ATK Flat
DEF Flat
ATK Flat
CRIT DMG/DEF Pen
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Solo Leveling: AriseSHUHUAInformation and Guide
Introduction
SHUHUA is a SSR rarity character in Solo Leveling: Arise. SHUHUA belongs to the![Assassin]()
Assassin class and uses the ![Water]()
Water element.
Last updated
SHUHUA profile has been last updated at: July 8th, 2025.
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Profile
Review
Build info
Profile
Passive
SHUHUA Passive
Using Pop Star Landing activates the [On the Stage] effect.
Starlight Bark and Starlight Howl activate the [High-energy] effect.
[On the Stage]
Activates the [Performance] effect on SHUHUA every 3 second(s).
Duration: 15 second(s)
[Performance]
Increases the user's Core Attack damage by 50%.
Grants a [Shield].
Duration: 3 second(s)
[High-energy]
Rhythmic Beatdown becomes High-energy Beat, increasing the skill's damage by 50%.
When the user's Core Attack activates and High-energy Beat is used, it doesn't consume charge from their Core Gauge.
When the user's Core Attack hits, the cooldowns of Pop Star Landing, Starlight Bark, and Starlight Howl are reduced by 3 second(s) (Cooldown: 1 second(s)).
Duration: 3.5 second(s)
[Shield]
Grants a [Shield] equal to 10% of the user's Attack
Duration: 3 second(s)
Advancements
SHUHUA Advancement passives
✦ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧
The [High-energy] effect is enhanced.
Each time High-energy Beat hits it inflicts the [Tension Drop] effect on the target.
[High-energy] - Rhythmic Beatdown becomes High-energy Beat, increasing the user's damage by 100%. When the user's Core Attack activates and they use High-energy Beat, they don’t consume charge from their Core Gauge. When the user's Core Attack hits it reduces the cooldown of Pop Star Landing, Starlight Bark, and Starlight Howl by 5 second(s). (Cooldown: 1 second(s)). Duration: 3.5 second(s)
[Tension Drop] - Increases Water damage taken from SHUHUA by 1%. Duration: 30 second(s) (stacks up to 10 times).
✦ ✦ ✧ ✧ ✧
Starlight Bark changes to Starlight Howl, increasing the user's damage by 100%.
✦ ✦ ✦ ✧ ✧
Enhances [Performance].
[Performance] - Increases the user's Core Attack damage by 50%. Gains a [Shield]. Charges Power Gauge by 10%. Activates the [Tension Up] effect. Duration: 3 second(s).
[Tension Up] - Increases the user's Water damage by 20%. Duration: 3 second(s).
[ Shield] - Gains a [Shield] equal to 10% of the user's Attack. Duration: 3 second(s).
✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✧
Attack increases by 16%.
✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦
Using Starlight Howl activates the [Volume Up] effect. The Attack Speed of High-energy Beat significantly increases.
[Volume Up] - Increases the user's damage dealt by 30%. Increases the user's Critical Hit Rate by 30%. Duration: 10 second(s)
EX Weapon
The Place Bathed in Moonlight
The user's Attack increases by 12%.
When Rhythmic Beatdown or High-energy Beat hits, it increases the damage of Catharsis in Harmony by 30% (stacks up to 10 times).
When Catharsis in Harmony ends, it removes all instances of the effect.
Duration: 30 second(s)
Gallery
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Review
Overview
Making a splash on the stage, Shuhua is our newest Water DPS with the G-IDLE collaboration. Learn how she fares in the current environment and see if she's worth your hard earned tickets!
Pros & Cons
Pros
Balanced and easy to use.
Free.
At A5 she gets free Critical Hit Rate, making her good for progressing players that missed out on Cha.
Cons
She’s essentially a weaker Water Cha.
Takes a lot of pull to get her best buffs and even then she is a bit mediocre for a Limited (get her dupes now or possibly never)
Review
Skill summary & Intro
Shuhua's base skills are relatively basic, as her abilities change significantly with the buffs from her ascension passives.
Her basic attack doesn't have any special buff, while her Core Attack, Rhythmic Beatdown sends the enemy [Airborne].
Her skill 1. Pop Star Landing makes a superman jump and sends the enemy [Airborne], much like her skill 2 Starlight Bark.
Her QTE, Twilight Arpeggio also sends enemies [Airborne], and so does her Ultimate, Catharsis in Harmony.
Meanwhile, her support skill Showtime also sends the enemy in the air while also granting the [Performance] buff to SJW, granting him a Shield based on 10% of his total attack.
Ascension passives
At A0, using Popstar Landing activates the [On the stage] effect that grants [Performance] to Shuhua, a buff that gives 50% extra Core Attack damage. Meanwhile, using Starlight bark (and its enhanced version, Starlight Howl) activates [High-Energy] for 3 seconds, which turns her Core Attack in High-Energy Beat, increasing its damage by 50%. Lastly, when using a Core Attack you reduce the Skill 1 and Skill 2 cooldown by 3 seconds. That's a loaded A0 - and makes you wonder why they didn't just add these effects to her Basic skills.
