The BEST episodes of Solo Leveling season 1

Every episode of Solo Leveling season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Solo Leveling season 1!

They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.

Last Updated: 2/19/2025Network: Tokyo MXStatus: Continuing
Arise
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8.64
704 votes

#1 - Arise

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/2024

Drained from endless battle, Jinwoo sees a phantom of his past self. To overcome his own past as the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind, he struggles to find a way to clear the job-change quest.

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A Knight Who Defends an Empty Throne
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8.48
633 votes

#2 - A Knight Who Defends an Empty Throne

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/2024

Out of the blue, a "job-change quest" pops up in Jinwoo's window. Feeling that it may help him get stronger, he enters the gate. Inside, he fights wave after wave of enemies, culminating in a knight who brings back memories of the Cartenon Temple.

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The Real Hunt Begins
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8.45
681 votes

#3 - The Real Hunt Begins

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2024

While the C-Rank dungeon raid by Jinwoo and the others seems to be progressing well, the moment they step into an area covered in mana stones with a sleeping dungeon boss, things take a wrong turn.

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If I Had One More Chance
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8.29
721 votes

#4 - If I Had One More Chance

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2024

Jinwoo and his party appear to have cleared a low-level dungeon, when a hidden path to an unfamiliar temple is revealed. There they encounter a set of commandments and a group of monsters that cause them absolute despair.

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You've Been Hiding Your Skills
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8.22
617 votes

#5 - You've Been Hiding Your Skills

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/2024

At the D-Rank raid, Jinwoo is reunited with four of the Cartenon Temple survivors. Together, they explore the dungeon with Kang Taeshik and his men. After splitting up, they hear a scream, and then...

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I've Gotta Get Stronger
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8.19
668 votes

#6 - I've Gotta Get Stronger

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2024

Having entered the instance dungeon located inside the subway, Jinwoo levels up time and time again by fighting waves of magic beasts. As he gradually makes his way forward, he finds a long stairway leading deeper underground.

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Let's See How Far I Can Go
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8.06
630 votes

#7 - Let's See How Far I Can Go

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2024

As Jinwoo continues his training, he completes a daily quest one day by doing more than the quest requires, and a key that leads to a certain item appears in front of him.

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A Pretty Good Deal
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7.97
648 votes

#8 - A Pretty Good Deal

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2024

Jinwoo joins a party led by Hwang Dongsuk to meet the headcount necessary for a C-Rank dungeon. Joined by another temporary hire, Yoo Jinho, the party defeats beasts without much trouble, but Jinwoo has suspicions about the group's lack of a healer.

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What Is This, a Picnic?
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7.88
593 votes

#9 - What Is This, a Picnic?

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/17/2024

Jinwoo survives tragedy once again, but Woo Jinchul warns him that Hwang Dongsoo, an S-Rank hunter, may be after his life. Determined to grow stronger, Jinwoo teams up with Jinho to raid a succession of C-Rank dungeons, but they attract attention...

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It's Like a Game
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7.88
666 votes

#10 - It's Like a Game

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2024

Jinwoo remains behind in the temple dungeon to save his few surviving party members, and with a swing from the god statue's blade, his life comes to an end—or so it seems, before he wakes up in a hospital bed.

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I'm Used to It
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7.77
791 votes

#11 - I'm Used to It

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2024

Around ten years ago, gates that connected our world to another dimension began to appear, leading to the rise of hunters who would traverse these gates to fight the magic beasts within. Sung Jinwoo, E-Rank hunter, is the weakest of them all.

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This Is Frustrating
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7.41
613 votes

#12 - This Is Frustrating

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/2024

Jinwoo answers a Hunter's Association request to take part in the raid of a D-Rank dungeon, where he encounters a few familiar faces.

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