Solo Leveling Arise Gina build guide: Best artifacts, weapons, and more

Gina is the latest addition to the Fire roster, who debuted in the Solo Leveling Arise October 10 update. Players can obtain the SSR hunter from her dedicated Rate-Up banner, available till October 31, 2024. The hunter belongs to the Mage class and is armed with abilities to heal allies, charge their Power Gauge, interrupt enemy’s actions, generate shields for all team members, and more.

Her Exclusive Weapon, The Glamour of Self-worth, can restore Mana for all her allies. This article lists the recommended artifacts, weapons, skills-upgrading priorities, and the best Advancement tier for Gina in Solo Leveling Arise.

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Solo Leveling Arise Gina build guide: Best artifacts

Best artifacts for the SSR hunter (Image via Netmarble)

Below are the best Solo Leveling Arise artifact sets for the Gina build:

Body-Set

Burning Blessing

• 2-set effects: The Blessing effect activates when she tags out, increasing her and her team members’ damage-dealing ability.
• 4-set effects: The Blessing effect upgrades to the Enhanced Blessing effect when Gina tags out or uses a support skill. The enhanced effect boosts her and her team members’ damage-dealing ability and recovers their HP.
• 8-set effects: The Enhanced Blessing becomes the Burning Blessing effect, which triggers when she tags out and uses a Support skill and Ultimate Skill. The Burning Blessing increases her and her team members’ damage-dealing ability and recovers HP.

Burning Curse

• 2-set effects: This artifact applies the Curse effect, increasing the damage taken and damage-dealing ability.
• 4-set effects: The Curse effect becomes the Enhanced Curse, boosting the damage taken and damage-dealing ability. The artifact also applies the Rescue effect, which recovers 25% HP if the hunter has 25% or less HP. The Rescue effect triggers once per dungeon.
• 8-set effects: The Enhanced Curse effect becomes the Burning Curse effect. It boosts their damage taken by 20% and damage-dealing ability by 30%.

Armed

• 2-set effects: Boosts the hunter’s attack by 5%.
• 4-set effects: Grants 15% defense penetration to the hunter while attacking.

Destroyer

• 2-set effects: Boosts Power Gauge Acquisition Rate by 20%, allowing her to use her Ultimate quickly.
• 4-set effects: It charges her Power Gauge by 50% when the battle starts. She and her team members’ Power Gauge Acquisition rate also increases by an additional 20%.

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Accessories

Expert

• 2-set effects: Whenever Gina lands a critical hit, she will have a 25% chance of increasing her attack by 0.8% (can stack up to 100 times).
• 4-set effects: The chance of increasing her attack rises to 50%, and the attack boosts by 1.6%.

Champion on the Field

• 2-set effects: Boosts her attack by 5% for 4 seconds when she lands a critical hit.
• 4-set effects: The attack buff can stack up to 4 times.

Sylph’s Blessing

• 2-set effects: Boosts elemental damage of all team members, including hers, by 5% when she uses QTE, Support, or Ultimate Skill for 30 seconds.
• 4-set effects: The effect duration rises to 60 seconds, and the elemental weakness damage can stack up to 3 times.

Outstanding Connection

• 2-set effects: It buffs all team members’ attacks, including hers, by 12% for 10 seconds when she tags out.
• 4-set effects: The attack buff rises to 28%, and its duration extends to 15 seconds.

Players can use the Burning Curse, Armed, Expert and Champion on the Field for a DPS Gina build. They can also use her as a Support Fire character, equipping her with Burning Blessing, Destroyer, Sylph’s Blessing and Outstanding Connection artifact sets.

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Solo Leveling Arise Gina build guide: Best Weapons

The Glamour of Self-worth (Image via Netmarble)

The best Solo Leveling Arise weapon for the Gina build is her Exclusive Weapon, SSR The Glamour of Self-worth. It boosts her attack by 2% and recovers 50 Mana Points for all team members when the Mana Circulation effect triggers. The activation of Mana Circulation also boosts all team members’ attack and Fire damage by 1% (can stack up to 4 times).

Besides Exclusive Weapon, players can use the below-given SR ones:

• Ancient Grimoire
• Steel Axe
• Steel Bow
• Steel Longsword

Players must upgrade the SR weapons to the maximum level possible before equipping them.

