though I didn't just stick to the main branches you covered but simply all of them. To this day, i'm still building several operators just to have a branch option ready to go. Still missing a Deadeye sniper despite being spoiled for choice... I build operators for their meta mechanics cause I was lucky enough to get them (ex. Surtr, SilverAsh, Chalter) I build operators for their fun mechanics cause I wanted to (ex. Robin, Saileach, Bena) I build operators for their late game mechanics as I'm starting to venture down this path (ex. Scene, Shamare, Pramanix) I even build an operator for her ability to always end up saving my runs ( Silence, Bless you and your S2M3) And I build operators for their looks and really what other reason is there (ex. Iris, Toddifons, Mizuki) On a side note: La Pluma is the default E2 operator you build for all the reasons listed above; don't question this, just... do it... She will reap through your squads if you own her but don't build her.

You sold me on this episide.

Omg, the edit is amazing. I bow before you

Even though Yato is a Pioneer vanguard, for early players it's worth including her in the Executor branch discussion. I didn't realize how much her role changed after unlocking her talent and ignored her since she's a 2 star. Makes a very good early 2nd Fast-Redeploy, at least until you unlock Project Red or someone else.

Great guide!

Man this guide is really helpful, ive been playing this game for about 4 months already and so far i have to say Im pretty lucky with my headhunting pulls but the problem is that i have kinda grown a slight reluctance to build my three or even four stars so i always have this feeling im missing something or my squad doesnt feel strong even with alot of five stars and six stars. Surprised that some operators that i once felt were trash turned out to be viewed as good. Out of all the arknights guides out herr on yt, this gotta be one of the best. Gonna subscribe for the rest of the series :)

Nice editing 💯