Solo Leveling: Arise – Best SSR Characters, Ranked

Highlights

• Gacha features in Solo Leveling: Arise offer powerful characters like SSR Woo Jinchul, Hwang Dongsoo, and Lee Bora for a strategic advantage.
• Each character like Silver Mane, Lim Tae-Gyu, Baek Yoonho, and Emma Laurent, offers unique gameplay styles and benefits for players to explore.
• Cha Hae-In stands out as one of the strongest characters currently, with the ability to stop enemies from healing.

Solo Leveling: Arise is a dream come true for the fans of hit manhwa. Fans of the series can now indulge in the magical world where only the strongest survive. In the game, the players can experience the journey of Sung Jinwoo, the titular protagonist of the series, as they fight various monsters and ferocious creatures in different dungeons.

Solo Leveling: Arise consists of gacha features, allowing players to obtain a variety of characters of different rarities. SSR being the rarest and the hardest type of character to get, these characters are especially powerful. With strong abilities that can change the tide of battle, these rare characters are a must-have for players, but with quite a number of them being available, fans might be confused about which ones to go for.

11 Woo Jinchul

The Dashmaster

• Class: Tank
• Element: Wind
• Scaling: Defense

Woo Jinchul is another Wind Type unit in the game that assumes the role of a Tank in the team. Woo Jinchul scales on defense and his skills primarily involve dashing around. He is easily the lowest damage dealer among all SSR characters in the game, putting him in a disadvantageous position.

Players are required multiple dupes of Jinchul to play him on the same stage as other SSR characters. However, the ability to dash freely thanks to various skills can be good for players who face a hard time dodging in the game, making him a decent choice.

10 Hwang Dongsoo

S-Rank Fists

• Class: Fighter
• Element: Wind
• Scaling: Defense

Hwang Dongsoo belongs to the Fighter class of the game and uses the Wind Element against enemies. The villain from the manhwa works differently from the characters who shred shields in the game. Hwang Dongsoo can remove the target’s shield and further stun them for a short duration of time.

His abilities are heavy-hitting but come at a very high Mana consumption and Cooldown cost. The Passive ability allows him to reset the cooldown when specific situations are achieved, thus providing him with room to deal even greater damage.

Hwang Dongsoo is a great DPS in the game, but currently, with the lack of wind-type content or stages where removing armor is absolutely necessary, his abilities don’t get their time to shine, making him quite underwhelming among other SSR characters. However, players should keep their sights on him, as in the future, Hwang Dongsoo might get his time to shine.

9 Lee Bora

Best Dark Type Buffer

• Class: Mage
• Element: Dark
• Scaling: Attack

Lee Bora is a powerhouse of a unit in Solo Leveling: Arise. She functions as a Dark Mage in the game, providing great support to the team, and is the best buffer for Dark element hunter teams. Her playstyle involves summoning beasts, which makes it easier to deal more damage, making her an effective and consistent damage dealer.

However, using Lee Bora in combat, especially as a dark team buffer, is an ordeal in itself. The enemies in this game move haphazardly and while players have to dodge the attacks constantly, it becomes pretty hard to receive her buff blessings from the buff circle. Her abilities as a buffer are extremely strong and with more characters coming to the game, Lee Bora becomes a valuable asset for the players.

8 Silver Mane

High-Risk Gameplay

• Class: Fighter
• Element: Dark
• Scaling: Attack

Silver Mane is the transformed version of Baek Yoonho, the guild master of the White Tiger guild. Silver Mane in Solo leveling: Arise is a fighter type of character who deals Dark-type damage. Silver Mane is meant to be played as a high-risk, high-reward kind of character as his damage scales with HP, and the lower the HP is, the stronger his attacks become.

Silver Mane is easily one of the best damage dealers in the game, even without his Ultimate skill. With his great damage-dealing abilities and easy-to-build kit, Silver Mane becomes a good choice for players who want to go berserk in the game with a challenge.

7 Lim Tae-Gyu

Great Unit For Boss Battles

• Class: Ranger
• Element: Dark
• Scaling: Attack

Lim Tae-Gyu belongs to the Ranger class and has the power of darkness to gather powerful energy into his arrows to strike enemies. Lim Tae-Gyu scales on the user’s attack stats and is one of the strongest single-target DPS characters in the game.

