Watch your steps! Child soldier fighting under traps.

Difficulty: Harder Decisions

• Trap Knowledge: Requires trap crafts to get the full benefit from his skills. You don't necessarily have to go full traps though with Hybridsol. Traps are also something that most characters don't even bother to learn too (except Mithril traps usually).

• Harder Decisions: The addition of Traps to his decisions makes everything more difficult, but it also make him one of the most rewarding character to play.

Three Playstyles: Battle, Trap, Hydrid Isol

• Battlesol: Plays as other characters without any skills and just leveraging his higher ATK stats. This has been nerf over time as his ATK stats aren't the highest anymore. It is still very high. This option is usually not enough. So you don't see this option a lot anymore.

• Trapsol: As commonly referred to, solely builds traps for surprise damage on players with low HP with no Mastery and very little armor. Both Guerilla Warfare & Recollection allows for it. Ends up salvaging his armor from victim's corpses. Usually finish in the last area with a Double Guillotine or two. This option has been nerfed over time a little with the change on the EOD Suit that's now available outside of Temple. Trapsol is mostly seen in non-ranked or competitive lobbies, where winning is not as important.

• Hydridsol: As other playstyles has been nerf over time, this is the hardest and most rewarding playstyle for Isol. He's an Hybrid as he both use Battle (Mastery) and Traps. This playstyle fully make use of his full kit, but the learning curve is more difficult as previously mentioned. This playsyle difficulty also makes Isol not as popular as he used to be anymore.

Skill Explained

• Guerilla Warfare: Makes Trapsol a thing as increase the damage of the next trap. The Mastery increase when crafting traps hint you that the game wants you to go for Hybridsol. The simplest way to do this has been to use White Snare that you can find on the Lumia Island to hopefully build into one Purple trap craft.

• Recollection: The main benefit from playing Isol is his Recollection to be able to fight while the opponent reveals his traps before finding Isol! The damage combo can be lethal. So basic knowledge of some traps might be required to fully benefit from his burst damage from a big trap in combination with his normal attack.

General Tips

• Early: Isol starts weak so he will find his spot. And then over time, he grows his ATK a lot. This is usually not enough alone though, or AKA Battle Isol. Isol can start dropping White Snare to build his Mastery a little.

• Mid: While Isol might not have the highest ATK anymore, he still benefits a lot from a Legendary Weapon craft if he was able to take Wickeline for himself. This might also be the last opportunity for Isol to finish his Purple trap for last area.

• Late: This is where your big traps in combination with Recollection for normal attacks will be lethal in killing a surprised opponent as your opponent will search and find your traps before you, typically.

Counters

• Contest Early: Isol starts weak so he can be contested in his starting area.

• Anti-Trap Crafts Knowledge: You'll need to know your anti-trap crafts by mostly using the in-game helper or looking it up beforehand: EOD Suit is the main one. EOD Boots is also an alternative bonus. Generally, EOD Suit alone should be enough.

• Identify Isol in your lobby/in-game: This might be a good idea even at the beginning to identify any Isol to potentially bring a Windbreaker as your starting armor if you need EOD Suit later. More-so if you are playing in a non-competitive lobby. In-game. Trapsol usually doesn't have a proper build in the game, or very low Mastery. It will be easier to go for EOD Suit if Windbreaker Branch upgrade was already preferred over the more common Leather upgrade.

• Avoid Hospital vs Trapsol: Trapsol will usually trap Hospital to surprise low HP players running away to Hospital on low HP.

• Watch your HP in fights: An Isol that makes it late game is usually going to be dangerous, be careful to keep your HP high to avoid getting burst by traps.