If the starting distance is good enough, probably Vitiate in a good fight. I put pre-Nathema Vitiate somewhere between 52BBY and TPM Palpatine.
In case of very large starting distance, Vitiate almost everytime.
In close quarters, Anakin almost everytime.
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Skywalker is totally as weak as your average dark council member, Vitiate certainly gets prep here, Vitiate clearly is on a dark side nexus here, and Vitiate is clearly as of his fight with Revan, and not before Nathema.
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Tbh in an emotionally hindered state he's even weaker and there's nothing for him to get enraged about ( or to stoke his rage ) here. Standard Anakin is probably on par as a force user with someone like Nyriss who is admittedly above an average Dark Councilor member but it's no joke that Vitiate has killed entire Dark Councils single handedly.
There's no way Vitiate is winning without sorcery? That's as idiotic as saying "there's no way Anakin wins this without his lightsaber". That's just dumb.
Pre Nathema Vitiate hadn't absorbed the 8000 Sith Lords at that point, yes.
But he was the one who bound them to his will - in what was seemingly - an instant. I wouldn't say it's a stretch that he could do something similar to Anakin.
Pre-Nathema Vitiate was still clearly extraordinarily powerful given his prodigiousness. That isn't extremely correlated with your later abilities, though; otherwise we'd conclude that Bane is above Anakin and Katarn is above Luke. In his prime, Vitiate is heavily implied to be a peer of Sadow but below Ragnos, so I'd place him around Dooku's level of power, possibly slightly above.
That's not enough for him to defeat Anakin normally, although he may have some sorcery to compensate - it's tough to say.
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