Lim Tae Gyu has a unique playstyle that suffers in stages which contains many enemies but shines against boss fights. Lim’s ultimate skill deals great damage as he turns into sniper mode but requires some skill to perfectly execute all eight shots of the skill. Overall, Lim Tae-Gyu is a great DPS Ranger and fans who enjoy a different style that requires some level of skill should check him out.

6 Baek Yonhoo

Shred Shields Fast

• Class: Tank
• Element: Light
• Scaling: Defense

Baek Yoonho is an SSR character in Solo Leveling: Arise who deals light damage and scales on defense, making him a sturdy unit to play. Baek’s unique feature is that he can shred enemy shields and break them even with his basic attacks.

Baek can decrease the defense of foes with his passive ability. To use Baek, players need to ensure that all of his skills’ final attacks make contact with the enemy. Baek Yoonho is a good character to play in Arise and, even with a few downsides, he ranks as one of the best characters in the game.

5 Choi Jong-In

Critical Hits Are Not Necessary

• Class: Mage
• Element: Fire
• Scaling: Attack

The guild master of the Hunters guild, Choi Jong-In is the suave SSR mage in Solo Leveling: Arise who plays with flames to burn enemies to a crisp. Choi Jong-In plays as a mage with great damage-dealing abilities.

Choi Jong-In is a bit different from other heavy hitters in the game as he is not able to deal critical hits, but players can build him into a monster exterminator purely on attack stats. He also deals burn damage, and his ability to reset the countdown on his skills puts him in a whole different league.

4 Emma Laurent

Versatile Gameplay

• Class: Tank
• Element: Fire
• Scaling: HP

Emma Laurent is an original character, and she makes a fiery debut in Solo Leveling: Arise. Emma assumes the role of a tank on the team and wields flames to deal fire-type elemental damage. Despite being a tank, Emma Laurent is perfectly capable of dealing immense damage, making her a strong unit in the game.

Emma can consistently perform various types of breaks that can easily shred enemy shields. Her passive skills not only give her a shield but also buff the team’s damage. Emma’s skills scale with HP, making her easier to build for the players, and with huge HP reserves, a sturdy shield, and shield-shredding abilities, Emma becomes an ideal tank to pick before going on a raid.

3 Ming Byung Gu

Best Support In The Game

• Class: Healer
• Element: Light
• Scaling: HP

Ming Byung Gu is an excellent healer in the manhwa and the same applies to him when he makes his return in the game. One of the best SSR units, Ming Byung Gu is a great support unit that can also steal a decent chunk of enemies’ HP.

Ming Byung Gu deals the Light type of elemental damage and comes with a variety of skills ranging from healing allies to providing damage buffs to the team. He’s also able to cast debuffs onto enemy units, thus solidifying his usefulness.

He is also relatively easier to build than other characters as his skills mainly rely and grow on HP. He is capable of doing multiple jobs and works in great synergy with other characters, making him a great option for players before going to a dungeon.

2 Seo Jiwoo

Self-Sufficient

• Class: Tank
• Element: Water
• Scaling: HP

The first Water element user here, Seo Jiwoo is an SSR DPS that scales with HP. Seo Jiwoo is a strong character who can sustain herself in combat without relying on other characters. Jiwoo’s basic ability provides a shield and the ability to increase break damage and, along with her passive that constantly resets the cooldown of her basic skills, makes her extremely dangerous to enemies.

Since she can spam abilities and pierce through enemy defenses along with other benefits, Seo Jiwoo right now is one of the most versatile tanks and a powerful character for players to pull in the game.

1 Cha Hae-In

Beauty With The Blades

• Class: Fighter
• Element: Light
• Scaling: Attack

Cha Hae-In is undoubtedly the strongest character in Solo Leveling: Arise currently. The blonde diva from the famous action manhwa is an absolute beast of a character for players and will carry them from the very beginning.

Cha Hae-In is a Fighter type who wields the Light element. The reason why she ranks so high is because of her damage-dealing powers along with her ability to stop enemies from healing. Cha Hae-In also performs well with other characters in the game. Although things may change with future patches, there is nothing that can currently stop this graceful beauty.