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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.

Rakan vs Christopher Reed

The killerRakanSolo Leveling · rank 3
19 places
The victimChristopher ReedSolo Leveling · rank 22

Three Monarchs for one hunter, and no honest way to apportion the outcome among them — the identical killing files here under three separate names, which is another way of saying it establishes nothing about any of them singly. Reed had also been sealed in a dimensional gap he never detected, so his own capability never entered the reckoning either. The scale of the loss reads only in the aftermath: 1,800 firefighters and fourteen top-tier mage hunters to put his flames out.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling

Rakan killed Christopher Reed in Solo Leveling.

One of three in the room. He came in from behind with Querehsha while Tarnak stood in front, inside a dimensional gap the man never saw close.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · 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

The victim · Christopher Reed · rank 22

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomic
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 149

    Described as one of the two strongest hunters in America and third in the world among the National Level Hunters.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 139

    Norma warns him of his own death from a vision and gives him a number that reaches Sung Jinwoo.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    Tarnak appears in front of him in his own home while Rakan and Querehsha come in from behind.

All 7 citations
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    He had been trapped inside a dimensional gap without knowing it.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    Putting out his flames took 1,800 firefighters and 14 top-tier mage hunters.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 148

    Sung Il-Hwan is named the primary suspect in his murder.

  • statedSolo Leveling: Ragnarok · ch. 211

    In the revised timeline the Itarim possess him and Thomas Andre kills him in battle.

Christopher Reed 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.