Shadow Soldiers in Solo Leveling: Arise play an important role in team building. While it will be easy to fill the first three hunter slots, choosing the best Shadows becomes a lot harder, as you will want to use your resources to level the best ones.

At the time of writing, there are five Shadows in Solo Leveling: Arise, and you can unlock four of them. As a defensive player, I initially focused on tanky Shadows. However, I quickly discovered the untapped potential of other Shadows, and the significant damage increases their upgrades could provide.

Through extensive in-game experimentation, I have now compiled the following tier list for Shadow Soldiers in Solo Leveling: Arise.

This Shadow Soldier tier list for Solo Leveling: Arise focuses on increasing your team's damage output.