At A1 her [High-Energy] buff is enhanced, plus when you hit an enemy with the Core Attack while the buff is active you also inflict the [Tension drop] debuff. This debuff increases the Water damage taken from Shuhua by 1%, stacking up to 10 times. The debuff lasts for 30 seconds The buffed version of [High-Energy] increases the Core Attack damage by 100% and reduces the cooldown of Skill 1 and 2 by 5 seconds, making it faster to spam her skills.
At A2 Starlight Bark changes into Starlight Howl, now dealing 100% more damage.
At A3, Performance is improved, adding a 10% Power Gauge gain while also adding the [Tension UP] buff, a 20% Water damage buff for 3 seconds.
A4 simply boosts Shuhua's Attack by 16%.
Finally, A5 is a significant damage buff, as it grants Shuhua the [Volume UP] buff when using her skill 2. Additionally, it significantly increases the Attack Speed for her buffed up Core Attack, High-energy beat. Volume up increases Shuhua's Damage Dealt and Critical Hit Rate by 30%, making it a powerful buff while it's active.
Weapon and gear
Shuhua's weapon is quite simple: using her Core Attack or her buffed Core Attack grants 30% more damage to her Ultimate, stacking up to 10 times. It’s a powerful buff so make sure you max her weapon if you plan to use her - keep in mind, the stacks reset after using her Ultimate attack.
As most DPS, she can use 8 piece Infamy or 4 piece Curse + 4 piece Expert depending on the content.
Teammates
Shuhua is a Water DPS and can be paired with Seorin and Meilin. She doesn't really break the mold when it comes to Water units but she can see play in Guild Boss teams where she can replace Lee Bora in the Water focused team in order to free her up for your second team. This can be useful depending on how invested your account is.
Should you roll Shuhua?
Players will get Shuhua for free, so the topic should mostly be focused on getting her dupes. Honestly speaking Shuhua is a balanced and fun unit that doesn't really shake the Water meta. Compared to Miyeon that is able to stand side by side with Thomas, there is an abyss between Shuhua and Water Cha, making Shuhua currently a fun pick and nothing more. That being said, all it takes is one dedicated support to shoot up the DPS rankings, so you never know, things can easily change in the future.
Investment
For F2P: A1 will be enough to ensure you can play around with Shuhua.
For Dolphins: You can aim for A3 as it empowers her buffs nicely.
For Whales and Big Spenders: Considering the collaboration might not rerun and it's likely these units are not gonna be added to black tickets, A5+ is where you want to go to ensure you can use the unit to its max potential, if you deem her worthy.
As of now, we have no confirmation regarding if the collaboration units will remain or not after the end of the collaboration period. If you like the characters, regardless of meta, you should roll them now to your desired ascension to ensure you won't regret missing out later. We will still compare them to the currently available units, so that you can get a good feel of where they stand in the meta and who they replace/offer alternatives for.
Ratings
SHUHUA rating takes into account their performance in all matter of PVE content.
Build info
Burning/Chaotic Series Sets
Burning Curse
SHUHUA can be equipped with the Burning Curse set that you can obtain from the Artifact Dungeons and Gates. As a Damage Dealer, SHUHUA can make use of the set and in most cases, it will perform better than the normal sets (2 pieces are minimum, but at least 4 pieces are optimal).
Chaotic Infamy
SHUHUA can be equipped with the Chaotic Infamy set that you can obtain from the Artifact Dungeons and Gates. As a Damage Dealer, SHUHUA can make use of the set and in most cases, it will perform better than the normal sets (2 pieces are minimum, but at least 4 pieces are optimal).
Artifact Sets
Armor Set
(2)
Your Critical Hit Rate increases by 8%.
(4)
Your Critical Hit Damage increases by 32%.
Jewelry Set
(2)
When landing a Critical Hit, has a 25% chance to increase Attack by 0.8% (stacking up to 100 times) (Cooldown: 1 second(s)).
(4)
Increases Activation Rate to 50% and Attack Increase effect to 1.6%.
(2)
When the user has 70% or more of their MP, their damage dealt increases by 30%.
(4)
The Damage Dealt Increase effect potency increases to 60% and this effect now triggers when the user is at 40% or more of their maximum MP.
Artifact Main Stats
Stat focus
Those are the stats you should focus on when building SHUHUA. So search for them on your sub-stats as a priority.
Attack
Critical Hit Rate
Critical Hit Damage
Best Weapons
For SSR characters, you always want to use their Signature/EX Weapon - they are simply the best for them. Until you obtain the signature weapon, just use the options listed below. The priority is set from left to right. Also, If you have a Signature/EX weapon for a Hunter that is not in your team you can consider using it for the raw stats alone - as long as it matches the character.
Video guides
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