SusanoomonTen warriors, one body — frontier
Digimon Frontier · 2003 · shown
Formed from all ten Legendary Warrior spirits, defeats Lucemon and reformats the Digital World.
Upset
The lower-ranked entity killed the higher-ranked one. The record and the ladder disagree.
The ladder stands, and what settles it is what the killer structurally is. One party is a single entity carrying a grading the franchise has never gone back and revised. The other is ten separate combatants merged into one body for one encounter and never seen again. Reading "it required the entire roster" as evidence that the target was unremarkable inverts the argument being made. A total mobilisation is ranked as what it measures, which is the size of the problem rather than the stature of the solution.
Susanoomon killed Lucemon in Digimon Frontier (2002).shown
in Shadowlord Mode, after the ten spirits combine
Formed from all ten Legendary Warrior spirits, defeats Lucemon and reformats the Digital World.
Frontier spends a season establishing that the ten Legendary Warriors are the Digital World's original defence, then has all ten become one thing to deal with Lucemon. Its final act is not a blow but an administrative one: it deletes the Digital World and writes it again, which is the only successful reboot on this page.
Lucemon's level is given as Rookie, and as one of the Seven Great Demon Lords.
Final antagonist; defeated only after the ten Legendary Warriors' spirits combine into Susanoomon.
This is the entry the page exists for. Lucemon's official level is Rookie — the same rung as the small creatures the heroes start with — and he once governed the entire Digital World, fell, was sealed in the Dark Area, and in Frontier requires the combined spirits of all ten Legendary Warriors to put down. The Reference Book has never corrected the level, because the level was never a measurement.
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.
Both entries carry their full receipts on the Digimon ranking — 3 citations between them.