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 Min Byung-Gyu

The killerBeruSolo Leveling · rank 13
20 places
The victimMin Byung-GyuSolo Leveling · rank 33

Twenty ranks apart and no argument about the ordering, which is why it is worth the space: this is the one record on the page where the same body is taken twice by opposite sides of the same operation. The healer feeds one column and then furnishes another, and the second owner gives him back a chapter later at a third party's request. A page arguing that strength is assembled out of the dead has to reckon with the case where the dead get released, and the release costs the collector nothing he can measure.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling

Beru killed Min Byung-Gyu in Solo Leveling.

Head devoured, and the language and the healing technique came with it. The same healer was raised as a shadow days later, on the other side of the ledger, to keep a woman alive.

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 · Min Byung-Gyu · rank 33

The shadow that was handed back

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 57

    Retired from hunting after taking part in all three failed Jeju Island raids.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 97

    Refreshes the raid party with a healing spell inside the Ant Queen's nest.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 99

    The Ant King devours his head.

All 7 citations
  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 104

    Sung Jinwoo raises him as a shadow so that his healing can save Cha Hae-In.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 105

    Sung Jinwoo terminates the contract at Baek Yoonho's request so the soul can rest.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 115

    Cha Hae-In remembers his shadow holding her hand while her soul floated in an abyss.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 115

    His shadow asks her to tell Sung Jinwoo to be careful with the power inside him.

Min Byung-Gyu 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.