The connecting record
shownSolo Leveling
Sung Jinwoo killed Antares in Solo Leveling.
The last one left, twenty-seven years into the second pass, in his own palace and with nothing held back on either side. The Rulers had taken the first version of this fight away from him; this one was his, and he walked out with a burnt hand.
What each of them is ranked on
The killer · Sung Jinwoo · rank 1
The second Shadow Monarch
Beat the hunter the register puts first in the world half to death with bare hands in a disused factory, took a Monarch's head off with a single stroke under Tokyo, and came back from a set of claws through the chest to finish the two still on their feet. None of those three left anything he could keep — one survived, one had no body to raise, one came apart into light. The wins that built him are further down the column and mostly smaller, which is the part of the arithmetic the highlights hide.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 1
The Association's register lists Sung Jinwoo at the weakest hunter grade.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 147
Beats Thomas Andre to the brink of death with his bare hands.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 138
Decapitates Legia with a single strike.
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shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 160
Cuts Querehsha in half and then reduces her to pieces.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 160
Rakan drives his claws through Sung Jinwoo's chest from behind.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 162
Sung Jinwoo's heart begins beating again after the wound that killed him.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 173
Antares' army is frozen in place where it stands.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 173
The skill that immobilises Antares' army is named Dragon's Fear.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 104
The Ant King is defeated by Sung Jinwoo on Jeju Island.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 160–165
The three Monarchs who invaded Seoul to kill him are all killed by him instead.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 178
Every Monarch but Baran is brought back from the dead with their memories intact after the Cup of Reincarnation is used.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 179
He spends twenty-seven years killing the returned Monarchs one at a time.
statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 1
Sung Jinwoo is introduced as the weakest hunter of all mankind.
The victim · Antares · rank 2
King of Dragons, Monarch of Destruction
Burned the hunter who met him at the Canadian gate to cinders and turned an army loose across the country to make the Shadow Monarch come out. Countered everything Sung Jinwoo threw on that island and offered to call the extinction off in exchange for help against the Rulers. Lost his temper instead, left an opening, and took his father's dagger nearly through the middle — then understood that the fight he had been winning was the method, its distortion of space being what let the Rulers in.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 169
Burns the Canadian S-Rank hunter Jay Mills to cinders with his breath.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 171
His army cuts a path of destruction across Canada.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 176
Sung Jinwoo's attacks bounce off his skin without effect.
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statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 176
Offers to withdraw his forces and spare mankind if Sung Jinwoo fights the Rulers alongside him.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 176
Sung Jinwoo slices him almost completely in half with his father's dagger.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 177
He realises Sung Jinwoo had been aiming from the start to distort space enough to let the Rulers through.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 177
The Rulers appear in their raw forms and run him through with their spears.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 178
Sung Jinwoo kills him in his palace twenty-seven years into the timeline the Cup of Reincarnation produced.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 163
Antares ordered Rakan and Baran to take out Ashborn during the first war.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon)
Antares could find no human vessel able to withstand his power.
statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 228
Antares is named King of Dragons and Monarch of Destruction.
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.