ANH Ben's skills greatly diminished between ROTS and ANH. In that 30year span, I do think that his skills aren't what they used to be. Therefore if he were to fight TPH Obi-Wan, this is not a fair fight. TPM Obi is far more superior and much stronger in the force. "Old" Ben goes down.
ANH Obi wins, com on he pwn himself from TPM, TPM Obi-Wan, hasn't mastered any form and is weak in the Force, who is naive, while on the other hand ANH Kenobi is master of the Soresu, much stronger in the Force, allot more experience, more mature, thinks smarter, faced allot more opponents then TPM Kenobi did, he maybe little out of practice, but he has this in the bag.
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Registered: Sep 2005
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Agreed.
Also, while being out of practice is a setback, it doesn't seem to be as big of one as you might think. I mean, Yoda hardly ever used his lightsaber. Sidious hadn't used his in over a decade. Also, we have people like Yaddle, who didn't use hers for many decades (or so I hear) and Ulic, who picked his lightsaber up after losing his connection to the force and was still moderately proficient with it. So Kenobi grew with the force, didn't improve with a saber, but didn't lose all that much with his blade either, between ROTS and ANH.
Agree with everyone except the dude with the Maul avator (though yeah for the Maul avator! ). To add to what others have said, ANH Kenobi seemed to be about on par with Vader until he decided to let Vader kill him, and Vader would beat TPM Kenobi with easily.
Registered: Oct 2004
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OB1 beat Maul (who was a superior duelist) because he got lucky. Period. It's been proven that Maul was a better duelist.
Old Ben takes this one. To assume that TPM OB1 is more powerful than old Ben is crazy. He's had more than 30 years to perfect his craft. And young OB1 here had too many flaws in his saber game to be truly effective. He hadn't even started form 3 yet.