Sung Jinwoo

He is a Shadow Gate raid drop, so the loop is: clear the raid, roll the 3% chance, repeat. The pity is generous by raid standards — guaranteed by your 32nd clear — and clear rewards (35,425 coins + 710 gems per run) make the grind pay for itself along the way:

• Shadow Gate is nightmare-only — you need Nightmare difficulty access first (see the [difficulty guide](/guide/difficulties/)).
• Attempts are 5 runs, then a 30-minute cooldown (reworked from the launch-day 10 runs per 3 hours; bought attempts no longer exist — pre-purchase attempts still stack and are used after your free ones).
• Red Gates (1 in 5 runs) make enemies 50% tougher but pay 1.8x coins and gems plus extra shadow essence — worth taking while you grind.
• Gate rank S/A/B clears pay a +30/20/10% bonus — push your rank before farming the pity.

Sung Jinwoo's kit made Discord history before he even shipped — developers teased him as the first unit you could describe as having two ultimates:

• Ultimate: Monarch's Domain — press the ult button again while it is active to call Kaisel, his flying beast.
• The rest of the kit runs on shadows: the raid's ARISE mechanic (raise fallen elites as your own shadows) previews the theme.
• Stage II of his evolution path makes Igris fight next to you in every mode, effectively adding a permanent shadow ally to whichever unit you are playing — as long as Sung Jinwoo is the one evolved.

Update 2 gave Sung Jinwoo his own path in the [evolution menu](/guide/evolution/), a three-stage progression no other unit has. Each stage is a named beat from Solo Leveling:

• Stage I — The System: +4% damage per level in runs.
• Stage II — Igris: Igris fights next to you in every mode.
• Stage III — Demon King's Longsword: longer M1s and +50% M1 damage.
• The Igris tree levels his damage, speed, lifesteal and shadows separately.
• Evolution materials come from the raid: shadow essence, Igris' crest, shadow's cloak and monarch's blessing are the new Shadow Gate materials.

Both raids now drop a headline unit, and both are nightmare-only:

• Hu Tao (Flame Director) is a confirmed LYTH pull with a published buff table; she awakens with Staff of Homa + Ghost.
• Sung Jinwoo has no published rarity but a defined 32-clear pity and a three-stage evolution path that ends in +50% M1 damage.
• If your group already farms Spirited Away, keep going — Hu Tao's numbers are proven. Sung Jinwoo is the fresh grind with the bigger runway (evolution stages keep paying out after you get him).

• Obtainment: Shadow Gate raid (nightmare) drop only — 3% per clear, guaranteed by 32 clears
• Ultimate: Monarch's Domain — press ult again to call Kaisel
• No published rarity tier (raid-exclusive; treated as Unknown on the tier list)
• The official team compensated Robux-purchased raid attempts with him after launch-day bugs

Official Discord update-logs (Shadow Monarch update patch notes, 2026-10-08)