In Sung Jinwoo’s rise to becoming the world’s best hunter in Solo Leveling: Arise, you’ll need to upgrade and use the best items in the gacha game.
Like the original Solo Leveling manhwa and anime, Sung Jinwoo can increase his stats and learn new skills to level up and become stronger in Arise. Obtaining powerful weapons and Artifacts will also be essential if you want to gear up Jinwoo to become an unstoppable force in Arise.
Best Sung Jinwoo stats in Solo Leveling: Arise
Strength and Perception are Sung Jinwoo’s stats that you will want to prioritize for the best build. Strength will be the most important to constantly increase your attack damage, while Perception increases minimum attack damage.
Spending all your stat points on Strength and Perception early in the game will allow you to easily clear any Gates, quests, and enemies in your way. In the later stages, spend some of your points on Agility to increase his chances of dealing Critical Hits on enemies to help you defeat high-level bosses.
Intelligence and Vitality are the worst stats for Sung Jinwoo and most hunter characters in Solo Leveling: Arise, as boosting Defence, Stamina, and mana stats are less beneficial than enhancing your attacks.
Best skills
Sung Jinwoo’s best basic skills are Multistrike and Death’s Dance, while his best Ultimate skill is Truth: Mutilate.
He can equip two Basic Skills and an Ultimate Skill that can all be enhanced with different Runes to upgrade them further.
You are best picking your Runes depending on the opponents you are facing as they give significant enhancements and abilities for certain Element types – however, we have provided an overview of them for the relevant skills below.
| Skill type | Skill | Benefits | Runes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Skill | Multistrike | Deals strong Break damage and greatly increases Jinwoo’s attack damage with a first swift attack and Airborne effect final strike.Can be buffed further with Runes. | Pummel: Jinwoo unleashes a series of quick punches after charging towards a target. Deals Light elemental damage.Illusion: Clones of Jinwoo spawn as he moves forward and delivers a continuous string of attacks. Deals Dark elemental damage.Percussion: After Jinwoo kicks the target into the air, he deals a series of punches that end with a powerful explosion causing attack. Deals Fire elemental damage.Rush: Jinwoo lunges forward attacking with multiple punches and finishes with a spinning kick. Deals Water elemental damage. |
| Basic Skill | Death’s Dance | The highest Break damage dealer out of all Sung Jinwoo’s skills is essential for defeating high-level bosses and tough enemies.Can be buffed further with powerful Runes. | Wildfire: Jinwoo performs a fire-infused spinning attack, before jumping into the air and striking the ground powerfully. Deals Fire elemental damage.Eruption: Jinwoo deals a spinning attack that propels him forward. He then rotates and strikes the ground resulting in three damaging explosions. Deals Dark elemental damage. High-Speed Rotation: Jinwoo unleashes three spinning attacks while moving forward. Deals Wind elemental damage. Earth Shook: After spinning horizontally, Jinwoo launches into the air and strikes the ground. Deals Light Elemental damage. |
| Ultimate Skill | Truth: Mutilate | Truth: Mutilate is easily the best Ultimate skill for Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling: Arise.Jinwoo’s damage increases by 4078% before you even level it up which instantly makes its damage dealt far superior. | N/A |
Best Sung Jinwoo weapons
The best weapon to use for Jinwoo is by far the Demonic Plum Flower Sword. It is easily the best weapon you can get in the whole game thanks to its insane Critical Hit Damage dealing and two OP abilities of Plum Flower and Full Bloom.
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However, the Shadow Scythe and Theris’ Grimoire are still strong in their own right compared to other available weapons. Depending on different situations, such as bosses with certain strengths and weaknesses, they can even be more beneficial to use instead of the Demonic Plum Flower Sword.
| Weapon | Skills & Abilities |
|---|---|
| Demonic Plum Flower Sword | High Dark Element damage and Critical Hit Damage dealer.Swift Flight skill fastly deals insane damage and activates the Plum Flower effectPlum Flower increases Critical Hit Damage by 12% and can be stacked up to 3 times.Full Bloom effect increases the speed of Swift Flight by 20% and the attack & Critical Hit Rate both increases by 4% for 8 seconds. |
| Shadow Scythe | Deals massive amounts of Dark Element damage and its Essence Harvest effect decreases Health by 5% and then doubles its skill damage. |
| Thetis’ Grimoire | Deals significant Water Element damage and when its Water Spray hits enemies it activates a Cold Ice effect, which slows them down.After Cold Ice has ended, it deals damage equal to 10% of damage taken during its 4-second duration. |
If you still need to obtain the three above best weapons, then the West Wind, the high-damage dealer is the best SR weapon in Solo Leveling: Arise, and a more than adequate replacement.
Best Artifacts
The best Artifact sets for Sung Jinwoo boost his overall Attack, Critical Hit Damage, and Break Stats. So any combination of the armor and jewelry sets in the tables below is ideal to use:
| Armor Artifact sets | Two-piece benefits | Four-piece benefits | Eight-piece benefits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toughness (Hard Leather) | Critical Hit rate increases by 8%. | Critical Hit Damage increases by 32%. | N/A |
| Armed (Black Lion) | Attack damage increases by 5%. | Attacking ignores 15% of the target’s Defense and attacks. | N/A |
| Solid Foundation (Dragon Knight) | Damage increases by 15% while Break attack activated. | Break effect increases by 30% when attacking Weakness attribute. | N/A |
| Burning Greed | When the user hits a target with Break damage it increases Critical Hit Rate by 1%. | When the user hits a target with Break damage it increases Crtitical Hit Rate by 10% and Critical Hit Damage by 15% for the user and team. | When attacking enemies that have an elemental weakness, the Break effect increases by 30%.Increases user and team members’ Critical Hit Rate by 15% and Critical Hit Damage by 30%. |
| Jewelry Artifact sets | Two-piece benefits | Four-piece benefits | Eight-piece benefits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expert (Beast) | Critical Hit has a 25% chance to increase attack by 0.8%. | Critical Hit has a 50% chance to increase attack by 1.6%. | N/A |
| Berserker (Skeleton) | Damage increases by 15% while the hunter has 50% or less Health. | Damage rises to 30% while the hunter has 70% or less. | N/A |
| Champion on the Field (Red-Eyed) | Attack increases by 5% for 4 seconds when Critical Hit is landed. | Attack Increase effect rises to allow 4 maximum stacks. | N/A |
| Burning Greed | When the user hits a target with Break damage it increases Critical Hit Rate by 1%. | When the user hits a target with Break damage it increases Crtitical Hit Rate by 10% and Critical Hit Damage by 15% for the user and team. | When attacking enemies that have an elemental weakness, the Break effect increases by 30%.Increases user and team members’ Critical Hit Rate by 15% and Critical Hit Damage by 30%. |
Following the June 19 update, the Burning Greed eight-piece Armor and Jewelry set added has emerged as one of the best to equip with Sung Jinwoo.
It’s a grind to get each of Burning Greed’s eight Artifacts but their OP Critical Hit buffs will certainly make them worth obtaining so we’d recommend investing the time to do so.
Finally, if you’re stuck trying to defeat tough bosses, we’d particularly advise you obtain and equip the Solid Foundation (Dragon Knight) Armor set. It’s damage and Break upgrades are OP against any boss in the game.
That’s the best Sung Jinwoo build in Solo Leveling: Arise. For more on the game, check out our hunter characters in a tier list, best weapons, Artifacts, Shadow Soldiers, and what the current and next banners are.