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.

Sung Jinwoo vs Hwang Dongsuk

The killerSung JinwooSolo Leveling · rank 1
34 places
The victimHwang DongsukSolo Leveling · rank 35

No ranking is tested by an execution, and that is what this was. The crew sealed him in with a sleeping boss and ran; the System answered by issuing a quest that named them, and he was put down with the rest of them after begging. The death is asserted, never shown, and rank 35 had nothing to prove against rank 1 in any case. Its one consequence runs outside the fight entirely: a younger brother comes to Korea because of it.

The connecting record

statedSolo Leveling

Sung Jinwoo killed Hwang Dongsuk in Solo Leveling.

Executed with the rest of the crew on a quest the System issued him mid-ambush.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Sung Jinwoo · rank 1

The second Shadow Monarch

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation

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.

Sung Jinwoo on the Solo Leveling ladder

The victim · Hwang Dongsuk · rank 35

Web novelWebtoonnovelcomicanimation
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 20–21

    Led a raid team of Lizards — hunters who abuse their powers to commit crimes inside dungeons.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 20

    Leaves Sung Jinwoo and Yoo Jinho alone in the boss chamber on a pretext, with the boss asleep overhead.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 20

    Collapses the exit behind him while fleeing, sealing the two of them in with the boss.

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  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 24

    Begs for his life after Sung Jinwoo smashes him into the ground.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 24

    The System issues Sung Jinwoo a quest to eliminate the rogue hunters, and he is executed with the rest.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 47

    His death is what sends his younger brother to Korea after Sung Jinwoo.

Hwang Dongsuk 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.