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One cited deathSolo Leveling: Ragnarok
Does this death move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

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

Thomas Andre vs Christopher Reed

The killerThomas AndreSolo Leveling · rank 11
11 places
The victimChristopher ReedSolo Leveling · rank 22

Reed dies twice on this page and neither death is really about him. The second comes in the revised timeline with the Itarim possessing him, which means what Thomas Andre put down was not the hunter whose rank is printed beside this entry, and the result is stated rather than depicted. Andre's real evidence sits elsewhere — trading blows with Rakan in a Seoul street until the spiritual body came out, and losing to bare hands in a factory.

The connecting record

statedSolo Leveling: Ragnarok

Thomas Andre killed Christopher Reed in Solo Leveling: Ragnarok.

Second time round, with the Itarim wearing the man by then, and an old colleague sent to do what nobody else could be asked to.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Thomas Andre · rank 11

The Goliath

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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.

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  • 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

The victim · Christopher Reed · rank 22

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  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 149

    Described as one of the two strongest hunters in America and third in the world among the National Level Hunters.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 139

    Norma warns him of his own death from a vision and gives him a number that reaches Sung Jinwoo.

  • shownSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    Tarnak appears in front of him in his own home while Rakan and Querehsha come in from behind.

All 7 citations
  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    He had been trapped inside a dimensional gap without knowing it.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 140

    Putting out his flames took 1,800 firefighters and 14 top-tier mage hunters.

  • statedSolo Leveling (webtoon) · ch. 148

    Sung Il-Hwan is named the primary suspect in his murder.

  • statedSolo Leveling: Ragnarok · ch. 211

    In the revised timeline the Itarim possess him and Thomas Andre kills him in battle.

Christopher Reed 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.