5 things to know before you play Solo Leveling Arise

Solo Leveling Arise, adapted from the popular manhwa Solo Leveling, is a cross-platform gacha game that provides you a chance to become a "Player". Released in May 2025, the game offers collectible characters, fast-paced real-time combat, and a captivating storyline that sticks to the source material.

The new 3D gacha game includes a ton of features that can overwhelm players. It is important to manage your resources in such gacha games to avoid missing out on EXP and other valuables. In this article, we will highlight five things you need to know before you play Solo Leveling Arise.

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5 things you should know before playing Solo Leveling Arise

1) Gacha system mechanics

In-game Draw Banner preview (Image via Netmarble)

Solo Leveling Arise offers standard gacha mechanics and banners to summon. The game features Rate Up Draw Banners and Custom Draw Banners where you can obtain the following:

• Sung Jinwoo weapons
• Hunters
• Hunter weapons

You will need Custom Draw Tickets or Rate Up Draw Tickets to summon on the banners. Each ticket has a certain probability of summoning the above-mentioned. The game also guarantees an SR item at 10 pulls and an SSR item at 80 pulls.

Both tickets can be obtained by exchanging Essence Stones, but it is recommended to only do it for Rate Up Banner Tickets.

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2) Sung Jinwoo & Hunter Mode

Different combat modes for Sung Jinwoo & Hunters (Image via Netmarble)

Similar to the popular manhwa, Solo Leveling Arise features Sung Jinwoo as the protagonist, with the story revolving around him. The gacha game offers two different battle modes:

• Sung Jinwoo Mode
• Hunters Mode

Sung Jinwoo modes are stages where you can only use Sung Jinwoo as the main player. You can still add Hunters and Shadow Army to use their support skills which will aid you in combat. The main story chapters and many other content primarily feature Sung Jinwoo, so ensure his stats, skills, and artifacts are optimized to progress further in Solo Leveling Arise.

In Hunters Mode, you can switch between the three hunters you have in your account. Many content such as Side Chapters and Encore Missions feature Hunter Mode.

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3) Combat power & leveling system

Sung Jinwoo character page preview (Image via Netmarble)

Solo Leveling Arise incentivizes you to focus on Sung Jinwoo. Most of the game content is soft-locked behind your combat power and leveling system. You must level up Sung Jinwoo, which increases the level cap on your other hunters. You need tons of EXP to level up, which primarily comes from Main Story Chapters, Activity Dunds, and Gates.

The following affect your combat power in Solo Leveling Arise:

• Sung Jinwoo Level & Stats
• Job Change
• Hunter Level
• Player weapon & Hunter weapons
• Weapon upgrades
• Skills & Skill upgrades
• Artifacts & Artifact upgrades

Combat power indicates whether your Sung Jinwoo or the hunter team is strong enough to challenge a particular stage. However, the skill-based complex combat can easily help bridge that gap.

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4) Resouce management

All of this consumes & provides resources (Image via Netmarble)

Solo Leveling Arise requires you to manage your resources efficiently to increase your level and combat power. Here is a quick overview of some of the key resource items you need to manage:

• Essence Stones
• Gate Keys
• Gold
• Instance Dungeon Keys
• Stat Points
• Sung Jinwoo & Hunter Skill upgrades

The most important resources you must manage are Essence Stones and Gold. Essence stone is used to purchase many in-game resources and bundles, while Gold is needed for practically everything in the game. However, the current version doesn't have many sources to obtain lots of Gold, which has made this resource scarce and important to manage.

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5) Crossplay

Available on many platforms (Image via Netmarble)

Keeping in line with the Netmarble account requirement, you can access Solo Leveling Arise from multiple devices and platforms. Crossplay has become a popular feature that is now standard for many existing gacha games like Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail.

The crossplay feature allows you to access the game from any of the following platforms:

• Apple Store
• Google Play
• Google Play Games
• Netmarble Client Launcher
• Steam

You can use your mobile device or PC to access the game from the above-mentioned sources.

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