The Most Arrogant Solo Leveling Characters

Summary

• Lee Minsung is a manipulative A-rank hunter who craves attention, believing he’s superior to others.
• Yuri Orloff, once the best support-type hunter worldwide, turned greedy and arrogant, causing his demise.
• Goto Ryuji, leader of Japan’s top guild, embodied arrogance and paid the price with his life.

Solo Leveling is set in a bizarre place where mysterious Gates, teeming with bloodthirsty monsters, spawn all over the world, and gifted human beings, known as Hunters, put their lives on the line to clear them. The series features characters from different backgrounds and races, some of whom are gifted with so much power and influence that it eventually gets to their heads.

These characters are so self-absorbed that they lose touch with reality and begin to look down on everyone they encounter. While there are quite a few such arrogant magic beasts and hunters in Solo Leveling, these are perhaps the most intolerable.

Spoilers Ahead for the Solo Leveling manhwa

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Lee Minsung

Fiend Guild’s Vice Guild Master

• Anime Debut: Episode 18
• Webnovel Debut: Chapter 92

Lee Minsung is a popular actor and A-rank hunter associated with the Fiend Guild. A genius in personal branding, he knows how to use the media to create an image of himself as a humble star, but in reality, he is a manipulative and arrogant person.

Lee always wants to be the center of attention and truly believes that he is better than everyone. Minsung is so conceited and self-centered that he can barely tolerate anyone else getting the limelight and is willing to do anything to preserve his fake public image.

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Yuri Orloff

Best Support-Type Hunter

• Anime Debut: Yet to Make a Debut
• Webnovel Debut: Chapter 151

Arguably the best barrier magic user in the world, Yuri Orloff was a special S-rank hunter from Russia. Like most hunters of his stature, he was a highly sought-after individual, especially in high-stakes missions with the possibility of a dungeon break. Yuri enjoyed special treatment because of the kind of experience and expertise he brought to the table.

As you probably know already, people call me the best support-type hunter in the world.

At some point in his life, Orloff grew arrogant and opportunistic, willing to exploit others to make a quick buck. He even underestimated the threat of high-ranking Gates, monopolizing all the profits for himself—a greedy tactic that eventually cost him his life and caused untold misery for countless other people.

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Goto Ryuji

Japan’s Greatest Hunter

• Anime Debut: Episode 20
• Webnovel Debut: Chapter 107

Goto Ryuji was a morally bankrupt and evil person who was willing to put other people’s lives on the line for his personal benefit. As the leader of Japan’s strongest guild, he was part of many high-stakes missions. Unfortunately, his success as a hunter got to his head to the point that it clouded his life decisions.

Goto eventually paid dearly for his arrogance. In the Jeju Island arc, when he was confronted by the Ant King, who was significantly more powerful than him, Ryuji failed to realize their power difference. He contemptuously accepted the battle and even had the audacity to claim that he was the King the Ant King was looking for. This turned out to be a fatal mistake, as the Ant King beheaded Ryuji with ease.

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Ant King

Boss Of Jeju Island S-Rank Gate

• Anime Debut: Episode 23
• Webnovel Debut: Chapter 119

The Ant King was a ruthless and murderous magic beast. He looked down on human beings and actively sought to fight the strongest rival he could find.

Are there others? Others you call king?

The Ant King believed that he was superior to every opponent he encountered, and he did appear invincible until he ran into Sung Jinwoo. Unfortunately, his arrogance cost him his life, as Jinwoo not only defeated him in battle but also turned him into one of his shadow soldiers.

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Architect

Boss Of The Double Dungeon

• Anime Debut: Episode 1
• Webnovel Debut: Chapter 2

The creator of the System and a loyal ally to the Monarchs, the Architect was the boss of the Double Dungeon and a Demonic Specter. He was extremely savage and bloodthirsty, deriving pleasure from violence.

You played around with a person’s life, so are you ready to face the consequences?

The Architect also looked down on human beings and treated them as mere insects to be trampled on. When Sung Jinwoo confronted him following his reawakening, the Architect was shocked once he realized that a human had grown strong enough to overpower the System he created and defeat him.

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Kargalgan

High Orc Shaman

• Anime Debut: Episode 17
• Webnovel Debut: Chapter 88

Kargalgan was the boss of the Hunters Guild Gate and a humanoid-type magic beast. Capable of using powerful magic spells, he could easily overwhelm an entire squad of A-rank hunters. However, the high orc shaman was too cocky and regarded human beings with disdain.

Kargalgan even liked to play with people’s lives just to amuse himself and appeared to enjoy violently crushing his adversaries, reveling in their fear and suffering. It was his narcissistic and arrogant attitude that eventually brought about his downfall, and although he had a brief epiphany during his fight with Jinwoo that his opponent might be a Monarch, it was too little too late and led to the orc shaman’s end.

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Hwang Dongsoo

Korean Hunter Who Moved to America

• Anime Debut: Episode 7
• Webnovel Debut: Chapter 36

Hwang Dongsoo is an S-rank hunter associated with the Scavenger Guild. Before moving to America, Hwang worked briefly in Korea but was eventually lured by the money and power offered by Thomas Andre’s guild. Loyalty to the motherland and his comrades back home mattered little to him as he sought to advance his career above all else. However, Hwang was not just disloyal and greedy but also quite arrogant, as he believed that he was above the law.

After his brother, Hwang Dongsuk, died under mysterious circumstances, Dongsoo vowed to exact revenge by killing Sung Jinwoo and Yoo Jinho. In his pursuit of vengeance, he disregarded all boundaries and went as far as almost fighting a Korean S-rank hunter from the same country he abandoned for money and power. His sense of entitlement and arrogance exceeded all boundaries, as he felt that he could do anything without ever facing the consequences of his actions.