Round 1: The Trainees are in a circle surrounding Valkorion
Round 2: Starting distance 5 feet
Who wins?
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To call him a trainee would make it easy to underestimate him- even the lesser students of the academy were said to be stronger than many of the sith on the field, and Bane was already quite impressive.
That said, Valk is really powerful, so in scenario 1 he may be able to manage. May, it's not easy.
Now, scenario 2, there's just no time to defend, he's dead when everyone turns on their lightsabers, he can't hope to kill enough before that happens.
I'm not laughing at Bane. I'm laughing at your thinking the guy who can block lightsabers with his hand and can one shot an army of Force users in his face can't deal with 10 low-skill versions of anyone.
Again, 'low skill' is relative, even his fellow students were lords in all-but-name, Bane was taking on seriously badass experienced lords, and sure, he can block lightsabers with his hands, but he only has two hands and there's ten Banes.
What part of army of Force users in his face don't you understand? And Bane had stunted training, and the only "seriously badass experienced lord" he fought he was losing to in sabers.
Normally armies don't get to surrounded someone at five feet.
And heck, most random mook force users are well below this Bane. A small number of strong force users is much more dangerous than a large number of mooks, this is well known.
But he still beat that one, and, hey, there's 10 of him!
Valkorion was surrounded, in a situation that outmatched the Outlander, who quite frankly is more impressive than PoD Bane, and solo'd an army of Force Users. That had him surrounded. And was an army. It could not be more simple.
With the environment, which won't help him here, I'm afraid.
Rip Q99. Do you realize that Valkorion doesn't need a physical body to do anything? He's actually weaker when restricted to his physical body. He'd very simply **** up the entirety of the BoD almost effortlessly even when surrounded. His first ritual consumed 8,000 Dark Lords. His second wiped out an entire Force Nexus; and you think 10 PoD babes have the slightest chance? Ten DoE babes wouldn't do much better but would still get raped so hard their colons would turn inside out.
And Carth, ILS, and Troc, again, still incredibly tempted to report you guys for spite. Goddamn if you guys are going to at least do it in a way that doesn't kill brain cells as people read it. Like shit, just don't.
I do not underestimate Darth Bane at personal capacity but I believe that you are overreaching here.
Valkorion can unleash a powerful Force-wave to disperse his opponents in both scenarios and then proceed to bombard them with his Force powers to incapacitate/kill them.
Valkorion eliminated an entire Dark Council once, remember?
Valkorion can also block Lightsaber strikes with bear hands.