Abstract A kinky breather-soliton solution and kinky periodic-soliton solution are obtained using Hirota’s bilinear method and homoclinic test approach for the (3+1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation. Based on these two exact solutions, some lump-type solutions are emerged by limit behaviour. Meanwhile, two kinds of new dynamical phenomena, kinky breather degeneracy and kinky periodic degeneracy, are discussed and presented. Finally, the interaction between a stripe soliton and a lump-type soliton is discussed by the standardisation of the lump-type solution; the fusion and fission phenomena of soliton solutions are investigated and simulated by three-dimensional plots.