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Solo Leveling Arise Gina build guide: Skills-upgrading priorities

Here is the skills-upgrading priority for Gina build in Solo Leveling Arise:

Path of Extinction (Basic Skill 2) > Gravitational Mass (Basic Skil 1) > Liberation (Ultimate Skill) > Forced Descent (Core Attack) > Concentrated Gravity (Support Skill) > Piercing Firestorm (QTE Skill) > Firestorm (Basic Attack)

Gina deals the Fire elemental damage that scales with her attack. Here is the skills explanation of this Mage in Solo Leveling Arise at base level:

• Firestorm (Basic Attack): It inflicts 180%/190%/200% damage and applies the Airborne effect when the attack lands.
• Forced Descent (Core Attack): It deals 818% damage and knocks down enemies when hit.
• Gravitational Mass (Basic Skill 1): It deals 1415% damage, consumes 300 MP, and cools down in 15 seconds. The skill also applies the Airborne effect when hit.
• Path of Extinction (Basic Skill 2): It inflicts 2251% damage, consumes 300 MP, and cools down in 15 seconds. She launches a fire beam to deal continuous damage when players hold the button. While using the skill, the Countercurrent effect triggers and stacks up to 4 times.
• Concentrated Gravity (Support Skill): It deals 500% damage, cools down in 25 seconds, and inflicts the Airborne effect when hit. Using the skill activates the Body Retrograde effect and creates a Gravitational Field. When the enemy touches the field, it activates the Halt effect.
• Piercing Firestorm (QTE Skill): Gina deals 765% damage and cools down in 20 seconds.
• Liberation (Ultimate Skill): It deals 3190% damage, cools down in 45 seconds, and inflicts the Airborne effect when hit. The skill also creates a Gravitational Field and applies the Halt effect when enemies touch it.

Explanation of the effects her skills apply

• Gravitational Field: It deals damage equal to 20% of Concentrated Gravity.
• Body Retrograde: It recovers all team members’ HP equal to 20% of the hunter’s attack every 3 seconds. Additionally, the team members’ Power Gauges are charged by 2% every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
• Halt: It can interrupt the enemies for three seconds every 20 seconds.
• Countercurrent: After reaching the maximum stacks of 5, it applies the Mana Circulation effect. The stack's duration remains active for an infinite time.
• Mana Circulation: It increases attack and Fire damage by 15% for 15 seconds. When this effect is active, it removes the Countercurrent effect.

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Solo Leveling Arise Gina build guide: Passive effects and the best Advancement tier

Gina's Passive details (Image via Netmarble)

Gina’s Passive effect activates the Countercurrent effect when she uses Forced Descent, Gravitational Mass, or Path of Extinction. When the Countercurrent stacks reach maximum, it inflicts the Mana Circulation effect on all team members. She also applies the Body Retrograde to all team members after she creates a Gravitational Field.

Here are the effects of her Passive effect at each Advancement tier:

• Advancement tier 1: When the Mana Circulation effect activates, it also triggers the Mana Transformation effect on all team members. The Mana Transformation grants a Shield equal to 12% of her attack. It also increases the damage-dealing ability and damage taken by 12% for 20 seconds.
• Advancement tier 2: The shield’s value increases by 20% of her attack. When a team member gets a shield, it increases their damage-dealing ability by 10%.
• Advancement tier 3: When she uses Gravitational mass, it creates a Gravitational Field. The enemy hit by Gravitational Mass gets a Gravity Boost effect, which increases the enemy’s Fire damage taken by 10% for 20 seconds.
• Advancement tier 4: It buffs all team members’ defense penetration by 4%. The defense penetration of Fire-type allies increases by an additional 4%.
• Advancement tier 5: When Gina creates a Gravitational Field, it activates the Space-time Gap effect. The Space-time Gap effect increases the damage of the Path of Extinction by 60%. If the Path of Extinction hits the enemies with the Gravity Boost effect, it deals 60% more damage. After she uses the Path of Extinction, it consumes Space-time Gap’s stacks. The Space-time Gap effect remains active for 10 seconds.

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The best Advancement Tier for pay-to-win players is 5. Upgrading her to A5 (Advancement Tier 5) makes her a solid DPS character. Free-to-play players can advance her to 2, making her a robust support character.