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Sidious vs Yoda
I know I know not another one of these but it's a puzzling question. When they fought the playing field was fairly uneven for both character. So who woudl win if on neutral ground.
Round 1 sabers
Round 2. Force
Round 3 all out
Plenty of objects to throw around, on a flat grassy piece of land.
Who wins if their even is a winner?
__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
Yeah, he's going to lose sabers when multiple quotes confirmed Yoda lost their duel. And even newer quotes posted by ILS state that he lost again.
Not sure why people lowball Sidious's skill, the gap isn't huge but Yoda isn't a better duelist by any stretch
__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
The original script and the junior novel depict Yoda as disarming Sidious, and even if you count that as "one of the five out of ten rounds where Yoda wins", that doesn't confirm Sidious' superiority, which has never been shown or even implied anywhere.
Sidious's victories came from the Force (and in some sources, weight/positioning also mattered), not sabers. He's equal to Yoda, but not his better in that regard.
I'll concede the point when somebody can show me a source which suggests Sidious is more skilled. And Yoda doesn't have to be more skilled for Sidious to be unable to take a majority. Draws do exist, you know?
Except no sources confirm there was a draw, and the film very clearly depicts him losing
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-Credit to ILS
Also the ROTS novelization states he didn't have it, etc.
The text states Yoda was outmatched, nowhere is it mentioned they're equals
__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
Either this paragraph was invisible or you intentionally ignored it:
I KNOW that Sidious won. I'm saying nothing ever showed he was Yoda's better in sabers. Force, I could live with - I could even agree with. But sabers? Show me what source suggests Sidious would take the majority in sabers only.
And if you want me to, I can draw on multiple sources that say Yoda is Palpatine's equal.
Nah, the junior novel says that since Yoda was lighter, he was thrown further and higher, and had nothing to break his fall (until he slipped off the Chancellor's podium) unlike Sidious, who managed to grab onto the end of the Senate pod.
Sep 10th, 2015 03:51 AM
