PowerRankings

One cited deathSolo Leveling
Does this death move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

The higher-ranked entity killed the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.

Beru vs Goto Ryuji

The killerBeruSolo Leveling · rank 13
10 places
The victimGoto RyujiSolo Leveling · rank 23

The record that prices this entry, and it was set before he took an order from anyone. A national top-ranked hunter arrives on the island as the answer to the ant problem and is subtracted from it instead — which means the thing rank one later walked away with had already beaten the best any government in the region could field. The ten places between them here are a statement about ownership. They are not a statement about what happened on Jeju.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling

Beru killed Goto Ryuji in Solo Leveling.

The strongest hunter Japan had, and he lasted one hit longer than the five who went before him.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Beru · rank 13

The Ant King

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation

Took the heads off five Japanese hunters with one strike each on Jeju, swallowed a healer's head and came up carrying the man's language and his healing technique both, and then killed Goto Ryuji, who lasted exactly one hit longer than the men in front of him. Asked for a name once the extraction was done, before anybody had thought to give him one.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 97

    Beheads five Japanese hunters with one attack each.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 99

    Devours Min Byung-Gyu's head.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 99

    Gluttony takes the healer's language and healing technique along with him.

All 8 citations
  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 100

    Kills Goto Ryuji, who lasts one hit longer than the hunters before him.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 85

    Goto Ryuji is the strongest hunter in Japan.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 105

    Sung Jinwoo extracts the Ant King's shadow.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 164

    Recorded at Marshal grade after Sung Jinwoo's ascension.

  • statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 124

    The name Beru is taken from the author of The Ants.

Beru on the Solo Leveling ladder

The victim · Goto Ryuji · rank 23

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomic
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 85

    Flies to Korea and offers Go Gunhee a plan to retake Jeju Island using Japanese hunters as bait.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 92

    Challenges Sung Jinwoo to a sparring match and finds he cannot land a hit on him.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 93

    Unleashes his full power with intent to kill and manages a small cut on Sung Jinwoo's cheek.

All 5 citations
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 100

    A Chinese navy captain says he is completely outclassed by Liu Zhigang in raw power.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 100

    Killed by the Ant King on Jeju Island in two hits.

Goto Ryuji on the Solo Leveling ladder

What this does not settle

One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, 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.