Best Seo Jiwoo Build Guide – Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE

by JFFK · December 5, 2025

Welcome to our Seo Jiwoo Build Guide for Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE.

In this guide, we will explain how each one of Seo Jiwoo’s skills work and how best to use them. We will provide more general tips for how to get the most out of Seo Jiwoo.

We will also include a build guide for Seo Jiwoo. While Hunter builds aren’t as widely customisable as Sung Jinwoo, you can still customise your equipment and level up your skills. We’ll walk you through these so you can find the best items and prioritise the best skill upgrades first.

Please note that this guide is currently a work in progress. It will be updated over the course of Arise Overdrive’s early access period and following on from the full launch of the game.

ARISE OVERDRIVE Seo Jiwoo Guide Table of Contents:

Seo Jiwoo Skill Overview – SL Arise Overdrive

Here is an overview of Seo Jiwoo’s skills in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE, and how to use them.

Basic Skills

Water Dragon Strike

Jiwoo punches with her fist that’s full of energy.

This is Jiwoo’s light attack, activated by left clicking. You can chain it up to five times for different attack animations. For example, the fourth attack in the chain deals additional stagger and can knock enemies down.

Twin Dragon Strike

Jiwoo strikes powerfully with both fists charged with the Water Dragon’s energy.

This is Jiwoo’s heavy attack – press C to activate it. Like all heavy attacks in ARISE OVERDRIVE, it has a very short cooldown so you can use it frequently as one of your main sources of DPS. This powerful single strike deals a lot of stagger, and can knock enemies to the ground.

Water Dragon Rush

Jiwoo leaps towards the enemy with all her might and strikes down.

Press Q to activate Water Dragon Rush. It deals damage in a small AoE and can knock enemies over.

Lightning Kick

Jiwoo lifts her feet vertically and strikes down in front of her.

Press E to activate Raven’s Cry. This is another strong single-target attack that can stagger enemies.

Special Skills

Water Dragon Lightning Kick

Jiwoo envelops her entire body with the energy of a Water Dragon to attack enemies, then finishes with a powerful upward punch. Jiwoo gains a Shield temporarily when using this skill.

Storm Raven is a Support Skill, which means it is only available when Jiwoo is supporting Sung Jinwoo, not when you are playing as her directly. It can be used when Sung Jinwoo uses Chain Smash twice within 5 seconds, or when a nearby enemy is staggered.

Burst Punch

QTE Skill. Jiwoo gathers all her energy into her fist and releases it while charging forward. When it hits the target, she gains 1 Training stack and slightly restores the entire team’s Power Gauges.

Jiwoo automatically uses Burst Punch when you switch to her with Left Shift when prompted. Make sure you are in a good position to make the attack connect before making the switch.

Water Dragon Strike

Synchro Chain. Jiwoo unleashes a punch imbied with Water Dragon energy to attack enemies in front of her.

Water Dragon Strike is Jiwoo’s Synchro Chain skill. She uses it when you press T (when prompted) to activate your Hunter party’s Synchro Chain; all Hunters in the party will then activate their Synchro Chain at the same time.

Water Dragon Transformation Strike

Ultimate Skill. Jiwoo gathers the Water Dragon’s energy, jumps into the air, and slams down her fist with the power of the Water Dragon, devastating her surroundings.

Press R when your ultimate is charged to activate Water Dragon Transformation Strike. Deals a hefty chunk of damage the your target and any nearby enemies, and also staggers enemies.

Unique Skills

Dash Combo Attack

When tapping the Basic Attack Button after performing Dash, the user can use Dash Combo Attack.

Back Dash Combo Attack

When tapping the Basic Attack Button after performing Back Dash, the user can use Back Dash Combo Attack.

Deflect Combo Attack

When tapping the Basic Attack Button after performing Deflect, the user can use Deflect Combo Attack.

How to Play Seo Jiwoo

Seo Jiwoo is a melee-focused fighter who empowers her attacks with water magic. She is one of the best hunters in the game at staggering opponents – almost all of her skills have a stagger effect on impact, which makes fighting enemies easier because they get stunned almost on cooldown.

Jiwoo’s Water Dragon Rush and Lightning Kick skills can be enhanced, increasing the damage and stagger strength. To enhance these skills, use Water Dragon Strike or Twin Dragon Strike three times in a row before casting the skill you want to enhance.

Using an enhanced skill restores your Overdrive gauge. When you use Jiwoo’s overdrive, she delivers a powerful strike to the target and recharges the Power Gauge.

Furthermore, hitting an enemy with an enhanced skill or an Overdrive gives Seo Jiwoo a stack of Training. Training can stack up to three times. When you use your ultimate, its damage will be increased based on how many stacks of Training you accumulated, and all stacks will then be removed.

In summary, to get the most out of Seo Jiwoo you should continuously enhance her skills by chaining together basic and heavy attacks, and make sure you dish out at least three of these enhanced attacks before using her ultimate to get the maximum damage.

Seo Jiwoo Skill Upgrade Priorities – SL Arise Overdrive

As mentioned above, Hunter skills in Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE are split up into Basic Skills, Special Skills and Unique Skills. Of these, only Basic and Special Skills can be upgraded. The upgrades are done in groups – for example, you upgrade all Basic Skills at once, rather than upgrading the skills individually.

It is generally more important to upgrade the Basic Skills rather than the Special Skills, because the Basic Skills are used much more often (this group includes your Basic Attack, Heavy Attack and the skills activated by pressing Q or E). So if you have to make a choice between the two, always go for Basic Skills.

In practice, however, it is usually easier to upgrade them in a balanced manner, upgrading both groups to rank 2, then upgrading them both to rank 3, and so forth. This is because each tier is significantly more expensive than the last, so rushing a full set of Basic Skill upgrades usually isn’t possible unless you’ve played through the whole game without doing any upgrades.