Power Hierarchy and Rankings
In the world of Solo Leveling, characters are often categorized by their rank, which indicates their power level. The hierarchy typically ranges from E-rank to Nation-level hunters. According to one compilation, the power levels are defined as follows: E (0-100), D (100-1,000), C (1,000-2,000), B (2,000-5,000), A (5,000-100,000), S (100,000-500,000), and Nation Level (500,000+) [3:1]. This structure helps fans understand the relative strength of different characters within the series.
Character Progression
One notable aspect of Solo Leveling is the rapid progression of the main character, Sung Jin-Woo. Initially hovering between A and B rank, he quickly ascends to a level that surpasses even the strongest S-rank hunters [2:3]. By the time of the Solo Leveling Ragnarök manhua, Jin-Woo reaches a "Galactus level" of power
[2:4]. This fast-paced progression can sometimes overshadow other characters, making them seem obsolete
[2:1].
Tier Lists and Comparisons
Fans often create tier lists to compare the power levels of various characters. These lists can be subjective and vary in accuracy depending on the creator's interpretation. For example, some discussions highlight discrepancies in tier placements, such as the Architect being weaker than the Statue of God, despite evidence suggesting otherwise [5:1]. Additionally, characters like Antares are considered top-tier due to their formidable strength against Jin-Woo
[5:3].
Side Characters and Novelty
While Sung Jin-Woo's power level becomes astronomical, there is interest in exploring the abilities and roles of side characters. Some fans express a desire for more focus on these characters, similar to how other series like Naruto develop their supporting cast [2:5]. Characters like Igris are highly regarded and sometimes placed above god-tier due to their unique abilities and significance
[2:9].
Considerations Beyond the Discussions
When analyzing Solo Leveling's power levels, it's important to consider the narrative context and the evolution of characters throughout the series. While tier lists provide a snapshot of power dynamics, they may not capture the full complexity of character development and interactions. Additionally, readers should be aware that interpretations of power levels can vary widely among fans, leading to diverse opinions and discussions.
So... I decided to write a Fanfic about Solo Leveling. It's a biggest Fan/Hater of the series reincarnated into Jin-woo's body. This will be the Last Chance to turn back time using the Almighty Being's Creations. MC will wake up as Jin-woo right before dying to the statues.
I'm thinking of using the lore from SLA as well as SLR for world building. Next I need everyone's help in setting the power hierarchy.
I'm posted a Screenshot of how I differentiated them to categorise it. Basically this is what I think when I want to compare Power levels of (SS-RANK) Top-Tier and General-Rank.
Chugong placing Hwang Dong Su in General level after becoming Greed means that he's at least SS-RANK Top Tier Hunter. So, Goto being way stronger than him, means he will also be an SS-RANK Top Tier Hunter right?
So, I place Lennart, Alicia, Jay, Yuri Orloff, Goto, Hwang, Go Gun Hee, etc at (SS-RANK) General Lv. 1-30 & Antoine Martinez at (SS-RANK) Lv. 40.
Next Ant-Queen, I will place her at (SS-RANK) General Lv. 10 because she was not a Combat oriented Monster, & Ant-King at (SS-RANK) General Lv. 40 (During Jeju Island Arc.)
Considering how easily he killed off Goto, who was also possibly a (SS-RANK) General-Rank like it, it's safe to put him at a Higher Level than the other (SS-RANK) Top Tier Hunters as well
But, considering how Jin-woo struggled against Kandiaru (Architect), it's safe to put him at a higher level than Ant-King. But, after Black Heart, he just swamped him. Also, I'm placing Nationals like Andre at the same level as Kandiaru, because Architect might not be the strongest in strength but his spells can very easily neutralize Monarch's debuff's, yeah? Also, I'm pretty sure he will win in 1v1 with Nationals as long as he doesn't get conceited.
And, Since Giant Boss is literally stronger than post Black Heart Jin-woo and Strong Lv. 80+ Beru, it's safe to put him at that level, and above average Dragons. Also, I'm guessing, the Monarch's personal guards would also be at that level, considering Monarch of Beginning Legia was one of the Top 3 High Monarchs (Antares, Yogumunt, & Legia) and his personal guards were Monsters like Giant Boss.
