One cited fightSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 157
Does this result move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

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

Rakan vs Thomas Andre

The winnerRakanSolo Leveling · rank 3
8 places
BeatenThomas AndreSolo Leveling · rank 11

The ladder's order holds, and the shape of the fight explains the distance better than the result does. For a long while the American traded on even terms, which is the case for filing him in the same tier as the Monarchs at all; it ended once Rakan stopped holding back, which is the case for eight places between them. Both halves are on the page, so the placement does not have to choose. Beside the factory it also makes a scale: the man the top entry beat bare-handed lasted a good while against rank three, and still needed somebody else to leave alive.

The connecting record

shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 157

Rakan beat Thomas Andre in Solo Leveling (webtoon).

Beaten, not killed: another hunter's attack pulls Rakan off him before the finish.

What each of them is ranked on

The winner · 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

Beaten · Thomas Andre · rank 11

The Goliath

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimationcontested

Fought Rakan level for a long stretch of a Seoul street before the Monarch stopped playing, and was one of five hunters still upright at the end of the Kamish raid — he kept the fang that bit him and had it cut down into a pair of daggers. Went all out against Sung Jinwoo in a factory, lost to bare hands, and asked afterwards why his guild was still alive.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 149

    Described as the strongest hunter in America and first in the world among the National Level Hunters.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 147

    Uses Reinforcement against Sung Jinwoo and is beaten to the brink of death.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 153

    Kamish's fang was too short for a longsword and was crafted into daggers instead.

All 7 citations
  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 157

    Trades blows with Rakan in the street until Rakan manifests his spiritual body.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 145

    The Rulers granted Thomas Andre power after magic beasts were discovered.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 173

    Summons Bellion and Beru out of his own shadow and helps kill Tarnak.

  • statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 125

    Thomas Andre is introduced under the epithet the Goliath.

Thomas Andre on the Solo Leveling ladder

What this does not settle

One fight in one work. It is the only result the record gives between these two, 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.

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