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.

Igris vs Iron

The killerIgrisSolo Leveling · rank 14
4 places
The victimIronSolo Leveling · rank 18

The only record here where both the killer and the victim are inside the same army by the end of the scene. Plenty of names on this page kill for reasons of their own, but this is the one case where a component produces a component and the owner of both is a bystander to the transaction that enlarges him — he is busy losing to the ice elf at the time. That is a stronger version of this page's claim than any of the kills he lands himself, because it shows the accumulation running while his attention is elsewhere.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling

Igris killed Iron in Solo Leveling.

Cut down mid-charge, and raised off the same floor a moment later. One soldier in this army made the next one directly, without the owner of either lifting a hand.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Igris · rank 14

Blood-Red Commander

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation

Threw an A-Rank Sung Jinwoo around a boss room like laundry and had the sword raised to finish it before a dagger went into the eye slit. Tossed that sword away when the man decided to come at him unarmed. Had been one of the two wings of Ashborn's army long before any of that, waiting in a dungeon specifically to test whoever turned up.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 39–40

    Throws Sung Jinwoo around the boss room and prepares to kill him with his sword.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 40

    Sung Jinwoo drives a dagger into his left eye.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 39

    Tosses his sword aside once Sung Jinwoo chooses to fight bare-handed.

All 7 citations
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 165

    Named as one of the two wings of Ashborn's shadow army.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon)

    Ashborn tasked him with testing his successor in battle.

  • statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 49

    The Blood-Red Commander is the boss of the Job Change Quest dungeon.

  • statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 221

    Igris is recorded at Marshal grade.

Igris on the Solo Leveling ladder

The victim · Iron · rank 18

Kim Chul

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation

Led the expedition sealed inside the Red Gate, split it, took the higher-ranked half to find the boss and watched every one of them die to ice elves before running. Came back at Sung Jinwoo out of his mind and was cut down by Igris for it — then stood up again inside the same fight and drove Baruka into the ground with a battle axe.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 52

    Baruka's warriors kill every member of Kim Chul's raid party except Kim Chul.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 53

    Igris kills a crazed Kim Chul as he attacks Sung Jinwoo.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 54

    Sung Jinwoo extracts the shadow from Kim Chul's corpse.

All 6 citations
  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 54

    Kills Baruka by smashing him into the ground with his battle axe.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 54

    Iron can restrain Baruka and open craters in the ground.

  • statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 64

    Sung Jinwoo names Kim Chul's shadow Iron.

Iron 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.