New players can have a tough time understanding the basics of 英灵学院 Soul Academy. So here’s a complete Soul Academy Guide for Beginners to help you learn everything you need to get the best students and create unbeatable teams. The game primarily revolves around (1) Management of Students and Resources and (2) Fighting against other Academies in a MOBA-Styled Auto Battler.
You must balance these two aspects perfectly to excel in Soul Academy. You’ll never win fights if you amass resources but don’t train students properly. On the other hand, if you only train students and don’t get resources, your students will get tired and stop training. So, let’s see what you must do to find the optimal training and resource farming combination!
How To Recruit The Best Students?
Recruiting students is the first thing you must do when you start with Soul Academy. Here is when you will notice that every student has a certain number of Stats, Battle Heroes, and, most importantly, the Student’s Potential.
The Student potentials are rated from D to S rank, and your goal should be to get the best potential students for your academy. You don’t need to worry about the “Tuition” cost above the characters since it is pretty manageable if you properly allocate workers in your academy.
The students have three stats with emojis, which represent the students’ moods based on entertainment, food, and rest. Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Intelligence stats also determine the students’ capabilities and Battle Hero levels.
You might ask, “Why should I recruit S-rank potential students?”. That is because getting a higher potential means that the upper limit on their stats is much higher than lower ranks. This equates to a higher max level for their respective Battle Heroes as well, giving you an advantage in the end game.
Soul Academy Guide: Stat Training and Battle Heroes
Now that you know about the stats, here’s how you should train your students as beginners in Soul Academy. When you first start the game, you won’t have unlocked the “Auto-Train” feature, which is a great option to research later. As a beginner, follow these steps to train your students properly:
- Check out their Battle Heroes, and note which stats are required to level up their levels.
- Find the maximum number of Battle Heroes that share common stat requirements. For example, if your student can use the heroes Chief and King, both having the same stats needed for leveling up, then that is a common hero.
- Now that you have found similar stat heroes prioritize training only those 2 stats to level up the battle power of that student quickly.
You can follow this strategy until you unlock the Auto-Train feature via research, after which you only need to find the common battle heroes and set the student training to automatic.
How To Manage Resouces in 英灵学院 Soul Academy?
Apart from student training, you also need to manage your resources properly. Resources include Food, Toys, and Pillows for your students, which lets them eat, recreate, and sleep accordingly. Even though you can produce them from various rooms in the academy, having a net positive flow of resources is essential to ensure that your students can train properly.
Every room requires a soul worker who can produce soul coins, forge coins, and use every other resource in the game. But, hiring these workers requires soul coins, and their hiring costs keep increasing with every worker. Considering these points, you must be extra careful when placing workers in any room, knowing you must keep all your resources flowing.
Beginner’s Guide on Research in Soul Academy
Research is another core aspect of Soul Academy. You can research various technologies to upgrade your rooms, enhance your students, and unlock new battle heroes and equipments.
Doing research requires having research points (RP). These are bulb-shaped coins that workers can produce in dedicated rooms. The cost of research can increase exponentially, so you need to keep checking on what upgrades you want to prioritize. Here is a brief rundown on which research skills you should prioritize and in what order:
- The first thing you need to research is the additional workers. Initially, you start the game with a limit of 8 soul workers, which isn’t enough at all. Raise it to 16, then 24, to meet your academy’s increasing needs.
- Once you’ve done that, research enhanced production for your academy rooms to ensure maximum output from your rooms.
- Finally, after the productions have been handled, research battle skills like “Auto-Train” followed by 2-3 Star Equipments.
Beginner’s Tip: Stay away from unlocking new Battle Heroes with RP. Even though it might seem interesting, there is no point in wasting valuable research points on this. You can do fine with the default heroes without dropping 400-600 RP on new heroes, which might not suit your team.
Best Items and Combinations To Choose
Since we have covered most of the basics of the game, Let us see the items and battle hero combinations that you can use:
- Dragoon with Doctor. This is one of the best combos in Soul Academy. Dragoon is a close-range fighter with massive DPS. Doctor is a pure support hero who can nearly make Dragoon immortal.
- Chief with Arrow. This is another viable hero combination. Chief is a tank hero that can absorb damage, while Arrow can dish out lots of damage from a long range.
- King with Sworder. This is a unique but effective battle-hero combination. King is a tanky fighter, and Sworder is a pure fighter battle hero. Their skillset allows them to deal damage to enemy heroes while tanking sufficient continuous damage.
Beginner’s Tip: Equip the best items on the Battle Heros you often use. Prioritize damage items on fighters while defense items for tanky heroes.
Final Words: What Else?
With that, this Soul Academy Guide for Beginners should cover everything you need to know to get started on the right foot. Feel free to check out our review of this game. Also, let us know if we missed anything in the comments.