And it's safe to give the peak of General-Rank to Ancient Dragons and all, since that one dragon in the final chapters literally obliterated a Giant Boss in one attack.
If I'm wrong about this then please enlighten me.
Very good read though one correction I'd suggest is for Knight rank. It starts from High A rank as stated when Tank became one during the Demon Castle arc. Regular High Orcs who were A rank, High Orcs generals who were stronger than regular High Orcs, none started as Knight rank shadows unlike Kim Chul.
But the fact that there are levels upto 50 in Knight-Rank then that means Tank is not a Top-notch A-Rank like Woo Jin-Chul is. I consider WJC to be the Strongest A-Rank in existence, only a little below S-Rank threshold. So, it's safe to say that Jin-woo's evaluation was wrong about Tank.
My friend, it's Jinwoo's ability, and his soldier, ofc he would know. This Jinwoo who evaluated him was a solid S rank whose senses were good enough to evaluate that Haein and Gunhee were far stronger than other Korean S ranks, but somehow he wouldn't evaluate A ranks correctly? Even if we ignore all that, going by your logic, High Orcs should've been Knight rank, but they weren't. So even that conflicts with your argument.
What you're missing is that the gap between powers grow larger the higher one rank is. Two people can be high A rank yet still one would be weaker and one would be stronger.
Jinchul is peak A rank anyways not just a high A rank. And where are you getting shadow levels even from? They were never elaborated in the series. We don't know how high each rank's level goes.
Sounds good for me. I just think SSS should not be National, but the "normal" hunters inside the TOP20 Global (Lennart, Jay Mills, ofc Antoine, maaaaybe Yuri). Goto may be levels above Hwang, who is General material (and above Cha even pre-buff), but he was mentioned by Chugong as not a really true Top Tier.
Also, Architect (at least the one in Carthenon Temple) lost to lv103 BH SJW, he should be under Vessels.
What is it called? The fanfic?
Yo!! Fancy meeting you here bro!!
Yea yea wait pls tell me the fanfic I wanna read it what’s the title
Was about to do one for a jump chain starter, this works well.
Yo it's actually fire 🔥
Why is this Sung Chin Mew guy in the top tier? Where is our main character Igris?
I love solo leveling. Its so good, but it does level up too fast. Before I could even see all the S rank hunters they were already obsolete lol.
Kinda took away the novelty of it. The dude was hovering between A and B rank towards the end of S1. Now, he is off the scale within like 12 eps. I am afraid he will be at the galactus level by the end of S3.
He already is galactus level in solo leveling Ragnarök manhua
honestly solo leveling could do naruto speed progression and with a little more focus on the side characters. but i get that this show is going for a different style so i guess it works.
That's one thing I like about Re:Zero. At least as of right now, Subaru never gets OP.
as far as I know he never does but >! he has one of the most broken abilities in the verse since the beginning so he's kind of a broken!<
why is he 🤌🫴 solo✨ in the tier list?
Yeah and I don't understand why OP put a side character to top tier.
He needs his own tier
Igris tier, above god
Igris the goodest girl
Hunters power levels by their tier:
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I enjoyed that, kinda low-key was hoping you would put MC at around what rank he was when he met certain characters but this was satisfing as well.
Thanks mate ! Your feedback is really wonderful & I'll keep that in mind.
with zero combat xp? If you don't know correct punching form your efficiency and power greatly decreases. And E ranks are only slightly stronger than the average human...
E ranks are slightly stronger isnt quite true its more like they are the only one even comparable to humans and even sung who was the weakest was significantly stronger then the strongest normal people
E-Ranks are the only ones they could beat. Maybe D-Ranks who didn't become hunters.
E Rank Jin-Woo before the conclusion of the Double Dungeon.
Perhaps Joo-Hee. Shes bad in 1v1s but in a vacuum she's a decent B rank.
i think she lacks the physical capabilities tbh. Healers can heal themselves but she literally has zero combat experience.
I could be misremembering but the s-rank healer had physical stats on par with an a-rank fighter. If we apply this logic in retrospect it "should" be safe to assume that Joo hee has physical stats on par with a d or c rank fighter. Imo just about any d-rank or higher hunters should be able to fight gorilla's pretty easily. Then again she clearly lacks the mentality. Even if she could win, I still don't actually see her winning. Imo she'd get scared and run off.
