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Originally posted by silver2467

Dooku has some nice feats of his own but primarily in lightsaber skill. As with Maul, Dooku was more of a duelist than a Force practitioner. Vader seemed not to be particular toward either one. That said, Vader is more powerful than Dooku based on feats; so listing showings from Dooku in that regard is pointless. However, their dueling feats should be compared with one another.

Dooku has:
held his own against Yoda (he lost in every encounter he had with Yoda though even while amped)
sparred as an equal with and beaten Mace Windu
beaten Obi-Wan and Anakin consecutively
beaten Tholme and Sora Bulq simultaneously
beaten Quinlan Vos
beaten Grievous several times
beaten Asajj Ventress

Vader has:
beaten the Dark Woman
beaten Celeste Morne
beaten Roan Shryne
fought as an equal with Darth Maul
fought as an equal with Luke
fought as an equal with Obi-Wan (whose skills had increased since Mustafar)
effortlessly beaten five or six Jedi, two to three at a time in succession (basically a gauntlet of Jedi)
beaten four out of eight Jedi; one of them killed another; the last three defeated Vader by combining their powers to hurl objects at him (this was shortly after RotS; so Vader was still new to his armor and substantially grew in power and skill later on)
beaten countless other individual no-name Jedi and Dark Jedi (Bol Chatak, Sha Koon, Sardoth, Hylon, etc.)

Honestly, the characters that Dooku has fought have their own respective feats to credit their skills, while many (but not all) of the opponents Vader has dueled are virtually featless, which is largely why I consider Dooku a slightly better swordsman. But as I said, Djem So might even that out.