The whole a>b>c thing can be solved simply: paper scissors rock! It's all about advantages and luck and other stuff! Anyway I say that sidious gets wasted - no way could he beat 3 sith lords.
True, but there are some times in which ABC does work. An exaggerated example:
There's a guy named Bob, who has only one feat. That feat is effortlessly Force pwning Luke, Yoda and Mace all at once with one finger.
Then a thread comes called "Bob vs Dooku", and someone says "Dooku wins I mean he has more feats!" and then someone else says "but Bob beat Luke/Yoda/Mace all at once while Dooku got tooled by Yoda!". Would it make sense for person A to say "that's ABC!"? No! It's a valid ABC.
Let's say that X < 5 and X > 3. Is X > 6? Of course not! 6 > X > 3.
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