rangers soloing in dungeons only works as a practical measure if it's a dungeon where they can use harmony. they won't be doing any dungeon crawling solo in the places where it counts and has good loot (HS, seb, chardok, etc.).
paladins imo are the best melee class in dungeon crawling with the aim of actually taking on camps (and most camps are 3+ mobs, if not more, and a good chunk of them are casters, which rangers and SK suck at fighting if you have to facetank without stun).
monks i guess are the only real competition as a melee class that can solo reliably in dungeons, but even they have tough times breaking camps with multiple spawns, or in fighting casters (without really high resist gear). i do think monks are superior to paladins though in survivability and in terms of risk due to FD.
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