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.

Iron vs Baruka

The killerIronSolo Leveling · rank 18
6 places
The victimBarukaSolo Leveling · rank 24

Six places down the page rather than up it, so the win settles no ordering — what it settles is a schedule. The thing that finished the dungeon boss had been a corpse minutes earlier, which is the accumulation paying out inside a single fight. Then the chain stops dead. Here the extraction is tried and simply does not work — three attempts, no warning beforehand, a will that outlasts the body — which makes it the failure mode the page cannot design around, as distinct from the giant who announced he was unconvertible. Two of the three names in this scene ended up in the ranks. This one refused on the day.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling

Iron killed Baruka in Solo Leveling.

Put down by the axe minutes after being raised off the floor of the same fight. The extraction that should have followed was attempted three times and failed all three.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · 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

The victim · Baruka · rank 24

The ice elf who would not be raised

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 52

    Leader of the ice elves and boss of the Red Gate dungeon.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 52

    He and his warriors kill every member of Kim Chul's raid party except Kim Chul.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 53

    Offers to spare Sung Jinwoo's life in exchange for the lives of his squad.

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

    Iron smashes him into the ground with his battle axe.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 54

    Sung Jinwoo's three attempts to extract his shadow all fail.

  • statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 63

    Baruka is one of the few magic beasts able to hold a spoken conversation.

Baruka 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.