The connecting record
shownSolo Leveling
Sung Jinwoo killed Greed in Solo Leveling.
Also an acquisition. A revenge killing for what was done to a friend, and a kneeling subordinate out of the same corpse an hour later.
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 · Greed · rank 17
Hwang Dongsoo
A hunter-killer with a family grudge, who went through Yoo Jinho to reach the man he actually wanted, and who had already been on the losing end of a fight with Sung Il-Hwan that took the Bureau's building down. Was raised out of his own corpse where it fell, and spent his first day of service with his forehead on the floor by order.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon)
His interrogation of Sung Il-Hwan ends in a fight that destroys the Bureau's headquarters.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 143–144
Tortures Yoo Jinho.
statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 143
Hwang Dongsoo went after Yoo Jinho to get revenge on Sung Jinwoo for his brother's death.
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shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 147
Sung Jinwoo kills him and extracts the shadow from his corpse.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 147
Ordered to bow his head to the ground on his first day as a shadow.
shownSolo Leveling (webtoon)
Breaks out of Sillad's ice prison by flexing.
statedSolo Leveling (web novel) · ch. 193
Greed is recorded at General grade.
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.