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The reason I believe this is such a good fight is that Yoda stalemated Darth Sidious over-all despite being two decades away from his natural death.
Luke Skywalker with an amplification by Leia and fetal Anakin defeated Darth Sidious in the Emperor's most powerful incarnation before becoming far more powerful as Jedi Grand Master.
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Not exactly, Yoda was twenty years near death in a lifespan of 900 years, when he stalemated Darth Sidious. In his prime he should be straight up defeating the Emperor, if not taking him solidly.
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Yoda in his prime isn't hindered by crippling old age as he is in his duel with Darth Sidious. As much power as Sidious gains after the fact, one can't deny how much more powerful Yoda would also be.
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Right, but I don't believe that reversing Yoda's infirmities would have made up for Sidious studying sources of knowledge from over a million worlds, and becoming so powerful that he could literally distort the space-time continuum and was in fact affecting it with his mere presence. Sidious ultimately became more of an energy being than a living being.
He's slowed a bit and lessened in telekinetic power (although the whole Muntuur Stones thing doesn't make much sense anyway). Probably not even enough to justify beating RotJ Palpatine, never mind DE.
The difference is honestly going to be minimal, if anything, given he's still the most powerful Jedi in history sans Luke by 19 BBY and the literal avatar of light. And the Muntuur thing is absolute horse-pucky when Yoda has feats that dwarf it.
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The point is that Yoda was a little over a decade from his deathbed, he's really, really old. Naturally a younger one isn't inflicted with crippling age and has more power to bring to bear in a fight.
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Being more than two decades away from your deathbed doesn't make you weaker, lmao.
Naturally, a younger Yoda wouldn't have to depend on Force augmentation as much, but every Force user depends on it regardless and Yoda's power/connection to the Force would've likely increased over two centuries so he could more than make up for faltering age. If Dooku, Bane, Krayt and many others can do it, then someone considerably more powerful than them can do it as well.
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The more power you expend to keep going is less power to make the difference in a fight. In a situation like his Senate Duel, that extra power could have been everything.
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