Cited Feats

One cited fightSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 129
Does this result move the ranking?

Off the scale

One of these two was never ranked, so this cannot move a ranking it is not in.

Ashborn vs Rakan

The winnerAshbornSolo Leveling · off the scale
BeatenRakanSolo Leveling · rank 3

Rank three, put to flight by an entry this page declines to rank, so there is no ladder here for the result to move. What it informs is the entry it can reach. The estate that routed Rakan eons ago is the one the top entry later inherited, and the version of him Rakan met in Seoul held only part of it, so of the two meetings this is the better guide to what rank one is at peak. Rakan's own placement survives it, because he lost as half of a pair, and the other half paid far more for the same mistake.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 129

Ashborn beat Rakan in Solo Leveling (webtoon).

A retreat: Rakan flees the field and leaves his partner in the ambush too hurt to follow.

What each of them is ranked on

The winner · Ashborn · off the scale

The Shadow Monarch before this one

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomic

Commanded the shadow army through the long war against the Rulers, and when two of his own side ambushed him near the end of it he put both down and killed one for the treachery — a win that left the army all but wiped out, and cost him centuries in hiding rebuilding it. Ashborn then waits for a vessel and hands the rebuilt whole of it across to Sung Jinwoo, at which point the System starts reporting what the recipient now has. Every window that concerns Ashborn is a window about somebody else's acquisition — a figure for the estate at the moment it changes hands, and none for whoever assembled it.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 161–162

    Ashborn identifies himself to Sung Jinwoo as the Shadow Monarch.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 164

    Ashborn transfers his power to Sung Jinwoo.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 163

    Ashborn says the System was built to prepare a vessel able to inherit his power.

All 4 citations
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 168

    Bellion is named as the first of Ashborn's shadow soldiers.

Ashborn on the Solo Leveling ladder

Beaten · Rakan · rank 3

King of Beasts, Monarch of Fangs

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation

Went through Seoul on foot killing people in the street to draw one man out, and beat Thomas Andre the moment the restraint came off. Then, with Sung Jinwoo occupied by the Frost Monarch, drove a claw-first hand through Sung Jinwoo's chest from behind and left him dead in the road, which is a result nothing else on this ladder can show.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 156

    Rampages across Seoul, killing people in the street as he goes.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 157

    Defeats Thomas Andre after manifesting his spiritual body.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 158

    Sung Jinwoo axe-kicks him into the ground.

All 6 citations
  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 160

    Stabs Sung Jinwoo through the chest with his claws.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 129

    Ashborn defeats him and Baran together, and he flees the battlefield.

  • statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 213

    Rakan is named King of Beasts and Monarch of Fangs.

Rakan on the Solo Leveling ladder

What this does not settle

One fight in one work. It is the only result the record gives between these two, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.

The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.

Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.

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