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Solo Leveling’s Sung Jinwoo is the latest overpowered anime hero to enter the spotlight, and he’s definitely the one to beat right now. Sung Jinwoo is often seen as the underdog in power-scaling debates comparing him to established icons like Goku or Gojo, but he really shouldn’t be.

Jinwoo’s strongest forms, like his full power at the end of the Solo Leveling: Ragnarok light novel, or his transcendent abilities in the Solo Leveling: Arise Hunter Origin manhwa series, make him an underrated powerhouse who could easily wipe the floor with some of the most infamously OP anime heroes of all time.

Gojo’s Infinity Means Nothing to Jinwoo’s Eternal Darkness

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Jujutsu Kaisen’s Satoru Gojo is considered the strongest sorcerer of today, and has some of the most broken abilities in modern anime. The most notable used in power scaling discussions is definitely his Limitless technique, which allows him to bring the concept of infinity into reality. Paradoxically, Gojo would need more than infinity to beat Jinwoo.

Even if fans didn’t want to just look at the immense difference in sheer scale between Jinwoo and Gojo’s power, and only wanted to talk about infinity, Jinwoo also has equal feats that at the very least neutralize infinity itself.

Jinwoo’s own power has been described as “limitless” by Norma Selner, who is the one regular human in the Solo Leveling universe who can peer into the depths of a Hunter’s power. Additionally, Jinwoo’s own spiritual domain, the Sea of the Afterlife, has itself also been described as an infinite abyss, wherein Jinwoo has full and complete control.

In short, Jinwoo is already capable of controlling an infinite space, making Gojo’s infinity seem childish in comparison. And of course, given that Gojo exists in a universe, and Jinwoo already has experience destroying multiple beings capable of creating and destroying universes, no one from the Jujutsu Kaisen verse, Gojo included, stands any chance in a fight against the Shadow Monarch.

Ichigo Is Immensley Powerful, But He’s No Match for the Shadow Monarch

Ichigo is arguably the strongest character in Bleach, solely due to the fact that he destroyed Ywach, who is himself one of anime’s most infamously overpowered villains. While Ichigo didn’t do so alone by any means, the simple fact he could even kill Ywach is a truly impressive feat of raw power. In fact, it’s Ichigo’s strongest feat in the series by far, which intimately ties Ichigo’s own strength to that of Ywach.

To understand how powerful Ichigo is, it’s therefore necessary to scale Ywach first. Unfortunately, even Ywach’s own power is infamously difficult to objectively scale because it’s largely based on how fans interpret the Bleach universe. Generally, Ywach’s raw strength is interpreted as multiversal, because he threatens to destroy both the living universe and that of Hueco Mundo, which is considered a reflection of the universe. Therefore, it would seem he could destroy at least two universes at once, making him multiversal.

Since Ichigo can himself destroy a being who is multiversal, it would only make sense for Ichigo to be multiversal as well. Unfortunately, even taking this highball interpretation of Ichigo’s power, multiversal strength isn’t enough to destroy Sung Jinwoo. Like Bleach, the size of Solo Leveling’s multiverse is open to interpretation. However, even when lowballing Jinwoo’s universe (ignoring the interdimensional nature of it) to be the size of just a normal world, Jinwoo is still far beyond multiversal.

Jinwoo fights several multiversal enemies at once by way of the Itarim, and he kills them by himself. Assuming Ichigo is even as strong as an Itarim, which could already be pushing the envelope, it would take several Ichigo-level fighters to keep Jinwoo at bay, just as it requires multiple Itarim to lock Jinwoo in a stalemate in Solo Leveling: Ragnarok.

Saitama Would Be Beaten By Jinwoo in One Punch

Saitama from One Punch Man scared of Sung Jinwoo’s from Solo Leveling

As a gag manga character, the limits of Saitama’s power in One Punch Man are hardly steadfast. At the same time, he’s also a shonen battle anime hero, so it’s only natural he’s subject to power scaling just like any other. And in terms of Saitama’s feats, he has nothing that has come close to that of Sung Jinwoo.

Generally, Saitama’s strongest feats have largely consisted of planetary destruction, though that’s not the hard limit on his power by any means. For example, Saitama actually sneezed and destroyed Jupiter, proving that his serious power level should be infinitely higher than destroying mere planets. Unfortunately, he has never genuinely shown feats as mind-blowing as Jinwoo. Whereas Saitama casually destroys planets in One Punch Man, Jinwoo casually destroys entire galaxies in Solo Leveling: Ragnarok.

During his battle with the Itarim, Jinwoo’s enemies throw entire galaxies at him like shurikens, and they’re easily destroyed by Jinwoo’s shadow barrier before they even reach him. As much as Saitama does have a lot of potential as a gag manga hero, the One Punch Man universe’s power scaling is simply a joke compared to that of Solo Leveling.

Even Goku Has to Acknowledge That Jinwoo is the Strongest

“But can he beat Goku though” has become a meme in the anime power scaling fandom for good reason. Dragon Ball’s Son Goku has been the ultimate barometer of strength for shonen battle manga due to DBZ’s infamous power creep and Goku’s unflinching desire to always get stronger. That’s a quality that Sung Jinwoo has absolutely inherited from Goku himself, but to an even greater degree.

There’s no question right now that Sung Jinwoo can defeat Ultra Instinct Goku in Dragon Ball Super‘s latest manga arcs, especially when considering some of Jinwoo’s more unbelievable feats in recent media. The most notable one was in Solo Leveling: Arise Hunter Origin, when Jinwoo used his omniscience to see Igris’ true history while reading a book about his life, and then reached into the book and literally pulled the real human form of Igris out of the story.

Anime Death Match: Sung Jinwoo vs Goku Pits Shonen’s New Viral Star Against Its Most Influential Hero

The 1st round of CBR’s Anime Death Match tournament pits Solo Leveling’s Shadow Monarch, Sung Jinwoo, against Dragon Ball’s martial arts icon, Goku.

The only version of Goku that could possibly match Jinwoo’s fiction-breaking skill in Solo Leveling: Arise is CC Goku from Super Dragon Ball Heroes, but even that might be a long shot. CC Goku’s power level can sometimes be scaled to fiction-breaking as well based on a single statement from the Dragon Ball Heroes manga that one of the series’ villains threatened to destroy the “real world.”

Taking that feat at face value, Goku’s absolute strongest iteration might be able to match Jinwoo’s ridiculously overpowered abilities in Solo Leveling: Arise, too. But when pitting Jinwoo and Goku in their mainline sequels (Ragnarok and Super) against each other, Jinwoo is clearly stronger.