Guns don’t even work on E rank monsters right? An E rank might win, or at least a D rank.
Probably a Dong-soos younger brother
He is better than average C rank and in his words his skin becomes tuff like steel when using reinforcement skill. Id argue he can take 100 average gorillas
If he was smart and has his team probably but 100 all at once he is getting overwhelmed but anyone stronger wins
Normal, non mana infused weaponry wouldn't work* so its unlikely any amount of gorillas would beat a mana infused being
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Id personally put antares also at the top sense he was definitely stronger then Jin in their fight and it took an entire group ambush to kill him.
I am talking about current Jin woo taking into consideration Ragnarok
Where is mc dad
idk where to put him
Put him in high tier with the monarchs he was fighting a 2v1 when Jin Woo died I think that is a good enough feat to put him there if we are using the nerfed monarchs
Go Gun he should be lower he’s too old to be able to use any of his powers.
He was able to fight frost monarch in chapter 150 tho
We don’t know how much power the frost monarch was using it could’ve been less than what the beast monarch was using when he fought Thomas. If young and healthy Go Gun he would be the strongest human hunter but since that’s not the case it’s Thomas until proven otherwise. I’d say put Gun he at the end of middle tier since he’s still stronger than everyone else below that tier.
He got immediately stomped though, so he shouldn't be on the same tier. He's definitely weaker than Andre for example. The absolute being is also weaker than the Rulers in terms of fighting strength but we never see either really fight so I dunno where I'd put them compared to other characters.
Statue of God being on the same tier as the Architect doesn't make much sense either since the Architect is way stronger. SJW struggled a bit with fighting the Architect but basically 1 shot the Statue of God.
You probably just need to add more tiers overall. I'd personally say Andre is likely stronger than Liu Zhigang and Christopher Reed even though we didn't really see them fight. Cha is probably below Ryuji too.
This would probably be my list There's obviously big gaps between some of the tiers (e.g. the gap in strength between Antares and the other Monarchs is huge, moreso than the gap between the B+/B/C/D tiers.) Go Gun Hee would have been higher if he was younger and capable of using his fragment of light powers.
Thank you, tho why do you have him above Zhigang
Who’s the guy above Liu Zhigang and below Andre ?
It was great, thanks (•‿•)
Thanks mate ! Thank you for your compliment ! (^‿^)
Hunters power levels by their tier:
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Completely deserved these ratings. Animation and story are just top tier. That last episode should be a 10
> story
What? Solo leveling is a cliche power fantasy, the animation is good, but the story is serviceable at best.
When people say this, it baffles me. Like I'm not about to pretend Solo Leveling's story is some great paragon of storytelling or anything, but it definitely doesn't follow usual power fantasy anime cliches, has themes that it follows through on, and does some genuinely innovative things with its setting that defined an entirely new subgenre.
Its story isn't complex, but that doesn't make it bad or mid. It's just a simple story told effectively. If you're getting an emotional response from the audience, you're storytelling successfully, and Solo Leveling is CLEARLY doing that.
This sort of dismissal of it feels like someone echoing a common bad faith critique of the series rather than someone who has engaged with the material in a non-shallow way to me.
Imagine the stats when the Monarch arc comes 🪽
Or the double dungeon 👀
What happened in Season 1 Episode 8?
Pure buildup for Megumi's fight, coupled with slow story and subpar animation lowered the score
was megumi sensai was zoro?how did he end up in solo leveling?
The recap was episode 7.5 ?
"Monarch arc" could mean anything, when I finished season 1 and looked for the red gate chapters in the manhwa I had no idea what it meant
This list doesn’t include solo leveling ragnarok characters, and I might have also missed out a few characters along the way. Also I put suho with jinwoo not because they’re the same rank by the end of solo leveling but it just felt right. Feel free to comment on what you think! This took a few hours to make but honestly worth it haha
I think it would be fun if you put Jinwoo and Suho also in E rank
You have Igris as S rank? After leveling up as a shadow yes, but during the job change quest, he's A.
