Ultimate Guide to Sung Jinwoo’s Solo Leveling: Arise Build – Skills, Stats, Weapons, and Artifacts

In the exciting gacha game Solo Leveling: Arise, as you follow Sung Jinwoo on his journey to become the world’s top hunter, it’s crucial to enhance and deploy the best items available.

Similar to the original Solo Leveling manhwa and anime, Sung Jinwoo can boost his stats and acquire new skills that enable him to level up and gain strength in Arise. Acquiring powerful weapons and Artifacts will be imperative if you aim to transform Jinwoo into an unstoppable force.

Optimal Sung Jinwoo Stats in Solo Leveling: Arise

Strength and Perception are the primary stats to focus on for an effective build. Enhancing Strength is vital for boosting attack damage, while Perception increases the minimum damage dealt.

An image of Sung Jinwoo's stats menu in Solo Leveling Arise. — Source: dexerto / Netmarble

Sung Jinwoo has five stats to allocate points to for enhancing his abilities.

By dedicating your early stat points to Strength and Perception, you can efficiently overcome any Gates, quests, and adversaries. As you progress to later levels, it’s advisable to invest in Agility to heighten the likelihood of landing Critical Hits, assisting in the defeat of formidable bosses.

Intelligence and Vitality are generally less advantageous for Sung Jinwoo and most hunter characters in Solo Leveling: Arise, since improvements to Defence, Stamina, and Mana are not as impactful as boosting attack capabilities.

Top Skills

The best basic skills for Sung Jinwoo are Multistrike and Death’s Dance, while his ultimate skill, Truth: Mutilate, stands as the most powerful.

Solo Leveling Arise: Sung Jinwoo best skills — Source: dexerto / Netmarble

Numerous Basic and Ultimate Skills are available for you to choose from for Sung Jinwoo.

He can equip two Basic Skills and an Ultimate Skill, all of which can be enhanced through various Runes for improvements.

Selecting your Runes based on the enemies you confront will offer significant enhancements and abilities against specific Element types. Here’s an overview of the relevant skills:

Skill Type	Skill	Benefits	Runes
Basic Skill	Multistrike	Delivers impactful Break damage and significantly boosts Jinwoo’s attack damage with the initial swift attack and an Airborne effect on the final strike. Can be further enhanced with Runes.	Pummel: Jinwoo unleashes quick punches after charging at a target, dealing Light elemental damage.Illusion: Jinwoo creates clones that deliver a continuous attack sequence, dealing Dark elemental damage.Percussion: After launching the target into the air, Jinwoo delivers rapid punches ending with a powerful explosion, dealing Fire elemental damage.Rush: Jinwoo lunges at the adversary, executing multiple punches before finishing with a spinning kick, dealing Water elemental damage.
Basic Skill	Death’s Dance	This skill delivers the highest Break damage among Jinwoo’s abilities, making it essential for taking down high-level bosses and challenging enemies. Can be upgraded further with potent Runes.	Wildfire: Jinwoo performs a fire-infused spinning attack before leaping into the air and delivering a devastating ground strike, dealing Fire elemental damage.Eruption: Jinwoo executes a spinning attack that propels him forward, culminating in three damaging explosions. Deals Dark elemental damage.High-Speed Rotation: Jinwoo performs three spinning attacks while moving forward, dealing Wind elemental damage.Earth Shook: After a horizontal spin, Jinwoo leaps into the air and crashes down, dealing Light Elemental damage.
Ultimate Skill	Truth: Mutilate	This is undoubtedly the most effective Ultimate skill for Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling: Arise, with damage increasing by an astounding 4078% before any leveling.	N/A

Top Sung Jinwoo Weapons

The best weapon for Jinwoo is the Demonic Plum Flower Sword, renowned as the top weapon in the game due to its remarkable Critical Hit damage and two powerful abilities: Plum Flower and Full Bloom.

Solo Leveling Arise: Sung Jinwoo best weapon Demonic Plum Flower Sword — Source: dexerto / Netmarble

The Demonic Plum Flower Sword is undoubtedly Sung Jinwoo’s most effective weapon in Solo Leveling: Arise.

However, options like the Shadow Scythe and Theris’ Grimoire also offer substantial power when compared to other available weapons. Depending on your situation, such as facing bosses with particular strengths and weaknesses, these alternatives might prove more advantageous than the Demonic Plum Flower Sword.

Weapon	Skills & Abilities
Demonic Plum Flower Sword	High Dark Element damage with outstanding Critical Hit damage. The Swift Flight skill deals remarkable damage and activates the Plum Flower effect, which boosts Critical Hit Damage by 12% (stackable up to 3 times). The Full Bloom effect accelerates Swift Flight by 20% and increases both attack and Critical Hit Rate by 4% for 8 seconds.
Shadow Scythe	Deals substantial Dark Element damage; its Essence Harvest effect reduces Health by 5%, subsequently doubling its skill damage.
Thetis’ Grimoire	Delivers significant Water Element damage; hitting enemies activates a Cold Ice effect, slowing them down. After the Cold Ice effect expires, it deals damage equal to 10% of the damage taken during its 4-second duration.

If you’ve yet to acquire the top three weapons, the West Wind serves as an excellent high-damage dealer, standing out as the best SR weapon in Solo Leveling: Arise.

Optimal Artifacts

The best Artifact sets for Sung Jinwoo significantly enhance his overall Attack, Critical Hit Damage, and Break Stats. Any combination from the armor and jewelry sets listed below is ideal:

Armor Artifact Sets	Two-piece Benefits	Four-piece Benefits	Eight-piece Benefits
Toughness (Hard Leather)	Increases Critical Hit rate by 8%.	Boosts Critical Hit Damage by 32%.	N/A
Armed (Black Lion)	Boosts Attack damage by 5%.	Attacks ignore 15% of the target’s Defense.	N/A
Solid Foundation (Dragon Knight)	Increases damage by 15% when Break attack is activated.	Break effect increases by 30% against Weakness attribute.	N/A
Burning Greed	When the user inflicts Break damage, Critical Hit Rate increases by 1%.	Boosts Critical Hit Rate by 10% and Critical Hit Damage by 15% for both user and team after dealing Break damage.	Further increases Break effect by 30% against enemies with elemental weakness. Enhances 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 boosts by 15% when the hunter’s Health is at or below 50%.	Damage rises to 30% when Health is at or below 70%.	N/A
Champion on the Field (Red-Eyed)	Attack increases by 5% for 4 seconds following a Critical Hit.	Attack Increase effect enables a maximum of 4 stacks.	N/A
Burning Greed	When the user hits a target with Break damage, it increases Critical Hit Rate by 1%.	Critical Hit Rate increases by 10% and Critical Hit Damage by 15% for the user and team after inflicting Break damage.	Break effect increases by 30% against elemental weakness and boosts user and team members’ Critical Hit Rate by 15% and Critical Hit Damage by 30%.

Since the June 19 update, the Burning Greed eight-piece Armor and Jewelry set has become one of the top choices for equipping Sung Jinwoo.

While it requires hard work to collect each of the eight Artifacts for Burning Greed, the powerful Critical Hit enhancements they provide will definitely justify the effort. We recommend dedicating your time to this endeavor.

Finally, if you’re encountering difficulties in defeating tough bosses, it’s highly recommended to obtain and equip the Solid Foundation (Dragon Knight) Armor set for its overpowering damage and Break enhancements effective against any boss in the game.