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An Arise Crossover player is looking towards the camera with his team of shadows
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Arise Crossover Best Shadows (Beta)

Gotta get the right team for enemies that don't fight back.

Arise Crossover is out in its Beta state, and while there isn’t much of it available, you can still get a really good taste of what’s about to come. The game revolves around you defeating enemies and then “arising” those enemies as your shadows that will fight by your side.

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Since the game is all about these shadows and seeing how not all of them are the same, we wanted to help you out with our Arise Crossover Best Shadows.

Best Arise Crossover Shadows

A Shadow unit inventory in Arise Crossover
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Currently, there are only three islands in Arise Crossover:

  • Leveling Island (Solo Leveling)
  • Grass Village (Naruto)
  • Brum Island (One Piece)

When you first spawn, you’ll be by yourself, and you’ll need to defeat any enemy you come across (without units) until you manage to arise a team of four shadows. Once you have a team of four, the game expects you to continuously fight more enemies, level up your shadow, and mix and match new recruits to see which ones are the strongest. In reality, there is only unit on each island worth arising, only topped by that islands Dungeon (Boss) unit. This is essentially the loop

  • Visit an island
  • Fight and recruit shadows of the strongest unit until a dungeon portal spawns
  • Visit the Dungeon
  • Recruit the Dungeon Boss
  • Rinse and repeat until you’re strong enough to move to the next island

To save you the trouble of figuring out which units are the best, we made this guide.

Arise Crossover Best Shadows – Solo Leveling

An Arise Crossover player is about the attack Largalgan
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The best shadow to recruit on Solo Leveling island is Largalgan. You can find this rank D unit just near the entrance to the highway on the very opposite end of the island from where you first spawn. You likely won’t be able to recruit him just yet, so either level up your team or Rank E Shadows a bit, or wait for someone else to fight him and join in (group farming work wonders in Arise Crossover). Once you’re strong enough to take him out, keep pummeling him until you have four rank D Shadows (you may even get lucky and get a rank C Shadow unit).

We recommend leveling these units up a bit (by fighting the same Largalgan you’ve been farming this whole time) before you tackle your first dungeon. When you feel like your team can do a good amount of damage,wait for a dungeon portal

An Arise Crossover player is about to fight Vermilion
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Dungeon portals can spawn at different locations and have different ranks. Early on, you are looking for a Rank D Dungeon on Leveling Island. You can do more difficult ranks, but only if you have someone else to boost you through it (the players in this game are really friendly, and they are happy to boost other players because most of these dungeons can be soloed).

Inside the dungeon, you need to clear all the enemies before the timer runs out. If you do this successfully, you can recruit Vermilion. No matter what his rank is, he will be a Rare unit, and will be able to get much stronger than other common units.

After this, you can either save for a boat and move to the next island.

Arise Crossover Best Shadows – Naruto

An Arise Crossover player is attacking Black Crow
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When you get to Grass Village, we recommend recruiting Rank C Black Crows for your team to replace other Rank D units (probably Largalgans). There is a strong Level 25 – 30 Black Crow in front of the three red huts (he is bigger than most of them). You likely won’t be able to beat this guy as soon as you arrive, so just level up your units a bit until you’re able to. Even though this guy normally drops Rank D units, we really need those Rank C ones, which are pretty rare.

Keep fighting this enemy until a Dungeon Portal Spawns in the Grass Village (this time, you should aim for a rank C Dungeon). Again, if you can get into a higher ranked one with a stronger player, even better.

Even if you fail to reach the boss, you still get to fight and recruit a bunch of higher ranked units, (especially those Rank C Black Crows). So, definitely use the opportunity to train a bit. This happened to us and even though we didn’t get to the end, we managed to recruit quite a team that easily got us through the dungeon the next time.

A few Arise Crossover players are fighting DOR
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The Boss of the dungeon, DOR, who is also going to be Rank C. We recommend you stay on Naruto Island until you recruit at least one DOR or until you can afford the best weapon.

Arise Crossover Best Shadows – One Piece

An Arise Crossover player is fighting a Light Admiral
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The Strongest Shadow you can recruit (outside of dungeons) on Brum Island is Light Admiral. Unfortunately, you likely won’t be able to damage these guys at all when you first arrive before you REALLY power up your team.

To start doing damage on Brum Island, you’ll need a team of at least Rank A Shadows. For this, train your units and start doing higher level (A rank or S rank) dungeons on Leveling Island and Grass Village. During these dungeon runs, you’ll get to recruit a bunch of A or S units, which can level up to do several million damage at once.

An Arise Crossover player is fighting Mifalcon
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When you’re able to do about 1,5 billion damage (we’re not kidding), you can start thinking about getting the strongest shadow in the game: Mifalcon. Even at a Rank D Brum Island Dungeon, Mifalcon will have several billion HP, so it’s going to take a good team to take one down. So, just keep doing dungeons and grinding Light Admirals until you’re ready to take out Mifalcon and recruit several of his Shadows to your team.

That’s all there is to it. Have fun repeatedly fighting enemies that don’t fight back. If you need a quick jump-start, check out our Arise Crossover codes.


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Aleksandar Perisic
Aleksandar has been a gaming journalist since 2022 and is still going strong. He started his career as a AAA game reviewer, but eventually made his way to Roblox guides, and has never looked back. An absolute God at obby courses. and a great TD player! If there's jumping involved, he's already all over it. If not, he's putting together a new team of heroes for another wave of enemies. Avoid him during the holidays because he steals presents (but brings them back later).