Wait that’s mb I didn’t know that igris was a rank I always thought he was s rank from the beginning
Don't you think putting S Ranks and National Levels together is a bit off? There's a HUGE difference in power levels(in most cases)
If I’m not wrong national level hunters are still s-rank hunters as well. I forgot to put in the title that I’m ranking from strongest to weakest (left to right) as well so that’s my mistake
You’re correct, S rank stands for Special Rank as it means their power can’t be measured
SJW is also an S-Rank, by that metric.
Also I ranked them from strongest to weakest (left to right)
Chugong confirmed that Goto is stronger than Dongsoo and even though I know the hunter ranking was mostly based on achievements and not power, Lennart was ranked 12th while Mills was 17th.
Does Mills have any novel feats I'm not aware of?
Oh yeah I mixed up mills and lennart, but I think dongsoo is still stronger than goto ngl
This list is so bad on so many levels,its not even funny lmao
So, do you mean to say that Byung-gu is stronger than Yoon Ho and Jong-In?
A-rank dungeon bosses are usually S-rank beasts(explained in the Kargalagan dungeon raid if you want more information.)
Igris was A-rank when he first appeared.
Lennart Niermann is ranked above Jay Mills.
Dongsoo was weaker than Ryuji.
And this is from just one glance at the list. Your list is wrong on so many levels. I can't call this a "Solo Leveling Tier list". I'd call it "Wrong Leveled Tier List".
When I say worth I mean what they are equal to is 1 point on Strength the strength of an average human or e-rank Hunter what are they worth.
It’s not that simple. It’s mentioned pretty early that it’s an exponential growth.
So 10 -> 11 isn’t the same increase as 110 -> 111.
Having said that jinwoo’s reawakening didn’t make him much any stronger (he gained the ability to grow) and all his initial stats are 10 - he is mention to he technically classified as “super human” but not ridiculously so. The only exception to this is his mana (which starts at 12), to me this means 5 is probably an average human 8-9 possibly being a strongman (obviously unawakened peoples mana is generally zero - unless they’ve gone into enter all slumber I believe)
While he’s in hospital (after first levelling up) his strength is at 11 (or 12) and he lifts the hospital bed like a normal person but with visibly less effort - by the time it hits 15 (I think) he lifts it with one arm.
Like I say, it’s exponential so there isn’t really a way to quantify it but I’ve kinda explained the ground works for where someone might be on that scale we’re they a normal human.
Yeah i think you did a great job explaining everything. Since Jin Woo is considered the weakest hunter by hunter standards, we can assume all his stats are the lowest and closer to that of a regular human (eg: If someone like Woo Jin Cheol got the system, his stats would probably have been around 150-160).
With your logic of non awakened being at the 5-9 range of stats, Sung being superhuman compared to other humans but weak compared to other hunters makes it easy to estimate the worth of points.
Just'll point out that its actually hyperbolic rather than exponential to be fair
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I like to think that it changes Like 1-10 normal human 11-20 bodybuilder or athlete and so on
1-10 is like the full strength range of a normal human. At 15 he was lifting hospital beds easily with one hand. Which even the strongest people on earth wouldn't be able to do.
I meant each point is equal to 1 normal humans strength
bad world building
Why is it always about getting a massive power up and defeating a certain character? Just enjoy the story.
The entire story at this point is fighting and power ups? It's not like past lookism where we at least had good filler.
Constantly powering up wouldn't go well with the story. People are complaining about why a highschooler is not par with people who has fought for years and has tons of experience. The mc is meant to struggle and grow further.A random power up wouldn't add depth to his character.
Lookism didn’t primarily focus on daniel even trying to. Become the strongest unitil damn near 300 chapters in. This daniel also didn’t even use his main body properly until 400 chapters in. And u expect him to be top tier are we real?.
Yes
So you’re just powerscaling-obsessed.
What is your point? To say that lookism is bad, just because the protagonist isn't a super OP Gary Stu that you can self-insert yourself into?
I'd say that's the least of lookism's problems and we already know he'll eventually be a top tier anyway.
When? Chapter 1000? 2000?
It depends on how long the series lasts, but by the end of the series he will surely be a top tier, since he should have enough power to beat James.
It just sounds like a overpowered mc, reincarnated in the world of murim to collect a harem of great beauties is more your speed
What's your point
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